::Felix, Ferdinand and FRUPAC:: obvert (A) v Greyjoy (J)

[Richard III]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: obvert
Well, the bombardment of Hyderabad goes about as well as the air strikes. I tried first with the whole stack, all units being fortified with 1-2 forts, and with decent experience in the 50-70 range. I ended up with significantly higher casualties in spite of having nearly double the guns in the hex.

Next I tried an arty unit only bombardment. This was even worse, resulting in almost 30 guns destroyed, luckily most of them 3.7" mountains guns, not the 25 pounder. Unfortunately I accidentally left these on for a day two which was more of the same. [:-]

I have a lot of good 4.5" and 18 and 25 pounder guns in hex, and the units have decent experience. He could be very well fortified here, but still this seems extreme.

What am I not doing, or what am I not doing well?

I had an even worse experience than yours, and it was explained to me to be some type of register error. So I made sure I shut the computer down between turns. Normally, I had been simply letting it sleep with the game on. Of course this strategy is a pain with restarting Tracker...but I have not suffered another horrible bombardment.

Your sangfroid is truly impressive...I can't say how impressed I am with your play this game; and your opponents. Truly great fun reading the AARs. [&o]

Good to know that works ?? , had the same issue in an old PBEM, wrecked the game for us.

I concur, it`s a wonderful AAR.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: obvert
Well, the bombardment of Hyderabad goes about as well as the air strikes. I tried first with the whole stack, all units being fortified with 1-2 forts, and with decent experience in the 50-70 range. I ended up with significantly higher casualties in spite of having nearly double the guns in the hex.

Next I tried an arty unit only bombardment. This was even worse, resulting in almost 30 guns destroyed, luckily most of them 3.7" mountains guns, not the 25 pounder. Unfortunately I accidentally left these on for a day two which was more of the same. [:-]

I have a lot of good 4.5" and 18 and 25 pounder guns in hex, and the units have decent experience. He could be very well fortified here, but still this seems extreme.

What am I not doing, or what am I not doing well?

I had an even worse experience than yours, and it was explained to me to be some type of register error. So I made sure I shut the computer down between turns. Normally, I had been simply letting it sleep with the game on. Of course this strategy is a pain with restarting Tracker...but I have not suffered another horrible bombardment.

Your sangfroid is truly impressive...I can't say how impressed I am with your play this game; and your opponents. Truly great fun reading the AARs. [&o]

Thanks Lowpe! That's good to know. I'll switch it off and restart. I thought something had to be going wrong there, as he has so many fewer guns in the hex.

I wish I'd had more time lately. A few surprises coming in the AAR soon if I can finally get the time. I'm not giving the whole picture and need some more rounded updates from time to time. [;)]

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[font="Times New Roman"]August 25, 1942[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] Well, the attack doesn't come off as hoped near Hyderabad, but it's not terrible either. The troops get a 1:1 and dish out a bit more to the IJA than they take. I'm just slightly overstocked in the hex (62k/55k) and need to clear some troops out before the next attack. I think this led to a higher level of disruption here, but supply is still above needed.

I'll move out troops from Hyderabad, but only one Aussie division in reserve mode to try for an attack in two turns after clearing out some space by moving a few armor units and AA out. We'll see if Nick moves in the second division. If so this could get very interesting.

Our bombing on the unit near Warangal shows it to be the 48th division! Nice. About 50 disablements from the bombing today and a few more destroyed, so I'll now stop that part and see how his air forces react.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]Pacific: [/font] Got engineers in Ndeni and things are flowing all over the Central Pacific. I'l move bombers into Arorae soon as it's about to get to a level 4 field. Then I'll start hitting Tarawa. Need more Marine fighter units here, but everything is still scarce. Thinking about Guadalcanal and I realize how much of a shoestring it was hang in on for a while.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] The IJA launches a DA at 78,51 (near Chihkiang) and this time Chinese losses are nearly as bad as those for the IJA. Glad I started another 650AV of fresh troops in last turn. I'll evac one Corps that's totally shot and another at only 60AV, an these last two new ones will have to hold for a few weeks at least. I don't have many other good units to add and I'll have to start some around from Chengteh.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SIGINT:[/font] Still get messages that Japanese units are planning for Sian. It's weird since nothing has happened here in six months. Especially since it's a tank regiment. I'd think they'd be down in the center pounding away. I've still got 1850AV in Sian and 4 forts forts, and the units are all rested up and well experienced. Up in the NW there are a lot of incredibly tough road blocks toward Lanchow. I don't think he'll be able to get up there anytime soon, which is great. That makes up a bit for the Japanese getting the oil at Lashio. They haven't got it in China.

