RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please

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Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/18/2014 12:32:20 PM)
April 18th 1943 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 0 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Glens detect a convoy out from San Francisco that reports as containing an ARD. Will start moving lots of subs to try and attack this, if it really is an ARD it will be moving slowly. Marshalls Quiet Solomons, etc. Strong confirmation that an attack on Buka is expected. 4 AMc clear 15 of my mines, then my SCTF arrives and sinks them with excessive overkill, surprising the enemy: quote: Night Time Surface Combat, near Buka at 109,128, Range 10,000 Yards Japanese Ships CA Maya CA Chokai CA Mikuma CA Kako DD Naganami DD Michishio DD Hibiki DD Yayoi DD Uzuki DD Fumizuki Allied Ships AMc Cockatoo, Shell hits 1, and is sunk AMc Redbird, Shell hits 4, and is sunk AMc Condor, Shell hits 4, and is sunk AMc Crossbill, Shell hits 2, and is sunk Improved night sighting under 100% moonlight Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions and 100% moonlight: 11,000 yards Range closes to 10,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 10,000 yards Japanese open fire on surprised Allied ships at 10,000 yards I have only 180 AV in small forces behind level 4 forts so probably not that good a defense. Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Rota forts to 6. Boela airfield to 3. R&D Ki-84a to 8/43. Reinforcements Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/18/2014 12:39:17 PM)
quote: The quiet before the storm? And, being MrKane, I expect when it comes it will include the kitchen sink. Question is just how much will he attack - will he send the carriers to the Solomons - or is there a 2nd thrust, e,g at Kusaie Island and Eniwetok. Will he go all in and attack Rabaul or Port Moresby or is he just heading for Buka and Buna and maybe some small bases? I have moved some surface forces down to the Rabaul area and are lurking far enough back that I hope he won't spot them.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/18/2014 3:46:15 PM)
April 19th 1943 Air Losses: 5 Japanese, 0 Allied, 2 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Turn 500 is done, [sm=00000436.gif] Subs Quiet Marshalls Quiet Solomons, etc. Quiet Burma area Quiet Noticed there are 34 units, 94,000 troops and over 1000 each guns and vehicles at Ledo. I wonder if he bought out some of the yellow restricted Chinese after they were mauled and flew them out to Ledo and he is now forming a new Chinese Army? China Liberators hit Lanchow at night. Some Ki-44-IIc on CAP, 3 shot down, no hits on ths city. Damaged a few liberators and I had hoped that at extended range they might not make it back, but no such luck. Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Allies expand Buin airfield to 5. R&D Ki-43-IIIa to 8/43 Reinforcements Quiet

FeurerKrieg -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/18/2014 6:12:56 PM)
Aerial mining questions for you - What mines do the Nells carry? And where do you find that out? What Japanese planes can do aerial mining? Is there a certain date that this becomes an option? Thanks!

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/18/2014 6:23:39 PM)
April 20th 1943 Air Losses: 29 Japanese, 21 Allied, 9 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Marshalls Quiet Solomons, etc. Lightnings and Corsairs sweep Rabaul. Some of the defenders were resting to recover their morale (those that weren't recovered to morale 99 - nothing beats a good fight). Losses for the day: 16 A6M5, 7 Ki-44-IIc, 4 N1K1-J, 1 A6M2-N (off a CA), versus 18 P-38G, 2 F4U-1. Adequate but not good, next time will see if can have more N1K1-J in the air. Funny sort of combat: quote: Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2-N Rufe x 2 A6M5 Zero x 45 N1K1-J George x 51 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 21 Allied aircraft P-38G Lightning x 50 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 8 destroyed N1K1-J George: 2 destroyed Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 4 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38G Lightning: 8 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 6 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet During the replay, it started with 18 Corsairs and 50 Lightnings showing, after a bit the number of Lightnings started increasing. It looks like he had everything else on LRCAP and just a small force swept. So I think he may have more like 100 Lightnings involved. I've increased N1K1-J production to 150. These A6M5 are the last group of Zeroes in a front line position but it will be May before I can get them upgraded. Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet Reinforcements Quiet Production Made some changes, have increased D4Y4 production extensively by converting a large idle factory. To compensate have converted a Ha-34 factory to Ha-33 and I may have underestimated Ha-45 demand so have converted a Ha-34 factory to that as well. This is going to blow most of the supply savings for the month.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/18/2014 6:31:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg Aerial mining questions for you - What mines do the Nells carry? And where do you find that out? What Japanese planes can do aerial mining? Is there a certain date that this becomes an option? Thanks! My understanding is: Type 3 Mine, device ID 1713, not sure anywhere it specifically says that. Don't know, probably any 2E level bomber. Might be restricted to IJN. Might be allowed from Emily. The device start date in the scenario I have is 12/42 so only after that do you have any in the pool. I first tried using them in January 43. However, as I haven't managed to work out how to use them, nothing I say should be believed[:D]

