The Good The Bad & The Indifferent

[Lowpe]

Your bomber crews look to be in great shape.[&o]

[Alpha77]

ORIGINAL: DW

ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: DW




H. L. Sanders? I'm not getting the reference.

Has anyone ever looked for a "Wild Bill" Kelso on the west coast?

Quinton McHale is in the game as well.

I seem to recall Gene Roddenberry flew in the Pacific during WWII. I wonder if he's in the game...

Gary Grigsby and Paul Vebber are in the game [&o] Ah and M.Schwanebeck too (latter 2 are or were Matrix personnel)

[CaptBeefheart]

The pilot rosters are chock full of Brorses, Dunnigans, Grigsbys, Billingses and no doubt some other giants of the gaming industry. Speaking of McHale, I once tried to find Ol' Leadbottom (Capt. Binghampton) but no joy. I don't think there's a LCDR Queeg either, but I could be mistaken.

Cheers,
CC

[MakeeLearn]

I seem to recall Gene Roddenberry flew in the Pacific during WWII. I wonder if he's in the game...

Yes. I've seen G. Roddenberry.

[BBfanboy]

Anybody spot G.H.W. Bush?
JFK is in the game, but not on PT-109.
On the Japanese side, Tameichi Hara (author of "Japanese Destroyer Captain") is included but maybe not on Amatsukaze at start.

[Canoerebel]

11/13/44

Fancy Pants: In China, the situation is deteriorating rapidly for John. I think he's purposely sacrificing units to slow down the Allies breakthrough and advance. He'll succeed to some extent but at the expense of a lot of big units, in all likelihood. Why he chose to shock attack with 17th Div. yesterday is an enduring mystery.

Some Q-Ship type of KB bait is loitering around the Ryukus. Death Star isn't far away, if John wishes to seek battle. But I'm not going after the bait, if that's actually what it is.

I want to accomplish as much as possible in the next week or so. After that, I'm going to have to detach or break contact in order to bring in supply from the DEI. That'll be tough to stomach but it may be the last big convoy run of the war (not saying it definitely is -just a possibility).

[Canoerebel]

11/14/44

IJN BBs Miss: John tried to intercept Death Star, guessed on it's likely location, but missed. I'm leery of my carriers getting anywhere close to a combat TF of this size but I think BBs Iowa, New Jersey, and a host of other powerful TFs, would've come out on top.

This tells me much about John's current state of mind. I think we're on the eve of decisive battle.

[Canoerebel]

11/14/44

Raid on Hammamatsu: An effective raid that scores despite a lack of prep.

I really switches up on raids today: night, day, distant, close, etc. I'll post a few of the better ones, not the smaller ones that didn't score.

[Canoerebel]

11/14/44

Raid on Wakayama: Daytime raid doesn't face CAP and does well.

[Canoerebel]

11/14/44

Air Raid Fukuyama: Liberators from Ningpo encounter opposition during daytime raid targeting Resources at Fukuyama.

[Canoerebel]

11/14/44

2nd Air Raid Fukuyama

[Canoerebel]

11/14/44

Air Raid Kurume: The Mustangs keep the enemy at bay but at high cost. The Liberators aren't molested by the CAP and score pretty well.

I doubt the Mustang pools will allow this kind of sacrificial mission but it's good to know that escort can play a role in letting the bombers get inside.

[Lecivius]

Wow, big losses [:(] But the B is not as good as the D.

[Canoerebel]

11/14/44

Air Raid Otsonomiya: The new Superforts shouldn't be used for daytime raids, but I forgot.

[Canoerebel]

11/14/44

Air Raid Kochi: Working on the periphery of things.

[Grfin Zeppelin]

I wouldnt hit resources Like I mentioned 100 pages ago he must be short on fuel and maybe supplies. If you hit oil he loses fuel and has to spend supply to repair it. Win win.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

I wouldnt hit resources Like I mentioned 100 pages ago he must be short on fuel and maybe supplies. If you hit oil he loses fuel and has to spend supply to repair it. Win win.

That depends. If it's a large resource center (say, many hundreds) with low manpower, then it's also probably a place with few other factories so may be lightly defended. If it's about points rather than depleting his ability to fight back (and I'd argue that's the case now - points over military concerns), then it may be easier to quickly harvest a few hundred VPs based on damaging resource centers at, say, Kushiro - 600+ Resources, little manpower, almost no other industry. May not be defended except for the fact that it's on the coast. I'm sure there are some other examples, but southern Japan is a bit more lousy with airfields than Hokkaido is.

[Grfin Zeppelin]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

I wouldnt hit resources Like I mentioned 100 pages ago he must be short on fuel and maybe supplies. If you hit oil he loses fuel and has to spend supply to repair it. Win win.

That depends. If it's a large resource center (say, many hundreds) with low manpower, then it's also probably a place with few other factories so may be lightly defended. If it's about points rather than depleting his ability to fight back (and I'd argue that's the case now - points over military concerns), then it may be easier to quickly harvest a few hundred VPs based on damaging resource centers at, say, Kushiro - 600+ Resources, little manpower, almost no other industry. May not be defended except for the fact that it's on the coast. I'm sure there are some other examples, but southern Japan is a bit more lousy with airfields than Hokkaido is.

Ah very true of course. Well he stated several times that he is after the VP now.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

I wouldnt hit resources Like I mentioned 100 pages ago he must be short on fuel and maybe supplies. If you hit oil he loses fuel and has to spend supply to repair it. Win win.

It would be almost impossible to believe that Japan is spending supply to repair anything here.[8|]

A r&d facility with the plane set to arrive in a month or two maybe. The only possibility would be fighters or night fighters. Everything else can burn...pretty much.

[Lowpe]

What can we learn from this expose?

1. Bomb low enough, and with a big payload, and you don't need DL. Especially if the target is rather largish.

2. Japan's air defenses are pitiful. They might be strong at the big bases, but I haven't see it. As long as the Allies don't fly into the KB during the daytime and avoid the biggest bases they can pull off a big daytime raid I bet...maybe that will change after today's testing of the waters. But who knows? Maybe Japan has tactics that aren't obvious here, and this was just a poor day....

3. Never seen a fighter bomber for Japan anywhere.

4. Ki61a? That tells you something.



5. CR is busy as a beaver experimenting with strategic bombing; it is hard to see that Japan is doing the same thing given the results posted. Upshot, CR will get more and more effective and Japan less and less.

6. Estimated time to target 5-11 minutes. Ouch.