John 3rd
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Joined: 9/8/2005 From: La Salle, Colorado Status: offline
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More discussion and, I think, a plan shaping up: Regarding night bombing, we are talking about two different things. We mutually agreed to forego night-bombing of airfields and ports due to forum concerns that it might be nerfed. This came about during the Sumatra campaign, when you employed the tactic a few times on a small scale. I approached you and said, "If you do it, I'll do it; if you don't do it, I won't do it." You chose the latter, and I explained that there would come a day when the Allies would draw near enough to Japan to engage in strategic night bombing, but that we'd keep it with the bounds of historical capabilities and wouldn't abuse it, just in case it too was nerfed. Despite that "understanding," I needed to give you a heads-up that I would be employing it at some point, perhaps soon. Hence my email yesterday. I've discussed this in my AAR many times over the years, so I think my regular readers were familiar with the agreement. Their input was mostly to discourage me from yielding on this point, except I think for NYGiants. The prohibition of port and airfield bombing has been mutually beneficial, and will pay off for you more as my bombers draw within range of your biggest ports. Just to make clear, we have a one-month moratorium (per your email) on strategic bombing at night. I agree. I am not exactly sure when I'll initiate the bombing, but if it seems nerfed - if you have no fair defenses and it seems whacked - then we can address it as things develop. The moratorium on other kinds of night bombing (ports, airfields) remains in effect. If you prefer to discuss that, I'm glad to. But I'm also glad to continue as is. I don't know if night bombing is nerfed or not, but we've lived without it for a long time, and I'm glad to continue that way. I wrote back saying that I would like to open everything up as an experiment to gain experience heading into my next campaign. We'll discuss this and see what happens.
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