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ORIGINAL: moore4807
Another suggestion, although I am NOT any kind of expert - I tried to simplify the engines and airframes when playing as Japan. I loaded up on Zeroes and Nell's & Betty's - essentially making Nakajima 35's the primary engine for everything. The end result was around +350 engines per month from the factories and over 100 Zeroes per month. I changed over as many groups to these airframes as I could and had great success using the bombers with escorts against Allied shipping and bases.

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ORIGINAL: moore4807
I did not finish the game yet, In November 43, I hold a strong line near Calcutta, most of China and bases/airfields in Cook Is (Mangaia L2 Port, L3 AF) the Samoa's (Pago Pago L4 Port & L4 AF & Ta'u L3 AF) essentially making shipping impossible to the Aussies. The Bonus is the AI has thrown the kitchen sink at me in SW Pacific AND lost all 4 CV's & 2 BB's trying to take back the Samoa's (hehehe) I have not invaded Australia - rather let them wither on the vine with little supplies and no oil but getting lots and lots of shipping targets though!

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ORIGINAL: moore4807
Now there is bad news I could not pry Wake Is from the AI's cold dead hands and lost 2 CV (Kaga, Soryu) to sub attacks while trying to support the landings there (WHO says USN torps dont work!), I have shortages in the Phillipines AND I have badly handled my supplies and resources.

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ORIGINAL: moore4807
I think I will lose the overall game since the AI went into conservo mode after losing the CV's and I really dont have the shipping to keep expanding the Empire AND bring oil and resources to the Home Islands...

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ORIGINAL: moore4807
Hope it helps -

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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson



Here we have a surface task force from at or near Tokyo bound for Wake Island. I'd like some help from you guys to estimate how long it'll take to arrive there in days. I'm seeing the innermost ring at a range of 3 hexes and I'm assuming that's how far the TF will travel during the day and that the outtermost ring estimates how far the TF will travel per one 24 hr. day and that therefore the TF will take approx. (41 / 5 ) 8 or 9 days. Yes?

Also, the TF includes two DD's with short legs that will require me to replenish them enroute probably several times. There just happens to be an AO near Pearl that I can re-direct toward Wake and top off this TF therefrom. Probably. If everything goes right. If the AO gets sunk then I'll probably have several ships run really low on gas unless and until I can get some more gas moved out to them where-ever they are when they run low. But the KB is out there and can provide cover etc.

This whole exercise is to provide some bombardment for the wake invaders so the island will fall faster, or at all as the case may be.

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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I saw where the HI had evaporated at Hiroshima / Kure and thought I'd better turn off the production of the Kate for a while to let it build up somewhat before turning it back on. Maybe if I turned on the stockpilling at the base as well?



I've had a look at the Base screen and there didn't seem to be any way to stockpile HI and it just now dawns on me that HI is a global resource unlike fuel and or supplies. D'oh. So turning off the production of the Kate wouldn't help anything all that much. Well, what did I know.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
You've got 11 knot PBs mixed with 35 knot DDs. The TF can only move as fast as the slowest member. ...break this TF down and clean up the speed mix or it will take forever to get to Wake.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
You didn't turn off the Kates. You still have Repair at Yes, even though the factory isn't ordered to expand. It is producing 0(0)-0AC/month. IOW, no Kates. The stock scenarios have Kates turned off at the start. It's a common first move task to get them going. You're going to want some more of these long-range wonder weapons in 1942.

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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Here's the air production after I've fiddled with it. I was going to expand the Zero's by 4 and found to my great surprise that there aren't any expand buttons. Is that because I don't have enough engines.....or did I run out of HI......or ???

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ORIGINAL: cohimbra

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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
Here's the air production after I've fiddled with it. I was going to expand the Zero's by 4 and found to my great surprise that there aren't any expand buttons. Is that because I don't have enough engines.....or did I run out of HI......or ???

Hi, you must have at least 10.000 supply at the base....when you are in the base screen, set the 'supply required' between 4.000 and 5.000. In the next turn, you have all the selected bases with 12.000/15.000 supply ('supply required' in practice is multiplied x3), and you can expand, repair and do what you want to do, now and in the future.

I check my bases the first day of all month. Excuse my poor english!

Edit: the cost for expand a factory is 100 supply for 1 point (and then 1.000 for 1 repair), in the case of your Zero, you have only 97.

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Anyway wordy as I am, the first thing I note is Maebashi has no fuel (needed for HI) and you should read the manual (pg 230-237 or so) as to the capabilities/requirements to change aircraft & engines. Its tricky and keeping them supplied is a real unhappy time. but you are getting 56 zeroes a month (thats good!) I would look at some other major port cities and see who has planes that you can change over to Zeroes and what engines they require, remember getting most of your planes to 2-3 engine choices is good. I like the Nells and Betty's (which by the way use Mistubishi engines not the Nakajima's 35 I said earlier) but choose what works for you best...

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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

EDIT: I expanded the Kate factory so it says 0(20)......is that enough or do I need more?

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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

EDIT: I expanded the Kate factory so it says 0(20)......is that enough or do I need more?

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ORIGINAL: SuluSea

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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
EDIT: I expanded the Kate factory so it says 0(20)......is that enough or do I need more?

Hi Larry, every game has different needs depending on tempo of operations what works for one player may not for another, the same could be said for AI vs. PBEM and the different types of defenses you may encounter while playing. I try to keep my expansions limited to 10 or smaller increments per airframe. When the expansions get repaired I'll expand more if need be. An exception would be A6M2s which I'll be liberal because of the expected need.

I don't know if you're playing PDU on or off but with PDU on building the Ki-27b is wasteful IMO, I change the factory at Harbin and Maebashi to Ki-43-Ic as I want as many of that model as I can get early to get my good pilots out of Nates and that model off the front lines..

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Well, what do you want to be able to do and by when? Tracker can give you the follow-on TB and the arrival day. (Judy? Or Jill?) Do you intend to be aggressive with your carriers? Kates can fly from land bases too. In some cases their range makes them decent ASW assets. Bigger question is what would you do with the resources (manpower, etc.) needed to go past 20 on the Kates if you didn't expand past there? There's no simple, right answer to your question. Regardless, it will take some time for the 20 to be executed. There's no economy of scale in adding to it now. When it finishes building out come back to the question.

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ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft
I would advise don't get hung up on the numbers. FOW is ever-present and so is general cruftiness in the code. Check the actual state of things in the orders phase and just treat the execution phase reporting as indicative.