Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: John Lansford

What is going on with pilot availability?  The manual says pilots may not be available to fly based on extreme fatigue or not enough planes for all the pilots.

Well, the first is not happening; I've got pilots with barely any fatigue on the 'no fly' list in every squadron.  It's not the second one either; in fact, I've got more flyable planes than available pilots in nearly every squadron I've looked at.  Some, such as my fighter squadrons, have only half the available pilots for flyable planes.

This is crippling my carriers; I don't dare send my CV's out of harbor with only 4-6 fighter pilots available for the entire squadron, even though there are 30+ pilots in each one!  Attack squadrons don't appear to be affected nearly as badly; my land based torpedo bombers have as many pilots as flyable planes, for example, and the attack squadrons on the CV's aren't as bad as the fighter squadrons either.

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ORIGINAL: Mynok

Sasebo Ku S-1 and Kawai Det are the Claudes that do not upgrade.

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ORIGINAL: fcam1387

Yamada-Det S-2
Saesbo KU S-1
3rd Hicotai IMAF

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ORIGINAL: Speedy

A general query on the A-29. It has no replacements coming in online yet more than a few units with the blighters in. Assuem it's intentional etc? Sheesh it's tough being Allies at game start....so few replacements........

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ORIGINAL: fbs

19th BG/32nd BS and 19th BG/32nd BS Det are both in San Francisco - just combine them
7th BG/9th BS and 7th BG/9th BS Det are both in San Francisco (should the main unit be in Pearl Harbor?)

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ORIGINAL: langleyCV1

The Buffalo MK1 was armed with 4x0.5 machine guns in AE. However re-reading Bloody Shambles and Buffalos over Singapore, it would appear a number of Buffalos were using 0.303 brownings as wing guns. This was due to problems with the 0.5 machine guns jamming after a rounds being fired.

MJT

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ORIGINAL: John Lansford

All four of my USN CV's have many more pilots for their fighter squadrons than are currently flying. I've got one squadron that has 30+ pilots but only 3 men are listed as available for flying (names are white, everyone else's is black). The manual says their names going black means they've got excess fatigue or very low experience, but neither is applicable in any of these squadrons. I've got pilots with 11 fatigue and 70 experience flying, while there are more experienced pilots with 0 fatigue listed as black.

I've docked their ships at Pearl, I've put them on "training/rest", I've tried everything, but only a small group of pilots remain available for flying. What is going on here?

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ORIGINAL: P.Hausser

Will Pilot pool limit be so high so that the game will not ever reach the death limit, and start to purge pilots from both sides at will ?

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ORIGINAL: langleyCV1

Production of Hurricane IIbs for the RAF should start in december 1941 in order to ensure 488 squadron is able to change to them by January 23 1942. As took place in real life. Also they should not be given the dutch artwork.

Many thanks

MJT

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ORIGINAL: langleyCV1

Hurricanes IIbs for the Dutch should total 29 machines not 27 as set as this moment in time.

Many thanks

MJT

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ORIGINAL: langleyCV1

Now I would like to point out that 488 Sqn RNZAF upgrades to Hurricanes which it should do, But why are they the Dutch artwork version?

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ORIGINAL: Howard Mitchell

The B-29-1 Superfortress is shown as having 3x0.5" MGs and 1x20mm cannon as tail armament, rather than 2x0.5" MGs and 1x20mm cannon.

The original B-29 tail armament was 2x0.5" MGs and 1x20mm cannon, but the cannon was often removed as its shells followed a different trajectory to the MGs, and firing the three guns together was not effective as the computer only calculated for the MGs. It was recommended that the gunner only fire the cannon when the target was close (not more than 600 yards). The cannon feed mechanism also tended to jam. (Info from William Wolf's book on the B-29).

Often a third 0.5" was added in the cannon's place, and AE shows the later B-29s as having 3x0.5" MG only.

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ORIGINAL: bsq

Some Air Leader issues:

Keith Park - should be an Air Marshal (promoted in 1941 when he took over at Malta). His stats (IMO) are too low. He was considered one of the greatest Air Commanders ever produced by the RAF (even though he was a New Zealander), yet he rates (much) lower than Curtis LeMay. At the very least his Air Skill should be on par with LeMay and his Skill and Inspiration should be much higher.

Where's the Any key?

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ORIGINAL: timtom

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ORIGINAL: John Lansford

All four of my USN CV's have many more pilots for their fighter squadrons than are currently flying. I've got one squadron that has 30+ pilots but only 3 men are listed as available for flying (names are white, everyone else's is black). The manual says their names going black means they've got excess fatigue or very low experience, but neither is applicable in any of these squadrons. I've got pilots with 11 fatigue and 70 experience flying, while there are more experienced pilots with 0 fatigue listed as black.

I've docked their ships at Pearl, I've put them on "training/rest", I've tried everything, but only a small group of pilots remain available for flying. What is going on here?

"Blacklisted" pilots should be tapped to fly missions regardless. Being "blacklisted" does not mean that the pilot isn't available to fly come the execution of the turn.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: timtom

"Blacklisted" pilots should be tapped to fly missions regardless. Being "blacklisted" does not mean that the pilot isn't available to fly come the execution of the turn.

Well - what does it mean when the pilot is displayed in black text?

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ORIGINAL: R8J

Scenario 2

Slots 423 and 424, F4F-3 Wildcat and F4F-3P Wildcat. Has drop tank ranges. No drop tank assigned.

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ORIGINAL: herwin

Does WitP AE Staff work for the non-campaign scenarios?

Where's the Any key?

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ORIGINAL: bsq

I currently have my USN carriers denuded of aircraft, but they are not being replaced, even when docking at places like PH and Sydney where there is 200k+ supply. Checking the pools, production etc against the aircraft types concerned there is nothing in the pool and no production - OK, so I upgrade - but I cannot because there is no pool or production for the aircraft type that the unit will upgrade to. If I can't get the upgrade path to show F4F-4, then I may as well cede the whole of the Central/South Pacific to the AI.

So is this dead end intentional?? If the upgrade is linear with no option to alter the path like there is WITP then the allied player is stuffed until 1943 when the Hellcats come on line. It seems as though you have one chance at a Midway type encounter and then you have used up all your carrier aircraft and then have to wait for the Essex etc.

Is my only option to disband/withdraw my VF, VS and VB Sqns and lay my carriers up for 60 days? Have I missed a trick on the production front. The window of production for some of these aircraft types seems very narrow!

At the moment I am using the limited number of less effective VM Sqns to bolster the CVW's, but surely this is not as intended.

Of course at the moment I am benefiting from the bug that has provided 72 Corsairs on Lex, Sara, Yorktown and Hornet, but once they are gone it's back to PH for my carriers.

Where's the Any key?