Canoerebel
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Joined: 12/14/2002 From: Northwestern Georgia, USA Status: offline
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Information about ships sunk is greatly subject to FOW. Players get better at having a feel for things with experience, but even experienced players can be fooled or prone to getting their hopes up. There are a few tools that can help - the timing of sinking sounds is a clue (though not so much when you have many ships damaged during a turn, as at Pearl on Dec. 7). Also, if a cruiser or BB gets hit and the proper number of float planes is listed on the Air Losses report the next day, that's a clue. (Ditto for aircraft carriers: if CV Junyo takes two torps and three bomb hits on June 15, 1943, and the Air Loss table shows 15 Zeroes, 10 Vals and 23 Kates destroyed "On Ground," that's an indicator Junyo might've gone down.) Eventually, ships confirmed sunk do show up in the Operations Report, sometimes days, many times months, and occasionally years later. That's when you get the credit for the points.
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