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AmiralLaurent -> (5/15/2003 11:52:16 PM)
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With ASW patrols at 1000 feet, I had sightings, attacks and sometimes hit (two claimed in two months).
All floatplanes except Mavis and Emily usually flew ASW, being detached from their AV to be present in every base. I use also Vals when far away from Allied planes and ships (N of SHortlands for example in June 1942).
It seems to me that to have a chance to attack and hit something, you should have a concentration of ASW planes, not only 4 of them.
But the most useful result of ASW planes is to watch subs so you can send DD to hunt them.
I's very rare to kill a sub with a bombing attack. I saw only one B-17 managing that in a test game I ran. In my normal games, B-17 have other things to do...
On the opposite, I have seen numerous cases where a sub has to be sent to Pearl or Tokyo, having suffered from 40 to 60 SYS and FLT in a bombing.
I have a related question : half of my floatplanes on board cruisers are on ASW (100%) while the other are on naval search. If I have seen them numerous times watching enemy ships, I have not yet seen a SOC-3 attack a sub. Are they useful at all in this role ? At least CV planes work for that.
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