FeurerKrieg -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/18/2014 7:00:08 PM)
Good to know. I was wondering when I might be able to try to get it to work also. I imagine there is something in the editor on the mine devices that indicates whether it can be air dropped or not. I'll check it out tonight.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/18/2014 7:08:31 PM)
The manual says aerial mining in Jan 1, 1943 fwiw.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/19/2014 7:58:10 AM)
April 21st 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 0 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: [>:] Subs I haven't seen any Allied subs attacking my convoys for a while. He has a couple operating North of Ambon. He has some in the area between the Bonins and Mariannas. He has some South of Babeldoab. He has lots near Rabaul but mostly S boats. As a consequence, I have grounded some of the ASW planes (just leaving some float planes on naval search to detect if the situation changes) and sent most of the ASW craft back to base. This is helping a lot in saving fuel - last turn I saved 14,000 fuel[:)] Engineering Ponape fort to 5.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/19/2014 3:48:12 PM)
April 22nd 1943 Air Losses: 10 Japanese, 1 Allied, 3 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs SS Perch sinks TK Omurasan Maru, a nice 28 VP 11,600 capacity, West of Truk. The task force had just delivered 65,000 tons of fuel to Truk and was heading back. First attack scores 1 hit but then later she attacks again scoring two more hits and sinking the tanker. Marshalls Quiet Solomons, etc. Allies sweep Gasmata and Kavieng. At Kavieng I had forgotten about some Oscars and they are shot down. Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Paramushiro-jima forts to 4. Allies have built Nauru Island airfield to 5. This puts Ponape in range of 4E bombers. R&D Quiet Reinforcements Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/19/2014 7:31:41 PM)
April 23rd 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 3 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs SS RO-102 passes close to Roi-Namur and finds some Allied subs. She takes a shot at SS Hoe, scores hit - but it is a dud[sm=Christo_pull_hair.gif]! Everywhere Quiet I'm moving out forces as they arrive. Gradually buying out units and freeing up divisions in Burma to redeploy. Air-lifting troops from the isolated bases back to strengthen points and otherwise building defenses. I'm just waiting for MrKane to make a move. Should I be attacking somewhere? I can't think of anywhere that makes sense to do so. It is so long since I saw MrKane making plans in the Solomons I wonder if the whole thing is a massive distraction and I am about to see an invasion force appear somewhere else, the North, or Sumatra, or Burma.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/19/2014 7:45:37 PM)
I don't think Burma is likely yet. Not with China gone... More island hopping I think. Really, I don't think the Allies should be in a hurry yet...any idea when the first Essex shows up?

FeurerKrieg -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/19/2014 8:05:43 PM)
Should be around March for the first one. I think August for the 2nd. But there are a slew of CVE's coming throughout that time frame and they can put up a lot of planes when gathered together.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/19/2014 9:16:22 PM)
I suggested Burma because he has recently been running recce over coastal bases, but it would seem foolish. The reasons I think he may want to push a bit: 1. He is doing nothing significant against my economy. 2. He knows that divisions are being transferred out from China so defenses are getting stronger. 3. He knows that I have accelerated planes quite a bit, have the D4Y4 already, and he may have looked and seen that the Ki-84a will be available soon. However, he could well be waiting until he has replaced all the fighters on the carriers by Hellcats.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/20/2014 8:28:05 AM)
April 24th 1943 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 0 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: The quiet continues. Subs The Allies have a sub at Ponape, I sent SC Ch 27 to deal with it. Unfortunately, the other happened and the sub chaser is sunk[:(]. Elsewhere Quiet Economy I have taken to dropping liquids from Palembang and Brunei/Miri at Hong Kong. It seems to be flowing to Fusan okay now, have 45,000 fuel and 9,000 oil at Fusan now. Port Arthur has 26,000 oil and fuel, oh and 450,000 supply[:D]. At Urumchi only 1 oil well left to fix.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/20/2014 6:50:39 PM)
April 25th 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 0 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: The quiet continues. Subs I-26 tries to sink an AM off SE Oz and suffers a little, 6/4/0 so I will leave her on patrol. Marshalls Quiet Solomons, etc. Quiet Burma area Latest report of aircraft at Ledo is 17 Fighters, 119 bombers, 65 auxiliary. Looks like he thinks I can't do anything by bombing - he may be right. What does he plan to do with his bombers? China Quiet Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Myitkyina forts to 4, as much to try and improve supply flow. R&D A6M5c to 5/43, will stop here and move the 4 factories to R&D other things (A7M2, Ki-94-II, Ki-83, J7W1). When the month arrives, A6M5 factories will upgrade and, for the moment, A6M5 production is stopped. Reinforcements Quiet

