ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth
Great name [Banzai] for an Essex Class CV. Just sayin
Oh do it, do it!! [:D]
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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth
Great name [Banzai] for an Essex Class CV. Just sayin
ORIGINAL: AcePylut
You can rename ships? If so, how?
It would be appropriate at some later point in the war to christen a new Essex class carrier USS Sumatra. That would be in harmony with the USS Corregidor.
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
ORIGINAL: crsutton
Dunno if you have house rules but once I start to get a sufficient flow of aircraft I expand every 8 or nine plane TBF squadron that arrives on a CVE or CVL. They then are used to start a massive training program. Carrier aircraft pilots got to have some search and ASW skills as well so they take a little more training. I expand and go all out in mid to late 43. And yes, I use a lot of Marine squadrons on my carriers as well. Expand and train...That is the buzzword. If you have not got them yet, you are due to get reliable torpedoes soon. Makes those TBFs so much more useful. I really do not like small squadrons and prefer a small carrier to have one large type and then mix them up within the carrier TF.
I consider it a proplem in the game that the US has very few options for training torpedo pilots in 1942. Japan has plenty.
I've never expanded an aircraft squadron before. Never. Not because I can't or there's a house rule. It's because I've never tried before. I'll look for the buttons and see if I can figure it out (ought to be simple). Great suggestion.
Yes, training TBF pilots is a huge problem.
It doesn't happen instantly - the change in size you set for the squadron is just an authorization. It takes a day or two after that for the planes to arrive. You also need to be in a big enough port (or is it airfield?) with enough supply, and have the planes in your pools.ORIGINAL: crsutton
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
ORIGINAL: crsutton
Dunno if you have house rules but once I start to get a sufficient flow of aircraft I expand every 8 or nine plane TBF squadron that arrives on a CVE or CVL. They then are used to start a massive training program. Carrier aircraft pilots got to have some search and ASW skills as well so they take a little more training. I expand and go all out in mid to late 43. And yes, I use a lot of Marine squadrons on my carriers as well. Expand and train...That is the buzzword. If you have not got them yet, you are due to get reliable torpedoes soon. Makes those TBFs so much more useful. I really do not like small squadrons and prefer a small carrier to have one large type and then mix them up within the carrier TF.
I consider it a proplem in the game that the US has very few options for training torpedo pilots in 1942. Japan has plenty.
I've never expanded an aircraft squadron before. Never. Not because I can't or there's a house rule. It's because I've never tried before. I'll look for the buttons and see if I can figure it out (ought to be simple). Great suggestion.
Yes, training TBF pilots is a huge problem.
Pretty easy, just remove one of the two groups that you have on your CVEs or CVLs and then set the other to "expand to fit ship size" or you can manually select the size of the group. All naval carrier groups can do this and some but not all Marine.. You can even put a single group on a large carrier and expand it up to 90 planes but neither Viberpol and I do this. It does sort of become gamey at a point.
Actually it does happen instantly. Try resize->disband CVTF in SanFran (Pearl might do too) then look at the AG size. Delay is there only because you need to get the AG off the CV and it takes a turn. No need for planes at the pools either, AG will resize with the initial planes.ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
It doesn't happen instantly - the change in size you set for the squadron is just an authorization. It takes a day or two after that for the planes to arrive. You also need to be in a big enough port (or is it airfield?) with enough supply, and have the planes in your pools.
Wow, this sounds like a great idea. you pick up speed and AAA in carrier task force. you don't really "hopefully" need the main gun ammo. must be something wrong with this but I can't see whatTomorrow Idaho will bombard, and I'm debating whether to create a new BB TF including Oklahoma and Tennessee (currently escorting the carriers, in which case they'd be replaced by Alabama and North Carolina).
The risk of your CV TF being caught in combat with the slow BBs before you swap them out for faster BBs. You are giving up over 10 knots of speed for maneuvering during combat. That is a big risk.ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth
Wow, this sounds like a great idea. you pick up speed and AAA in carrier task force. you don't really "hopefully" need the main gun ammo. must be something wrong with this but I can't see whatTomorrow Idaho will bombard, and I'm debating whether to create a new BB TF including Oklahoma and Tennessee (currently escorting the carriers, in which case they'd be replaced by Alabama and North Carolina).
I don't understand this. "Resizing" is just changing the TOE of the squadron to a new size, and whenever I have done it, it takes one turn for the message "Squadron XXX resizes to size YYY". That does not give them planes, it just updates the database on the squadron size. You still need to get planes into the squadron (and add pilots) to fill it out.ORIGINAL: GetAssista
Actually it does happen instantly. Try resize->disband CVTF in SanFran (Pearl might do too) then look at the AG size. Delay is there only because you need to get the AG off the CV and it takes a turn. No need for planes at the pools either, AG will resize with the initial planes.ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
It doesn't happen instantly - the change in size you set for the squadron is just an authorization. It takes a day or two after that for the planes to arrive. You also need to be in a big enough port (or is it airfield?) with enough supply, and have the planes in your pools.