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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Yikes, it's a Saturday morning and I just tried to follow Q-Ball's excellent and detailed formula...and now I know why Step 3 is to quaff a beer.
[:D]
P.S. Thanks for making it easier for Japanese players to inflict defeats on we Allied players. [:@]
(P.P.S. Really, though, well done and helpful.)
ORIGINAL: AirGriff
ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Yikes, it's a Saturday morning and I just tried to follow Q-Ball's excellent and detailed formula...and now I know why Step 3 is to quaff a beer.
[:D]
P.S. Thanks for making it easier for Japanese players to inflict defeats on we Allied players. [:@]
(P.P.S. Really, though, well done and helpful.)
Yeah, this is great stuff, but happily, it works for both sides, you JFB dogs!
Particularly under patch 1, where Japanese pilots' skills do not improve in combat (well, technically they do improve, but this happens too rarely to ever be meaningful - on the level of one improvement per month for your entire aviation) and you can neither put 2-3 rookies in unit that does well and expect them to become better, not train by bombing Chinese/Bataan/whatever.ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
That's the only way to play as the Japanese player.
I've found that delay due to load on an undocked TF is very small, if it exists at all, for infantry units. For example, 65th brigade was easily loaded for Luzon on locally available transports (the TF was clearly too big for the port). Tanks and artillery, however, sometimes lockdown your loading procedure almost completely. At least I presume that this happens because of them.ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
Hey Q-Ball, you're really converting to the -t? Granted, i haven't started my game yet, but I don't expect to have to do that. Interesting.
Early on, I expected xAKs to be in short supply. I'm not so sure anymore because the outer Home Islands can almost supply Honshu by themselves. Yeah, it takes a lot of hulls, but I figure it'll take less than 1/3 of the starting xAK hulls to do it, and that's mainly small ones. I'm finding that the chokepoint is port size. There are lots of land units that can't load, primarily because of the limited docking space (at least at the beginning of the war). Maybe the -t conversion would help, because you'd need fewer xAKs to load an infantry unit. Hmm....
Aren't To'sus better as ACMs? At the beginning you don't even have enough ACMs to maintain minefields in the ports you already own. And AS rating of 2-3 basically means that your escorts can only serve as deterrents against surface sub attacks anyway. I've tried to actively attack discovered subs with ASW TFs, but the effects are very disappointing even against AIs - 4-5 sank ASW ships for damaging one sub. (I'll try bait transport taskforces of one xAKL and alot of ASW escorts next, but I doubt that this will improve things radically enough.) With minefields you can at least stop subs from hitting you at your ports.ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
Ahh, after the SRA is liberated. I haven't looked that closely at ground reinforcements yet. Still in short term planning for the most part.
I expect to upgrade just about all the Kiso and To'su xAKLs to PBs eventually.
ORIGINAL: Q-Ball
ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
Hey Q-Ball, you're really converting to the -t? Granted, i haven't started my game yet, but I don't expect to have to do that. Interesting.
Early on, I expected xAKs to be in short supply. I'm not so sure anymore because the outer Home Islands can almost supply Honshu by themselves. Yeah, it takes a lot of hulls, but I figure it'll take less than 1/3 of the starting xAK hulls to do it, and that's mainly small ones. I'm finding that the chokepoint is port size. There are lots of land units that can't load, primarily because of the limited docking space (at least at the beginning of the war). Maybe the -t conversion would help, because you'd need fewer xAKs to load an infantry unit. Hmm....
Thanks MIke, I'll look for the update.
I agree, you don't need more than 1/3 of your hulls to feed the Japanese economy. All the Resources you really need are close at hand, and you don't need to haul anything from the SRA in that department. Now, I am finding that if you conduct major fleet ops, you don't have enough TKs; I will run it a little more, but I foresee needing AKs to haul fuel. You might have enough TKs if the IJN sits in port, but that's not an option!
I started off conservative in Ak-t conversions, and initially it seemed enough. Once the SRA is done, though, and alot of reinforcements are appearing in Japan, I found myself WAY short of troop lift capacity. And with that conversion, it STILL hauls more cargo than troops.
I have been on a crash Ak-t conversion program, and am converting hulls like mad. I brought home alot of xAKLs that start on the perimeter for hauling resources. You need SOME out there for short supply runs, but not more than a couple dozen total.
I am also finding myself short of escorts; I only use DD escorts for Invasion or Replenishment TFs. I am converting to alot of Kiso and To'su PBs.
I am also converting all non-Long Lance equipped DDs to APDs (anything older than a Mutsuki), with the exception of the Momis, because they lose a boiler in that process. Converting all the TBs to Es when available is also a no-brainer IMO. With the sub-par torps they are not very good DDs, but as APDs they make terrific ASW escorts.
ORIGINAL: BrucePowers
My head is spinning just reading your explanation above[:D]
