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Report 7:  The other (lower) half of R/D. I have been critizied for not converting some of these factories. My lack of experieced selection of frames for future ops causes me to pause.

This chart reminds me AI have an opportunity to bring in the myoko maybe a year early if I get to work on it.

report 8: I note a loss of 347 naval build points per turn. It is suggested I have too many naval points. Seems You use it or lose it.

report 9: Not much left on the cruiser list.

report 10:

report 11: oops, repeat.

I needed to make some changes to air production.
1.  turned on ha35 production.

2.  Converted one 30frame ki44IIa to ki44IIb.  This will give me 90 r/d per month.
3.  converted active ki48IIa to ki48IIb r/d.   Wanted to get the DB into the field.
4.  Used all the kubota engines so turned of the ki27 production.
5.  Converted ki67a peggy r/d to ki61a r/d.  This gives me 4 factories for the ki61a.  One will produce current model,  others will continue r/d on the ki61b..

7nov42.

I am scrounging around looking for 1/2 r/d factories to change r/d to d5y1myoko.   This is the grandson of the d3a1 val w/ an 800kg bomb.
Nominations for r/d discontinued are:
g8n1 Rita, --I really like 16 250kg payload, but will it be able to penetrate in 45?
ki95 recon---I am happy w/ the ki46, why pay extra.
ki83 2 eng ftr for 44, will the cannons really make a difference?
ki119 fb--come on---- 2 range?
p1y1 frances---do I really need another torp delivery system?  It does have armor in late 43.
ki74--lb---a 1945 2e level bomber--can I get by w/ the ki49 till end game?


AGAIN THIS IS ANOTHER MISTAKE...I SHOULD HAVE MADE THESE DECISIONS ON 1ST WEEK OF GAME FOR MAX EARLY ENTRY OF THESE WEAPONS.
Side note--I converted d5y1 myoko R/D to d3a2 val w/ current build of 1.  Then after fix at 1000 points I will inlarge factory to 30(cost 3000 supply) and convert back to d5y1 myoko r/d(at no cost).

I have been thinking about converting the sally factory to something else(size23) but to do so would cost 23000supply.  W/ this RA70 senario I suspect I will need the supply to fort up the centpac.  So If I cant get a conversion cheap then for me it is a no go!!!

I could put the sally factory into R/D something which IIRC would spread the cost out over a period of time.

I was looking thru tracker mid nov42 and found a few factories that need to be "repair off".  If not then cost is 1000supply points per repaired factory.

Yeah, conquered city factories on repair get me all the time. You have to be REALLY diligent on checking every turn when IJ is in expansion mode or you will be repairing resource and manpower factories that you prolly do not want to.

I was thinking about the number of total army and navy sqn's active in the field and in rear area training.

12xOscar
2xTojo
all in the field.

14 nate sqn's in training.

So 50% of all army fighter sqns are training.

Navy:
2x a5m4 cluade
4x a6m3b
1x a6m5
All in training 7 total

11x a6m2 carrier active
9x a6m3b field
5x a6m5   field

7 training
25 active

naval air pilot training ratio is 1 sqn training to 4 in the field.  This may be a problem...but carrier air is not as engaged as the field sqn's.

I will look at all catagories of  pilot training when I have time.

There are simply not enough Navy squadrons to dedicate to training... Particularly because you need Zeros and Betties on the frontline. Depending on how bold you are allowed to be with squadron resizing (I personally do resize and convert float fighter units to fighters, when I can, but do not resize units beyond the normal maximum kokutai size of 45), this bottleneck can be partially circumvented, but IJNAF still will be behind IJAAF in pilot reserves.

ORIGINAL: bigred

I am scrounging around looking for 1/2 r/d factories to change r/d to d5y1myoko.   This is the grandson of the d3a1 val w/ an 800kg bomb.
Nominations for r/d discontinued are:
g8n1 Rita, --I really like 16 250kg payload, but will it be able to penetrate in 45?
ki95 recon---I am happy w/ the ki46, why pay extra.
ki83 2 eng ftr for 44, will the cannons really make a difference?
ki119 fb--come on---- 2 range?
p1y1 frances---do I really need another torp delivery system?  It does have armor in late 43.
ki74--lb---a 1945 2e level bomber--can I get by w/ the ki49 till end game?

I'd advise you to build D4Y4 instead of D5Y. It has greater speed and range. 6 hexes is too little.

Ki-74 and G8N won't form the core of Japanese bomber forces (the latter due to cost of building them), but I think they have very useful niches.

I'm not sure if P1Y is better to have than G4M in Scen 70. I'm going to build both to test.

I agree about Ki-95 and Ki-119.

ORIGINAL: FatR

ORIGINAL: bigred

I am scrounging around looking for 1/2 r/d factories to change r/d to d5y1myoko.   This is the grandson of the d3a1 val w/ an 800kg bomb.
Nominations for r/d discontinued are:
g8n1 Rita, --I really like 16 250kg payload, but will it be able to penetrate in 45?
ki95 recon---I am happy w/ the ki46, why pay extra.
ki83 2 eng ftr for 44, will the cannons really make a difference?
ki119 fb--come on---- 2 range?
p1y1 frances---do I really need another torp delivery system?  It does have armor in late 43.
ki74--lb---a 1945 2e level bomber--can I get by w/ the ki49 till end game?

I'd advise you to build D4Y4 instead of D5Y. It has greater speed and range. 6 hexes is too little.

Ki-74 and G8N won't form the core of Japanese bomber forces (the latter due to cost of building them), but I think they have very useful niches.

I'm not sure if P1Y is better to have than G4M in Scen 70. I'm going to build both to test.

I agree about Ki-95 and Ki-119.

Thanks FatR. I also noticed the extra range on the judy... too bad the d4y4 is not in the development tree of the d4 series. Did u mention the d4y4 would be changed w/ the next upgrade to be in the tree?

ORIGINAL: bigred
Thanks FatR. I also noticed the extra range on the judy... too bad the d4y4 is not in the development tree of the d4 series. Did u mention the d4y4 would be changed w/ the next upgrade to be in the tree?

Yes, it will be.

Was looking thru my air production and noted a size 2 and size 6 A6M3b factory.  Next month the a6m4 arrives in this tree.  So I increased the size of these 2 factories to 30. In RA senario70 the a6m3b and all upgrades have armor. So important to get this out to the land based sqns.

We made it to 43.  These screen prints represent changes that need to occur.
I. I need to shut off Dinah, Emily, nell, jake, production.
2. Tony will have 3 factories advance research the b model.
3. 3x factories will advance the judy research.
4. 2x a6m3b factories will R/D the a6m4.
5. The a6m5b is in production so 3x factories will convert to a6m8.
6. Adjustments to engines will be made after the r/d conversion is made.

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