This is a post you made back in January 2016 about night bombing (
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
John and I exchanged email last night and this a.m. about night bombing.
First, I asked him his intentions and understanding about it. He replied this way: "No Night Port Bombing. Avoided it but went after the AF previous turn. Fairly useless attempt..."
Then he modified this later in the nightt: "Have thought a lot about this topic and have decided to go with no night bombing PERIOD. Was going to go along the lines of no Port Bombing but then thought that that wasn’t consistent. Consider the issue settled. Am reasonably sure I changed everyone for this turn. I think..."
I replied this morning:
"When we originally discussed the issue of night bombing in 2013, our concerns came from widespread reports in the Forum that it was rather borked. Those reports might have been exaggerated or the issue might have been addressed in later patches. If so, let' discuss.
"There will come a time when Allied night bombing is historical and I'll want to use it. But if it's borked in some way then we'll need to address it then too.
"Of course, Japan did use night bombing. As I recall there were occasional Betty raids in the islands campaigns. They weren't large numbers, as I recall, nor were the particularly effective.
"So I'm open to discussing, but would like to make sure we're on the same page with the same understanding.
"So until further notice, neither of us is night bombing. But let's discuss if you wish to."
Unless night bombing is totally borked (I haven't heard anything of that sort in years, so I don't think it is), I intend to engage in it when I draw close enough to Japan to employ it. I'm sure the Allies used it in limited quantities earlier in the war, but I won't. Before I commence night bombing (perhaps months before), I'll let John know that I intend to use it historically (or, historically within the context of the game - meaning if I invade Okinawa tomorrow I'd consider using it). But if it does turn out to be borked, we'll address the issue then.
I'm not sure that it was entirely clear as to whether night bombing would ever be on the table again. On one hand, yes, you say you want to use it in the future. On the other hand the last quote you give us about what you sent to John is "So until further notice, neither of us is night bombing. But let's discuss if you wish to." - I could understand it if he took that as if night bombing wouldn't be allowed again, period.
Of course I'm not privy to all of what you've discussed about it. Still, this just underlines how important it is to double check that any house rules are understood in the same way. Especially in a long running game such as this ideally you'd both would have edited in any new house rules to the opening post of you AAR with identical wording. That way there would be no question as to what was agreed on X years ago. But then hindsight is 20/20.
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Trying to figure out when it's "safe" to bring the fleet from Legaspi to Manila.
Does anybody know the answer to this question?
From what I've seen CD guns will only fire at targets moving through a strait if the hex is owned by the same side as the CD guns. As for the dry firing you had experienced earlier that may be due to there not being any enemy mines left in the strait. You get the combat animation window but the CD guns won't fire unless there are mines around, almost certainly a bug with the game.
There's of course the risk that I'm wrong here but those are my experiences with CD guns defending straits.
Lightnings are excellent LRCAP too, and will shred attackers. Perhaps it is the best use for Lightnings at this stage of the game.
