Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

How many fighters did you have show up on the combat replay as available to go after the bombers?? Often, the numbers you see here, the 142, were involved in combat at one point, but not throughout the whole A2A battle.

What was the altitude of his Kates vs what you had set for your fighters?? Sometimes, if it greater than 10k difference, then they are unlikely to get down fast enough to engage them. I stack my fighters at different altitude to ensure some are down low enough. 12k is good enough to ensure my fighters are low enough to get anything unless I know he likes to come in at 2k, then some are below 10k.

AA issues is one reason I've gone over to games based on DaBigBabes mod.

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ORIGINAL: Dan Nichols

Jocke, to further answer your question, I too had the same thing happen in a game versus the AI, so I was able to redo the turn to see what happened. An Amphibious TF that is set to follow another TF will not unload. Most likely because it does not have a destination set if it is set to follow. I no longer have any of my TFs that are expecting to unload follow another, the same thing will happen to a cargo or transport TF if following another TF.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Part of my lack of motivation at this point it also my own fault. I made so many errors during this game due to it being my first and I canīt stop thinking "If only I had done this and that". I also made some bad calls due to not understanding the engine and sheer inexperience/stupidity.

I have explained this to Erik earlier but he wants to continue anyway so I will regardless of what happens today. Perhaps the motivation will return some day...

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Thanks for the advice BB! Will certainly try it the next time!

So, Erik kindly allowed a rerun and unfortunately for me it made almost no difference in the outcome. His strike went through almost unopposed despite around 150 F4Fs on CAP and a 45 minute warning. All CVEs are on the bottom except one with 99SYS and 78 Fire. That one will sink tomorrow.

BUT, This time the rest of the troops are onshore! No damage to any transports or other combat vessels! So its was not totally in vain.

Consequences:
I can give NO ship borne aircover for about 12-18 months. Erik is a creature of habit and will have the KB parked at Tulagi as he has done throughout the game. So I will have to go somewhere else. He has built a fortress around the Solomons so Iīm not even going to bother with that. But I will give an impression of island hopping slowly north to keep him there.

Centpac is out of the question for anything else but a feint to try and draw away the KB from Tulagi.

Hello Burma! I havnīt decided yet how much I will move. But I will probably move 7-10 divisions plus all available armour. I have plenty of time since I wonīt be able to do anything until I get the Hellcats online in Burma. I might even wait for the Thuds to start arriving. He has about 3-400 Tojos over Burma and I canīt do much there with the useless P40s. P38 pools are empty.

I hate this move and will find no enjoyment of doing this. But as things look I either do this or press "end turn" for 12-18 months.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Can't blame you for wanting to get your ducks in a row before you get aggressive again.
Perhaps you could post every two weeks, summarizing the sub wars and overall air combat?

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Don't quote me on this, but the unload rate for an xAP is 250 per phase, an AP is 500, and an APA is near 2000. I remember Alfred posting this a long time ago and wrote it down someplace that i would lose track of it. too bad, its in a stack of papers some where or I accidentally threw it away. If Alfred reads this, he can correct me.

Thus, use lots of ships and load accordingly to get your troops off loaded in one day or two days max using these numbers as a basic guideline.

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6.3.3.3.2 AMPHIBIOUS UNLOADING

The Amphibious Unload Rate bonus applies only to ships in an Amphibious TF. Amphibious Unload rates are determined by ship type (i.e., beaching craft, amphibious ship types, or ordinary transport/cargo ship types). There are no Port-derived cargo handling limits. Amphibious Unload only applies to Troops and Cargo (equipment and supply). Amphibious Unload does not apply to Fuel, Oil or Resources. Note that there is also an initial operations bonus for the Japanese during the first 4 months of the war.

Amphibious Unload may be used in two situations: an assault unloads over the beach, and amphibious unload in a small friendly port. Amphibious Unload Rate bonuses differ for the two situations.

6.3.3.3.2.1 OVER THE BEACH

This is for assault unloading over the beach.

ŧ Beaching Craft. Beaching craft unload completely in one turn.
ŧ Attack Amphibious Ships. (APA/AKA plus LSD, LSV and British equivalents)
in Amphibious TFs, unload at a Rate of 3000 points per ship, per turn.
ŧ Regular Transport Ships. (Commissioned Naval AP/AK) in Amphibious
TFs, unload at a Rate of 600 points per ship per turn.
ŧ Merchant Ships. (xAP/xAK) in Amphibious TFs, unload
at a Rate of 250 points per ship per turn.
ŧ Special Japanese early war bonus of 1200 for all AP/AK and xAP/xAK types.

6.3.3.3.2.2 FRIENDLY PORT

For Amphibious docked at and unloading in a friendly port of Size 4 or less, the unload rate is slightly different for Troops and Cargo.

ŧ Beaching Craft. Troops unload at a Rate of 1000 points per ship per
turn. Cargo unloads at a Rate of 750 points per ship per turn.
ŧ Attack Amphibs. Troops unload at a Rate of 1000 points per ship per
turn. Cargo unloads at a Rate of 750 points per ship per turn.
ŧ Regular Amphibs. Troops unload at a Rate of 300 points per ship per
turn. Cargo unloads at a Rate of 300 points per ship per turn.
ŧ Merchant Ships. Troops unload at a Rate of 125 points per ship per
turn. Cargo unloads at a Rate of 125 points per ship per turn.

Amphibious TFs not docked at a friendly port unload at a different rate, depending on port size, amount of free dock space, and the types of ships in the TFs. Amphibious ship types, with attached landing craft, will unload faster than non-amphibious ships.