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marc420 -> Noumea Triangle (10/4/2002 10:08:25 AM)
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Uhh, I seem to have disappeared some carrier planes.
In my first campaign game (#17), both the Lexington and the Yorktown got sunk in early May. (IJN lost a heavy CV and damaged the other to the point where I haven't seen it in weeks). This happened close enough to Port Moresby and Cooktown that the surviving USN carrier sub groups landed there.
After the battle was over, I got them out of PM, and decided to move them around to Noumea. They got as far as Rockhampton, and discovered they couldn't fly to Noumea.
By this point, I had the CVE Long Island in Noumea, but with no planes. So I thought I'd put the two together. I started sailing an Air Combat TF built around the Long Island toward Rockhampton, and the next turn I found that the game would let me use the TRANSFER To SHIP option to send a couple of these carrier subgroups out to the Long Island.
The problem is the next turn, when I go to look at the Long Island, there are no planes on her. And when I look through the air group lists, I don't see those sub-groups anymore.
All we know now at HQ is a strange radio transmission from the leader of the Dauntlesses. He mentions electrical interference, his compass spinning around wildly, and a strange blue glow enveloping the plane. Then silence.
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