Friday 9/10/04

[Soulyss]

Seems like a trend with my setups lately... back to the Pacific!

lack of terrains makes things a little restrictive still, I actually wanted to run a north africa style setup but without anything approaching a workable terrain I decided against it.  Soooo... it's the slot map with a little twist we're going to go for British/Aussie/New Zealand/etc. vs the IJN/IJA this time around.

Planesets:
Allied Landbased
· Spit Vb
· P-40E
· SBD
· A-20
· M-8
· M-16
· M-3
· C-47

Allied Carrier based
· F6F-5
· SBD
· TBM

Axis Landbased
· A6M5b
· Ki-61
· Ki-67 (formations disabled)
· D3A
· B5N
· M-8
· M-16
· M-3
· C-47

Axis Carrier based *
· A6M5b
· D3A
· B5N

Field gunners will be enabled at all fields.
Fuel burn 1.5 (not final, but likely)
Ack .7
Visability 8-10 miles
Radar full

* Note on CV's:  One of two things will happen each side will get 1-2 cv's at either 8k or 4k hardness depending on numbers.  I want the focus to be on land based air power.  Also while gunners will be enabled, lvt's are not.  So beaching the cv won't do you any good.  

[B17Skull12]

good bye.

[Oldman731]

Originally posted by Soulyss
back to the Pacific!

Would it be possible to include the A6M2?  Surely there were still some of those floating around at the time.

- oldman

[Dennis]

Yeah.
What Oldman said.


Splash1

[Soulyss]

I don't like adding too many planes, because I think part of the fun of the CT is a smaller planeset that makes people fly things that they may not normally consider... but you caught me in a good mood and I think I may be able to squeeze the A6M2 in there

[Dennis]

I'm also a fan of the smaller-planeset concept.
If it puts you in even more of a good mood, consider limiting it to carriers, if you like.



In either case ... thanks for the zeke.

Splash1

[KootDawg]

if you give the axis a plane
would you give the allies say atleast a an F4u on the carriers??

[storch]

The super SpitV on steroids has no place in the CT ever.  The people at HTC say that they will not correct the incredibly flawed modelling on this airplane.  I suspect that it may be a business decision. It's an attempt to placate the hordes in the MA to keep them from whining about the myraid of bugs in the game and withdrawing from the game altogether.  If you will have this model in this plane set you can expect very few opponents to the allies that week.  I suggest you leave kill shooter off.

[Shane]

wouldn't you be better off with the fm2 or f4f for brits? or even the f4u-1/1d? or perhaps seafire?

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=123121

what time frame/operation(s) are you looking at?

[Soulyss]

1.  I considered F4F/FM-2 on the allied cv's but I don't have any good info at hand about how much they were used in the pacific outside of U.S. units. I'll admit that I'm fugging a little on time frame, with the limited maps, my main goal with this setup is to do somthing different from the f4f/f4u vs zeke/george in the pto.  
The western eto was done two weeks in a row, and eastern eto last week.  I really wanted to do a north aftrica but hesitated without the use of a decent terrain.

2.  The idea of adding the F4U since "the axis got a plane" is laughable.    

3.  The spit V is in unless gameplay during the week dictates a change, but the zeke will out turn it, and the Tony is faster below about 10-12k or so.  In the event that the spit is overpowering the rest of the planeset I will consider subbing the Hurricane, but for now the spit stays.

[Grits]

I think it will be fine as it is Soulyss. The SpitV at least will most likely stay and fight not Joust and Extend (TM) like the F4U. I say give it a shot, and if it doesnt work out, nothing is set in stone, you can always change it. Trying new stuff like this is what we need instead of just loading the same 4-5 sets over and over. That set we did with the Spit vs Niki (Kurile Is?) was kinda cool for the same reason, you never see those planes against each other, its usually Spit vs 109/190 or Zeke/Niki vs F4F/F4U.

[Karnak]

FYI, the Spit V is faster than the Ki-61 at low alt, IIRC.  The charts on HTC's site are no longer accurate due to the AH1 Spit V having a boost of +12lbs and the AH2 Spit V having a boost of +16lbs.

[Grits]

I tested the sea level speed and it was about 10 mph faster than what the HTC charts showed. Did the Seafire get the same increase in boost? If not, it might be a better choice.

[Soulyss]

interesting karnak I'll keep that in mind, still I think it can be an interesting matchup vs.  the ki and the zeke.  I plan to be flying axis this week myself.

[Soulyss]

Hadn't thought of the seafire as a land based alternative.  I'll give that some thought, it should have slightly lower performance than the spit V.