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ORIGINAL: RevRick

One problem in Real History - they wouldn't fit on CVE's.

This is not 100% correct. The biggest US CVE's could, and did, carry them.

I don't think it was a whole lot of them, though. By and large, most F4U's went to the fleet carriers and CVLs, didn't they? The only CVE's that I know of that could hand F4U's were the Commencement Bay class and they were commissioned in late 44 and on.

Thing about the Commencement Bays was they were designed and fitted with catapults. Otherwise they were very similar to, and of a size with, the Sangamon class. Their flight deck lengths were within 1 foot of one another, only the designed-in catapults allowed F4U operations.

I too would limit the availability of F4Us on CVEs to the Commencement Bays and perhaps the Sangamons, but would make the Sangamons get an “upgrade” that includes a virtual catapult before allowing F4U ops from them.

just mho. JWE

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Bringing this forward to read with discussion on the new Treaty Mod.

As a marginal aside could I put in a suggestion that as a reaction to the much increased Japanese naval strength posited in RA that the USN would put rather more effort into their negotiations with the Chileans to purchase/lease Almirante Latorre and the 6 Serrano class destroyers (equivalent to RN A class - HMS Arrow in the game. Discussions certainly took place but the Chileans were reluctant due to issues with Argentina. A more pressured situation may have pushed the US to up their price. I am a real sucker for those classic 5 turret RN dreadnoughts and it would be great to see one in the game. Shouldn't make too much balance difference either as she is about the equivalent of a Fuso at best.