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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/7/2006 10:16:32 PM

jrlans

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

I am sending my Carriers North to play near Palembang

Have your Hellcat sqads filled back out yet Andy and do you have any reserves? I havent seen you post fighter numbers in awhile

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/7/2006 10:31:13 PM

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Yes and no.

I have refilled my operational sqns pilots more or less with trained pilots and have managed to equip all CVR Sqns with a full compliment of rookies that are currently using the training command (50%) to train or for 3 of the 40 - 50xp Helldiver and TBM Sqns operating in Borneo. Until they get to 40xp I wont use any sqn.

My carrier fleet is in 3 main sub fleets at present

Darwin and in the TF off java 4 CV's/4 CVL's
- the TF operatign off Java has Bennington and Ticonderoga which both have a 40 plane Hellcat Sqn a 36 plane Corsair Sqn and 16 plane Helldiver or TBM Sqn

En Route to Rabaul from West Coast 5 CV's/ 1 CVL

West Coast in refit 5 CV's/ 3 CVL's

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/8/2006 6:31:02 AM

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There any bipassed islands you could use for target practice? You get so much more XP bombing nothings than you do in training seems unfair that only PZB should get the "easy" training

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/8/2006 9:57:46 AM

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ORIGINAL: jrlans

There any bipassed islands you could use for target practice? You get so much more XP bombing nothings than you do in training seems unfair that only PZB should get the "easy" training

And you don't have to do it all the time. Sail next to a base, bomb it for 3-4 days. Move to next.. etc. And so you gain up to a month or more of constant bombing before you go to front lines. Guaranteed to up your xp to 60's.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/9/2006 12:54:02 PM

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OK its been a busy few days I have taken Wotje and will continue cleaning up my rear areas.

Banja has fallen and the next wave is loading I am scrabbling around to find base forces and aviation regts I am quite short of these units and need more at the front.

I have plenty of seabees but I need more base forces.

String you are correct but I dont want to ground train my FB's aleady get to much XP doing that. I will wait and see how it works out.

Andy

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/9/2006 2:12:35 PM

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Why shouldn't you do the same as PzB? I read here and in his AAR that he trains his pilots in China.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/9/2006 6:25:51 PM

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Philosophical objection to it.

Game is on hold because of a pilot bug PZB has to deal with

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/9/2006 6:26:36 PM

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p.s. the bug doenst seem to have hit allies just Japanese.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/9/2006 7:41:07 PM

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Probably something hardcoded into the game.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/9/2006 11:24:47 PM

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Probably something hardcoded into the game.

I would hope not because it doesn't make sense for dozens of trained pilots to just disappear, especially as it only affects the Japanese.

Hopefully it is a minor issue and easily corrected.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/10/2006 12:45:38 AM

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I have no idea they had better fix it quick I am suffering from lack of turns at the moment and I need a fix !!!

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/11/2006 9:55:27 PM

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How many pilots did he lose is it catastophic for him or is he just sitting it out based on principal?

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/15/2006 9:20:46 AM

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Any news from PzB?? Would be a shame to see this game end due to a technical fault. A grand total of well over 200,000 hits on the combined AARs for this one show a fair degree of interest i say.

Anyway, good luck Andy. At least the time off gives you a chance to carefully plan the next round of offensives.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/18/2006 9:55:15 AM

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/18/2006 12:04:39 PM

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All quiet just waiting on PZB to do a turn this was a game breaker but I think we have a solution so when PZB does the turn we will proceed.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/21/2006 3:06:59 PM

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Andy,
Congrats on a game well played. Always tough picking up someone elses pieces - you've done well..... except for your passion for sacrificing paras!!

With you as CinC i would have told the army to stick their extra 50 quid!

But.... Pzb is a little predictable in his response to your para drops. Maybe you can ambush him?? Choose a target, set up LOTS of subs on his approach, ensure plenty of 4+ AF in range for LBA, some PT boats, and of course a good surface fleet and carriers undetected close by. Drop in the paras, wait for his response, and bite him off.
Not a game winner, but you might bag a nice collection of AK/APs with escorts, plus a few assault units - a fair trade for all your para units.

