I debated censoring these theater images so as not to include the areas in the east, but decided to risk it.
I realize that those troops are relying on supply coming overland on extremely difficult supply routes, as well as what little I may be able to drop by air, but my opponent won't know their supply status when I eventually reveal their presence, and it won't matter if he has nothing to oppose them.
Other than the general, slow IJA withdrawal, not a whole lot is happening here. I check movements every turn, but after failing to take advantage of my hex side control outside of Ramree it's mostly just recovering morale/supplies before I push onward.
Allied VPs are +1250, IJ VPs are about +750. Progress towards a 1:1 ratio, but not really making progress to the necessary 2:1 Allied ratio yet. Ratio now at 1.298:1 against, a change of +.021.
His air losses are about 690 to my 340.
We lost some ships in this period, but so did he... eventually anything around a 1:1 trade for me is a good strategic trade, as I will eventually be causing critical levels of attrition in his navy.
At some point during the spring of 1944, I decided to create a spreadsheet of all IJN ships of CL size and larger, to track what I could be facing at any given time (basically what's still alive). Coming up next...
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I don't have time to post the final sets of theater pictures and summaries before I need to head out, but I do have time to fire this off about "capital ship" developments.
By spring of 1944, with acceleration, it is possible to have built every single IJN ship of CL size and larger (well, other than CVL Ibuki really). Since their numbers are limited, I decided to track them by keeping a spreadsheet and using my notes (I typically note when a ship is definitely or probably sunk). Also, since I was doing these longer term updates, some of the day to day actions have larger implications. Here's the list of wanted suspects.
CV/CVL/CVE
CV Shokaku - sunk by submarine on January 10, 1944
The rest - at large, for now...
BB
BB Yamashiro - sunk by surface action on March 24, 1942
BB Hyuga - sunk by aerial forces on April 12, 1944
BB Yamato - sunk by successive submarine attacks on February 13, 1944 [:D]
BB Ise - possibly sunk in April, 1944, but probably still at large
BB Nagato - damaged until 1945
At large: Fuso, Mutsu, Kongo, Hiei, Kirishima, Haruna, Musashi
CA
CA Aoba - sunk on December 14, 1943
CA Myoko - sunk on January 2, 1944
CA Maya - sunk on August 26, 1942
CA Kako - sunk on April 12, 1944
CA Chokai - sunk on November 22, 1943
CA Takao - sunk on November 22, 1943
CA Kinugasa - sunk on January 11, 1943
CA Kumano - sunk on March 16, 1942
CA Haguro - possibly sunk on May 1, 1944
CA Mikuma, CA Suzuya - crippled at some point, but possibly alive
At large - Atago, Tone, Chikuma, Mogami, Ashigara, Furutaka, Nachi (7-10 left!)
CL
This one is easier to just list those not sunk:
Abukuma, Kushida, Ninaru, Rishiri, Sakawa, Tama, Teshio, Tokachi (8, 5 of which are modern Agano-class)
CL Oi and CL Nagara may not have been sunk. The other 19 are confirmed sunk through June 8, 1944.
In summary, the IJN cruiser forces are severely diminished. The carriers, as of May 1, 1944, are mostly untouched... the battleships are still around, and he uses them. Burns fuel.
Allied VPs are +1250, IJ VPs are about +750. Progress towards a 1:1 ratio, but not really making progress to the necessary 2:1 Allied ratio yet. Ratio now at 1.298:1 against, a change of +.021.
His air losses are about 690 to my 340.
We lost some ships in this period, but so did he... eventually anything around a 1:1 trade for me is a good strategic trade, as I will eventually be causing critical levels of attrition in his navy.
At some point during the spring of 1944, I decided to create a spreadsheet of all IJN ships of CL size and larger, to track what I could be facing at any given time (basically what's still alive). Coming up next...
You look to be on track for VPs.
As you move forward I find that Allied AA gets so good that you actually want to encourage some continued aggression on the part of the Japanese. The more you can place your fast DD especially in areas that they'll get some CAP coverage and are open to attack by Japanese forces, the better for you. I find in the endgame that the massive losses of Japanese planes and pilots both give you a great source of VPs, but also increase your pilot quality enormously. If you don't have a positive disparity in pilot quality, especially in fighter pilots, the endgame can be tough as 3rd gen IJ fighters take over.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
Allied VPs are +1250, IJ VPs are about +750. Progress towards a 1:1 ratio, but not really making progress to the necessary 2:1 Allied ratio yet. Ratio now at 1.298:1 against, a change of +.021.
His air losses are about 690 to my 340.
We lost some ships in this period, but so did he... eventually anything around a 1:1 trade for me is a good strategic trade, as I will eventually be causing critical levels of attrition in his navy.
At some point during the spring of 1944, I decided to create a spreadsheet of all IJN ships of CL size and larger, to track what I could be facing at any given time (basically what's still alive). Coming up next...
You look to be on track for VPs.
