My Carrier, My Carrier, My Empire for a Carrier..

[Johan]

MUAHAHA, and the american fleet can't even close range either my carrier sinks them or they manage to flee..

 

[ForzaA]

pretty- I like it

on the Med not "needing" carriers- then why did the British have carriers in there?

 

[ForzaA]

Well, neither the Italians or the French had any carriers there. So if the Med needed carriers why didn't they have any? The British had carriers on every teathre at some point of the war, so you can't really say that the Med absolutely needed carriers just because the British had some there.

Had the Italians had a better led, equipped, motivated and trained navy and airforce (especially the latter), as well as resource and industrial backing equalling the ones British had, I have no doubts victory on the Med would have been possible even without carriers.

So that they could have airpower in the parts of the Med. that their ground based aircraft didn't have the range to reach. Keep in mind, that at one point they only controled Egypt and Malta.

sorry I wasn't entirely clear- *someone* claimed that offensive opperations could be carried out w/o CV in the Med- for some powers true, no doubt, but I'm convinced that the English DID need them there- as Blk seems to say aswell

 

[Darkrenown]

Loved it

I am intrigued though - will the carrier automatically maintain distance?

Surely the destryers will close to within range?

To be sunk by the cruisers? It would seem wisers to remain in close escort to the CV.

 

[Darkrenown]

Johan wrote:

"MUAHAHA, and the american fleet can't even close range either my carrier sinks them or they manage to flee.."

so that would suggest that it wont even come to a direct shoot out between the fleets and the escorts will stay close to the carrier.

I know, it was ErwinRommel that suggested they could close.

 

[Darkrenown]

Yes it would but I was talking about the destroyers with the American task force. The scenario presented was that no American guns were within range. Surprising since the screen suggests that the two groups are only 9000 yds apart.

Well that makes more sense However, I guess the idea is meant to be that the USN fleet is too out of range to attack the CV and it is launching long range raids at them, but either the range is displayed wrongly or the feature isn't coded correctly yet.

Or maybe Johan is wrong and the DDs are about to close up and torpedo his carrier

 

[Darkrenown]

But I think Mr T summed it up

Yeah, that's what I meant about things not working right ATM, it's still alpha