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FatR -> RE: The End of the Beginning (4/4/2011 10:02:27 AM)
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Okay, as promised, I've finished late-war changes to the mosquito fleet, as well as a bunch of other modifications. Here's the changelist so far. I'll post more comments a bit later.
Ship Classes:
1)Stats of USN subs are brought in line with DaBabes. (Checked Type 2 DC, range was already at 375).
2)Stats for Mikura-class and C/D-class esorts tweaked. The number of DC racks is decreased, small-calibre AAA armament is changed towards more historical.
3)Changed the upgrade tree for Otori-class TBs to a weapon loadout more optimized against air and surface targets, and made the key upgrade available from 42/1. Three ships of the class (those in the invasion TFs) will start the game already upgraded.
4)Added a 6/45 kaiten carrier upgrade for Matsu-class DDs (but not Tachibanas). Allegedly it was done IRL. It reduces their ASW and flak capabilities, though.
5)Made in-game ship classification a bit less confusing. Torpedo boats that retain their torpedo armament will stay torpedo boats. Only those stripped of it will be reclassified as escorts.
6)Slightly increased gun ammo loads to escorts, some auxilaries and so on.
7)Added late-war flak upgrades for certain high-value transports and auxilaries, including Tonan Whalers, Type-N TL oilers, Akitsu Maru and Tokiwa. As far as I know the two latter got them IRL.
8)Added historical late-war flak/ASW/radar upgrades for Type 1 APDs. Fuel consumption reduced (fuel point/mile rate was worse than for most DDs).
9)Type HA LSI/LST class is renamed to type 101 LSI/LST class. 127/40 DP gun replaced with 76/40 and initial small-calibre AAA armament is reduced, as IRL. Added a late-war flak/radar upgrade. Fuel consumption reduced (the same reason).
10)Added an upgrade to Tachibana class available from 45/11. The main difference is its quadruple Long Lance torpedo launcher being replaced with a sextuple one, which was developed in RL for Matsus/Tachibanas, but never reached production.
11)Ch-51 class renamed CHa-251, to avoid dublication for late-war Ch-13 series SCs (same reason as their IRL renaming by the way).
12)Range of large Ch-4 and Ch-13 classes SCs increased to more historical 2000.
13)K-class motorboats are enlarged and their range and armament improved (76/60 guns are removed from the patrol version, though). Hey, as far as I can tell they are fictitious ships for Enhanced Japan scenarios anyway. They remain considerably worse than USN PTs anyway, with weaker armament and no radar.
14)Added Wa-2 AMc class for 1945. Same as Wa-1, except classified as AMc* and armament slightly improved.
15)As agreed with John 3rd, replaced 4x2 76/60 wuth 2x2 100/65 on Agano cruisers, to remove 76/60 from production entirely.
Ships, Japanese
1)Removed 33 Ukuru-class escorts from the queue.
2)Added 41 C/D-class escorts to the queue, and rearranged the production queue. Production of C/D class escorts will reach the peak in the autumn of 1944, gradually decrease in the next five months, and drop radically from May of 1945 onwards, with the last ship arriving in September of 1945 (only about 6 ships from the stock queue arrive after this date anyway). I doubt that long-range escorts will be a priority need at this point...
3)Removed 10 end-war Yugumo and Akizuki DDs from the queue. Added 3 Matsu-class DDs for late 1944-early 1945. Added 12 Tachibana-class DDs for late 1945-1946. Rearranged arrival dates of end-war DDs a bit.
4)Added 12 more Type 1 APDs to the queue. 1-2 per month are delivered until April of 1946.
5)Added two historical (T-160 and T-161) and 27 extra Type 101 LSIs to the queue. Production lasts until August of 1945.
6)Returned Kuma and Tama to their stock state. Kiso, Kitakami and Oi remain as training cruisers.
7)Set arrival locations for all motor boats to "0", so that they will not be stuck in the production, but will go to the pool.
8)Removed extra small DDs of the previous builds that were historically lost in accidents, broken up before 1939 or cancelled.
9)Added two more Otori-class TBs at the beginning of the war.
10)Three historical CHa-251 SCs are added to the map at the start. This means that they will no longer displace three Ch-13 SCs in the queue.
11)Over 100 T1 motorboats and about 30 T51 motorboats are added to the queue for 1944-46. T51s are produced slowly and phased out in spring of 1945. T1s are produces at their normal early-1945 rate until the end of the scenario. Aprroximately 150 K motorboats are added to the queue from March of 1945 to the end of the scenario. They are IJN's final defensive weapons, instead of hordes of midgets in this scenario. It should be noted that almost all of these boats are set to arrive without fuel.
12)Added 9 Wa-2 class AMcs for 1945.
Ships, Allied
1)For whatever reason, most Allied carriers in Scen 70 were arriving considerably earlier than in the current version of stock (since the build I'm still playing), and some a bit later. Their dates of arrival are synchronised with Scen 1.
Production
1)Changed A6M5b factory in Maebashi to A6M8-S and increased its size to 20, to reduce dissimilarity with the stock (originally A6M5b-S factory of size 20).
Aircraft
1)Fixed the max load issue for B7M3 and D4Y5.
Devices
1)Ship-based light AA guns tinkered with, generally to move them towards DaBabes flak mod direction**. Slightly less accuracy, more effect. Some of the older guns, like Japanese 13.2 MG, British and Japanese versions of 40mm Vickers are nerfed (Accuracy of all of these was way too good). Bofors and Oerlikon shipboard AA guns have their effect value considerably buffed (to 30 and 20 respectively). Only Japanese guns that have received unquestionable boost are 100/65 and 76/60. Will test how the modified Allied flak works before passing the build back to John.
*Wa-1 AM class is not actually used in the game, purpose-built Wa-ships are classified as To'su Wa-1 AMc.
**As a side note, AA ratings of ships seem to be calculated entirely or largely based on Effect. If Accuracy is taken into account at all, it has much lesser bearing on the final number. This seems to be one of the reasons why Japanese AA rating of, say, 1000 is not at all equal in real effectiveness to Allied AA rating of 1000.
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