Culiacan Mexico
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Joined: 11/10/2000 From: Bad Windsheim Germany Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson …Boy what a gift to the JFBC ( Japanese Fan Boy Club ) ... Operationally, it should allow the Japanese player to have ‘better’ aircraft in more of his front line groups, but strategically… do you think it will matter? My opinion. The Japanese Naval Aircraft will be relatively unchanged, except most players will swap out their land base groups armed with Petes for… well… anything else. The Japanese Army Air, especially fighter groups, should see more significant changes in aircraft deployed, but Tonys and Tojos while clearly superior to Nates aren’t going to change the course of the war. Personally, I see changes in the reorganization of… Sea/float planes… overall effect minimal. Land based bombers with less Lilys and more Sallys…. overall effect minimal. Land based fighters with more Tojo/Tony and less Nate Oscars… overall effect marginal. The heart of the Japanese problem is aircraft, but pilots. As it is, during the early part of the campaign I spend consider effort in ‘stripping out’ my good pilots from many groups and assigning to groups that I will use as front line combat units (especially from groups that never advance beyond Oscars). I see no reason to change this with 1.5. What 1.5 will allow me to do is fill out returning groups with very low experience pilots and have them fly old excess Nates while they are in training, and then upgrade to their new aircraft before being sent to a front line combat unit (some historical accuracy as the Nate was used as an advanced trainer during the later half of the war). What 1.5 will also allow me to do is select which group will be a front line combat group (receive the best aircraft) and which will be relegated to either the back waters or training. PS. If the Japanese aren’t still getting slaughtered in the air in 1944… I will be disappointed.
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