Spotting plane for shore bombardment

[Ambassador]

Unless my plan requires secrecy until the moment of the bombardment (or if faced with a big CAP), I usually stage my bombardment TF’s a couple of hexes away from the target, and keep the floatplanes on day recon (with that base targeted, as well as a couple of others for good measure) on the approach. Then, before the actual bombardment run, I switch to night recon and all set to the target. Increasing the DL really increases the damage inflicted.

[jmalter]

The majority of my Bombardment missions occur during the Night naval movement phase, usually (but not always) the TF's #flagship leads the Bombardment. Its floatplanes must be set to Night Recon mission, range = 0.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: jmalter

The majority of my Bombardment missions occur during the Night naval movement phase, usually (but not always) the TF's #flagship leads the Bombardment. Its floatplanes must be set to Night Recon mission, range = 0.

Not true about the TF flagship. Many of my bombardment TFs have a ship with the best captain as the Flag, but the first ship to bombard is almost always the last major ship listed - i.e. on the TF screen with 4 BBs and a bunch of DDs, BB #2 might be the Flag while BB#4 will be the one that bombards first. The text at the end of the Combat Report will tell you what order the bombard in - almost always reverse order of TF list.
Of course if you always just go with the last ship in the list as Flag it will appear the Flag always bombards first.

[Ambassador]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: jmalter

The majority of my Bombardment missions occur during the Night naval movement phase, usually (but not always) the TF's #flagship leads the Bombardment. Its floatplanes must be set to Night Recon mission, range = 0.

Not true about the TF flagship. Many of my bombardment TFs have a ship with the best captain as the Flag, but the first ship to bombard is almost always the last major ship listed - i.e. on the TF screen with 4 BBs and a bunch of DDs, BB #2 might be the Flag while BB#4 will be the one that bombards first. The text at the end of the Combat Report will tell you what order the bombard in - almost always reverse order of TF list.
Of course if you always just go with the last ship in the list as Flag it will appear the Flag always bombards first.

Which is usually the order in which you may review them from the ship view, when they’re in a TF. If you click on the « next ship » button in the bottom of the window, you get the ship above it (at least in the same category).

It might be tied in the code, maybe the way the game engine « loads » the date in the task being executed at the moment.[&:]