RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak)

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RangerJoe -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/1/2019 12:24:18 PM)
Actually, the green pilots are usually left behind while the veterans bomb. One way around this is to take the higher skilled pilots and put them on Group Reserve. They will stay with the unit so the trainees will bomb. Then they get the bombing skills faster. If the veterans stay with the Group, they will increase the group's average so the trainees should go up faster to that average than if no veterans were there.

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/1/2019 12:45:04 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: inqistor You need BETTY training ASAP, unless you want to put guys from KATEs there (with exp hit). Train Search for some BABS, there are lots of large groups, no reason to waste them for Recon only (speaking of which, training recon for low skill is also good). And some ground bomber training would be useful. Green pilots really don't get skill in live bombing as fast, as you would thought. Hi inqistor, you're right i have lots of bab units. I'll take 1 or 2 and make em training units. i have nell unit stuck in the HI. i'll make it a training unit naval torpedo

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/1/2019 12:46:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: RangerJoe Actually, the green pilots are usually left behind while the veterans bomb. One way around this is to take the higher skilled pilots and put them on Group Reserve. They will stay with the unit so the trainees will bomb. Then they get the bombing skills faster. If the veterans stay with the Group, they will increase the group's average so the trainees should go up faster to that average than if no veterans were there. that's interesting. how high is a good number for the veteran exp in the reserve to help? 70? 80?

RangerJoe -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/1/2019 1:16:57 PM)
Anything above the group average will increase the average that the trainees have an easier time to reach. Middle to High seventies in experience is good, seventies in skills are good and this includes defense. Defense does not go up as fast as the trained skill so that is why other secondary but usefill skills are trained. So your Betties may train in Torpedo Attack, Naval Search, ASW, Ground, Naval Bombing, Low Naval. Usually 3 skills are done but in emergencies . . .

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/1/2019 2:10:19 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 15, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 7 encounters mine field at Singapore (50,84) Japanese Ships SS I-160, Mine hits 1 i need to pay attention to tfs trying to take shortcuts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Darwin at 73,123 Japanese Ships SS RO-65 Allied Ships xAK Gorgon, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage lucky find at Darwin. Reinforcements? evacuations? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 14 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 14 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb Trop: 3 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 8 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet i think they realized AVG wasn't working and moved in Hurricanes. Do i switch to Oscars? I don't think so...... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 20 Allied aircraft CW-21B Demon x 3 75A-7 Hawk x 6 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses CW-21B Demon: 1 destroyed 75A-7 Hawk: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-43-Ia Oscar sweeping at 20000 feet Soerbaja still has a few planes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 21 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb Trop x 2 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 21 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet Hurricanes showing better than tigers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 54,53 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 15 No Japanese losses Allied Ships CL Capetown xAKL Nordhval xAKL Wosang, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires these guys need talking to. aim for the naval assets not the merchies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Ambon , at 76,109 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 2 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed on ground No Allied losses Runway hits 5 didn't think they would reach out to ambon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 4 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 1 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 11 No Japanese losses Allied Ships HDML Pennigat HDML Panji, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk HDML Panglima thinking about geting port blair -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2797 troops, 151 guns, 243 vehicles, Assault Value = 2819 Defending force 20976 troops, 421 guns, 371 vehicles, Assault Value = 290 Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 8 (2 destroyed, 6 disabled) Allied ground losses: 15 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled bataan should be close -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Singapore (50,84) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1752 troops, 175 guns, 60 vehicles, Assault Value = 1329 Defending force 21945 troops, 320 guns, 221 vehicles, Assault Value = 212 Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 31 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) singapore too

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/1/2019 2:12:07 PM)
KB is ready to strike/cover invasion and got 6/6 detection TF 1 followed by Allied Aircraft at 122,160 near Anatom TF 1 detects Allied Aircraft at 122,160 near Anatom i really don't know what 6/6 means

inqistor -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/1/2019 2:47:47 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi KB is ready to strike/cover invasion and got 6/6 detection TF 1 followed by Allied Aircraft at 122,160 near Anatom TF 1 detects Allied Aircraft at 122,160 near Anatom i really don't know what 6/6 means First number is current detection level on scale 0-10. Second number is maximum detection, which could have been higher during turn, but your TF moved, so current one can be lower. At 0 enemy doesn't see your TF. At 1 he may only see that there is ship on that hex. With 6 he should be sure, that this is KB. Check if KB fighters haven't shot down any search planes during this turn. Those might have been enemy Carriers.

