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Charles2222 -> RE: CAP over TF (7/22/2004 7:53:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Primal Fury
One example: 16 ready pilots, 16 ready planes, Morale 98, Fatigue 0, Experience 77.
I'm puzzled.
In another game I got some weird escort selection too:
- 1 large strike of about 100 bombers, unescorted
- 1 strike of 15 bombers, escorted by 85 zeros.
Both were against naval targets (CV)
I'm a stranger to UV, so this may not work as I'm guessing. It may be important just what you assign at what time. For instance, have you ever noticed how strikes against the same target will be numbered? There must be a purpose beyond just letting you know it's already been selected once. Traditionally having played scen15 as Japan quite a few times, coming out of Takao I believe, is that large JA air attack on Clark. You ever notice how the first strike is already escorted but the latter one of one group of Nells is not? Any time I've struck against Clark with a similar situation it seems to always work that way. How can you screw that up? I'd suppose you could have selected all your bomber strikes before your escorts. Typically with that situation I'll assign all my ecorts first and then move onto the bombers. The ecorts might also be assigned to more readily ecort the larger force, therefore, if you were to assign a small bomber raid, then all your escorts, and then all the rest of the bombers, they may ignore the small bomber group. Something about that doesn't sound quite right, but then again I'm always having the larger force escorted while the smaller bomber force comes last unescorted.
Another thing to consider, might have something to do with which base you selected and assigned first, which would quite possibly play into this since the bombers attacks are numbered. I play by going through all the bases in order and don't deviate from that. IOW, I don't use the next base toggle when it reaches Takao and decide I want to do Saigon's air first instead, such that the smaller bomber raid is probably from another nearby port close to Takao but it just takes longer to get there (OTOH if you're assigning a raid on Clark from that base first, it may very well place it to strike before any later Takao-based raid. Also, escorts may only protect those raids assigned 'after' they are assigned to escort, but this is all guesswork from me). It may also be that the latter small raid would be escorted too, but we may be thinking the Takao escorts, if numberable enough will escort them too. I don't think I've ever seen the smaller raid escorted though I hadn't really thought of trying a bunch of different possibilties before.
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