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ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000
Instead of putting engineers in Palembang, evacuate it completely and let the partisans damage it?

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ORIGINAL: Capt Hornblower

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ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000
Instead of putting engineers in Palembang, evacuate it completely and let the partisans damage it?

This won't work if you're playing the AI-- the computer doesn't have to worry about garrisons, so there's no danger to the AI from partisans.

My suggestion: turn off your refineries. That makes the Japanese have to refine the oil to get the fuel.

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ORIGINAL: Gunner98

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ORIGINAL: Capt Hornblower

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ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000
Instead of putting engineers in Palembang, evacuate it completely and let the partisans damage it?

This won't work if you're playing the AI-- the computer doesn't have to worry about garrisons, so there's no danger to the AI from partisans.

My suggestion: turn off your refineries. That makes the Japanese have to refine the oil to get the fuel.

The refineries will be damaged from between the time you evacuate and the time the Jap AI takes the place - you also take a VP hit I think, but its minimal.

I like the idea of truning off the reineries though.

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ORIGINAL: pompack

Turning off the refineries makes no difference looking back from the perspective of 1945.

Unless the Japanese have some very strange die rolls, there will always be more refining capacity than oil production capacity even after you repair every oil center (if you can, the cost is awful and a fully damaged Palumbang will take most of the war to repair as in real life)

So if the Allies turn off the refineries before losing them to the Japanese it simply means that the Japanese refineries will start running short of oil to refine in 45 instead of 44.

Also note that this is the reason that (in most cases barring really strange die rolls) it is a waste of supply points to repair any refineries.

Also note that in Scen2 the Japanese will run out of supplies before they run out of fuel unless they expand factories; then they will run out of resources if they don't run out of fuel first, followed by running out of supplies anyway. All those extra Scen2 goodies cost more supply then you will have unless you are "lucky" enough to lose them early or your opponent is nice enough to let you sit without moving, flying or fighting for a couple of years.