What's your Strategy?
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+1ORIGINAL: obvert
ORIGINAL: Alfred
ORIGINAL: PaxMondo
Allied flak in '44. yuck. I've never come up with a counter for it really. Going high enough to mitigate it means basically no hits, so useless mission. Can't get enough bombers (actually total bombs) to get the hit% to work. This is where a 4E with a 10xbomb bombload would really show up. The IJ 2E 4x250 just can't generate enough bombs to get any hits … So, you have to go in lower and the losses are really high ...
Relatively speaking, there is an altitude "sweet spot" where the overall ROI on air-ground is improved. Whether it is then a satisfactory ROI is a different question. Air-ship is a nastier situation for the bombers as there is no equivalent "sweet spot". As this is relative finding the "sweet spot" does not necessarily result in fewer aircraft losses in aggregate but rather that the ratio of losses to hits achieved is better. Trying to fly above the flak ceiling (remember there is some fuzziness to flak ceiling anyway) will not find the "sweet spot".
Much is dependent on the model AA gun and the aircraft types used. Where the flak defence is comprised of multiple, layered ceiling model AA guns, there may in fact be no "sweet spot" at all. Mixing various different bomber models in the same raid also makes it harder to find the "sweet spot".
In very general terms you should bear the following in mind:
1. An AA gun has 3 ceiling effectiveness bands; the bottom third is usually it's least effective ceiling band.
2. The flak gap of classical WITP was not completely removed in AE. In AE you can encounter flak within the entire ceiling range (plus the fuzziness factor) but it may not be as intense around the old flak gap area.
3. The important factors to consider when choosing the bombers include (but not limited only to)
(a) having armour - sending a bomber which lacks armour against an Allied location bristling with flak is not advisable
(b) maneouver rating - single engine bombers will generally have a much better rating than 2 engine bombers
(c) DB and TB types should only be used in a level bombing capacity as this reduces their exposure to flak
Alfred
Yeah, all of that. The gaps I see are only for Allied planes hitting me!
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Spent some time looking for the relevant hotkey for 'national code'. My olde tyme printed manual didn't have it. Hitting '4' displays the national codes. Unfortunately, looks like most of the Kuriles are '101'. Japan proper is '100'. So taking the Kuriles won't trigger Kamikazes. EXCEPT for Paramushiro Jima. That's code '100'. That and the no-name, no-dot base hex immediately to the North of it.
I kind of wished that he had focused on Paramushiro, as that capture would have given you another potential arrow in your quiver to deal with the Allied invasions in this area. Here's hoping.
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Allies coming with some A units there at Ketoi.
I wish you had some AA and more AT/ART there.
And that is the weakest held island? Wow!!![X(]
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Spent some time looking for the relevant hotkey for 'national code'. My olde tyme printed manual didn't have it. Hitting '4' displays the national codes. Unfortunately, looks like most of the Kuriles are '101'. Japan proper is '100'. So taking the Kuriles won't trigger Kamikazes. EXCEPT for Paramushiro Jima. That's code '100'. That and the no-name, no-dot base hex immediately to the North of it.
I kind of wished that he had focused on Paramushiro, as that capture would have given you another potential arrow in your quiver to deal with the Allied invasions in this area. Here's hoping.
ORIGINAL: witpqs
What has happened on Marcus Island?
CR pulled out the troops?ORIGINAL: HansBolter
ORIGINAL: witpqs
What has happened on Marcus Island?
Lackluster invasion attempt repelled.
Ah! He hooked me easily because it did look like an invasion 'lite'. I do wonder if it will succeed without reinforcement or some other augmentation.ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Hans is joking. I think.[;)]
Obvert has three games going and I can only imagine the time it takes...
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Spent some time looking for the relevant hotkey for 'national code'. My olde tyme printed manual didn't have it. Hitting '4' displays the national codes. Unfortunately, looks like most of the Kuriles are '101'. Japan proper is '100'. So taking the Kuriles won't trigger Kamikazes. EXCEPT for Paramushiro Jima. That's code '100'. That and the no-name, no-dot base hex immediately to the North of it.
