ORIGINAL: JWE
ORIGINAL: m10bob
Wonder why the USS Long Island, in every mod, enters as pretty much a "door stop", when it was really the 1st CVL in the USN?
http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/001.htm
Was used to ferry by late 1942, but that is an option all gamers have.. I would like to see the ship enter as a CVE, as designed.
Must agree with Bob (what in the world is m10?), with all due respect to Terminus, Conways and DANFS.
In a perfect world, a CVE, as an aircraft transport, can deliver a day-1, fully operational air group (ok squadron or 2), as opposed to mailing it by AK, boxed and 'assembly required' upon delivery. Thus the CVE has a place in the lineup.
Notwithstanding, as players, we are Roosevelt, King, BUSHIPS, Nimitz, etc.. (and Churchill, and Somerville, hello Dixie) and can decide how we wish to allocate our resources. Given a 'carrier capable' squadron, there is no reason why we cannot choose to deploy it on any 'air' capable ship. Don't forget, during the Korean Agression, Marine F-4 FB squadrons were routinely deployed on CVE types, offshore in the Sea of Japan.
Ciao. JWE
Due to a technical problem - or disagreement if it isn't a problem in the mind of Matrix programmers - there are lots of "extra" carrier squadrons in RHS right now. The problem - partially cleaned up in the last two updates from Matrix - is the "resize" of carrier squadrons. This is ahistorical - insofar as the software imposes ahistorical sizes on units at ahistorical times - and results in significant issues even though now it won't overload the ship. I used the CVE fleet as a way to define squadrons that will "resize" to the "standard" squadron sizes - mainly 18 - sometimes other values - which you can then use in place of squadrons that resize in unpleasant ways if that happens to you. Anyway - IRL units sometimes were transferred to carriers - particularly USMC units - so in RHS you now have this option even for units nominally "land" based. IF you want Long Island with an air group, transfer an 18 plane unit to her from a different CVE/CVL/CV. These ships sometimes get sunk or damaged - and you may end up with squadrons that need a temporary home - as it were. Long Island is just about the only US CVE without an air group in RHS.