More importantly, you need some size 5 or 7 bases in B29/B17/B24 range of China. Hit one of his cheating (whoops, i meant 'training'!) bases with 400 B29s in one turn it will really slow down his version of the Empire Air Training Scheme. I have not looked at a standard map for awhile, but are there any possibilities?? Even in the Nth Pac?

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/23/2006 1:28:49 PM

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Yup my army is a bad one to be a para in !!!

I may I am not sure I figure my willing ness to sacrifice troops on these gambles has probably achieved its objective already - redeployment to the rear of Japanese ground forces.

I am moving on thew lvl 6 base at teh NW of Borneo to do just that !!!

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/24/2006 3:00:39 PM

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A few quiet turns as my fleet move north and I redeploy and sieze a few rear area bases.

I have 4 TF's heading North towards Borneo

About the most significant item this week has been the destruction of the Brunei oil fields by my Superforts out of Wasile

Andy

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/24/2006 9:08:06 PM

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Fleet continues to move north as seabees arrive at Banja to speed it on to lvl 6

Tarakan and Brunei are both Oil less holes in the ground Palembang is next after I secure some base nearer the fornt

My TF's are at sea moving Nor Nor West between Java and Borneo

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/24/2006 10:15:18 PM

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OK another quiet one

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 09/13/44
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ASW attack near Banjarmasin at 27,64

Japanese Ships
SS I-54, hits 1

Allied Ships
DD McCall
DD Henley

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TF 1093 encounters mine field at Macassar (30,69)

Allied Ships
DE Reynolds
DE William C. Miller
DE Bebas

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Day Air attack on Kweiyang , at 41,35

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zeke x 36
N1K1-J George x 113
J2M Jack x 47
G4M2 Betty x 22
Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 144
Ki-84-Ia Frank x 72

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 18
Runway hits 291

Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-84-Ia Frank bombing at 2000 feet
27 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
27 x Ki-84-Ia Frank bombing at 2000 feet
27 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
27 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
24 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
4 x G4M2 Betty bombing at 5000 feet
20 x N1K1-J George bombing at 2000 feet
32 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
24 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
36 x N1K1-J George bombing at 2000 feet
36 x N1K1-J George bombing at 2000 feet
6 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
6 x Ki-84-Ia Frank bombing at 2000 feet
6 x Ki-84-Ia Frank bombing at 2000 feet
6 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
6 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
7 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
6 x G4M2 Betty bombing at 5000 feet
4 x N1K1-J George bombing at 2000 feet
12 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
9 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
9 x N1K1-J George bombing at 2000 feet
3 x Ki-84-Ia Frank bombing at 2000 feet
3 x Ki-84-Ia Frank bombing at 2000 feet
3 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
3 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
3 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
3 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
3 x G4M2 Betty bombing at 5000 feet
3 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
3 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
3 x N1K1-J George bombing at 2000 feet
3 x N1K1-J George bombing at 2000 feet
2 x Ki-61 KAIc Tony bombing at 2000 feet
3 x G4M2 Betty bombing at 5000 feet
2 x N1K1-J George bombing at 2000 feet
3 x G4M2 Betty bombing at 5000 feet
3 x G4M2 Betty bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kweiyang , at 41,35

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zeke x 173
J2M Jack x 75
D4Y Judy x 57
B7A Grace x 27
G4M1 Betty x 23
Ki-84-Ia Frank x 36

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 216

Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-84-Ia Frank bombing at 2000 feet
20 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
6 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
18 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
20 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
11 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
20 x B7A Grace bombing at 10000 feet
18 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
32 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
36 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
18 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet
20 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet
20 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
4 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
6 x Ki-84-Ia Frank bombing at 2000 feet
3 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
6 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
4 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
6 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet
9 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
5 x B7A Grace bombing at 10000 feet
6 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
12 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
9 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
6 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet
5 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet
5 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
3 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
3 x Ki-84-Ia Frank bombing at 2000 feet
3 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
3 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
2 x B7A Grace bombing at 10000 feet
3 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
3 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
3 x J2M Jack bombing at 2000 feet
3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet
2 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet
2 x A6M5 Zeke bombing at 2000 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kweiyang , at 41,35

