Proposed Technology upgrade

[RaySpruance]

First off, I'd like to introduce meself to the group since I just recently joined. I was a member of the Don's A&A Forum til it shut down. So I moved over here. My name is Matt and I'm in Virginia. I am a history major and love WWII. My favorite WWII leader would have to be Raymond Spruance (hence my name). I grew up around the navy and I love the Pacific theater dominated by Naval officers. Spruance was not to aggressive, not to cautious and the man who in my opinion won Midway. But that's just me.

Anywho, my suggestion I posted on Don's forum was about a technology upgrade. Does anyone else think that the DD bombardment for amphib assaults is really silly? I thought of something to replace it. Why not develop super carriers? It could have three fighters or a fighter and a bomber or something like that. At the end of the war, the United States was in the process of building the Midway class carriers to carry nearly 150 aircraft. The British designed a carrier made of an ice slurry to build a carrier even bigger than today's modern super carrier. Why not put something like this into the game as a technology upgrade?

[DocD]

Hey Ray, docd here. I wouldn't mind seeing a new tech replace Combined Arms. But....your idea I believe would throw off balance way too much. The carrier defends at 3. Allowing it to defend with 3 fighters, all defending at 4, is just too much in my book.
As far as the bomber on a carrier, well Long range aircraft works even better. Just my thoughts.

Anyhow, Welcome to the boards and check out Cousin Joe's Enhanced rules for AAR when you get a chance. Doc

[Sinister]

Welcome to the boards ray. As I recall there was lots of discussion on this tech last year. You should check some of the really old threads, this was discussed at length.

[RuHurt]

Welcome, Ray. I like the ideas, but like the Doc said, it'd be fairly unbalancing. Possibly the Super Carrier could have a defense value of 4, instead of 3?

[psychotropic]

If your going to add a different tech how about ASW. This would allow bombers to act like destroyers when attacking subs. A detection role would be needed but would not prevent the sub from submerging unless an actual destroyer was present. If the bomber was alone the sub would have to decide whether it was going to submerge or fire back before the bomber roles for detection. The idea needs some refinment but would represent the allied resources that went into ASW in response to the U-Boat threat.

[series]

How about the carrier ONLY allows the carrying of a bomber+fighters? It would have only a minimal defense upgrade but a large offense! And since Carriers are weak on attack, it would ALL work out in the end.

[RaySpruance]

I definetly like that idea. That would help take care of the whole making a carrier to powerful. Maybe two fighters plus a bomber? And maybe restrict the bomber to the same range as the fighters?