FeurerKrieg
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Joined: 6/15/2005 From: Denver, CO Status: offline
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Thanks for the comments! As far as the northern route, I'm sure my opponent has been focused on this route. I do not expect to hold Attu very long at all. However, knowing that he has to go that way for a faster victory also enables me to concentrate my defenses in that area. From the limited intel I have, it seems his fleet has headed back to southern California, probably for upgrades or repairs from being underway in bad weather for many weeks. This contributes significantly to a key element of my northern defense - making it to winter. Once the winter season arrives, any landings in the cold zone suffer horribly. That combined with the proximity to many large airbases means that any offensive in that area before spring would have a tough time. So, provided I can make it to winter, the I have four months following that to continue to build up the northern approached. All the units, save a construction unit, were successfully evacuated from the Aleutians are are rebuilding very fast in Osaka. The KB is sitting in Tokyo well rested and now (late August) nearly fully switched over to A6M5 fighters. So any assault on the Kuriles in the next 8 weeks will have to deal with a lot of high experienced LBA as well as all our carriers. Also, another CV is due off the slips in late Sept so that will help too. If an assault doesn't occur in 8 weeks, then it will have to deal with many more LCU's come spring. Once the winter season arrives, if no attack occur, I'll move the KB farther south in case an offensives occur in the central or south Pacific. Production: I'll have to take a look at this later tonight and maybe I'll post more then. I have been very conservative on factory expansion, and given the lack of fighting I've been able to enjoy, I have had probably 50% of my aircraft production sitting idle for the past year. As such, I have a massive amount of supplies on the Home Islands now, and if any Mitsu factories need converted to other engine types, I'm confident that I can switch those over pretty quickly. I do look ahead at what engines will be required before I need them.
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