ORIGINAL: Xargun
ORIGINAL: esteban
About the only thing you can do if KB hangs around Pearl Harbor is perhaps fly your fighters off of the U.S. carriers, back to Pearl, for turn 2 air cover of PH. Maybe you will shoot down enough Japanese planes to start wearing out KBs air crews.
However, if I am Japanese, with anything other than the strictly historical strikes, I bomb the heck out of PHs airfield by turning the Vals loose on it. The Val's 250 KG bombs will not penetrate either the deck or belt armor of anything on battleship row, and 70-80% of your bombers will go after the U.S. battleships, to the exclusion of the other shipping in the port. So divebombing the port on turn one is largely wasted.
You must be to far away from PH.. Most of my port attacks (range 3) were with 800 kg bombs which will blow through any armor.. In fact both of the ships I sunk at PH (a DD and the Arizona) died from 800 kgers..
Xargun
No, I always attack from range 3 at most, sometimes range 2. I don't want to suffer any more op losses than I have too.
The Vals don't drop 800 KG bombs, the Kates do. Vals still drop 250 KG bombs. In fact, in WiTP, there doesn't seem to be a difference between their normal and extended range bomb loads. Both loads are a single 250 KG bomb.
Oh, how I miss my little 60 KG trash busters!! [:D]
