<r><QUOTE author="Quark"><s>[QUOTE=Quark]</s>Esteban,<br/>
on fort building speed. Check your supplies. I have noticed dramatic increases in speed when I got >5X required supplies on the base. Also I didn't see anyone ask if you had your eng doing more than one task. That really slows down the IJN ...

Hmmm, sounds interesting, but that does not really work in this case either. In the example I used, where Gili is digging in a lot faster than PM, the base at Gili is actually larger than the base at PM right now.

There are more troops at PM than at Gili though.

<t>I know that usually you get new ships by sending old ones back, or by having a lot of your current ships sunk. I just don't recall getting a new set of ships a couple months after the commitment level hit "low" before, at least not without losing a bunch of ships or sending a bunch back.<br/>
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<t>I was wondering about creating fortifications, not airfields or ports. Building those seems pretty straightforward, but it seems to me at least that there are some places where it takes a lot more engineers to build the same amount of fortifications than at other places.<br/>
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Also, question ...

<t>Tired of the same old threads about "Super Betties" and "uber CV TFs"??<br/>
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Then answer my various questions!!!!!!!!<br/>
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1. The 20mm auto-cannons in the Japanese AA MG companies. I have not seen an anti-aircraft rating for these. They do have an anti-armor rating. Do these not work ...

<t>Yep, time to dig in if you have lost 5 CVs. Get as many of your damaged CVs (30%+ sys damage) back to Japan while keeping the air wings on the map. With some luck, you might get the Hiyo and one or two CVEs so you have a reasonable CV force to keep the allied player honest. <br/>
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Then start ...

<t>Another good use for disband/withdrawl is for forward posted air units at bases that might be captured. <br/>
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I will send 2-3 squadrons of the same type of aircraft to these bases, and then if the base is bombed/bombarded out of commission and invaded and about to fall, I withdraw all but ...

<t>PT boats are a pain in the keister....<br/>
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I would also recommend using destroyers with a CL or two to lead the task force. <br/>
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Better yet, if you don't think you will run into any enemy cruisers, make the CLs the Tenryu and Tatsuta. They have about as many guns as the other ...

<t>As the allies, I am all for abandoning Wau as rapidly as possible. It is not easy to supply, even if you control PM. The airfield there can't be developed above level 3, and you would have to be up against a pretty distracted or poor Japanese player to be able to use Wau as a springboard from ...

<t>Unfortunately, the AI is just not challenging once you have played more than a month or two of game turns, and have learned how to play the game. <br/>
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For example, as allies, the AI always sends the Hobart/Chicago/Australia task force to Gili Gili at the start of each game. Often, they get ...

I have seen it twice in old games, but not in the one game I am playing with patch 2.3

By the way, how do you tell the AAA rating on a ship? I can't recall having seen this.

<t>I don't know, I've seen Japanese CAP put some serious foot to *** against incoming SBDs, even with fighter escort. <br/>
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My last game I had the Kaga and the Akago square off against the Enterprise and Hornet. 54 SBDs with about 15 fighters went up aginst about 30 zeros on CAP, and only ...

<t>Maybe the thing to do is to make "fixed" ports like Pearl Harbor much better at repairing the WITP equivalent of "system" damage in Uncommon Valor. Make any major "shake and bake" anchorage like The Admiraltys or Ulithi or Eniwitok good at repairing fire and flood damage, then the ship has to be ...

<t>This is an even bigger problem for the Japanese because of the extreme long range of their Betty and Nell bombers. These bombers often fly long range missions to places you wish they wouldn't when set to naval attack.<br/>
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I would like to see a "max range" command on the bomber squadrons, a ...

<t>I kind of noticed that the AA upgrades for U.S. destroyers don't seem to be worth sending them back really. The upgrade from 50 cal to 20 MM AA guns doesn't really add much. A Farragut class that has 4 50 cal AA guns, and these upgrade to 4 20 MM cannon. Both weapons have about the same max ...

<t>The first ship listed in each TF is the flagship.<br/>
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Also, it would be nice if you could choose which squadrons drew replacements and which didn't. I hate it when my carrier squadrons are heavily attrited, but they have to wait to draw full replacements becuse some land based squadrons of ...

That would be useful, sometimes you lose track of enemy TFs that are near the edges of the map. It would be nice to have a "list enemy TFs" button for spotted enemy task forces.

<t>My wish list would be to be able to set targets better on naval attack missions. The ability to concentrate on certain kinds of ships/TFs (carriers, transports, escorts) or the ability to set range limits that your bombers will not attack beyond, or only on rare occasions when they get confused ...

<t>Because subs that get attacked by patrolling planes use significant amounts of fuel and system damage to "crash dive", using float planes to patrol for enemy subs is very effective. <br/>
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This is especially true for the Japanese because of all the "Petes" they have. Petes have very poor ...