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Shaggy -> My Wildcats upgraded to Corsairs (9/10/2003 12:56:53 AM)
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Its early Aug 1943 in a scenerio Im playing. All my carriers were docked, to get their Wildcats upgraded to Hellcats amoung other reasons. All my Wildcat units had upgraded to Hellcats except VF-2, a 36 plane unit on the Saratoga.
I wanted to send the Saratoga out shortly and I had a 24 plane Hellcat unit (VF-38) which had arrived as reinforcements. I decided that Id rather have Hellcats on Saratoga even if it ment fewer planes, so I transfered VF-2 to a shore base to await upgrade and VF-38 to Saratoga.
2 turns later I noticed that VF-2 was now flying Corsairs. I double checked the UV upgrade path list I have and it lists the Wildcats as upgrading to Hellcats.
At the time I had ony a few Hellcats in the pool but lots of Corsairs, more then enough to cover the 36 planes in VF-2. But Id had enough Corsairs in the pool to cover all my Wildcat units for a while and none had changed to Corsairs until I transfored VF-2 to shore. All my other Wildcat units had been constantly on carriers. So does the upgrade path for Wildcats change depending on their being based of a carrier or on shore?
A second question: are there any penalties for using Corsairs from carriers in '43? The rules say they can fly off of carriers, but I know the USN had some trouble operating Corsairs from carriers when they first came out. As I recall the Corsairs wernt used for combat operations from Carriers until 1944 (after the Brits had worked out the bugs).
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