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Yes, they really have done a masterful job of working in the various logistics in AE!
Yeah, but on the other hand it's realistic as all getout. I like that. I could use some more of Annie
too. She's gonna get it. I hope she's getting paid a lot. Too bad they can't just 787 to Trinidad near
the end of the war. Either that or Argentina.

EDIT: Today was trash-day when the garbage man comes to pick up my garbage. I'm single so I
don't develop a lot of garbage and what I do develop is usually empty TV dinner boxes. So I had
to get my a$$ out of bed and take the can out and set it by the mailbox. It's the only exercise I get
all week. I know you don't feel sorry for me. I don't either........I'm having a blast playing Brian.
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Yes, they really have done a masterful job of working in the various logistics in AE!
Yeah, but on the other hand it's realistic as all getout. I like that. I could use some more of Annie
too. She's gonna get it. I hope she's getting paid a lot. Too bad they can't just 787 to Trinidad near
the end of the war. Either that or Argentina.

EDIT: Today was trash-day when the garbage man comes to pick up my garbage. I'm single so I
don't develop a lot of garbage and what I do develop is usually empty TV dinner boxes. So I had
to get my a$$ out of bed and take the can out and set it by the mailbox. It's the only exercise I get
all week. I know you don't feel sorry for me. I don't either........I'm having a blast playing Brian.
At least get yourself a treadmill.
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Yes, they really have done a masterful job of working in the various logistics in AE!
Yeah, but on the other hand it's realistic as all getout. I like that. I could use some more of Annie
too. She's gonna get it. I hope she's getting paid a lot. Too bad they can't just 787 to Trinidad near
the end of the war. Either that or Argentina.

EDIT: Today was trash-day when the garbage man comes to pick up my garbage. I'm single so I
don't develop a lot of garbage and what I do develop is usually empty TV dinner boxes. So I had
to get my a$$ out of bed and take the can out and set it by the mailbox. It's the only exercise I get
all week. I know you don't feel sorry for me. I don't either........I'm having a blast playing Brian.
At least get yourself a treadmill.
You young whipper snappers use a treadmill do you? I'm almost 70 and I think I'm allergic to exercise.
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Interviewer: "Well I hardly think that could be a weakness."
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I got a set of new moves from Brian and then rushed through doing my moves so I can get them to him in time for him to do his moves
and get them to me sometime this late afternoon or early evening. That way I can work on 'em overnight and do a really good job.
I like to check everything every turn but that's impossible I know, so I do the important places first and work my way through all the
checking and changing I need to do. It's not hard but there's thousands of decisions to be made. I love this game.

Hey we're finally starting to get some Betty's. Finally. Now to change the upgrade path to include them in the squadrons.

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Kagoshima ran low on supplies a while ago and I started feeding it supplies from Shanghi and I had one CS TF moving supplies and
forgot about it and it ran too long and now Shanghi is the one running low on supplies. I transfered the problem to the China mainland.
It will eventually recover but it'll take a couple of turns. Meanwhile I can ship some supplies from Pescadores or somewhere.

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We just got a stationary bike which has a built in desk. It is actually extremely functional. Now if I could just stop sneezing when i ride it ...
I had one CS TF moving supplies and forgot about it ...



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Now if I could just stop sneezing when i ride it
Yeah......you're allergic to exercise too. Nose runs, sniffles, head feels full, voice sounds different, etc.
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Yeah, but on the other hand it's realistic as all getout. I like that. I could use some more of Annie
too. She's gonna get it. I hope she's getting paid a lot. Too bad they can't just 787 to Trinidad near
the end of the war. Either that or Argentina.

EDIT: Today was trash-day when the garbage man comes to pick up my garbage. I'm single so I
don't develop a lot of garbage and what I do develop is usually empty TV dinner boxes. So I had
to get my a$$ out of bed and take the can out and set it by the mailbox. It's the only exercise I get
all week. I know you don't feel sorry for me. I don't either........I'm having a blast playing Brian.
At least get yourself a treadmill.
You young whipper snappers use a treadmill do you? I'm almost 70 and I think I'm allergic to exercise.