I kind of wished that he had focused on Paramushiro, as that capture would have given you another potential arrow in your quiver to deal with the Allied invasions in this area. Here's hoping.
Not really. The invasion package is pretty lackluster for Japan, and at this point in the war they'd really only be worthwhile as backline garrison troops. They arrive with 20-30 Exp, IIRC.
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Spent some time looking for the relevant hotkey for 'national code'. My olde tyme printed manual didn't have it. Hitting '4' displays the national codes. Unfortunately, looks like most of the Kuriles are '101'. Japan proper is '100'. So taking the Kuriles won't trigger Kamikazes. EXCEPT for Paramushiro Jima. That's code '100'. That and the no-name, no-dot base hex immediately to the North of it.
I kind of wished that he had focused on Paramushiro, as that capture would have given you another potential arrow in your quiver to deal with the Allied invasions in this area. Here's hoping.
Not really. The invasion package is pretty lackluster for Japan, and at this point in the war they'd really only be worthwhile as backline garrison troops. They arrive with 20-30 Exp, IIRC.
That may be, but my comments were mostly in reference to kamikaze availability rather than the homeland defense scrub LCUs that the Japanese get when triggered. I'd still take them as backline garrison troops-the time to get them properly outfitted and (start) training is now with the enemy on the doorstep rather than when he's on Honshu or Hokkaido proper.
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
... kamikaze availability is dependent on distance, not country codes (unless I missed something)...
ORIGINAL: Alfred
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
... kamikaze availability is dependent on distance, not country codes (unless I missed something)...
Correct but there is an important exception to the rule that it is distance which triggers kamikazes. A Chinese country code hex never triggers kamikazes, irrespective of how close it is to Saigon, Takao, or Tokyo.
Alfred
ORIGINAL: witpqs
CR pulled out the troops?ORIGINAL: HansBolter
ORIGINAL: witpqs
What has happened on Marcus Island?
Lackluster invasion attempt repelled.
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Alfred
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
... kamikaze availability is dependent on distance, not country codes (unless I missed something)...
Correct but there is an important exception to the rule that it is distance which triggers kamikazes. A Chinese country code hex never triggers kamikazes, irrespective of how close it is to Saigon, Takao, or Tokyo.
Alfred
Thank you both for the clarifications. Alfred: would a 101 national code within 20 hexes of Tokyo trigger kamikazes or 'emergency' LCUs? I assume that a 100 code within 20 hexes would trigger both the kamikazes as well as the LCU 'emergency' reinforcements?
For what it's worth, Ketoi Jima is 25 hexes; Paramushiro 30.
ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: Alfred
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
... kamikaze availability is dependent on distance, not country codes (unless I missed something)...
Correct but there is an important exception to the rule that it is distance which triggers kamikazes. A Chinese country code hex never triggers kamikazes, irrespective of how close it is to Saigon, Takao, or Tokyo.
Alfred
Thank you both for the clarifications. Alfred: would a 101 national code within 20 hexes of Tokyo trigger kamikazes or 'emergency' LCUs? I assume that a 100 code within 20 hexes would trigger both the kamikazes as well as the LCU 'emergency' reinforcements?
For what it's worth, Ketoi Jima is 25 hexes; Paramushiro 30.
Thanks. I wasn't sure how that had shaken out, maybe focusing on the uncertainty of whether he was coming (with more) or going (pulling out).ORIGINAL: obvert
ORIGINAL: witpqs
CR pulled out the troops?ORIGINAL: HansBolter
Lackluster invasion attempt repelled.
Yep. All troops removed. Well, all that didn't perish on LSTs. Did I post that yet?
Oh, yeah, post #2015, Oct 13. Got a lot of tanks and arty in the pullback, but he eventually evacuated it all.