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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/18/2010 10:20:21 PM   
Mike Solli


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SE Fleet

KB 1 allocated 3 carrier air groups to port attack of Vava'u and the 4th was set to naval attack. I didn't see the last xAK in port or in a TF so I assume it was sunk yesterday. The port attack netted only 1 ACM sunk. Nothing else was seen. Ted must have fled with the merchant ships that were seen in port earlier. The naval attack found 2 single ship convoys and sank both (an xAKL and the DD Benham, damaged yesterday). KB 1 will now head to Truk to replenish, repair and replace planes and pilots. A total of 6 Vals were lost (3 to flak and 3 op losses) and 1 Zero was an op loss. Six pilots were KIA and one was wounded.

Burma

Another unsuccessful attempt to bomb Magwe's oil field occurred.

Other Stuff

I finally got enough PPs to transfer the 8 Mtn Art Reg from Kwantung to 15 Army. The 8 Division is now loading on fast xAPs for the trip from Pt. Arthur to Rangoon. I'm down to just a handful of PPs. I'm now saving them to move all of the elements of the 1 and 2 Tank Divisions to 15 Army. Most of the elements have yet to arrive. The rest are scattered around the SRA. Poor planning on my part. I should have chosen where the Tank Regiments were sent more wisely.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/18/2010 10:55:45 PM   
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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/19/2010 1:00:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yup! I call it 2x P-40B squadrons, 1x P-40E squadron and 1x P-39D squadron.

28 May 42

Very quiet day today. KB 1 and 2 are returning to the barn.

Another failed attempt to bomb Magwe's oil field.

Tomorrow I'm going to cull my training units. I'll tally what I gain. The last cull was a month ago.

Nothing else worth mentioning really.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/19/2010 1:38:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		I just took a look at Tracker. I have 258 Aichi Ha-60 engines in the pool. They are used primarily for the Judy. The TBO is 187. I'm thinking of shutting the engine factory off in another month. That'll give me ~375-380, about twice the TBO. Any thoughts? When I shut the factory off, I'll save 75 HI a day or 2250 a month.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/19/2010 8:28:15 PM   
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Reinforcement: I-33 - will head to 5 Fleet rounding out the SubRon there. It's composed of 3 Sub Divs each with 2x I class and a Glen carrying sub. Typically, 2 Sub Divisions are out prowling around the Aleutians while the 3rd Sub Division is on R&R.

Not much of a turn really. Ted finally succeeded in damaging one additional oil facility point in Magwe (42 of 300).

I culled the training units for pilots for the reserve. My criteria for completing training is 50+ experience and 70+ in the stat being trained. Here's the result:

IJA

Air - 61
GrdB - 50
Recn - 2
NavS - 6
ASW - 9

IJN

Air - 29
NavT - 30
VanB - 25
NavS - 5
ASW - 17

That is a total of 128 IJAAF pilots and 106 IJNAF pilots for a total of 234 trained pilots. So far this month I've lost:

KIA: 59
WIA: 28
MIA: 0

That makes a total of 87 pilots lost from all causes vs. 234 gained from on map training for a net gain of 147 pilots. Not bad. It's mainly because Ted isn't pushing me in the air and I'm happy waiting for better fighters. Once my airfields are ready for fighters in Burma (level 2+) I'll start to whittle down his planes there. I estimate 2 squadrons of Hurricanes and one of Warhawks along with 2-3 squadrons of bombers (Blenheim IVs and Wellington Is). I'll throw in 84 (possibly 114) Oscars (Ic), 54 Zeros and 12 Nicks. My losses will go up then, but I should be able to overwhelm him. One of the Zero Daitai can upgrade to the A6M3 in June (remember PDU is off). They're first priority to upgrade.

Edit: Oh yeah, KB needs 8 DB pilots to fill out pilot losses.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/19/2010 8:54:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am up to Feb. 1944 and looking back I would lower my criteria for what constitutes a trained pilot. I now think that it might be best to go with 45-46 exp rather than 50. One good carrier battle will eat through entire reserves. For the IJN, a reserve of 500 Air, 600 DB, and 400 TB pilots would replace all losses from a carrier battle and still leave a cushion for other losses.

