Evil Monkey
Mongoose
Played a few games using OOB including a large (10pt Battle) US v IJN action last night. A couple of things cropped up; firstly, the Yorktown and Essex carrier classes seem to have crept up from Raid/Battle respectively, most priority level changes seem to be mentioned in the Errata for the fleets but not so for these two. Was wondering if anyone knows if this is correct or a mistake? The Yorktown certainly didn't seem to warrant Battle status. Compared to the Lexington (I think) and some japanese Raid carriers its original rating seems far more appropriate. We also had a New Mexico class, also Battle, and I'd certainly rather have one of those than a Yorktown given the choice.
In fact the second issue is carriers in general. Being able to launch/land 2 per turn with one deployed pre-game just seems too few. It's not worth re-landing planes most of the time as you need almost 6 turns to launch the full compliment anyway - more if you have a fire. I know planes have been improved but carriers still seem ineffective relative to capital ships of the same PL.
In fact the second issue is carriers in general. Being able to launch/land 2 per turn with one deployed pre-game just seems too few. It's not worth re-landing planes most of the time as you need almost 6 turns to launch the full compliment anyway - more if you have a fire. I know planes have been improved but carriers still seem ineffective relative to capital ships of the same PL.
