Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: rader

Obvert - I've thoroughly enjoyed your AAR and hope you will grant us some summarizing words when the campaign draws to a close. Kudos to you for pressing this one to the (almost) end!

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

Yeah, I don't recall any AAR which survived to 1946. I would gladly see your industry screens. I suspect manpower never played any role in planning? How many pilots are there still in school? Have you moved all oil and resources, before Allies cut off routes? How is the state of your merchant fleet? And what is the state of cut off garrisons on islands? Is there shortage of anything (well, except supply)?

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Obvert,

Did you go thru and reset supply level demands at all the Honshu bases...or do they still have the levels you set from the opening days of the war for factory expansion?

Great game!

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ORIGINAL: obvert

A look at industry and remaining stocks. A lot of good. One very important bad; resources. Very few left producing in the Home Islands.

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

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ORIGINAL: obvert

A look at industry and remaining stocks. A lot of good. One very important bad; resources. Very few left producing in the Home Islands.

Jeez, you still have 3.7 mil of fuel? And you are making 1743 planes per month? I wonder, which unit uses Vickers VI tank? :)

There seems also to be bug with Type 4, and Type 93 mines, as they were never used, or produced.


Fuel, HI, and armament stockpiles probably will last till end of game. Good job.

I never thought, that it would be possible to run out of Resources though. Where are those 3 millions located? Those islands NE of Java? Is that recent accumulation, or some long time stockpiling?

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ORIGINAL: obvert
It's not too hard to run short of resources when the Allies take the North. Sakhalin is a huge production centre and losing that alone will send Japan into a deficit. That can e easily remedied by pulling from the SRA.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

Where are you getting the pilots from? Losing hundreds of pilots in one day in 46 really puzzles me when the replacement rates are at something like 300 per month.

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: obvert
It's not too hard to run short of resources when the Allies take the North. Sakhalin is a huge production centre and losing that alone will send Japan into a deficit. That can e easily remedied by pulling from the SRA.

On the one hand it shows that longer resource convoys other than your usual Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Korea-China might be useful. On the other hand, few games will be as long as this one..

Also, 150 Super Forts downed in one day

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

Where are you getting the pilots from? Losing hundreds of pilots in one day in 46 really puzzles me when the replacement rates are at something like 300 per month.

When the KB went up in flames on day 2 of the campaign I decided I'd have to devote most of my energy to the air war in this one. I began intensive training using every available group from the beginning, compromising some offensive use early and leaving most of the work to the IJN.

In the second half of the war playing both Sqz and Dan, I favoured a defensive air setup, letting the Allies lose more pilots per day while ours were mostly WIA and lived to fight another day.

Below is an example from a day when I lost almost 300 airframes. Pilot losses were relatively few, and I'll bet anything the Allies lost more than the Japanese that day. Only 78 KIA from 282 downed. Also, as you can see, I still have a few in the pipeline, and a lot in the late war training groups with their extended reserve numbers, usually 2x the active number or more. There are more than enough pilots at current rates of loss to fight well beyond the supply available.

I have some thoughts on this I'll go into later. I don't think this is idea for game balance, but it is what it is when both sides can do it.

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I've always prioritised fuel and oil on return convoys from the SRA, but this one made me think that maybe it's better to manage that in balance with developing a slightly larger resource pool early in the HI in order to deal with unforeseen contingencies in the late game. If Sakhalin and Hokkaido resources hadn't been stripped away in mid-44 then the Japanese would be in better shape. Usually from other areas resources would not be the primary Strat bombing target. From the North they are.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

Where are you getting the pilots from? Losing hundreds of pilots in one day in 46 really puzzles me when the replacement rates are at something like 300 per month.

When the KB went up in flames on day 2 of the campaign I decided I'd have to devote most of my energy to the air war in this one. I began intensive training using every available group from the beginning, compromising some offensive use early and leaving most of the work to the IJN.

In the second half of the war playing both Sqz and Dan, I favoured a defensive air setup, letting the Allies lose more pilots per day while ours were mostly WIA and lived to fight another day.

Below is an example from a day when I lost almost 300 airframes. Pilot losses were relatively few, and I'll bet anything the Allies lost more than the Japanese that day. Only 78 KIA from 282 downed. Also, as you can see, I still have a few in the pipeline, and a lot in the late war training groups with their extended reserve numbers, usually 2x the active number or more. There are more than enough pilots at current rates of loss to fight well beyond the supply available.

I have some thoughts on this I'll go into later. I don't think this is idea for game balance, but it is what it is when both sides can do it.

your screenshot of the pilot pool explains my question, you get 450 IJN and 615 IJA pilots each month while I'm only used to some 300 pilots as replacements alltogether which is not even 1/3 of your pilots. What scenario is this?

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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

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I've always prioritised fuel and oil on return convoys from the SRA, but this one made me think that maybe it's better to manage that in balance with developing a slightly larger resource pool early in the HI in order to deal with unforeseen contingencies in the late game. If Sakhalin and Hokkaido resources hadn't been stripped away in mid-44 then the Japanese would be in better shape. Usually from other areas resources would not be the primary Strat bombing target. From the North they are.

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I believe your opponent did no have interdicting flow of fuel, supply, and resources from the SRA. I realize that Allied subs are pretty much neutered against escorted convoys but their is more than one way to skin a cat. Dan just did not make a concerted effort to choke off your industry. Sure, you can bomb it late in the game, but as you have pointed out, important production continued for a long time. My 2 cents