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   Another newbie question: what happens if you accelerate a plane and it arrives before the engine it uses (can happen with George, for example)? Does researching engines follow the similar procedure of acceleration?

I'm not sure you can research engines. The factories just turn on at a specific time. If the R&D of an airframe begins before the engine comes online, you're out of luck, I suspect.
I believe these (engines) do R&D.
One more question. Can any of these air factories be converted to let us say armoury or vehichle factories?
No can't convert from one type to another. Only Naval and Merchant Shipyards are allowed conversion.
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While we are on the subject what are the advantages and disadvantages of converting Naval Shipyards to Merchant Shipyards and visa versa?
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No real advantage in my book, cause as soon as you convert they need to be fully repaired again. This is unfortunate and should be changed imo, cause there is no way you need to rebuild a ship yard from scratch again. I'll also just diverge for a sec, and say it is a pity that repairs(incl conversions) & new construction are not handled differently.

I forgot to say before you can convert Arm and Veh factories too .. but the same applies. I think that converting is a bit silly, I'd rather use the supplies to expand an existing facility and still have the potential capacity of the other, even if turn it off.



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I believe these (engines) do R&D.

Yup, I've had engines advanced to be available earlier. (Nothing deliberate I did, you start with some large fully repaired factories)

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How do you tell when a factory is actually repairing itself, or is damaged for that matter?
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I believe these (engines) do R&D.

Yup, I've had engines advanced to be available earlier. (Nothing deliberate I did, you start with some large fully repaired factories)


Excellent. That's good to know. Thanks!
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There are a few ships I noticed on turn 1 for the japanese in Japan like a few AK's and stuff that are printed in red with 0 endurance with no damage what so ever on them. What is the story on those and how do you get them active?
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What ship is it and what ship designation is it that can transport midget submarines?
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What ship is it and what ship designation is it that can transport midget submarines?

It's the subs I-16, -18, -20, -22 & -24.
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There are a few ships I noticed on turn 1 for the japanese in Japan like a few AK's and stuff that are printed in red with 0 endurance with no damage what so ever on them. What is the story on those and how do you get them active?

Example please?
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There are a few ships I noticed on turn 1 for the japanese in Japan like a few AK's and stuff that are printed in red with 0 endurance with no damage what so ever on them. What is the story on those and how do you get them active?

They have no fuel. You refuel them.
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Oh, ok thanks. That makes sense. LOL

How do you know how many points you have and what you spent when you start accelerating your production, ie reinforcements? I noticed that there is no way to accelerate you ground forces coming. Am I right?
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Yes. No ground unit acceleration.
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Just for your information Section 13.2.2.5 of the manual states that you can research either engines or airoplanes. LOL

It helps to read the manual from time to time. :-))
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Please make sure to create a course in crashing the Japanese economy and send it to my opponent: ChezDaJez...

Don't worry, if he's anything like me, he will be able to do that without any outside help what-so-ever. [:D]
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What is AE Japanese Tracking. Someone told me it is a good thing to have but I have no idea what he is talking about. LOL
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What does the number mean next to the ship when you click on acceleration for Japanese production?
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Please make sure to create a course in crashing the Japanese economy and send it to my opponent: ChezDaJez...

Don't worry, if he's anything like me, he will be able to do that without any outside help what-so-ever. [:D]

I am real good at that. Brad and I had a CHS game end in Aug 1944 when most of our good pilots were abducted by aliens, as Brad says. At the time, my HI pool was around 900 IIRC. Made it a tad hard to upgrade airframes or do anything else with the economy.

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On Shikoku Island there are lots of resources. Should I move them to the main land or keep them there for future use. There is only one factory there for the HA60 engine which is used for the Judy planes which is not available till 10/42 unless of course you do lots of research, lol.

Also, how do you find out the specs on a plane that is not ready for production yet? Do you have to wait till it arrives on map in order to see all the specifications on it?
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On Shikoku Island there are lots of resources. Should I move them to the main land or keep them there for future use. There is only one factory there for the HA60 engine which is used for the Judy planes which is not available till 10/42 unless of course you do lots of research, lol.

Also, how do you find out the specs on a plane that is not ready for production yet? Do you have to wait till it arrives on map in order to see all the specifications on it?


Move those resources to the mainland !
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