[font="Trebuchet MS"]15th Tank Regiment is planning for an attack on Sian.[/font]

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR August 25, 42
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Morning Air attack on 48th Division, at 39,33 , near Hyderabad

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
P-43A-1 Lancer x 6
Blenheim IV x 29
B-26B Marauder x 10
P-38F Lightning x 9

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
220 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Blenheim IV bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb

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Ground combat at 78,51 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 32627 troops, 420 guns, 992 vehicles, Assault Value = 1084

Defending force 40242 troops, 200 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 873

Japanese adjusted assault: 792

Allied adjusted defense: 1498

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1475 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 141 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Vehicles lost 35 (2 destroyed, 33 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1171 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 150 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)

Assaulting units:
39th Division
18th Tank Regiment
15th Tank Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
40th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
12th Tank Regiment
19th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
13th Army
13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
4th Mortar Battalion
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion

Defending units:
65th Chinese Corps
44th Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
9th Prov Chinese Corps
86th Chinese Corps

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Ground combat at 38,31 (near Hyderabad)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 48777 troops, 810 guns, 1065 vehicles, Assault Value = 1579

Defending force 13521 troops, 271 guns, 199 vehicles, Assault Value = 329

Allied adjusted assault: 1240

Japanese adjusted defense: 1165

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+) British divisional generals suck! I can't seem to find a decent one in the bunch. The leadership is either terrible or their aggression is in the 40s. The Japanese have a seemingly endless supply of good leaders at this level, and I'm surprised by those on the Allied side. Maybe, hopefully, some better ones arrive later in the war.

Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1321 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 61 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 37 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 78 (20 destroyed, 58 disabled)
Vehicles lost 47 (20 destroyed, 27 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
740 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 35 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 24 (4 destroyed, 20 disabled)
Vehicles lost 67 (10 destroyed, 57 disabled)

Assaulting units:
7th Armoured Brigade
44th Cavalry Regiment
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
7th Australian Division
70th British Division
762nd Tank Battalion
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
I Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
2nd British Division
6th Medium Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
64th Coast AA Regiment
260th Coast AA Regiment
98th Coast AA Regiment
251st Coast AA Regiment
85th British AT Gun Regiment

Defending units:
21st Division
14th Tank Regiment
50th Field AA Battalion
31st Fld AA Gun Co
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
26th Fld AA Gun Co
45th Field AA Battalion
4th Air Defense AA Regiment
45th Ind.AA Gun Co
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th RF Gun Battalion


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[font="Trebuchet MS"]The M10 TD unit operating in India is doing really well. Japanese tanks don't really stand a chance against their guns, and they've so far proven durable. [/font]

[JohnDillworth]

It's getting to the time in the war where the essentially unlimited Allied supply begins to come into play. Not so sure the Japanese can entirely "live off the land here" and go for weeks and weeks in a protracted land war. Between here and China he is burning supply and that means less things he can build later. As long as you are not draining your pools device pools keep it up. Get some American troops in if you can, they have much deeper manpower reserves

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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

It's getting to the time in the war where the essentially unlimited Allied supply begins to come into play. Not so sure the Japanese can entirely "live off the land here" and go for weeks and weeks in a protracted land war. Between here and China he is burning supply and that means less things he can build later. As long as you are not draining your pools device pools keep it up. Get some American troops in if you can, they have much deeper manpower reserves

This is the goal for sure. I'd like him to fight in India. It'll take a lot of supply to replenish groups, take replacements and launch attacks. Some of that is going to be produced in India, but he's hurt somewhat by the lack of industry in Calcutta after the battle there. My troops being in Hyderabad also should keep that from producing, so that is a significant chunk as well.

The devices have risen ever so slightly of late, and the Indian army is now going to start filling out for real.

[JocMeister]

Odd, I never had a problem with finding good British leaders that I can remember? Go through the smaller units and see if you have any stuck there?

Regarding the M10 its awesome. [:)]

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Odd, I never had a problem with finding good British leaders that I can remember? Go through the smaller units and see if you have any stuck there?

Regarding the M10 its awesome. [:)]

I'll have a look. It seems I've gone through many of them and I'm struggling at all levels of command to find decent skills for the Brits and Indians. Even the Aussies don't have many good ones. So far I've found enough of the good US leaders for LCUs.