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/20/2014 7:07:13 PM)
For you the A6M5c will be restricted to CVs right? For me it became my fighter mainstay...you may want to consider a few extra squadrons of them for bomber defense in low aviation support bases. SR1 comes in handy, and the plane can mangle bombers nicely. Bombers at Ledo. Let us hope they are Bleheims.[:)] You know what the transports are doing already...supplying Chinese stragglers.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/20/2014 8:44:02 PM)
quote: You know what the transports are doing already...supplying Chinese stragglers. No, he has stopped that. The Chinese stragglers are collapsing fast and show all the signs of being out of supply. He may be intermittently supplying Warazup but more likely is keeping them there just in case. I assume the Chindits are unrestricted, so he could have sent them to help out in the Pacific. Blenheims, Wellingtons, 2E bombers, does he get any? I haven't seen a 2E for so long.... A6M5c as an SR 1 fighter, interesting thought. When I get the Ki-84a and the Ki-43-IV it looks like the IJA will have the better fighters all round so take the main defense. The main thing the IJN can provide is max ceiling for the N1K1-J.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/20/2014 9:32:21 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery Blenheims, Wellingtons, 2E bombers, does he get any? I haven't seen a 2E for so long.... He should be up to the blenheim VD I think.... Those guys should be relegated to search and asw, they really just die in bombing attacks. Maybe used as night bombers and definitely as trainers.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/21/2014 9:52:18 AM)
April 26th 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 0 Allied, -1 Pilots (someone escaped) Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: The quiet continues. Subs I-19 takes damaged (10/3/1) near Pearl Harbour and will head for the barn. Marshalls Quiet Solomons, etc. Quiet Burma area Quiet China After months of relentless bombardment, and frequent attacks, the 61st Chinese Corps surrenders on the Chengtu-Tsuyung road[:)]. 8th division, and 6 artillery units, start the long march to Burma. 8th Division's experience is now 90. There are now 4 Chinese hold-outs: Near Lanchow, 4000 troops under regular attack and almost completely disabled, collapsing quickly. Near Kienko, maybe 14000 troops, I have reinforced and will start attacks. Near Chengtu, 50000 troops, been bombarding this regularly but will be at least a month before I can attack. Near the Burmese border, 5000 troops, these have some movement still available and are deep in the mountains making it hard to supply my forces but they are disabled, disrupted and generally in a mess. Unless he air-lifted some troops out, or evacuated them very early, that is all of the remaining Chinese units. Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Quiet R&D Ki-84a to 7/43[:)]. Due about May 14th. Reinforcements Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/21/2014 12:06:22 PM)
April 27th 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 1 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: The quiet continues. Subs Quiet Marshalls Quiet Solomons, etc. Quiet Burma area Quiet China Destroy another Chinese Corps. Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Quiet R&D Mitsubishi Ha-43 to 1/44 Reinforcements Quiet IJN Pilot replacement pool is now empty and drawing pilots from those that have not completed basic training.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/21/2014 4:06:32 PM)
April 28th 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 1 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: The quiet continues. Subs Quiet Marshalls 4 liberators bomb each of Mili and Maloelap. Solomons, etc. Quiet Burma area Quiet Allies now have 166 fighters reported at Kalemyo. I have 152 fighters on CAP at Katha, 186 at Magwe and 60 at Rangoon so if he plans on some sweeps it could be bloody. China Mostly quiet Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Allies have expanded Buin airfield to 6, the largest possible. R&D Ki-43-IV to 8/43 The last Ki-84a factory has repaired giving me 7 factories working on it and a due date of 11th May. Need to start thinking about how many to produce and how many factories to leave working R&D on the Ki-84r. The Ki-84r is slightly faster, has a better climb and much better maneuver at the top bands. It seems a step up rather than a major change. It also has a better range with drop tank. If I put two factories in production and leave 5 on R&D I would have the Ki-84r sometime in November. If I put 4 factories on R&D would be January 1944. I have about 500 IJA fighters not on training missions but will want to keep some on SR 1 aircraft. So between now and the end of the year could do with about 700-800 aircraft. So looks like the best option is to let the size 55 and one other factory enter production and leave 5 on R&D. Expand the factories to produce 120 aircraft per month. When the Ki-84r comes online, allow 3 factories to enter production increasing production to 210. I'll only need the Ki-84r until the Ki-83 comes online, in September 1944 with luck. Reinforcements Kure 7th SNLF, containing 24 DP guns - where to send it? Some base he is going to invade would be best.

