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you can hit PH with KB (espacialy when it seems that you can finaly sink some BB at pearl with the first strike when compared to WITP) AND kill the subs at manila with your bettys+nells+zerosfrom formosa. i dont know the numbers in AE, but in WITP, you could concentrate 80 bombers and a sufficient escort on manila harbor. in the next turn, you can change your target and do a sweep&bomb attack on clark field.

thats what i will at least try when i start a real PBEM.

maybe, with some luck, one can sink 4-5 US BB at pearl and reduce the ability of allied "nuke-bombardenets" until end of 1943. also, the KB can mount a second strike on pearl at turn 2, when the results of turn 1 attack were not good enough.

ORIGINAL: johnbmac

PBEM rookie has a question.....is there some reason you can't hit PH with KB and Manilla with Bettys and Nells?

If you don't take out the Allied airforce in the Phillipines by supressing their main bases on the first turn, it may be a tad expensive to hit Manilla first turn and then try to play catchup. You'd also have to move Zeros to the nearer of the Taiwanese airbases to get them within normal range (using fuel tanks) and then fly them from a level 2 air base. OP losses will be nasty, even if you can get them to escort the Betties. Lot of hassle for a dubious overall end benefit. Just my twopennyhapennyworth

Nope. Though there tend to be house rules to account for the fact that simultaneous strikes at both places would have meant a night attack on Manilla, time zone differences.