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Field Basing

Everyone is on the carriers

United Mud Movers - your task is to clear the ack from 14 & 15. Once you hit the ACK, the Yankees can release so we want the Torpedo planes right on your heels.
All other bomb/strike squads take the Kate and a Torpedo.
Target the static ships at 14, 127 will send a pair for the 2 ships at 15.
If your wingman can save their torps we might find some shipping on the way out (if we spot some in the ingress we will wait till we make the big strike and try to get them on the way back)

I would like all of the fighters to go heavy and when the torps hit, drop your bombs on the fields you are capping.
We need to cap 3 fields to ensure the Kates have a chance to get away from the island.

Fighter Option 1
LF6 you will CAP F16 (hit ack if you can when you drop your bombs)
23rd you will CAP F11
475th will CAP F14

Fighter Option 2
LF6 CAP both 16 and 14 as they are so close
23rd CAPS F11
475 CAPS F12

The Kates will need escort most of the way back to the carriers (Knights and Sentai 127 wing will have some fighters) as there are several fields in the North where they can launch from, however, only 1 squad can be based at any field so our Zeke's will have numerical superiority until they can get all of their aircraft together.

Noflyz, can you please make a dtf with ingress and egress routes and time hacks when everyone should attack. Thank you in advance for your excellent work.

Bomber Numbers
This is the number of bombers I am calculating on, if we have more, we can attack some other targets. Please confirm your numbers:
Nomads - 1, UMM - 4, NS - 4, Knights - 7, 127 - 2 or 3.

Any suggestions are of course appreciated.

I will let the fighter squads decide between option 1 and 2, though I think option 2 is my preference.

LF-6 will keep the Sake chilled on the carrier to celebrate our victory !!!

....... Unless the prelims change ....

If you have no other mission you can sure fly escort for the NS anytime!!!!

But I am sure beaver will have some other mundane task for you instead

23rd Ko copies all. HAI!

It would be amusing to see Beaver's expression if he indeed forgot about Lf6 in the planning.

Talk about winning the lottery when planning - an entire 3 step squad of Experten???

That very thing happened to me years back - I think I forgot orders for The Haze when they were 2 solid steps.

Anyway....

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Beaver,

We could have up to 12 if they all show up.

Keep in mind capped fields enable USN ops, capping earlier may defeat the efforts of capping.

I am sure since the 4th is allied this frame our orders are as theirs is written.

Not according to the rules zinhwk.

9. US Scramble - the US may only scramble in Frame 1 when an ground object is destroyed.

Notice it says ground object, surely this doesn't count floating ships?
Might pay to get Jabo to make this clear as we could let all the torps loose then the torp planes could run away safely.... they won't be able to roll until we drop some bombs.

By USN I meant they can switch to the carriers, otherwise USAAF is our enemy . Even by waiting until ord is dropped, if we cap the field from the get go, they can simply switch to their CVs and do an end around. Probably best to be "nearby" and let them up. We will have all the advantage in the world.

Either way it seems quite beneficial to figure out where their carriers are for advanced warning at minimum.

Oh, and don't mean to nitpick, just making sure the Air Boss has all the necessary intel. They can have 1 squad per airfield. Thats upwards of 3 steps of enema at each. It can be a draw or worse on one cover group per airfield.