Attn: Japanese Economics Ministers

[findmeifyoucan]

Hmmm, interesting. So rather than having you both starve you both decide to eat healthy, LOL

[Miller]

Do the Japs need to haul any resources from far away? It seems in my game that Port Arthur and Shikuka produce more than enough between them. Fuel is what needs to be shipped home from the SRA.

[pompack]

ORIGINAL: Miller

Do the Japs need to haul any resources from far away? It seems in my game that Port Arthur and Shikuka produce more than enough between them. Fuel is what needs to be shipped home from the SRA.

No, in my experience you can hold HI stockpile level with just those two. OTOH, you are not building up your stockpile either. In general I will pick up resources anytime I am moving empty merchies in the direction of the HI. They may not be going all the way back, but if they are just moving in the right direction I never move them empty. An exception to this is the merchies with a significant liquid cargo tankage; if I load those with resources they will also pick up oil.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Miller

Do the Japs need to haul any resources from far away? It seems in my game that Port Arthur and Shikuka produce more than enough between them. Fuel is what needs to be shipped home from the SRA.

I assume that you're including shipments from Hokkaido in your calculations too?

[Miller]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Miller

Do the Japs need to haul any resources from far away? It seems in my game that Port Arthur and Shikuka produce more than enough between them. Fuel is what needs to be shipped home from the SRA.

I assume that you're including shipments from Hokkaido in your calculations too?

Yes sorry, forgot to mention Sapporo, in fact my AK convoys cannot keep pace with the resources produced from these bases.

[findmeifyoucan]

Has anyone else noticed that Sapporo is always at the same level of resources no matter how many merchies you have going there? It seems to be unlimited and therefore what a great island to build up your HI!!

[Zeta16]

Stupid question, what would be a good amount of HI saved for when the Allies start to bomb HI with B29's? I have over 500k saved in 11/43 what do I need to get it to by mid/late 44.

[undercovergeek]

heh - i was going to start one of these but made of quick bullet points along the lines of - increase bettys to 150, increase Zeros to 175, shut down xxx, increase xxx blah blah blah - would it still be of any use - im just going to to trawl the threads and build a definitive guide to what to press and do with prod/frames and engines and factories on day 1 - strategy and conquests aside just what to do with all the rest

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: findmeifyoucan

Has anyone else noticed that Sapporo is always at the same level of resources no matter how many merchies you have going there? It seems to be unlimited and therefore what a great island to build up your HI!!

Yup. What I suspect is going on is that all the resources (minus a certain number the AI deems is necessary for industry in the hex) at Sapporo are shipped to Hakodate, resource centers produce, and then HI/LI uses what it needs. If that is the case, the number of resources at Sapporo will never change.

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: Zeta16

Stupid question, what would be a good amount of HI saved for when the Allies start to bomb HI with B29's? I have over 500k saved in 11/43 what do I need to get it to by mid/late 44.

I don't have a good answer for that. My philosophy is that the more you have, the longer your economy will function after you're cut off from the SRA.

Resources and oil are also good to stockpile (because they can't be destroyed, only captured) but they need industry (which can be damaged) to be converted into something useful (fuel, supply and HI). Fuel and supply can be destroyed, but HI can't.

[undercovergeek]

i read your AAR every update Mike but i forget now, before i go back in searching did you document your production changes and engines and airframes etc - i had copies of your WitP airframes guide all over the house and it was my start up bible!!!

[Grotius]

Anyone playing Scenario 2 as Japan? Because we get twice as many pilots in "school" as in Scenario 1, our monthly training cost is twice what it is in Scenario 1. The Tracker guys estimate that by 1944, we'll have so many pilots in school that our monthly HI cost will be 111,000 heavy industry. [X(] See this post/thread: fb.asp?m=2379735

Does anyone have any ideas how to cope with that extra HI burden in Scenario 2? It more than offsets the extra resources and oil we get at game start, or so it seems to me. I don't see an easy way to reduce the huge number of pilots we'll have in school, unless we simply suck every last of the 4000 "replacement" pool pilots into squadrons and then into reserve, and *then* draw thousands more "trainee" pilots into the squadrons/reserves. (I'd worry about breaking the game if I did that.) TRACOM will help a little, but not much.

The upshot seems to be that in Scenario 2, we may actually have to be more budget-conscious than in Scenario 1, unless I'm missing something. [:(]

[n01487477]

ORIGINAL: Grotius

Anyone playing Scenario 2 as Japan? Because we get twice as many pilots in "school" as in Scenario 1, our monthly training cost is twice what it is in Scenario 1. The Tracker guys estimate that by 1944, we'll have so many pilots in school that our monthly HI cost will be 111,000 heavy industry. [X(] See this post/thread: fb.asp?m=2379735

Does anyone have any ideas how to cope with that extra HI burden in Scenario 2? It more than offsets the extra resources and oil we get at game start, or so it seems to me. I don't see an easy way to reduce the huge number of pilots we'll have in school, unless we simply suck every last of the 4000 "replacement" pool pilots into squadrons and then into reserve, and *then* draw thousands more "trainee" pilots into the squadrons/reserves. (I'd worry about breaking the game if I did that.) TRACOM will help a little, but not much.

The upshot seems to be that in Scenario 2, we may actually have to be more budget-conscious than in Scenario 1, unless I'm missing something. [:(]

Grotius, as I have offered to many others in the past (and I think I've helped them ) - when you want, send me a savefile and we'll talk turkey [8D]

[Grotius]

Grotius, as I have offered to many others in the past (and I think I've helped them ) - when you want, send me a savefile and we'll talk turkey

I might just take you up on that! I imagine my opponent might want the same opportunity, but then again, he doesn't have much Production to worry about.