Lokasenna -> RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent (8/11/2017 3:47:34 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel Lowpe said the strat bombing learning curve was tough. He was right. Lokasenna urged, "Bomb at 2k! The losses are worth it." He was right. Targeting Manpower definitely seems the way to go. I'm taking pretty heavy losses now at 2k (sometimes 3k or 4k) - in fact, the losses aren't sustainable. At this rate, I'll run out of B-29s in about a month. But the hits scored at 2k are dramatically higher than at 8k or 10k or more. Dramatically. Enough so that the attrition/point scored is probably considerably lower. And there's hope. I'm hoping that getting the B-24Js flying from Ningpo will take a big part of the load. And the newer, fast, longer-range B-29s start coming online in three days. I probably won't get them in the war for at least two or three weeks but they'll make a big impact before the year is out, I think. (It takes a long time for B-29s that arrive at East Coast to make West Coast and become airworthy and make the hops to Midway to Formosa). I probably need to score another 30k to 40k strategic points to get within striking range of auto victory by year's end. That may be possible but it's going to be hard. If auto vic is the objective, I probably need to forego the DEI and pour all resources - supply, men, ships, aircraft - into Formosa and the China campaign. That's the most efficient, will open up ground war possibilities, and keeps my schwerpunkt intact as my air force turns its full attention on Japan. When I switched to "long term" bombing for points, I upped my altitude to 7K (minimum to avoid balloons). In most cases. When I really wanted to bomb a particular target, like a certain factory or ships I suspected were in a port, I absolutely hit at 2K. The risk is worth the reward, but it isn't sustainable for B-29s. For B-24s, yes... to an extent.
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