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wobbly -> (7/28/2003 7:55:50 AM)
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Not sure about this but I think, as soon as you have land based planes (and they could previously been on carriers) as your attack weapon, they fall far more heavily under the "fear of enemy CAP" issue.
What I mean by this is:
If a target has cap above it, a bomber requires to be escorted in order to attack the target. The more CAP the more escort required.
Carriers are not as influenced by this, and this can cause you to get just as angry (when your carrier commander sends your vals and kates with 6 or so zeros up against 50 wildcats and they get slaughtered).
Moral is also an issue although I would have said that is not the case this time.
I'll hypothesize and say that a land based unit gets a bonus to the chance it will attack a target if an AIR HQ is present. The carrier is always considered to have an air HQ so may always get this bonus - not sure about that though.
The moral of this story is: set more fighters on escort - this is no gaurantee; especially when there are other easier targets.
This is the price we pay for not having a priority over which targets we value in the sphere of influence of our air assets.
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