Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Smeulders

What are your thoughts about the battle, it seems like an great Allied victory to me, but I wonder about the status of North Carolina ? If your BB are out for a year that's almost the same as sunk at this stage of the war.

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ORIGINAL: bbbf

Are you sure your BB's had resupplied with ammunition - the fact that you had surprise and they failed to fire their main armament points to a low ammo situation.

If the Jap BB's are gone, then it is a victory to you, there are no replacements.

Good to see the PT's can work against capital ships when the situation is right.

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ORIGINAL: princep01

It is an extraordinary battle in which the Yamato is sunk by three torpedos. I'd have expected better. Must have been additional damage from large sghells or a magazine explosion as three torpedos just would not do the job on that vessel.

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ORIGINAL: Olorin

Well done! Yamato sunk by a PT... a new reef in the Solomons island chain...it's probably so big that you can build it up to a proper base...

Regarding Rader's withdrawal from India:
Has anyone thought that perhaps he can no longer provide the massive Indian industry with fuel? I haven't actually calculated how much fuel it needs, but he surely had to transfer fuel from Burma and the DEI, since the only refinery in India is in Ledo. His fuel reserves in the Home Islands must be significantly lower than usual, so maybe he thought it was time to start stockpiling fuel in the HI for the end game. And since he cannot logistically support the Indian industry any more, the IJA has no reason (in his mind) to stay there. Could that be a possible explanation?

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

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ORIGINAL: CT Grognard

There are a number of factors that result in lack of coordination of sweeps in what I believe are the order of impact of those factors:

1) Plane types (specifically differences in cruising speed) – same plane type coordinates better; the closer the aircraft types are in cruising speed the greater the chance of coordinated strikes;
2) Altitude – if you send planes in at different altitudes they will tend to go in uncoordinated, all at the same height and you have more odds of a coordinated large strike;
3) Weather – the worse the weather (i.e. rain, thunderstorms) the greater the chances for the strikes to be uncoordinated;
4) Range to target – the further away from the target hex the various squadrons are, the greater the odds of it being uncoordinated;
5) Origin – if all the planes are launching from the same base, greater chance of coordination;
6) Air HQ being present at the origin base;
7) Other factors like squadron leader statistics, squadron morale.

It appears you ordered Kittyhawks from Munda, and P-47s, P-38s and F6Fs from Rekata Bay.

It looks like you had three squadrons P-47s, three squadrons P-38s and two squadrons F6Fs (at least) at Rekata Bay – what airfield level is it? Do you have any other squadrons there (e.g. dive-bombers, patrol planes)? It could well be that your airfield was overstacked – resulting in sweeps also not going in coordinated.

The F6F’s cruising speed is quite a bit slower than the P-47D and the P-38Hs (200mph as opposed to around 250mph). This could have been a factor too.

I think in this case the following happened that counted against you:

1) Different plane types
2) Poor weather
3) Very poor die roll

Thanks CT Grognard! I've studied the "Coordination Guide" posted on the war room section...
I gotta say that i've always tried to keep those rules in mind when i try to sweep...in fact usually i never use Hellcats for this role (this was supposed to be a safe mission)...the Kittihawks were on LRCAP, while all the P-38s were set at 31k and the P-47s at 36k... Rekata wasn't overstacked, having space for 300 aircraft and 15 groups... and normally i never overstack my AFs, trying to always keep an eye on the AF limitations..

Anyway, not a big deal...lesson learnt and we'll move forward... i have to force him to come to me...that's the strategy

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My ships performed badly once again...Lee Chin was in charge of the BB TF and they achieved nothing...however 2 Jap BBs and 1 CAs is a good trade imho for 2 CAs and 6/7 DDs... but still...i hoped in something more...at least something more from my BBs...

However i don't know the status of my BBs...waiting for the turn right now... The NC should be in a really bad shape imho...probably more than 6 months...but hey...it's part of the game...she has been really unlucky in this war having eaten already 2 torps...