"The Battle of Coral Sea...what if..." Topic
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| Only Warlock | 15 Nov 2015 7:29 p.m. PST |
Coral Sea has always intrigued me. On May 5 the two carrier fleets blundered within 70 miles of each other without detection. I have thought many times of doing a one table (4'x 12') minis battle that supposes they got a little closer and it turned into a general melee… |
| Only Warlock | 15 Nov 2015 7:29 p.m. PST |
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| Only Warlock | 15 Nov 2015 7:31 p.m. PST |
Only cap aloft, with all carriers doing scramble launches as dawn warms the Horizon. Destroyers slashing ahead trying to get torpedo salvos off… |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 15 Nov 2015 7:50 p.m. PST |
Dauntlesses flying CAP, if I recall correctly… |
Ed Mohrmann  | 15 Nov 2015 10:04 p.m. PST |
Dauntlesses flew as anti-torpedo screens early in the
war (USN Doctrine). Post-Midway, that doctrine was abandoned (see _The
First Team_, USN history of first six months of the war
[Pearl Harbor to Midway] from the standpoint of carrier
operations. Published by Naval Institute
Press). |
| gregoryk | 25 Nov 2015 7:45 a.m. PST |
The Dauntless was a surprisingly agile airplane, not like the Zero, but compared favorably to the F4F. |
| CampyF | 29 Nov 2015 11:58 a.m. PST |
US carriers used dive bombers for CAP early in the war mainly due to a lack of fighter planes. Many of the earlier carrier raids left without their (inadequate) full compliment of fighters. Although a match for Japanese torpedo planes, the torpedo planes were generally escorted by fighters. Not a good thing. |
| gregoryk | 29 Nov 2015 3:29 p.m. PST |
The number of fighters per carrier was upped after Midway. |
| 4th Cuirassier | 30 Nov 2015 9:11 a.m. PST |
I've never gamed Coral Sea with miniatures but have done so many times via PC. What works best is to split the carriers up, hope the enemy does not do this, then try to close with them in darkness so that both of your carriers are within range. Ideally the enemy sends all its air group against one carrier while all yours goes against both; so you lose one and they lose both. Even more ideal is if HMAS Australia and HMS Cornwall can blunder into them at night and shoot them up a bit with 8". |
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