Turnaround? Lowpe (J) vs Tiemanj (A) Stock

[Lowpe]

Captain Matsunaga, 81 Naval 32 Aggression[X(], takes command of destroyer squadron 2 and will sweep into Trinkat tonight. I expect there might be a Fletcher force sweeping and barring that most likely more LCTs to sink, if the good Captain can be aggressive enough.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: obvert

Wow. No Frances!?!

Speed matters late.

I'll be curious if you even use the Betty past mid-44 other than for search and ASW.

Come on, the real question is can I make it to mid-44![:D]

I making the Peggy T for the Army for goodness sake!. I am also thinking about making the Lorna so the Navy will get something.[:'(]

Okay, the Navy will get large numbers of Grace.

[Lowpe]

I put my first Jack squadron into place...over Medan. It is a small squadron, only 18 planes, but a perfect place for them I think.

I now have 6 full squadrons of Lilly IIb or IIc.

I am moving all my Nicks over to the anti naval role as well.

I flew a sentai of Oscars into to Trinkat and set them to low naval to see if they will attack the LCTs...

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe
I thought the Ohka bug was fixed in the Beta? Mind-Messing has used them against me in stock Downfall...

Ohka problem have nothing to do with beta exe. It is database thing.
Ohka is produced offmap with hard coded production. In stock scenario at lest version i have there is a bug. Production is set to 0 monthly. I know that it was fixed in database updates available in forum.

[Lowpe]

Has anyone ever built the Ki51b? The very poor man's Il2?

I have two sentai of the first Sonia still around, broke them down to thirds and use them for close up recon in China. I would be tempted to make some for giggles, but they use the Nick C and D engine.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: koniu

ORIGINAL: Lowpe
I thought the Ohka bug was fixed in the Beta? Mind-Messing has used them against me in stock Downfall...

Ohka problem have nothing to do with beta exe. It is database thing.
Ohka is produced offmap with hard coded production. In stock scenario at lest version i have there is a bug. Production is set to 0 monthly. I know that it was fixed in database updates available in forum.

[:)]: I have plans for these guys!

[Lowpe]

I went back and checked Obvert vs Jocke's AAR and saw that he built close to 2000 Frances.[X(]

The other thing that stuck out was the almost 0 production of the Nick D (NF) and lack of any dedicated Kamikaze that I spotted. I should have the Myojo starting production next month thanks to the insane production levels my predecessor had in Vals.

I got to thinking how the Myojo would do as a ground bomber in China or against the Allied Tank Army approaching Indochina (since it has no AA)? How gamey would that be? Wonder if it would work?[:D]

[Lowpe]

Oct 18, 1943

No night bombing.

More mines at Trinkat.

Oscars strafing PT Boats...

[Lowpe]

Not good...he didn't follow orders.

[Lowpe]

Well, I only lose 1 destroyer, the one that hit a mine. The Destroyer TF broke into two with an Escort TF with 2 ships, but despite having plenty of movement both TF decided to stick around Trinkat instead of heading back south. Go figure.[8|] I guess I should look on the bright side and figure that the destroyer would have sunk because of the mine hit anyway. How come he never, ever, runs into any of my mines?[&:]

Everything would have worked out, but the Allies decide to bomb Trinkat today with 4Es and sweep. I did manage to bring down 4 Martlets, and 1 of most types of Allied bombers for a 17 Allied losses compared to 16 Japanese losses.

IJA Wipes out another Chinese units.

[Lowpe]

I am sweeping Port Blair this turn...I expect heavy plane losses, because I am sure that the Allies will bomb my bases I am staging from. 100 Georges and 200 Oscars on sweep from three bases. 40 Betties on naval strike, 30 on port strike escorted by another 100 Oscars. I had some Helens bombing the airfield but I put them on hold to how the rest of the attacks go today.

I had ruminated on throwing in the KB, but then got to thinking they would stage an afternoon strike, so I chickened out and will wait and see how poorly my sweeps go. I think I am fighting second string...we shall see.

Rangoon has started the evacuation, Toungoo captured by the Allies without a fight, everyone falling back to south of Pegu.

Would be nice if something worked.

Tomorrow I am going to stage my surface ships forward in the same position when I lost the Yamoto, but with proper TF ranking, and backed up by the KB things might be different. A lot rides on how riddled some of my air force is today although I have lots sitting in the wings resting.

I noticed that a some of the KBs planes are bounced into maintenance mode, and that was another reason why I couldn't pull the trigger.

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: koniu

ORIGINAL: Lowpe
I thought the Ohka bug was fixed in the Beta? Mind-Messing has used them against me in stock Downfall...

Ohka problem have nothing to do with beta exe. It is database thing.
Ohka is produced offmap with hard coded production. In stock scenario at lest version i have there is a bug. Production is set to 0 monthly. I know that it was fixed in database updates available in forum.

[:)]: I have plans for these guys!

Note that You will get only 540 Ohka 11, and 22 is available from December 1945.
So dont overproduce Ohka capable bombers.

[Lowpe]

Oct 19, 1943

Midget sub tangled in nets at Bombay...

No night attacks...

Heavy sweeps, hopefully, fly into Port Blair.

[Lowpe]

Torpedo bombers over Port Blair...

[Lowpe]

Banzai!

[Lowpe]

Cruisers, lots of cruiser!

[Lowpe]

Only one torpedo hit against 1 CA and 3 CL and 1 Destroyer...disappointing.

[Lowpe]

Should have sent the KB in[8|]

[Lowpe]

Meanwhile over in Indochina/Burma border troops are rushing forward to stop the Allied Tank Army in the jungle rough terrain. Maybe I can do it...as the American Infantry Division seems to be resting to the north. At least for a little while!

[Lowpe]

Over Port Blair, Japan loses less than 2-1 with most losses coming in the early port strike...

Looks like a Fletcher task force and a Light Cruiser task force....

Allied fighter strength cut in half.