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spruance -> Scenario 25: Where are the Japanese? (7/14/2003 2:21:48 PM)
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I downloaded #25 from the Spooky site. I wanted to give this
scenario a go as it removes the Midway ships and starts from
May 1942. Just what I wanted. But something is wrong with
this scenario.
After an initial carrier skirmish I started to notice
that the Japanese were very quiet. I played through to mid June
1942, and there was not a single air raid on PM. The Japanese
carriers disappeared.
Then when I sailed my carrier TF up the Solomon Sea
not a single Japanese plane attacked the ships, while
I parked my TF off the coast of Shortlands, then Rabaul
and blew just about every Japanese ship I could find out of the
water.
So to test things I played the first turn of scenarios 19 and 25
several times as the Japanese and compared results.
In Rabual on turn 1, the Japanese have about 50 fighters and
40 bombers. If you send the whole lot against PM, most times,
weather permitting, nearly all those aircraft will attack.
In #25 however, every time, only about 10 planes attack, and
afterwards I notice about 75 planes are no longer at available
status but are "in reserve". What does "in reserve" mean?
Can anyone think what the author of this scenario could have tweaked to cause this mass withdrawal of Japanese forces?
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