Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Looking at December the Myojo will fill up my divebombing squadrons and make a strong presence Luzon...hopefully.

Jan 1, 44 the Nick D night fighter and Irving Sa come on stream...so I will at least have a full contingent of night fighters to meet the B29s come April 44. I should have the Frances and Peggy starting production around April too.

I plan on using Petes and KAI Dinahs on a 10 percent setting too, if night bombing is a go by the Allies, at least at the big five industrial targets and perhaps at some of the plane r&d areas.

I am in so much trouble...

From what I remember the Myojo is pretty fragile and it's definitely pretty slow. It was originally a modified Val made of wood to save on precious aluminum!

So it packs punch. The question is whether the punch will ever arrive at target. For me a Judy of any kind, and especially a Grace, is a better option.

I am going to give them a try, and they are made of lots of wood.

I made the plane based on early comments to the AAR, I think from Spidery, but also backed up by you that there were several training squadrons that can upgrade to the Myojo but not Judies for kamikaze work.

Of course I have to survive till I get the training squadrons first.

However, I shut down my Judy factories until the D4Y4 comes along in a month or so, so the Myojo will probably get pressed into duty as a landbased bomber.

I was wondering what a squadron bombing at Chungking would do? Perhaps if used as a divebomber it would really eat up the supplies inherent in the Chinese corps there? Might be ugly those as they are fragile.

Funny. Looking at their durability the Myojo comes in at 30! The Tsurugi is much less durable at what, 22?

So the Myojo is actually more durable than the Judy. Go figure.

It's a hell of a lot faster than the bi-planes that come in those training groups and some other late arrivals at 292, so it might be better than i'd been thinking. I guess I dismissed it in relation to the speed of the Judy/Grace, but by the time I had the late game groups forgot that it was actually much better than what arrived in them and might be the best available in some upgrade paths.

DBs should suffer at Chungking because of the Chinese small AA guns, of which they have a lot. Although they have very few medium and heavy AA guns, they have a lot of 50 cal MG devices that will hit the DBs below 4k. I'd stay at 6k or above, but stye might do okay from there.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Ok, speaking of Myojo, my first training pilots are reaching 60+ in LowN. To what should I train my potential Kamikazes before returning them to the pools?

Is it pointless to train try and get their defence up?

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Ah, but once they're out of supply.... .

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Ok, speaking of Myojo, my first training pilots are reaching 60+ in LowN. To what should I train my potential Kamikazes before returning them to the pools?

Is it pointless to train try and get their defence up?

All of these factors improve survivability. I had some kami pilots that were China veterans of 75-80exp and 70 defense with 70 low naval bombing skill. Flying a solid airframe like the Peggy(T) they get through pretty well.

The basic kami pilot for me would be 40-50exp trained only in low naval skill to 65-70. I had a lot though that were not the basic pilots and I don't know really how much that changed outcomes. I'd have to test it.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

April 15th, bad, bad day IRL; too busy, sad, mad, and poor to write more.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Looking at that TF composition, I would have had a SC TF with 4 DDs lead the bombardment TF in as you had 9 DDs in it. They would have dealt with any merchants unloading.

Yes, the Allies have lots and lots of LSTs, but not that many come in India. So, he would have to ship them in to replace losses.

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

It's even worse when your ships start to waste Long Lances on those low value ships. Even more so now that the Long Lance is the only qualitative edge you have over the Allied ships.

It is something I wished the code accounted for. If DL on the TF was high enough, they'd only use secondary weapons, or something to that effect.

Why waste the Long Lances when the hoards of 25mm cannons will do the job for a fraction of the rearm cost?

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Shindens and Karyu did better over Nagasaki for example.

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

The take-home message from my end is to make sure you've enough trained pilots. If I had a good stock of pilots for both services, the air war in our Downfall game would be much more even-handed.

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

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Shindens and Karyu did better over Nagasaki for example.

The Shinden has excelled.

The Karyu has been disappointing so far. With it's big service rating, I don't think it's had any more than 60% operation since the start of the scenario. That would be fine if I'd 200 of them, but when you've only one depleted squadron of 50, less so.

This scenario is proving informative as to the air war. All the "good" Japanese planes in the late war that you mention (Frank "r" George, Jack) all have pretty high service ratings (bar one of the George models with SR 2, IIRC?), so you can't depend solely on them for CAP.

The take-home message from my end is to make sure you've enough trained pilots. If I had a good stock of pilots for both services, the air war in our Downfall game would be much more even-handed.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Jeesh, it was funny but you don't have to keep repeating the picture. If you saw what they ask for this model!

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Once the Allies break through those tri-bases, its just a race down to Bangkok. The question for you is if you can afford to leave troops behind at Bangkok as it will be surrounded and cut off from any land based retreat??

Before my game ended in August 44, I had broken into the clear terrain in Thailand and was given Bangkok, heading down to Saigon, and closing in on Cam Rahn Bay. Your opponent may try to do this and then take part of the Philippines archipelago to effectively cut off almost all your oil. You know those B-25 attack bombers have the range to cut the South China Sea in half. This may happen in the next 6 months.