Does TBO include only those units schedule to arrive with that plane, or all the planes that can upgrade to it? For instance, even with PDU off, most Vals should be able to upgrade to Judy's I think? If so, does TBO include those? For a fully built out KB (i.e. all the Unryu's and Taiho plus CS->CVL conversions and CVEs) you are looking at about 600 fighters, 500 DBs and 300 TBs (depending on your mix of fighters/DBs/TBs. I go with equal numbers of fighters and DBs and half that for TBs.)

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/19/2010 10:12:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		cap, you hit on a big dilemma for me. There's a real shortage of IJNAF fighter units. Right now I have 8 Daitai (27-45 planes) and 6 Chutai (9 planes). Of these, 2 daitai and 1 chutai are training. The rest are on the front line.

Burma - 3 Daitai
SE Fleet - 2 Daitai, 4 Chutai
4 Fleet - 1 Daitai, 1 Chutai

There are a total of 124 pilots training right now.

I get another 12 plane training chutai tomorrow which will give me an additional 16 pilot slots making 140 slots with no change in the near future.

There are several options. I agree with you that my current solution (50+ exp and 70+ air) aren't going to work once Ted really starts to fight.

1. I can keep things the way they are. Fine until I start to take losses which can happen anytime.

2. Decrease exp to 45. That'll help a bit. If I did that right now it would give me another half dozen pilots tops. That really doesn't help much.

3. Increase the number of training units. I can only do this by decreasing what's on the front line. Most of my Zero units are in the SE Fleet area. There's been very little activity there. Ted was bombing Pt. Moresby with B-17s until I invaded Australia. Now those B-17s are hitting my troops in Australia. I'm thinking of pulling out 3 of the Chutai from the Rabaul/Pt. Moresby area back to Truk and use them to train with. If I really need them, I can pull out the half trained pilots and replace them in a week with trained pilots. This would give me 36 more pilot slots minus 6 "instructors" leaving 30 slots to train with. That would mean about 10 more pilots a month.

It looks like it takes 2-3 months to train up a recruit to 50/70.

I also have available 3 Rufe chutai. I really don't expect to use them in combat so I've been contemplating using them as training chutai. I've had time to ponder it because they arrived with only a couple of pilots each. I loaded them up with rookies who are still training. By adding them in, I'd have an additional 36 slots, giving a total of ~200 training slots or about 70-100 a month. There's only one additional way to train more pilots and I'm using it.

Each of my units has extra pilots in it. I use partially trained pilots, with experience in the 35-50 range and air skill of 40-50. I train up to 50% of the unit (occasionally more if it seems quiet). That slowly raises the quality of those guys. It's hard to estimate how long it takes to get them up to the mark but it help.

I really can't think of any way to raise the number of reserves trained than what I've discussed. I try to use the IJAAF as the work horse. They typically take most of the losses but they also have far more training units. Right now (with this month's batch of culls) I have almost 300 reserve fighter pilots for the IJAAF. The IJNAF has about 50.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/19/2010 10:14:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh yeah, TBO is everyone that can upgrade to a particular airframe. PDU off makes for some really odd choices for units. I have some units that won't be able to upgrade from the Nate until late next year and there's one that won't upgrade at all. I'm still building Nates because I will need them for reinforcements (and the occasional op loss).

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/19/2010 10:59:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Rufes are OK at shooting down unescorted bombers if they have good enough pilots in them. Not much different to Zeroes in that respect, and definitely better than Claudes. I have also found them useful for doing recon where the "front line" has a size 0 airfield. Much less expensive than using Mavis/Emily.

Not every plane has to fight the air superiority battle ... :-)

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/20/2010 2:37:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		I checked my Rufe chutai a little closer.  Two of them are in restricted HQs in Japan.  They're trainers.  The third is in 21 Air Flotilla (which is in the SRA).  They appeared somewhere in the Marshalls.  I've moved them to Truk where they are currently training up some pilots.  I'll eventually move them to the SRA where they belong.  (I don't want to spend the PPs to change their HQ.)  They actually are the only fighters assigned to the 21 Air Flotilla.  They'll move to Ambon (where the HQ and most of the planes reside) to give a bit of air cover, just in case.

