Yes I know this is stupid, but it's for a school report, I need 10 different outcomes:
What would have happened if Pearl Harbor was greatly fortified with anti air guns, and all the ships were somewhere else?
1. Japanese don't show up (they DID have an Intel source in Hawaii)
2. Japanese show up, float plane confirms the bird has flown and the
Kido Butai aborts and sails home
3. Japanese are idiots, First wave shows up anyway breaks off when there is no game.
4. First wave doesn't tell second wave due to some bizarre radio silence requirement. Second wave finds no targets
5. As # 3 except 1st wave decides to have a go at the airbases (despite mostly being armed with torpedoes and AP bombs). Gets chopped to bits. Warns off 2nd wave.
6. As with # 5 except no warning is sent to 2nd wave which also gets chopped to bits.
7. After # 6 happens, the Japanese decide to close and have a go with their guns. They run into the Pacific Fleet in all it's glory at sea and outnumbers 2-1 in heavy ships get torn to bits.
8. As with #7 except that the survivors are hit by land based air out of Hawaii, causing even more damage.
9. As with #8 except the Enterprise manages to launch a successful carrier airstrike, finishing off the remaining carriers.
10. As with # 9 except the Lexington group, having been informed that the game is afoot, catches the stragglers as the retreat and sinks the few surviving ships, clogged with survivors of the earlier sinkings.
You may have noticed that these go from unlikely to impossible. Tell the teacher who gave you this assignment to go into the parking lot and sniff some more exhaust fumes. they missed a few active brain cells. the first go round.
