Fulkerson (J) vs Moore (A) ( no Moore )

[Richard III]

In he last AAR Mike Solli Re: Once Again into the Breech-Mike(J) vs. tc464(A) start dated (11/24/2011) goes into fine detail on the organization of the merchant navy into speed, endurance and capacity, important for TF composition., as well as conversions. A Must Read, very few do the Empire economy better then Mike.[&o]

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the absolute latest Tracker economic diagnosis. The last two lines on the resources history chart imply that I may have the oil,
fuel, and resources crisis in hand finally. Tokyo failed again today for lack of resources but I've got convoys headed that way right now.

[larryfulkerson]

Nauru Island has run itself out of fuel but TF 591 is bring some and they will hang around and load up w/ resources outbound.

[larryfulkerson]

Cam Rahn Bay is almost out of supplies and there just happens to be a supplies TF ready for departure from Tokyo so I've decided to
ship them to CRB and it'll take about 10 days or so to get there.

[larryfulkerson]

Tokyo and Yokohoma both had failing industry again today so I'm diverting a TF carrying resources from Kagoshima to those places.
There's three more convoys w/ resources inbound but they are still about a week away. Again, a closer port will have to fill in for some
crisis relief.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's all the convoys headed for Tokyo now. Most of them are still days away however so we're still in crisis mode.

[larryfulkerson]

Most of Jim's carriers are damaged I believe but I have some that are still operational. Here's where they are right now.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay......new day.....new combat results. This is what happens when I get complacent and don't pay attention to Allied abilities.
He did one of these night naval bombardments yesterday and got similar results and Jim reports via email that since his TF is
sitting in it's home port all he does is reload each turn so the result is one of these naval bombardments EACH NIGHT. The result
is that I'm forced to evacuate the city w/ all my troopers. They were out of supply anyway. This will make the game more exciting.
Might even get Jim to try to push south from Rangoon.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the absolute latest Tracker economic diagnosis. I've still got the NavY turned way down, almost off. Gotta save HI somehow.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim said something by email about finding the ports and airfields that need to be serviced by more supplies or fuel by looking at the
Auto-convoy display screen. I can see that. Numbers in red are trouble that needs attention. More places than I was aware of that need
fuel or supplies. I can plan better now that I know more about the problem.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay.......I've received some moves from Jim and did the combat replay etc. and here's a new day and alas, Tokyo has a failing LI
industry again. D'oh.

[larryfulkerson]

I found TF 47 in Tokyo unloading resources so maybe the failing LI industry will cure itself by tomorrow.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay I've received some new moves from Jim and I watched the replay etc. Here's the very latest Tracker economic chart:

[MAurelius]

dunno if anyone mentioned it before - but try optimising your TFs for speed..... a TF where a 18kt, 12kt and 10kt ship is in isn't very economic.... if you split them up for example (since you seem to be running them without escorts anyway) or move the same ones together - your ressources etc would reach HI more quickly and more efficiently

just a thought...

[Richard III]

Hi Ya Larry [;)]
 
Have you tried shutting down most/all of the Merchant Shipyards, and perhaps some of the armaments  factories, depending upon the pools and LCU usage.
Also perhaps stop some of the `44 -`45 shipbuilding. You should be awash in AK`s about now.
 
Rich
 
 

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: MAurelius
dunno if anyone mentioned it before - but try optimising your TFs for speed..... a TF where a 18kt, 12kt and 10kt ship is in isn't very economic.... if you split them up for example (since you seem to be running them without escorts anyway) or move the same ones together - your ressources etc would reach HI more quickly and more efficiently

just a thought...

I appreciate the intent of your posting this advice and I tried really tried to have the TF's segregated by speed but I noticed that no
matter how fast the transport is there is this nasty fact about the speed of the escort(s). I'm using mostly PB's for escorts and most
of them have an 11kt speed and so the task force speed is limited to 11kts. I'm lurching from crisis to crisis right now and my focus
is on other matters but as soon as I get some slack I'll see what I can do to use the faster DD's as escorts.

ORIGINAL: Richard III
Hi Ya Larry [;)]

Have you tried shutting down most/all of the Merchant Shipyards, and perhaps some of the armaments  factories, depending upon the pools and LCU usage.
Also perhaps stop some of the `44 -`45 shipbuilding. You should be awash in AK`s about now.

Rich

Hidy Ho there Richard. I don't know if you know how to read economic charts, it's tricky and not obvious at all, but I've already shut
off 610 Armament facilities and the NavY and MerchY outputs have been curtailed to the lowest levels doable. Because of the HI
and LI industry failing at Tokyo and Yokohama and the remarkably reduced HI output and LI output. I'm looking forward to the time
when I can boost them back up to "realistic" levels but for now my HI pool is remarkably depleted and I'm told that I need to build it up
to at least 1Meg before I do anything else. Sounds like a good idea to me. This is my first PBEM game and my first try at the Jap side
of things and I'm trying a really hard scenario ( RA 4.2 ) and we're all seeing what happens when you do that. I'm grateful for all the
advice you guys are giving me and I have reason to believe it's helping and I'm doing a LOT better than I would be doing w/o it. But
the fact remains that I'm still lurching from crisis to crisis. It's hard to get a handle on things when the process is so chaotic.

EDIT: Here's the NavY and MerchY line-up's. Notice how many of the ships are halted ( many ) and how many are accellerated
( none ).

[larryfulkerson]

I lost track of Kwajaliene and let it get down to 0 in fuel and supplies and now I've got a sub w/o enough fuel to perform it's combat
mission. D'oh.

[larryfulkerson]

Tokyo's industry didn't fail today. The tooltip says that Tokyo has about 71k resources and TF 5 is going to unload another 23K or so
and Tokyo should do rather well for about three days and then I'm guessing it's going to be low on resources again. I have to keep them
flowing to Tokyo or I'm going to have another industry failure.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 45 is carrying only a fraction of the total load of which it's capable. I truncated the loading process so as to get about 45K resources
to Tokyo soonest. I thought that it was more important to get SOME resources to Tokyo rather than wait for another couple of days to
get the full load aboard because of the failing industry. Now that the industry isn't failing it doesn't seem as high a priority anymore.

[larryfulkerson]

I did it again you guys. I wasn't paying attention and transfered the Hiryu's planes to the Hiryu thinking it was ready to sail, and D'oh, I
found out it's in the shipyard and will be there for another 71 days or so. So I have to transfer the planes to a different carrier, sometime
tomorrow I'll do that I guess.