I moved a couple of the Zero chutai in SE Fleet area to Truk and then removed all but a couple of the pilots.  I attempted to add rookies but was unable to do it.  I kept getting vets.  Really weird.  Has anyone else had that problem?  They're detachments.  I wonder if that has anything to do with it?

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/20/2010 3:12:36 PM   
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Reinforcements:

2 Ku S-1 - 12x A6M3, 13 Air Flotilla, trainers.  They came with 2 aircraft.  The A6M3 begins production on 1 Jun 42.  The first 27 (+4 spares) go to an A6M2 daitai in 22 Air Flotilla (Burma).  They'll get the next 10.
2 Ku K-1 - 12x D3A1, 13 Air Flotilla, trainers.
CVE Unyo - Addition to the CVE Division (Taiyo).
HQ 1 Air Army - General Defense Army
HQ 2 Air Army - Kwantung Army
Majoro Base Force - Majoro, of course.
88 JAAF AF Bn - Kwantung Army

Sub War

The I-171 found a TK just north of New Zealand and put a torpedo into her.  She most likely was empty.  She was reported as being sunk, but I doubt it.

Australia

Sallys bombed the airfield at Darwin again (they've been doing it daily for a couple of weeks now) losing one of their number (a rare occurrance) while destroying 1-2 Hudsons on the ground and doing moderate damage to the airfield.  I'm keeping the airfield damaged with daily air bombing and naval bombardments every couple of days.  This will prevent an increase in fort levels.  In addition, Baby KB makes periodic visits to knock off the occasional xAKL supply ship and I keep a sub in the hex as well.

Good news!  The mob, I mean, Darwin invasion force has reached Katherine and will take it tomorrow.  Darwin is now pretty much cut off from all supply.  I'm going to fly Oscar sweeps from Wyndham to see if he's trying to fly in supply.

I made a mistake in Broome today.  I sent two small xAKLs to Broome to start to move excess supply from there.  (There's a lot there, far too much.)  Ted sent two air attacks and succeeded in sinking both.  No real loss but a mistake nevertheless.  My 12 Oscars stationed there shot down 5 of 13 Albacores in the first attack and 1 of 8 Hudson Is in the second attack.  I moved a second chutai of the 50 Sentai to Broome in case there are any more attacks.  They're coming from Pt. Hedland.  I'm planning on invading Pt. Hedland with the 2 and 4 Divisions.  I'm currently getting them prepped for the invasion.

Burma

Again, Ted unsuccessfully bombed the oil fields at Magwe.  I'm encouraging that because he's not bombing the airfields in the area.  Taung Gyi is the only one with some damage, and that will be repaired soon.

Here are the airfields I want to use for my fighters and their airfield levels:

Rangoon - Level 5 & 72 avn spt
Magwe - 3 and 24
Meiktila - 2 and 24
Mandalay - 2 and 32
Tongoo - 1.53 and 120 (I'll initiate the operation when this airfield reaches level 2.)
Bassein 1.28 and 24
Pegu 1.28 and 24

There's plenty of avn spt.  I've settled on this for the operation:

114 Ki-43-Ic
27 A6M2
27 A6M3 (eventually)
12 Ki-45

In addition to the 180 fighters, I'll have several chutai of IJAAF recon as well as some Sallys, Lilys and Anns waiting in the wings to move up after I get air superiority.  I figure it'll take 2-3 weeks to clear out the British fighters.  Then the British Army is fair game.

Other Stuff

KB 1 (from Adak) has been redirected to Truk.  I moved the AR from Rangoon to Truk to assist in repairs.  KB 2 is also headed to Truk.  I made a mistake earlier.  The Shokaku and Zuikaku can upgrade in Jun 42.  I'll send them back to the Home Islands for upgrade immediately upon their arrival at Truk.  The remaining 4 carriers will form KB 1 and provide support to the Central Pacific as well as the SE Fleet area from Truk.

I don't think Ted will expose his carriers for at least another month (most likely 2).  He just started getting Avengers this month.  It'll take through at least the end of June to replace the Devastators (probably into July).  I'm not sure how many carriers he currently has.  He lost the Enterprise early to subs.  He has Lex, Yorktown, Hornet(?-probably), Wasp(?).  Not sure.  Does anyone know?

