Mistakes
- As this is the first really contested amphiboius invasion I failed to assign enough AV to Saipan.
- I sent all invasion LCU to Ponape and assembled the amphibious TF there BUT somehow I sent them towards their destinations before I had loaded them only realising so when they were halfway so sent them back with orders to disbanned. OOPs
- To save time I assambled more Ampib TF (I had enough ships) but all I had in terms of warships were some MSW/SC/DE so I planned to transfer the warships form original TF to cover the invasion. I forgot to do this. Another OOPS.
- Although I'd been running bombardment TF to both island I do not think I'd been doing it long enough consequently CDs were still intact. Airial bombard did not appear to do much. The intact CDs pasted my invasion TFs.
- I did try and compensate my lack of TF protection by using bombardment TFs but this does not appear to work.
Now a question, should a bombardment TF protect an anphibious TF as it appears they don't?