Flavius Belisarius posted:

Why? Why on earth would they include engine production separate from airframe production?

Jobbo_Fett posted:

G4M's should be using the Mitsubishi Ha-32 engines, of which you only have 13 in your pool; enough for 6 aircraft.

Flavius Belisarius posted:

Why? Why on earth would they include engine production separate from airframe production?

Gnoman posted:

Strategic bombing is a major factor - this way the Allies can get lucky and shut down several models of aircraft by damaging the engine production, and the Empire can reallocate production to compensate.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

And its a grog game.

Grey Hunter posted:

Grey Hunter posted:

I have nearly twice the US score at the moment. Once the troops in China are freed up, I can try and take Namou, which will get us there with the total shift - Efate will add a few hundred more points when I go after that - the question then is if I go after Fiji or Australia.

I'm still having issues with my plane production that may well loose me the war - no matter how many betties the game says I produce a month, I never seem to see a rise in the number on the field. I can't edit the paths of upgrades and I'm doing my best with the others - I'm still learning the Japanese production in some ways, but I never wanted it to be an ahistorical finely tuned machine. I'm just worried that I can't get enough of the killer torpedo planes out, even though I'm not losing any at the moment!

some grog posted:

Air units which are not scheduled to withdraw can be manually upgraded if there is 1 airframe in the pools. Units which are scheduled to withdraw can only be manually upgraded if the full TOE complement in airframes are in the pool. For automatic upgrades the full complement is necessary to be in the pool for both PDU OFF and PDU ON.

RZApublican posted:

He can totally take Darwin if he just lands one hex away from it though, landing directly in the city is pretty much the only thing that killed him last time.

RZApublican posted:

He can totally take Darwin if he just lands one hex away from it though, landing directly in the city is pretty much the only thing that killed him last time.

RZApublican posted:

He can totally take Darwin if he just lands one hex away from it though, landing directly in the city is pretty much the only thing that killed him last time.

OpenlyEvilJello posted:

20 May 1943

British minesweeper Fantôme, stern blown off by mine off Cape Bon, written off as a total constructive loss.

Slippery42 posted:

If you want to feel a bit better about those bombers, you might check the Aircraft Losses screen and sort by operational losses. I would expect at least some of those damaged planes get written off. The allies only get 33 replacement B-24D1s/month, so if they're losing more than 1/day, you're still outpacing production.

bunnyofdoom posted:

Great job there boys

Flavius Belisarius posted:

Is there an average chance that a damaged Liberator crashes on the way home?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equipment_losses_in_World_War_II#Air posted:

China: Total losses of the Nationalist Air Force were 2,468 (According to Chinese and Taiwanese Sources).

Finland: Reported losses during the Winter War totaled 67, of which 42 were operational, while 536 aircraft were lost during the Continuation War, of which 209 were operational losses (137 fighters, 51 bombers and 21 other). 327 aircraft were disabled ("attrition", too old, non-combat accidents) (Overall 603).[1]

France: From the beginning of the war until the cease-fire in 1940, 892 aircraft were lost, of which 413 were in action and 234 were on the ground. Losses included 508 fighters and 218 bombers.(Overall 892)[1]

Germany: Estimated total number of destroyed and damaged for the war totaled 76,875 aircraft, of which 40,000 were total losses and the remainder significantly damaged. By type, losses totaled 21,452 fighters, 12,037 bombers, 15,428 trainers, 10,221 twin-engine fighters, 5,548 ground attack, 6,733 reconnaissance, and 6,141 transports.[1]

Italy: Total losses were 5,272 aircraft, of which 3,269 were lost in combat.

Japan: Estimates vary from 35,000 to 50,000 total losses, with about 20,000 lost operationally.[2]

Netherlands: Total losses were 81 aircraft during the May, 1940 campaign.[2]

Poland: Total losses were 398 lost, 112 flew to then neutral Romania, 286 destroyed, 1 missing, unaccounted for, including 116 fighters, 112 dive bombers, 81 reconnaissance aircraft, 36 bombers, 21 sea planes, and 9 transports. The Polish Air Force evacuated 1 day after the Soviet Invasion of Poland, September 18, 1939. However, some trainer aircraft kept on flying as scout planes. The last two were grounded on October 2, 1939 by the order of General Franciszek Kleeberg. The losses after the evacuation are not known (September 19-October 2, 1939).[2]

Soviet Union: Total losses were 17,900 bombers, 23,600 ground attacker, 46,800 fighter aircraft, and 18,100 training, transport and other aircraft; an overall loss of over 106,400 domestic produced aircraft; 46,100 in combat and 60,300 non-combat. Additionally, 18,300 Land-Lease aircraft were lost; a grand total of 124,700 aircraft. Grigori F. Krivosheev states: "A high percentage of combat aircraft were lost in relation to the number available on 22 June 1941: 442% (total losses) or 216% (combat losses). In the air force over a half of losses were non-combat losses."[3]

United Kingdom: Europe 42,010 (including 30,045 fighters and 11,965 bombers)[2]
Australia, Pacific and South East Asia: 250 [4]

United States: Total losses were nearly 95,000, including 52,951 operational losses (38,418 in Europe and 14,533 in the Pacific).[2]

Leperflesh posted:

You know you're a day behind, right? Just asking, no pressure

Leperflesh posted:

Oh, I see: the date in the leading banner is wrong, but the end of the post intelligence report says may 23rd.

Leperflesh posted:

Oh, right OK in that case yeah, today is May 23rd, except for places on Earth where it's already May 24th (which include the UK as of this post), but Grey just posted the update for May 22nd.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Grey posted the update for May 22nd on May 22nd, 23:26 EST, sometimes he posts late