davidachamberlain
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Carriers can only carry lower quality planes - not higher quality planes. You could use a newer carrier with a 4, 5, 6 (or higher) rating to carry 2 planes with 1, 2 or 3 ratings - they must add up to less than the carrier rating. To "shuttle" the planes, you need transports, but they can carry 2 planes each. If you have spare transports, you can certainly position planes, but since the carriers can only be built in home country ports, I would deploy the CVs and planes to the same port. Make sure that you do the carriers first and then you can load the planes during the Reinforcements. By the way, a transport can load and carry two carrier planes. I either "shuttle" them that way to the front and recall the carrier back to a sea area adjacent to it's coast, load the plane from there and RTB the loaded carrier to a port on the front. Most of the advanced carriers have a 4 sea area range, so you can get a carrier without any planes from Honolulu or Pago Pago to the West Coast to load replacements. That is easier than using the transports. I find it inconvenient that you can not build the required ratings for planes. I often have lower rated carriers (such as 1, 2 or 3 rating) waiting for a lower rating plane to arrive (when there are planes rated 4 or 5) or higher rates carriers (such as 4 or 5 ratings) with several lower rated planes (such as 1, 2 or 3 ratings) that are available and am waiting for the higher rated planes (such as a 4 or 5). In the second case, I might instead take 2 lower rates planes (such as a fighter and a nav with ratings of 1, 2 or 3) to use until they get shot down. Dave
< Message edited by davidachamberlain -- 4/18/2018 1:45:36 AM >
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