As you may already know Strategic Mind: The Pacific will have mobile floating airfields - carrier ships.
They can take up to 5 aircraft units on board depending on their class. Thus carriers have by far the biggest reach: they can attack as far as their planes could fly and return safely.
Keeping your carriers at a safe distance to continue attacking from afar, and in turn, locating the positions of the enemy carriers is the key to winning major naval battles.
Carriers are also a valuable asset during landing operations: providing air support to your land troops is the task of great importance.
Carriers are both deadly and vulnerable, which makes them a top priority target for the enemy forces. Be warned that the enemy will try to locate and destroy your carrier ships by any means.
Thus you should take great care in safeguarding them with your escort ships and other naval forces. Carriers were a novelty at the time and not all of naval officers realised the full extent of their power.
You will have a chance to unleash the full potential of carrier forces upon your enemy and prove your strategic superiority.
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