Matthew,

You are right (I phrased my question wrong) - Japan will have trouble shipping the accumulated oil back to the Home Islands due to the reduced cargo capacities of the merchant marine. It will take longer to build the stockpiles at home, giving you opportunities to sink the tankers and put ...

So LST, given the obvious 'Bottlenecks' in transportation and economy, would you say that Japan should limit themselves to just one deep-strike target?
India OR Australia OR NZ/Fiji OR Aleutians/Alaska.

Just spent 3 days reading this AAR, having just got back into WITP:AE. An excellent read.

Fokko is taking a very cautious stance in this game, but given the transport and resource constraints for Japan in this scenario, loosing out on months of Allied oil centre production by not capturing the oil ...

I'm on Win11 (23H2) and run the game fine with this:

"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition DBB-B\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -wd -pxf2048 -pyf1152 -dd_sw -altFont -skipVideo -archive -nofire -deepcolor

on a laptop with 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13980HX 2.20 GHz and ...

Just install those two items and wait for the patch that's currently pending. The game does work in Win 11, but it may take some priming with the switches to prevent lag and graphic glitches.


I have the graphic glitch in the combat replays (doubled gittery images) - do you have any hints as to ...

RTW3 Treaty Tonnage.jpg
So the image shows it all -
From the normal game screen I'm showing over the treaty fleet tonnage so I scrapped over 60K tons of ships to get down to only an excess of 23K.
Then I looked into the almanac to see what was going on, and see I'm under the total limit (450k ...

A great read so far - thanks for updating.

Re the Taiyo - you could add her to the slow AO TF. Use either as an ASW platform, or empty (heaven forbid any CV should be damaged the aircraft can divert to her!)

<r> Hi LST,<br/>
Playing v1.3 and now at Mar 6th 1942. <br/>
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I too had issues with BB Colorado at first, but it either fixed itself or moving it to Seattle repair yard unblocked it. No major drama. I have done a restart earlier this year so that might have been my playthrough in v1.2 - can ...

<t> I only recently got back into WITP:AE and am interested in the LST Bottlenecks scenario so have now read your whole AAR over the last week. I did start reading Mundy's AAR but gave it up at the Moulmein Army fiasco - played out much like Stalingrad... so no OPSEC breach as I couldn't handle his ...

<r> The use of, and fate, of your destroyers at Amami reminds me of the real life actions of the radar picket destroyers off Okinawa in Mar-May 1945.<br/>
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<LINK><s>[link]</s>https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/battle-experience-radar ...

Thanks btd, will do.

Wasn't sure if it's the mod or Tracker...

<t> Enjoying getting in to AE again after a few years and with this mod too!<br/>
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Using Tracker and getting these errors (Dec 18, '41) for a few days now:<br/>
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Can't find device 213<br/>
WARNING: Can't find device 4 for LCU 5064<br/>
WARNING: Can't find device 5 for LCU 5064<br ...

<t> If there are no allied TFs or subs in the area then why send DD escorts?<br/>
Leave them at Lahaina and avoid losses. As Japan you cannot afford to loose DDs needlessly.<br/>
Port attacks with your airforce will 'gradually' reduce the number of CD guns. The IJAF light bombloads are not working ...

<r>
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Andy Mac<br/>
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Another quiet turn in Malaya (not elsewhere been having some fun with Boise but I will leave that for a naval team AAR later <E>;)</E><br/>
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This may be of interest 11th Div finished concentrating<br/>
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<t> Another possible reason is the Amphibious shipping available to launch invasions.<br/>
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The British Fleet in the Far East had very little in the way of amphibious assualt capability.<br/>
BUT in this game any and all AKs and APs can be used to land an invasion force. The USN was ...

I'll go with RT on this one.

You are famous Cap - when i googled "fgd 135" your post was top of the search results [:D]

<r>
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: tonedog<br/>
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ok im gettin reall p****d of with these LBA noy flyin. im a pbem game and ive had surface TF's sittin just a few hexes from noumea for 3 turns (2 days turns) and my planes just wont fly. it cant be cos if escort cos i set a squadron of 20 p ...

<t> Depends if you are playing stock or a Mod.<br/>
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There is usually a small surplus of resources in China/Korea so some can be moved to Japan. There is quite a lot of Heavy Industry in this region so leave enough resources to support it - in fact you probably need to send oil here to keep ...

<r>
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: vonSchnitter<br/>
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A quite interesting issue - and a core question for the AE team.<br/>
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The issue is multiple TFs (CV or not) in one hex.<br/>
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The point is: Coordination bonus for the IJN.<br/>
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In the defence (CAP AA):<br/>
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<t> Maybe it is tons, who knows for sure [&:]<br/>
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Anyway I just took a look in the editor at the stock fuel loads for typical US ships (I don't have CHS installed) and below are very rough averages:<br/>
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DD - 300-600<br/>
CL - 2000<br/>
CA - 2000<br/>
BB - 4700-7000<br/>
CV ...