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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 2498 troops, 23 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 175

Defending force 1296 troops, 4 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 49

Japanese adjusted assault: 39

Allied adjusted defense: 38

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
397 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
56 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Several advantages to using single engine aircraft for advanced training against Chinese infantry/cities:

1. Cheaper to build.
2. Cheaper to operates.
3. Fly from smaller airfields.
4. Some have many small bombs so more chances to hit.

Disadvantages:

1. Smaller bomb loads, usually.
2. Smaller bombs usually means less damage per hit.
3. shorter ranges, usually.

Those lists are not inclusive.

That said, use them in safe locations. The pilots will gain experience and skill faster in a live fire target exercise than just training at a base.

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

Industry update:

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

does anybody know of the best ways to have a chance for a group of IJN destroyers equipped with Type 93 torpedoes to be able to meet a superior surface TF and engage with their long lances while limiting the allied response?

i suspect a lot of night naval search, experienced crews, around the new moon would help. But what kind of leader would be best? high naval, low agression?

Low aggression probably, can also work during bad weather, but why do you expect to encounter superior forces? You should have total control of the seas now. Check your CLs, there should be two with like 30 Torpedo Tubes each.

Thanks. I just would like a couple DD squadrons available at short notice to respond to his CA amd CL led BB TFs when my larger units are busy doing something else.

Supply hardly moves between India, and Burma, that is why Allies drop supply directly at Rangoon, and move it to China. There will be transports there, until you cut the road.

That's good to know. I'll try to keep rangoon port under regular port attack with bombs and naval attack with torps


I hardly use more than one BB during bombardments, your 4 is overkill. Split them, so you will get one BB TF every day.

Ok. I'll try but it sure is cool to see the damage a group of them cause.

And IIRC, several ships arrive at Ceylon. If you conquer port of arrival, they will be destroyed, and never show up in game.

That is some really good info. I'll see if i can make that work. I'm guessing Columbo not Tricomelae

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 2498 troops, 23 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 175

Defending force 1296 troops, 4 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 49

Japanese adjusted assault: 39

Allied adjusted defense: 38

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
397 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
56 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

You can always check how is your assault doing, by comparing Combat Devices loses. Every Combat Device is worth 1 Assault Point, so you have lost 38 in squads, while enemy lost only 13. With 3 times as much loses, you probably can not win that one.
Also, check Disruption of your units. Any with over 50 Disruption have severely reduced Combat Effectiveness. And remember to check if units have enough supply. If it is in red, that again reduces your Combat Effectiveness, and attacks use lots of supply.

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

BTW: Supply.

I try to not let my supply in Tokyo drop below 400K. Below that, it means that some other bases are going to start getting starved and you may not expand the factories that you plan to. You control this by not over expanding (expand too fast) your factories.

Just my thoughts...

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo



Playing the IJ is about recon. You don't have intel that the allies do, so you need to make up for that deficiency with recon. Lot's of Recon.

You have Mavis and soon Emily. They are the best LR Recon/NavSearch in the game. Use them. Build them. Get them out there.
G3M3 is the MOST cost effective NavSearch/REcon plane you can build. I dedicate at least 6 of my groups to this. 2E/21 hex range/ SR 2 plane. Until you get Myrt, you got nothing better. Then all of the Babs/Dinah units you can.

Now use the recon info. Try not to ever get into a meeting engagement until not only do you know exactly what you are facing, you have the bigger/better ships. He has DD's, you bring CA/DD to the party. He has CL/DD or CA/DD, you bring BB/DD. Or better, bring Air assets against them. Remember, allies have almost infinite ships. you have what you start with and a little, very little more coming.

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ORIGINAL: jdsrae

I dont think Pax meant to fly recon instead of naval search. Think of naval search as recon of the vast ocean areas.
The USN is out there somewhere and you won’t find them without flying “naval search” missions.
“Recon” is used to gather intel on what the enemy has in a specific base.
I fly a lot more NS than recon, but you need both and the air groups that can fly those missions have plenty of work to do.

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

BTW: Supply.

I try to not let my supply in Tokyo drop below 400K. Below that, it means that some other bases are going to start getting starved and you may not expand the factories that you plan to. You control this by not over expanding (expand too fast) your factories.

Just my thoughts...

that's good to know. of course it's only feb 13, 1942 but tokyo has 1.2mm and all my producing cities have at least 25K.

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

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ORIGINAL: jdsrae

I dont think Pax meant to fly recon instead of naval search. Think of naval search as recon of the vast ocean areas.
The USN is out there somewhere and you won’t find them without flying “naval search” missions.
“Recon” is used to gather intel on what the enemy has in a specific base.
I fly a lot more NS than recon, but you need both and the air groups that can fly those missions have plenty of work to do.

Correct.

NavSearch/Recon is a combined concept.
Recon: Land unit/Base intel
NavSearch: TF intel

You want to be sure your pilots have good training in both NavSearch and Recon for all of your Recon and Patrol groups. Then you can switch out missions easily without moving groups. NavBomb is a tertiary skill to acquire for these pilots. Key though is to train the skill B4 you use them. In use, they gain skill only rarely and exp slowly. This is unlike fighter and bomber pilots.

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

Some thoughts about your industry.
1. Go slow. The game is long. Waiting a day or two to make a change won't matter much. Making a big change and then determining later it was wrong can really hurt you.

i'll try, but i've been more anxious than most to get better planes earlier.

2. You need to manually manage you replacements. They eat a lot of supply AND you will never, ever have enough. So be sure they are going ONLY to the units that you and want, and be sure those units actually need the replacements. I start the game and turn ALL replacement OFF, and I go to the industry window and turn all replacement devices to pool. When I need some devices in to a unit, I open up just those devices in the industry screen and then turn only that unit on for replacements. I rarely have more a few units getting replacements at the same time. Having the unit in a large base, surrounded by large bases (Osaka/Tokyo) with a CmdHQ really helps.

That seems like good advice. I never accept replacements except where i am fighting hard. and upgrades later.

3. There is not much reason to turn off ARM and several reasons NOT to turn it off. HI is to be used to create ARM/VEH/AIR/NAV build points. AIR/NAV points cannot be stored, but ARM/VEH can. Bonus: ARM/VEH cannot be bombed. You cannot lose them. In the late war, you will go through an unbelievable amount of ARM and VEH point IF you have them. 1M ARM is NOT too much. Think about it, late war you will only use HI for AIR or ARM/VEH. 4M HI will want to go to at least 1M ARM … why not have the ARM already built. Then when Tokyo/Osaka are rubble, you are able to still provide replacements to you units. If you have only HI, you will only ever have HI and no way to use it.

that's good to know. should i be increasing HI at this point?

Just some thoughts.

Thank you. I've read your stuff from the begining. especially from the days on mike solis original PBEM game.

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

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ORIGINAL: jdsrae

I dont think Pax meant to fly recon instead of naval search. Think of naval search as recon of the vast ocean areas.
The USN is out there somewhere and you won’t find them without flying “naval search” missions.
“Recon” is used to gather intel on what the enemy has in a specific base.
I fly a lot more NS than recon, but you need both and the air groups that can fly those missions have plenty of work to do.

Correct.

NavSearch/Recon is a combined concept.
Recon: Land unit/Base intel
NavSearch: TF intel

You want to be sure your pilots have good training in both NavSearch and Recon for all of your Recon and Patrol groups. Then you can switch out missions easily without moving groups. NavBomb is a tertiary skill to acquire for these pilots. Key though is to train the skill B4 you use them. In use, they gain skill only rarely and exp slowly. This is unlike fighter and bomber pilots.

Thanks. I have been using them for both but now that jakes are ramping up i might lighten up the load on mavis searches to get more recon out of them. You might have some thoughts on this.... i've been building and using babs instead of dinahs because i get most of the range on just one engine. seems like a bit of a savings to me.

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi


Some thoughts about your industry.
1. Go slow. The game is long. Waiting a day or two to make a change won't matter much. Making a big change and then determining later it was wrong can really hurt you.

i'll try, but i've been more anxious than most to get better planes earlier.

2. You need to manually manage you replacements. They eat a lot of supply AND you will never, ever have enough. So be sure they are going ONLY to the units that you and want, and be sure those units actually need the replacements. I start the game and turn ALL replacement OFF, and I go to the industry window and turn all replacement devices to pool. When I need some devices in to a unit, I open up just those devices in the industry screen and then turn only that unit on for replacements. I rarely have more a few units getting replacements at the same time. Having the unit in a large base, surrounded by large bases (Osaka/Tokyo) with a CmdHQ really helps.

That seems like good advice. I never accept replacements except where i am fighting hard. and upgrades later.

3. There is not much reason to turn off ARM and several reasons NOT to turn it off. HI is to be used to create ARM/VEH/AIR/NAV build points. AIR/NAV points cannot be stored, but ARM/VEH can. Bonus: ARM/VEH cannot be bombed. You cannot lose them. In the late war, you will go through an unbelievable amount of ARM and VEH point IF you have them. 1M ARM is NOT too much. Think about it, late war you will only use HI for AIR or ARM/VEH. 4M HI will want to go to at least 1M ARM … why not have the ARM already built. Then when Tokyo/Osaka are rubble, you are able to still provide replacements to you units. If you have only HI, you will only ever have HI and no way to use it.

that's good to know. should i be increasing HI at this point?

Just some thoughts.

Thank you. I've read your stuff from the begining. especially from the days on mike solis original PBEM game.

RE: HI
In Feb 42, you may not be saving much. But by April '42 you should be saving quite a bit. By June you should be saving to be on pace for at least 1M/year (3000/day). A lot of this depends upon your conquest area, and luck in terms of captured factories. But 3000/day gives you some idea of how much larger your economy will get in '42.

i suppose it would be a big mistake in your mind if i reused a few rd factories. I was thinking of using a few extras that are now researching rufe/a6mc5 and tojo2a/c and after those planes reach production switching a couple rd plants from them to frank etc. nobody has liked that idea much so far.

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

No Worries RADM. That's what the peanut gallery here is for.

Nice job forcing that landing at Darwin … with that amount of damage your forces should do well.