anarchyintheuk
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Joined: 5/5/2004 From: Dallas Status: offline
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Allied fanboy here too. The IJN "first team" torpedo bombers (akagi, kaga, hiryu and soryu) never launched a strike in a CV battle except for hiryu's partial torpedo squadron attack on yorktown. If I remember correctly they were something like 2 out of 10. Pretty good shooting. In UV's combat system, as soon as there is a hit (bomb or torpedo, the damage is added immediately which slows down the ship immediately, whereas in RL a ship would slowly lose it speed gradually. Torps do significant damage and the evasion value of a ship is very important in avoiding torp hits. As soon as one hits, the likelihood of another hit jumps dramatically. That's why hits, whether surface or aerial, seem to cluster on a few ships. JMO. The Betties seem overpowered in UV because of the way players use them. I don't know that the IJN ever based 200+ Betties at Rabaul, but as an IJN player that's exactly what I do. There really wasn't much historical opportunity for the offensive deployment of the Betties. The USN didn't operate often in range of IJN/IJA land based areas until after '42. By that time the USN had better cap control, fighters, AA, etc. and the IJN/IJA pilots had decreased in skill level. Ahistoric use/opportunity equals ahistoric results.
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