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ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

Where are all of your tank rgts located?

I realize you have mentioned a handful, I just dont know how many you get to start with without opening up the game file.

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Since Andav pointed out above that the stacking limit penalty only chews up extra supply, I’m thinking of moving all these extra troops at Manila to Clark. It will put me at about double the stacking limit, but it just might get me 2:1 or even 3:1 odds in a deliberate attack. Would this be a bad decision?

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Bettys and Sallys from Takao performed a ground attack on the units at Clark. The Anns and Sonias from San Fernando hit Bataan for 5 hits on the airfield. Recon shows Clark is at 61% damage while Bataan is at 16%. Considering that Clark’s damage dropped by 6%, his supply situation is quite good. I’m hoping to use the change in the % damage at the base to determine when I should do a ground attack. When the % doesn’t change much from turn to turn, that’s when I’ll start the ground attacks.

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ORIGINAL: TheLoneGunman

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Bettys and Sallys from Takao performed a ground attack on the units at Clark. The Anns and Sonias from San Fernando hit Bataan for 5 hits on the airfield. Recon shows Clark is at 61% damage while Bataan is at 16%. Considering that Clark’s damage dropped by 6%, his supply situation is quite good. I’m hoping to use the change in the % damage at the base to determine when I should do a ground attack. When the % doesn’t change much from turn to turn, that’s when I’ll start the ground attacks.

Keep in mind, repairing bases only requires engineers, not supplies. What you ARE doing by keeping them damaged is preventing him from building forts. Forts cannot be built until all airfield and port damage is repaired.

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ORIGINAL: Icedawg

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ORIGINAL: TheLoneGunman

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Bettys and Sallys from Takao performed a ground attack on the units at Clark. The Anns and Sonias from San Fernando hit Bataan for 5 hits on the airfield. Recon shows Clark is at 61% damage while Bataan is at 16%. Considering that Clark’s damage dropped by 6%, his supply situation is quite good. I’m hoping to use the change in the % damage at the base to determine when I should do a ground attack. When the % doesn’t change much from turn to turn, that’s when I’ll start the ground attacks.

Keep in mind, repairing bases only requires engineers, not supplies. What you ARE doing by keeping them damaged is preventing him from building forts. Forts cannot be built until all airfield and port damage is repaired.

Yes, repair does not consume supply, but I thought that the rate at which the base repairs damage is a function of the amount of supply present. Well supplied bases repair fast, poorly supplied bases replay slowly. In neither case though is supply actually consumed.

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9.4.2 BASE CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR

Engineers can be used to increase the size of airfields, ports, and fortifications at bases, and
they can also be used to repair damage to airfields and ports.
Each engineering vehicle is the equivalent of five engineering squads for these purposes. Each
turn, engineers at a base automatically attempt to repair any damage existing to their bases,
repairing runways first, airfield service damage second and ports last.

Bases

The remaining engineers at a base that have not conducted repairs will, if the base has been
given the appropriate order, attempt to increase the size of the airfield and port and increase
the amount of fortifications protecting the base. This work often takes many days before a level
increase is accomplished. Engineering efforts will be split between these three items unless
you intentionally instruct the base to discontinue the construction efforts of a particular item.
At the beginning of every scenario, construction defaults to On for fortifications at all bases and
for ports and airfields with current sizes that are below their SPS values, if the Set All Facilities
To Expand At Start option is selected for the game. You must turn these off if you don’t want to
expend resources on the construction.

At the instant a base is captured from the enemy, all construction is immediately turned off.
Construction work consumes supplies, and if a base is low on supplies, construction efforts
will slow accordingly.

One supply point is consumed every twelve hours for each engineering squad (or equivalent)
that is involved in construction operations. It is very important that you realize that construction
consumes supplies, as it is often best to discontinue construction (especially expensive
construction over the SPS) rather than use up precious supplies.
Construction costs to increase an airfield or port by one increase as the current size of the
airfield or port increases (i.e. it takes longer to go from a size 6 to size 7 than from a size 5
to a size 6).

