Carrier task group arena

[PuppetZ]

Some kind of 'battle of midway map' Pitting many carrier TG's against another country's. In an all carrier operation arena. Could be lots of fun. Or perhaps a special event like that. Any toughts?

[LLogann]

I like the thinking behind it.... +1 for that. 

I am very much a Navy man.... +1 for that.

But I think the limited planeset would be the dagger that can never be pulled out of this idea's proverbial back.   

[Martyn]

+1 
Midway is a cool idea.

It would be nice to be able to fit Catalinas into the mix somehow. Maybe increase the fuel burn rate too? I dunno.

[cowboy03]

But I think the limited planeset would be the dagger that can never be pulled out of this idea's proverbial back.   

well i suppose if you were doing a midway scenario there could be a small land mass island with a airbase

course a Mariana's Turkey shoot would make for some interesting gameplay, with no land based aircraft. 

[Dadsguns]

+1 Awesome idea.

[gyrene81]

*cough* ava ...*cough* ava... *cough* ava ...*ack* *hack* *ptooee*... best we can do is a week 

[Dadsguns]

How many task groups per side can you set up in the AVA?

[skorpion]

well i suppose if you were doing a midway scenario there could be a small land mass island with a airbase

course a Mariana's Turkey shoot would make for some interesting gameplay, with no land based aircraft.  

we already have a midway map so that just makes it even easier

[Chilli]

Without some land bases and appropriate sized map.  The amount of action would be limited.  However, in the past the AvA has had success with running Naval battles.  This ran last December.

  I am taking a guess but it looks like at least 4 task groups per side.  Two sided war, with Axis planes versus Allies planes.

[gyrene81]

How many task groups per side can you set up in the AVA?

i've seen 3 per side...fairly certain with the midway map we could spawn 4 or 5 per side...not sure...have to ask one of the ava staff members

[mthrockmor]

Id do a Midway Scenario. The plane set would be decent, with TBMs for Devestators, both will die just as quickly. 4 v 3 on the cvs. The one change would be proximity rounds, which didn't come into play until later in the war. Right now a few good 5"gunners on a CV makes it basically inpervious to attack.

Or, pitting the Seafire against various Japanese models seem a better match for a late war scenario. We did Okinawa and the F4U was just too much of a monster against what the Japanese had.

Boo

[Masherbrum]

I'd do this only if I could hide the CV of whatever Country I was playing on.