Not authoritative. Not on the Air Team. But good enough.ORIGINAL: Beezle
Could we please have an authoritative comment on Allied A/C production rates? See the "Allied Replacement Aircraft Replacement Rate" thread). I can understand that for AI play balance reasons Japanese A/C production could be boosted. That isn't what concerns me. I am concerned that the Allied A/C production rates are way off, by more than an order of magnitude.
For F4F (3s 3as and 4s) I get about 7000+ total production. I am a little uncertain as to how many were lend lease but I don't recall hearing that the majority went to Canada nor British units in the Far East. I am pretty sure 90% of them didn't go to the ETO. That "7000" could be 7500 or 7700 or so. But that is only a 10% error.
At 53/month (counting the recon models in the total to get to 53) that number can be built in 136 months ie by about August 1954.
For total production I get a ratio of about 7700 F4Fs (not to mention about 12,000 F6Fs) to about 11,000 A6M (_all_ A6M models 2>8). That isn't a ratio of 6:1 in favor of the Japanese economy.
I keep being told the Allied A/C prodcution is carefully researched and spot on. How do the Allies get to 7000+ F4Fs?
Raw production figures, for any weapon system, have very little relationship to what was allocated/issued to combat arms groups. All it says is someone has five minutes of free time and an internet connection.
What you get is a function of 3, 4, 5 separate limitation routines; more so for Japan than the Allies. So raw production numbers are nice and pretty, but not particularly relevant. The research was done on the basis of utilization; and is spot on, imho.
Since you don’t understand the algorithm, and haven’t played to the end, I think you should do a bit of analysis before making such a sweeping statement.The problem with this is that with those allied production rates a war of attrition is a winning strategy for Japan and that doesn't seem all correct.
This is a game. There is a certain amount of abstraction going on. It is not a diorama of pretty little panels that show pretty little historical numbers that don't mean much of anything.