Japanese aircraft
B7A Grace x 8

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B7A Grace bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on Sampit , at 26,62

Allied aircraft
B-25J Mitchell x 41

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 22

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet
23 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on Brunei , at 32,57

Allied aircraft
P-47D Thunderbolt x 24

No Allied losses

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Day Air attack on Tarakan , at 33,61

Allied aircraft
P-40N Warhawk x 48

No Allied losses

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Day Air attack on Tarakan , at 33,61

Allied aircraft
B-29 Superfortress x 88

Allied aircraft losses
B-29 Superfortress: 2 damaged

Oil hits 32

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
9 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
11 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
16 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
7 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
3 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
8 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
3 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
6 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
3 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
2 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
3 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
3 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
3 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kendari , at 33,71

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 5
Spitfire VIII x 5
P-47D Thunderbolt x 4
PB4Y Liberator x 7
B-24J Liberator x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
P1Y Frances: 1 destroyed
Ki-30 Ann: 2 destroyed
B7A Grace: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
PB4Y Liberator: 1 damaged
B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
36 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 39

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-24J Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
4 x PB4Y Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
3 x PB4Y Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
4 x B-24J Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
9 x B-24J Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk III x 6
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 3

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk III: 1 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Beaufighter Mk 21 attacking at 100 feet
6 x Kittyhawk III attacking at 100 feet
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Day Air attack on Truk , at 63,78

Allied aircraft
F-5C Lightning x 3
PB4Y Liberator x 7
B-24J Liberator x 12

Allied aircraft losses
B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 37

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24J Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
5 x PB4Y Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
2 x PB4Y Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
3 x B-24J Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on Wewak , at 52,81

Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 29
F4U-1D Corsair x 15
F6F-5N Hellcat x 13
Hurricane II x 10
Kittyhawk III x 15

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 8

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x F6F-5N Hellcat bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Hansa , at 53,83

Allied aircraft
B-25J Mitchell x 13

No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 8000 feet
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Day Air attack on 55th Division, at 81,84

Allied aircraft
F6F Hellcat x 3
F4U-1D Corsair x 22
P-40N Warhawk x 27

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x P-40N Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
16 x P-40N Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
11 x F4U-1D Corsair bombing at 2000 feet
11 x F4U-1D Corsair bombing at 2000 feet
3 x F6F Hellcat bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Tarakan , at 33,61

Allied aircraft
F6F-5N Hellcat x 7

No Allied losses

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Allied aircraft
SB2C Helldiver x 14

Allied aircraft losses
SB2C Helldiver: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x SB2C Helldiver bombing at 2000 feet
3 x SB2C Helldiver bombing at 2000 feet
4 x SB2C Helldiver bombing at 2000 feet

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/27/2006 1:08:53 AM

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Tarakan and Brunei are destroyed Balikapan Sorong and Amboina are neutralised.

My campaign against the oil fields goes well

Next up a loooong range strike on Taipei and its 50 oil that should worry him.
If I can cut him off from India and Burmese Oil and destroy or sieze DEI oil fields and then get in range of Chinese oil fields I think PZB will be out of oil (except for stockpiles of which lets say 2.5 - 3.0 mill)

Now the question is if I am on the attack and he is losing saay 2,000 - 3,000 aircraft a month how hot does he need to run his industry and how quickly does 2.5mill stockpoile go.

i.e. am I wasting my time

Andy

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/27/2006 1:12:13 AM

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p.s. my fleet is gathering at Banja where I am concentrating Engineering assets when it hits lvl 6 Palembang is going extra crispy !!!!

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/27/2006 1:20:48 AM

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quote:

Now the question is if I am on the attack and he is losing saay 2,000 - 3,000 aircraft a month how hot does he need to run his industry and how quickly does 2.5mill stockpoile go.

i.e. am I wasting my time

No, Andy. I don't think you are wasting your time. At the very least you are stopping him from stockpiling more oil and resources.

