[Torplexed]

The thing is who's gonna come up with the complicated formulae to determine the outcome of Phillipine Sea or Leyte Gulf or any future Japanese naval operations without the Yamato? Or the Coral Sea battle if you get lucky and sink the Shokaku early on? Would there even be a Coral Sea battle at that point? Sincerely, I doubt if the developers have put anymore thought into it other than these events proceed without that particular ship. Without some sort of vast Pacific War sub-program running the whole conflict in the background and your input on it I don't see how it could be simulated.