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ORIGINAL: bklooste

Castor I wouldnt crit skill levels- sure in Nemos game that is the case but Joe and Cuttlefish are not beginners i think your one of the few  ( only) 43 game where its even and you have had some unlucky engadgements.

Japan has a limited capacity due to onboard resources ( eg x * 4 years - shipping losses )  . The thing is Japan can prob ramp up to her end 42- mid 43 level in 6 months with the starting supply & oil pool which makes it difficult for the allies  in 41 but those resources spent do not show till late 43 . Look at Cuttlefish after the resources were cut of he had no stockpile and was down to 3 planes a day  in mid 43 , part of the reason for this is burning through the stockpile in 41-42.

I really liked how in some AARs ( Mike and Seydliz) they kept building Nates, Sallies etc due to engines in the pool and supply costs or turn of light industry these players will be better of in 43-44.

I used to think the best option for Japan was to really force the allied air to battle so the veterans at start exact a maximum toll ,  force the allies to commit badly trained troops and replacements have the most time to train. However this helps the late 42 -early 43 situation it creates huge issues in 44 due to extra supplies used in building new factories and air.   So i think it is a fine balance with little experience in 44 most players have gone with the have lots of planes in 41 strategy which means the allies with a Europe first policy wont have enough to challenge Japan in 42.

IMHO your really need to play Japan against a competent allied player.

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

With PDU off, the dutch get only one squadron that upgrades to the Hurri IIbTrop. That's hardly a war winner. 

You only get about a dozen of these planese produced at best so the ability to assign them to more than one squadron is meaningless. You can save the Dutch Hurricanes and actually assign them to a RAAF fighter squadron. However, since you get so few they are not that useful.

I used them for the defense of Java. So far, I've lost four of the twelve.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
You always mention one AAR that has the Allied being in the Philipines in mid 43 (not that surprising given the Japanese lost all their carriers long before),

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
You say 2 months isn´t enough (I know it´s enough for Allied pilots to reach 70 skill

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
Other people say they are swimming in pilots

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
while I´m swimming in trained pilots as the Allied player too.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
It doesn´t matter if the Allied player is swimming in a thousand pilots in the pool if that´s twice as many as the Japanese, especially when I don´t have AIRCRAFT to put them into. I´m in 1/43 now, haven´t lost a single carrier, am on the offense, am playing very conservative and if I sum my USAAF bomber pool up (with all the crappy early bombers) then perhaps I´ve got some 40-50 bombers in the pool.

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ORIGINAL: FatR

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
You always mention one AAR that has the Allied being in the Philipines in mid 43 (not that surprising given the Japanese lost all their carriers long before),

There are three AARs where Allies do as well or better by 1943 (also Aussies vs. Amis and Stoneage vs. Spruance). Out of, IIRC, five AARs where the game actually got to 1943 and beyond by now. I should point out, that Japan should be able to do better than in RL in 1942-43 (in 1944-45 sheer power of Allies should bring things closer to the historical results, no matter early Japanese advantages), more than half of the time, because in RL they have lost the Decisive Battle (tm) in June 1942, due to a hard-to-believe chain of mistakes and strokes of bad luck. Any decent player should avoid at least the first part. If Japan doesn't, then Japan is the side the game is skewed against, no matter how many minute details you try to argue while ignoring the larger picture.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
You say 2 months isn´t enough (I know it´s enough for Allied pilots to reach 70 skill

And I know that it isn't for Japanese pilots, whom I monitor more closely, under the latest patch. Which version of the game do you play?

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
Other people say they are swimming in pilots

Which people?

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
while I´m swimming in trained pilots as the Allied player too.

Because Allies have a metric ton of training squadrons on the West Coast.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
It doesn´t matter if the Allied player is swimming in a thousand pilots in the pool if that´s twice as many as the Japanese, especially when I don´t have AIRCRAFT to put them into. I´m in 1/43 now, haven´t lost a single carrier, am on the offense, am playing very conservative and if I sum my USAAF bomber pool up (with all the crappy early bombers) then perhaps I´ve got some 40-50 bombers in the pool.

And how many in the squadrons? By comparison, I have 28 modern bombers of all types in the pool for USAAF alone, with most squadrons filled out or only lacking 1-3 planes. In September of 1942. Also, your play, with many air attacks each turn, overburdening your search squadrons unreasonably, and so on is not what I can call "conservative".

After looking at your AAR, I also don't get why the heck you complain in the fist place. Looking at the air statistics on page 17, Allies lead in sorties 1.5:1. Well, so much for not having enough planes. You should realize, that what you actually demand is an unstoppable Allied steamroller, that will utterly overpower Japanese no matter what, starting from some point from 1942. You should also realize, that if the developers give in to demands like this, all PBEMs will be ending by early 1944.