RevRick
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When, and if, you manage to weather the ridiculous 100 plane raids (75 A6M2, 25 A6M3, 4 G4M) usually against ships in my experience (and those Betty's must have the IJN equivalent of Davey Crockett, because they all seem to get torpedo hits) - use the Whirraway in PM to make shipping into Buna a real pain. The P-400's are all but useless except for one squadron - and then you really can't risk it too very much because of the replacement rate. Since the IJN seems to also excell in unescorted raids against Cairns and Townsville against even CAP supported shipping - keep a goodly number of fighters there and attrite the Bettys and Nells, at least in part, when they fly into that airspace.
It's funny, but I've had CV task forces within four hexes of Shortland with heavy CAP up trying to take out some of the shipping at Shortland and also entice the air group at Rabaul to take a crack at a good number of fighters - and they haven't even sniffed at it. They have literally flown withing thirty miles of it on a raid to Lunga, and have bombed the #&&^$(# out of Port Moresby, but haven't even made one attempt at the carriers. Maybe because I have four of them in good shape in two task forces causes them to shy away. But my cynical and somewhat jaundiced mind wonders more if the game knows that the CV's are there with a heavy CAP and will take on the soft skinned AP/AK TF's to avoid possibly lossing a few fighters. It is really weird when you wish the Betty's would come after your carriers....
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