adarbrauner
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Obvert has just achieved two successfull carrier air strikes against CR's Main Carrier Fleet, in mid 1944, scen. 1., without loosing not even a single carrier of his, (nor with any hit at all sustained), and with no kamikaze attack.. Wow!!!
Worth to be studied (if you haven't done it yet).
The main point seems to be that Obvert released his carrier attacks while under heavy LB CAP. CR, scared as he is from Japanese fighters as you well know, must have kept Nav attack range low and short, as he's usually doing against you, and got badly mauled because of this, without anything in return...
Other noticeable point, is that CR had 600 fighters on CAP on first attack, but still Japan's strike got in.
He attacked with 138 strike aircrafts only, Graces, late Judies and some Jills, with a 121 fighter escort screen, NO Sams, 11000 feet altitude, SEVERE STORMS! (and got two hits with either 500 or 800 kg bombs from 10000 feet, that's VERY interesting. Is this realistically plausible?)
With his second strike, some days later after having replenished aircraft and ammo, at different location but still under good LB CAP presumibly, he went in with 400 strike aircrafts + 320 fighter escorts, 11000 feet, HEAVY RAINS, against, here this well, 980 fighters cap (not that far from what you have to face, isn't it?), he lost ONLY 130 attacker and got in with the rest achieving multiple hits on enemy's CVs. This time his bomber went in for a dive and not from high altitude, who knows why.
Strange also the discrepancy between the number or airplanes in the attack and in defence in the two strikes.
Maybe because first strike was at 320 miles (8 hexes) distance + severe storms, while the second at only 120 miles (3 hexes).
The other noticeable event in their war is current Burma land warfare. CR came in at Prome, plain land but with 6 fortifications level, with a big and fatty army. Obvert already had a big army in place, but reinforced it IMMEDIATELY with his ready reserves, + big artillery concentration, and an extremely dense AA array. Many of his land units are crack and top notch.
Result is, that meanwhile CR is just suffering land casualties sensibly higher than Obvert's, due ceirtanly to the high fortification extent, and to the great artillery advantage.
And, above all, CR's air striking force isn't achieving anything worth of notes apart from heavy own losses from the AA.
His AA array is impressive: 9 Rgmts or Btns + 2 or 3 Coys.
He has a one to ten artillery advantage for number of barrels, but this does not include his heavy or very heavy pieces.
I'd like to ask him how does he think to keep his army resupplied there.
No fighter cap worth mentioning present there...
< Message edited by adarbrauner -- 12/21/2017 7:28:15 AM >
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RE: March 1945 - 
Might not be the right game for you then 
Edit, but one needs a CR, as to see how many TB/DB got through the cap to assess the AA shooting at all. If only 1 DB got through for example, also only 1 could be shot down by AA... 
As it seems I must also deal with real life issues 
The same is true for Oerlikon guns, the German ones were roughly the same as the Allied ones for example. 
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