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From: 6615lp13@sjuvax.UUCP (palena)
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Subject: Re: Possible modifications to Midway . . .
Message-ID: <957@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 14:57:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 14 14:57:55 1985
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In article <368@sftri.UUCP> mom@sftri.UUCP (Mark Modig) writes:
>Yes, a few more, that I am working on even as we speak...
>
>1)  The sun has to go down sometime folks, and it's kinda difficult to
>    fly in the dark.  Designate two times as sunset and sunrise. 
>    Planes are not allowed in the air between a sunset and sunrise. 
>    If a strike doesn't quite get back to their ship or Midway before
>    sunset, the planes ditch.
>
>2)  As long as you add nighttime, you might as well make it so that
>    everyone starts each new day unspotted-- you have to find your enemies
>    all over again.  At least you'll have some idea of where to
>    look.
>
>3)  Damage control and repair-- a ship could repair torpedo and bomb
>    hits at night, up to a maximum of one torpedo hit and 2 bomb
>    hits for the entire game.  Larger ships, say BBs, and CVs, might
>    be allowed to repair more.
>
>4)  Strikes should occasionally miss their targets.
>
>5)  As near as I can tell, the code always tells you when you have
>    been spotted by an enemy plane.  Make it so there's a chance
>    you don't see the scout, so you can get a nasty surprise attack.
>
>6)  Bogus sightings.  Unclear or just plain wrong sightings played
>    an important part in the battle.
>
>7)  Need to change the range for the planes.  Japanese planes had a
>    range of about 35 miles or so greater than the Americans,
>    particularly the TBD, a plane entirely different from the TBF,
>    a half dozen or so of which were on Midway at the time.
>    This means that it should be possible for the Japanese to hit
>    American carriers while remaining out of range from a return strike.
>    Since this is an important strategic consideration, it should
>    be implemented.
>
>AA fire seems OK to me-- unless you have a couple of BBs or CLAAs
>escorting your carrier, if a lot of enemy planes get thru the CAP,
>you are in trouble.  AA can't get 'em all, nor should it.  I agree it
>would be nice if your escorts were a bit more enthusiastic (and
>smarter) about helping you out, tho.  I'm not sure about this, but I
>don't think it is possible to shoot down your own planes with AA;
>this should be fixed if it is true-- if you're attacked with all
>your planes still on the carrier and you get them off while the
>attack is going on, your AA fire should shoot both enemy and
>friendlies down.
>
>Definitely need the destroyers and transports.
>
>That's about all I can think of at the moment.
>
>Mark Modig
>sftri!mom




      There is a game that I have on disk for the Apple II that fits
  all of these criterion.It's called Midway.Since I have it on disc I
  don't know the name of the company which publishes it,but it's strange
  to hear you discussing these modifications when I played a game which
  has all these built in.It might pay to look into it.This game works
  with a 24-hour clock,with night bombing.There are no American destroyers
  but there are Japanese battleships as well as Carriers.