RangerJoe -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/1/2019 2:52:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi KB is ready to strike/cover invasion and got 6/6 detection TF 1 followed by Allied Aircraft at 122,160 near Anatom TF 1 detects Allied Aircraft at 122,160 near Anatom i really don't know what 6/6 means I means that you have been spotted, that it is fresh and not degraded. The highest supposed detection is 10/10. That means that they have a pretty good idea of what is in your TF 1. Put some CAP at 6000 feet to help shoot down search aircraft. This would also be able to react to torpedo bombers down low.

RangerJoe -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/1/2019 3:07:19 PM)
Hurricanes are more maneuverable than P-40s. Why are your Bettys dropping bombs and not torpedoes? You can set the number of torpedoes for your Air HQs by going into the "show unit TOE" instead of show unit values. Also, if set to attack with torpedoes but none are available they will use the substitute bomb load. Which for Bettys and Nells is two 250kg bombs and four 60kg bombs which will not be effected by the non-Attack Bomber penalty at 1000 feet. If you set them to attack at 1000 feet, I think that they can come in under a high CAP as well. Against lightly or non armored ships, the bombs work fine and there are more bombs than the single torpedo. Once you know about enemy minefields, then your ships will route around them. Use your Landing Barges (LBs) as mine detectors since no VPs are awarded with their loss. Paradropping on Port Blair is probably the best way to get it if it has not been reinforced with combat units.

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/2/2019 12:28:16 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 16, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Truscott at 69,123 Japanese Ships SS RO-65 Allied Ships xAK Empire Hamble, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Truscott at 67,123 Japanese Ships SS RO-62 Allied Ships xAK Lowana, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage subs lurking near Darwin have some luck -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 54,53 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 24 No Japanese losses Allied Ships xAKL Hermelin xAKL Selma City, Bomb hits 1, on fire xAK Mundra xAKL Wosang, heavy fires, heavy damage i thought there would be some flak at rangoon so i went in too high -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Suva at 132,160 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft B5N2 Kate x 9 D3A1 Val x 9 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AM Matai, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Harry Luckenbach, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk KB found a couple of ships near Suva -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Suva , at 132,160 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 28 B5N2 Kate x 66 D3A1 Val x 65 Japanese aircraft losses D3A1 Val: 2 damaged Allied Ships xAK Liberty Glo, Bomb hits 1, on fire CA Indianapolis, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage indy was listed as sunk earlier but found her in port at suva. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 98006 troops, 1065 guns, 712 vehicles, Assault Value = 2922 Defending force 21034 troops, 421 guns, 368 vehicles, Assault Value = 291 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 1489 Allied adjusted defense: 371 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Bataan !!! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses O-47A: 3 destroyed Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2069 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 104 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 29 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 97 disabled Guns lost 14 (1 destroyed, 13 disabled) Vehicles lost 37 (2 destroyed, 35 disabled) Allied ground losses: 13446 casualties reported Squads: 712 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2667 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 57 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 517 (517 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 526 (526 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 30 Bataan is done fairly efficiently overall -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Singapore (50,84) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1760 troops, 175 guns, 60 vehicles, Assault Value = 1362 Defending force 22028 troops, 319 guns, 219 vehicles, Assault Value = 218 Allied ground losses: 44 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Singapore soon. Horribly inefficient and lengthy given what i could have done there.

Bif1961 -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 2:22:35 AM)
Congrats on taking Bataan so quickly. Does he still hold Manila?

RangerJoe -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 3:29:05 AM)
Fly over Rangoon at 11,000 feet to avoid the light flak.

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 7:53:35 PM)
i think i broke my game.... my fighters look like this [image]local://upfiles/66800/471E332B87F640319FAD622EAD135975.jpg[/image]

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 7:54:06 PM)
and my bombers like this [image]local://upfiles/66800/CFDC78691CFF45B0B2CEFC8A16CF653D.jpg[/image]

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 7:54:44 PM)
bombing accuracy?

