AW1Steve
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Joined: 3/10/2007 From: Mordor Illlinois Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Terminus Just FYI, "several thousand bombers" can't operate in the Aleutians. The rules for airfield overstacking and aviation support are going to make sure of that. Just FYI, yes, actually they can. The over stacking penalties are no more severe than in WitP. In AE only 84 B-29s can operate from a level 7 airfield (which in my opinion is stupid - how many were based on Guam [Guam is a level 8 and therefore can operate 96 4 engine bombers]? 4 bomb groups were stationed just at Northwest field alone on Guam - 200 planes and the limit was actually double that since there were 2 fields on Guam therefore Guam operated 4 times what AE will allow players to operate) therefore I can see players (justifiably in my opinion) overstacking bases to their WitP limits at a minimum. Base 1000 4 engine bombers at a base and 500 of them will fly. Av support isnt a limitation as 250 will service any number of planes just like in WitP. There are 3 potential level 7 fields within B-29 range of Sapporo in the Aleutians. So, yes. THOUSANDS of bombers can operate out of the Aleutians. In fact, you can base more B-29s and hit the home islands than can base out of the Marianas (without overstacking). Now you can hit more targets from Saipan/Tinian/Guam, but strictly speaking more planes can base from and strike Japan from the Aleutians than from the Marianas. There are 4 level 7 fields up north that can hit factories in Japan and only 2 level 7's and 1 level 8 in the Marianas. Actually Guam had more fields then that. Northwest field, as you called it , was actually 2 huge fields. Today it's called Anderson AFB, North and south. (andy south has had the runways plowed under for housing). Then you had Harmon field (now an industrial area) There was the field that became NAS then Won Pat airport. All four of these had B-29's. Then of course there was Orote (now abandonded) NAS. USN and USMC were here , with room for spilover from Army fields. There were small grass fields that I won't mention. But all of the above were cabable of handling bombers . In fact four of them would be considered level 9 in WITP. I can only speak for Guam, having walked everyone of these runways, but I understand from natives that Tinian had two fields, and Saipan had four, all of the same class. Also I'd like to point out that Anderson north during Vietnam had over three hundred B-52's and KC-135's alone. Talk to any veteran who's been to Adak , and ask if he thinks that the aleutians are capable of that kind of basing. I think that , after they recover from laughing, you will get a resounding no. So , while you may have found a way to "game the system" , I expect that only the AI would find that acceptable. I certainly would require a house rule to address that issue.
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