I give it a C+
It wasn't the setup that ruined the fun. It was the maliceful intent of people on both sides, that killed the fun.
1. Unorganized Spits and P-40s, after getting consecutively shot down, turned to really dull tactics of not fighting at all unless they find a Zero alone at deck.
2. Seeing that they could hardly find a fight, the JP side just parked the fleet 5 miles away from the only base that could bring a quick fight against each other, obviously looking for a quick fight.
3. Seeing that the JP side parked fleet right off shore, the P-40s and Spits refused to up from the base. They gathered in a large group, and flew around the CV, waiting for Zeros to up. Of course, surrouned all sides, the Zeros couldn't grab alt, nor group up.
4. The Zeros, getting tired of meeting alt-monkeying P-40s and Spits, waiting right outside ack rangem, decided to hug the fleet ack.
5. In turn, seeing ack hugging Zeros, the P-40s and Spits ran off to somewhere else.
6. And finally, when the fight was drawn off to a wide sky where neither fleet ack nor base ack was nearby, both sides clashed with their full might - both using cooperative team tactics to meet and fight, not to bore 'n zoom or just run away. In these moments, the fights were really good.
6 was good, but steps 1~5 that lead to 6, was really boring.