I am 70 and I like to walk at least 3 miles per day.
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At least get yourself a treadmill.
You young whipper snappers use a treadmill do you? I'm almost 70 and I think I'm allergic to exercise.

I am 70 and I like to walk at least 3 miles per day.
Yeah but back in 1982 I tore the ACL behind my left knee ( the anterior cruciate ligament ) and so playing
tennis, running, squating, walking etc. is almost prohibitive. It's sore and I can't put much weight on my
left leg or it comes out of socket and that hurts pretty good. So I've learned to take it easy.
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Can't you get it fixed? Medicare should cover it.
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Can't you get it fixed? Medicare should cover it.
I went to the VA and they did the best they could short of just replacing the whole thing and that's so expensive
it couldn't get approved. It's really not all that bad. I get around the house just fine and it doesn't ALLWAYS hurt
just when I do something I shouldn't like squat down bending that knee past like 30 degrees or so, putting my body
weight on it, etc. But it's healed this way and I'm used to it and I'm learning to compensate for things that are going
wrong. Glasses with bifocals, I'm thinking about hearing aids but I don't think I need one since I never leave the house
anymore and see anybody. Family has learned to speak up. I'm not complaining just spouting information, probably
TMI, but my personality is changing and I find that I'm a totally different person than I was when I was 20 and young
and stupid and reckless. Old age is a learning experience.
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Guam has allowed itself to run out of enough RES and the LT industry is failing. There's no way to turn off the LI industry itself and so
I guess the solution is to run a small amount of RES out there from Tokyo and in the future it's probably going to be alright on it's own.

On the other hand I have enough RES to do a mission like that. The global industry page says the level of RES is growing in the home
islands. There's more than enough and then some. I'm still lacking enough oil however but I'm working on it. I'm pulling oil out of Miri
and the first ship-load should arrive within 2 weeks or so. And then there will be some oil in the pipeline and we'll get periodic
shipments of it. Hopefully.

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Guam does not have enough Resource production for all of the LI. The Resource is only size 10 and the LI is size 20. I doubt that I would worry about it and would not send any resources to Guam.
The Resource center produces 200 resources per turn and the LI needs 300 per turn. So for every three turns you will have one failure and 2 productions.
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Guam does not have enough Resource production for all of the LI. The Resource is only size 10 and the LI is size 20. I doubt that I would worry about it and would not send any resources to Guam.
The Resource center produces 200 resources per turn and the LI needs 300 per turn. So for every three turns you will have one failure and 2 productions.
Yeah, I looked into it too and you are of course correct. And if I were just playing a "game" instead of a "simulation" I would just ignore
it too but I want to simulate what the real world had and in the real world I'm thinking they would send a smallish load of RES out to
Guam. Periodically. Just to keep the LI running smoothly. Another complication in my game that I'm willing to put up with. But thanks
for your analysis. And your idea to just ignore it. That's the easiest thing to do. Just ignore the periodic failure. So you miss a turn's
worth of supplies, no problemo really. It's just not elegent.
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Kota Bharu finally fell and the people there were hardly scratched and didn't work up a sweat and are ready to move out into the
countryside. The engineers are hard at work expanding the airfield ( 4(6) ) and port and the damage to the same. The BB's that
were guarding the Kota B. hex have been tasked to bombard Kuantan to soften it up a little bit. And they are to remain on station to
guard the hex from Allied intrusion. I've got an AKE at Hiroshima that finally came out of the shipyard and I need to move it down here
to Kota B. It would be really handy to have an AKE nearby. I think I'm making about 7 of them at Tokyo. Or somewhere. I'll look it up..

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There weren't enough escorts to go around and the one existing AKE is part of a TF moving to Tokyo where all the escorts are. So
this little side trip, though necessary, is going to cost about a week's sailing time to get to CRB or Kota B. There were a lot of ships
at Hiroshima that need to be elsewhere so I thought I'd move them to where the escorts were so they could then be dispatched to
their work station with the cover of an escort. The alternative was to send them naked out into the "field" without escorts and cross
my fingers. Sounded too risky for the Allied sub situation right now, especially around the home islands.

