Depending on Scenario played if its normal Scen 1 or 2

The Rufe can upgrade path directly to the A6M5 with no loss of factory capability.

Which means a player can convert RD plants to Rufe plants T1....get them almost to 30 by the time the Rufe is out for production. Then as the rufe goes into ...

when speaking of economy---all the main Axis powers had the same critical weakness when it comes to the modern/mechanized/air war that WW2 was going to be- a lack of easily accessible oil that was near infinite for the purposes of waging war.

The USA alone could effectively power the entire allied ...

You could play the game poorly and not do pilot training you are correct. My suggestion is that okay keep pilots important but streamline the process more for a better gameplay experience.

Also the timeline for fully trained pilots is longer than the historical training process for the most part ...

consolidate some of the pilot skills

Ones that could be folded into others/easily removed---Low Attack, Low naval, Defense, Strafing

could even just put pilots into categories with experience only but pilots are locked to their trained category....F/FB/B/NB and so forth


Those skill are ...

consolidate some of the pilot skills

Ones that could be folded into others/easily removed---Low Attack, Low naval, Defense, Strafing

could even just put pilots into categories with experience only but pilots are locked to their trained category....F/FB/B/NB and so forth

Kaga might be sunk by 4 bomb hits esp with the heavy fires....depends on if the Japanese Damage control does anything but watch it burn...and if he has a nearby port to quickly/easily put into.

The Shoho looks fine neither reported showed big fires/heavy damage....it might be out of action for abit ...

thats a ton of additional allied ground units guess he thinks 4 new air units and some buy outs is all he needs.....i would be worried about all those ground units just getting pulverized by Japanese Air in the first year.

Ahh in the mod maybe its starts elsewhere---probably why in the normal scenarios it's at Bataan to prevent a quick T1 Japanese grab against 2 effectively non-combat units.

You sure Bataan is that weak T1? I thought the 4th Marine Regiment starts in Bataan no? Which is one of the best best units the US has in the philipines.

The experience level of pilots in game IDK its a mess imo----70+ is apparently a good/veteran pilot IMO

I have bomber pilots now with 50+ combat missions barely over 50 EXP.....as well running actual bombing missions doesnt appear to increase defense skill while running training missions will ...

Surprised your still running WITE 1 over WITE 2.

The key thing for Japan is they can help ships load and unload faster this is esp important at the smaller ports they max out at low port levels as you can get extra cargo moved each turn by having naval support squads there.

Yes i have noticed this as well lost 3 training command pilots in march 1942.

Will keep a watch as the months go on but maybe attrition rate in Training command is abit high as i think at the time i only had like 50 pilots there.

yep saw several of the articles on poor performance/uptime.

The standard game scenario and from what i can read historical refits of the Shokaku class were the first CVs to get radar installed during the mid 1942 refit---which the game accurately represents.

As well 2x BBs were given the ...

would have to look at the refit timelines but i think its like a month long refit for shokaku if i remember right.

500 squad losses is painful for Japan....its not the building its the timeline of replacements making it to a resting unit not in Japan.

The Japanese should be bombing you much more if they want any results.....basically what i found to work best---as a newbie Japanese player is to make sure in ...

From doing abit more research at least 3 sets were put on ships confirmed in early/mid 1942.

Interestingly 2x BBs Ise/Hyuga and CV the Shokaku was the first CV to get one.

I read someone else had changed a mod where they did 2 Japanese CVs per month to refit with radar---i think this is probably ...

I would assume they have factored deficiencies or effectiveness of the radar into the game as you do see each radar system has different ratings aside from just range.

In all reality the effectiveness of the set should be built into the game stats/mechanics.

My question was purely if given yard ...

The reason I brought this up is the Shokaku class CVs get a radar with the mid 1942 refit so if this is accurate then the Japanese navy at least had some sets available starting in mid 1942.

Also in some readings i have done its stated the CVs sent to midway werent given full refits due to the ...

Hes giving you a decent amount of points from Japanese Ground losses....almost 9k men on one assault in the Philippines is huge Japanese losses IMO...bombing and bombardment are much safer/lower cost methods to strip your supply so your lucky he is giving u free points.