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ORIGINAL: witpqs
When you know before the turn about the situation (which many times you do not know ahead of time, of course) then you can set the TB to use bombs and have them glide bomb.
ORIGINAL: veji1
or won't try anything and sit tight.. "you've got your CVs all the way there ? Well just come at me and bomb my precious tfs under my fighter LBA umbrella... I'll just stay there and wait till you are gone anyway"...
No IIRC, they nixed high-level glide bombing. There were cases of TB glide bombing from 18,000 feet and doing spectacularly well. AFAIK it still works at low level, say the 5,000 feet that is often typical for TB. One of these days I will cobble together an altitude-mission profile-plane type reference table.ORIGINAL: GreyJoy
ORIGINAL: witpqs
When you know before the turn about the situation (which many times you do not know ahead of time, of course) then you can set the TB to use bombs and have them glide bomb.
Well, yes, that's true, but hasn't glide bombing been nerfed in one of the recent betas cause it was too effective?
However you obviously need crack pilots (70 NavT and 70 NavB) to do that...and as Japan, a part from the KB pilots, i seldom have this option unfortunately[;)]
Such at table exists in the War Room FAQ posting. However, since this is a different scenario I am not sure if the effectiveness TB using bombs at lower level is the same as stock. I almost always use bombs with the Devastators in stock because they get hits that work, as opposed to rare torp hits that don't work anyway. It conserves the carriers' torps for attacks on BBs, which shrug off bombs.ORIGINAL: witpqs
No IIRC, they nixed high-level glide bombing. There were cases of TB glide bombing from 18,000 feet and doing spectacularly well. AFAIK it still works at low level, say the 5,000 feet that is often typical for TB. One of these days I will cobble together an altitude-mission profile-plane type reference table.ORIGINAL: GreyJoy
ORIGINAL: witpqs
When you know before the turn about the situation (which many times you do not know ahead of time, of course) then you can set the TB to use bombs and have them glide bomb.
Well, yes, that's true, but hasn't glide bombing been nerfed in one of the recent betas cause it was too effective?
However you obviously need crack pilots (70 NavT and 70 NavB) to do that...and as Japan, a part from the KB pilots, i seldom have this option unfortunately[;)]
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
KBs' role now is to try to kill the allied CVs so as to cripple future landings. Expecting to use them to stop all the landings is not feasible and your defences and LBA should be able to make him pay for any he tries. Hold KB in reserve until you get a sniff of his CVs.
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
But from Port Hedland, an assault on Christmas Island [IO] or Cocos Island would likely have British CV support? His fighters don't have the range to cover from Oz.
ORIGINAL: witpqs
GJ - I sort of lost track. Are you definitely refraining from assaulting Chungking by HR?
ORIGINAL: veji1
I would say that right now and for the next 2 months for sure, he is not in a position to assault you decisively anywhere. If I were him I would try a couple of coups de main but mainly to drive you crazy by feints and counterfeints to try to at least burn some fuel, fall in a couple of CAP traps and be out of position for when the hammer starts to fall for real in 3 months +.
Thus I would humbly recommend staying as put as possible.. If you get enough info about an operation and really believe it's going to happen well move your stuff around, but moving 100s of planes and big ships around is what he would want you to do.
As Napoleon more or less said, marches and countermarches demoralize an army way more than actual battle and are the prime source of defeat.
