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USSAmerica -> RE: THE THREAD!!! (7/31/2009 1:54:56 PM)
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Played Coral Sea last night. [8D] Marginal Allied victory. I surprised and sank the Japanese CVL without a single return shot. I then caught and completely destroyed the invasion TF over 2 days, but I think the second day was a mistake, as the 2 IJN CV's cornholed me from within a rainsquall, at 2 hex range. [:D] Both Yorktown and Lex actually survived, with only a couple of bomb hits on Lex, but my return strikes only landed one bomb hit on a CV, which hit the armor.
The following day, both CV TF's were set by the AI to return to Noumea. I'm guessing it was because both were under 50% of sorties remaining. I changed their destination back to the hex they were in, South of PM and manually ordered them to remain on station. The turn resolution saw both of them heading off to Noumea anyway. If they had remained as ordered, I would have sunk one of the IJN CV's without any more losses, as they split up, and the one I hit with a single bomb was still within TB range of my original hex. Instead, that one was only at long DB range, and I was within range of the second IJN CV, which was heading East toward the Solomons. I landed enough 500lb'ers on the damaged IJN CV to put it under, but I lost both Lex and Yorktown to 4 unanswered strikes from the CV to the East.
A very fun time, even though it was late, and I was tired. I am wondering what caused my ROS orders to be overridden, so I can account for it in future games, but I didn't have the energy to go back to see if I screwed up their orders or not.
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