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/21/2010 12:45:52 AM   
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Reinforcements: 1 CHa- class, 3x xAPs and 1x xAK

Burma

A ship was spotted at Ramree Island (where there is a British garrision) and the RO-33 was sent to investigate. She found an xAKL and shelled the hell out of it. I heard sinking noises and suspect she went down but it didn't show up in the intel screen.

Ted's bombers finally got lucky and hit Magwe's oil fields. They dropped by 11 to 31.

Australia

The attack on Katherine was a wild success. The 6 Australian Cav Bde was trashed and the remnants retreated north, to be part of the Darwin POW camp. For a loss of 187 (all disablements), I killed 2017 (primarily kills). The 38 Division, some artillery and 16 Army HQ headed south as a guard while the 14 Army is heading north to invest and capture Darwin, along with it's unlucky inhabitants.

Other Stuff

The Mitsubishi Ha-43 engine was advanced a month to Jul 45(!)

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/21/2010 3:32:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Since you dont mind detail work. You can empty the squadrons in quiet areas to the exact number of pilots needed. then overfil it with recruits and set it to train. This way you have them still combat ready but get some slots.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/21/2010 3:45:16 AM   
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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/21/2010 1:16:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks Mynok. Forgot the Saratoga.

GZ, I do something similar to that now.  My units are just about full of veterans with some veteran wannabees (skill ~50-55) and a few rookies.  If they're just performing cap, I set them to 80% CAP and 20% training.  That seems to work well.

One thing I've been kicking around but haven't done yet is to pull out some vets from some of the units that are well trained.  I hate pulling vets out of front line units.  Seems to me to be counter to what my goals are. 

I'm good with the IJAAF.  I have all of Kwantung and the Home Island restricted units to use for training.  It's mainly the IJNAF fighters that I'm concerned with.

One additional question for the group.  Experience 81+ pilots in line units.  How do you guys manage them?  I'm still torn.  With the IJAAF, I pull every one into TRACOM (up to 9 now) with the exception of 2 who are unit leaders in training units.  I don't want to pull them out because they have high inspiration.

IJNAF.  Currently I have 48 in TRACOM.  I haven't counted what I have in the line units but if I had to guess, I'd say 25-30 more.  I'll check it out tonight.  Units have 0-4 each.  I'm tempted to reduce that number.  What do you guys do?

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/21/2010 2:02:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		All my golden boys are in TRACOM waiting for some decent aircraft to fly. They will therefore be there for some time, but in the meantime they slightly increase the survival chances of all the newbies coming through. I do the "live fire" training thing too with a mix of "vets" (60-80), "journeymen" (45-60) and newbies (30-45). Of course rear area groups are doing normal training too.

The only yellow guys I keep on map are those who are Leaders as in e.g. the KB. I believe these guys make a large difference since their stats are not matched by any of the guys on the normal list.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/21/2010 2:16:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		I perceive TRACOM as my pilot bank. In case of Navy pilots I would put them later into new carriers or Kido Butai replacments if needed.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/21/2010 2:38:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Journeymen - I like that.

Interesting ideas on the "Golden Boys".  I like that too.  In my training groups, I keep 2 experienced pilots to train up the riff raff.  I may reduce that to 1.  I'm also toying with the idea of reducing the Golden Boys to 0-1 per unit.  Gotta look at the implications of doing that right now.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/21/2010 4:32:26 PM   
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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/22/2010 3:11:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm still torn between saving my pilots for the end game and using them early.  If you pull all of your elite pilots you're not getting the benefit of them early when you can kill off Allied planes and pilots.  On the other hand, many will die.  I like to have some of them sprinkled in the front line units and some in TRACOM to accelerate pilot production.  When I go on leave and have some extra free time, I'm going to count how many Golden Boys I have in the line units, training units and TRACOM.  Then I'll decide what to do.  I'm still not convinced that all of the Golden Boys should go into TRACOM.  I'm talking about the IJNAF.  With the IJAAF, right now I have exactly 11 Golden Boys.  Nine are in TRACOM and 2 are unit leaders.  Anytime an IJAAF pilot gets promoted to Golden Boy status, I move him to TRACOM.  But then, my pilot reserves for the IJAAF are much higher than the IJNAF.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/22/2010 3:53:49 PM   
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Reinforcements:  Two xAPs

Sub War

Off the SW coast of Colombo, the I-11 spotted an xAKL, surfaced and pumped her full of shells.  The crew had the satisfaction of seeing her go down.  I wonder what Ted is doing with his escorts?  A lot of my sub targets are lonely ships with no escort.  Speaking of no escorts.....

One hex SW of Vava'u, the I-10 put two torpedoes into an AKE and watched her go down.  I love seeing specialty ships such as AKEs go down.  That also tells me that Vava'u (or another port in the area) is being built up as a major naval base.  With an AKE in the area, Ted is planning on rearming some large warships.  He's planning something for the Solomons or possibly Pt. Moresby. 

KB Plans

Both KBs are 1-2 days from Truk.  They will repair their minor damage there (level 7 port with an AR) and probably move south to Rabaul.  Not sure about the move though.  Ted hasn't had any subs (that I've seen anyway) near Rabaul for a few months but it would be easy to bottle up KB at Rabaul with just a few subs.  They would give good intel and possibly get a shot or two at my carriers. 

SE Fleet Plans

I'm building up Ndeni's airfield to level 2 to fly recon from.  It'll be ready in a couple of days.  Some air spt is headed there.  I am also building up the airfield at Lunga.  The goal is level 4 to house Bettys and Zeros, along with some more recon.  I really need a Mavis unit in that sector but don't have any.  I may buy one of the 2 Mavis units training in the Home Islands.  I don't like doing that but don't really see any alternative.  Tonight I'll see where all my Mavis/Emily units are and see if I can spare one from somewhere else.  I'll also check to see how long before I get more as reinforcements.  If Ted starts an offensive there, I suspect it'll be with all 5 US carriers and possibly the British carriers too (not sure how many of those there are).  I want to have my Zeros available to supplement/protect my carriers as well as the Bettys.  Right now I have allocated to SE Fleet the 23 Air Flotilla composed of:

100 Zeros (including Tainan daitai with some incredible pilots)
72 Bettys
15 Babs
8 Jakes

I'm still planning on sending Shokaku and Zuikaku to Japan for upgrades.  This upgrades includes air radar.  That'll leave me with 4 CVs that have (off the top of my head) something in the vicinity of:

~100 Zeros
~100 Vals
~100 Kates

I also have available Baby KB which is currently off the North Australian coast and really not needed there.  It has Junyo (enroute), Ryujo, Shoho, Zuiho and Hosho and is composed of:

96 Zeros
18 Vals
67 Kates

Each KB has a replenishment TF available.  There is an AKE at Rabaul large enough to rearm BBs (not sure about Yamato though - gotta check).  I don't have any surface group available other than the 4 Furutakas.  I really don't want to get them involved in a gun battle.  I may divert the Yamato and one other BB down there to team up with the Furutakas, just in case.  KB has the 4 Kongos and Tone and Chikuma.  They'll remain as escorts for the CVs.

Ted just started getting Avengers in May.  I suspect he has enough now to fill out 2 TB squadrons.  I can't see him going into battle with 3 squadrons of Devastators so I really don't expect anything to happen until late July, at the earliest.  I suspect he's upgrading all the ships he can right now.  When the Shokaku and Zuikaku complete their refit, I'll swap them out with (probably) Akagi and Kaga.  All 4 of the remaining CVs will be due for upgrades in July (or August?).  I'm opting for Akagi & Kaga first because they're slower.  We'll see.  That's still a long way off.  I lot can happen to change plans, but ya gotta have a plan, right?

Burma

Not much other than Ted unsuccessfully bombing Magwe's oil field again.  It remains at 31 of 300.  I'm squeezing out as much oil as I can from those doomed oil fields.

Other Stuff

A couple of days ago I learned that the Arizona wasn't sunk at Pearl, as I thought.  Now it's down to 3 BBs sunk at Pearl Harbor (allegedly) along with the Renown (now a reef off Pt. Moresby).

I started converting 20 Std-C class  and 2 Std D class xAKs to TKs.  They'll be ready in a couple of weeks.  They're going to allow me to shift some things around.  Currently I have 3x 1250 ton TKs moving oil from Sakhalin to Honshu.  Hokkaido has about 35k oil just sitting in Hakodate.  I'll pull out the 1250 ton TKs and send them to the SRA.  Some of the converted TKs (haven't figured out how many yet) will move oil from Shikuka (where the oil accumulates) to Sapporo (shorter distance) and some more will move it from Hakodate to Ominato (very safe route).  The rest will head to the SRA to move oil from some of the smaller oil fields freeing up some 7950 and 1250 TKs for other duties.  There are two routes that need more TK support: 1. Fuel from Palembang to Singapore. 2. Fuel from Balikpapan to Babeldaob.  Both of those have been neglected badly.  I can really use the extra TK hulls.  There are also some more large TKs in the pipeline that I'll receive in a couple of weeks.

I'll post some of my monthly stats in a bit.

Wow, this was pretty long winded for a pretty quiet turn.

< Message edited by Mike Solli -- 12/22/2010 3:55:15 PM >

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/22/2010 5:00:06 PM   
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Supply - That doesn't include 400k supply on ships - 300k to Singapore and 100k to Babeldaob.
Fuel - Coming along nicely.  I need more TKs to get more to Japan more quickly.
HI - I'm now netting ~4400 extra HI per turn.  That number should jump up next month.
Oil - Expected.
Naval Shipyard Points - Currently accelerating 5 CVs and 5 DDs with 2 RO class subs halted (along with Shinano).
Merchant Shipyard Points - Nothing accelerated.  Saving points for later when they'll be needed.
Armaments - 500 shut off.  Maintaining ~100k with a slight increase most turns.
Vehicles - Saving all I can for the 2 Tank Divisions arriving in 3 weeks.  Tracker says I need ~7200. 
IJA/IJN Reserve Pilot Pool - Rising but not quickly for the IJN.  This has been discussed adnausium.
M/W/KIA - Low pilot losses.  Ted's hiding except for Burma.  In a couple of days, he's going to see ~180 Japanese fighters appear.
Political Points - I just bought out the 8 Div from Kwantung for Burma.  I need to save up again.
Score - 2.7:1 gain for the Japanese for those of you who care.  (I don't.)
Ships sunk - I'll make a list in a later.  I did lose my first sub this month.

Edit: I skipped plane losses. Pretty even if you don't count the 80+ planes I sank in ships a few days ago. Fortunately, they do count. I wonder how many pilots went down with them....

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All 4 of the remaining CVs will be due for upgrades in July (or August?).  I'm opting for Akagi & Kaga first because they're slower.  We'll see.  That's still a long way off.  I lot can happen to change plans, but ya gotta have a plan, right?



7/42 is the next batch of CV upgrades.

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Status: offline 		Sorry Mike, July I believe off the top of my head. Although I seem to recall 9/42 is a big upgrade time, maybe it's for a whack of DD's. Also posted those charts you were interested in seeing over in my AAR so if you have some free time take a look and let me know what you think .

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Status: offline 		No big deal, Lemon.  I suspect my CV upgrades will be dependent on any operations happening at the time.  I may have to send one at at time so I have 5 CVs available.  We'll see.

Ship losses are hard to determine (well, Allied losses).

Here's my best guess:

Japanese
3 xAKL
3 xAK
1 SS

Allied
3 SS
2 DD
10 xAK
10 xAKL
3 KV
5 AM
2 YP
2 TK
1 AKE
3 ???

Shrug?  Basically, the important losses (to me) are the subs, DDs and AKE, and the TKs get an honorable mention.

Edit: Lemon, I saw your stuff. Heading there in a minute.

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RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 - 12/22/2010 8:11:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Personally I would be dubious about shutting down armaments. Just a feeling really. I don't use Tracker, but does it take the "Great 1943 Base Force ToE upgrade" into account?

That's to say nothing of replacing LCU combat losses, which at some point must start to increase quite a lot i.e. when the Allies go on the offensive.

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Status: offline 		Cap'n, that's a potentially temporary decision.  I'm trying to build up my HI reserves.  In addition, I currently have 100k armaments.  I'll turn it on once it drops to about 80k.

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Status: offline 		I just noticed that the "Type 1 Medium tank" becomes available in June 1942 as well. This is a much better vehicle than the Type 97 which all the IJA Tank Regts are equipped with.

Just musing ... :-)

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