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[Squire]

Original reply here: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,394504.0.html

Why no carriers? The attack on Darwin started with carrier borne Zeros followed by level bombers.

This is after the carrier raids. CVs would make no difference as the Allies would not be tasked with attacking them anyways.

The side split has the Axis with a 10 pilot advantage in the design.

Frame 1 saw 69 Axis to 87 Allied.

Showing up is their job. There is no way in Gods green world you can have this setup work with the Axis having a an 18 pilot deficit.

The absolute min # for the Axis is 67. They had 69. I cant recall another FSO frame where the turnout was that poor.

One target or two...late orders or not...7 sectors or 5. The result would be the same.

As for the one target...well there had been a lot of talk about doing that and giving both sides all these options ect with more squads to task...but this wasnt the frame for it. In any case I wanted to try it out. So much for that.

...and yes I will likely have to move a large squad to Axis this time to make this things workable.

I am very disappointed in what happened let me try and see what I can do here.

[Snork]

Original reply here: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,394504.0.html

This is after the carrier raids. CVs would make no difference as the Allies would not be tasked with attacking them anyways.

And yet, if carriers were used to launch and recover zeros it would be something to keep the allies from knowing exactly where to expect all inbound cons, anyway.

[STXAce8]

Also the CVs would drastically decrease the flight time for the fighters allowing for fighter sweeps to give the Betty’s a slightly better chance.