Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

2/18/45

Kushiro D+10: Another fast transport landing. I think I did this on every D+ day, except possibly one. It definitely played a major role in taking the base - this, successfully sealing the base from reinforcements, and basically controlling the seas were key parts of the plan.

I've had frank and good discussions with Erik about everything. He and I are A-Okay about everything going on in the game. We're enjoying the match. It's tough and taut and well-fought. I'm fortunate to be facing an opponent of his caliber, both as a player and as a man.

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Nice work at Kushiro. It looks like if he has to rebuild his units from any survivors of the onslaught, they will take a lot of supply, and devices. Their morale will be shot and their experience should drop dramatically. So even if they are rebuilt, they will not be that combat effective for awhile. If they retreat to the open hex, you can grind them some more before they would have a chance to make it to Bihoro.

The Kuriles: Beat him while he is down, stomp on him, don't leave an enemy behind you, make sure that the enemy is dead. Yes, that's the plan.

A nice, timely reinforcement at Bihoro. It looks like the units arrived there without a lot of their supporting devices. Do you think that you could reinforce there before Kushiro is free of the enemy? You're right, they are light on devices, because they landed at a non-base hex. Reinforcements are inbound from as far as Kushiro, and some via ship, but I think they'll arrive to late to influence the outcome at Bihoro.

If you can keep the units in the open hex, then those units in Kushiro and in the open hex are dead if you can take Bihoro. So you might consider how you can take Bihoro sooner than later. The key is to persuade Erik to evacuate. That truly makes things easy. If he reinforces, my guys are too "light" (lacking support, heavy weapons) to take the base until I bring up serious reinforcements or pound the base to death, which will take weeks.

The air war is going your way now, keep up the good work. By the way, did you know that about 20% of the op losses actually come back as replacement air frames? I didn't know that. I don't think I've ever seen that before.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I'm not sure I follow you, MakeeLearn. SigInt is especially important in crafting distant invasions and estimating distant enemy strengths. It's not too helpful when everything's happening in a confined area, and that area is under reconnaissance, nav search, and other forms of surveillance. NoPac is the center of the war, and the SigInt that I get merely tells me things I already know.

But there are other theaters, more distant from the heartland, and there SigInt is helping paint a picture that is helpful in evaluating possibilities, weakenesses and strongpoints.

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7.2.1.14 OPERATIONAL LOSSES TO AIRCRAFT

Operational Losses (or Op Losses) occur due to accidents or other untoward events that are not a direct result of being shot at by the enemy. These losses occur to squadrons based on several factors, including the range of the Mission, the experience of the pilot, and if the aircraft is flying from a carrier. Any long-range Carrier-based aircraft strikes (of two or more hexes in distance) will cause an extra chance of operational losses to be incurred. However, if a player’s base has sufficient supplies they may note that any damaged aircraft will likely be repaired before the next Orders Phase.

Op losses include planes lost returning to base and planes crashing, planes destroyed or damaged on take-off and landing, and pilots as a result getting killed, wounded, or captured.

Write offs are a new type of Ops loss for A/C. A write off may occur when a machine returns with too much damage to repair. Pilot survival rates are higher for write offs than Ops losses. It is assumed that the plane is cannibalized for parts, and thus after 5 write offs an extra plane is considered repaired and becomes available.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

There are things going on in other theaters, some now and some planned down the road. But the center of the war is NoPac, so I'm focusing there. It helps keep the AAR manageable. Wwhile back, I tried to include Burma in the AAR, but things got really tedious.