PaxMondo
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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli Another thought. There are basically few to no pilots in reserve, especially for the IJAAF. Some of the sentai are over strength, and some of those are very over strength. I'm thinking of pulling some of the excess planes and pilots into the reserve and allocating them to units that are under strength. Basically, there will be no change to the over all air strength, but instead of being in reserve, they will fly. It will allow more planes to fly each turn early on. The problem is that it's going to be awhile before the on map training starts producing a significant number of pilots. Thoughts? I move a LOT of pilots around on Turn 1 for this reason, both IJA and IJN. Put the experienced ones in your designated training groups into group reserve and then pull them to your operational groups. As you say, there are a lot of groups that are at minimal strength. Sure it will take a few days to get those planes in service, but by 12/10 you have a lot more planes flying in your operational areas manned by good pilots. As you note, the issue is that you have 60 days (more or less) before you will have any fighter pilots coming out of your training program. Bomber pilots a lot longer than that depending upon how many skills you are trying to train. IN the end, I look at it this way: 1. the allies are severely constrained by planes until mid-42. 2. numbers matter a great deal in air combat. 3. I want to gain air supremacy as fast as I can. The outcome for me is to move those pilots. If I can get 2:1 or 3:1 in combat numbers advantage, I know I'm going to have better than 1:3 in loss rates. With the higher numbers involved, it means the allies are out of planes that much faster. Also, the additional pilots allows me to work rest into air units better so they will have lower fatigue and cut my losses even more. IJ has to take risks, and has to take and keep the momentum as long as possible.
< Message edited by PaxMondo -- 12/2/2011 11:56:17 PM >
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