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Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/18/2016 11:40:46 PM   
Rusty1961

 

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Status: offline 		1. Is there an advantage to bombarding by day vs. night? It would seem one would get superior results bombing in broad daylight.

2. Does one only need 1-spotter play for the entire Bombardment TF or one for each ship to gain the optimum results?
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RE: Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/19/2016 12:03:17 AM   
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1. Is there an advantage to bombarding by day vs. night? It would seem one would get superior results bombing in broad daylight.

The night helps shield you from air opposition.

2. Does one only need 1-spotter play for the entire Bombardment TF or one for each ship to gain the optimum results?

Only one needed.




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RE: Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/19/2016 12:05:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		I believe that decision is up to the tactical commander. If there is a danger that the bombarding TF will be attacked from the air in daylight, they will bombard at night and flee. I think generally bombardments occurred at night. Spotting aircraft may operate at night, I don't know how weather affects that. I think one spotting aircraft at a time from one TF is what happens, in any case that also is out of your hands. Also in my experience the spotting aircraft need not be set to night operations for them to do their job.

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RE: Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/19/2016 12:13:52 AM   
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Also in my experience the spotting aircraft need not be set to night operations for them to do their job.


That is contrary to my experience. The only time I see a spotting A/C in a night bombardment is when I have them set to operate at night. Trust me I've forgotten plenty of times. Yes, the A/C may not have operated for various reasons, but I've never seen planes set to day operations spot at night. Now that I think of it though, my float planes are always assigned to some task so maybe that's why. I'll have to test this when I get a chance.

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RE: Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/19/2016 1:08:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Let me re-phrase.

I don't "need" to come in at night as the opponent is not contesting the airspace-I have superiority.

Thus, should I try from a day-light bombardment to enhance, if it does enhance, said bombardment.

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RE: Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/19/2016 1:47:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		If the base is enemy held, I believe the AI will attempt to do a night bombardment with a full-speed run-in and -out. You may need to manipulate your task force to force them to arrive in daylight.

Frankly, I'm not sure how to do that.

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RE: Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/19/2016 3:49:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		You use the "remain on station" command and the TF will remain in the target hex and bombard in daylight the following day rather than at night. If you use the retirement command the TF always bombards at night and should retire. DL is important to results and the chances are that your DL will be higher in daylight especially if you target a lot of recon over the hex. The only drawback is that you are stuck there for the full daylight turn if there is air around of if the enemy carriers show up.

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RE: Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/19/2016 4:07:07 AM   
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RE: Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/19/2016 8:05:56 AM   
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One learns something every day. I was under the impression that spotting was automatic during bombardments, even if I mean to remember to have been
notified in the combat report about actual spotting - other times not....Would that be correct?

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RE: Naval Bombardment Questions - 4/19/2016 8:17:41 AM   
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Also in my experience the spotting aircraft need not be set to night operations for them to do their job.


That is contrary to my experience. The only time I see a spotting A/C in a night bombardment is when I have them set to operate at night. Trust me I've forgotten plenty of times. Yes, the A/C may not have operated for various reasons, but I've never seen planes set to day operations spot at night. Now that I think of it though, my float planes are always assigned to some task so maybe that's why. I'll have to test this when I get a chance.


This is correct.

The way to go to max chances for your spotter plane to show up on your nightly bombardement run is to set it to night ops, set it to recon on target hex, set range 0 (that is not neccesarily required on 1 day turn games, I use it to prvent unwanted fatigue buildup on 2 day turn games).

PS: Spotter planes will simply result in increasing the DL of the target hex, so more is better.

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