Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Buck Beach

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ORIGINAL: timtom

However it is recognised that the PBY ought to be able to reach PH (it's a hex short IIRC). Fear not, I'll suitably chastice the dumbo responsible.

I don't understand. Did you mean to have it be changed so they will reach Pearl Harbor or not? As of Patch 2 they still don't reach.

In real life were the PBYs flown or crated and shipped to Pearl and points west?

If this is not going to be changed a solution would be that those VP units that were historically sent to the Central and South Pacific come into the game at Pearl. Not ideal but better.

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ORIGINAL: Buck Beach

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ORIGINAL: timtom

However it is recognised that the PBY ought to be able to reach PH (it's a hex short IIRC). Fear not, I'll suitably chastice the dumbo responsible.

I don't understand. Did you mean to have it be changed so they will reach Pearl Harbor or not? As of Patch 2 they still don't reach.

Where's the Any key?

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Colors may be used on this screen to denote significant changes in the status of pilots. A pilot’s
name in yellow indicates his Overall EXP is above 80 and is eligible to transfer to the Training
Command. White indicates he is currently assigned a plane and is ready to fly. Black indicates
he is removed from flight duty due to excessive fatigue or a shortage of aircraft. Red means
this pilot’s aircraft is being repaired and is not usable. The pilot may be given a new aircraft if
one is available due to pilot loss or additional planes. A Green Sub skill means this value has
increased since the start of the month. Skills improve relatively easily at low values, but it is
harder to gain a skill level at higher values.

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ORIGINAL: ChezDaJez

It appears that a skill highlighted in green reflects a change from the latest turn and that orange either reflects changes from the beginning of the month or the last 30 days.

Where's the Any key?

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What does pilot EXPERIENCE do? I understand, for example, that better "NavT" experience makes it more likely you get a torp hit, and "Defn" makes that pilot harder to shoot down. But what does generic "EXPERIENCE" do?

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EXP is a bunch of 1s and 0s. So are skills. Each value is used for something. The skill name gives a good indication of what it is used for. EXP is a more general value used to assess a pilot wherever there isn't a skill already covering it. It is used collectively and singularly depending on the multitude of instances where is appears in the code. It appears in a lot of places. Ops loss is one, so is morale calculations, Fatigue reduction etc...

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ORIGINAL: Grotius

Hey Q-Ball, I found an answer to our question about the difference between EXP and skills, from The Elf himself, in a different thread:

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EXP is a bunch of 1s and 0s. So are skills. Each value is used for something. The skill name gives a good indication of what it is used for. EXP is a more general value used to assess a pilot wherever there isn't a skill already covering it. It is used collectively and singularly depending on the multitude of instances where is appears in the code. It appears in a lot of places. Ops loss is one, so is morale calculations, Fatigue reduction etc...

Hope this helps some.

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ORIGINAL: gingerbread

Db change needed. This is from Scen 7, I have not checked the others.

3BG/90BS is flying Dutch Mitchells.

/g

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ORIGINAL: Smeulders

Don't really see the problem, the Dutch Mitchells are the same as the American and it would only make sense that if for some reason they weren't delivered to the Dutch, the Americans would have used them themselves. 

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ORIGINAL: gingerbread

Db change needed. This is from Scen 7, I have not checked the others.

3BG/90BS is flying Dutch Mitchells.

/g

Where's the Any key?

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Dive-bombing vs glide-bombing vs level-bombing for dive-bombers....

It appears that dive-bombers have several different attack profiles now. Each profile appears to be triggered by the altitude at which they cruise to the target but I can't find a clear statement of which altitude bands lead to which sorts of attacks.

skip-bombing occurs when set to 100 feet.
I've heard that dive-bombers definitely dive-bomb at 10,000 feet

What are the altitude bands for glide and level-bombing? I imagine that knowing those altitudes would make dive-bombers MUCH more survivable over heavily-defended land targets and thus could be very useful. Unfortunately no-one seems to know.

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ORIGINAL: Dobey

Hi all,

I was just playing around in the Editor and noticed that the Buffalo I has an arrival date of 04/42 and the Dutch B-339 (Which can also be used by the RAAF?) has an arrival date of 03/42. I'm just curious as to the reasoning for this. The design was already on the way out, so why not just put a few in the pool with the production set to stop in 12/41 or 01/42?

(Sorry, I know this is off the current topic, but this seems the logical thread for this question.)

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ORIGINAL: Nemo121

Cathartes,

Because while no-one seemed to know someone MUST know and hopefully one of the people in the know will answer... as you did. Thanks...

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ORIGINAL: fbs


Any thoughts on this: I'm having a real hard time figuring out what my air groups are doing when I put them in CAP/Escort.

Problem is that they will fly CAP through the day, without being listed anywhere. Also, they may also fly escort to bombers, but as the combat report doesn't list units that are escorting and the number of escorts is obfuscated, it is very difficult to have any idea of who is doing what.

For example, my raid had 20 bombers and only 1 fighter was listed as escorting. I have 5 units in range on Escort/30% CAP. Three units got air-air kills on the previous turn and were not involved in CAP fights, so I reckon there was more than 1 escort on my raid. Perhaps there were 5 escorts? or 10? No idea; I even compared the number of missions per unit on the previous turn and this one, and voila several missions were flown by my fighter units -- but as non-combat CAP does not list anywhere, I have no clue who did what and which unit is guilty that poor bombers got raked by those Zeros.

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ORIGINAL: Cathartes

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ORIGINAL: fbs


Any thoughts on this: I'm having a real hard time figuring out what my air groups are doing when I put them in CAP/Escort.

Problem is that they will fly CAP through the day, without being listed anywhere. Also, they may also fly escort to bombers, but as the combat report doesn't list units that are escorting and the number of escorts is obfuscated, it is very difficult to have any idea of who is doing what.

For example, my raid had 20 bombers and only 1 fighter was listed as escorting. I have 5 units in range on Escort/30% CAP. Three units got air-air kills on the previous turn and were not involved in CAP fights, so I reckon there was more than 1 escort on my raid. Perhaps there were 5 escorts? or 10? No idea; I even compared the number of missions per unit on the previous turn and this one, and voila several missions were flown by my fighter units -- but as non-combat CAP does not list anywhere, I have no clue who did what and which unit is guilty that poor bombers got raked by those Zeros.

If you're tracking kills with your air units that's one way you can tell. Are you watching the combat replay all the way through? Sometimes additional planes show up later in the air to air animation. Also, CAP can sometimes intercept recon and naval search, but you will never see the combat animation for this. Further, if you want fighters to have a better chance of showing up with striking bombers set the CAP target the same as the bombers' target and set the altitude to be the same as the bomb strike. Other things that help: fighters at the same base will better be able to coordinate a successful escort, Air HQs in range make a difference.