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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury
Maybe I am doing something wrong, and a bit off-topic
but I am having big problems supplying anything below Chittagong.
ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
Ed, you are violating an unwritten house rule: You shall not post in the forum when you have a turn to send back! [;)]
ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
Ed, you are violating an unwritten house rule: You shall not post in the forum when you have a turn to send back! [;)]
ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury
Maybe I am doing something wrong, and a bit off-topic
but I am having big problems supplying anything below Chittagong.
ORIGINAL: rustysi
ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury
Maybe I am doing something wrong, and a bit off-topic
but I am having big problems supplying anything below Chittagong.
Are you in the monsoon season? May15-Oct15 IIRC. If so the base draw limits and heavy ops could be causing you a problem.
ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
Interesting discussion. Yes, from my experience heavy bombers will get through no matter what. And Allied fighter are not weak in 1942. I have recently suffered a devastating air offensive in my PBEM against Ed aka IdahoNYer. I have seen B-17Es being outnumbered 10:1 by my CAP fighters - and the bombers got through without losses. I have also seen enemy sweeps being vastly outnumbered (for example 48:3, 45:2) - and getting away without losses and with kills on their own (A6M2, A6M3 and Oscars IIB vs. Wildcats and Beaufighters, not P-38s). That's with exp/air/def = 50+/70+/60+ pilots with good morale etc. flying at max altitude allowed for the "second-best mnvr band" house rule. I know that I am not the best player and I may not use optimal settings, still I expected less lopsided results in Nov 1942. 80% of my unrestricted air and ground forces are engaged in just trying to hold Burma against the Allied onslaught - something must be wrong with history [;)]. Kudos to Ed, he's a worthy opponent.
ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
Thanks for the comments. I may have gotten something wrong - in my interpretation of "second-best mnvr band", the Tojos (and Zeros) are limited to max 20k, the Oscars to 15k. 31k for Tojos would put them in their "second-worst" band for me. This is with DBB-C.
This is the main problem with the 2nd MVR band HR. Its makes the entire air war about which planes have access to which altitude bands. Highest wins. I would strongly recommend to do away or change the HR. Personally I use a max altitude HR which is the same for both sides. This somewhat negates the insane dive bonus.
ORIGINAL: rustysi
This is the main problem with the 2nd MVR band HR. Its makes the entire air war about which planes have access to which altitude bands. Highest wins. I would strongly recommend to do away or change the HR. Personally I use a max altitude HR which is the same for both sides. This somewhat negates the insane dive bonus.
This is good to know as I play stock. Would you mind posting those altitudes, as I forgotten what they are.
ORIGINAL: JocMeister
ORIGINAL: rustysi
This is the main problem with the 2nd MVR band HR. Its makes the entire air war about which planes have access to which altitude bands. Highest wins. I would strongly recommend to do away or change the HR. Personally I use a max altitude HR which is the same for both sides. This somewhat negates the insane dive bonus.
This is good to know as I play stock. Would you mind posting those altitudes, as I forgotten what they are.
Going completely by memory I think it was something like:
41-42: 20k
43: 25k
44-: 30k
Erik and I had a much better experience once we did away with the 2nd best MVR band. No more 50:1 results. [:)]
ORIGINAL: obvert
As Jocke says. This will help gameplay and I've used the same in several games to good effect. I even do this when playing H to H or against the AI from my side as it just makes more sense.
The last one is usually 31k for 44 and then it's kind of fine to let the doors open for 45 to any altitude, as this does help the Allies stay positive against most better Japanese models that have been pushed forward (and produced heavily). The P-47, P-51 and later Corsairs have higher ceilings than the Ki-84 and many other late war planes. If the Japanese end up with K-83, J7W and Ki-94 too early the Allies are screwed anyway. [:)]
Don't think the Japanese can get those high end aircraft with PDU off.ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
That is for PDU off?
ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget
That is for PDU off?
ORIGINAL: obvert
ORIGINAL: JocMeister
ORIGINAL: rustysi
This is good to know as I play stock. Would you mind posting those altitudes, as I forgotten what they are.
Going completely by memory I think it was something like:
41-42: 20k
43: 25k
44-: 30k
Erik and I had a much better experience once we did away with the 2nd best MVR band. No more 50:1 results. [:)]
As Jocke says. This will help gameplay and I've used the same in several games to good effect. I even do this when playing H to H or against the AI from my side as it just makes more sense.
The last one is usually 31k for 44 and then it's kind of fine to let the doors open for 45 to any altitude, as this does help the Allies stay positive against most better Japanese models that have been pushed forward (and produced heavily). The P-47, P-51 and later Corsairs have higher ceilings than the Ki-84 and many other late war planes. If the Japanese end up with K-83, J7W and Ki-94 too early the Allies are screwed anyway. [:)]
