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Hard Sarge -> (3/13/2003 6:22:40 PM)
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Hi David B
well in my game I was talking about (uninstalled the whole thing, so don't have it anymore)
all the JP fighters were coming from Rebaul (which was the other hassle, every raid was 84+ Zeros and 3 to 15 Bombers)
which I think what I was seeing was more Morale based, but the hassle is, for what ever reason, my Cats never picked there morale back up, pull them from the battle and let them sit for a week and morale only would get back to 50%, fly them back and Fat is already 20-30+ next day put them on Cap and there Morale is shot, noticed that the P-40's didn't do that, they seemed to stay high, the 39's, well, if they got kills it stayed up, if they didn't it was in the 50's
but I still can't see a well rested Cat group of 4 Squadrons jumping 30 Zeros, and loseing 10-15 planes to 1 Zero (FOW off)
maybe in my game, the Cats were not getting the kills they needed to keep there morale up, and with out the morale, they wern't getting the kills
Hi Mman
yea I was seeing that too, one part that was strange though, you would, 5 or 6 planes go red in a row, or destoryed just flash on the screen over and over again, I also don't count that now, but most times it happens, one pilot gets a lot of kills that mission ?
I have been watching the air battles more now, and looks like a lot of times, the whole fighter group was breaking off, which stinks when one plane is damaged and 24 planes break off, worst one was when 16 planes bounced a undefend Nell group, first plane in was damaged, so the whole pack broke off and went home, while the Nells finished there bomb run
Hi Drongo
LOL now you reply :)
still think my game was screwed up, the AI will attack me now, in the game I was talking about, it would not (I could sit out side the port, with a 3 CV TF and just pick off ships as they left port and the AI would do nothing, and it had (recon ?) 140 some fighters and at least 80 bombers there, I was only getting some 45-50 fighters up on Cap)
even if you feel the P-40 was never historically outfought to the extent your seeing. ?
don't have a hassle with the P-40's, my Cats are getting slaughtered, the P-40 was all but holding it's own, in fact, had to move all of them from PM over to Lunga to give the Cats a break, and they ended up breaking the Attack on Lunga, and like I said, they were a good day, bad day, type of deal (still, in the first two months, I never had a battle that I shot down more then 2 Zeros, the 3rd month I nailed 3 once, in the 4th, I had a big day and nailed 5 (rooks ?, replacements?)
towards the end, I even started t
o pull my fighters off of the bases, the AI only had 6 bombers in the area, it was losing as many Zeros if I fought him as if I didn't
reinstalled the game and went to a different Scen, 13 instead of 14 (later war, the map looked interesting)
and I am still seeing some of the same thing, only it is with the 38 now, the 39 will get hammered and then return the favor, a real bomber buster, so end of day, tend to lose 10-15 of them, but they do damage back, the 38 gets attacked and they break off, the F4u is Hog Heaven (still, Morale looks to be the key, got 1 killer unit, and they got high Morale and kills, the other 3, are in the 50% for morale and have to be shut down for rest, and have low kills totals, so think they fed off of each other, to stick in battle and get kills, you need morale, to get morale and stay on Cap/excourt, you need kills)
HARD_Sarge
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