ORIGINAL: JocMeister
Personally I would abandon the x2 hexes. The difference between x2 and x3 is quite big. And with supply starting to run short you will soon start to see your AV cut in half. When it does the extra defensive multiplier will be everything. Better to hold for two weeks in x3 terrain then 1 week in x2 terrain and then try to stop him again at the x3 terrain with shattered troops and overstacking due to the retreat.
How much supply do you have at Chungking? With this renewed offensive your supply will start to drain VERY fast. And what is your last stand plan? It will be interesting to see how this plays out with the benefit of having 7 months of extra preparation in China. But I think the end is inevitable and you need to decide if you will make a last stand around Chungking or run to the mountains. If the latter your top priority must be to keep the road open and make sure you don´t lose Kunming!
I don't have a last stand plan! I'll think about that later. It'll be largely determined by how the defense goes. Because of the SL the mountain roads can be held by fewer troops that it would normally take, and hopefully there is a long time before worrying about that anyway. [:)]
Even though it's seven months since the war began, that is not exactly seven 'extra' months without combat to prepare for a Japanese offensive. That was three very intensive months of heavy combat followed by a lot of attempts to rebuild shattered forces and sequester supply. I built almost no base forts, just tried to recoup units, and that still with daily bombardments in a few spots draining supplies. Then this last month has been a lot of combat again, so yes, supply is waning. Only about 7k in Chungking now, but no units taking replacements outside of Wenchow either, so nothing more I can do other than try to avoid combat.
After further thinking I do agree that it's probably better to just move back to +3 as there are so many places to cut off the retreat paths and force a move back anyway. It's really so much about maneuver with stacking limits.
I think the important thing to do is get back to +3 and sit building forts to at least by the time the Japanese arrive in the hexes 2 forts are built.
Any thoughts about the white hexes and the time a tank division would take to move this distance? I think it's jungle rough to mountain but the disconnected yellow roads confuse me there.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
