F4Fs were available from the git-go off of the CVs in Frames 1 & 2.
The verbiage was interpreted: IF you are assigned a land base, and you do not go otr, THEN you could switch to the CV, or any other open field at which no other Squad was based, IF your field was capped. Alternately, ONLY F4F aircraft were available on the CVs and ONLY P-40 aircraft were available on land. In Frame 2 the P-36C became available at ONE field.
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jabo wrote:
Just remember once you launch you are stuck and bound by the non-teleporting rules.
Frame CO needs to assign squads to airfields and CVs on the fly at the start...F4F3s can then head to Oahu and land at any open airfields there...
jabo wrote:
USN CVs are at 12,4,1 hdg 000 at 20mph.
To use the F4F3 you must take off from the CV but can replane at any airfield.
To use the P36C you must be stationed at F12 but can replane at any airfield.
P40B is in use at any airfield.
F4,F5 and F6 are destroyed before the frame begins...