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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: Alfred

In very general terms the following applies.  Bear in mind, not all the applicable factors are mentioned.


1.  Pilot skill ratings are used exclusively in combat situations.

2.  Non combat situations factor pilot experience level.

3.  Combat situations which are not directly addressed by the aptly named skill, use as one of the relevant factors, the experience level.  Experience feeds into and modifies pilot Morale, Fatigue, Disruption levels in combat.

4.  In a fighter on fighter confrontation, the jockeying for position is influenced by the relevant skill rating; A2A to engage, DEF to evade.

5.  In a fighter on fighter confrontation, after the jockeying for position is determined, an energy state check is made.  This check is partly influenced by the respective pilot experience level.  It determines the actual combat speed at which combat occurs.

6.  The combat speed may result in adjusted MRV ratings of the airframes for that specific combat.


In classical WITP only experience mattered.  This is not the case in AE which has "sub contracted" many of the old classical WITP experience checks to the relevant skill ratings.

Alfred

I always read everything Alfred posts at least twice. [:D]

I always meant, but never got around to it, to train defense first for some Japanese fighter squadrons on anti-sweep duties.

I used low level layered cap, and the lowest layer was always my highest maneuver frames like say an Oscar. Their job is not really to shoot down the Allied sweepers, but to dance with them and avoid being shot down -- an attempt to pull the engagement out of the stratoshpere.

Of course, the war being what the war is for Japan, the worst pilots ended up flying Oscars, with the 70 air 70 def pilots, when I could get them, all going into Franks, Georges, Jacks or CVs.

But the attraction of training pilots in defense would lessen the pilot training a fair bit, not half but a fair bit. Defense is always a tough skill to train.

By the end of the war, Japan usually struggles to get an Ace past 20 kills before going down himself, while the American pilots rack up staggering amount of kills and sorties. I think the game does a really good job here...

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: rader

In terms of Allied tactics, Encircled is a top notch player. One devious tactic he uses is to sweep bases or hexes 2 hexes away from my airfields with P-38s so that he can entice small groups of CAP to their death in a fight at highly uneven odds. I know I can set my cap to maximum 1-hex (or even 0 hexes which I assume means only over the airfield?) but sometimes I need to run LRCAP or need to stay flexible to respond to more than one hex.

Is there any good way to respond to this tactic, other than doing it back to him?

You have to restrict your cap to 0 hexes to prevent this. Sweepers are at a huge advantage against lrcap. Especially set your lrcap to 0 hexes so it doesn't stray from the target hex.

About the only time I set it to greater than 1 hex, is in rear area bomber only defense, and even then pretty rarely as it greatly reduces effectiveness. I will do it over sea areas where naval battles are expected to cover any damaged ships retreating...but you can't sweep sea hexes. Oh, night fighters usually get a 0 or 1 or 2 depending upon the area.

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

For Tulagi, I would fly in reinforcements just to prolong his agony.

For Chungking, I would bomb and/or bombard (if possible) any units that can draw supplies from Chungking. Whether or not they are in the city, I would bomb them. I believe that any attack raises the supply consumption of the units by 10%. So break down some bombers into small packets and bomb as many target hexes as is possible.

That is great work on the Long Island. Any Allied carrier down, especially now, is a good ship.

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ORIGINAL: rader

July 25, 1942

Well, we thought it was going to be ugly, and oh boy, it was!

I'm not sure I've ever seen 170K casualties before [X(]

At least forts dropped to 5. That will help wear the Chinese down through constant air and artillery bombardment. Troops will need to rest up for the next assault.

Ground combat at Chungking (76,45)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 664579 troops, 6619 guns, 4354 vehicles, Assault Value = 24453

Defending force 386381 troops, 1955 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 13185

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 5

Japanese adjusted assault: 7165

Allied adjusted defense: 19763

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 5)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
170206 casualties reported
Squads: 1300 destroyed, 15059 disabled
Non Combat: 53 destroyed, 1920 disabled
Engineers: 120 destroyed, 1417 disabled
Guns lost 1335 (93 destroyed, 1242 disabled)
Vehicles lost 994 (73 destroyed, 921 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
10285 casualties reported
Squads: 58 destroyed, 578 disabled
Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 373 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 59 disabled
Guns lost 71 (11 destroyed, 60 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

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ORIGINAL: rader
Well, we thought it was going to be ugly, and oh boy, it was!

I'm not sure I've ever seen 170K casualties before [X(]

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: rader
Well, we thought it was going to be ugly, and oh boy, it was!

I'm not sure I've ever seen 170K casualties before [X(]

Ouch... This one is certainly on the bloodier end of the spectrum. More bombing and supply destruction before the first assault would have probably make things easier (minus supply in the report is never a full story), but on the other hand live combat is the best means to expend supply when it is already short.

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Now would be a good time to buy out those trashed divisions. They should be cheap.

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

The bombarding and bombing is mostly to burn supplies as well as cause fatigue and disruption. If there are no HRs against it, small night raids will also help.

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ORIGINAL: jdsrae

My 10th div recovered 36 AV yesterday by doing that vs about 8-10 for some other Divs less damaged.
I’m not sure if moving the units out to Neikiang and back again is worth the time it takes them to move, then rebuild their field forts when they come back.
I’m guessing 3-4 week recovery for the next few attacks, then once forts get to 3 and below maybe only 1-2 weeks between attacks.

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ORIGINAL: Alfred

Forts provide protection against "incoming".  You still get "incoming" when attacking.

Alfred