S3 Series

Radar for now is set at 1120 feet. So we should be able to sneak torpedo planes in at some point.

Allied will not know where our CV's are. They probably won't be placed in their historical position.

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Very good

Banzai!

juice

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In Jabo's previous Pearl Harbour events the Allied were not allowed to take off until the Japs where at a certain distance from the island. Maybe we should have this rule for a more realistic scenario and more true to history with the Allied scrambling at last minute, instead of being all up and ready before the dive bombers have even have arrived. I'd say set the radar to a short distance, and the Allied must hold in tower until the Japanese break dar. Either that or the gamemaster (Jabo) will tell the Allied when they are allowed to scramble.

This also gives an element of strategy for the Allied as they then need to choose fields to take off from that won't be vulched, and the Japs could need this advantage since they'll have only like half the number of fighters compared to the Allied, as the Japs need to have many pilots commited to dive bombers.

We could come in high with zeros and The Japanese plane that has a bomb sight (Robert?). Drag the p40s up to our alt where we have advantage. Then maybe 5 min after we get them climbing, we bring in A low level torpedo attack. Ideas?

Seems the Allied won't be allowed to take off until we break dar. As such I'd recommend we come in at 19 000 ft with the B5N2 "Kate" bomber which has a bombardier view. The higher we are the longer it will take the lumbering P-40B to climb to our altitude. Also the higher we are the bigger advantage our Zeros have against the P-40B, and especially against the P-36C. Best approach for line up would be from southwest of the Harbour, best approach for least time on DAR until we can drop is straight from the south of the harbour.

I've made bombing tests. You need either 4x 250 kg bombs or 2x 500 kg or 2x 800 kg of bombs to kill any of the dark-grey and tan colored destroyers. The only exception is the brown ship at the dock at F18 which need half the amount, so a single B5N2 can go for this F18-ship. The B5N2 can carry either 2x 250 kg or 1x 500 kg or 1x 800 kg. With wingmen in trail/inverted ladder formation you could get lucky and sink one ship yourself. I recommend though a loadout of 1x 800 kg, and have two guys go for each ship to make sure we sink it.

1st sortie I recommend lots of B5N2's, with the 352nd as escorts in Zeros. Approach at 19000 ft from S or SW of Pearl. Egress south after dropping and get back to the CV's once clear.

2nd sortie I'd recommend a large contingent of fighters, just battle for air superiority, with some volunteers to fly B5N2's and come in as high as possible to finish off the remaining ships. Again the higher we fight the better off we are, so our Zeros should always strive to come in high.


Cheers!
/Robert

Suggestion for the first sortie. We need two B5N2 pilots to bomb each ship in order to destroy it.
The 4th Kokutai will all be in B5N2's for the first sortie. Suggest other kokutais also go B5N2's with the 352nd Kokutai as escorts.




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/Robert

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352nd ready to escort

understood on the fly will be listening

Juice

thanks 352nd!