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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 4/24/2009 8:21:55 AM

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Well, then 1-2 Night groups could arrive independently of the carriers, and replaced manually, giving original Air groups Rest.
As is my knowlidge Big E, Independence and maybe one more carrier was designated for night ops.

Not going to happen.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 4/24/2009 9:57:39 AM

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Shouldn't be that hard to mod after release, if someone wishes so, I think.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 4/24/2009 11:11:15 AM

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Very easily done.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 4/24/2009 12:57:31 PM

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Very easily done.

What a magnificent orb!!!!

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 4/24/2009 1:03:39 PM

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Very easily done.

What a magnificent orb!!!!

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 4/24/2009 1:23:22 PM

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...strains of Also Sprach Zarathustra...

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 4/24/2009 2:04:11 PM

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So, is this the big head?

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/12/2009 1:32:02 PM

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a quick air thread question.... has the scale issue of plane tops been 'fixed'? ie. will a B29 still look the same size as a Zero? Or will they be to scale now? I noticed in the pics of the ships they are much closer to scale than in the original, i'm hoping AC have had the same treatment.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/12/2009 1:37:28 PM

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It's better, but we had to strike a balance between scaling and visibility. You do actually want to be able to see the fighters, right?

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/12/2009 1:53:32 PM

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Thanks for the very quick answer T. I expected some compromise, but an improvement is appreciated.

By the way, do you ever SLEEP??!!

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/13/2009 10:28:50 AM

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Another quickie.... is the Blenheim V (aka Bristol Bisley) in?? I think a couple showed up in India at some point late 42 or early 43??

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/17/2009 2:49:06 PM

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I was just looking through the latest AAR (YH vs TS) and found myself being reminded of the GLEN which in stock is a much better strategic intelligence asset than Allied SIGINT. Have the capabilities of that magnificent 120 mph search plane (when it can go that fast=terminal velocity with the wings ripped off) been toned down any?

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/17/2009 3:03:05 PM

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Another quickie.... is the Blenheim V (aka Bristol Bisley) in?? I think a couple showed up in India at some point late 42 or early 43??

Quite a lot more than "a couple". It's in with both Canadian and RAF versions.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/17/2009 7:48:40 PM

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Just wondering. IF AE is going to take servicability into account, how bad are B-29's. From what I have read recently, there were very difficult to keep in the air. These problems were at their worst during the first few months of use but never were completely resolved during the war. The superchargers were a major problem on this aircraft.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/17/2009 7:50:37 PM

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Pretty difficult to keep them flying, IIRC...

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/18/2009 4:35:32 AM

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Another quickie.... is the Blenheim V (aka Bristol Bisley) in?? I think a couple showed up in India at some point late 42 or early 43??

Quite a lot more than "a couple". It's in with both Canadian and RAF versions.

Excellent!!

What about the Sea Mosquito (TR.33 & TR.37)? I know it would be late 45 at earliest, probably early 46. But the idea of a heavily armed, radar equipped, carrier based fighter with a torpedo is somewhat appealing!!

And also.... any later model Firefly's (ie. the Griffon powered Firefly Mk.IV)? The first of the truely effective Firefly models...

And on the other side.... Japan used the Italian Fiat B.R.20 Cigona in China (they ordered 85 i think in the late 1930's). Not sure how many were left by Dec 7 '41, but probably a few??

Finally, China used the Fiat C.R.32 biplane fighters against the Japs. Did they make the cut??

Thanks again.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/18/2009 1:54:55 PM

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Gentlemen,

I am sure it was discussed, but a search came up blank. Any tweaks to the operational readiness rates of aircraft and crew fatigue in AE?

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/18/2009 2:27:23 PM

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Forgive me if this has been asked before.....

I understand that aircraft are going to have different ratings for different altitudes in AE, but what will determine at what5 altitude the combat takes place: the height of the escort/CAP/sweep? Will it be whichever side does not get the bounce (on the basis that if your opponent hasn't seen you, then to attack you need to alter to his altitude)? Also once combat has started will altitudes change as planes dive/climb and are pursued?

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/24/2009 9:38:55 AM

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i realy hope that we will not see things like that in AE:

Day Air attack on TF at 69,36

Japanese aircraft
A7M1 Reppu x 190
D4Y Judy x 73
B6N Jill x 187

Allied aircraft
F6F Hellcat x 69
F4U-1 Corsair x 314

Japanese aircraft losses
A7M1 Reppu: 190 destroyed
D4Y Judy: 54 destroyed
B6N Jill: 171 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F6F Hellcat: 5 destroyed, 2 damaged
F4U-1 Corsair: 47 destroyed, 14 damaged

the japanese totaly surprised the allied carrier TFs (they even did not spott my carriers and started not a single attack) with crack IJN pilots with above 70 XP but the stuppid uber-CAP of stocks ruined all the planing.

elimination of uber-CAP and no more air combat XP gain by attacking undefended bases with fighters would be the main reason for me to buy AE.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/24/2009 12:23:53 PM

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Well the result is too bloody but you have "only" 190 fighters vs almost 400 for Allies. 2 Vs 1 advantage for defender. With Early Warning Radar you will never win that one.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/24/2009 12:27:38 PM

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Still won't happen, as we've said before.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/24/2009 1:46:00 PM

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Well the result is too bloody but you have "only" 190 fighters vs almost 400 for Allies. 2 Vs 1 advantage for defender. With Early Warning Radar you will never win that one.

Well, in reality, you would expect to win that one. The advantage of carrier operations over land bases was that the carriers could conduct a surge operation (generating 3x the normal number of sorties) and then move out of the area to catch up on aircraft maintenance. CAP was continuous during daylight, so you couldn't surge it. What American CVTFs did if they could was rotate the responsibility for CAP so that one carrier in the TF provided CAP coverage while the other two handled strike operations and caught up on fighter maintenance. The CAP carrier kept about a third of its fighters in the air, another third on deck alert, and was refueling/rearming the remaining third. 400 Allied fighters were about 50 in the air (and able to be vectored), another 50 on deck alert, and the remaining 50 rearming/refueling. The strike would encounter 100 fighters in two waves, followed by a few at low level. 190 escorts was plenty.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/24/2009 4:27:48 PM

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The combat data says 2 Vs 1 . I don't know if the allied player had 800 fighters. Neither you know what the allied player decide to do with its fighters.

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/25/2009 2:17:44 AM

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This battle report is why i stop playing WITP 2 years ago, Just comic book stuff...

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/26/2009 2:15:49 AM

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ill just ask The Alf does the bomber defensive work now Alf because in the old ver Witp it was a very poor show,Sorry if this has been posted before and if so can you point me the AAR.

Thanks Tiger!

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/26/2009 3:49:41 AM

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ill just ask The Alf does the bomber defensive work now Alf because in the old ver Witp it was a very poor show,Sorry if this has been posted before and if so can you point me the AAR.

Thanks Tiger!

Who is Alf?

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RE: Admiral's Edition Air War Thread - 5/26/2009 4:20:52 AM

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ill just ask The Alf does the bomber defensive work now Alf because in the old ver Witp it was a very poor show,Sorry if this has been posted before and if so can you point me the AAR.

Thanks Tiger!

Who is Alf?