Manchuria, China, and the Far Eastern Front

[Mohoender]

Good work and very nice idea. I had the same idea in my game but failed to come up with anything like you have done. I'll use yours and this will be of a great help. I can't wait for your next post. Anything on airforce and naval elements?

[Top-Break]

Glad to see the response, and I'm working on it.

On a related point, does anyone have any good information about the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the PLA Air Force in the '90s.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Top-Break

Glad to see the response, and I'm working on it.

On a related point, does anyone have any good information about the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the PLA Air Force in the '90s.

Oh hey! I happen to have just bought a handy book on that. I covers the PLAAF from 1951 to Present (and the date of the book is 2003). What do you need to know?

[Top-Break]

If it has an order-of-battle and a list of major airbases, that would be perfect. I have a book on world air forces, unfortunately its dated from the 1970s and it's PLAAF data reflects both a lack of hard information and China's Maoist military thinking of the day.

Let me know what you have there. I may have to snag a copy for myself. . .

Thanks

[Webstral]

Lots of hard work in there. Thanks for contributing.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Oh hey! I happen to have just bought a handy book on that. I covers the PLAAF from 1951 to Present (and the date of the book is 2003). What do you need to know?

OK, reading through this book, it's more the Chinese aircraft industry than anything else; there's nothing like ORBATs or lists of units. Picking through it, I can get an idea of which aircraft the PLAAF had on hand at a particular time, but that'll be the best I can do with this particular book. Will that help?

[Top-Break]

That could actually be very helpful. Aircraft types and knowing their main manufaturing centers would be most helpful.

I've noticed that many of the posts are concerned with just how brightly China glows in the dark in Tw2k. All available information suggests that they were well plastered in the war. However, China is a big country, with a vast selection of potential targets.

The idea that the Soviets would turn most of Manchuria (at least) into radioactive glass strains things a bit. Can anyone figure a list of theatre nuclear targets in China. Also, is there any additional information on exactly what the Soviets had managed to take before they feigned a retreat leading up to the main nuke exchange.

And, on a silly note

"In the Day, when China will make attempt to solve their overpopulation problem at the expense of Russian territories, our Strategic Missile Forces will solve China's overpopulation problem."
Russian Army folklore.