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Originally Posted by propbeanie
There really should be no US planes out of Henderson Field from Guadalcanal (Cactus), since the US did not land on the island until August. How close were you to Guadalcanal?... I wonder if one of the other airfields is doing that (Port Moresby??)? We used to have troubles with B-24s doing that in earlier releases. As for 1944, there should not be that many Japanese planes coming out of Truk... These are very important issues, due to the impact on gameplay, besides the inaccuracy in real life. What type of plane was that you ID'd off of Truk? Operation Hailstone was still a month away, so it is not a response to that.  |
1. We were within 1000 yards of the NW tip of Guadalcanal, waiting in the shallows for the IJN supply forces to show up;
2. The US planes definitely were coming from the direction of Henderson.
3. I didn't identify the type of Japanese planes out of Truk. When I spotted on close enough to identify "friend or foe" by it's icon's color I dove before I could see the type.
What is unusual besides the number is the way the apparent spawn point (on radar) kept following me. It's not just that they came into radar range - they spawned well within radar range. The ones that spawned within the lagoon would apparently circle a Japanese small freighter anchored next to the land mass once or twice before heading for that central port where I had attacked and sank an escort carrier, Naka, supply ship, and one other ship.
I know I am running on a clean install of v1.5, totally deleted the SH4 folder from Documents before starting this career, etc. so my installation is not a factor.