gwgardner
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ORIGINAL: balto GW, the critical hit on the Lexington. That is not in the manual. Is the Air Stike results window saying that a 2 strength Tac took out the 7 strength CV Lexington? Wow! You sure that is working correctly? Lastly, when you say you SPOTTED, do you mean you saw the Lexington on the map, so you hit with the TAC. Or do you mean you ordered your Tac to hit that sea zone blindly, and they SPOTTED the Lexington and sunk her? The reason I ask is because I am confused by section 9.6 of manual, it is talking about the chance of an air unit SPOTTING "The chance of spotting an enemy fleet depends on the attacker’s air technology, air unit strength and the defender’s naval technology levels." Does that mean on a recon mission? How does that come into play in your situation with the Lexington.., did you see it on the map, or did you fly blindly into the sea zone and spotted it and sunk her? Generally an air strike against ships will do lesser damage, but there is the random chance for more, and even the chance for what I call a critical hit. It's historically accurate as far as the possibility of achieving such a hit, if not the percentage possibility in the game - which of course can be modded to whatever is desired. As Severian noted above, just after the war in the Pacific started, the Royal Navy ships Repulse and Prince of Wales met just such a demise. If I recall correctly, they suffered 'critical' hits from level bombers! I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I recall that one of those ships took a bomb right down the smokestack. I spotted the Lexington by doing a recon flight into the sea zone. Sometimes you have to do such a recon flight manually to find the enemy, at other times there is a random chance that passing ships will be spotted by your ships, etc.
< Message edited by gwgardner -- 6/22/2010 12:08:53 PM >
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