expatbrit -> RE: a couple of questions. (3/15/2008 11:31:02 AM)
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yes thank you both. I am sure in game terms the AI is not doing anything wrong, It's just my own feeling that if you consider a "box" of three or four carriers with a defending circle of destroyers and cruisers, then probably the carriers would be operating with 2 NM between them and the escorts a further NM away. that would give a TF width of 4 NM at a minimum, and probably more. The distance from first ship to last would be more like 5 or 6 NM. At 30 knots they would be flying off CAP and strikes to reply and manouevering to defend against incoming strikes and it just seems to me that I would want more than a channel 50 NM wide to manouever in, especially when one considers that wind direction was so important for flying off. Historically I never heard of any carrier group entering the slot. But then I always piss off my sailing friends because as an old merchant seaman I always want more sea-room rounding a cape than they do.
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