What's your Strategy?
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Sorties numbers are comparable, and since Allies are now on the open terrain, you must push air offensive. You have time till around April, when Allies begin getting even more planes (and, most important - B29). Keep them from building forts. It would be nice, if you could get air superiority in few weeks, and then rout some units on land.ORIGINAL: PzB
I can easuly count 180 enemy LCUs in Burma now and 375 figthers swept Magwe before the bombers went in this turn.
800 Jap fighters have been deployed around Rangoon to counter the menace.
Heh, I checked SSXs, and it seems they have 12 (!) durability! I was counting on maybe 2? Smaller ROs have 20, and Is tends to have 24-33, so not much difference. It seems shallow is around 12-19 feet. Or less, and Midgets could have disadvantages even there.No idea Inq, guess a shallow hex is 50~ meters or so?
I was thinking about it. Generally, Allies should have been stronger in 1942-43, because they have to keep all units, but I am not sure about late war. Withdrawn air units tends to return in bigger size, and without withdrawals, I am guessing they will not resize, so remain small. So it is possible, that Allies will be actually weaker in late war, that they could have been WITH withdrawals. Also, quite a lots of British ships remained in the area, but again, some of them would return.With no air unit withdrawals I guess Allies got more squadrons than modern ac to man them with - much like us.
Strange situation, but battle was on very short distances, so we will see, what will happen under normal condiions.Allied destroyers attacked Rangoon for the first time; 4 of them engaged 6 of ours.
Has been a severe drop in efficiency lately, again we could hardly hit the enemy ships while on of ours was set on fire and later sank.
Another old destroyer that was lost, but 4 were modern.
You should try to deblockade this cut-off Division. Maybe dropping para unit, and marching, to reclaim hexside?What do you think, how should we deploy our divisions in Burma now?
Have to bottle up the left flank with 4000 enemy AV - this is their main force.
It will be possible for 3000 enemy AV to move both east and south from basin, but this should be easier to contain.
So I think our reserves should be positioned at or near Toungoo.
ORIGINAL: PzB
A new E class patrol vessel will shortly be commissioned. Oh woe to Allied subs then, can't understand that Japan didn't erase all US subs with such vessels in their inventory [8|]
Optimally you should use an island (Ambon?), but keeping fuel not at land mass is pretty risky, so Davao seems to be best option.ORIGINAL: PzB
I'm planning to move Combined Fleet HQ to Mindanao and Davao.
I've been building a strong infrastructure here and Manila has 360k units of fuel, size 9 / 9 AF - Ports.
Other supporting bases are also being expanded to size 9.
Plan is to have our full strength fleet in a safe and central location that will enable it to quickly react to any Allied incursions into our primary defense zones.
- SRA, Philippines, Marianas
What do you think about such a move?