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ORIGINAL: FatR

Recently, I've run the initial Japanese attack several times, with "Historical first turn off", to test how various alternative plans and tricks. I've noticed two strange things. First, Japanese LBA just refuses to bomb Manila port on the first turn, pretty much regardless of my orders (even if all that flies from Formosa on 07.12 is this attack and preliminary sweeps). Second, Pearl Harbor attack consistently does much, much less damage with the historical first turn off. There is a recurring problem with Zuikaku-3 arriving only after the main strike, even if you try to change KB position, and on a whole torpedo attacks seem much less accurate. With the historical first turn on, you generally see at least 1-2 and often more battleships sank on the spot, and more being in danger of sinking. But when it is off, my usual results were 1-2 battleships in danger and non-threatening damage to the rest, with just a handful hits to other warships (with surprise ON). These results were fairly stable, unlike outcomes of other engagements. Is the game supposed to work like this? Or did I just met some bugs?

I apologize, if these questions were asked already.