Moderators: wdolson, MOD_War-in-the-Pacific-Admirals-Edition
One of the main problems is the 21 Resources and 21 light industry located at Bandoeng. Consequently, Khyberbill can resupply his units and continue to increase fortification levels to 1 after every deliberate attack of the Allied units.
ORIGINAL: Spidery
One of the main problems is the 21 Resources and 21 light industry located at Bandoeng. Consequently, Khyberbill can resupply his units and continue to increase fortification levels to 1 after every deliberate attack of the Allied units.
I think resources stop producing once there is an enemy LCU in the hex. But he probably has many weeks of resources stock-piled.
A single airfield supply hit, by a 250kg bomb, will destroy at least a days worth of production from the LI. It is probably more effective to keep hitting the airfield and just be patient.
ORIGINAL: FOW
Bombing the airfield means his engineers have to repair that before building forts (and you might get supply hits).
Bombing the LI means his engineers are free to build forts - but eventually with less supplies to sustain a defence.
I myself am not sure what affects the adjusted AV of the defender most - the forts or the supply status of the units?
ORIGINAL: dennishe
Is it me, or is HI much more easy to destroy than LI?
Several raids in China gave me 0 LI destroyed (maybe FOW) while in one run I destroyed 7 HI.
This would make sense as big factories are much easier to destroy than small local business...
ORIGINAL: FOW
Also bombing only damages factories, whereas fires will do both damage and permanently destroy some.
For Bandoeng stick to airfield.
+1ORIGINAL: Andav
Bombing the LI and HI in China I think has worked for me in my game against witpqs. I have committed pretty much the entire Japanese air force to this task. As much as possible I tried to concentrate on a target with as many bombers as possible and bomb it until LI and HI were fully damaged. On the mouse over, they never show fully damaged so once it gets down to about 10% of what shows, it is probably enough. One thing I would do over would be to put some on bombing the airfields as well. I ran into a few cities with forts and it slowed me down. I also flew at 6k. This seemed to increase the hit rate. If there was flak, I did not worry because it uses supplies and is a good indication of when they were out of supplies. Provided you do not run into Allied Fighters, the crews will get better quickly. If you run into fighters, take your lumps, replenish with raw recruits and know those flight ops just cost the Allies valuable supplies. Make sure the groups are maxed out on pilots. In Nov 1943, I still fly every day in China (mostly ground attacks now) with 10% set to rest. It takes a while but it will help. You also need to plan to ship supplies to China because you will not benefit from captured HI or LI.
+1Enjoying this AAR. Thanks for posting!
Wa
