Jorge_Stanbury
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Joined: 2/29/2012 From: Toronto and Lima Status: offline
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IMO, best Allied carrier composition, on January 1942, is all carriers together, disbanded at a heavily defended (AAs, Guns, mines, Div sized LCUs) and well patrolled (nav search) base, with at least 100 army or marines fighters on CAP duty, If you plan to use them against Japanese carriers, in Jan42, I suggest you put, as background music, Phil Collins' "Against all odds" cause there will be "just an empty space, nothing left here to remind you" of those carriers in the aftermath If you read Allied AARs you will find lots of sad stories of Allied carrier forays ending with the KB coming by surprise and sinking them for little to no damage received. It is not impossible to destroy the KB in early war (I have done it once in PBEM!!) but you will need the Japanese opponent to make a succession of blunders and bad mistakes; it happens but not too often if your opponent is minimally experienced, better wait until you can: replace Devastators with Avengers replace Buffaloes with Wildcats have enough PP to replace some poor ship captains have properly trained pilots upgrade ships to better AA get better carrier escorts (fast BBs and/or CLAAs)
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