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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

As for Bullwinkle being a circus freak... well, I'm not sure circuses have moose, but maybe. In any case, I'd say that the 29-year-olds who DON'T remember memorizing phone numbers are the weird ones. It's not like they grew up after cell phones became ubiquitous or anything. They should remember the days of dial-up and instant messaging and emailing, too... if they don't, there's something freaky about them. They missed an entire era that they are of the right age to have experienced.

My base-unit "mobile" house phone in the late 80s had phone number memory. A real brick handset. You can see similar models in old Seinfeld eps. Had the retractable antenna you pulled out when answering every call. A 29-YO was a child in the late 80s. I'm talking remembering dozens of numbers from the 60s and 70s. The era of the legendary "little black book" Lotharios had in all the movies. The LBB was the go-to when your "hot date" number collection exceeded the low dozens.

Speaking of dial-up, my first "on-line" experience was across Grounds to the mainframe center to talk to a CDC mini. Rotary dial phone, black-rubber acoustic coupler cups. Teledyne B&W dumb terminal. I thought it was magical. Played the hell out of an ASCII character Star Trek game while I waited for a spot at the card-punch machine to do my COBOL homework. And that was MODERN compared to the 1960s.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Regarding China, I've had a general idea of what I plan to do there for a long time, both land war and air war.

I've built Sian to level 7 airfield, partly with the idea of using it to bomb Japan when the right time comes. But China's supply situation can't handled a major, prolonged bombing campaign (I think). So the goal will be to force John to allocate fighters to Japan as soon as possible.

(I think the Allies seriously considered using China airfields in a major way during the war, though eventually scaling that back due to supply.)

On the land war, that depends on developments yet to come.

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

I never get lost, except onetime when I visited the Northern Hemisphere

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna


Maybe I'm an outlier here, but I had all of my friends' house phones memorized in elementary, middle, and high school. I'm only a year older than your example kiddos here. I'm sure I'm not the only one who memorized numbers though, so I'd say they're the weirdos. I can still remember the ones I called the most (high school girlfriend, college girlfriend, vacation buddy, 4-5 early childhood friends, etc.) as well as our home phone lines and relatives. A lot of those numbers are presumably now out of service or belong to different people.

You are the outlier here. I found it faster to ride my banana bike over to their houses than to call and go through the Mom Filter.

And yep - I had one of those phones for my "teen line" back in high school. Sort of. It was a late-90s AT&T model, though.

Pfft. By the late 90s they looked like Star Trek. I'm talking big brick. Rest-it-on-the-couch brick.

Eff COBOL. It's annoying and it sucks.

Especially when you drop the shoebox full of cards.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Regarding China, I've had a general idea of what I plan to do there for a long time, both land war and air war.

I've built Sian to level 7 airfield, partly with the idea of using it to bomb Japan when the right time comes. But China's supply situation can't handled a major, prolonged bombing campaign (I think). So the goal will be to force John to allocate fighters to Japan as soon as possible.

(I think the Allies seriously considered using China airfields in a major way during the war, though eventually scaling that back due to supply.)

On the land war, that depends on developments yet to come.

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
Do VR squadrons act as normal squadrons when not in a Replenishment TF?

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay
Do VR squadrons act as normal squadrons when not in a Replenishment TF?

I think so. I typically use VR fighter squadrons as fighters on carriers and haven't ever noticed a problem in that regard. (With rare exceptions, I find that carrier battles are decided on day one, so that maximizing CAP is far more important than having the ability to draw replacements.)

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

What about the USS Angry Moose, USS Playful Moose, and USS Supple Moose.

Moose Class DDs rule the seas!

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

For months, I've had a CV TF that on a particular screen shows substantially less aircraft than it really has. All the carriers in this TF were under maximum plane load and none were carrying "invalid" aircraft (like the F4U). So all "looked right." But each time I clicked on the "See All Task Forces" button on the lower left hand side of the screen it underreported this TF.

There were two fighter squadrons on her and both had low fatigue (3 and 5). Their range settings are "0", so I think they were indeed flying CAP.

Today I tested each carrier independently and isolated the troublemaker - USS Olustee (a re-named Essex class). She had 99 aircraft in four squadrons. All aircraft types were eligible. I pulled off one squadron at a time and she still underreported on the button. When she had no squadrons left, I sent a TBF with 9 aircraft (from a CVE). This time she reported "0" aircraft.

I don't think there's any problem with Olustee. I think she's flying normal ops. But the underreporting has me a bit spooked. I'd hate to steam into battle with one carrier not flying ops.

Anyone run into anything like this before?

I'll post a screen or two from a few turns back to show the problem.