Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: dr.hal

Does the Wasp or its squadrons have a button that says "resize to fit ship"??? I've seen that many times on other carriers.

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ORIGINAL: michaelm

Ships can have up to 110% of their capacity and still perform Air Ops - the orange value indicates this.
The 10% variant is to deal with the case where changing of group size can exceed the normal capacity of the ship.

Also thought that the groups might re-size if over-stacked.[Don't have code open but do remember something about offloading excess a/c.]

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ya know, most of us have been operating under that belief and lo and behold our resident rules lawyer Alfred posted a quote from the manual recently in another thread stating it was 15%

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ORIGINAL: michaelm

You're correct.
I fell for that again.

Planes can't divert to CVs with more than 110% capacity. It was also 110% in old WITP to operate planes normally, IIRC.

The 115% was added because of the difference between ship capacity and actual number of planes in some operational groups, like the late game USN CV groups.
This was a compromise between keeping late-war realistic group sizes and ship capacity.

Anyway of dealing with this, which is probably more realistic, would have been to give aircraft an 'on-ship factor'. By this I mean a plane that had folding wing could be packed more than a fixed wing plane. So if we said a fixed wing plane had a factor of '1', then the folding wing one might have a factor of '.7'. So a 18 plane group on a CV might take up 18 slots of the ship's a/c capacity if fixed wing, but only 12.5 if with a folding wing. That way the capacity could be a more finite limit without trying temporarily inflate the number, and probably could eliminated trying to use 'engines' to count the planes on a ship.
I suppose you could also expand this to cover land-base groups, and call it the 'stacking rather than on-ship factor' instead.