I want Land skill, Leadership, Inspiration and Aggression all above 60, and that's been much harder to find on the Allied side. (Of course for the Chinese I'd be happy with 50 across the board). [:D] For the Japanese side I could often get above 70 in most of the categories, especially for the most experienced or important units, like tank divisions.

[JocMeister]

Sounds like you are a bit spoiled with you leaders from playing Japan! With those kind of requirements I can understand you are struggling to find them! [X(]

You need to start compromising a bit I think! [:D]

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Sounds like you are a bit spoiled with you leaders from playing Japan! With those kind of requirements I can understand you are struggling to find them! [X(]

You need to start compromising a bit I think! [:D]

When I get home I'll pop up a screenie of the leaders for each side. It's pretty interesting. It's like the British somehow had less experience fighting wars (and training officers) than the Japanese!?! [X(]

Even West Point suffers by comparison. Maybe this is one reason many of my divisions held up so well against yours in Burma well after the time they should have had major disadvantages due to equipment and device upgrades. This may portray the ultra-patriotic pride of Japanese units that would fight with everything to the end in spite of knowing it was already lost.

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[font="Times New Roman"]August 26, 1942[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] New units are pouring into Hyderabad. Mine are all heading out. I think he'll attack here soon, realizing my best units are out trying to mess up his two divisions. This could be dicey, as it'll take another day to move out all of the stuff here.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]Pacific: [/font] Some subs are taking DL rises to 10/10 near Ponape, so I wonder if the KB is hanging out around here or if he has a bunch of search/ASW there? I've now mined Kaveing to try to catch things leaving the Rabaul area, and will hit a few more spots soon with four subs laying the little presents.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] In the turn it looked like troops near Chikhiang had made another heroic stand. After, seeing the turn file report, I realized it was yet another sync bug mirage. The 1:2 hold turned into a 1:1 debacle with over 300 squads disabled and 100+ destroyed. [:(]

Still, the was with the two units just moved in only in reserve mode, and since there was no retreat or danger of losing the hex from a 1:1 that 600AV did not take part. They'll go into combat now and another 200 AV unit will move in. It would take miracle to hold longer here, but maybe, just maybe it could be possible if he goes to quickly and wears his troops down and if mine can keep some supply.

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR August 26, 42
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Ground combat at 78,51 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 32350 troops, 420 guns, 991 vehicles, Assault Value = 1036

Defending force 57264 troops, 279 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1377

Japanese adjusted assault: 621

Allied adjusted defense: 331

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
280 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 28 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 24 (2 destroyed, 22 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
4574 casualties reported
Squads: 105 destroyed, 273 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 44 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 18 disabled
Guns lost 51 (8 destroyed, 43 disabled)

Assaulting units:
13th Tank Regiment
40th Division
39th Division
15th Tank Regiment
12th Tank Regiment
18th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
19th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
4th Mortar Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
13th Army
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion

Defending units:
65th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
86th Chinese Corps
44th Chinese Corps
31st Chinese Corps
9th Prov Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps

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[font="Trebuchet MS"]These little guys are not quite doing the trick in China! [:D][/font]

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[font="Times New Roman"]LCU LEADERS[/font]

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Here are some examples of the 'leaders' available to the British and Aussie forces for major LCU units in mid-42. It's pretty abysmal, at least if you get used to what is on the Japanese side for a few years.

I've included below some leaders from 10/42 on the Japanese side (from PBEM Scen 1 with Jocke), and this is after filling out all of my frontline units with the best available.

The adjustment to the Allied side is finally taking hold, but I now understand why so many players don't do much in 42. It's hard to capitalize on opportunities when the quality of troops and leaders is so low and the availability of the best devices is a slow trickle. It's just as important as understanding the limiting factors on the other side caused by the balance of fuel and industrial capacity.

I'm also starting to understand how to take advantage of these limitations, and the Japanese player always runs the risk of pushing their luck too long. Giving them a sense of security in their extended Empire by struggling to move forward in 42 could actually create more good options in 43 when the stuff real begins to flow from the queues. It's not much fun to flail around trying this and that for a year with minimal success, but I guess that's probably how leaders felt in the war, so I'd better get used to it. [:)]

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

It's getting to the time in the war where the essentially unlimited Allied supply begins to come into play. Not so sure the Japanese can entirely "live off the land here" and go for weeks and weeks in a protracted land war. Between here and China he is burning supply and that means less things he can build later. As long as you are not draining your pools device pools keep it up. Get some American troops in if you can, they have much deeper manpower reserves

Totally agree with John here. I just don't think heavy fighting in two major land theaters is sustainable given the Japanese economy. You won't know the results til the end of 44 but this has been my experience.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Odd, I never had a problem with finding good British leaders that I can remember? Go through the smaller units and see if you have any stuck there?

