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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 2/22/2020 5:05:46 PM   
RADM.Yamaguchi


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Status: offline 		Thanks inqistor

One comment before i reply.

I HATE WEEKEND MORNINGS WITHOUT A TURN TO WORK ON!!

I'm going to have to start skipping friday and saturday night turns in order to save them for the following morning. Further slowing down our already slowing game.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 2/22/2020 7:51:45 PM   
RADM.Yamaguchi


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Status: offline 		Man, i'm so sad about Bill Brown's passing. He always was quick to help anybody here. You could tell he really cared about others.

It really makes an old man like me stop and pause. I think there's more beyond this life on earth and he seems like one who will do well in it.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/3/2020 9:10:00 PM   
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No updates for awhile? If you want a lot of people posting to make your opponents nervous, just as someone to post a picture of a tree. You might be able to get 5 or 6 pages of posts . . .

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/3/2020 9:22:22 PM   
RADM.Yamaguchi


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Status: offline 		Hi Joe, not much going on here. turns have slowed way down and i finished extracting myself from E. Australia and Akyab. Trying to get my fighter production back up after running low on engines to keep bonus. A6M5c in 8 days, Ki-44-IIc in 4 days.

I've never been impressed with Vals. Now that i can resize all my CV groups what do you think of dumping them and resizing the zeros and Kates. I thought i would just resize the kate squadrons to whatever the torpedo capacity was and have the rest be Zeros. For example the Shokaku (72) has 45 torps. so 45 Kates and 27 zeros. Akagi (81) 45 kates 36 zeros. Then i can resize all the val squadrons to 81 and leave them on land to harrass invaders.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/3/2020 9:50:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		VALs are great against unarmored ships. But beware their second iteration, it gets range cut.

KATEs are quite bad with bombs. So you would have only one strike with them, until torpedoes run out.

You generally don't need lots of ZEROs, unless you go against enemy CVs. And in that case, you want as much attack planes, as possible. You have to take enemy out in first strike.

For land based planes, BETTYs beat all with torpedo, and their huge range.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/3/2020 9:58:12 PM   
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ORIGINAL: inqistor

VALs are great against unarmored ships. But beware their second iteration, it gets range cut.

KATEs are quite bad with bombs. So you would have only one strike with them, until torpedoes run out.

You generally don't need lots of ZEROs, unless you go against enemy CVs. And in that case, you want as much attack planes, as possible. You have to take enemy out in first strike.

For land based planes, BETTYs beat all with torpedo, and their huge range.


Supersize them all on the Akagi, I think that you can set them to size 90 and it will do so. Just don't go max for the ship but manually input 90.

One third of each group on the ship. Vals for search and ASW. Kates work great against ships at 1000 feet with two bombs. The others can train and/or perform work from shore bases. Plus, think of a CAP trap using the carriers with nothing but supersized fighter groups after putting the bombers ashore . . .

G3M3 Nells have a range of 21 with torpedoes . . .

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/3/2020 10:10:48 PM   
RADM.Yamaguchi


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Status: offline 		Inquistor thanks for the ideas.

Joe you seem to always know how to max everything out. i keep cycling CMc-AMc-CMc-AMc for mines like you suggested. i'd hate to be the allied player that plays you in a PBEM if you ever do one.

i thought i remember my kates doing well at 1000 with bombs. i was going to form them into super squadrons where possible exp 80 so they get a chance at 800kg

i may want to equip cvs with alot of kates with torps for a thrust at the allied cvs if i can pin them down

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/3/2020 10:26:38 PM   
RangerJoe


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Really, you want to be as efficient as is possible. Are you sending your 81+ pilots to Tracom? Keep a few in a training squadron to increase the average experience and skills but check out this thread:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4761962

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/19/2020 7:10:46 PM   
RADM.Yamaguchi


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Status: offline 		About time for an update. I have been truly sucking at this game.

It's July 30, 1942. since my last update i've lost tons of airplanes, another CA (OUCH), a few DDs, the allies are making incursions into burma, i'm struggling to make any headway into china, they have retaken Raoul Is and Canton and are about to take Baker. And i have my production so screwed up i haven't produced a single fighter plane in over a month. Other than that everything is just peachy.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/19/2020 7:12:51 PM   
RADM.Yamaguchi


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Status: offline 		I have a plan though. Yes i'm stupid enough to start one more game just to show how bad i really am. No really, i'm trying to learn from my mistakes and hopefully the new mistakes i make won't be as bad as the mistakes i made in this game. It'll probably confuse the hell out of me playing two games at once but we'll see.

