A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

[Mike McCreery]

You need to move oil from the eastern islands (the big 2) to the home island.

You also need to move oil and resources from Korea to the home island. Typically they start somewhere around port arthur.

If you develop certain bases you can have the materials automatically flow to them and shorten your trips.

Unfortunately, this is one reason why I folded as the Japanese after 21 days. There is SOOOOO much more to worry about :]

There is something that is not the manual but there are very good primers out there on how to set up your transport fleets, organize the ships by class and distance and fuel economy and make sure the port usage is optimized.

It is really too complicated to answer in 1 post and you dont want this idiot doing it :]

[DanSez]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Pretend Mandrake-san not-ah read manuarh with bunch of doggerer Engrish. How much oil can refinery consume as raw materiarh when
running at furr capacity?

Mandrake-san perhaps figure out by watching revers of oil go up and down but pretend Mandrake-san not-ah take Ritarin medicine today annot sit stir.
Maybe SPrior-san arready know everything but Mandrake-san have to rearn too so not screw up.

--Rook rike have to move both oil and resources from Shikuku, Sakharin to Honshu, right?
--What-ah we move from Port Arthur? Oil, fuerh, both?
--Mandrake-san send ships to Fusan to pick up resources rike GreyJoy say. Now Fusan have rower resources. New resources move down from Port Arthur or have to pick up there?
--What-ah about refinery at Miri? Mandrake-san imagine we move fuerh from Miri and ret refinery work? Wirr oir from Brunei move through jungurh to miri? Seem kinda unrikery but sometimes strange thing happen, rike magic rairway to Port Arthur.
--Where is big frow chart on Japan-mens economy that Mandrake-san rook at once then say "Hory crap" and nevah rook at again?
--Can Mandrake-san use tracker without MS Office?
--Should Mandrake-san start Eric Decker this week in fantasy footbarr?

You can use the supplies/resource/oil stockpile commands and arrows to try and nudge supply around a little but from what I can summize, home basing cargo and tanker ships at Port Arthur/Fusan will cause supplies to start flowing that direction. It will take some time, patience and attention.

If you don't get your supply in gear soon, the whole economy will start crashing about Feb/Mar of 42 - no R&D, no engines, no planes, no ships, just a big red circular target around your backside saying "ALLIES, COME ON IN".

Start routing the big akls to Port Arthur/Fusan as soon as you can - home base them there and create small taskforces to CS (continual supply) move stuff to Japan. There are other locations you need to pull resources/oil/fuel from like Palembang and Singapore.

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Tracker can be quiet finicky to setup - especially on anything newer than Windows XP machines, so you will have to get your staff to research the threads on how to set up Java 6.
That 'big chart' is the tracker economy summary and you do not need MS Office to run tracker, but it really helps to have either MS Office or Open Office to be able to load up and use the comma delimited output files.

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Really enjoy the AAR style but I'm not clear on division of responsibilities in game between you and Admiral SPrior-san.

You needed to have started expanding Fusan port on Dec 8th.

Kull has a good Japan primer spreadsheet (you need MS Office or Open Office to read it) - uber detailed but you can pull out info on where to send tankers/xAKs for supply routes. Search for post with Kull's signature with links to this.

IIRC most of the Limas go to Port Arthur - but Madrake-san need to get staff in gear immediately and get supplies flowing.

Good luck.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Pretend Mandrake-san not-ah read manuarh with bunch of doggerer Engrish. How much oil can refinery consume as raw materiarh when
running at furr capacity?
It's in the manual somewhere but I am too lazy to look it up, so I will go by memory, with the Seniors disclaimer. Both Oil Production and Refinery produce 10 for every point of industry they have. So if you have 30 points of oil production and 30 of refinery, you get 300 oil stock and this goes to feed the refinery.
Depending on the mod, the refinery takes 300 oil and produces either 300 fuel or (in stock) 270 fuel and 30 supply.


Mandrake-san perhaps figure out by watching revers of oil go up and down but pretend Mandrake-san not-ah take Ritarin medicine today annot sit stir.
Maybe SPrior-san arready know everything but Mandrake-san have to rearn too so not screw up.

--Rook rike have to move both oil and resources from Shikuku, Sakharin to Honshu, right? Hai!

--What-ah we move from Port Arthur? Oil, fuerh, both? If you have more oil production than refinery production, ship both. Otherwise, just take the fuel but leave enough for local HI. I think it needs 10 fuel per HI point.

--Mandrake-san send ships to Fusan to pick up resources rike GreyJoy say. Now Fusan have rower resources. New resources move down from Port Arthur or have to pick up there? Hai! The more you ship out of there, the more will flow there. It will not flow fast enough for you so send bigger ships to PA to load.

--What-ah about refinery at Miri? Mandrake-san imagine we move fuerh from Miri and ret refinery work? Between them, Miri and Brunei produce more oil than they can refine, especially if you repair their oil production. It isn't worth the supply to expand the refinery, ship some oil to Japan. Batavia also has excess refinery capacity.

Wirr oir from Brunei move through jungurh to miri? Seem kinda unrikery but sometimes strange thing happen, rike magic rairway to Port Arthur. Hai! Brunei and Miri connected by Komodo dragon paths and dugout canoes. Fuel, oil and supply will move between them, but not in great volume.

--Where is big frow chart on Japan-mens economy that Mandrake-san rook at once then say "Hory crap" and nevah rook at again? Check with Greyjoy - his first AAR as Japan included flowcharts. I never wanted to see another flowchart when I retired, but the funny thing is that now ... I still don't!


--Can Mandrake-san use tracker without MS Office? Tracker is rated PG, and does not need a private office, no matter if Bill Gates is providing it.

--Should Mandrake-san start Eric Decker this week in fantasy footbarr? Hai! BTW, who is Eric Decker? Did he get last name in a domestic abuse case?

[Cap Mandrake]

Mandrake-san thank various Japan-mens advisors. It appear disaster avoided because we arready risten to GreyJoy-san advice about Fusan.

Japan-mens arready armost drain Fusan of resources but not-ah buird port up. Transports arready based at Fusan and Port Arthur. Two big convoys arready drop off oir from Port Arthur but resource pick-up just getting started.

Fusan transports unroading at Fukuoka

PA transports and TK's unroading at Nagasaki. Maybe Japan-mens use Shimonoseki which have rever 9 port.

Huge amount of resources accumurated at Hakodate (Hokkaido) so Japan-mens have to pick those up.

Right now 13 TK's participating in bringing fuerh and oir from PA. Rook rike we need bigger AK's to bring resources. Right now onry 14 AKL's

[Naskra]

There is also a trickle of oil to collect from Formosa.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Naskra

There is also a trickle of oil to collect from Formosa.

Hai! 103K resources, 7K oirh at Taihoku. Forosa-mens try to move East but find rarge body of watah.

[Cap Mandrake]

Japan mens have about 1.4M oirh and 1.3M resources on Honshu and Kyushu

[uncivil_servant]

I hear LA has a little bit of oil. Instead of taking pissant places like Tahiti and Noumea and what Not (Lord Howe island - Come on!) go for Beverly Hills....

Take a poll: Take Rord Howah Isrand - watch seagulls.

Take Hollywood - Give Rita Heywood Formosa as a vacation spot to hire her for Propaganda Advertising...

[Cap Mandrake]

Mandrake-san consider randing at Port Hueneme or Santa Ana and marching to Horrywood. Ros Angeres hex arone has 2500 refinery points.

Arso, Japan-mens get to go to Horrywood Bourevard and put hands in Mickey Rooney's handprints and say "Hory crap, rook how big Mistah Rooney-san hands"

[Naskra]

This sounded like a really dumb plan 'til I checked -- Rooney planted palms on October 18, 1938.
Fun fact: Abbott & Costello - 1941, December 8. Ain't the Google swell?

[Cap Mandrake]

See, that-ah probrem. Nobody berieve Mandrake-san. Mandrake-san do summer on Borscht Bert with Rooney-san, 1936

[Cap Mandrake]

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[Cap Mandrake]

Not-ah sure what Rooney-san mean when say "us".

Probabry mean Miss-ah Garrand. One time Mandrake-san see Miss-ah Garrand at wird poorh party in Ber Air at Mistah Grant-san house. Turn out Miss-ah Garrand have fire crotch. Evidentry that-ah not bother Mistah Rooney-san.

Mistah Grant-san arso try to pick up on Mandrake-san. Big surprise. Gaydar not yet instarred in 1936.

[Cap Mandrake]

[font="Courier New"]Dear Arried-mens;

Prease to send turn. Materiarh getting pretty thin.


Sincerery

Mandrake-san[/font]

[Cap Mandrake]

*********January 1, 1942(d)*******


CVL's Suru Sea sink coupurh of crappy AKL's.

PB from Nadi trade "mortarh" brows with AKL's at Suva.

Japan-mens shoot down a coupurh of P-40's ovah Batan.

That-ah it. rearry.

[Cap Mandrake]

Arso, Rooney-san and and Miss-ah Garrand sreeping off New Year's Eve party at Mistah Zanuck-san house.

[Cap Mandrake]

*******Pranning********

--Miura Det. arrive Koumac 2 d with covah from 4 carriers.

--146th Regt wirr move SE arong New and Improved New Hebrides toward Nadi

--Kaga coming south to reprace Akagi for Rord Howe Isrand operation.

--5th Air Div HQ moving to Rabaurh for deproyment to Rord Howe Isrand

[Cap Mandrake]

******Operation Somewhere Ovah Rainbow********


Capture and buird-up of Rord Howe Isrand.

1st Kure SNRF
2 x Speciarh Base Force
Air HQ (21st Air Frotirra +/- 5th Air Div)
Regmt AAA
2 x Coy Airfierd Engr
40,000 Suppry

AV
AKE

2 x CL, 8 x DD (that can rearm at base)
CA-based SCTF that may have to rearm at Raburh
BB-based SCTF (Haruna, Kirishima)
2 x BB-based bombardment TF to destroy AF at Brisbane and Port Kembla and Newcastle
Carriers to take out Sydney airfierd, docks and surface threats

10 x SS

3rd KU-S1 (36 Zero)
90 x Betty (after airfierd overbuirt to rever 4)
Recon aircraft

[Cap Mandrake]

What do Arries have?

3 CV

PoW
Repulse probabry strirr in shop

Warspite by midderh of January perhaps
3 x repaired BB's from Pearh by rate January perhaps

Therefore Japan-mens bettah hurry up before Arried-mens try to brow everything up on Rord Howe with Batterhships

Stirr...bettah have fight now than with 4 carriers and fast USN BB's

[Cap Mandrake]

Sydney have few crappy 9 in guns. Brisbane and Melbourne have 6 in. pea shooters.

Arr 3 have rots of mines.