Lambs to the slaughter (Lowpe (J) vs Jocke; BillBrown (A)) Finished

[Lokasenna]

More fires needed... or you need to take the base.

[Lowpe]

Getting to be the end of April....

Both Vancouver and Seattle are burning. Something must have burnt down, as I got 60+ strategic vp but recon spots everything as intact.

Another base falls in Alaska.

[witpqs]

You get strategic points for damaged industry, too.

[Lowpe]

China,

Just bombing and slugging my way forward. Should break the current Chinese position on the Ankang road in an attack or two, down to two beaten up Chinese units there, and only one Chinese corp across the river before I am at the gates of Ankang.

Shocked across the river at Paoshan...so that fight begins.

[Lowpe]

Will shock into Lanchow tomorrow. Troops at 100% prep.

[Lowpe]

Progress in India

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

You get strategic points for damaged industry, too.

Yep, I have about 500 strategic VP now. Starting to kick the campaign here into higher gear.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Getting to be the end of April....

Both Vancouver and Seattle are burning. Something must have burnt down, as I got 60+ strategic vp but recon spots everything as intact.

There is usually a 1-2 day delay in the damage showing up on the map, even with no DL on the base.

[Lowpe]

Just a quick note on fighter development.

A quick estimate puts the the A6M5 at around July/September time frame. I should get the Oscar IIb about the same time.

The Tony should start flying the skies around October.

The Frank A should start around May of 1943. Jack and George a month or two early, but hardly any squadrons fly them.

The emphasis is the Oscar-Frank progression. Secondary emphasis on Tony. For Navy it the The Zero & Sam line.

[Lowpe]

Interesting point about firestorms and destroying industry...

From the rule book:
Industry damage – Two VPs per point damaged, 20 VPs per point destroyed (an item destroyed
when damaged will yield 18 more VPs). Industry can only be destroyed by firestorms and
A-bombs, but can be damaged by any type of attack (including firestorms and A-bombs)

25 points of LI damage show up at Seattle...done by attacking the manpower. Given the VP awarded I doubt any of it is actually destroyed. Perhaps subsequent attacks/firestorms will then actually destroy it once damaged?

Never paid close enough attention to the process before.

[Lowpe]

A closer look at the Tojo.

I decided not to speed up the arrival of the Tojo IIa, it will come on line normally June of 1942. Rather, I have moved 3 factories to the IIb. With the addition of the engine bonus, this plane should arrive in 5 months. Then those factories will research the IIc.

There are quite a few sentai that will fly the Tojo, but only two full sized squadrons at start. I will be moving both to the Indian theater I believe, although one is currently at Unmak.

The Tojo will in production for the duration of the war.

[Lowpe]

Jocke should like this....four sentai of Jacks for the entire game. Even though production will start two month early (3/43) nobody can fly the planes until 10/43.

This plane is souped up very nicely in this mod, shame I can't have more squadrons flying them.

[PaxMondo]

So, how is your Oscar RnD going?

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

So, how is your Oscar RnD going?

Ah, Sensai...you get right to the heart of the matter. Olorin only had three factories researching, so I expanded that.

So, the answer is not where I would like it to be.[:(] There is another factory that Olorin put in the IIb...(a waste as they should all have been put in the IIa to maximize repairs).

Next to the A6M line the most important plane line there is...but with the engine bonus we should see rapid improvement here.

[Lowpe]

The Tony line has lots of factories on r&d for it, but it suffers from the lack of squadrons capable of flying the plane early. A lot come on as reinforcements in 44 and 45. Still an important plane.

We inherited 150 factory points spread across 4 factories on the Tony.

But now, the Frank a has 6 squadrons capable of flying the plane early with a 7th coming on 9/43. I have really juiced up the r&d here, as it is my answer to the Jugs/Lightning and given the altitude restrictions should make for a good sweeper. I am hoping for a May appearance, but that might be wishful thinking on my part.

[Capt. Harlock]

Industry can only be destroyed by firestorms and
A-bombs, but can be damaged by any type of attack

Hard to believe in firestorms in the Seattle/Vancouver area, given the local rainfall and the availabilty of incendiaries in early 1942.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock

Industry can only be destroyed by firestorms and
A-bombs, but can be damaged by any type of attack

Hard to believe in firestorms in the Seattle/Vancouver area, given the local rainfall and the availabilty of incendiaries in early 1942.

more difficult given the paltry bomb loads that the IJ has to live with ... but we must soldier on.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

3 almost repaired and 4 more. You'll be ok. I actually rate the Oscar higher importance than the A6M ... more groups involved.

[Lowpe]

Bad weather prevents raids on Seattle and Calcutta.

Port strike at Manila catches something. Bombardments by artillery have started at Clark AF.


Saury sunk here, too.

[Lowpe]

Last week of April, 1942

Bloody nose given at the crossing into Lanchow...to the IJA.[X(]

Bad weather scrubs more flights in US.

Continue taking dot bases and bigger. Adak falls.

Moving to cut rail roads in southern India...bomb Calcutta destroying some planes on the ground, but I lose more to flak there.

Sink and damage more subs at Manila.