Regarding the M10 its awesome. [:)]

Problem is they have a zero replacement rate until mid 1943. I think I will take the one that comes on in Pearl Harbor and move it to the US for disbanding. The unit will come back before the replacements starts anyway and I will have some tanks in my pools to flesh out losses. But yes, they belong in India.

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Odd, I never had a problem with finding good British leaders that I can remember? Go through the smaller units and see if you have any stuck there?

Regarding the M10 its awesome. [:)]

Problem is they have a zero replacement rate until mid 1943. I think I will take the one that comes on in Pearl Harbor and move it to the US for disbanding. The unit will come back before the replacements starts anyway and I will have some tanks in my pools to flesh out losses. But yes, they belong in India.

Good idea. I'll do the same. Need some now!

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Sounds like you are a bit spoiled with you leaders from playing Japan! With those kind of requirements I can understand you are struggling to find them! [X(]

You need to start compromising a bit I think! [:D]

When I get home I'll pop up a screenie of the leaders for each side. It's pretty interesting. It's like the British somehow had less experience fighting wars (and training officers) than the Japanese!?! [X(]

Even West Point suffers by comparison. Maybe this is one reason many of my divisions held up so well against yours in Burma well after the time they should have had major disadvantages due to equipment and device upgrades. This may portray the ultra-patriotic pride of Japanese units that would fight with everything to the end in spite of knowing it was already lost.

In 1942 Britain was still fighting for her life in Europe. Burma/India had been a backwater since the war began in 1939, and the leaders/troops assigned there were definitely inexperienced, undertrained, poorly equipped and under-led. I think the game reflects this reality well.

[Wuffer]

ORIGINAL: obvert


Good idea. I'll do the same.

I love your style.
Allways thinking, trying and learning.
Even a minor perational desaster becomes a long time strategic win, because next time you will considering a complete different experiment.
Operational art .

But most I love your signiture.
Everytime I'm really p1zzed with work, I start reading AArs.

I did not read every word in your JapsDAR, but I got impressed by my feelings as a reader, when the Allied bombers were coming every day, every night, every day. and no supply. nothing.

btw, I didn't know before that the japanese experimented with such weird, big rockets, too. Thx god they didn't ever mount them under the wings of their fighters, as the germans did with 81mm mortars.

Therefore you will only find idiots in your officer's club.
Anybody useful is fighting in Europe, and quite busy defending England atm. Against the Germans and their greater Imperium, sometimes against Imperio novo, a bit at least.

But Rommel was an idiot.
An operational genius, but w/o any strategic sense. They planned the biggest attack in their mind, Moscwa, and this guy started to mess up a total secondary front, battle hardened the Allies, and everyone started to ask why, oh why the Germans don't send him another division... in spring 1941.

You are in an exellent position. Valor moghulis, or in other words Japan not only detected the problems of a zweifrontenkrieg , but becomes very aware of the bomb ticking in China. He can't retreat by will. He must keep China isolated at any means. Yeah, a mess.
So many bases now.
So many trashed divisions.

Just don't repeat Rommel's (and Canoerebel's) mistakes. Limited warfare for a while, and mass attacks only with obsolete crap. Or at least americans, until you have more good tanks than man.

Did I say I love your signature?
But as I saw this beautiful pic of a 38 flying home after visiting Mt.Fuji I became even more impressed by your PSYOPs...

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ORIGINAL: Wuffer

ORIGINAL: obvert


Good idea. I'll do the same.

I love your style.
Allways thinking, trying and learning.
Even a minor perational desaster becomes a long time strategic win, because next time you will considering a complete different experiment.
Operational art .

But most I love your signiture.
Everytime I'm really p1zzed with work, I start reading AArs.

I did not read every word in your JapsDAR, but I got impressed by my feelings as a reader, when the Allied bombers were coming every day, every night, every day. and no supply. nothing.

btw, I didn't know before that the japanese experimented with such weird, big rockets, too. Thx god they didn't ever mount them under the wings of their fighters, as the germans did with 81mm mortars.

