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Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/13/2007 10:59:48 PM   
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Iv'e search but cound't find an answer. Is there a way to assign long range cap to cover a friendly no-carrier task force?
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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/13/2007 11:25:32 PM   
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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/14/2007 12:05:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just make sure you have sufficient supplies at your air base or your planes won't fly.  Also Air Bases must be at Level 2 to perform combat operations.

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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/14/2007 4:12:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		Don't forget that LRCAP tires pilots quickly so watch the range (even 2 hexes distant can tire them out) involved and weather too.  Squadron rotation, if possible, is a must to continue LRCAP.  Sometimes, sadly your LRCAP won't be there when a raid comes in either due to weather (can't find the TF) or range (LRCAP at bingo fuel RTB while it's replacement hasn't arrived yet).

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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/15/2007 1:28:50 AM   
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Hello,
Iv'e search but cound't find an answer. Is there a way to assign long range cap to cover a friendly no-carrier task force?


Guys, he's looking for the method, not the pitfalls of doing this.

I haven't played UV for awhile, but I recall that there's a selection -- using 100% CAP -- for fighters to cover a TF that involves clicking on the specific TF you want covered.

The fighters will protect the TF until it's either out of range or the squadron's moral becomes too low for it to fly.

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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/15/2007 12:15:24 PM   
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Just follow the numbers.

(Converting to 256 colours made a mess of this screen shot).

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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/15/2007 7:03:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks, I figured it out. For some reason when I first tried that method I couldn't get it to work. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but after trying it again it worked. Thanks for the other advice too. There's a lot to learn in this game.  

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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/16/2007 12:00:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		They won't long range CAP at extended range...I believe they have to be withing normal operating range.

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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/17/2007 12:40:50 PM   
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Thanks, I figured it out. For some reason when I first tried that method I couldn't get it to work. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but after trying it again it worked. Thanks for the other advice too. There's a lot to learn in this game.  


That's OK. No doubt someone else will find it useful.

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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/17/2007 5:58:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Reg, nice work; one picture is worth a thousand instructions, and a P-38 was a good example for LRCAP.

Re "Australian" Spitfires, from the Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WW II: While the Mark V was proving itself in ETO, the RAAF was "less than satisfied" w/it due to problems w/getting spare parts to remote airfields, high temp/humidity @ ground level as well as problems w/low temp @ altitude, causing failures in the constant speed units (I have no clue what this is), resulting in forced landings/bail-outs.

The above was solved in the Mark VIII. I think the last Mark of Spitfire was 24.



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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/17/2007 10:13:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Reg

That's OK. No doubt someone else will find it useful.


Me for one! Like Sequoia I had tried this and something went wrong,
too long ago to know for sure what/why now! At least now I know I was doing it right apart from perhaps not setting CAP at 100%. I'm glad someone out there can do such good partial screenshoots. Cheers.

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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/18/2007 1:15:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		CAP is automatically set to 100% when you select LRCAP so you don't get a choice in that regard. However, you don't get all these aircraft over the target when they're needed. I think I was getting 9 or so out of 24 to intercept at three hexes range. However I found their presence was enough to take the sting out of the Betty strikes which made it well worth the effort.

rogueusmc is correct in that LRCAP can only be conducted at normal range. There is also another restriction that you can only LRCAP over a friendly/enemy dot/base or friendly task force (not that you would want to fly CAP over anywhere else). Maybe that was your problem DEB.

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RE: Long Range CAP over task force? - 7/21/2007 12:22:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for those thoughts and the information.

I recall setting my CAP to around 80-90% so I must have tried to use regular CAP rather than LRCAP ( ). Maybe the airfield size was a problem too, and perhaps the range.

Anyway, now I have a better idea of what's required.
Thanks to all who replied.

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