Turnaround? Lowpe (J) vs Tiemanj (A) Stock

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: setloz

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

That's a huge investment of supply on the Ki-202.

14 factories of 30 equal 462.000 supplies to set-up and fully repair if my math doesn't fail me. If you add up the other factories that you are retooling, the supply for R&D is starting to get into the millions.
Did you make a full inventory of supplies spent/to be spent until 1945?

I really don't have much of an r&d program left repairing other than those two, night fighters, and the odd ones I inherited like 130 size Frank r factory.

My Tojo IIc, Oscar IV, A6M5c, Tony KI100 are all done.

I am at 4.2 million supplies now and I am not planning on any more expenditures.

I am hoping these planes can help stave off the destruction of the industry on the HI temporarily, but long enough for a solid payback in supplies.

Of course, I am probably all wrong. [:)]

[Lowpe]

Feb 27, 1943

Lost another bomber on a night run. Have now suspended all night bombing. Only 5 4E's attack in Burma, Allied planes exhausted I think. I have flown in a fresh Tojo squadron, and will add another 50 A6M5cs in two days when I will resume offensive sweeps.

If I have worn out the Allied bombers allowing my push from Magwe to get into the Jungle Ridge mostly intact, it will be worth all the planes lost.[:)]

Attempting a CAP trap in the Marshalls.

A very poor attack in the the central plains of China. Despite being bombed for weeks, and no flak showing up, the Chinese Corp gets supply for the battle, and I get a horrendous roll cutting my AV by 1/3 netting a 1-4 attack. Ugh.

Allied bombardment at Burma is fairly even. My Magwe push on the road is off and running to cross the river. I actually don't think they are spotted, as they don't show up during the combat replay. Wouldn't that be great!

No planes at Rangoon damaged during the bombardment. Two days running.

[Lowpe]

Bombardment at Prome

The more guns and vehicles I can destroy here the better.

Funky report of the attacking forces.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: mind_messing

You've got to give this stack a good kicking - heavy losses will put a dent in the Allied pools for quite some time. It's a powerful stack, but it's stuck in an open hex, and provided you can take Rangoon and the surrounding bases, you can isolate it from air support and pound them into dust.

I am not taking Rangoon any time soon, but I am going to cut the supply road I think.

I think I have made a good start on attrition of the Allied air forces. No more planes based out of Prome, and fairly weak bombing this day. Lightnings active are down to 4. However, it is going to be slow and very bloody.

Next up will be a continuation of sweeps....

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Sangeli

I've seen huge bombardments like that in the past as well. As a hardware engineer I'm inclined to believe that it is due to a bad register value being used for a calculation or some other bug in the running of the software. It's not like this game is bug free and I've encountered my share in the past (such as being able to control my opponents air units once) so this seems like the most probable cause.

It was a nasty hit, and very inappropriate given followup bombardments.

[Lowpe]

My worst blunder so far. I honestly thought they had no supply, and were disrupted from constant bombing. Well, losing Zuikaku to a submarine and then a surface group was my biggest blunder so far. This is just the second biggest blunder.[:D]

My bad.

[Lowpe]

Pilot reserves

This is from memory, but I believe I have over 250 in tracom which are all slated for night fighting duties. And I have roughly 750 or more in reserves....I have to double check to be more accurate.

Planes losses in the game are incredibly heavy 9000 Japanese, 7000 Allies, total 16,000. Wowzah![X(]

For kamikazes are naval (high, low), experience, and defense the only important skills?

[Miller]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Pilot reserves

This is from memory, but I believe I have over 250 in tracom which are all slated for night fighting duties. And I have roughly 750 or more in reserves....I have to double check to be more accurate.

Planes losses in the game are incredibly heavy 9000 Japanese, 7000 Allies, total 16,000. Wowzah![X(]

For kamikazes are naval (high, low), experience, and defense the only important skills?

Low naval is the only skill that matters for Kami pilots. I believe no matter what altitude you set them to attack at, they will always rely on LowNav skill to hit the target.

[Spidery]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Pilot reserves

This is from memory, but I believe I have over 250 in tracom which are all slated for night fighting duties. And I have roughly 750 or more in reserves....I have to double check to be more accurate.

Planes losses in the game are incredibly heavy 9000 Japanese, 7000 Allies, total 16,000. Wowzah![X(]

For kamikazes are naval (high, low), experience, and defense the only important skills?

Is that 750 total in reserves or just fighter reserve? Also, is that the number from when you look at the reserve pool or when you try and draw a pilot from reserves? The former seems to include many WIA pilots which I tend to discount.

[Lowpe]

Feb 28, 1942

No night bombing.

5 4Es attack both Prome and the push from Magwe. We down 3...but the Lightning sweep returns in the afternoon, I am guessing poor morale led to a failed fly check in the morning, and they down 3 fighters for no loss on the Lightnings.

Bombardment goes well at Prome destroying tanks and guns.

My torpedo bombers don't fly against a spotted CV...sub attack on the Nestor there. Lilly IIb divebombers with escort were just within range and don't fly. Probably weather for the torpedo bombers and morale for the lilly IIb.

No CAP trap in the Marshalls, despite the bait being spotted.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Miller
Low naval is the only skill that matters for Kami pilots. I believe no matter what altitude you set them to attack at, they will always rely on LowNav skill to hit the target.

Thanks.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Spidery
The former seems to include many WIA pilots which I tend to discount.

Oh, my![X(] Quite a discrepancy. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

[Lowpe]

March 1, 1943

Wow, March already.

No night attacks.

Two Allied sweeps, one in Burma the other in the Marshalls downs 8 Japanese fighters for no Allied losses. No Allied bombing.

In Burma, the Lilly IIb strikes a small convoy. This was a 8-9 hex attack...[:)]

It is great having Army pilots in this role, almost 50 percent of the bombs hit. This is perhaps the best it will ever get for the Lilly IIb, hitting fragile cargo ships unescorted.

Interesting the bomber pictured here is using SAP bombs...

[Lowpe]

The heavy guns at Prome start to deliver some damage to the Allied forces. This is exactly what I am hoping for, a constant grinding attrition of Allied afvs and guns -- which are slow to be replaced.

[Lowpe]

Burma

The bigger picture.

Looks like we will have to fight to close the dirt supply road.

Mandalay is low on supplies because a full infantry division and a 1/3 of a RTA division just arrived.

[Lowpe]

Changteh falls in China for no loss to the IJA, but significant losses to the Chinese.

[Lowpe]

In a stunning bit of advanced r&d goodness, I just now have activated the Nakajima -45 engine.[:D]

Good thing I won't get the Frank and George early.[:)]

I did build two size 30 factories for George and they are almost repaired -- maybe I will get them a month early.

[obvert]

About your China question above, I'd have to see a bigger picture. Can you post a larger shot of China?

The clock is ticking here, and I'd be thinking territory rather than cleaning up run-down Chinese units at the minute. You want the mountains especially. Are you there yet?

[Lowpe]

March 2, 1943

Since the Lilly IIb divebomber did so well on the 1st of March flying out of Magwe, I figured the Allies would bomb Magwe. I had the Lillies relocate and beefed up the air defenses with a fresh Sentai of Tojo IIa's.

I was not disappointed...the bombers, flew and flew.

Allies bombed at 6000 feet but I didn't see any balloon damage.

[Lowpe]

Unfortunately the Lightning sweep is back up to 18 planes and comes in the afternoon, along with some other sweeps.

Damage to Magwe is 70% runway, 45% service.

The butcher's bill for the day: