Misconduct
Matrix Elite Guard

Posts: 1864
Joined: 2/18/2009 From: Cape Canaveral, Florida Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Erkki I have a 25,000 alt limit in my PBEM. It is February 42, and I feel like I have already lost the war in the air. Doesnt matter how bad I outnumber the Hurries and Hawks, my hordes of Hayabusas and Zeroes(I have hand picked the pilots, every single one flying Zeroes is 70+ EXP, Hayabusas 65+), cant get a shot in, cant destroy them, nothing. Last fight, I had Zeroes outnumber a lone, damaged hawk 6 on 1, that Hawk managed to damage one Zero and shoot one down. Zeroes just damaged it. I dont feel them any disadvantage for having liquid cooled engines, worse service rating or presumably worse pilots. Now 8 days of constant air combat, Japanese(sweeping Rangoon/Moulmein) typically outnumber the British 2:1 up to 4:1, but they still suffer K/D below 1. What exactly can I do differently, apart from exploiting higher ceiling? I cycle the units so they all still have morale above 75 and average fatigue below 20. I know that in the long run I can attrit those aircraft types, but as the war progresses, this will only get worse. Cant wait to meet 4Es, P-38s and P-47s! Funny to see 30 Hurricanes strafe my troops, kill 200 men and lose just 1 plane against 4 full divisions when my 60 Ki-48s bombing at 10,000 for 3 days fail to kill a single man. Those troops are stuck at Moulmein because they cant push the brits back. War lost in Feb 42. No wonder people play Scen 2?!? Its just horrible dice rolls, In my present game I'm averaging 9 to 1 kill ratio (dropping down to 7:1) as of August to October 42. Main reason its dropping off because my PBEM opponent is training the heck out of the pilots, then dropping them off to get slaughtered - any time 1 of his pilots gets a few kills he ships them back to the states. I been fortunate that I've been gaining the upper hand on the air war and ran out of targets around July'42 which allowed me to train and build more aircraft because I was losing to many bombers. Dice works good in one way, others I hate it.
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