I agree on the P-40 upgrade but Lemurs owns aircraft so I'll leave this one to him.ORIGINAL: bstarr
The upcoming release of 1.5 has curbed my interest in my ongoing scenario, so I'll go ahead and give a little rundown. This may be the last. I'm not going to repeat anything I've already posted . . . except the first one.
1) My only major gripe is the Lancers. I like adding the plane, but it's stats need to be toned down big time. And if more air groups are added, Chinese skill needs to be lowered. You just think you’ve heard the JapFanboys complain; they'll wail like banshees if they start losing air superiority in China in early 42. I like the added planes and would prefer to stretch the Chinese forces to their historic size, but this needs to be countered by lower skill.
2) Also Lancers need to upgrade to P-40N. American units that upgrade to P-47s can be manually set to do so, but Chinese forces don't start with LAncers, so they can't be manually adjusted in the database. And the Chinese were equipped with P-40s late in the war (no P-47s that I know of, anyway).
Yup - armament should be 4 4.7s and 1 7.7mm - don't know actual disposition so I made it up. I'll make it up better.3) Bangkok Maru has 4.7s fore, aft, and starboard. 7.7mm MG on the port side. Sounds wrong.
I think I can research this one.4) the arrival date of the 6th and 7th Australian Divs needs to be pushed forward to compensate for the fact that we now have to transport them from Aden.
Spent four hours on this already and can't figure it out - tomorrow is another day.5) There is 12000 oil at Panama, but I was unable to load it onto a tanker. (btw, Don, did you notice the two tankers who had reached New Zealand with Oil via the Panama Canal then west rout? I believe they had reached NZ by the date I gave you)
That's because it's a Dutch unit and ABDA was still in existance when it was lost. When it comes "due" it does not appear as ABDA is gone.6) ABDAFloatilla spawns.
This was intentional for the US Marines in the Philippines. I'll switch the Dutch Marines back to ABDA.7) the Dutch Marines are able to load onto transports since they are connected to ABDAFlotilla rather than ABDA. Ditto some units in the Philipines.
Over my head - Lemurs!8) I think there should be more Tomahawks in the pool to cover early loses. Surely there were more than twelve stockpiled if they came up with 100 to send to china. I’m also not sure if I like the idea of limiting end-production planes to 1 production. With 1.5 it’s no big deal, you can always downgrade. But without it there’s too great of a possilbity that a squadron could become depleted of planes and glued to one place while it waits forever for that one plane so they can transfer. Mechanics can always canibalize to put a few more in the air. [:D]
9) There should be more pilots in the Japanese pool to cover the odd pilot drainage that takes place at the start of the game, especially naval air pilots. Even with all groups set with replacements off, my naval air pool was completely empty before the carriers returned from Pearl. Any idea where these pilots went? Anyone remember if this took place in the old scenario15? I don’t think it did. I think adding 100 to each Jap pool should do the trick.
Way outside my area so I'll leave these last two for someone else.10) Ichang is just about impossible for China to supply. It stayed red 90% of the time, even before the Burma Road closed and put everything in the pink.
11) And I had an odd land engagement at Myitkyina. See if y’all can figure this one out. Several Jap divisions attacked Myitkyina and forced a retreat. However, not all of the allies retreated north toward their base. About half retreated west along the enemy held railroad. In fact, they retreated right into the hex occupied by a Jap Army HQ and the next hex in their path was occupied by another Jap Division! Lazy bastards didn't want to take that long jungle trail, they wanted to hop a train. [:'(]
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Don
