m10bob -> RE: Sick'em El Cid..... (12/26/2005 1:38:29 PM)
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I for one do not want CHS to go sci-fi.. I have no problem seeing units that were actually involved in the war, but the "1946" stuff is starting to bleed into the spaces used by units of "reality". This mod was called CHS for a specific reason. Maybe a seperate mod needs to be made, called "1946", (or whatever.) As for that drydock, and the "battleship used as a target", well, they at least were there, and if they were used to "catch Japanese bombs", so be it. This latter issue has been discussed several times in this forum, and nobody is apparently convinced by historical fact. While we are on the subject, I did recently read one of our friends stating "zero flights to Henderson were common and everyday"(or similar words). This is not correct, and if Saburo Sakai can be trusted to tell the truth, he made it clear that while it was possible, it was very taxing on their BEST pilots, and required " flying just slightly over stall speed for the entire long flight, and leaning the fuel to an extent that once at the target, there was no fuel left for combat of any consequence. Source:SAMURAI, Saburo Sakai with Martin Caiden Sakai further admitted that flying the plane very lean (and very slow to get there) contributed greatly to pilot fatigue, to the extent he, himself mistook a Grumman Avenger for a Wildcat, and got directly under it, allowing the Avenger belly gun to damage his plane at point blank range,causing the loss of an eye. Anybody who has gotten that close to those 2 planes, can see that aside from a similar shape, the 2 planes are totally different in size, the Avenger being nearly twice as large!. Sakai must have been close enough to notice the difference, (if he were not fatigued,) as the belly gun which hit him was one of those "measly" .30 cal "pop-guns" which have prevented the Oscar from getting its' deserved status in the game ! (I am not a "fanboy" of any side, just of historical correctness.) This is not to say it did not happen, of course, (my uncle Jim brought back a piece of a Zeke brought down there), but altering the range of a plane for the duration of the use of said plane (for the entire game) is something which should not be taken lightly. I would rather see Oleg get his way with the static "Mongolian Horde", than to see any added Soviet units whose historical duration was from A bomb 1, to VJ day.(Just the time needed to get those northern islands back.)[8D]
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