SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post - Enemy A/C south of Midway OR tale of 48 single engine planes 2000 miles from a base

tater · 08-24-07, 05:16 PM

Heheh.

The problem with the planes in stock (from CVs) is that since they have such huge range you see a zillion planes, but you could be many hundreds of miles from the CV.

In RL, unless sending a strike out, you'd be lucky to see ANY aircraft as far as 2-300 miles, and those would be strictly recon planes. Even those would be based on likely action with the enemy, not SOP.

Any sort of constant CAP for CVs would be within visual range of the TF. I have thought about BP-cloning the CV planes, and dropping the range to 50nm or so to be "CAP" planes. Course the CAP would need to be reduced to 1 plane (unless it's squadrons, then they all need to be 0, IMO)

Then at least if you saw them, you'd know you were CLOSE.

tater

08-24-07, 05:16 PM	#4
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Heheh. The problem with the planes in stock (from CVs) is that since they have such huge range you see a zillion planes, but you could be many hundreds of miles from the CV. In RL, unless sending a strike out, you'd be lucky to see ANY aircraft as far as 2-300 miles, and those would be strictly recon planes. Even those would be based on likely action with the enemy, not SOP. Any sort of constant CAP for CVs would be within visual range of the TF. I have thought about BP-cloning the CV planes, and dropping the range to 50nm or so to be "CAP" planes. Course the CAP would need to be reduced to 1 plane (unless it's squadrons, then they all need to be 0, IMO) Then at least if you saw them, you'd know you were CLOSE. tater