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Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Killjoy2 on December 04, 2006, 12:40:46 AM

A suggestion:

Whenever a CV gets within 25 miles of a base it becomes available for capture.

 It would make the CV's very valuable and even more fun.  It would also bring back some of the strategic play to the arena.  It's even a little like how a CV was used.  

just a suggestion.

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Stang on December 04, 2006, 02:10:36 AM

Yes, CV's in WWII routinely sailed up a couple miles off the coast of enemy airfields.

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Masherbrum on December 04, 2006, 02:20:06 AM

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Originally posted by Stang
Yes, CV's in WWII routinely sailed up a couple miles off the coast of enemy airfields.

AND TH3Y ALSO SHEL3D BA3SS AT POINT BLANK 2!!1111!!!11!!!!!! OMG WTF LOL

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Oldman731 on December 04, 2006, 08:04:12 AM

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Originally posted by Stang
Yes, CV's in WWII routinely sailed up a couple miles off the coast of enemy airfields.

...er...where?

- oldman

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Rino on December 04, 2006, 08:07:07 AM

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Originally posted by Oldman731
...er...where?

- oldman

     Oldman's sarcasm detector on the fritz :D

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Kuhn on December 04, 2006, 08:12:51 AM

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Originally posted by Rino
Oldman's sarcasm detector on the fritz :D

:rofl

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Oldman731 on December 04, 2006, 08:14:29 AM

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Originally posted by Rino
Oldman's sarcasm detector on the fritz :D

Sorry.

You know where I am at the moment.  It accounts for the attitude.

- oldman (well....Fletcher's carriers WERE fifty miles from the south side of Guadalcanal....that's close, right?)

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Grits on December 04, 2006, 10:20:55 AM

I'm pretty sure I read that Bull Halsey parked the Enterprise on the beach at Leyte and porked the base with the 5" guns. Every time a Japanese plane would up, he would pwn it with the 5". Its called suppresion guys, wake up.

Such is the reality of war.

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Guppy35 on December 04, 2006, 10:24:38 AM

And of course the list of Essex class carriers that went down to suicide bombing 110s is endless if you look at the history books :)

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Grits on December 04, 2006, 10:33:00 AM

Well, sure. Thats one of the tradeoffs you have to make in War, sometimes its not pretty and people get hurt.

I'm pretty sure I read Halsey taunted the **** out of the Japanese on Ch200 too while he was porking their base at Leyte.

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Rino on December 04, 2006, 10:55:37 AM

I was kinda hoping when they parked the USS New Jersey at Camden
that they were planning to pork Philadelphia with it .  No such luck...
just think of the urban renewal you could do with a few 16 inch broadsides.
:aok

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: hubsonfire on December 04, 2006, 11:07:04 AM

Grits, you are close, but not quite there. There was no 200 in the war; they used channel 1. An obscure bit of trivia: the Japanese called the common radio channel, "The whining death".

Title: CV action in the Orange Arena
Post by: Guppy35 on December 04, 2006, 11:51:46 AM

Quoting from Edwards Park's book about flying P39s with the 35th FG in the Pacific.  He's describing one of the stories told by a P40 pilot.

"Crandall told us about their missions up on the north coast.  He said that one time they were stooging around on patrol and spotted a small flight of Zekes about 3000 feet above them.  Everyone started  calling them in.  'Binky leader, bandits in the sun."  "Binky, Binky, have you got the bandits? Eleven high; eleven high..."  And so on.  And Binky Leader was saying, "OK, Binky, OK Don't drop your tanks yet. I see them, I see them."

And a new voice came into the headsets at that moment.  "We see you too Binky." "

Seems like I recall stories of Boyington taunting the Japanese over Rabaul trying to get them to come up too :)