As you move forward I find that Allied AA gets so good that you actually want to encourage some continued aggression on the part of the Japanese. The more you can place your fast DD especially in areas that they'll get some CAP coverage and are open to attack by Japanese forces, the better for you. I find in the endgame that the massive losses of Japanese planes and pilots both give you a great source of VPs, but also increase your pilot quality enormously. If you don't have a positive disparity in pilot quality, especially in fighter pilots, the endgame can be tough as 3rd gen IJ fighters take over.
I'm on track for a marginal victory, yes, but I don't think there's any way I'm making 2:1 before September 1, 1945. I did not realize there was a mid-year cutoff on the decisive victory. The most probable result to me from where I sit now is an early January 1946 AV - enough time for the Soviets to really squeeze Japan, and if I can get supply there (or it has enough on its own) I may need to use their bases for strategic bombing with B-29s (which I assume is possible from 9/1/45 onwards).
In any case, I think I am already noticing pilot disparity. Sometimes he will get good results on a sweep, or my P-47s will not perform very well, but in most cases I am looking at good trades. The only reason plane VPs haven't been slanted more than 2:1 in my favor recently is that sometimes I lose a few dozen bombers (B-25s, or more often TBFs/TBMs from 90-plane squadrons).
Allied VPs are +1250, IJ VPs are about +750. Progress towards a 1:1 ratio, but not really making progress to the necessary 2:1 Allied ratio yet. Ratio now at 1.298:1 against, a change of +.021.
His air losses are about 690 to my 340.
We lost some ships in this period, but so did he... eventually anything around a 1:1 trade for me is a good strategic trade, as I will eventually be causing critical levels of attrition in his navy.
At some point during the spring of 1944, I decided to create a spreadsheet of all IJN ships of CL size and larger, to track what I could be facing at any given time (basically what's still alive). Coming up next...
You look to be on track for VPs.
As you move forward I find that Allied AA gets so good that you actually want to encourage some continued aggression on the part of the Japanese. The more you can place your fast DD especially in areas that they'll get some CAP coverage and are open to attack by Japanese forces, the better for you. I find in the endgame that the massive losses of Japanese planes and pilots both give you a great source of VPs, but also increase your pilot quality enormously. If you don't have a positive disparity in pilot quality, especially in fighter pilots, the endgame can be tough as 3rd gen IJ fighters take over.
I'm on track for a marginal victory, yes, but I don't think there's any way I'm making 2:1 before September 1, 1945. I did not realize there was a mid-year cutoff on the decisive victory. The most probable result to me from where I sit now is an early January 1946 AV - enough time for the Soviets to really squeeze Japan, and if I can get supply there (or it has enough on its own) I may need to use their bases for strategic bombing with B-29s (which I assume is possible from 9/1/45 onwards).
In any case, I think I am already noticing pilot disparity. Sometimes he will get good results on a sweep, or my P-47s will not perform very well, but in most cases I am looking at good trades. The only reason plane VPs haven't been slanted more than 2:1 in my favor recently is that sometimes I lose a few dozen bombers (B-25s, or more often TBFs/TBMs from 90-plane squadrons).
You're definitely in territory to achieve 2:1 by mid-July 1945, IMHO.
I've done some endgame study, and in my game with Jocke he was basically even around the turn of 45 and pulled to a 2:1 area by mid summer. Things go a lot faster after about mid-44. [;)]
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
As you move forward I find that Allied AA gets so good that you actually want to encourage some continued aggression on the part of the Japanese. The more you can place your fast DD especially in areas that they'll get some CAP coverage and are open to attack by Japanese forces, the better for you. I find in the endgame that the massive losses of Japanese planes and pilots both give you a great source of VPs, but also increase your pilot quality enormously. If you don't have a positive disparity in pilot quality, especially in fighter pilots, the endgame can be tough as 3rd gen IJ fighters take over.
I'm on track for a marginal victory, yes, but I don't think there's any way I'm making 2:1 before September 1, 1945. I did not realize there was a mid-year cutoff on the decisive victory. The most probable result to me from where I sit now is an early January 1946 AV - enough time for the Soviets to really squeeze Japan, and if I can get supply there (or it has enough on its own) I may need to use their bases for strategic bombing with B-29s (which I assume is possible from 9/1/45 onwards).
In any case, I think I am already noticing pilot disparity. Sometimes he will get good results on a sweep, or my P-47s will not perform very well, but in most cases I am looking at good trades. The only reason plane VPs haven't been slanted more than 2:1 in my favor recently is that sometimes I lose a few dozen bombers (B-25s, or more often TBFs/TBMs from 90-plane squadrons).
You're definitely in territory to achieve 2:1 by mid-July 1945, IMHO.
I've done some endgame study, and in my game with Jocke he was basically even around the turn of 45 and pulled to a 2:1 area by mid summer. Things go a lot faster after about mid-44. [;)]
Maybe my points of reference are off. There are lots of little bits that I haven't posted here (the SIGINT on units in the Marianas, for example). But my other game is in December 1944 and I'm at 1.5:1, with the IJ "permanent" VPs lower than in this game - no China capture in that game, so a few thousand LCU VPs there. In that game, everything SW of Luzon is in Allied hands. Even with Manila, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, I'm going to have to bomb the home islands to get over the top.
