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TheWarrior

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  1. You know. I take that back. As you said, "Only a complete and utter mororn would put his CVBG to the west in the Solomons Sea." I'm sure the Japanese Naval high command thought the same thing. Yet Halsey ordered TF-50.3 centered around USS Essex, USS Bunker Hill and USS Independence into the Solomon Sea to strike at Rabaul on November 11th, 1943. As Sun Tzu said, "Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions."  Genies.  Now that whole Taffy 3 thing and the two typhoons.  Yea...


  2. Ummm. Well. I invite you to read about the carrier raids against Rabaul, November 5th and 11th of 1943. Get a pillow first and put it on the floor so you lower jaw has something soft to land on. He risked five carriers(including two Essex class)to secure the beach heads at Bougainville. I agree it was stupid considering he had more than enough land based aircraft in the Solomoms to stop any IJN sea attack. Ballsy but stupid too.


  3. Thank you guys.  So to make sure I'm tracking this right.  Say I want to add carrier stations to the Solomon's terrain.  I add NavalMap=TRUE in the INI.  Got that.  Then I would have to make a Solomons _water.bmp with the carrier station painted on?  I know it's a small terrain but I want IJN carriers who's aircraft will fly from them for a Battle of the Eastern Solomons campaign I'm working on.

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