Air combat vs report

[rev rico]

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Rev Rick,

Typical FOW. Great example. Thanks for sharing that one. No matter how many times you tell new players about FOW, they have to see something like that to really get the idea.

I am curious though how the Allied pilots didn't see the hits and heavy fires raging on the CVLs. I'd expect them to exaggerate, not underestimate.

My Allied opponent was glad to receive the written Combat Report and not believe what "his" eyes saw!

[RevRick]

ORIGINAL: rev rico

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Rev Rick,

Typical FOW. Great example. Thanks for sharing that one. No matter how many times you tell new players about FOW, they have to see something like that to really get the idea.

I am curious though how the Allied pilots didn't see the hits and heavy fires raging on the CVLs. I'd expect them to exaggerate, not underestimate.

My Allied opponent was glad to receive the written Combat Report and not believe what "his" eyes saw!

Hi..
Since we seem to share the same calling, where do you serve?

[rev rico]

ORIGINAL: RevRick

Hi..
Since we seem to share the same calling, where do you serve?

In southern New Jersey near Philadelphia. You?

[Justus2]

ORIGINAL: rev rico

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Rev Rick,

Typical FOW. Great example. Thanks for sharing that one. No matter how many times you tell new players about FOW, they have to see something like that to really get the idea.

I am curious though how the Allied pilots didn't see the hits and heavy fires raging on the CVLs. I'd expect them to exaggerate, not underestimate.

My Allied opponent was glad to receive the written Combat Report and not believe what "his" eyes saw!

All depends on what parts of the battle they saw, and which pilots made it back to the carrier alive. If pilots from a couple different squadrons reported hitting a CVL or CVE, and leaving it burning, someone in the ops center, wanting to be safe, may have assumed they were talking about the same ship. Or, the one that got the single hit on the Shoho might not have made it back to report it. Lots of 'friction' in a confused situation like that, and based on the aircraft involved, probably reports flowing up from a USMC squadron, Army Bomber group, and an Aussie group (and that had to be translated into American English LOL) before you get the consolidated report. Lots of opportunities for some helpful staffer to 'summarize' the results, higher or lower.

[spence]

Something of a skeptic, I wonder how it is that a person playing PBEM posts the Combat Summaries of both players. The file is created during the IJ Player Replay. Only one file is created in so far as I know.

I would also suggest that the Japanese Player is the person who holds the key to settling this dispute once and for all.

He should simply forward the Combat Summary File for the same date to himself 10 times and then post the Summaries in their entirety. Or he can forward that one file to his opponent 10 times ans ask his opponent to post them entire. If they are ambitious all of the differences can be highlighted.

Any developer can settle this as well by indicating whether or not some sort of randomizer coding is included which somehow operates every time this particular file is attached to an email.