< Message edited by RADM.Yamaguchi -- 3/19/2020 7:13:27 PM >

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/19/2020 8:58:01 PM   
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So, what is the deal with those planes production? You ran out of fuel, and HI isn't working?

CAs are your best ships, but as long as you hadn't lost a CV, you are in good shape until at least mid-1943. Who cares about some islands nobody knows where they actually are? But have you caught, and sunk their invasion fleets in the meantime?

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 3/19/2020 10:20:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		He is trying to keep his research and development with the engine bonus. Ramp up the engine production and produce the planes that you need NOW! If you don't, there will not be a later.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/13/2020 11:55:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi to anybody still interested. It's been quite a while since i've update this AAR. There just hasn't been much to update though.

Last time we got together it was July 30, 1942 and i had just lost a CA, Raoul Is. and Canton and my fighter production was nil trying to keep the bonus.

It is now Sept 19, 1942. My opponents have taken back Lord Howe Is and things are stagnating in burma.

But the biggest news is that they invaded my positions in the aluetians. I saw the TFs headed west from Cold Bay and Kodiak and thought they were going to invade one of the smaller islands. Instead they brought everything they could, All the american CVs (I think), lots of BBs for bombardments and lots and lots of APs and AKs. Instead of one of the small islands they went straight for ADAK. I had built it up to a level 7 Naval and 4 Air base. I had a division and a couple of battalions holding it along with the 5th HQ, and some engineers. Like a fool i had used 1/2 of my division on an ill advised ill run, ill timed waste of an invasion of Dutch Harbor that had been wiped out. Knowing that KB was farting around near Pago Pago they knew they had lots of time even if i wanted to contest it.

Luckily i had a lot of full AOs and AKEs with me and i decided to waste a little fuel and challenge them. It took a while and i thought it was a lost cause when i realized they had brought a division, 3 regiments and lots of artillery and engineers. They bombarded the island with Battleships by Night and pounded it from the air with CV planes by day. The airfield and port went to 100% damage fairly quickly.

Luckily i had built the forts up to level 6 so while they were able to reduce it they never got advantageous odds. Luckily i had stuffed the place with supplies so those never ran low.

Now i have managed to get the KB and everything up to Adak along with 3 more divisions and a brigade. I'm moving in two upsized squadrons of zeros, vals and kates along with 2 big sentais of g3m3 nells. That should hold things up there for a while.

speaking of luck, this last turn i got some nells onto the partially repaired field at adak and despite the avg pilot experience of 57 and no escort they did all right.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 23, 42
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Sub attack near Lord Howe Island at 104,161

Japanese Ships
SS I-6

Allied Ships
AM Punjab, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
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ASW attack near Perth at 46,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-157, hits 5, heavy damage

Allied Ships
AM Colac
AM Warrnambool
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Umnak Island at 168,51

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 28

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 12 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
BB California, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
BB Oklahoma, Torpedo hits 3, heavy damage
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Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 188945 troops, 1861 guns, 872 vehicles, Assault Value = 6163

Defending force 72275 troops, 333 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2484

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
210 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Assaulting units:
68th Division
27th Division
32nd Division
40th Division
37th Division
6th Division
13th Division
110th Division
36th Division
63rd Division
3rd Division
34th Division
69th Division
35th Division
41st Division
59th Division
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
11th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
22nd AA Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
North China Area Army
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
China Expeditionary Army
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
11th Army
1st Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion

Defending units:
73rd Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
26th Chinese Corps
58th Chinese Corps
72nd Chinese Corps
10th Chinese Corps
5th Construction Regiment
99th Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
14th Construction Regiment
23rd Group Army
50th Chinese Corps
29th Group Army
27th Group Army
19th Group Army
9th War Area
17th Chinese Base Force
I hope to get Changsha sometime

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/14/2020 1:35:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		I hope that you have subs near those BBs. Your ships move first. Don't forget night search. Expect a large CAP over them.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/14/2020 2:01:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Joe,

I didn't even think to move any more subs up there. I had a few nearby but they got pounded by all the CV searches and ASW assets they used.

