Author Topic: The Slot 1943 - Friday 13 Sep (Read 3008 times)

jarbo · « **on:** September 13, 2002, 02:45:00 AM »

Situation: The allied advancement in the pacific has stagnated. The Solomon Islands continue to be a highly contested area. The Japanese carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku are operating in the region. The U.S. carriers Princeton and Saratoga are also operating in the area. The Cactus Air Force is operating out of Henderson Field (A1) currently and has a wide variety of planes at their disposal. Allied commanders wish to move their foothold deeper into the island chain. The Marines currently hold a single base (A5) but have their eyes set on A10 as a forward base of operations. The Japanese, however, have made an unexpected technological advancements several months back and are deploying three new aircraft in full production to the region, the A6M5b, the N1K2J, and the KI67.

The M16, M3, LVTs enabled at all land bases

Japanese (Knights)
C23,C24,C29 – Amphibious Assault Groups – LVTs only
C30 - Shokaku – A6M5, A6M2, D3A, TBM (for Torpedos)
C22 - Zuikaku – A6M5, A6M2, D3A, TBM (for Torpedos)
A11,A15,A16,A17,A18,A19,A20 – A6M2/5, KI-61, N1K2J, KI-67

U.S. (Bishop)
C7,C27,C28 – Amphibious Assault Groups – LVTs only
C3 – Princeton – F6F, TBM
C8 – Saratoga – F4F-4, FM2, TBM
A5 – Marines – F4U-1, SBD
A1 – Cactus Air Force – A20, Boston III, P40B/E, P47D-11, P51B, F4F-4, SBD, TBM

CV Downtime 1 hour (BTW: CVs have no LVTs)
Radar/Bar Alt at 1000ft

Jarbo
CT Staff

LÃ¶we · « **Reply #1 on:** September 13, 2002, 07:40:26 AM »

You just made a bunch of Sailors very happy, us Ij's are'nt too sad ethier. Thanks Jarbo!
~~It's a good time for a Shameless recruiting plug as well.~~

CIU · « **Reply #2 on:** September 13, 2002, 09:48:57 AM »

Damn Skippy Poster there lowejg!

BTW I owe you 2...

CIU

brady · « **Reply #3 on:** September 13, 2002, 10:13:47 AM »

WOW cool Poster whear did u get hat?

LÃ¶we · « **Reply #4 on:** September 13, 2002, 10:54:08 AM »

Aanvil of Warbirds 27th Sentai made it.
He allowed us in the AH Division of 27th Sentai to use it.
CIU, don't worry I know you'll be ballancing the account in the next few days.

Nifty · « **Reply #5 on:** September 13, 2002, 12:35:23 PM »

just curious as to why the Boston vs the B-26? The USAAF used B-24s, B-25's, B-26s and B-17s in 1943 in the South Pacific Theater as level bombers. (The A-20 was obviously present as well.) Did you do this for a balance issue?

It bites that we don't have a 1943 P-38. (tho you are allowing the 1945 N1K2J to be developed "early"

) Would be perfect for this setup, as well as the Tunisia setup I'm running for the TOD.

jarbo · « **Reply #6 on:** September 13, 2002, 01:33:14 PM »

The concern was balance. The jabo capability of the allied aircraft easily account for the loss of the B26. I provided the Boston as a level bomber for use by anyone who really wants to do a buff run. In addition, I feel...again my opinion.. the Japanese plane set available for this era doesn't give the IJN either variety and equal footing w/ the allies.

Jarbo
CT Staff

jarbo · « **Reply #7 on:** September 13, 2002, 01:35:01 PM »

I would like to see an early B17 model would be a really nice addition to the pacific plane set, but would rather a betty bomber first to the Japanese. We do need an early P38 though for the 38 drivers.

P.S. Did ya like the added touch of the airvraft carrier names?

HFMudd · « **Reply #8 on:** September 13, 2002, 08:49:00 PM »

Just left the CT on the Axis side. As much fun as the Nik is... um, it seems a bit much.

How would folks feel about replacing it with a FW190A-5 or LA-5 as stand in for the missing 1943 IJ Army plane? Or is the Ki-61 good enough in the hand of a better stick then I?

Miska · « **Reply #9 on:** September 13, 2002, 09:04:51 PM »

And I just flew on the Allied side. This is complete science fiction. Not only have the Japanese made "unexpected advances", they have suddenly developed an industrial capacity greater than that of the Allies!! There is a canopy of NIK2s in there. I fly the CT for the historical setups. See you next week.

PS: You can do that sort of setup when AH allows you to give the japanese low octane fuel, unreliable engines, and no spare parts.

Karnak · « **Reply #10 on:** September 13, 2002, 09:37:24 PM »

Miska,

All Japanese aircraft in AH always fly with low octane fuel. There is no way to give the Japanese aircraft the performance they'd have with high octane fuel.

If you want reliability problems on the N1K2 and Ki-61 (A6Ms were very reliable), then its only fair if the Allies get jacked by their crap reliability in the early war when the Japanese didn't suffer it.

Your post displays a typically myopic view of history as taught by John Wayne movies.

brady · « **Reply #11 on:** September 13, 2002, 09:38:22 PM »

"PS: You can do that sort of setup when AH allows you to give the japanese low octane fuel, unreliable engines, and no spare parts."

And the pos P 40 engine would be modled, and the jamming on the hispanos would be modeled, and the ..... Preformance figures for Japanese aircraft in AH are based on how they preformed when the Japanese were using them with Japanese fuel, not US fuel, and reliabality issues cut both ways.

Squire · « **Reply #12 on:** September 13, 2002, 09:44:31 PM »

This is another 1944 setup. NIk2s and P-51Bs. The USN has to fly F6Fs to compete with the Nikkies, and so forth and so on...

Please remove the P-51s, F6Fs, and NIK2s, and you have a fine setup.

What do we have to do to get a genuine 1943 CT setup in the CT?

Ki-61 and A6M5 are a fine match for the F4F/FM-2 and P-40E.

Regards.

brady · « **Reply #13 on:** September 13, 2002, 09:45:39 PM »

The Wildcat is very capable in terms of dogfighting the George, I have on numiours occashion out fought 2 of them at the same time in a turn fight using this plane, The Hellcat is faster and can be used to Zoom and Boom the George if you are trying to gog fight it then you get what u deserve. Funny we dont hear people complain like this when the Germans have to fight spits for a weeak at a pop, the same tactis the germans use vs the spits are the one's the allise nead to use aganst the George, except for the Wildcat of cours which should turn fight those Georges.

This set up serves to further illistrate how despertaly we nead more Japanese planes so we can provide a balenced set up in PTO events, I would very much like to see an Early P 38, but I realy think any more effort put forth deaping the US plane set before the Japanese one is a seriously bad idea.

Karnak · « **Reply #14 on:** September 13, 2002, 09:51:16 PM »

Believe me Miska, I'd much rather have Ki-44s and J2M3s than the N1K2 in this setup, but HTC hasn't put any midwar Japanese fighter designs into the game yet.

Even the Ki-84-Ia would be more reasonable. It was in the hands of the evaluation chutai in October, 1943, and made its operational debut in March, 1944. That is earlier than the P-51D's operational debut. Further, the Japanese built 3,500 of them.

The N1K1-J (the predecessor to our N1K2-J) was also in service in early 1944.

Maybe if US fans would lobby for some of their opposition and show a bit of interest in non-US aircraft you guys wouldn't be forced to fight N1K2s in a 1943 setup, N1K2s that were added merely for balance. You reap what you sow.