Sokraates - Enemy ORG depletion for me varies a little as to when I will attack. The situation dictates it more often than not. In most cases an interdiction tends to target one division of a stack, which is slightly annoying most of the time. In this case the CAS actually went for all three which is pretty rare.
Had they picked on only one division I would still have attacked using my three divisions and air support. The air support works better during an actual combat for interdiction, or at least seems to. With one enemy division depleted of ORG the odds would have been 3:2 in my favour which is more than adequate for a small battle with air support.
Larger battles have slightly different rules for me. I tend to almost ignore interdiction until the battle starts for big battles as prior bombing tends to reduce only one enemy division which is not much in a large army. Again interdiction during an actual battle seems to work a lot better. A prime example would be one of the larger attacks against Altay where the odds were fairly even. Without interdiction I would probably have lost but with it the battle was won fairly easily even with no prior softening up.
Enemy CAS interdicted Jilin before I could shoot them down. I was still a little surprised at how easy I lost that battle though. I didn't give it a chance to develop much though. For battles like this where the odds are two to one or more against me I tend to not wait long before retreating. In this case I gave it two hours. Both of those hours saw a drop in my chances of winning so I withdrew. Harbin by contrast stays almost steady for the first few hours before the enemy starts to lose.
"U" does seem a little significant
Juan_de_Marco - Now why didn't I think about Switzerland. It must be my total annexation policy interfering with politics
Panzer6 - Tedious is the more likely and thanks for supplying it
Edzako - It makes things too easy unfortunately but I can't really decide to not sink them in the name of gaminess.
robou - The Soviets can replace them for as long as their manpower pool holds up.
Lascars - cjwet is correct they cannot propose a peace or the US probably already would have.
cjwet - I was slightly late with my slider move last year so the next one is due in the first week of July and I will mention it when I do it. I will probably move towards Open Society to reduce partisan problems.
Reado - I can do that
stnylan - Correct. Slowly but surely their numbers are beginning to tell.
ColossusCrusher - Realistic scenario looks about the correct one.
Delex - Mid 30's so not great but not a total disaster either.
The regular update will be a little different today. Firstly I will go over why I have chosen not to attack certain areas that have been suggested. This will basically just be me explaining the whys and why nots. Secondly will be an in game update which will be the minutes form the meeting between Hirohito and the Armed Forces Ministers following the March 1st monthly meeting. This will tell you the target of Operation Mystery but the updates over the next few days will cover the details of how it went.