Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, Docup(A)-Koniu(J)

[koniu]

3 August 1944

Sumatra
B-29 night ride in Medan. No oil hits.

Night Air attack on Medan , at 46,76

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 46 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
J1N1-S Irving x 9

Allied aircraft
B-29-1 Superfort x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
J1N1-S Irving: 1 destroyed

Ambon
Heavy sweeps and bombing of base. 100 B-24 is keeping base closed.
Defense of Ambon is ready. 600AV, fort 6, 3x terrain, Base forces, AT and AA guns.
Similar forces protecting Namlea

Rabaul
SAG protecting base was attacked by night bombers. It force ships to manurers and that end with this "CL Oi collides with CL Yahagi"

R&D
Dedicated Kamikaze plane R&D is moving fast. Ki-115b will be available in January `45
I will build 150+ of them.

I plan to use few types of planes as Kamikaze
K-115b Tsurugi- 385mph, 800kg, range 6
Ki-84a/r Frank - 392/399mph, 2x250kg range 7
Ki-43IIb/III Oscar - 341/358mph 2x250, range 8/10
Ki-67Ia (T) Peggy - 334mph 2x250kg, range 17 - long range kamikaze

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: koniu

R&D
Dedicated Kamikaze plane R&D is moving fast. Ki-115b will be available in January `45
I will build 150+ of them.

I plan to use few types of planes as Kamikaze
K-115b Tsurugi- 385mph, 800kg, range 6
Ki-84a/r Frank - 392/399mph, 2x250kg range 7
Ki-43IIb/III Oscar - 341/358mph 2x250, range 8/10
Ki-67Ia (T) Peggy - 334mph 2x250kg, range 17 - long range kamikaze

You may want to consider the Grace. Range 10/13 with 2 x 250kg and 350mph!

The Peggy is pretty good, as is the Frances. The Grace is awesome!

Your Judys will also do well, and I found it tougher to get fighters and things like the Tsurugi to fly consistently. Not sure why. But you have to think about durability with kamis as well, and although the speed and load are great with the K-115b, the durability is crap, so not a lot get through. Oscar has the same issue, although it does have armor.

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: obvert

You may want to consider the Grace. Range 10/13 with 2 x 250kg and 350mph!

The Peggy is pretty good, as is the Frances. The Grace is awesome!

Your Judys will also do well, and I found it tougher to get fighters and things like the Tsurugi to fly consistently. Not sure why. But you have to think about durability with kamis as well, and although the speed and load are great with the K-115b, the durability is crap, so not a lot get through. Oscar has the same issue, although it does have armor.

I know that Frances and Grace are great. But kamikaze mission will be only fly by Army units.

I already have ~3500+ trained army pilots in low naval skill. Navy will fly conventional missions only. Navy pool is full of naval and torpedo trained pilots (~4000+ pilots).
If i add to that ~1000+ army pilots trained in naval attack and ~500+ in torpedo I have 9000 trained pilots in pools. And i don`t counting here pilots that are siting in KB and in LBA units that are not training pilots but are ready to combat so another ~1000 pilots there. That give me nice number of 10000[X(] pilots trained in attack against ships.

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: koniu

ORIGINAL: obvert

You may want to consider the Grace. Range 10/13 with 2 x 250kg and 350mph!

The Peggy is pretty good, as is the Frances. The Grace is awesome!

Your Judys will also do well, and I found it tougher to get fighters and things like the Tsurugi to fly consistently. Not sure why. But you have to think about durability with kamis as well, and although the speed and load are great with the K-115b, the durability is crap, so not a lot get through. Oscar has the same issue, although it does have armor.

I know that Frances and Grace are great. But kamikaze mission will be only fly by Army units.

I already have ~3500+ trained army pilots in low naval skill. Navy will fly conventional missions only. Navy pool is full of naval and torpedo trained pilots (~4000+ pilots).
If i add to that ~1000+ army pilots trained in naval attack and ~500+ in torpedo I have 9000 trained pilots in pools. And i don`t counting here pilots that are siting in KB and in LBA units that are not training pilots but are ready to combat so another ~1000 pilots there. That give me nice number of 10000[X(] pilots trained in attack against ships.

All good reasoning now, but soon you'll get a bunch of navy training units as well, big ones! Those can train hundreds of kamis a month. Maybe you won't need them, but come 45 you never know.

[koniu]

You are probably right. I can adjust my training program little to train some kamikaze pilots. I must add that i have only 252 pilots available to training as we speak
I also thinking about limiting navy pilots torpedo training. Few reasons for that. Army already is training torpedo pilots so they can take that job in small fraction from navy and with A7A2 and D4Y4 on-line i believe DB should be Japanese weapon of chose

There will be another delay in turns. Docup laptop KIA

[koniu]

I have some time before Docup will fix his laptop so i will catch up with AAR

At first fleet compassion at end July 44

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KB

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Economy chart

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R&D

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Air Production

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Air loses

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Ship loses

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Japan resources reserve
200k oil and 100k fuel will be unloaded in Japan in next 5 days.[:D]

[koniu]

I think i will reduce production of Armament
i have almost 2,5x more than i will need for rest of war

[koniu]

I will keep production of vehicles

[Lowpe]

Simply awesome.[&o]

[setloz]

very interesting! Thank you for posting such detailed data!

[koniu]

Another one. This time pilot reserve. This is after filling all units.
I can post more just ask. Strategic situation later. Now i going to watch Interstellar.

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: koniu

Ship loses

My what an absurdly imbalanced game! [8|]

[koniu]

And still allies are strong enough to win this war. OK maybe not as fast but they will.
I sunk carriers with 1000 ac capacity and allies still can send over 2400 carrier planes. Next battle will be last KB battle.