Empire of the Rising Lemon? SqzMyLemon (Japan) v Smeulders (Allies)

[SqzMyLemon]

Luzon:

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Celebes Sea:

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Malaya:

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: SqzMyLemon

Aircraft Production:

You may want to consider increasing your Ha-32 engine production as these are used for the Sally and Betty.

Use the draw supply button to suck supply to Maebashi (where the A6M2 is produced). Also, send more ground troops there. That'll pull supply there so you can repair the airframe factory.

[Q-Ball]

Smeulders, keep it up, like the format, your maps are very good and informative.

Listen to Major Mike on airplane production.

Here is another for the gallery, I am a recent convert to this: What about halting Musashi?
(I am particularly interested to hear what Major Mike thinks on this)

If you halt her, you can get Taiho in early 1943. If I had to pick a ship, I would pick Taiho; more valuable than Musashi.

I will say that surface combattants, as a whole, are more important in AE. But I would take a CV instead.

It breaks my heart to say that, because the COOL factor of the Yamatos is undeniable.

I would re-start Musashi in 1943 at some point. This also assumes you have halted SHINANO, which should be S.O.P for any Japanese player. That means that Musashi will be available in early 1944 or so, in time for your final battle.

[Mike Solli]

Q-Ball, I'll comment in my AAR. [;)]

[Q-Ball]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Q-Ball, I'll comment in my AAR. [;)]

OK, update it then! You're going to fall off the first page if you don't get crackin![8D]

[bspeer]

Lemon, this noob much appreciates your graphics with comments.  I am still coming to grips with playing Japan, the side I prefer.

Thanks!

[scott64]

How are you making your pictures? [&:]

[SqzMyLemon]

Mike Solli: Thanks, no supply at Maebashi was the problem. I've made sure I look at each production centre now to make sure of adequate supply.

Q-ball: Thanks for the input! I'll start looking at ships to accelerate or halt soon. Pssst, by the way...I'm SqzMyLemon.

scott1964:

1. I take a screen shot from the game, on my system (fn + prt sc keys) then paste to mspaint.
2. Save as a bmp file, then convert this to a pdf.
3. I edit the pdf in adobe, adding text and arrows and such and save it.
4. Then I take a screenshot of the pdf file.
5. Paste in mspaint again and I cut the image to size and save as a jpeg.
6. Then I add the images to the thread.
7. I know this seems like a long drawn out process, but I don't have software that can convert a pdf to a jpeg so I do it this way. I don't know of any other way to be honest. The only bad thing about this process is it causes blurring of my screenshots, so they are not as sharp as they could be. Hope this helps.

Thanks everyone for following, the comments are greatly appreciated!

[SqzMyLemon]

Update:

Here's a few screenshots with updates of what's happened lately, or about to happen. I also said I would go over China a bit with this update, so here it is.

[SqzMyLemon]

Central China:

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South China:

[SqzMyLemon]

Malaya:

[SqzMyLemon]

Celebes Sea:

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Top Secret:

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Aircraft Production Figures:

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Aircraft Production 2:

Hope you enjoyed the updates!

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: SqzMyLemon

Update:

Here's a few screenshots with updates of what's happened lately, or about to happen. I also said I would go over China a bit with this update, so here it is.

Lemon, these screenshots are wonderful!

Some comment on China. When planning for operations in China, keep in mind that you have many HQs there. Each one can (possibly) be used offensively. Some of the HQs have no troops capable of offensive action (RGC and NCPC armies). They make great garrison forces. You mentioned the Mongol Garrison Army. That army has over 600 assault value of units with experience and morale between 55 and 80. That makes a nice little attack force. This gives you greater flexibility for offensives with an additional HQ.

Also note that two of the HQs are command HQ, meaning they command Army HQs. These are the North China Area Army and the Chinese Expeditionary Army HQs. Prepping them for a target that an army in their command is prepping for will increase the capability for that army. Here's how it breaks down:

North China Area Army
1 Army
12 Army
Mongol Garrison Army
NCPC Army

China Expeditionary Army
11 Army
13 Army
23 Army
RGC Army
China Area Fleet

Note that the combat units attached directly to the NCAA and CEA receive additional combat value only from those HQs, which really makes them less capable, in a sense. Unless you use all of those units together, some may not gain any combat multipliers from HQ prepping. By reassigning them to army HQs, you can increase their combat multipliers but then their flexibility suffers. Also, that takes precious PPs. Quite the problem. [:D]

One last recommendation. If you use some of the more capable formations for garrisons (which is likely), use them from the NCAA or CEA HQs. This keeps your offensive armies intact to concentrate the combat power that will gain the most from prepping HQs (the army HQ and it's respective command HQ).

[SqzMyLemon]

Mike,

You read my mind! All units are prepping for their primary objectives and the HQ's are enroute to join their respective commands, prepping for the same primary objectives as well. The command HQ's are also prepping as well for what I figure will be the tougher nuts to crack, Changsha and Ichang. I'm happy with the commanders of current Army commands, I'm going to start looking at individual unit leaders next go around.