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Stationary ships should be MUCH easier to hit - 11/28/2007 7:09:23 PM

tssmith

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Hi,

I've been playing CAW for the first time, using the Pearl Harbour Historical Scenario.

Played as the US, and did absolutely nothing, just ran the timer and watched.

And I won a marginal victory! By doing nothing!

The Japanese were nowhere near as successful as in real life. They actually failed to sink a single US ship.

I believe that this is for two reasons:

1. Bomb hits on battleships do very little damage in CAW. This was not the case in the real Pearl Harbor raid. In CAW, you seem to need at least a dozen bomb hits to sink a battleship - in real life in the Pearl Harbor Raid, two or three bomb hits were enough.

2. The Japanese planes find it far too difficult to score hits, even though their targets are huge, sitting ducks. Out of a wave of five planes, only one will score a hit (on average.) And that is if none are shot down or damaged.

Suggestion:

For CAW to play realistically, I think stationary ships (speed 0) should be made very, very easy to hit. Four out of five attacking planes (on average) should score a hit. (Especially since it takes a dozen or more hits to sink a battleship.)

Ship speed should play a much greater role in whether the target is hit or not. 30 knot targets very difficult to hit, 10 or less knot targets very easy to hit.