Re: Tin Cans versus Dreadnoughts

Glenn M Wilson wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 02:51:17 -0800 (PST)
> =?iso-8859-1?q?Michael=20Robert=20Blair?= <pellinoire@yahoo.com>
writes:
> >To put it very bluntly.
> >DD vs BB? The DD dies, live with it.
> >
>
> As it should be. <grin>
>
> >If anything most starship games do not give small
> >ships a hard enough time. Fighters always seem to be
> >of exaggerated usefulness - people take the Yamato as
> >a normal example of the superiority of aircraft over
> >BBs and apply this model to the space games forgetting
> >just what a concentration of airpower this
> >represented.
> >
>
> Yeah, anybody know just how many carriers were involved in this
strike?

Enough carrier aircraft to hit with 48 bombs and 24 torpedoes. 
Forty-eight
aircraft could do it if each dive bomber had two bombs, each torpedo
bomber
had a single torpedo, and nobody missed.  A safe estimate is between 120
and
200 aircraft, or two fleet carriers.