Found Historical Innaucuracy

[sandbag69]

Originally Posted by tater

I looked at the Midway single mission, and it was pretty pathetic. They could at least have used the CVs they actually have that were there. Also, the ships are all on top of each other instead of the 7 KILOMETERS apart the IJN maintained as a standard.

Yeesh.

7KM apart...u mean 700metres apart.

I have been creating my own Midway Mission based on a book I ma reading titled MIDWAY (Hugh Bicheno).
It shows the Cruising formation of the Jap Carrier task force and actual paths.

Jap fleet headed towards Midway , until it was first attacked by Aircraft. It the did a kinda of large figure of 8 then resumed course until US Carrier were spotted. Then it headed NE to intercept them. About an hour later 3 of the 4 Carriers were sunk. 4th carrier continued on diverging course with US Fleet until it to was sunk.

Wil try and scan images and post them soon. Cruising order is really interesting.
4 carriers in box formation with destroyer in beween each carrier.

I played the mission with the actual Cruising formation and found i couldn't sink a carrier. I did install harder escorts Mod though but even then i couldn't get a clear shot at target.