Strat bombing in this particular game is so very far off, and the level of resistance in the air is enormous. At some point I'm going to be seeing 81-plane IJNAF night fighter groups (put A6M5d-s on Akagi, resize...maybe split into 27's if he feels like it) which will interfere with my B-29s.
Once I get caught up to the current date (still at least another page of posts to go, starting in a few minutes), I'll look at some bigger picture things like aircraft pools, my available shipping/LCUs, maybe some of my plans, and some VP calculus.
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
I may need to use their bases for strategic bombing with B-29s (which I assume is possible from 9/1/45 onwards).
I believe you need to capture bases with a different country identifier. Alfred has a definitive thread on this somewhere.
I tried searching before, but came up empty. I've looked in the manual, and the manual just says you can't before Soviet activation. It says nothing either way for after activation. It would be nice to know beforehand, but I'll find out for sure on 9/1/45 when I try to transfer B-29s from the Aleutians [:'(].
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
I may need to use their bases for strategic bombing with B-29s (which I assume is possible from 9/1/45 onwards).
I believe you need to capture bases with a different country identifier. Alfred has a definitive thread on this somewhere.
Ah, another thought.
I suppose at the very least, I could change the command of some Soviet units before they march into Manchuria and then I could change the HQ of bases if necessary.
Biggest change here in these 2 weeks is that I have Prome and Toungoo. The vast bulk of my army is back outside Ramree - I decided to wait until they could be all together again, as I wasn't going to catch him leaving Rangoon in any case (the most forward elements are at Prome - he may have railed out to Pegu). I'm also landing at Port Blair on this day with relatively minimal forces. I have a handful of LSI(L), APA, and AP ships based out of Colombo for these small ops in the Andamans.
His Chinese Mountain forces are still just sitting around at Paoshan and Tsuyung. My Chinese berets, who have fantasies of liberating their homeland, don't appear to have been spotted.
I have reconned Kunming in the past. It is more lightly defended than either Paoshan or Tsuyung. I imagine all 3 places have plenty of forts, and so aren't worth trying to bash through IMO.
Not much change here either. Just progress. Nibbling here and there. The units that were holding Hollandia and then Vanimo were not suitable trashed when they retreated, so I am pursuing them into the jungle. I know this will take relative ages just to march back and forth, so don't plan to pursue more than one hex. I'll go in, trash them for real, and then leave so that I only need to leave a regiment behind at each base while I move forward. His troops can then starve in the jungle, where I'll eventually get VPs for them dying and he can't buy them back so soon.
I should mention that he has been suiciding units against my forces quite often, especially outside of Lae and Rabaul, and over at Saumlaki. I assume this is with the intent to rebuild them. Whatever costs him more supplies...
Lokasenna:
I tried searching before, but came up empty. I've looked in the manual, and the manual just says you can't before Soviet activation. It says nothing either way for after activation. It would be nice to know beforehand, but I'll find out for sure on 9/1/45 when I try to transfer B-29s from the Aleutians .
In my game I got the Soviets activated early. I cannot transfer any non-Soviet planes to actual Russian nationality bases, but no problem to transfer them to bases captured by the Russians. Look at Rashin and Seishin a couple of hexes west of Vladivostok.
No matter how bad a situation is, you can always make it worse. - Chris Hadfield : An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth
His Chinese Mountain forces are still just sitting around at Paoshan and Tsuyung. My Chinese berets, who have fantasies of liberating their homeland, don't appear to have been spotted.
You realize that Chinese troops crossing into Vietnam will trigger the Viet Minh reinforcements, right. The start out pretty weak but gather squads pretty quickly.
No matter how bad a situation is, you can always make it worse. - Chris Hadfield : An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth
His Chinese Mountain forces are still just sitting around at Paoshan and Tsuyung. My Chinese berets, who have fantasies of liberating their homeland, don't appear to have been spotted.
You realize that Chinese troops crossing into Vietnam will trigger the Viet Minh reinforcements, right. The start out pretty weak but gather squads pretty quickly.
Isn't there some kind of date - like a withdrawal date - after which they do not appear or something?
His Chinese Mountain forces are still just sitting around at Paoshan and Tsuyung. My Chinese berets, who have fantasies of liberating their homeland, don't appear to have been spotted.
You realize that Chinese troops crossing into Vietnam will trigger the Viet Minh reinforcements, right. The start out pretty weak but gather squads pretty quickly.
They are weak militia. No TOE, but they are static which is a nice little benefit.
His Chinese Mountain forces are still just sitting around at Paoshan and Tsuyung. My Chinese berets, who have fantasies of liberating their homeland, don't appear to have been spotted.
You realize that Chinese troops crossing into Vietnam will trigger the Viet Minh reinforcements, right. The start out pretty weak but gather squads pretty quickly.
Isn't there some kind of date - like a withdrawal date - after which they do not appear or something?
It's in 1943, I think. I'm OK at this point.
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
It is country code,and you cannot change it by any means short of hacking the editor.
You cannot transfer Allied non-Soviet air units to a Soviet base.
