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Darwin rained off. Again. This is becoming a real problem.<br/>
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One of a slightly different sort appears off Western Australia; if you look back to July 9th there's the first raiding attempt with Kiyosumi Maru, which accomplished nothing ...

<t> Durability #s seem rather low - keeping existing aircraft as a baseline:<br/>
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Tempest II is currently a 36; Sea Fury is about the same size/weight, so would go with that in that case.<br/>
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Firebrand is a pretty large aircraft for being a single off carriers - size and weight-wise ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>July. 31<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Darwin rained off again. Apparently the place averages 0.5 rainy days per month in July and August...I think we've had about 10 this month. One thing that people who prattle on about the SW monsoon tend to miss is that there's an Australian ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>July. 30<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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More submarines, off Brisbane, Townsville, Rarotonga...yet another one torpedoes destroyer <I><s>[i]</s>Cassin<e>[/i]</e></I> off Hawaii. About half a dozen of them are still "blockading" Niue...which is kinda funny, since so many ships went in ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>July. 29<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Well, that's one way of doing it...<br/>
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It went down, taking its aircraft with ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: LoBaron<br/>
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aztez, I don´t think voicing a different opinion should be related to friendship in any way, so I´m fine with that. [:)]<br/>
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I even agree that there is a problem. But not the way most people seem to interprete it, which does ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>July. 28<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Battle of Changsha continues; we knock down about a dozen fighters and a couple of bombers for the loss of about a dozen fighters. Japanese troops continue to yo-yo in and out of Changsha; they march in, turn right around and march one hex east ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>July. 27<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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HIJMS was moving house, apparently, hence yet another break.<br/>
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Nothing much substantial actually happened today, which makes the long wait a little irritating; most flights in Australia grounded due to weather ("what dry season ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: bradfordkay<br/>
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I have been occasionally night bombing the oilfields and refineries in Burma with the RAF night bombers. This has been done with a total of five Wellington or Liberator squadrons. If the artwork shows a black belly on the aircraft, it is ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: rader<br/>
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My point is that although the damage can be seen as to be not too ahistorical, the circumstances that govern the prosecution of such bombing raids (low ops losses, ahistorically high pace of operations, not enough planes not finding the target ...

ORIGINAL: hades1001

Did I missed anything?

Yes - the range restriction is on naval attacks, not ground attacks.

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>July. 26<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Hey, I called it - one and a half Japanese divisions land at the Cocos, losing more squads to drowning than we still have as a garrison. A shame, but there it is - most of the irreplaceable stuff made it off, so it could've been much worse. Will ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: John 3rd<br/>
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My partner is certainly that but I am of the opinion that the Allies don't need much more here. I think we have SOOOOOOOO tinkered with additions, changes, and new toys that Japan will be thoroughly SCREWED in this game from Square One. To ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Alfred<br/>
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If the port facilities have not already been built up, getting supply in on merchantmen is not going to be easy. If it is still only a port size 2, barge resupply is the only realistic way in. Even if the port is fully built up to level 4 ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Mistmatz<br/>
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Why exactely is Sadogashima important?<br/>
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I am not familiar with that part of the map (yet), but it looks like it's an island with no land connection to Japan proper. Thus I don't see the strategic value of the island that might ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Chris H<br/>
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Missed that one but think it's wrong. These small commando units were used in small raids and should be capable of landing at an enemy base in combat mode.
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They can't land in combat mode, but units can ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: FatR<br/>
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But seeing the prevalent opinion, okay, let's 4E armament remain as it is, hope that night air combat will be fixed, and hope that JuanG's experiments in this area will give us some useful imput on the results of this in the future.
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<r> <B><s>[b]</s>July. 25<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Japanese return to Vava'u; we trade 15 Wildcats and two P-38s for about a dozen Japanese aircraft. Most losses as usual are aircraft escorting bombers...the Wildcat is not a good aircraft, but it's at least marginally usable when not tied to a ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: hades1001<br/>
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I believe the night bombing is pretty broken in this game. <br/>
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But what exact the good does bombing his man power do?
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Hits on manpower start fires, which tend to then go on and burn out other ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: GreyJoy<br/>
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Well, even if it was a bug, Rader has invested a lot in this feature and it would be unfair to stop him now that he finally got his toys...i'd be salivating if i was him waiting for the first Ki-201 to come out...<br/>
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So, probably ...