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Phelan -> RE: Naval Combat (4/22/2010 1:02:51 PM)
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I´m having a hard time seeing anything positive about how it works now, nor any logic or "realism" to it.
Sure, if one was forced to create fleets of a limited size, and not be guaranteed that all fleets are involved in a battle, that could work. But to routinely have only your CVs be caught by the other side´s surface ships is just absurd. (The only occurence of this I know of is the US jeep carriers almost being caught by Japanese battle ships during the invasion of the Philippines in ´44, but then the big US fleet was in a different sea to meet the Japanese carriers.) It also happened since the jeep carriers were covering an invasion and thus were rather fixed in position.
In fact, I wouldn´t mind a situation where a carrier task force will practically never enter into surface combat, meaning you have to divide your fleet into CVs with escorts mostly for AA and the odd surface combat, but having real surface groups if you want to expect to use your BBs offensively.
As the system works right now, there doesn´t really seem to be any good strategy to apply in naval combat, only prayers. (On a sidenote, though, I have found that bombers set to naval attacks will always score a hit if there is a target, so half a dozen of those attacking every turn will wither away the enemy, but it doesn´t really feel like a good solution for anything.)
/ Phelan
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