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I filtered the list of all ships under repair to show only the AUX ships and then scrolled down to the bottom of the list to where the AKE's
were and found about 14 of them being converted. Mostly at Hiroshima. They need another 11 days or so. I started them on the
first day of the war and they are almost ready already. Cool. I can use 'em all over the map. Kwajalein needs about two. Truk needs
two, Babeldoab needs two, etc. I've started converting about two, maybe three ships to AV's so I can park them where the subs lurk
to help spot them for the ASW dudes.

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The Japanese troops at Hong Kong have been doing DA's and bombardment for the last week or so and they are finally running low
on supplies and will have to slow down the operational tempo briefly to refill, refit, and I can use that time to soften up the Hong Kong
defenders with my bombers and I've been wondering how badly my BB's would be hurt if I drove them into the minefield to bombard
HK. I've heard that the older BB's are particularly good at soaking up mines with less damage than an ordinary BB. I don't know if
that's true or not. Could be. Maybe I should test it by bombarding HK.

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Re-sizing IJN air groups - Not that it has to be done now, but put on your "honey to do list" the need to get Zero, Val, and Kate groups resized by a CVL or CV that is not being used for active operations. I just had my 3 CVEs return to Yokohama for small repairs and used CVE Taiyo (capacity 27) to do my Vals and Kates. I'll probably use a CV later to go one re-size further to 36. My personal rule of thumb is not to re-size any larger than existing groups. I've heard of players ging up to 72, but that is gamey to me. FPs will be going through the same on AVs and then on my large CS to 24 planes. Main reason to do this is to increase your ability to train pilots.

Truk - I seldom play Japan, but I guess I didn't remember to monitor the fuel levels here. My trip with KB-1 and KB-2 to Midway, Johnson, and Christmas drained everything I had there. Now, in early Feb '42 there is ZERO fuel!! I recently captured Balikpapan and Tarakan and have multiple TK and AO TFs at both loading, but it will be 10 days to get it shipped. Duh!! [:@] [:(]

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Another reason for your early expansion to prioritize these oil producing bases.
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Re-sizing IJN air groups - Not that it has to be done now, but put on your "honey to do list" the need to get Zero, Val, and Kate groups resized by a CVL or CV that is not being used for active operations. I just had my 3 CVEs return to Yokohama for small repairs and used CVE Taiyo (capacity 27) to do my Vals and Kates. I'll probably use a CV later to go one re-size further to 36. My personal rule of thumb is not to re-size any larger than existing groups. I've heard of players ging up to 72, but that is gamey to me. FPs will be going through the same on AVs and then on my large CS to 24 planes. Main reason to do this is to increase your ability to train pilots.
I'm not sure I understand the process here to resize the air groups. Just the act of loading the planes on a carrier will increase the
size of the air group? Anything else I need do? I don't think I've ever resized an air group. Imagine that.
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Truk - I seldom play Japan, but I guess I didn't remember to monitor the fuel levels here. My trip with KB-1 and KB-2 to Midway, Johnson, and Christmas drained everything I had there. Now, in early Feb '42 there is ZERO fuel!! I recently captured Balikpapan and Tarakan and have multiple TK and AO TFs at both loading, but it will be 10 days to get it shipped. Duh!!
I did the same thing to Babeldoab but fortunately I had refill convoys already dispatched to arrive about the next day or so. It wasn't
empty long. I've learned to monitor the hubs. So every turn I bring up the Tracker bases page and do a resource history on my
hubs to see what the trend is. One quick question: did running out of fuel at Truk affect your operational tempo any at all? I had to
suspend operations for a little bit.
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Another reason for your early expansion to prioritize these oil producing bases.
I've got a team already landed at Tarakan and serious negotiations are underway.
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