Each attack the enemies AA and the ships supporting AA slaughter the SBD's, at least half of ~100 that go in don't come back, and the rest come back with damage.
What supprised me is that they kept getting replacement aircraft, for example the CV Yorktown had a group of SBD's at 10 aircraft (9 damaged, 1 flying). The next turn, it had 12, then 14, then 16.
Similar effects were seen in the rest of the flight groups.
I also found out that they will upgrade their aircraft near Truk, or possibly anywhere, the SBD's I put in Lunga, they upgraded too...
Of course it was frought will peril, an enemy BB decided to tangle with the carriers (see image, those are some mean carriers!) and then after waiting for the stockpile to build up I discover that the enemy AI had sent ALL of my carriers that were at Truk home, the only one left in the theatre is the CVE Chenango (at ~59% sys damage) hiding in Rabul!
It limped up towards truk, and sure enough when the SB2C pool filled up over 18 the 14 SBD's on it were upgraded - it was 8 hexes away from truk and planes couldn't fly (it had no CAP, just an army of surface ships following) so I'm not sure how they upgraded in that respect either
- Deathifier
("This is fun!")