Once a port or airfield reaches its SPS, the cost of additional construction increases significantly,
You should consider halting construction or else risk consuming large quantities of supplies
for possibly little benefit. In addition to the normal costs, it takes 10 times longer than normal
to increase a current size 0 airfield with a SPS of zero to a size of 1. These size zero locations
were very unsuitable for airfields (such as Wau, which was built on the side of a mountain).
Fortification construction costs are based on the SPS of the airfield and port in the base, with
longer time required for bases with larger potential. Construction costs also increase as the
current Fortification Level increases.

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ORIGINAL: TheLoneGunman

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ORIGINAL: Icedawg

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ORIGINAL: TheLoneGunman

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Bettys and Sallys from Takao performed a ground attack on the units at Clark. The Anns and Sonias from San Fernando hit Bataan for 5 hits on the airfield. Recon shows Clark is at 61% damage while Bataan is at 16%. Considering that Clark’s damage dropped by 6%, his supply situation is quite good. I’m hoping to use the change in the % damage at the base to determine when I should do a ground attack. When the % doesn’t change much from turn to turn, that’s when I’ll start the ground attacks.

Keep in mind, repairing bases only requires engineers, not supplies. What you ARE doing by keeping them damaged is preventing him from building forts. Forts cannot be built until all airfield and port damage is repaired.

Yes, repair does not consume supply, but I thought that the rate at which the base repairs damage is a function of the amount of supply present. Well supplied bases repair fast, poorly supplied bases replay slowly. In neither case though is supply actually consumed.

Unless it's changed in one of the new patches, this is what the manual says:

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9.4.2 BASE CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR

Engineers can be used to increase the size of airfields, ports, and fortifications at bases, and
they can also be used to repair damage to airfields and ports.
Each engineering vehicle is the equivalent of five engineering squads for these purposes. Each
turn, engineers at a base automatically attempt to repair any damage existing to their bases,
repairing runways first, airfield service damage second and ports last.

Bases

The remaining engineers at a base that have not conducted repairs will, if the base has been
given the appropriate order, attempt to increase the size of the airfield and port and increase
the amount of fortifications protecting the base. This work often takes many days before a level
increase is accomplished. Engineering efforts will be split between these three items unless
you intentionally instruct the base to discontinue the construction efforts of a particular item.
At the beginning of every scenario, construction defaults to On for fortifications at all bases and
for ports and airfields with current sizes that are below their SPS values, if the Set All Facilities
To Expand At Start option is selected for the game. You must turn these off if you don’t want to
expend resources on the construction.

At the instant a base is captured from the enemy, all construction is immediately turned off.
Construction work consumes supplies, and if a base is low on supplies, construction efforts
will slow accordingly.

One supply point is consumed every twelve hours for each engineering squad (or equivalent)
that is involved in construction operations. It is very important that you realize that construction
consumes supplies, as it is often best to discontinue construction (especially expensive
construction over the SPS) rather than use up precious supplies.
Construction costs to increase an airfield or port by one increase as the current size of the
airfield or port increases (i.e. it takes longer to go from a size 6 to size 7 than from a size 5
to a size 6).

Once a port or airfield reaches its SPS, the cost of additional construction increases significantly,
You should consider halting construction or else risk consuming large quantities of supplies
for possibly little benefit. In addition to the normal costs, it takes 10 times longer than normal
to increase a current size 0 airfield with a SPS of zero to a size of 1. These size zero locations
were very unsuitable for airfields (such as Wau, which was built on the side of a mountain).
Fortification construction costs are based on the SPS of the airfield and port in the base, with
longer time required for bases with larger potential. Construction costs also increase as the
current Fortification Level increases.

Edit: Important areas bolded.

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ORIGINAL: TheLoneGunman

Unless I'm gravely mistaken, repair does not equal construction. Construction can be halted or slowed by a lack of supply, whereas repairs will continue. I'm wirried that if you follow the belief that his repair rate is an indicator of supply that you may delay your attack longer than necessary. The only way to be sure he is low on supply as far as I know, is to either attack or bombard his troops with your own ground troops and see the negative supply modifier. Not that bombing him isn't a great idea or ineffective.