Aircraft Carriers ?

[Sabuesillo]

Don't know if you've covered this in one of the AAR. But they mostly seem concentrated on the European theatre.
How are aircraft carrier units handled. Do they have special abilities to allow operational handling of assigning their airplanes to diffrente types of air raids etc.?
In other words, how varied and rich is the aeronautical warfare of the pacific simulated in this game?

[Joel Billings]

Each carrier has can have one carrier airgroup on it. Being as this is a strategic level game, much is simplified. However, carrier air units are very important in the game. They can go after subs in areas that can't be reached by land based air. In the Pacific, large carrier forces can support fleets and invasion that are outside the range of land based air. Also, each carrier air unit represents about 200 carrier planes, while each land based air unit represents roughly 500 aircraft. This means that plane for plane, carrier aircraft are weighted heavier than land based air. Also, in naval battles, not all fleets in the area actually fight in a surface battle, however all of the air units do. This means a smaller fleet with carrier air support can defeat a larger fleet without airpower.

[marky]

each CAG represents 200 planes?

no carrier in history has ever carried that many, not even US carriers

i think the max designed for any carrier was the 145 AC of the midway class carriers, but i cant remember if this was surpassed or if a midway was deployed with 145

is it this way so itd b more effective?

[Joel Billings]

ORIGINAL: marky

each CAG represents 200 planes?

no carrier in history has ever carried that many, not even US carriers

i think the max designed for any carrier was the 145 AC of the midway class carriers, but i cant remember if this was surpassed or if a midway was deployed with 145

is it this way so itd b more effective?

A Carrier Fleet in GGWaW represents 2-3 CVs plus escorting ships.