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ORIGINAL: Mundy
ORIGINAL: obvert
If you ask me, the Bella Bella info is the important one here. Send the KB right away!! [:D]
There are a couple allied units which spawn there. It's possible radio traffic picks up when they arrive.
Ed-
ORIGINAL: crsutton
How are your Indian tank brigades filling out? You should be getting a fair supply of new tanks. Still, it is slow until the year turns. I wonder if it makes more sense to fully fill out the tank brigades one at a time or to slowly fill all three in portions. Don't know which is more useful for the Allies. The tank brigades compared to Japanese units have good infantry and support, so even with only 50 tanks apiece they might be very useful. The big thing is when you start to get your 43 squads. Then Japanese tanks become virtually useless. I think if the Japanese player is still fighting for open ground in India by the turn of the year that he is courting disaster.
ORIGINAL: obvert
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One thing I've noticed since playing the Allied side that I think is really strange; as Japan any unit moving after being in strat mode doesn't have to get completely unpacked before starting to move. The Allied units do have to get unpacked, and stay at 0 movement until fully in move mode. I'd neglected this, but it does seem like his units are filling out of Patna and Ranchi more quickly than I would have thought based on the fact that there were virtually no troops in either base several turns ago. It always takes at least 2-3 days to get a division ready yo move, but this one coming out of Ranchi seems to have moved more quickly than that. Anyone else notice this?
ORIGINAL: obvert
ORIGINAL: crsutton
How are your Indian tank brigades filling out? You should be getting a fair supply of new tanks. Still, it is slow until the year turns. I wonder if it makes more sense to fully fill out the tank brigades one at a time or to slowly fill all three in portions. Don't know which is more useful for the Allies. The tank brigades compared to Japanese units have good infantry and support, so even with only 50 tanks apiece they might be very useful. The big thing is when you start to get your 43 squads. Then Japanese tanks become virtually useless. I think if the Japanese player is still fighting for open ground in India by the turn of the year that he is courting disaster.
I have one regiment nearly full of Lee tanks, only 1-2 to add. The Brigades are only about half full, but as you say, well supported and still decent units at this point although incomplete. I'm actually almost forced to use them right now, which I'll get to in a minute. I've also brought a few US tanks to India and those are going to be well used too.
I think I've run out of Stuarts in all pools and have like 250-300 Matildas I can't use. Seems really weird that these can't still be retro-added to a unit if the player wants to use the pools. Oh, well. [8|]
ORIGINAL: crsutton
ORIGINAL: obvert
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One thing I've noticed since playing the Allied side that I think is really strange; as Japan any unit moving after being in strat mode doesn't have to get completely unpacked before starting to move. The Allied units do have to get unpacked, and stay at 0 movement until fully in move mode. I'd neglected this, but it does seem like his units are filling out of Patna and Ranchi more quickly than I would have thought based on the fact that there were virtually no troops in either base several turns ago. It always takes at least 2-3 days to get a division ready yo move, but this one coming out of Ranchi seems to have moved more quickly than that. Anyone else notice this?
It was this way with Allies units as well. You could move them before they unpacked. However, I think that this was corrected in a recent beta for both sides, as I note that my American divisions can no longer move until unpacked. My last campaign was a stock scen 2 and they could do it in that game.
ORIGINAL: crsutton
ORIGINAL: obvert
ORIGINAL: crsutton
How are your Indian tank brigades filling out? You should be getting a fair supply of new tanks. Still, it is slow until the year turns. I wonder if it makes more sense to fully fill out the tank brigades one at a time or to slowly fill all three in portions. Don't know which is more useful for the Allies. The tank brigades compared to Japanese units have good infantry and support, so even with only 50 tanks apiece they might be very useful. The big thing is when you start to get your 43 squads. Then Japanese tanks become virtually useless. I think if the Japanese player is still fighting for open ground in India by the turn of the year that he is courting disaster.
I have one regiment nearly full of Lee tanks, only 1-2 to add. The Brigades are only about half full, but as you say, well supported and still decent units at this point although incomplete. I'm actually almost forced to use them right now, which I'll get to in a minute. I've also brought a few US tanks to India and those are going to be well used too.
I think I've run out of Stuarts in all pools and have like 250-300 Matildas I can't use. Seems really weird that these can't still be retro-added to a unit if the player wants to use the pools. Oh, well. [8|]
Yes the replacement rate for the American M3 is very poor. I actually am disbanding a unit (sending it home from Oz) so I can have some replacements for my units in India. Most are down to about 30 tanks. It is only the Australian units that have sufficient armor replacement. I kept half of mine as matildas and put the Lee/Grants in half but there are plenty of Lee/Grants that I am thinking of chucking the matildas. Oz is now a quite front for me as he took Northern Oz and then stopped. So I have my American tank units garrisoning OZ and moved a lot of my Australian units to India for the real fight because they can replace losses. No matter the front, Oz or India, both are great tank country and the Allied tanks rule. I try to mass in one theater or the other depending on the fight.
ORIGINAL: Mundy
ORIGINAL: obvert
If you ask me, the Bella Bella info is the important one here. Send the KB right away!! [:D]
There are a couple allied units which spawn there. It's possible radio traffic picks up when they arrive.
Ed-
ORIGINAL: obvert
Interesting coincidence. The game passed over the 'real' date on October 14th, my birthday! [:)]
ORIGINAL: HansBolter
ORIGINAL: Mundy
ORIGINAL: obvert
If you ask me, the Bella Bella info is the important one here. Send the KB right away!! [:D]
There are a couple allied units which spawn there. It's possible radio traffic picks up when they arrive.
Ed-
Are perhaps confusing Bella Bella with Bora Bora?
I have played Allies a number of times and never recall any reinforcements arriving at Bella Bella.
There are several small units that arrive at Bora Bora which is a PITA, because there it is a dot base and none of the arriving units contain any engineer squads.
You have to send an amphib TF to take them off with losses in devices, or send an amphib TF with an engineer unit to build a port there. It is so far off the beaten path that diverting an engineer there never seems worth it.
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ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Bella Bella - base on Canadian west coast 5 hexes SE from Prince Rupert. Area 'may' become important again if Canada builds a pipeline to export all those tar sand oils that the USA seems to not want (Keystone pipeline).
ORIGINAL: Wargmr
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Bella Bella - base on Canadian west coast 5 hexes SE from Prince Rupert. Area 'may' become important again if Canada builds a pipeline to export all those tar sand oils that the USA seems to not want (Keystone pipeline).
Oh, the Americans want the pipeline. The Democratic party is towing the environmental line for cash and prizes from the environmentalists. Maybe Canada needs to bribe them eh?
ORIGINAL: obvert
A scary moment!
