European Air War - The Gen

"Don't volounteer for anything" Essential skill of service life :rotfl:

But thanks Dean. We'll all look forward to the outcome.

In the first CAW slot list the kamakaze was assigned to the V1 slot. However, Flyright has done much research into a functioning kamakaze and determined that it can only work in another aircraft slot because EAW always returns to the deafult V1 FM in that slot. He has produced an FM which causes the...

CAW 1944 Theater Campaign Chronology Operation Hailstone Strike on Truk Atoll Feb 16-17, 1944 Operations Flintlock & Catchpole Covering strikes on Saipan, Tinian, Guam Feb 22, 1944 Operation Desecrate I Strikes on Palau, Woleai Ulithi and Yap Islands Mar 30-Apr 1, 1944 Operations Reckless &...

There seems to be a lot of information about the US squads, but not all of it isconsistent. The main fleet ("fast") carriers held a CVG - a carrier air group consisting of fighter, torpedo and dive bombing squadrons - hence CVG 2 contained VF-2, VB-2, and VT-2. These did an approximate 6 month tour ...

To enable the campaign builders to work, we need information particularly on the Japanese squads of the Armyand Navy Air force in the CAW 1944 theatre. I have this list so far: Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force See the notes on IJN units of organisation here (1) Carrier Squads 601st kokutai Carrier D...

In your hands really Pobs, you suggest how best to do this and I'm sure it would find general acceptibility. If those unneeded tree slots could be used let's do it. What alternative slot useage do you suggest?

Setting up a front end manager to swap requirements for campaigns on one or other side its not particularly difficult, and would indeed be one way round that particular problem. And indeed if theplayer is making front end choices in that way, the theatre could be set up with whatever objects were re...

Thanks Pobs, I'll take some time at some point to figure out what sort of an upgrade package I can put together.

Excellent point Pobs. We're certainly going to try to model harbours and Japanese Naval bases, so we need wharves and cranes. We can probably loose a couple of the buildings in the Tmod list to this. How many slots do you think we need for this?

Pobs correctly points out that if we have US land based aircraft we must have US ground objects which the Tmod list does not provide for. So I suggest we reuse those vacant British aircraft with alternative US carrier squads. Perhaps including one of the light carrier or escort carrier based squads?

I think the answer is that originally in CAW we were very much thinking of US carrier forces either battling with Japanese carrier forces, or hitting Japanese occupied islands, and in that scenario all the ground targets with the exception of US Naval elements, would in fact all be Japanese, and cle...

The main problem which seems to confront us in the construction of the campaigns for CAW 1944 is restricting the available targets to those actually relevant to the campaign. We can easily specify the bases from which our campaign squads are operating, but not easily the enemy objects of their atten...

Hello Neira, and welcome to the board. Much help will be required to get all the necessary screens done for CAW, and please liase with Dean so that work is not duplicated and no-one's time is wasted.

In the original CAW slot list we included aircraft for the 1945 British Pacific Fleet. These were Fleet Air Arm versions of the Avenger, Firefly, Seafire, Wildcat, Hellcat and Corsair in the British slots. Clearly we don't need these aircraft for the first 1944 part of CAW. How shall we handle this?...

Hello Pobs, Guessed you'd still be with SAW for a few weeks more. We have the map for CAW 1944 as below ... http://www.mogggy.org/pictures/caw1944.jpg Neira and VonOben have done the tile layout and topography (eaw.tm, eaw.hm and the terrain tiles) for this map. I'm about to set about the target loc...