Quote:
Originally Posted by propbeanie
I am posting a big (for me) image here, to illustrate a few things about the game. First of all, the game cheats. It knows what is going on every where around the world at all times - it has to. Second of all, the AI never makes math mistakes. If you are at 160Ex30N at 1000 hours, you will not be that far away from there by 1100 hours, and the game will put another airplane on to your possible locations. Big thing to remember, the game cheats...- that can be controlled somewhat with the airstrike.cfg. We might try to stretch things a little one way or another. In the meantime, that picture:
Japan is to the upper left, Marcus and your sub's location near the middle, Wake and Midway to the right. An important thing to remember, is that radio communication between the enemy vessels, land and air units is impeccable. Remember, the game cheats.. - so if anything "enemy" sees your submarine, they phone home and tell their buddies where you are and which direction you are going. So if you sail too close to Wake and you are seen, headed west, they tell the fellers on Marcus, who are only too happy to come find you, time and time again.
This applies to SH3, SH4 and SH5. 500nm is not too far for an airplane to fly in the game. Remember, they have a nearly endless supply of them... Maybe we'll make the squadrons smaller... |
propbeanie,
Thank you for posting your map which shows everyone the specific location I referenced. It being approximately 500 - 600nm from Marcus Island, the closest land mass that indeed had a Japanese airfield during the entire war.
According to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia:
"Marcus Island (
153.980E 24.295N) was occupied by the Japanese in 1899 to serve as a cable station and was later developed into a military base. It is a tiny triangular island of just 1 square mile (2.6 km2), of which a good fraction was taken up by the Japanese airfield."
The question remains, does the game portray a Japanese airfield on Marcus Island, or Wake Island that is slightly further away, from which land based aircraft could attack targets in the mid-Pacific? And, could these aircraft fly at least 1,200nm for the round-trip back to Marcus Island, note that the distance would be further from Wake Island to the area in the Pacific that you've highlighted for everyone to see?
However, the possibility still exists for a task force with carrier based or catapult ship based aircraft to have been the source?
Is there anyway to know for certain? Thank you.