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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

A few R&D experiments.

Moving a r&d factory back down the line to production of the available plane (in line) does yield factory loss and complete damage.

Moving a r&d facility forward to the next generation plane also yields loss and complete damage.

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Game notes: I have managed to get some troops to Marcus, Ponape, Eniwetok. Mostly defensive air measures in Java, bombing Ambon, Manila heavily...

Getting supply, AA, AV, and mines to Denpasar. Also mined the hex west of Denpasar. Heavy cruiser, dd task forces should control the seas west of Java. Bombing his ground forces in northern java along with a DD bombardment.

Truk now has a small CL force working out of it...not having ships in theater is tough. Got some ASW search planes up in Pescadores finally. Thank goodness for dud torpedoes as he had hit but dudded on several ships.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

We are patching up to the Beta. Is there anything special to worry about migrating a pbem game to the beta?

Should I offer to wait given the chance of a game breaking fight on the morrow?

I feel very much the visitor in this game and don't want to upset the Allies.

We choose this date when I agreed to play over a week ago in game days. Plenty of time to adjust I think.

Any advice?

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Edit: No worries, patching up on schedule. It is good to have a good opponent. I really lucked I think....knock on wood. [:)]

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There are a few things to think about.

1. You will have much worse air coordination from here on out. That will hurt you a bunch early, so make sure and mostly sweep a LOT rather than send bombers in with escorts, at least until CAP is worn down. His strikes will also suffer this, so take advantage.

2. Flak is better for both sides. This means low strikes you may have been sending will now take more losses and be disrupted more. Don't touch Colombo with a ten foot pole! Big AA there!

3. Logistics are easier, with lots of nice format changes that will reduce clicks.

4. You can use coastal routing for some tankers which keeps them feel away from most sub patrols.

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ORIGINAL: obvert
You have to wait until the factory is fully repaired to move it to the next in line with no damage. It's also imperative to make sure you're really going to the next in line. Some airframes have strange upgrade paths. Things like the various A6M upgrade paths and the Ki-61c NOT being the upgrade from the Ki-61b.

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My test shows you can move a partially repaired factory to the next generation plane without damage too. At least in the non Beta.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I was thinking the same thing...upgrades?

Lady Lex loses her big guns and gets lots of ack ack but I thought that was a couple of months ago? I can't remember if the CVs start with radar or not, but lots of AA upgrades.

I was also wondering if Warspite is with the carriers. I don't like that ship as the crew is very experienced...

I hope I am not getting too clever here with my force dispositions...should I simply mass the KB and mini KB and seek out a slugfest? There is a lot of the Japanese Navy north of Cocos and south of Ceylon...and some south of Cocos, and west of Cocos.

If I had to guess, the Allies will think that the KB will head north to join with Junyo west of Merak and take advantage of the 150 land base fighters in that area with the damaged CA retreating to the Ternate area....I have other plans however that are somewhat hamstrung by the complete lack of AKEs.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Nice working on getting all those BBs. He is going to miss those when he start doing atoll landings!

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Good points. He has a fair number of Hurricane and Airacobra losses to date.

I was commenting more about my plane losses for the entire campaign game...ugly. [:(]

The recent action over Java was a great win for Japan I think. A far cry from my first turn two weeks or so ago where 8 lightnings shot down 5 oscars & zeroes and I was questioning my ability to even contest the skies. Two weeks of retooling have done wonders.

I think this replay might get the Allies rethinking. Certainly all the allied shipping I have sunk must make him start to question the Java defense. Everything in Java favors the Empire right now...lines of supply, pools, troops, reinforcements, ships, leadership, etc. A sharp enough defeat here for the allies will give me enough time to establish a solid perimeter and take advantage of realist r&d off.


And on the positive side I haven't committed all the fighter units in the area as several good ones are resting, refitting and training in Singapore, Palembang, Ternate, Oosthaven, Toboali and Balikpapen. So I should be able to keep the pressure on him while rotating in and out fighter squadrons.