Once he is cutoff from the SRA, the only oil/resource imports he will have are those from China and Manchuria which is nowhere near sufficient to run his economy. He will begin having to tap his reserves and while it may take some time to draw them down, it is still worth the effort.

One other thing to consider: Depending upon where he has his reserves (i.e stockpiled in one or two places or spread throughout the home islands), various parts of his industry may or may not receive enough reserve each turn to keep them fully functioning. This is especially true for those on Hokkaido. He will probably have to divert transport assets to move those resources/oil to where they are needed as the AI does a very poor job of distributing it.

Personally, I think the important thing now is to get those B-29s within range of the home islands fairly quickly to begin targeting industry. That will force him to divert air assets back home and leave other places more lightly defended. I think that this tactic will have even a more rapid impact than the isolation of the SRA.

Anyways, just my thoughts.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/27/2006 3:36:22 AM

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ChezDaJez is right, once I got cut off from the SRA various sectors of my economy started going haywire - even though stockpiles were present. The AI does a lousy job of distributing it, and I'd have factories failing to produce for days at a time. The level of micromanagement required to keep this from happening is staggering, especially when you're trying to fend off a furious Allied assault - it's hard to focus on the home front.

As Japan, I dread the port and airfield strikes just as much - if only because keeping frontline bases under supply is so difficult. Hit random ones all the time, and he'll have fits.
You just can't keep those engineers from repairing the bases - and that eats up supplies.

Then again, at this stage of the war everything hurts...

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/27/2006 12:06:53 PM

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Chinese HI (provided he repaired it after he captured it) consumes more oil than China and Manchuria produce.

Long range random strikes will be very hard for him to deal with, especially if they are massed strikes against which a small cap will be ineffective

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/27/2006 12:25:39 PM

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no chance for him to have 2.5 mil stockpiled oil
1.5 mil is more probable

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/28/2006 4:38:32 PM

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Hmmm interesting I will do a full Oil review in the next few turns and see what I can see......

Andy

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/28/2006 8:48:07 PM

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I find resources to be more limiting rather than oil. Resources are used for manpower in addition to everything oil uses.

Andy, when you research your oil reserves, note that what's on tankers isn't counted. Count them separately.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/29/2006 1:40:33 AM

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I find resources to be more limiting rather than oil. Resources are used for manpower in addition to everything oil uses.

Andy, when you research your oil reserves, note that what's on tankers isn't counted. Count them separately.

Never had trouble in my jap game with resources. HI is almost self sufficient in them, china produces an excess (just enough to support HI) and SRA produces HUGE excesses of resources.

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RE: Airborne Addict !!!! - 9/29/2006 3:20:13 PM

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OK Guys its getting close to decison time again.

My fleet is about 180 miles from the two connected bases at the NW of Borneo.

I have 3 seperate amphib TF's each covered by a carrier TF (Trying to limit Ubercap slightly by not stacking to many carriers together at moment)

The amphib TF's have 9th Aus and 4th Aus Div assault loaded plus seabees, base forces armour etc.

I have elements of a parachute Bde (327th Glider) air bridging into Banja at present with soem LR PB2Y's ready to drop them if I can find an empty base.

A 3rd Div the US 7th is loading at Banja plus a lot of armour

Now where to strike is the real question.

I can go North and land on either side of Malaya probably capture 1 or 2 bases and begin a malaya Campaign
I can go West and land at Batavia or the lvl 1 base below Palembang
I can go East and land at the lvl 1 base connected by road to the big lvl (6)3 AF on the NW coast of Borneo

The ideal option would be to secure a port with Paras and then unload my Divs to avoid disruption.

I THINK I am just going to sail a little bit further North into position to go either way and then pick one depending on what my recon tells me.

A landing onto Malaya direct is sooooo very tempting while the force I have would not be enough to secure Singapore I could almost certainly capture 2 or 3 big bases in Malaya that would open up so much territory to attack.

The safe option is probably Borneo but now that my forces are soo close I am so very tempted to just go for it.

Banja is almost lvl 5 which will allow Superforts to support whatever move I make.

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