AmiralLaurent
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Joined: 3/11/2003 From: Near Paris, France Status: offline
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My method is to use concentration and never, repeat never, ground AC in range of Allied AC. Flying 90% CAP means fatigue will remain between 5 and 10 and that is OK for flying every king of mission, including long-range escort. Then I have main bases (Rangoon in Burma, Kendari in DEI), that can only be reached by unescorted bombers and have 100-200 fighters at 90% CAP, 300+ AV, 1-2 AA Bns, an air HQ, 100+ engineers and 50 000+ supplies. They are capable to deal with raids of 125 B-17E. Some will get trough and bomb but damage are repaired in some hours and the losses are bigger on the Allied side than on the Japanese side. By the way I am finding Nates more efficient than Oscars Ib against heavies... Using IJAAF units is a good thing because they engage first, and will suffer the most losses, but you have both the pilots and the AC to replace them, then the Zero units will attack tired Allied crews and damaged bombers and shot tens of them. Each of my main base has 1 Oscar unit, 1 Nate unit and 4 Daitais of Zeroes. The rest of the Japanese bases in the area are defended by AA and bad weather. All airfield are occupied by recon units flying 80% naval search + recon, that usually means that no AC is on the ground and Allied raids hit almost nothing, at least ops and AA losses are far heavier than ground Japanese losses. Then from time to time 50 Zeroes will move north to lay an ambush or fly a sweep over a weakly defended Allied base, chasing Buffaloes, Mohawks and so on...
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