A Slim Victory

[Boco]

Werd, how was the no-trade-with-Amsterdam house rule tolerated by your testers?

Both BB and CVE support in this theater was transient. That'll take some thinking.

[McMonkey]

There was no "do not trading with the Axis" house rule in the original game as it had not entered my mind that someone would engage in such dubious behaviour (only joking Agricola ). I don't like too many house rules in a scenario but I thing a few historically based ones don't hurt. If people then decide they would have more fun ignoring them then so be it

[Boco]

I've got an idea for this with multiple maps. Won't require house rules.

[fairline]

Originally posted by Boco
Great link, Fairline! I know this site also has several pages on the P-51, too (including an A-36 unit in CBI). In fact he appears to have written several hundred web pages (Pages with "~jbaugher1 on home att net") on aircraft from WWII to present. Does it have an index?

The P-47 site? Must have, but I came to this page straight from google..

Also found Camouflage and markings of North American P-51 Mustang Part 1 by Rick Kent. Don't know if it's accurate, but it mentions the P-51D in India as well.

Yes, they would cetrainly have been upgraded to P-51D's as the War progressed.

[Boco]

Found the master page for Joe Baugher's Home Page with hundreds of pages on military aircraft

[Case]

Originally posted by Boco
Both BB and CVE support in this theater was transient. That'll take some thinking.

Could I suggest that you give the BBs and CVE aircraft the missile tag or give the BBs the submarine or carrier flag and make them shoot shells with the missile flag? Given the Allies logistics and the overall low priority the theatre recieved BB and CVE intervention had to be saved for important occasions.

[Boco]

Good idea, Case.

Did the RAF use Air Wings as an operating unit? I've seen that the 221 Group had four Wings, but I can't find how squadrons were associated with wings.

[Case]

Originally posted by Boco
Did the RAF use Air Wings as an operating unit? I've seen that the 221 Group had four Wings, but I can't find how squadrons were associated with wings.

Yes they did. Each wing had a variable number of squadrons equipped with the same, or similar, aircraft operating in the same role. A RAF wing was directly comparable with a USAAF group (and a RAF Group was roughly the same as a USAAF Air Force)

[Boco]

I've found one link that indicates that squadrons frequently rotated into and out of Wings, even moving from one Wing to another. This appears usually to be associated with rest, refit, or upgrading.

Apparently, the glue problem with Mosquitos was solved to some degree sometime in early '45, but units equipped with mossie's in '44 were effectively grounded until they reverted back to Beaufighters.

I'm leaning toward using the RAF Wing / USAAF Group as the unit size in this scenario. The IJAF will be handled a little more abstractly as missile units.

AFAIK, the IJNAF didn't participate much in this theater. I'm guessing that the occasional reference to Zeroes in links like NZETC's accounts of CBI are misidentified Oscars, etc.

[fairline]

Wings generally, but not always, comprised 3 or so squadrons; during the Battle of Britain period in particular squadrons were regularly rotated to rest them, but they became more fixed as the war progressed.

[Boco]

Squadron size about the same for RAF, IAF, and USAAF?

[fairline]

12 planes for RAF and IAF, pretty similar to USAAF no?

[Boco]

I have this vague memory that USAAF squadrons varied a little according to mission. Heavy bomber squadrons may have been larger than fighter squadrons. I'll google a bit.

[Case]

I thought that USAAF heavy bomber squadrons were smaller than fighter squadrons?

[Boco]

Fighter squadrons appear to be 12-16. My googling skills aren't so hot here; I'm having trouble with USAAF bombardment squadron size.

Any recommendations for map projections? This'll span: 16-28N, 88-103E. I'm leaning toward Mercator or Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection. I'm not much a mapmaker, so I'd love to hear some advice!