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ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: MrBlizzard

ORIGINAL: MrKane

Well ...

Currently Sep '42  RA scenario:
127 C-47 & C-33 etc.       x 3       = 381
121 B-17                        x 3       =  363
58 B-26 & B-25               x 2       = 116
71 Blenheim                   x 1        = 71
33 A-29                         x 1         = 33 
23 Wellington                 x 2         = 46    
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                                                 = 1010

however I am using planes with 30% rest settings so actual number is reduced by 30%

This sounds familiar Tom...[;)]
Jocke I can confirm you that Tom's chinese army is never without supplies. Some chinese corps have increased till 450, 500 AV in september '42...[X(]
The Chinese resistence has become stiff also with all Manchukuo thanks in action...
This is a very good advice for any Allied player

So it's possible to get to 70% of 1k/day but at quite an opportunity cost and only if you can protect Ledo, Dimapur, Jorhat in 42 as well as your destination bases.

Some of my troops in China were at 400-500 simply through lack of combat without any extra supplies by the summer of 42. It doesn't cost supplies to repair disablements, and the majority of big Corps are 50% disabled when the game starts.

So to be able to do this firstly your opponent can't attack India.

Secondly you have to put all of your best bombers into bases within range of the IJA and hope for the best when you still are not close to being able to control the skies. Seems like a good recipe for a disastrous counter. This assumes your opponent lets you build bases big enough to host the planes to do this in the first place. With your Blenheims you'll be flying max range and likely only able to reach the mountains, so those will suffer over time.

Thirdly you have to get all of these planes here, by which point your opponent may have broken through in China anyway. If I remember correctly Mr Kane was already in Chungking against Jocke in July!!! So a much smaller number of planes would have been feeding these supplies into China earlier and at risk of heavy ops losses or losses to Japanese LR CAP once within range.

So assuming complete non-action by the Japanese player it is indeed possible to get 70% of 1k supply into China by late summer 42 (for a short term duration, although with ops losses that will diminish over time), although still at a high opportunity cost, not to mention actual VP cost of lost airframes.

Now, if the Japanese player isn't pushing so hard in CBI that this kind of supply situation works, then it's probably not needed anyway and those bombers are better off training pilots for the future or hitting other targets as they are available, possibly in other theaters entirely.

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

I agree with your observations, but would shorten the post to "121 B-17s hauling supplies?! Huh?!!!!"

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

I agree with your observations, but would shorten the post to "121 B-17s hauling supplies?! Huh?!!!!"

Agree, although I don't think it's a terrible use for the ones that start in the PI. Those withdraw after June '42 anyway. I'd still use them for periodic bombing missions, but...

ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

Joc, are you watching season 4? Just got the blu rey and we've been watching every evening! I luv it....

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Yeah, tried that before. I can get small amounts flowing into China that way. But people seem to be talking about 6 figure digits while I manage 3 digit numbers... can´t get it to work properly. [:(]Either it flows back to Rangoon or back into India. Can never get any big numbers across the mountains.

ORIGINAL: Sangeli

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Yeah, tried that before. I can get small amounts flowing into China that way. But people seem to be talking about 6 figure digits while I manage 3 digit numbers... can´t get it to work properly. [:(]Either it flows back to Rangoon or back into India. Can never get any big numbers across the mountains.

Ya, I too have issues actually seeing the supply stockpiles build up from my larger ones in Burma. I've tried using the supply stockpile mechanics but that doesn't seem to do much. That being said, when I actually look at what I have in China I know the Burma road is working. My hypothesis is that the 500 supply that gets added to Tsuyung is immediately sent to other Chinese cities and troops such that you can't really notice the supply actually arriving.

ORIGINAL: obvert
This did used to work in stock, but I think the various changes in the betas have done something to restrict the movements through the mountain bases especially. Although it was nice, it also was pretty fantastical to get so much going up this road.