el cid again -> RE: RHS 5.413 and 6.42 uploaded (sans EOS) (1/3/2007 4:27:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Dili Found that any G3M2 Nell units that exist at start dont upgrade to anything so stay on Nells until the end of the war. That could be right, but attrition might be a problem. REPLY: I checked in my RHSCVO game AI vs AI test number 165: G3M2s upgrade just fine - about 5 options (including the G3M2). Something is wrong with your files - installation - or supply situation for the unit(s) in question. WITP has lots of "tests" before it lets something happen. [For example, a land unit unable for ANY of a list or reasons to attack will show the option greyed out - even though it can attack if ALL the tests are passed] Ki-61 Tony-I has an RHS entering operational date January 44. In reality they started to be build in the end of 1942 and entered first fights in Spring 1943 in New Guinea. REPLY: This is a somewhat contentious issue. RHS has greatly delayed the appearence of the Ki-61 Tony deliberately to be historical about it. The dates found in CHS were grossly moved forward. Aside from Francillon's Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War (the "bible" for RHS on Japanese aircraft) I have a dedicated history of the Ki-61 - and I am certain we have this right. [The Ki-61 Hein in Japanese Army Air Force Service] FYI RHS has deliberately NOT elected to use production dates - which seem to have been used by CHS. Instead, we either use actual in theater operational date (in theater applies to the Allies - operational ETO does not count) OR we estimate that date (when it never happened - mainly for late war planes). For the estimate, we used the best case, from either of two benchmarks: a) if possible from first standard aircraft production date; (b) if not possible because not produced, from first flight date. [There is even a fall back if the plane never flew at all - I have an elaborate way to calculate first flight date from various other dates in the design/development process]. You will NEVER find a Japanese plane in RHS (except by mistake) that is operational before one of the following two situations occur (in order of priority): 1) The actual operational date with a unit in history; 2) TWO MONTHS AFTER the start of line production (actual or estimated) date - to permit distribution/working up. [This because it is the historical best case for Japan - achieved with a gigantic 4 engine aircraft - H8K1s attacked Pearl Harbor only two months after line production produced the first airframe. If it can be done for a big plane, it could be done for a small one.] This order of priorities means that a plane that had a lot of development trouble does not get to "jump the gun" by a long time - as was specifically done in the case of the Tony in CHS. This subject has passionate partisans - so Joe and I devised a formal set of rules - and honored them - whatever partisans said. In the end our work was both accepted - and then ultimately not used - by CHS - and RHS was born more or less as CHS with the "alternate plane set." In spite of these (and in the case of aircraft, it was all published - and is still in the Forum - because I did it for CHS under supervision of Joe Wilkerson) defined criteria, there is still room for confusion: For example a plane might show up in a battle BEFORE it is operational - and get reported as such - and I don't count that. If I did count that Japan would get improvised night fighters a lot sooner, for example. But a field improv or a prototype somehow in the field does not count as "issue to a line unit of production aircraft." Another possibility is misidentification. Participants are quite sincere and passionate about what they encountered - and very often wrong. You can find "records" of this or that which are wholly false. Doesen't matter to me: if the Japanese say the plane wasn't there - wasn't even built yet - and particularly if industry and service records seem to verify each other - I would disregard a report "we met that one" on principle. Trained (unofficially but probably more than any graduate student ever is) by the retired official US Army historian (because I grew up near his home), I was taught to diligently seek out the records of the other side, and use them.
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