Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Spidery

If there is no defense do you need to prep before the invasion.

Will a para attack on an undefended Boela shock attack and risk damaging the oil wells?

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ORIGINAL: Spidery

If there is no defense do you need to prep before the invasion.

Will a para attack on an undefended Boela shock attack and risk damaging the oil wells?

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I think your opponent is wasting assets in the Kuriles. His BBs are back in the yards, possibly for months, and all he has to show for it is sinking one of your CAs. And those P-40s...did they fly in from the Aleutians, or were they dropped off? I mean, they're only P-40s and he won't really need them later, but... he can't possibly defend that island at this time. There's something to be said for forcing you to respond, but I think he passed that point of "worth it" a long time ago.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I have been re-reading the excellent AAR by Captain Cruft which holds many nuggets of great information.

In it he tests the dive bomber Lilly on battleships. Sure, they drop 100kg bombs, but the trick is to knock out AA gun emplacements and start fires. The first makes the ship helpless and the second will overwhelm the ship even though the bombs can't penetrate.

Well, in the then latest beta this doesn't work so well in the good Captain's test...which is sad because I have allocated two size 30 factories to this plane. Still should work well on CL and smaller, especially landing ships.

EDIT: In reading further back the Lillys do quite well with a very high hit rate, making this a solid IJA plane. At one point the good Captain mentions the 100kg bomb hits with 20 more effectiveness than the 6" Brooklyn class guns....not too shabby.

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing
Even if the 100kg bombs aren't going to seriously hurt anything bigger than a crusier, it seems to be a pretty effective way of giving the IJAAF an anti-shipping arm to deploy. It's far from the best anti-shipping plane Japan could use, but it's the best the IJAAF has until the Peggy (T) comes along.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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I think your opponent is wasting assets in the Kuriles. His BBs are back in the yards, possibly for months, and all he has to show for it is sinking one of your CAs. And those P-40s...did they fly in from the Aleutians, or were they dropped off? I mean, they're only P-40s and he won't really need them later, but... he can't possibly defend that island at this time. There's something to be said for forcing you to respond, but I think he passed that point of "worth it" a long time ago.

I think he will come back and visit once more...at least I hope so. A few days ago I dispatched the KB to head north and would like to see an engagement.

I think you can fly P40s off Carriers, load them at port docked, they repair while at sea, and then you fly them off. At least I seem to remember doing that a year or so ago in a different game. He probably has lots of spare space on his carriers.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

What is the best way to put out fires: being in port disbanded or being in a task force with lots of escort type ships and not moving?

I guess it is somewhat dependent upon the size of the port, right?

I am trying to save the DMS below, but she will I think she will burn up if left disbanded in port.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
Disband in port and hope for the best is my usual course of action. I think ports provide more assistance than you get from an escort TF (if any escorts even provide assistance). Obviously, bigger ports are better.

It's still largely dependent upon crew and system damage. I might look at the ship's commander in this case - DMS hulls are valuable. I believe Inspiration is the attribute that affects damage control rolls. Check to see if the skipper has good stats?

With 66 Sys and 25 Fire, I'd say 50/50 you lose her.