Enemy Taskforces - Intercept or avoid?

Tessa · 03-03-11, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Snestorm

The IJN shared your views, and failed miserably.

The IJN fatal flaw was in its targets - they should have been flat tops rather than capital ships from the get go. The Japanese knew that the carrier based planes were going to be the decididing factor, but (luckily) had some holdouts that pulled the progress back allowing us to recover from our wounds and get back to full strength.

03-04-11, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Tessa

The IJN fatal flaw was in its targets - they should have been flat tops rather than capital ships from the get go. The Japanese knew that the carrier based planes were going to be the decididing factor, but (luckily) had some holdouts that pulled the progress back allowing us to recover from our wounds and get back to full strength.

We see the world differently, which is fine.

In my view, the japanese missed the most important target at Pearl Harbor.
The fleet oil reserves went untouched.
Had those reserves been destroyed USA's problems would have been ten-fold.
Submarines patroling west of the Panama Canal, and along USA's west coast with the primary goal of sinking tankers, in my estimation, would have been sound.
If a big ship presents itself as a target fine, as they too used the canal.

Oil makes the world go 'round.
Churchill learned it. Hitler learned it. Stalin learned it.
And Japan went to war with USA because Mr Roosevelt threatened japanese access to it.

Jimbuna · 03-04-11, 06:54 PM

^ good post.

03-05-11, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

^ good post.

Thank you, Sir.

Jimbuna · 03-05-11, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Snestorm

Thank you, Sir.

Your most welcome

klh · 03-05-11, 07:42 PM

If mathematically possible, I plot an intercept course. Ideally I like to arrive in a position on their course and lie in wait, timing it so they arrive at dusk (easier for me to escape in the dark).

After all, that's what I'm here for.

Gereke · 03-05-11, 08:08 PM

I run like a sissy girl from them.

I'm out on a pleasure cruise! Attack a task force? What madness!

In reality it seems like every time I get a report of a task force I'm too far away to even bother to intercept. I've only made contact with a TF once, and I stumbled across it while stalking the western approaches to Gibraltar. 2 DD's, a Cruiser that I didn't bother to ID, and the reason for not bothering with the Cruiser... HMS Nelson. Out of pure coincidental luck I was in position for a text book attack. All I had to do was let them come to me. Four eels later the Nelson was on her way down, and I made my escape.

03-04-11, 06:54 PM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,645 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	^ good post. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

03-05-11, 07:42 PM	#6
klh Der Alte Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 227 Downloads: 200 Uploads: 0	If mathematically possible, I plot an intercept course. Ideally I like to arrive in a position on their course and lie in wait, timing it so they arrive at dusk (easier for me to escape in the dark). After all, that's what I'm here for.

03-05-11, 08:08 PM	#7
Gereke A-ganger Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 76 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	I run like a sissy girl from them. I'm out on a pleasure cruise! Attack a task force? What madness! In reality it seems like every time I get a report of a task force I'm too far away to even bother to intercept. I've only made contact with a TF once, and I stumbled across it while stalking the western approaches to Gibraltar. 2 DD's, a Cruiser that I didn't bother to ID, and the reason for not bothering with the Cruiser... HMS Nelson. Out of pure coincidental luck I was in position for a text book attack. All I had to do was let them come to me. Four eels later the Nelson was on her way down, and I made my escape.