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From: sharp@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Maurice Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: harpoon
Summary: Hitting the carriers
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.050839.13503@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Date: 30 Apr 91 05:08:39 GMT
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    A previous posting made reference to the difficulty of hitting the
US carriers in NACV. I use a sacrifice method to hit a carrier group.
I send a bunch of Backfire bombers with StandOff loadout around the
left flank. Way around. Then I send in a Mainstay with a Backfire
fighter escort up the middle. I fly them low with no detection
equipment on. That is important, if you are detected you are dead.
BTW, by this time I have an idea where at least two carrier groups
are.

    When the bombers have circled behind the line of advance (US has
not detection planes back there), I move up the Mainstay group, send
them Very High, and turn on the detection. The Backfire fighters will
take care of the first few fighters that show up. If all goes well,
the Mainstay pinpoints a group, the Backfire Bombers military or
afterburner in, hit the Carrier group, and return home the way they
came.

    This has succeded in destroying one carrier group, and severly
damaging another (carrier down, a few ships hurt).  Give it a try...

	maurice
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Maurice Sharp MSc. Student (403) 220 7690
University of Calgary Computer Science Department
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Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4	      GEnie M.SHARP5