The oklahoma showed up on the sunk ship list and 2 Kingfishers showed up as ground losses. So hopefully i got one.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/14/2020 2:05:09 AM   
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If his CVs are still in the area, they may be low on sorties and have highly fatigued pilots.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/14/2020 4:51:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		My fighter situation was pretty bad for a while because of the lack of Nak-35s. I think it has improved alot. Can somebody verify for me?

It's 9/24/42 and all my CV,CVL, and CVE fighters are A6M5c and all their pilots are 80+ experience. I was parking 80+ pilots in TRACOM but i figured the A6M5c is better than my opponents so why not use them now. Or should i wait?

as far as army fighters go, i have 7 large sentai (42) of Ki-44c, 5 medium sentai (36) of Ki-43-IIa, and 14 Chutai (12) of Ki-45AIa. over 125 of the pilots are 80+ the rest are 70+. Likewise i figured the Ki-44cs are good enough for the 80+ pilots. Is that right? a lot of my Ki-45AIa are crossed trained for low level ground bombing but i haven't used them in that role yet.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 10:17:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 24, 42
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ASW attack near Carnarvon at 47,133

Japanese Ships
SS I-160, hits 4

Allied Ships
DD Electra
BB Revenge
CA Cornwall
CA Devonshire
CA Dorsetshire
CA Louisville
DD Voyager
DD Dunlap
DD Inconstant
DD Express
a IJN sub near the NW corner of Australia finds a big convoy headed who knows where and gets hit.
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Sub attack near Carnarvon at 48,132

Japanese Ships
SS I-160, hits 19, and is sunk

Allied Ships
DD Caldwell
BB Revenge
CA Cornwall
CA Devonshire
CA Dorsetshire
CA Louisville
DD Voyager
DD Dunlap
DD Inconstant
DD Express
DD Electra
that sub didn't last long- BBs and CAs covered by DDs.
A mouse over shows 2CVs, 8Fighters, 6Bombers, 3Aux - not really sure what's going on there.
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Night Naval bombardment of Cox's Bazar at 54,43 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

3 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
CA Ashigara, Shell hits 1
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Myoko
DD Mochizuki
DD Nagatsuki
DD Kikuzuki
DD Satsuki
This BB TF got nothing at all and i don't know why
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Morning Air attack on Townsville , at 92,144

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 40

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 5
P-40E Warhawk x 29

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 6 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
23 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet *
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Morning Air attack on Townsville , at 92,144

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 2
P-40E Warhawk x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet *
sweeping Townsville from Port Moresby to see what's around.
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Morning Air attack on Lanchow , at 81,34

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 28

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged

Refinery hits 39
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Morning Air attack on Lanchow , at 81,34

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 10

No Japanese losses

Refinery hits 11
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Afternoon Air attack on Lanchow , at 81,34

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 30

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 1 damaged

Refinery hits 12
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Afternoon Air attack on Lanchow , at 81,34

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 16

No Japanese losses

Refinery hits 19
I'm not really sure what i'm doing here. i was thinking of how to reduce his supply in china and figured if i hit the refinery it would stop producing supplies but if later i captured it i could still get the oil back to japan. Does that make sense?
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Ground combat at Adak Island (162,52)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 29123 troops, 238 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 1693

Defending force 21957 troops, 591 guns, 585 vehicles, Assault Value = 546

Japanese ground losses:
53 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
52nd Division
27th Electric Engineer Regiment
Guards Mixed Brigade
303rd Ind.Infantry Battalion
53rd Division
302nd Ind.Infantry Battalion
54th Division
7th Division
Ichiki Det.
31st Air Defense AA Regiment
5th Fleet
9th Ind. Engineer Regiment
16th JNAF AF Unit
1st Air Army
107th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
22nd Marine Regiment
87th Mountain Regiment
138th(Sep) Infantry Regiment
41st Infantry Division
813th Engineer Aviation Battalion
209th Field Artillery Battalion
503rd Coast AA Regiment
this is what Adak looks like now that i got all those reinforcements to fight back against their invasion. I think it looks pretty good.
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Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 189209 troops, 1861 guns, 873 vehicles, Assault Value = 6189

Defending force 72157 troops, 332 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2471

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 4

Japanese adjusted assault: 6781

Allied adjusted defense: 9559

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 4)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
17138 casualties reported
Squads: 45 destroyed, 1091 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 84 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 114 disabled
Guns lost 54 (1 destroyed, 53 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2602 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 537 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 139 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 51 disabled
Guns lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)

