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alfrake -> Unescorted carrier strikes (6/13/2006 5:08:46 AM)
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Can anyone advise me on how to convince the idiotic computer not to send my unescorted carrier bombers into heavy CAP?
Playing PBEM as Japan, I have repeatedly had the Zeroes go flying off somewhere else to fight nothing while most of the bombers charge in alone against CAP. Every attempt to bomb Palmyra, for example, has resulted in unescorted bombers flying into the CAP, even if Zeroes will escort some strikes at the same target. Today at Port Morsebay I lost the entire attack capability of Shokaku and Zuikaku (4 vals and 1 Kate left) because the entire TF Zeroes escorted the SECOND strike only (Hiryu's bombers) and butchered the CAP. The Zeroes fly somewhere almost every time, they just regularly leave bombers unescorted and worse sometimes leave the first strike unescorted.
I have tried ordering the Zeros to specifically attack the base, but that doesn't solve the timing problem. I have tried putting them on sweep missions, but that still leaves totally unescorted bombers against the remaining CAP that without being disrupted by escorts shreds the bombers. I have tried combinations and I still sometimes lose lots of bombers. My TF commanders are the best I can find (Yamaguchi most recently).
Having my entire carrier squadrons wiped out when I did everything right is just debilitating. If this is going to happen, what's the point?
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