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jdcorley -> B-29 Unit arrivals (5/1/2011 6:55:29 PM)
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Playing my first full game in AE. It 1944 and all of my B-29 units show up out of range of every airfield and have to beither be packed for a ship or rail transit into theater.
WHY?!?!
There was not a single case of any B-29 unit going from CONUS to either the CBI or CenPAc aboard a ship or a train. The B-29-5 (initial production variant) had a ferry range of 5600 miles (140 hexes +/-) and the plane in the game has the range to stage from CONUS to the combat zone in one hop. Why does the game hamstring an intercontinental bomber (albeit an early one) with this extremely unrealistic handicap? For that matter, why do they show up in Eastern USA? Herington, KS processed over half of the B-29 units in the CenPac campaign on their way to the Pacific. Wouldn't that have made more sense? The B-29s going to the CBI transited the southern atlantic route and would have entered the map at Aden which is 2350 miles from Karachi. The B-29s were staged by air through Karachi and the primary reason for the stop wasn't fuel, rather fatigue. A ship simply took too long, as a B-29 could arrive in the combat zone in a week, not a month or more later.
I searched for this topic, but didn't find anything. Sorry if it's old ground being recovered.
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