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I have always felt that once Iwo was taken by the allies B-29 op losses from the Mariannas should be less. Is this being looked at or is it even possible?

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Will USAAF long range recon assets (B-24 and B-29) be included?

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

I don't think this was asked before regarding upcoming WitP-AE...


Is there any modification to airbase overstacking rule?

Are there any modifications that differ 1-engine planes from 2-engine and 4-engine aircraft (all regarding stacking rules of airbases)?


Thanks in advance!

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ORIGINAL: hvymtl13

Great plan on this expansion. Sounds great.
I read all the previous posts and good questions and answers. So I have only a couple:
Recon was mentioned fairly often so far, but no mention of intercepting them. I've noticed myself and read a few threads on this subject that imply they are overly difficult to shoot down.

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ORIGINAL: spence

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Spence, there's a big difference between shooting down practically no minelayers and having 0% chance of ever shooting down a minelayer.

The total loss of minelaying aircraft during the 6 month campaign against the Home Islands was 15 aircraft to all causes. Since all mining missions occur at night I'll wager that the ops losses provided by the game engine mechanics exceed the actual losses considerably.

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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

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ORIGINAL: spence

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Spence, there's a big difference between shooting down practically no minelayers and having 0% chance of ever shooting down a minelayer.

The total loss of minelaying aircraft during the 6 month campaign against the Home Islands was 15 aircraft to all causes. Since all mining missions occur at night I'll wager that the ops losses provided by the game engine mechanics exceed the actual losses considerably.

Spence, I'm not arguing history. I agree that 15 aircraft lost is inconsequential. My argument for trying to fix this is for alternate history purposes. If the Japanese are able to field a capable air force in 1943, then the Japanese should be the ability to contest the Allied aerial minelaying campaign.

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ORIGINAL: TheElf


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No one should be arguing anything on this thread...[:)]

Thanks.

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SAIEW.... SAIEW... SAIEW...

c'mon, guys, Stop Making Sense!

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ORIGINAL: Brady

Has the tell tail red line present for recon flights been done away with, and given that most recon flights went compleatly unnoticed, is their a rutine that would alow for this in game, that the enemy might not even see the flight.

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ORIGINAL: spence

Forgot to ask before: PV-2 Harpoons in AE?

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SAIEW.... SAIEW... SAIEW...

c'mon, guys, Stop Making Sense!

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Hehe, I also wondered whether SAIEW was a Talking Heads reference. [8D]

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Back on-topic: I can't remember whether this has been asked/answered -- will there be any change to the procedure for transferring aircraft? I think Elf or someone acknowledged working on the fog-of-war aspect of air transfers (the player moving second gets more info about transfers than the player moving first). Will AE address the question of whether transferred aircraft should immediately be able fly missions?

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ORIGINAL: Rainerle

Hi,
can we have night transport flights only (to contested bases)? Can the Japanese use the transport float planes for attacking enemy bases (i.e. non paratroop units but they are not paradropped of course).

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: Brady

Has the tell tail red line present for recon flights been done away with, and given that most recon flights went compleatly unnoticed, is their a rutine that would alow for this in game, that the enemy might not even see the flight.

I would like to second this and take it one step further:

The red lines lines showing the origin of air attacks should only be shown when the origin of the attack is detected. And, if the attack is detected (say) halfway, then the red line should only be drawn halfway. The red line should also be subject to Fog Of War - it could be displayed incorrectly!

I don't know if the current engine can accommodate these suggestions, but it would be great if they could.

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ORIGINAL: Norm3

Is there a cap on total number of pilots as in WITP? I think it was 20,000 initially and one upgrade improved that to 30,000. Just wondering because if so many new air units are being added, won't that affect the cap on pilots?

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ORIGINAL: Norm3

Will there be a chance for naval search to misidentify and thus mislead air strikes onto coral reefs and whales? Or simply to say there is a task force in one hex when in fact it is several away. I guess kinda like a random (low) chance for spotting mishaps to better, simulate war time nerves and inexperiance?

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ORIGINAL: Norm3

Will there be a chance for naval search to misidentify and thus mislead air strikes onto coral reefs and whales?

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

I like the idea of Lizzies being used as light bombers [8D] I don't know if this has been covered yet, but here's some stuff I would like to see that either isn't really in the current game or isn't there at all:

Blenheim MkV
A few of the unarmed Beauforts that were in Singers at the start of the Pacific war and were used for recce missions
Some of the modified Buffaloes that were used for similar missions IIRC
Thunderbolt MkI & MkII
Liberator GRV etc for proper anti-sub missions
Ansons
Hurricane IIb
Hurricane IIc
Hurricane TRII
Hurricane IV
Spitfire PRIV
PR Mitchells
Beaufighter MkIc
Beaufighter MkX (I don't think the RAF used them for lugging torps around in SE Asia)
Beaufort transports as used by the RAAF

One for the JFBs out there: How about the ability to employ a limited number of prototype a/c before their general introduction (a la the Tojo in China), may be beyond the limits of what is poissible though...
A proper RAF Tiger Force [&o]
Maybe sticking 8 Sqn under a restricted command to stop the Allied player moving them from Aden where they spent most of the war carrying out ASW.
Royal Navy MONABs and shore based squadrons

I know some of this is probably in already and some of this is obviously far more likely than other stuff, but as the actress said to the bishop 'If you don't ask you don't get'. [;)]

You will learn to dread my posts [:D]

EDIT: What Brady said in the post under mine [:D]