wdolson
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ORIGINAL: archita A other little question, an air combat tf can defend amphibious tf with escort mode task force + lrcap and follow route ? the DD in task force perform automatic Asw protection for escort tf and escorted tf ? quote:
ORIGINAL: alimentary There is no such thing as an "escort mode" task force in the sense I think you mean. Designating a task force as "escort" has no in-game effect of making this TF good for escorting. Instead, it allows the TF to contain any class of ship. That is the primary purpose of the designation. Such TF's are intended for use in moving ships of dissimilar classes from one place to another. In the words of the manual: " » Escort. These are general purpose “ship movement” TFs. They are used to evacuate damaged ships from the battle area, and to move ships between bases. They cannot load or unload, or perform any other function, and will flee all enemy forces. They may include any type of surface ship, including those too badly damaged to fight. Maximum TF size is 100 ships." The penalty you pay for using an escort TF is that the TF runs away from anything (which makes it a rather poor "escort") and that it cannot do anything (can't launch air strikes, can't load or unload). I've never tested whether they can operate CAP or LRCAP. A TF of type escort that contains at least one carrier and contains no ships ineligible for forming an Air Combat TF will automatically convert to an Air Combat TF. Actually... [and this is clearly an abuse of the game engine] I just now loaded up scenario 1, went to San Diego and created an Air Combat TF. I redesignated it as "escort" and (without leaving the TF page) transferred in an AVD and an AO. It still shows as an Air Combat TF even though it contains ineligible ships. This stupid pet trick does not allow amphibious transports containing loaded passengers to be added to an air combat TF, however. He may have been asking about Carrier Escort TFs, which operate much the same way as regular Carrier TFs, but with a couple of differences: 1) The only carrier you can put in these is a CVE 2) They can operate in coastal hexes without penalties Bill
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