Lowpe
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ORIGINAL: Kofiman That's not quite the way fire reports work, IIRC. The fire number for an attack is the total amount of fire present, and individual attacks add to it, but don't start from zero. That's still a lot of fires, but it's not 200k. Dead on correct. Plus there is Fog of War in the fires number too. I think you missed a golden opportunity here, if in fact Osaka was protected by a half dozen night fighters as seems the case. Osaka is the 2nd greatest target when considering Japan's industrial supply generation, and its huge manpower numbers means fires are ridiculously easy to start. The weather was harsh on your strikes, and the Japanese seem to be flying at uniform altitudes which you can take advantage of. For a well defended base like Nagasaki, I like your mixing up of altitudes...but instead of hitting Kanoya you should have hit adjacent targets to Nagasaki in an attempt to get his night time CAP to bleed over to less important bases. You can take advantage of this by watching and understanding the time to target for different heavy bomber models and using the bombers with faster arrival times to hit the less important bases adjacent to the primary strike. You can see by the attached graphic, that Tokyo and Osaka are by far and away the most important supply generators for Japan and the most vulnerable to fires. Consequently, they should be the most heavily protected which doesn't seem to be the case here. Of course, there are so many more things that can be targeted from engine, plane, vehicle, shipyards, to oil, refineries, and even resources. There is one hex that has close to 1000 resource production...and that is an easy 2000 vp. You need to decide the goal of your strategic bombing...general vp generation, destruction of the supply generation of Japan, destruction of the plane or engine building, destruction of vehicles/armaments industry...or even specifically destroying Japan's fighter or night fighter production capability. So many choices and all of them viable...to different degrees. A quick word about the Nicks and Irvings you are facing. They are first generation NF...and you can wear them out very easily as quite frankly there aren't enough squadrons of them. I haven't checked the map and counted hexes, but since you hit Harbin...threatening or bombing Port Arthur, Mudken, Heijo, Fusan, Keijo will further stretch Japan's night fighting strength. B29s stretch the night fighters, and the B24s & company do the real punishment. Don't forget you can make city attacks even with Avengers too. I hope you are getting an idea for where the AA concentrations are for future raid planning plus formulating your overall strategic bombing goals/tactics/direction.
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