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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Quite a few P40E around Singapore...and they are beefed up in this mod I think and quite nasty. I don't think the Oscar Ic at a blistering 308 mph can dance with these puppies and live to tell about it.

Allies are using Lightnings as CAP over Singers now...I think they are the high part of his layered CAP.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

quantity has a merit of its own, so with enough Oscar I think you could effectively sweep. But you are reporting +200 aircraft at Singers. I would want 2:1 min sweep ratio going against P40/P38 CAP, so ... that's a lot of Oscar that I'm pretty sure you don't have.
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No thanks, can't afford Oscar Ic sweeping... Oscar Ic won't sweep anywhere outside of Soviets or LRCAP likely bases.

The tide will turn, for a while.

ORIGINAL: Alfred



Not necessarily true.[:)]

I regularly read posts which claim that speed is the only variable that really matters in air to air combat. These disciples will always view a 308 mph max plane as being dead meat against a 374 mph max plane. This however is not how the combat algorithms operate. The importance of the other variables is always downplayed by these advocates.

The most important thing to note is that an aircraft's max speed is simply that, the maximum potential speed at the point of combat. It is not necessarily the speed flown at the point of combat. There is absolutely no guarantee that at the point of combat the Warhawk will be flying faster than the Oscar. The other variables will impact on the actual speed achieved by both planes at the point of combat. Also do not forget that the other variables are factored in to the combat algorithms to determine whether a hit is actually achieved and the degree of impact which results.

Experten can fly aircraft which on paper are inferior and still hold their own against far superior enemy airframes which are not flown by enemy experten. Even the most "inferior" airframe will usually have some design features which are not completely outclassed by the comparable design features of the enemy "superior" airframe. Maximising the design features together with the pilot attributes can go a long way to reducing (or even inverting) the speed at the point of combat.

Alfred

ORIGINAL: Alfred
A side benefit of the parked sub is that it will also adversely impact on enemy industrial production.

Alfred

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: Alfred
A side benefit of the parked sub is that it will also adversely impact on enemy industrial production.

Alfred

You have to elaborate on that comment! That is news to me! Please, with sugar on top.[:)]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

So, I broke down and started a new tracker file today.

I exported a spreadsheet, did a few formulae, and I am down 436 fighters from a peak possible of 1303. Now probably 130 of them will go Nick A, but it is still a lot. I haven't done any supersizing of fighter groups, I think the largest I have expanded them was to 27 (I confirmed this). I suspect I will revisit that decision, but without the planes, it is a moot point (except for pilot training). So that gives me two size 45 Zero squadrons, then four 36 with the rest size 27 or smaller.

Claudes and Nates perform quite a bit of function for me even at this date...mostly providing the Allies with easy kills.[:D]

I was going to go Nell over Betty in this game and the incredibly long legged G3M3 arrives next month[:)]. She takes the Ha33 engine, while the Ha32 (Betty) is being reserved for Jack! I have 401 of those puppies in the pool, engines not Jack, and will easily have 500 for the engine bonus on Jack, and will get the J2M5 super early -- easily early 1943.

A quad cannon, 400+mph fighter lets say in 12 months -- should arrive with the Frank or a little earlier or later depending on the repair. The base Jack should arrive Dec of 42 I think or earlier, and I supersized one of the facilities so production will start at 200 a month. I might decide to accelerate the J2M3 with its SR2 instead of jumping right to the J2M5. Not sure, the J2M5 is better at altitude, a one hex better normal range (but shorter drop tank ranges).

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

I think pilots are selected randomly, with some check for fatigue. More fatigued pilots are less likely to fly missions, at the least. Assuming you have more pilots than planes.

Also, it's hard for you to tell which pilots are being selected each turn in a CAP 20/Train 80 squadron. You can look at which ones increased that turn, but it's also possible some lower-skill pilots flew but didn't increase skill. I also suspect pilots with lower overall skill numbers are more likely to gain an increase in a skill, so lower-skilled pilots may appear to be flying more often when really it is just that their skills are increasing more often (because it is more likely to increase).

Thanks, I think that jives with my observations. I will keep an eye on it, and perhaps post another screen shot of the unit down the road. The number of missions flown will show the selection of pilots.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Afternoon strike, very few planes sortied here, because of the nasty weather in both the departure hex and the arrival hex.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

These guys have been nasty all game.