Therefore you will only find idiots in your officer's club.
Anybody useful is fighting in Europe, and quite busy defending England atm. Against the Germans and their greater Imperium, sometimes against Imperio novo, a bit at least.

But Rommel was an idiot.
An operational genius, but w/o any strategic sense. They planned the biggest attack in their mind, Moscwa, and this guy started to mess up a total secondary front, battle hardened the Allies, and everyone started to ask why, oh why the Germans don't send him another division... in spring 1941.

You are in an exellent position. Valor moghulis, or in other words Japan not only detected the problems of a zweifrontenkrieg , but becomes very aware of the bomb ticking in China. He can't retreat by will. He must keep China isolated at any means. Yeah, a mess.
So many bases now.
So many trashed divisions.

Just don't repeat Rommel's (and Canoerebel's) mistakes. Limited warfare for a while, and mass attacks only with obsolete crap. Or at least americans, until you have more good tanks than man.

Did I say I love your signature?
But as I saw this beautiful pic of a 38 flying home after visiting Mt.Fuji I became even more impressed by your PSYOPs...

I had it up for such a short time I didn't know if anyone had noticed! Thanks! [:)]

I love the image too, but I guess I tire of having the same pic with all of my posts everywhere. I do like it around occasionally though.

I might try to do some more for fun. It was interesting to look for the images and adapt them. I always learn a lot looking for pictures, and I'm so impressed whenever I see images of the plane nose art from the war. Not only beautiful, but smart, edgy and full of good humored wit.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Sounds like you are a bit spoiled with you leaders from playing Japan! With those kind of requirements I can understand you are struggling to find them! [X(]

You need to start compromising a bit I think! [:D]

When I get home I'll pop up a screenie of the leaders for each side. It's pretty interesting. It's like the British somehow had less experience fighting wars (and training officers) than the Japanese!?! [X(]

Even West Point suffers by comparison. Maybe this is one reason many of my divisions held up so well against yours in Burma well after the time they should have had major disadvantages due to equipment and device upgrades. This may portray the ultra-patriotic pride of Japanese units that would fight with everything to the end in spite of knowing it was already lost.

In 1942 Britain was still fighting for her life in Europe. Burma/India had been a backwater since the war began in 1939, and the leaders/troops assigned there were definitely inexperienced, undertrained, poorly equipped and under-led. I think the game reflects this reality well.

I'm sure that is it. Hopefully the quality improves as the war moves forward! If not, at least I know what the differences are now, and I'm getting used to the capabilities of the Allied side.

[Lokasenna]

Well, the other thing with the leaders is...you don't actually have that many British units that you need to assign leaders to, right?

I'd imagine that it would be a bit harder for the Australian units, given that you have more of those, but there are quite a few more capable Aussie leaders in that screenshot you took. I would use a lot of those guys. Remember that you "should" prioritize Inspiration above Land skill in terms of looking for greatest adjusted AV. In general, for my best units, I look for guys with Inspiration 65+ and Land 60+. Ld and Admin above 50 is desired, but not a requirement.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: obvert




When I get home I'll pop up a screenie of the leaders for each side. It's pretty interesting. It's like the British somehow had less experience fighting wars (and training officers) than the Japanese!?! [X(]

Even West Point suffers by comparison. Maybe this is one reason many of my divisions held up so well against yours in Burma well after the time they should have had major disadvantages due to equipment and device upgrades. This may portray the ultra-patriotic pride of Japanese units that would fight with everything to the end in spite of knowing it was already lost.

In 1942 Britain was still fighting for her life in Europe. Burma/India had been a backwater since the war began in 1939, and the leaders/troops assigned there were definitely inexperienced, undertrained, poorly equipped and under-led. I think the game reflects this reality well.

I'm sure that is it. Hopefully the quality improves as the war moves forward! If not, at least I know what the differences are now, and I'm getting used to the capabilities of the Allied side.

Actually, once the 1943 upgrades roll around the Allied units start to become so strong that experience and leadership no longer matter as much. The 43 upgrades essentially make all Japanese armor useless while Allied (especially) Indian armor gets seriously powerful. Then you have to consider the superior squads, mmg squads and superior artillery of any Allied division vs any Japanese.

A Japanese tank regiment can have Irwin Rommel commanding it for all I care. A similar Allied regiment with grants or shermans is going to stomp the hell out of it regardless.