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Ok, here I guess. British battleships are painful, my few air strikes I tries, targeted and relatively small in number were easily destroyed by the Allies. Have flown some good sweeps here in recent days.

SL really changes some of the ground war here.

Magwe producing full oil.

Pearl Harbor

The other area of Allied offensives...

Japanese Army losses about to skyrocket.

China,

54 units south of Chungking.

March 16, 1943

Swept Chittagong twice, with Tojo and Zekes. Each side lost around a dozen planes.

Here is the battle report for the Tojo sweep.

Morning Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 10 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 32

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 15
Hurricane IIc Trop x 35

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 30000 feet

CAP engaged:
No.17 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 29000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes
No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling)
3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 31550.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes
No.60 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 30000 and 31550.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes
No.258 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 28990 and 31000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes
No.273 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling)
3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 31550 and 35220.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes
No.615 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 31550.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes
No.261 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 29590 and 32000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes

I feel somewhat guilty for the outcome of your WC adventure Lowpe. This defeat belongs partly to me. Now, we are expecting to hear your plans for defending the Empire from the evil expansionists at the White house.

I was perusing my plane r&d, and I have three size 60 factories going after the Ki94ii.

I think Olorin set these up very early in the game. They are repaired to 23, 23, & 17 (out of a total of 60). Hence my supposition that there is really no point for Japan to r&d any plane later than the Frank A at game start.

Think of r&d in waves. First wave, 2nd wave, 3rd wave. Or possibly just 1st and 2nd wave.

ORIGINAL: Olorin

I feel somewhat guilty for the outcome of your WC adventure Lowpe. This defeat belongs partly to me. Now, we are expecting to hear your plans for defending the Empire from the evil expansionists at the White house.

I did it[:)], hoping to steal a march on Jocke. If he hadn't had 3+ divisions in San Diego the plan would have worked. In Hindsight I should have reconned the east coast better, but not sure how to do that without giving away everything.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I was perusing my plane r&d, and I have three size 60 factories going after the Ki94ii.

I think Olorin set these up very early in the game. They are repaired to 23, 23, & 17 (out of a total of 60). Hence my supposition that there is really no point for Japan to r&d any plane later than the Frank A at game start.

Think of r&d in waves. First wave, 2nd wave, 3rd wave. Or possibly just 1st and 2nd wave.

...I mean, I guess? That costs a s*ton of supplies, though. I mean granted - these size-60 could've been 2 generations of size-30 (really, when switching models it typically drops from 30 to 20 so you lose out on another 1000 supplies for expansion costs).

But those are half repaired "already." That's not awful. If you waited until you had the Frank-r before starting R&D on these, you'd be behind.

That said, I do think there's an argument to researching the 1942 and early 1943 planes first, and THEN setting up these late-war models for R&D, because you're only going to get maybe 5-6 points of repair in 1942 at best. But that's still better than zero points...

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: Olorin

I feel somewhat guilty for the outcome of your WC adventure Lowpe. This defeat belongs partly to me. Now, we are expecting to hear your plans for defending the Empire from the evil expansionists at the White house.

I did it[:)], hoping to steal a march on Jocke. If he hadn't had 3+ divisions in San Diego the plan would have worked. In Hindsight I should have reconned the east coast better, but not sure how to do that without giving away everything.

1. Look up his entire OOB via a game against the AI
2. Recon everywhere you can in CONUS and compare what you can see with what you know he could have at that date
3. Lots of guesswork to fill in the gaps


4. Don't invade CONUS in December 1942 [;)]. Gotta be way earlier to have a chance.

Bump.

In all fairness many players (present company included) do not build up and fortify CONUS bases in early 1942. They do now. Sometimes your greatest contributions to others is to serve as an example of what not to do. Honestly if you were playing me we would all be driving Toyotas. Good measure of hard luck on your part

May 3, 1943

Yes, Virginia, there are still Japanese troops on the West Coast. Will be for decades I fear as they have been ordered to fight to the last man and live off the land.

Cherry Blossom festivals across the Home Islands. Oh, Spring!

And new fighters gearing up! Optimism is in the air, surely the American Dogs will sue for peace since the successful Hollywood invasion! Think of it, for better than a year no Hollywood movies will be made.

Ah, Spring!

Despite a few minor inconveniences, the Empire is mighty!

NICE!

Bitter, brutal,fights at Akyab...as the Japanese give slowly back. Paoshan's days are numbered as several IJA Tank Divisions cross the river to the north. Opening this road is now a high priority, higher than taking the Changsha Production Triangle which is the only remaining Chinese positions. Well, they still have Urumchi but not for much longer.

Rather than stack a lot forward, there are quite a few divisions digging in on the off base jungle rough positions.

For a while the IJNAF was doing okay in sweeping, but then the Allies built their airbase too large. Our attempts to hit the shipping invariably got chewed up despite the large escorts so for now they are on hold.

The Allies are very methodical.

General game notes:

Allied submarines are fairly brutal, as I refuse to assign more than 3 small Sonia squadrons from the Army to ASW work. And the Army is upset about assigning them!

On the other hand, there has not been a single night raid for as long as I can remember. I do have the Endo Squadron somewhere in Burma protecting something important, but really they are simply creating the protocols for a fledgling night fighter program.

Alaska...slowly, very slowly pulling troops back and out.