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- 11/2/2003 6:27:24 AM

madflava13

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Mike,
You're forgetting Taranto, Truk and hundreds of other port attacks carried out with torpedos during the war. There were literally hundreds of times US Carrier aircraft used torpedos on merchant shipping in ports throughout the Pacific in WW2. Just because it wasn't a huge attack with hundreds of planes and capital ships doesn't mean it didn't happen. I don't see torpedos in port attacks as "pitifully bad programming" at all. In fact, I think thats a gross exaggeration and doesn't reflect the reality of these games and the skills of the designers.

I think torpedos in port attacks need to stay in the game in order to accurately reflect history.

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- 11/2/2003 8:47:55 AM

Luskan

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[QUOTE=Mike Scholl]Easy to correct, though. Just prevent the
use of torpedoes in port attacks. The "loss of historical accuracy" at PH would
be more than made up for in the next 4 years of turns.[/QUOTE]

Nice try - but it is never going to happen.
Besides, one of my two big "things" I rant about in the development forum is the indestructibility of PT boats and how super effective they are (compared to historically). Any way to sink the bastards is fine with me.

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- 11/2/2003 10:37:02 PM

Bulldog61

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[QUOTE=Mike Scholl]Even if the "miracle" you mentioned had occurred, the torpedo wouldn't have
been "armed"---they have to travel through water to arm themselves. It's
just pitifully bad programming. Easy to correct, though. Just prevent the
use of torpedoes in port attacks. The "loss of historical accuracy" at PH would
be more than made up for in the next 4 years of turns.[/QUOTE]

I think a lot of us are ok with torpedo planes making torpedo attacks in ports because it did happen. It's the level bombers that we hope to see curtailed from that activity. There was a thread a while back where we were trying to see if anyone knew of any occasion of this happening. Every occurance was a torpedo plane (Kates,Swordfish, TBFs).

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