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Need some help - CVE
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 6:20 pm
by tankboy
What is the best use for the CVE Long Islan? 16 plane capacity. Will it operate like a small carrier? Is it best used to ferry carrier capable A/C to fly away to fleet carriers or bases?
RE: Need some help - CVE
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:53 pm
by herwin
ORIGINAL: tankboy
What is the best use for the CVE Long Islan? 16 plane capacity. Will it operate like a small carrier? Is it best used to ferry carrier capable A/C to fly away to fleet carriers or bases?
Carrier training of carrier-capable units.
RE: Need some help - CVE
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:37 pm
by tocaff
Transport of planes to bases is a good use of the LI. Remember to try and keep her out of harms way.
RE: Need some help - CVE
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:22 pm
by Mobeer
ORIGINAL: herwin
Carrier training of carrier-capable units.
That's not possible in War in the Pacific - you are thinking of the Admirals Edition.
RE: Need some help - CVE
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:58 pm
by Joe1947
I used the Long Island as an ASW carrier by embarking a Marine SBD uniit available at the beginning of the game. I assign several 4-stacker destroyers to complete the task force. I station it near the Rennell Islands until Henderson Field is operational, and then move the SBD's there.
The SBD's haven't killed a subs, but they have harassed them.
RE: Need some help - CVE
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:33 pm
by HRL58
I use the LI mostly to ferry Marine and USAAF fighters, but sometimes I stock it with Marine TBF:s on ASW and have it in a TF with flushdeckers following important troop convoys in sub infested waters.