mind_messing -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/21/2014 5:07:41 PM)
quote: Kure 7th SNLF, containing 24 DP guns - where to send it? Some base he is going to invade would be best. Whatever you do, make sure there are some other units providing AV with it: units with CD/DP guns draw a great deal of fire from bombardment ships in ampihbious landings. From my limited observations, CD equipped units will draw the bulk of bombardment fire, so let the Kure 7th SNLF get hammered to preserve some bigger, better IJA units. Also, what's your plans for late-war planes for IJA and IJN? I hadn't considered the Ki-83, but looking at the stats, it seems very, very good as a bomber-killer, but it seems to me the Mustangs and Thunderbolts beat it in the fighter role.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/21/2014 6:34:37 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mind_messing quote: Kure 7th SNLF, containing 24 DP guns - where to send it? Some base he is going to invade would be best. Whatever you do, make sure there are some other units providing AV with it: units with CD/DP guns draw a great deal of fire from bombardment ships in ampihbious landings. From my limited observations, CD equipped units will draw the bulk of bombardment fire, so let the Kure 7th SNLF get hammered to preserve some bigger, better IJA units. Good-point, and somewhere I can mine. The Marianas are a nice spot but somewhere further forward might be better. quote: Also, what's your plans for late-war planes for IJA and IJN? I hadn't considered the Ki-83, but looking at the stats, it seems very, very good as a bomber-killer, but it seems to me the Mustangs and Thunderbolts beat it in the fighter role. Ki-83 as the mainstay for IJA and Ki-94-II to give top cover. J7W1 for the IJN and A7M2 for any carriers that are left. For an SR 1 fighter I'll probably stick with the Ki-43-IV as there isn't much better. I think the Ki-83 stacks well against the P-51D but would be hammered by the P-51H but that is not until September. It is probably slightly worse than the P-47D25 and significantly beat by the P-47N. On the other hand, it is going to shred the Yak-9U if things get that far. Nothing is going to stand up against the P-80A, and P-82B in 1946. However, it is all close enough that numbers, supply and home advantage will count more.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/21/2014 6:47:10 PM)
April 29th 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 1 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: The quiet continues. Subs Quiet Marshalls 4 liberators bomb each of Mili and Wotje, lightnings sweep Kusaie island. Solomons, etc. Quiet Burma area Quiet At Warazup I can keep up intermittent bombardments this will get me something like 30 VP a month and cost about 15 VP. However, it is a pain because I have to micro-manage the artillery, stop it for disrupted units, put damaged units in reserve, etc. If I moved the tanks out and put 4 infantry divisions that contain the heavy infantry squads with their 25 anti-armour rating and a good supply of 47mm AT guns would I get a reasonable result from an attack, he probably has forts 6 by now. Reasonable means suffering no more than three times the destroyed devices that the Allies suffer. I assume that even though AT units won't attack the AT guns in divisions to contribute. China Finished off the Chinese near the Burmese border. All Chinese forces are now unable to move and doomed. Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Katha forts to 4, trying to improve supply movement. Allies expand Darwin airfield to 6. R&D Quiet Reinforcements Quiet

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/21/2014 11:19:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery I'll only need the Ki-84r until the Ki-83 comes online, in September 1944 with luck. Reinforcements Kure 7th SNLF, containing 24 DP guns - where to send it? Some base he is going to invade would be best. How does the use of a 2e fighter, as your mainstay, effect HI drain and engine stockpiles, and supply consumption? Put the Kure on Umboi? With some mines.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 7:25:10 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery I'll only need the Ki-84r until the Ki-83 comes online, in September 1944 with luck. Reinforcements Kure 7th SNLF, containing 24 DP guns - where to send it? Some base he is going to invade would be best. How does the use of a 2e fighter, as your mainstay, effect HI drain and engine stockpiles, and supply consumption? Remains to be seen, if it gets that far. For HI I am not expecting that to be a limiting factor. As the plane is twice as good as the Ki-94-II I hope to take 70% of the losses and that will compensate for the extra supply cost of taking replacements. With fewer losses I'll lose fewer pilots so get better pilots with even more savings. quote: Put the Kure on Umboi? With some mines. Why Umboi, he doesn't need to attack it?

