Cap Mandrake
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ORIGINAL: CT Grognard Tell me, what altitude are you setting your CAP at? I'd have one squadron at 5,000', one at 10,000' and one at 15,000'. Players tend to be lazy at times and place all their CAP at the same altitude (e.g. 15,000'). A clever Japanese player then sends in a low-level Betty/Kate strike and despite there being massive CAP, a lot get through to score hits. With Vals at least you know they pretty much will come in at around 10,000' in order to dive bomb, so if up against Vals only, put all your CAP at that level. What altitude did those Kate strikes come in at? Here is more detail on the morning strike. 39 Zero 27 Vals 25 Kate approach at 15000 ft 20 Kates and 14 Vals get through the CAP...so it looks like the F4F's downed 18 bombers and 3 Zeroes, not bad considering their raid had 39 Zeroes in escort. There is this ray of hope. The Vals are dropping 60kg bombs!!! Most of the Kates had 250kg bombs at 9000 ft. I thik I know why we had no fires reported after the first attack. Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Hedland at 58,128 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 51 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 39 B5N2 Kate x 37 D3A1 Val x 25 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 61 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed B5N2 Kate: 13 destroyed, 4 damaged D3A1 Val: 12 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed Allied Ships CV Illustrious, Bomb hits 3 CV Formidable, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 1 CA Pensacola CV Yorktown Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 9000 feet Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb 4 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo 4 x B5N2 Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo 6 x D3A1 Val releasing from 1000' * Naval Attack: 2 x 60 kg GP Bomb 8 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000' * Naval Attack: 2 x 60 kg GP Bomb
< Message edited by Cap Mandrake -- 10/6/2011 2:30:07 PM >
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