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Originally Posted by Egan
Finally had time to burn through the Coral sea scenario tonight: I got my ass kicked and no mistake. Lost the Yorktown, lost a bunch of cruisers and destroyers, the Lexington was losing the battle to stay afloat on her way down to Brisbane and the Japanese flag was flying above Port Moresby. Not a good night.
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Yeah...the same thing happened to me when I first fired up that scenario. The trick to win is to cripple the Japanese invasion fleet so they won't have enough troops to take Port Moresby. Your goal is not sinking the Japanese carriers but the Japanese troop transports.
Put
Lexington and
Yorktown close to each other headed NW with 50% of fighters on CAP and search planes from all fleets and ground based planes searching E and NE to try and spot the invasion fleet when they sail around the eastern tip of New Guinea to get to Port Moresby. Send your surface fleet of cruisers to Port Moresby, using the CV fleets for cover. If you are lucky, you will pounce on the PM invasion fleet before the Japanese carriers spot you. If you succeed, then run south. You don't want to stick around to slug it out with the
Shokaku and the
Zuikaku. They have better fighters and torpedoes.