ElvisDaKing
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Joined: 9/7/2004 From: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Status: offline
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Hi Mike Thanks for sharing As usual, your information are always very interesting and very helpful when planing the japanese industry Although, i have some questions about some of your choices : quote:
ORIGINAL: Mike Solli Ha-32: Needed for Jill, Betty, Emily, Rex and Francis. Jill will taper off when Grace comes on board (~2/44). I'll probably build Betties to the end, but that can change. Emily sucks engines but the need isn't too bad. I have 50 Rex in the pool and am holding at that. I don't use many. Francis, I'm building 30 a month. It probably will not increase. So, the need for the Ha-32 will decrease over time. Most of the airframes will end up as Kamikazes. The factories for the engine are 150, 90 and 60. One of the smaller ones will end up being converted to the Ha-43 in 5/44. Why keeping on building Betty and Frances ? I would rather go only for Frances : P2Y2 are fast, armored, durable, equiped with radar, and with almost similar range of late Betty version... For very longe range attack , and long range ASW, i will keep the G3M3 Nell instead of the Betty quote:
ORIGINAL: Mike Solli Ha-33: Needed for the Judy (Y3 & Y4), Paul (if I build any), Nell, Tabby/Tina, Dinah recon, Tony (Ki-100-II) and Randy FB. I have 2x210 factories. I'll probably produce most for the remainder of the war. The Nell will become a valuable naval search asset (and Kamikaze) later. The Judy will remain with KB as long as there is a KB, and a valuable Kamikaze. I am not producing a lot of Tonies. I have 2 sentai right now. We'll see how they do against bombers. That day is coming soon. I would not go for E16 Paul : it is a dive bomber but very slow, so if you link it with other planes, including escort fighters, when attacking enemy fleets, you are greatly disadvantged if any CAP protecting the ships.. More time for allied fighters to intercept, bad coordination... With D4Y3/4 Judy, IJN has already a great dive bomber What about the E13A1b Jake ?: Jake is a wonderful plane to spot enemy fleets, especially subs, so the new version equiped with radar will even be better, and can be used at night to avoid allied CAP if any Only issue is it comes very late , 11/1944, so don t know if it worth building it... quote:
ORIGINAL: Mike Solli Ha-45: Needed for the Grace, Myrt NF, Peggy(T) and Frank r. I plan on building lots of all except the Peggy. I'll nee a lot of these. 660 right now + 360 (from the Ha-34) - 60 (1 factory to the Ha-43 = 960 by the end of 1944. I think I'll need more but will reassess later. C6N1-S Myrt was also my first choice as late war IJN night fighter because of its high speed But i changed my mind because it has a very low climb rate, very low fire power, it is not armored and, more important, it has a very low durability... I don t believe it will stand a chance to hit any bomber before it get shot down... So I go for P2Y2-S : Durability = 38, Armor = 1, firepower = 12... still agree that climb rate is alos very poor, but we re plqying japanese, so do with what we have ;) Just to add : Thanks again for your AAR which is very inspiring, and largely responsible for having me converted to th JFB side ;)
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'To my point, in war, there s just one attractive thing : the victory Parade... What sucks, it s all the things before.... We should get the enlist payroll and do the parade right away, before that it get totally screwed up' Un Taxi pour Tobrouk
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