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Originally Posted by Ostfriese
What's that with the carriers not launching aircraft? Can you influence that, or is that a random chance?
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Back around the Oahu recovery operation, the problem was that some aircraft like the old Helldiver could carry drop tanks, but those tanks were on the bomb pylon. So when I selected the tanks I accidentally precluded naval attack missions. Essex has SBD-3s, which don't have drop tanks, and Yorktown-II has SBD-5s, which do--but the drop tanks are on wing pylons which leaves the center bomb pylon free so it shouldn't be a problem.
Besides that, whether a mission is flown depends on a number of factors and I probably don't know all of them. But they include finding the target in time with enough daylight left to hit it, the inspiration and administrative stats of the squadron CO and the base/task force commander, and the morale and fatigue stats of the individual pilots.