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RE: IJ Factory Plane Levels - 9/7/2006 4:29:53 AM

2ndACR

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Yep, IIRC it says the same thing in BTR. But yes, there is a dice roll and a very small chance that you will advance the arrival date. Has to be very small, because I have yet to advance any a/c at all.

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RE: IJ Factory Plane Levels - 9/7/2006 4:35:58 AM

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This aircraft flew in combat in April 1943 so it must have been in production for some time prior to that.

The first Ki-61 Tony that was produced using full production tooling was in August 1942, the same time that it becomes available in WitP.

Japan produced the follwoing numbers of Ki-61-Ia,b in 1942 and 1943:

Aug 42- 1
Sep 42- 3
Oct 42- 5
Nov 42- 10
Dec 42- 15
Jan 43- 22
Feb 43-32
Mar 43- 31
Apr 43- 37

Total produced before 1st combat: 156

Over 730 had been produced by the end of 1943.

The initial deliveries were to the 23rd Dokuritsu Dai Shijugo Chutai at Ota. This chutai was responsible for training existing units during transition to more advanced aircraft.

The 68th and the 78th Sentais were the first units to see combat with it. That combat occurred in April 1943 in New Guinea.

Lemaire has a pretty extensive website that provides monthly production values for nearly EVERY Japanese aircraft produced duing the war. It compares production values with those stated in Francillon, Mikesh and the USSBS works. They are in pretty close agreement for the most part.

You can find it here: Lemaire's Japanese Aircraft Production Site

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RE: IJ Factory Plane Levels - 9/7/2006 6:37:50 AM

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ORIGINAL: dtravel

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ORIGINAL: el cid again
I wish the replacement pool was date controlled - but it isn't. Anything in it is available day one - even if the plane is not available until 1945!

The Replacement Pool is date controlled. Aircraft don't start accumulating in the pool until the Availability Date.

Unless you are (very badly) saying that you wish the Availability Date was not moddable?

What el cid again means is that the pool of planes available is not date controlled. If you put 100 PV2s in the pool they would be instantly available even though the plane did not come out until 45 IIRC. The replacement rate/pool is date controlled as you said.

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RE: IJ Factory Plane Levels - 9/7/2006 9:18:50 AM

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ORIGINAL: Herrbear

quote:

ORIGINAL: dtravel

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ORIGINAL: el cid again
I wish the replacement pool was date controlled - but it isn't. Anything in it is available day one - even if the plane is not available until 1945!

The Replacement Pool is date controlled. Aircraft don't start accumulating in the pool until the Availability Date.

Unless you are (very badly) saying that you wish the Availability Date was not moddable?

What el cid again means is that the pool of planes available is not date controlled. If you put 100 PV2s in the pool they would be instantly available even though the plane did not come out until 45 IIRC. The replacement rate/pool is date controlled as you said.

And this is a problem, why exactly?

I see only two ways for planes to get into the pool. Production/Replacement rates and the scenario designer putting them there. If he doesn't want any in the pool before the factories start churning them out, don't put any in the pool.

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RE: IJ Factory Plane Levels - 9/7/2006 7:04:57 PM

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"I think "the Japanese are not supposed to be able to target OFF MAP Allied production." And the biggest building in the world - Boeing Renton - IS on the map. Surely it can be targeted."

Can the Japanese figure out under which suburb the factory lies? In a recent Time/Life Magazine photo collection release, there is a photo of women walking among gardens and houses of a fake suburb built on the roof of the Renton plant. It was an amazing camouflage job.

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