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Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (10/8/2011 1:36:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: inqistor
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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
Inqistor, I guess I was unclear. I will use the Nates in the frontline until they are replaced. Actually, I plan on upgrading 1 chutai to Oscars immediately. There are enough Nates in the pool to fill out all the Nate units in the 3 & 5 Air Divisions. The concern is that there won't be any spares to replace losses until I get enough Oscars to upgrade other Nate units. It's something I'll have to live with.
Actually, I am saying, that it is worth considering running NATEs production for a short time. They have nothing in the upgrade path, so factories will be damaged during conversion. That way, if you leave them on production, you will have extra 30 NATEs at the end of month, if you will change, you will have only about 12 OSCARs, hardly enough to even convert something. And remember, that it is good to have reserve planes, as they will come into repired planes place.
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Good point on the 1E bombers & level 2 airfields. I was unclear here too I guess. I will use them until they are upgraded. Initially, they are very effective against Allied merchant shipping but become less effective as the merchant shipping becomes more scarce.
Hmm, and why are they actually more effective, than normal level bombers? In WITP they were DB, but I do not think in AE they dive, or even glide, so they should have similar hit ratio, as SALLYs (even worse, because medium bombers carry more bombs).
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ORIGINAL: CT Grognard
The Seikan Tunnel connecting Honshu and Hokkaido was only opened in 1988.
A 3.6km single-track railway tunnel was completed in 1942 as a fixed link between Kyushu and Honshu. Another single-track tunnel was completed in 1944. The double-track Shin Kanmon Tunnel was completed in 1975.
So, there was no land connection between islands before war?
The comments about Nates make sense, but I view it somewhat differently. I want to get my Oscar production increased as quickly as possible. But, if I do keep the Nate factory producing Nates for Dec, 41 and then convert it, I'm a month behind in producing Oscars for it and lose 30 Oscars in Jan 42. That's a Sentai of Nates that won't get converted to Oscars in Jan. By the end of Dec 41, I expect to have about 100 Oscars producing a month. With 3 factories producing, I'll have produced about 60 Oscars. I will have upgraded a Nate sentai to Oscars and have an extra 30-40 Nates in the pool.
Here are some stats:
I want to max out the Nates in the 3 & 5 Air Divisions. On 7 Dec, here are the Nate shortages:
3 AD:
1 S - 42 of 42
11 S - 38 of 42
84 IFC - 9 of 12
64 S Det - 6 of 12 (I'm upgrading to 11 Ki-43-Ic, cleaning out that pool & putting 6 more Nates in the pool)
77 S - 15 of 42
77 S Det A - 9 of 12
77 S Det B - 12 of 12
5 AD:
24 S - 36 of 42
50 S - 36 of 36
The following Nate shortages exist:
3 AD: 37
5 AD: 6
So, there are 43 shortages and 39 (+6 from 64 S Det) or 45 Nates in the pool. All shortages can be filled with 2 spare Nates.
The Oscar Ic factory is producing 32 a month with that factory and 2 others increasing their size by 32 each. The 32 in existence will produce 1 a day or 24 by the end of the month. Each factory that is increasing will produce about 12 in Dec for a grand total of 60 Oscars. By about 15 or 16 Dec, I'll have enough Oscars in the pool to upgrade a 12 plane chutai, putting 10-12 Nates in the pool. That should be sufficient to replace losses. After that, Oscar production should speed up, accelerating upgrades and putting more Nates in the pool. If there is a shortage of either Oscars or Nates, it'll only be for a week to 10 days tops. I don't expect to lose too many Nates or Oscars at the beginning of the war.
1E bombers. It's not that they are more effective than 2E bombers. They can fly from level 2 airfields, which makes them valuable at the start of the war. There are a lot of level 2 airfields that can be used by them to support operations.
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