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 7:57:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Bif1961 Congrats on taking Bataan so quickly. Does he still hold Manila? Hi Bif, thanks. here's the picture. he's retaken aparri, batangas and Vigan after i moved troops out. [image]local://upfiles/66800/A0A250FD358B422A80EAEB60D6B3B07E.jpg[/image]

RangerJoe -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 8:51:48 PM)
Never set your fighters on CAP at 100%, it wears them out. They are not training either. If you want them to train, you have to set that. The unit also needs more pilots. If nothing else, put in rookies and set the training % to 30 or so. Your bombers are not training, their percentage training is ZERO! [X(] Split the unit into thirds, give each third replacements, give them fighter escort. The same fighter unit can do 30% CAP and 10% LRCAP on the same target as the bombers, especially if the target has fighters based there. Don't give the enemy free points. When air units are only training, set the range to zero. Use paratroopers to grab those small bases, then use Fast Transports to pick them up and invade somewhere else. You only need 1 AV to grab an unoccupied base.

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 9:07:10 PM)
Hi Joe, thanks for all the great hints. I was just looking at my airgroups and planning what to do next after batan fell. i looked at some of my bomber groups and their bombing accuracy was less than 10%. then i looked at some of my fighter groups and their bombing acccuracy was over 90%. i just thought that was too funny. BTW if i upgrade some of my light bombers with 90% bombing accuracy to sallys will that affect that number?

RangerJoe -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 9:22:24 PM)
No but you don't have enough Sallies. Use the light bombers for training and in China.

jdsrae -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 10:12:25 PM)
Your 14th Sentai has taken a fair few losses to enemy fighters. That tells me that they�ve found it hard to bomb accurately because they�ve been busy trying to dodge incoming .50 cal rounds

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/3/2019 10:15:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jdsrae Your 14th Sentai has taken a fair few losses to enemy fighters. That tells me that they�ve found it hard to bomb accurately because they�ve been busy trying to dodge incoming .50 cal rounds they bore the brunt of my air attacks on manila, clark field and bataan. but a lot of those were due to high commands mistake of setting altitude to 6,000 when i thought i was issuing orders to another group attack undefended bases. i was given hard labor i take that back. you're right most of that is A2A. no operator error - not blatent anyway- drinks all around

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/8/2019 7:13:34 PM)
can anybody tell me what significance bombing accuracy has on future strikes. Does it only reflect the accuracy the unit has had so far in the game and has no predictive value whatsoever? and please hans don't tell me to read the manual because during this lull i have read it front to back and front again.

RangerJoe -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/8/2019 7:48:28 PM)
I think that it is more something of a player interest thing although it can also be used to suggest more training. RTFM is always a good thing to do, even as a refresher.

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/8/2019 8:38:50 PM)
thanks joe. Do major skills work the same way. they are just a reflection of how the current pilots have trained or is there some way that major skills are used to determine future results

RangerJoe -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/8/2019 9:29:57 PM)
The skill are what you need for them to be effective in combat. So train your pilots accordingly. The experience is harder to gain because a lot of that is general flying experience but that helps them survive and not be an ops loss.

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/8/2019 10:32:25 PM)
thanks joe - sometimes (most times) i don't make myself clear take these two groups of ann bombers If you completely ignore the pilots currently in the group!!!! Let say i replace all the pilots in each group would one of these groups naturally be better at low level bombing?

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/8/2019 10:34:05 PM)
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RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/8/2019 10:34:32 PM)
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jdsrae -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/8/2019 10:56:52 PM)
This is my assumption, I believe that the �major skills� are just a summary of what the current pilots are good at. So if you swap out all pilots for rookies, then run the turn, I wager 2 South Pacific Shellbits that those major skills disappear. I�ll get a chance to test this in my game shortly, but I don�t believe the group keeps those skills if you swap the pilots out for untrained rookies.

RADM.Yamaguchi -> RE: RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak) (9/8/2019 11:03:17 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jdsrae This is my assumption, I believe that the �major skills� are just a summary of what the current pilots are good at. So if you swap out all pilots for rookies, then run the turn, I wager 2 South Pacific Shellbits that those major skills disappear. I�ll get a chance to test this in my game shortly, but I don�t believe the group keeps those skills if you swap the pilots out for untrained rookies. Thanks jdsrae. that was my thoughts after joe told me about the bombing accuracy. lots of good info. but not a useful tool to gain an advantage. and boy do i need some.

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