Game Goal: End game as soon as possible, 3-1 VP ratio.
Strategic Bombing Goals:
Here, at the end of Jan, 1943 what should the Allies focus on with respect to strategic bombing in February? We should be able to get Ningpo up to a size 7 runway fairly quickly and ultimately level 9.
Ranges: 16 to Hiroshima, 19 to Osaka, 24 to Tokyo, and 31 to Sapporo. At present we can hit out to 29 hexes with 2 squadrons of British heavies. Most heavies are in the 16 for US and 17 for British hex range. So right now we are simply at the nuisance level....
Primary Goal: Farm strategic VP at an acceptable loss ratio, remember that each heavy bomber is 2 vp. Shoot for Firestorms at Osaka and Tokyo. I think this is the only possible way I will be able to achieve auto victory super early.
Secondary Goal: Delay Sam, reduce Frank R & Night Fighter production. Force Japan to use daytime fighters on night duty (dispersal of IJ fighter tactic).
Third Goal: Aircraft Engines and Naval Shipyards.
Our secondary and tertiary goals support achieving our primary goal.
Delay Sam might be the most important objective at present, with believe it or not, a focus on damaging Japan's night fighters. I have identified all bases that still have aircraft factories repairing and there are 10 of them and I have started recon on them... Plus there are 11 Engine factory bases. So to start with at least 4 Recon squadrons broken down into thirds.
Sometime in March Japan gets the 12cm AAA gun upgrade and a plethora of AAA units. In roughly 60 days B29s start arriving in Aden!
Also there is a huge expansion of IJ Army fighter squadrons (they get bigger) sometime in 1944 (1st or 2nd qtr).
Our first raids on Tokyo and Osaka should be as large as possible so they won't be targeted for a bit now....rather we will be hunting and pecking at some other targets with the random targets thrown in every now and then to mask our goals and create dispersal.
I have started spreading out our recon planes from Foochow to find the still building aircraft factories....more information with the turn.
Nagasaki....since manpower is low at 11, I think a targeted strike on Japan's largest military shipyard is the top priority here....The fighters are somewhat interesting producing almost one a day each. Since Japan built both super heavy battleships, they must be slow on their CV production.
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Hopefully fog of war.
Sadly, probably gone. If you have to fight destroyers with battleships, you are better off zig zagging and going for those daytime encounters.