Assaulting units:
27th Division
63rd Division
35th Division
41st Division
34th Division
110th Division
40th Division
3rd Division
36th Division
69th Division
13th Division
68th Division
6th Division
32nd Division
37th Division
59th Division
22nd AA Regiment
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment
11th Army
China Expeditionary Army
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
North China Area Army
1st Mortar Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
11th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion

Defending units:
37th Chinese Corps
26th Chinese Corps
10th Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
58th Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
5th Construction Regiment
20th Chinese Corps
72nd Chinese Corps
14th Construction Regiment
23rd Group Army
19th Group Army
50th Chinese Corps
9th War Area
29th Group Army
27th Group Army
17th Chinese Base Force
This was my first attack on Changsha. I'd really like to get it. Seems to me this wasn't such a bad start.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 12:40:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Speaking of supply for china, a while back i noticed over 100 auxilary planes at Ledo. I had no idea what they were doing there but it seemed strange. finally i figured out that they were flying supply to china. Luckily i managed to amass more than 250 Sallys to hit the base and destroy a lot of them. I did quite a number on the airfield but it's up to a size 7 with over 170 fighters at it now. Maybe i should have gone for the refinery there too.
I was also lucky to follow some of the damaged transports to chittagong and get a CA BB TF on it. Overall they have lost 76 C-47s, 10 DC-3s, and 17 DC-2s so i hope the airlift is hurt a little.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 6:47:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		That will hurt since there are few DC-2s and DC-3s. He will have to upgrade the units and the C-47s may not be numerous at this time. Next, put a low, small percentage LRCAP over that base and any base that they might be flying to in order to increase OPS losses.

That 87th Mountain regiment is one that he had to buy out. I think that it leaves later so he can't get that back. The Marine regiment will be part of a division, losing that could make that Marine division less experienced since about one third of it will be replacements. Keep a LRCAP over the base to knock down any PBYs trying to extract any parts of units. Don't forget a minefield there or minisubs.

Changsha, bombard with only the artillery and let the ground units rest. He has a lot of support but no additional AT guns nor artillery so think about bringing in armour units. Bomb night and day to reduce his supplies through usage and keep him from rebuilding forts. Bomb from as many different bases and altitudes to get as many different raids as is possible since each attack causes the supply usage to increase 10%.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 6:53:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Man, Joe. You are such a great wealth of information and give your advice so freely. Your a godsend to us players that don't know what we're doing. or maybe i'm the only one. I don't know. But THANK YOU>

i was a little reluctant to LRCAP Ledo with 117 fighters there. I guess i could try it and see how it goes.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 7:29:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		Put the LRCAP low but don't bomb it and see what happens. Even 10% might be enough.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 7:35:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

My fighter situation was pretty bad for a while because of the lack of Nak-35s. I think it has improved alot. Can somebody verify for me?

It's 9/24/42 and all my CV,CVL, and CVE fighters are A6M5c and all their pilots are 80+ experience. I was parking 80+ pilots in TRACOM but i figured the A6M5c is better than my opponents so why not use them now. Or should i wait?

as far as army fighters go, i have 7 large sentai (42) of Ki-44c, 5 medium sentai (36) of Ki-43-IIa, and 14 Chutai (12) of Ki-45AIa. over 125 of the pilots are 80+ the rest are 70+. Likewise i figured the Ki-44cs are good enough for the 80+ pilots. Is that right? a lot of my Ki-45AIa are crossed trained for low level ground bombing but i haven't used them in that role yet.


I think you're in great shape. Not sure how much supply you expended to get the A6M5c that early, but you're good at this point. You may know this already, but don't upgrade the Nicks to the next version (the cannon can't hit anything)

How is the R&D looking on the Next Gen fighters, like N1K1 and Ki-84? Are you investing in the D4Y line?

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 8:00:00 PM   
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Hi Qball, Thanks. It might have been a bit of supply but i'm pretty much shooting in the dark. This Scen 2 so maybe i'm okay.

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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 8:01:20 PM   
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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 8:03:03 PM   
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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 8:05:41 PM   
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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 8:06:47 PM   
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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 8:45:38 PM   
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RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) - 7/15/2020 9:32:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		R&D looks good overall but I wonder if you over invested in the Jill. I feel like ots not a massive improvement over the B5N, not worth the expense. And you don't need a high production rate either, even with supersized groups. Thats my two yen....

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