JocMeister -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 7:38:44 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery I think the Ki-83 stacks well against the P-51D but would be hammered by the P-51H but that is not until September. It is probably slightly worse than the P-47D25 and significantly beat by the P-47N. On the other hand, it is going to shred the Yak-9U if things get that far. Nothing is going to stand up against the P-80A, and P-82B in 1946. However, it is all close enough that numbers, supply and home advantage will count more. In my game with Erik I didn�t find the Ki-83 to make much if any a difference. This will be especially true for you since you don�t have an altitude HR and the Max Alt of the Ki-83 is only 36.600 (assuming you use Simons latest AC files). I think all US fighters at that stage can be put above that. So you will be dived on whether you sweep or are on CAP. I think you might be better off using the Frank as its higher MVR will give it better survive ability when being dived on. Not to mention you can build twice as many Franks as Ki-83s using the same amount of engines.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 8:35:13 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: JocMeister quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery I think the Ki-83 stacks well against the P-51D but would be hammered by the P-51H but that is not until September. It is probably slightly worse than the P-47D25 and significantly beat by the P-47N. On the other hand, it is going to shred the Yak-9U if things get that far. Nothing is going to stand up against the P-80A, and P-82B in 1946. However, it is all close enough that numbers, supply and home advantage will count more. In my game with Erik I didn�t find the Ki-83 to make much if any a difference. This will be especially true for you since you don�t have an altitude HR and the Max Alt of the Ki-83 is only 36.600 (assuming you use Simons latest AC files). I think all US fighters at that stage can be put above that. So you will be dived on whether you sweep or are on CAP. I think you might be better off using the Frank as its higher MVR will give it better survive ability when being dived on. Not to mention you can build twice as many Franks as Ki-83s using the same amount of engines. Not using the latest files. Ceiling for Ki-83 is 41530. Key USAAF fighters have ceilings from 41600 to 42000 but USNAF fighters have lower ceilings. On sweeps, the aim would be to keep the Ki-83 on LRCAP and have the Ki-94-II do the sweeps using their altitude advantage. On CAP not so easy because of the lousy climb rate for the Ki-94-II. Somewhere, I read that a 40 mph speed difference causes the maneuveur of the slower plane to be halved which makes the Ki-84r about the same as the Ki-83. Greyjoy seemed to have a lot of problems against the Ki-83 in his game with MrKane. However, before I can worry about that I need to survive another year and a half. Incidentally, the Ki-94-II would make an awesome Kamikaze or low nav attack plane with it speed, armour, durability and 500kg bomb. Doubt I will be able to afford to use them for that. Some plane stats: [image]local://upfiles/43194/68EDD9A86B4547B59C1998B6041E28F8.jpg[/image]

JocMeister -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 9:23:03 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery Not using the latest files. Ceiling for Ki-83 is 41530. Key USAAF fighters have ceilings from 41600 to 42000 but USNAF fighters have lower ceilings. On sweeps, the aim would be to keep the Ki-83 on LRCAP and have the Ki-94-II do the sweeps using their altitude advantage. On CAP not so easy because of the lousy climb rate for the Ki-94-II. Somewhere, I read that a 40 mph speed difference causes the maneuveur of the slower plane to be halved which makes the Ki-84r about the same as the Ki-83. Greyjoy seemed to have a lot of problems against the Ki-83 in his game with MrKane. However, before I can worry about that I need to survive another year and a half. Incidentally, the Ki-94-II would make an awesome Kamikaze or low nav attack plane with it speed, armour, durability and 500kg bomb. Doubt I will be able to afford to use them for that. Erik never had the Ki-83 in great numbers as Tom did and by the time Erik got them allied CAP was usually somewhere between 500-1000 planes. Never encountered the Ki94. Looks like a very good plane for sweeps as you say. Backed up by the Ki-83 as you suggest might be a very good combo. [:)]

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