Bill Brings Banzai

[BillBrown]

Larry, the file is too big to post.

[larryfulkerson]

Please post that bad boy in my AAR thread. I've got plenty of room.

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[BillBrown]

the zip file is 2.2MB, adn the forum only allows 1MB files.

[witpqs]

Try send.firefox.com

[larryfulkerson]

I think it want's me to create an account. Advisable?

[BBfanboy]

Firefox is the browser used by Apple. It can be trusted to be reasonably secure and stable/reliable. That doesn't mean they won't try and harvest general data about you! [8|]

[MBF]

Firefox is used by Apple ? Don't you mean Safari ? (apologies for derail)

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: MBF

Firefox is used by Apple ? Don't you mean Safari ? (apologies for derail)

Well I don't use any Apple product but I do know that my daughter, her kids and my son all use Firefox on their Apple products so I thought that was the standard browser. My bad. Having said that, my daughter and son are very careful Internet users and would not use a product they did not completely trust. So take out what I said about Firefox being part of the Apple family, but the rest still applies![:'(]

[MBF]

Ahhh - very good In education, I see Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers used on our Apple devices - with Chrome being by far the predominate here due to using Google Apps For Education (much to the chagrin of Apple I expect)

More apologies for derail - keep up the AAR Bill - I am fascinated with the discussion and your thinking

[larryfulkerson]

okay, now what?

[btd64]

PM Bill and do it thru email....GP

[Uncivil Engineer]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

For what it is worth, turn 1 has been sent off. I dread what is going to happen when I find out I forgot a huge number of things.

Get used to it, you'll feel that way EVERY turn.

[witpqs]

Larry,

That's just an account setup screen, you can set those how you like.

Firefox Send is great. You can upload very large files, with a password if you like, and they will be good for a certain number of days and/or downloads after which they automatically go away so you don't have to worry about cleanup or running out of space. Pretty easy to use once you use it the first time.

[GetAssista]

ORIGINAL: Uncivil Engineer

ORIGINAL: BillBrown
For what it is worth, turn 1 has been sent off. I dread what is going to happen when I find out I forgot a huge number of things.

Get used to it, you'll feel that way EVERY turn.

Hehe, there are so many more things to forget as Japan compared to Allies... And many of those can have nasty long-term effects. Brace for impact and grind through, this thing makes JFmen out of AFBs

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: GetAssista

ORIGINAL: Uncivil Engineer

ORIGINAL: BillBrown
For what it is worth, turn 1 has been sent off. I dread what is going to happen when I find out I forgot a huge number of things.

Get used to it, you'll feel that way EVERY turn.

Hehe, there are so many more things to forget as Japan compared to Allies... And many of those can have nasty long-term effects. Brace for impact and grind through, this thing makes JFmen out of AFBs

So many things to forget...

[BillBrown]

I emailed the file to Larry.

First turn is in and things look pretty good. Of course I have not dug in to see what didn't work right.
The entire combat report is appended

First thing is the PH strike.
I lost 7 Vals, 5 Kates and 2 Zeros over PH.
Combat report shows the BB Oklahoma, BB California, CL Detroit, dd Cummings, and PT-42 were sunk at PH.
It is possible more went down. I counted 16 of the bomb hits on BBs were 250kg, but a few of the bomb
hits on the smaller ships were 800kb. My Kates launched 115 torpedoes and 27 800kb bombs.
I did lose all of the SSX subs, but one put a torpedo into BB California.

Next question is 2nd PH strike? I am thinking on it.

I crushed the airfield at Kuantan, sent 99 bombers, and no aircraft flew from there against my shipping.

I only landed at Kota Bharu, but I have a mersing invasion for turn 3.
Landings at Appari and Vigan will also take place turn 3.

[jdsrae]

Sure, there's a war going on now, but don't forget to find some time for the important stuff like what you're going to do with all of your xAK.

The image below is my summary of what classes can convert to what. It's Scenario 1 so may not be the same for your Scenario.
The colour coding was my way of prioritising what xAK class to convert to what, with a few notes.
Green are the conversions I chose, yellow are the ones I thought about and may still choose depending on how things go in game, and orange are ones that I am not planning to do.

I've gone for a bit of a radical AV conversion plan to support a large ASW FP force.

The AKE is probably the most interesting one for you to choose and boils down to how you answer the following questions:
1. How often do you plan on using your Nagato and Yamato class BBs forward from a port that is big enough to rearm them?
2. How often do you plan on using your "smaller" BB forward from a port that is big enough to rearm them (or one that you plan on expanding to be able to rearm them)?
3. Where are you going to place your Special Base Forces, as even with relatively small amounts of Naval Support you can rearm your CAs in small ports without needing a small AKE.
My answers to the above questions led me to using the Akasi class as my AKE of choice. It can rearm all but Nagato and Yamato classes in forward areas.

EDIT: actually, I ended up converting all Ehime to AD rather than just 4, meaning I have them in abundance.

[BillBrown]

OK, Naval Shipyards. I have a small positive difference. Should I expand some of them and accelerate some of the CVs?

[jdsrae]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

OK, Naval Shipyards. I have a small positive difference. Should I expand some of them and accelerate some of the CVs?

It depends on what you want to build and if you even want to accelerate anything.
This is where Tracker would pay for itself as I built my industry planning spreadsheets manually.

I think it would cost you too much in supplies and HI points to expand NSY to give you the NSY points you'd need to accelerate CVs, without halting something major like Shinano to offset the accelerated ships.
It also depends what proportion of your HI Points you want to allocate to the IJN compared to the other uses for HI Points.

To give you an example, I expanded my NSY slightly to 1400 mainly because I like round numbers.
Instead of accelerating IJN ships I am planning to just let them build at standard rate and start mothballing NSY from about mid-42, when I will divert the "saved" HI Points to more aircraft, vehicle and armaments production.

[GetAssista]

ORIGINAL: jdsrae
My answers to the above questions led me to using the Akasi class as my AKE of choice. It can rearm all but Nagato and Yamato classes in forward areas.

Lima class AKEs can rearm everything everywhere