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ORIGINAL: seydlitz

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ORIGINAL: Mac Linehan

Hi, seydlitz -

Outstanding AAR and game; a very radical and interesting approach, I am enjoying every post. I would like to emulate your use of paratroops in the Philippines and have located the 1st Raiding Rgt in Kagoshima. Do you remember where the other Para units are? I have checked the in game (Scn 1) ground unit listing, but no go.

Thanks for your assistance,

Mac

I believe that Jonathan is correct. If I remember, you have 1st Raiding Regiment in Kagoshima, 3rd & 4th SNLF on Takao. Don't quote me, but I believe that the other two are SNLF units. Find them in the unit list and you will see the parachute emblem. In January you get the 2nd Raiding Regiment.

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I could not agree with you more. The I-15 and I-153 perform against the Japanese fighters including the zero better than any of the more modern fighters that I have encountered. I think that this is because of the ludicrous MVR rating that they have been assigned. It is too far over the top and is unrealistic.

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ORIGINAL: krupp_88mm

I disagree i think the maneuver rating should be ludicrous the I-153 can out turn anything and everything. out turn zeros with ease.. i think it could pull a 360 in about a little over 2 seconds at high or low speed.. the disadvantages it would face is an open cockpit.. which would be very stressful on the pilot and a very very low top speed.. something in the air combat model must be busted

Finnish B-239 were able to chew the I-153 to pieces something like 30-1.. and the B-239 is really just a Buffalo by another name

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ORIGINAL: LoBaron

seydlitz how do you handle your ASW forces on long time operations?
do you check for ships out of ASW ammo and send them back to base, do you have a replenishment fleet or do you just ignore
them?

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ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

This is truly an incredible game, but some things could be improved in the air-to-air sphere. One slight example (I don't want to hijack this excellent AAR): USN pilots liked the F4F-3 a lot better than the F4F-4, although it had 4 ea. vs. 6 ea. 50-cals. The pilots thought four was enough vs. the thin-skinned Zero and the number of total rounds was the same in both aircraft--so the F4F-3 offered 50% more trigger time. In game terms, it's simply 12 vs. 18 in gun ratings between the two aircraft, which does not reflect the true story.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program...

Cheers,
CC

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ORIGINAL: freeboy

there needs to b a balance in the game as there was in the war between menuverability and speed armamaents

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ORIGINAL: FatR

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ORIGINAL: seydlitz
The air war over Russian territory is not going as well as planned by a longshot. Much of this seems to have to do with the weather, which has been terrible just about every turn. The weather prevents a high percentage of missions from being flown and also serves to protect the enemy biplanes when I try to sweep them. Zero fighters do well during sweeps but seem to be sitting ducks when escorting bombers. I feel like I should be mowing these biplanes down with even Nates, but in reality they are much harder to fight than even the AVG P-40s. I don't know why.

Also a small commentary: I-15 and I-153 have MVR 53 (highest in the game, AFAIK). And I-153 does not even suffer MVR cutoff until 16 thousands feet, so at higher altidute bands its advantage over Ki-27 is even greater. I, personally, think that, to match history, their MVR must be cut by about 10, as I-15, if anything, was outmaneuvered by Ki-27, and I-153 is its powered-up and heavier successor. Also, every gun on old Russian fighters is "Center-line", as opposed to "Front", which, I believe, provides accuracy advantage (technically this is a correct description, but in reality these planese weren't that good as gun platforms).

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ORIGINAL: seydlitz

Other than my incessant bombing of Vladivostok and Voroshilov, I continued the artillery bombardment at Voroshilov.
Again my opponent did not fire back. Many of my reserve units are now down to about 15 disruption and 40 fatigue. Since he is not firing back I will let them get totally undisrupted before switching back to combat mode. The additional delay will only help me recover more disabled squads in the units.

Mark told me that his drop off in AV in the hex is due to disruption alone. He claims to have plenty of supply there.

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Ground combat at Voroshilov (112,45)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4810 troops, 406 guns, 280 vehicles, Assault Value = 2131

Defending force 66090 troops, 1540 guns, 483 vehicles, Assault Value = 1669

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (5 destroyed, 4 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1571 casualties reported
Squads: 40 destroyed, 41 disabled
Non Combat: 97 destroyed, 67 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 46 (28 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Vehicles lost 58 (37 destroyed, 21 disabled)

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ORIGINAL: TheElf


Where the Zero and even the Nate have an advantage is in Topspeed. Don't underestimate this. This stat is heavily in favor of both the Zeke and Nate over the two I-'s. But also don't underestimate the power of numerical superiority. I can't seem to find any CRs you've posted that would provide a sense of the types of engagements you have had. I.e. whether numerical superiority was/is a factor. I would be happy to comment if you could point me to a couple.

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ORIGINAL: ComradeP

The losses against the bi-planes are silly, if the bi-planes were as effective in real life as they are in this game, the Luftwaffe would've been butchered instead of some pilots getting hundreds of kills because Soviet pilots were such poor flyers and their aircraft might be nice by design, but lacked in production quality until very late in the war.

seydlitz: do those tank losses more or less mean you have to build up the units from scratch? What do you have in the area to keep the Soviets from moving west (on the map), and fight your depleted tank stack?

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The losses against the bi-planes are silly, if the bi-planes were as effective in real life as they are in this game, the Luftwaffe would've been butchered instead of some pilots getting hundreds of kills because Soviet pilots were such poor flyers and their aircraft might be nice by design, but lacked in production quality until very late in the war.

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Regarding the armor, I have replacements on so they will rebuild over a few weeks.

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The comparison is futile.

Luftwaffe pilots, tactics and personel in late 41 had more than two years of war experience, they surely could score hundreds of kills against IJA airforce too.

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ORIGINAL: Smeulders

You actually seem pretty close to a victory around Vladivostok. What percentage of Russian forces do you think are in the cut off area ? And what are your plans if you destroy them, redeploy troops to drive the remaining Russians North or will the troops be sent somewhere else ?

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ORIGINAL: ComradeP

OK. Based on the combat results screen showing one of your units at 0 value, I thought you might be running out of replacements. As your earlier industry screenshots showed that your vehicle pool seemed to have a decent production schedule going, I was wondering why one of the tank regiments was at 0 strength and if you could take more losses. It seems you can.

Did you see where the rifle division came from btw, or did your tanks simply run into them?