The paradigm for CV air groups is bad, and it makes operating near a group of CVs extremely annoying.
My mod to mess with CV air groups reduces them to extremely low levels, but I think it doesn't go far enough.
With a campaign that included scripted airstrikes for the real CV battles, I think I'd remove CV aircraft totally. That or drop the range of CV planes to 50km or so as a CAP over the fleet.
I might try a version, "bungo pete clone" the A6M, B5N, and D3A to A6M_CV, etc. Have CV airgroups have a single plane in each group, or maybe 3 zeros (no bombs), and the range short enough you'd not see them til right on top of the CVs.
Since they'd point at the stock plane models, it shouldn't add to the system overhead.
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