RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak)

[Bif1961]

Congrats on taking Bataan so quickly. Does he still hold Manila?

[RangerJoe]

Fly over Rangoon at 11,000 feet to avoid the light flak.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

i think i broke my game....
my fighters look like this

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

and my bombers like this

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

bombing accuracy?

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Congrats on taking Bataan so quickly. Does he still hold Manila?

Hi Bif,

thanks. here's the picture. he's retaken aparri, batangas and Vigan after i moved troops out.

[RangerJoe]

Never set your fighters on CAP at 100%, it wears them out. They are not training either. If you want them to train, you have to set that. The unit also needs more pilots. If nothing else, put in rookies and set the training % to 30 or so.

Your bombers are not training, their percentage training is ZERO! [X(] Split the unit into thirds, give each third replacements, give them fighter escort. The same fighter unit can do 30% CAP and 10% LRCAP on the same target as the bombers, especially if the target has fighters based there. Don't give the enemy free points.

When air units are only training, set the range to zero.

Use paratroopers to grab those small bases, then use Fast Transports to pick them up and invade somewhere else. You only need 1 AV to grab an unoccupied base.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

Hi Joe,

thanks for all the great hints. I was just looking at my airgroups and planning what to do next after batan fell.

i looked at some of my bomber groups and their bombing accuracy was less than 10%.

then i looked at some of my fighter groups and their bombing acccuracy was over 90%.

i just thought that was too funny.

BTW if i upgrade some of my light bombers with 90% bombing accuracy to sallys will that affect that number?

[RangerJoe]

No but you don't have enough Sallies. Use the light bombers for training and in China.

[jdsrae]

Your 14th Sentai has taken a fair few losses to enemy fighters.
That tells me that they’ve found it hard to bomb accurately because they’ve been busy trying to dodge incoming .50 cal rounds

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

ORIGINAL: jdsrae

Your 14th Sentai has taken a fair few losses to enemy fighters.
That tells me that they’ve found it hard to bomb accurately because they’ve been busy trying to dodge incoming .50 cal rounds

they bore the brunt of my air attacks on manila, clark field and bataan.

but a lot of those were due to high commands mistake of setting altitude to 6,000 when i thought i was issuing orders to another group attack undefended bases. i was given hard labor

i take that back. you're right most of that is A2A.

no operator error - not blatent anyway- drinks all around

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

can anybody tell me what significance bombing accuracy has on future strikes. Does it only reflect the accuracy the unit has had so far in the game and has no predictive value whatsoever? and please hans don't tell me to read the manual because during this lull i have read it front to back and front again.

[RangerJoe]

I think that it is more something of a player interest thing although it can also be used to suggest more training. RTFM is always a good thing to do, even as a refresher.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

thanks joe.

Do major skills work the same way. they are just a reflection of how the current pilots have trained or is there some way that major skills are used to determine future results

[RangerJoe]

The skill are what you need for them to be effective in combat. So train your pilots accordingly. The experience is harder to gain because a lot of that is general flying experience but that helps them survive and not be an ops loss.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

thanks joe - sometimes (most times) i don't make myself clear

take these two groups of ann bombers

If you completely ignore the pilots currently in the group!!!!

Let say i replace all the pilots in each group

would one of these groups naturally be better at low level bombing?

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

a

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

or b

[jdsrae]

This is my assumption, I believe that the “major skills” are just a summary of what the current pilots are good at.
So if you swap out all pilots for rookies, then run the turn, I wager 2 South Pacific Shellbits that those major skills disappear.
I’ll get a chance to test this in my game shortly, but I don’t believe the group keeps those skills if you swap the pilots out for untrained rookies.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

ORIGINAL: jdsrae

This is my assumption, I believe that the “major skills” are just a summary of what the current pilots are good at.
So if you swap out all pilots for rookies, then run the turn, I wager 2 South Pacific Shellbits that those major skills disappear.
I’ll get a chance to test this in my game shortly, but I don’t believe the group keeps those skills if you swap the pilots out for untrained rookies.

Thanks jdsrae.

that was my thoughts after joe told me about the bombing accuracy. lots of good info. but not a useful tool to gain an advantage. and boy do i need some.