Comes back to sticking with the precedents. Painleve has dauntless and wildcat.
I think its fine as is.
Yes but France has other French aircraft to base on it. This unit doesn’t follow any precedent because the nation doesn’t have any other Australian carrier aircraft. You’re artificially limiting it to just those three aircraft. None of which is historically accurate because Australia. Never operated any aircraft off any carrier during WW2.
Only one of those aircraft is official and what if you don’t have the other cards?
You’re using three SA’s where one could be used to achieve the same outcome with less unnecessary restrictions.
Comes back to sticking with the precedents. Painleve has dauntless and wildcat.
I think its fine as is.
Yes but France has other French aircraft to base on it. This unit doesn’t follow any precedent because the nation doesn’t have any other Australian carrier aircraft. You’re artificially limiting it to just those three aircraft. None of which is historically accurate because Australia. Never operated any aircraft off any carrier during WW2.
Only one of those aircraft is official and what if you don’t have the other cards?
You’re using three SA’s where one could be used to achieve the same outcome with less unnecessary restrictions.
This is not KISS.
Players are not obliged to use historical restrictions. If the do not, any allied carrier aircraft can base up on it.
Well you haven’t made it easy. You’re trying to give an aircraft carrier to a country that doesn’t have any carrier aircraft. This doesn’t make any sense. I would keep it simple and stick to the intentions of the time and that was the British were offering these so that they could operate closely with their fleets. Letting it operate British aircraft would have been most likely the intent. being a 1945 unit the player will most likely base the Seafire, Barracuda and Firefly anyway so restricting it to just these is redundant. Personally I would like to see it operate British aircraft while in an Atlantic/Mediterranean game and US aircraft in a Pacific game. But KISS is paramount in War at Sea so just let it operate British aircraft as intended.
"British Carrier Aircraft Operations" would still open it up to US aircraft since they can operate from British carriers. No need to make this overly complicated.
Seafire Operations - The Seafire Mk III can base on this unit
Firefly Operations - The Firefly F Mk I can base on this unit
Barracuda Operations - The Barracuda Mk. II can base on this unit.
In 1944 the Australian war cabinet adopted a proposal to assist the Royal Navy with its man power shortages by providing intake to the RAN sufficent to crew a light carrier of the Colossus class and its escorts. The changing fortunes of war meant that a transfer of ships couldn't be agreed with the UK government. Australia would later aquire two Majestic class carriers in the late 40s.
Displacement 13,200 tons (standard) 18,000 tons (full load) Length 690 ft (210 m) (flight deck) 695 ft (212 m) overall Beam 80 ft (24 m) Draught 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) (standard) 23 ft 3 in (7.09 m) (full load)
Speed 25 knots Range 12,000 nautical miles Complement 1,050 Armament 6 × 4-barrelled 2 pounder anti-aircraft guns 16 × twin 20 mm Oerlikon mountings
Build time, laid down to commissioning Colossus june 42 > dec 44 Glory aug 42 > april 45 Ocean nov 42 > aug 45 Venerable dec 42 > jan 45 Vengence nov 42 > jan 45 Majestic/Melbourne april 43 (launched feb45) comissioned 56 Terrible/Sydney april 43 (launched sept44) comissioned 49
Coming to this very late. Got to admit this card seems incredibly "forced" (Canada got HMCS Warrior in 1946. Argentina also got a carrier in 1969 - I hope we're not eventually going there), but be that as it may...
I think Seafire/Barracuda/Firefly is OK. Australia did eventually get Fireflies post-war. On quick review, it doesn't look the US exported carrier planes (or versions of them) to Australia in any notable numbers, at least in the three types I'd most expect (Wildcat, Hellcat, Avenger). Corsairs did eventually go to New Zealand, so I guess that's possible, but I don't know if we would need to go there. The counterpoint is that large numbers of US-produced aircraft of those 4 types *were* operating on RN carriers in the Pacific by 1945, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that same would/could have occurred on a RAN carrier somehow coming into service in 1945. But that horse appears to have been utterly beaten to death.
My only question: Outside of those three UK-produced planes, are we potentially excluding anything that would have reasonably operated from RAN carrier in 1945 (current or future card)? Albatross or Swordfish maybe (too late historically, but I see folks put Wildcats on Essex-class in 1945 all the time in this game).