Mike Solli
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Joined: 10/18/2000 From: the flight deck of the Zuikaku Status: offline
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I spent a bit of time looking at the air units. There really aren't a lot of available air units, are there? Right now, I'm considering the restricted units. Of course, these are the primary training units. IJAAF first.... There are 3 HQ involved: 2 Air Div (Manchuoko) 2 Air Army (Manchuoko) 51 Air Reg (Japan) Fighters - I think we're good here. I count (roughly) 9 sentai and 4 chutai. Remember, these are rough numbers because I don't see the max # of slots. Roughly 450 pilot trainees at one time. I'll say 3 months to train them to 50 exp and 70 stat. That's 150 pilots a month. Bombers - 11 sentai and 2 chutai. Roughly 520 pilots so about 175 a month. Recon - 1 sentai and 6 chutai. Roughly 100 pilots so about 35 a month. Transports - 4 chutai. Roughly 50-60 pilots so about 20 a month. I don't know if I ever figured out how long to train up a pilot. I have the raw data somewhere so I can figure it out but I pulled 3 months out of my butt for the sake of argument. If anyone has any better guess, sing out please. Anyway, I think the IJAAF can survive with these numbers early on but will need more later. Fortunately, they get a string of reinforcement units that are restricted. IJNAF: Different story here. Here are the restricted HQs: China Area Fleet 12 Air Flotilla 13 Air Flotilla Fighters - 3 daitai for about 100 pilots so 35 a month. Torpedo Bombers - 1 daitai and 5 small units with 80 planes initially. I know some can be increased in size by buying them out with PPs and there probably are some empty slots in some as well. Lets say 100 or so planes so about 135 pilots (roughly). That's 45 a month, for both the Kates and Netties. Dive Bombers - 3 small units starting with 32 planes. Only about 10-15 pilots a month for the Vals. Recon - 16 varying size units totaling 123 planes. Lets say max of 150 planes so ~200 pilots or 70 per month. Fortunately, we get some more units (especially DB units) early on so these numbers will increase. These numbers don't look good especially for the IJNAF. More training units are needed. Fortunately, (with the exception of the AVG), most of the Allied air armada is a bunch of riff raff. We need to do as much as we can to increase the size of the training force as well as the speed with which they train. That means the training air units need the best leaders they can get and as many training units as possible need a high experience pilot in the ranks. Some of the leaders are also pilots, so if you can put those leaders in the units, then you can do double duty. These high experience pilots are also very valuable on the front line. Tough decisions here. Here's my take on it. You've got the elite pilots (exp of 81+) and the veteran pilots (70-76). Notice I skipped those pilots with experience of 77-80. These guys are the elite wannabes. Here's what I do with them: Elite pilots IJNAF: 2 per frontline daitai (F, TB, DB) 1 per frontline chutai (F, TB, DB) 1 per training daitai. 1 per training fighter chutai. The rest go into TRACOM (I'll discuss my take on TRACOM in a bit.) IJAAF: All go into TRACOM. (That was easy!) Veteran pilots IJNAF: Roughly 70-80% of each frontline unit. The rest are in reserve. IJAAF: Roughly 70-80% of each frontline unit. The rest are in reserve. Wannabe pilots IJNAF & IJAAF: These guys are all in frontline units. Why? It's simple. I want them to get their experience up to 81. As soon as that happens, off they go to TRACOM! It's either TRACOM or bust (die trying). Training units get rookies to train on. If the training unit doesn't rate an elite pilot, they get a veteran pilot (70-76 experience) with a preference of the high end of the spectrum here, if possible. So every training unit has a good leader and 1 good pilot in it. I start with sentai/daitai and work my way down (by unit size) to the detachments. Every unit will get a good pilot, but a detachment may only get a 70 exp pilot. TRACOM There has been a lot of discussion over this organization since AE came out. I dump as many pilots in here as possible for 2 reasons: 1. It's a reserve for late game. You're going to need some really good fighter pilots to get all those Kamikazes to their targets. 2. The faster you can pull pilots out of the training queue, the fewer HI you have to spend on them. Many will argue that this is very little HI, but my philosophy is that every HI you put into your pool for end game is a great thing. Just my thoughts... Comments please?
< Message edited by Mike Solli -- 9/28/2011 3:08:26 PM >
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