ORIGINAL: GreyJoy
ORIGINAL: SqzMyLemon
ORIGINAL: GreyJoy
The real problem now is supply. I've used too much of it (as always) and can't seem to be able to stop the fall. Every day I produce 27,000 supplies and consume between 35 and 37K!!![:o]
China is in red. Even Korea now is in red. Japan has its own problems... pushed too much the R&D system in the first months I fear...hopefully now it will stabilize a bit now that most of the major lines of RnD are completed (A6M and KI-43 lines).
I don't sweat the economy. Like you I push my R&D and factory expansion early, then recoup for the remainder of 1942. I had 1.2 million HI before the end of 1942 and supply was increasing on average 8-12k per day once the first wave of factory expansions were complete. I'll bow out now and let you get back to doing what you do without offering advice of a dubious nature. [:D]
I know my play style with the Japanese economy make people like Mike Solli and Pax Mondo cringe! [:D]
This time I won't try to save HI points as usual. As far as I can tell, when war will enter in its latest stage, aren't the HI points what I'll be missing, but supplies. So i'll keep on producing everything I consider usefull and won't even look at the HI stored.
Let's hope supplies will get up once this first phase is over... I'm now down to 2,8 millions and would like not to waste too much for the rest of the year...
I'm ending up with a 3-3.5K surplus in HI per day in my game. Manageable pilot training costs. If it weren't that HI was such a great supply generator, I'd turn off some production to make my Fuel/Oil stocks last a bit longer... wishing I'd expanded more LI centers in the HI from Day 1, honestly. For every 2 points of LI expanded, I could have turned off a point of HI at some point in late 1942 for the same total supply availability at a given date in 1944.