<t> Regarding the ETO Luftwaffe losses to bomber gunners were practically non-existent; basically all of their losses were to escorting fighters.<br/> <br/> For morale purposes it was basically decided to give USAAF bomber gunners all the claims they wanted with basically no investigation or attempt...

<t> It was a bad movie with some nice cinematography. Could have been great.<br/> <br/> The people that unaccountably like it inevitably assume that everyone that doesn't like it are morons who only like Rambo movies. What a crock. <br/> <br/> It also didn't bear the slightest resemblance to the boo...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Mike Scholl<br/> <br/> Based on availability and effectiveness, I'd have to say the Betty.....The load wasn't<br/> the biggest, the defense not the strongest, and the construction certainly not the<br/> sturdiest.., but the range is the key.....The size of the Paci...

People are talking about sending the PoW and Repulse to Australia or the DEI.

You should never have to send either of those two ships back to England, and should never want to.

You'll generally have an R class BB to send back (that you've kept in Ceylon) instead.

<r> In an ideal universe there would be some sort of massive PP penalty if Force Z didn't make an attempt to hit Japanese invasion forces heading for Malaya. <br/> <br/> The idea of them retreating from Singapore before they're even damaged or made one attempt to hit the invasion forces is unthinkab...

ORIGINAL: Mr.Frag

This is not a tactical game where this would be of value with game turns in the < 1 hour range.

(Except where you're setting altitudes for squadrons

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: pacwar<br/> <br/> I noted a comment in the thread about Japanese auto convoys, to the effect that Allied auto convoys were worthless...completely worthless? <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Yep. Feature never should have been included in the game. Not sure why this wa...

Well,

I just sent the CVs to a different hex from the fighter squadrons left at Pearl. I then transferred the fighter squadrons to the Carriers.

They all transferred and not a new pilot. Including 27 planes somehow flying out to the carriers with 24 pilots.

<t> I have this problem, I've got carriers at Pearl (100,000+ supply, CENPAC HQ there) short pilots in the fighter squadrons, plenty in naval pilot pool.<br/> <br/> I've had the squadrons on 90% CAP, have had the carriers disbanded in port, in a TF in port, disbanded in port again, have transferred ...

<t> I've just glanced at the histories at DANFS for American subs and it appears that typically a US sub that was undamaged on a war patrol spent one to two months in port till the next war patrol...and would have longer refits every few patrols on a fairly routine basis, at times going all the way ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker<br/> Illustrates just how overly accurate the ASW weapons are and how having all DD/escorts attacking may corrupt the model. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Actually the biggest problem is that there are too many subs at sea in operational areas TO be ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: steveh11Matrix<br/> <br/> Anyone have a list of actual Japanese (and Allied, for preference [:)] ) sub losses?<br/> I don't know if the IJN loss rate I'm seeing (zero up to early April 42, now up to 8 by early June after I took over from the ai) is historical or hy...

<t> Playing the AI is still fundamentally useless except to learn the game.<br/> <br/> I've playe a month in 1.3 as the Allies, against the Japanese on hard.<br/> <br/> While the Japanese at least no longer repeatedly try to send unescorted transport TFs AROUND Singapore to the Indian Ocean while I ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Twotribes<br/> <br/> <br/> I hate to tell you but even with the fix, if you send a carrier into close with out escort a PT boat will be able to torpedo it, as I understand it, the fix makes it so the escorts attack the PT boats. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> <br/> ...

<r> Well, went through at Nihon Kaigun.<br/> <br/> <B><s>[b]</s>American PT Boats in the entirety of the Pacific War managed to kill the amazing total of two and one half Japanese Destroyers.<e>[/b]</e></B> (2 kills for which they were solely responsible, and one kill of a DD that had already been c...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>So are PT's going to become completely useless? Will they have any chance of scoring any hits? If so, why not remove them from the game?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> They weren't all that amazingly useful in the real war, given the resources devoted to them.<br/> <br/> They ...

NZ changes are all very cool. Seem to reasonably match the (complicated) reality as best as I was able to reasearch it.

<t> The problem is the "tipping point" problem.<br/> <br/> Which I noticed in Uncommon Valor.<br/> <br/> The only time you can have really long-lasting land combat is if the two sides are evenly matched.<br/> <br/> If one side has even a slight manpower/firepower/supply advantage, that very quickly ...

<t> Well,<br/> <br/> Probably the most important house rule is to require the US 2nd Marine Division and the 1st US Marine Division to be broken up in thirds with each third only being shipped out of the US on the date when it was actually shipped out....I think you'll have to fudge this a bit and s...

<t> Bit of an unfrozen caveman player as I stopped playing for a few months waiting for a patch with official OOB fixes....<br/> <br/> So resurrecting this thread.<br/> <br/> 1) Why, exactly, will 2nd Mar Div never be fixed? (My solution is to simply have US Marine Divisions start the game as indivi...