<t> You should be very careful now with the sunk ships list. There is a lot of FOW! In my current game I thought I had sunk 3 USN BBs. But meanwhile all of them have been reported to be still in service. Sometimes it takes several months after the supposed sinking until you get the corrected report ...

<t> The soviet air force consists of about 1200 fighters, most of them fighter/bombers with range 3. Also they field some 300 dive bombers and 240 level bombers. And there are also some recon airplanes. <br/>
The (from my experience) best fighter La-7 makes only a very small fraction of the whole ...

<t> I found the soviet fighters of the latest generation have a similar performance vs. japanese fighters as P-38J or P-47C. So they are better than the Ki-84-Ic but about equal to the A7M2. A lot will depend on the pilot quality here, unfortunatly the first batch of soviet pilots will be of elite ...

<t> One thing you should keep in mind: the soviet fighter force is kind of defensive. Their fighters have a maximum range of 3, in case of La-7 only 2. Also the bombers have a limited range, the IL-2m3 has only 2, the level bombers have a maximum of 5 (6 for the Tu-2s). But their fighters can not ...

I hope for you that your plans do work. But I am afraid the bulk of the combined fleet will see action for the last time if they can not get out of the way fast enough after the night actions.&nbsp;

<t> I suggest to not sacrifice the fleet yet. As you said already it is impossible to prevent the capture of Luzon. Later when you have enough advanced interceptors to protect your fleet it can be used in more efficient ways than only one way missions. Also I would keep the Reppus for homeland ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: PzB<br/>
Ah, so you didn't leave any A6M5 with auto upgrade on when you started producing the A7M2? [:'(] That's a bummer...
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I desided to use only manual upgrade since two of my elite sentais desided to upgrade at the same time to ...

<t> There seems to be a big random factor build in. The first bomb hit Hiroshima and there was rather small damage. Only about 20% heavy industry was destroyed and another 20% damaged. The second bomb hit Gumma and destroyed almost all heavy industry and damaged all aircraft factories and almost ...

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Been doing some checking regarding the not so funny things to come: ...<br/>

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I have another bad news for you: the a-bomb B-29s can not be intercepted they seem to just bypass the CAP. At least this was the case ...

<t> That is very nice news indeed. [:D]<br/>
I was never able to bypass the A6M8. I never tried automated upgrades, only manual upgrade and that did not work. Guess one learns every day something new... [;)]<br/>
So I am looking forward to see the first air combat of the Reppu. Maybe it is just in ...

Range for the J7W is 2/2 while the A7M2 has 4/5.
When will the production of the A6M8 start?

<t> This is only for the research factories. As long as the A6M8 is not avialable the Zeke production will not upgrade, also not to the A7M2. When the A6M8 becomes available the production factories (A6M5) will first upgrade to the A6M8 and then (at least one day later) to the A7M2. So in the worst ...

I guess your tank units are now outfitted with the Type 3 tank? This one is almost a match to the M4 Sherman.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: PzB<br/>
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After a week of this we should be able to send in huge strikes escorted by our 600 Oscar fighters.<br/>
This is the time to release the combined strength of our LBA: SBD, TBD, kamikazes, naval bombers and everything<br/>
else we can scrounge ...

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Yes, the Reppus is a match for the Hellcat!
Better speed, manouverability and range [8D]

And those two 250kg bombs will help your kamikaze konverted airgroups too. [;)]

I imagine this would be a very unpleasant surprise for Andy to face the A7M2 this early. [:D] They should be able to deal with F6F. So the next seaborn invasion can become a desaster...

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Can anyone tell me whether the A6M5 has to upgrade to the A6M8 before upgrading to the A6M7 Reppu?<br/>
Upgrade path goes A6M5 - A6M8 - Reppu. Was hoping it would skip the A6M8 if the Reppu went into productin first.<br/>

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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: PzB<br/>
2. Reppu - should be a good ac, but I don't have many units that upgrades to it!
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As far as I know all units that upgrade to the A6M8 do upgrade later to the A7M2. So you should at least allow some production of the A6M8 to ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: PzB<br/>
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1 x G4M2e Betty ohka bombing <- So these Betties can only be used to Ohka bombing - which doesn't work...<br/>

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Maybe your G4M2e don't hit anything because they don't carry any Ohka? As far as I remember Ohka ...

<t> There are actually quite a lot errors with the german words used in the operational and battle briefings as well as in the names of victory points. There are basically two different errors:<br/>
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1. wrong translations:<br/>
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For example in map 3 of the Smolensk operation (summer ...