Matrix Games Forums

I'm playing CHS 1.6 Allies vs AI. I seem to remember reading a while back that the Allied CVE's had been reconfigured so that the 'replacement' type squadrons had been replaced with regular squadrons. Is this true?

It seems true based on most of the CVE's that I've received so far (ones that in the stock scenario have replacement squadrons in CHS have regular squadrons). Then CVE Barnes showed up with replacement squadrons (VR-xx). Each of the 2 squadrons has 24 planes, for 48 total on a 24 capacity CVE (putting this in just to verify for you that it's really set up with replacement squadrons).

I went through the list of CVE's to arrive and found others. Here's the complete list.

CVE's with replacement squadrons in CHS 1.6

US
Barnes
Prince William
Casablanca
Admiralty Island
Kasaan Bay
Takanis Bay
Commencement Bay

UK
Pursuer
Empress
Trouncer

Also, the following 2 UK CVE's are set to arrive with no air groups:

Vindex
Reaper

Long Island also arrives with no airgroup, but I know that is normal.

Some of the allied CVEs were indeed converted to operational (had their own air groups) in CHS. But not all.

Quite a bit of research was done on this. Many U.S. CVEs moved back and forth between training, aircraft ferry, replenish, and operational missions. The British were a little more structured, with several designated variations of CVE - ferry, replenishment, ASW, fighter, and attack (all training appears to have been done in the Atlantic).

Several units were apparently used primarily in one role and we placed them in that role. Others that were sometimes opeational tended to become operational if they show up in the OOB for major campaigns.

And, as usual, we did some trade offs. If two carriers were each involved part time in one role (ferry for instance) and part time in another (operational), we would split them and put one full time in each role.

Primary research sources were the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and Allied Escort Carriers of World War II. Data is sometimes a little short, so mistakes are possible. However I can guarantee that, except for the errors, all data is correct.

Thanks Don. I posted the list on the chance that there had been an intention to convert all and some got missed.

[:)]