East Coast Question

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: pontiouspilot

Welcome to a newcomer!....with the greatest of respect, may I be the 1st to lobby you for a name change!

Hey he's already posted 26 times, he's a battle hardened veteran! [:D] Although, look at AW1Steve. I try to hog the forum every day but I can't touch him! [:(][:(]

Chickenboy and USS America used to have far less posts than I. Just keep writing your brand of banal tripe and you'll easily over take me , just like they did. [:D][:D][:D]

[geofflambert]

He's lived in more states than I have too, all I have is WVA, Penn, IL and MO; and yes you can post all your WVA and MO jokes here, I'm sure they're entirely appropriate. When I was a teenager I went to a dentist and after he looked at my fillings he asked where I was born. I told him WVA and he nodded like he was thinking "that explains that". [:D]

[geofflambert]

For you Brits, being born in West Virginia would be like being born in Scotland. For you Scots, it would be like being born in England.

[rustysi]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I like to build up a large number of "green troops" in one place , then "blood" them against a much smaller force. That way their losses are minimum, they get extensive experience , before you send them off to fight on their own. I do the same with squadrons , constantly recycling through "nugget" pilots to gain rapid experience.

If you are sending a an air unit to the CBI via the "backdoor route", you might keep them training on route. That way you can send a slightly lesser trained unit out , and it will equal out by the time it arrives.

**** You know after reading this I wondered something...Is this gamey?"/b] [&:][:(]

IMHO, no.

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: rustysi

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I like to build up a large number of "green troops" in one place , then "blood" them against a much smaller force. That way their losses are minimum, they get extensive experience , before you send them off to fight on their own. I do the same with squadrons , constantly recycling through "nugget" pilots to gain rapid experience.

If you are sending a an air unit to the CBI via the "backdoor route", you might keep them training on route. That way you can send a slightly lesser trained unit out , and it will equal out by the time it arrives.

**** You know after reading this I wondered something...Is this gamey?"/b] [&:][:(]

IMHO, no.

Thanks , after a few of the recent threads on "gamey" I'm starting to think just putting up any resistance is "gamey". [8|][X(][:'(][:D]

[Mudmag99]

Another quick question if I may.

Why does a ship in a Port (Like PH) with plenty of resources have an endurance of 0? The ships aren't even damaged.

Thanks again.

Ps. Maggot99 comes from my old Softball team (The Mud Maggots) and my number 99. We played together for over 20 years and still all hang out together with our spouses and kids... We're pretty lucky that way.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I like to build up a large number of "green troops" in one place , then "blood" them against a much smaller force. That way their losses are minimum, they get extensive experience , before you send them off to fight on their own. I do the same with squadrons , constantly recycling through "nugget" pilots to gain rapid experience.

If you are sending a an air unit to the CBI via the "backdoor route", you might keep them training on route. That way you can send a slightly lesser trained unit out , and it will equal out by the time it arrives.

**** You know after reading this I wondered something...Is this gamey?" [&:][:(]

Yes, sometimes I just send skeleton units out to India with a look to operations down the road. The can train up there as well as anywhere. And if there is not an invasion of India the rush to fill them out is not great and you can use the available aircraft elsewhere. But they are there, just in case...

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Amoral

ORIGINAL: Leandros




"Ikke gjör som mora di' sier!" - translated: "...don't do what your mother tells you to do..."..Forget about the British, they're a self-centered, egoistic lot that only cares about their own narrow goals.
Which is hanging on to Singapore - a dead-meat (agreed upon by every Allied commander before the Japanese invasion - except some of the British). Give it all to dug-out Doug he's got plenty of use for it....

He's the one with a vision...

Stop the Japs dead in their tracks - they have over-reached themselves...[:-]

While this may have worked in real life, in the game it would be impossible to stop an evenly skilled opponent from taking the Phillipines. Anything you send there will be destroyed long before you get any value out of it.

If you are determined to fight forward, Singapore makes a marginally better festung than Manilla. But you would be better served putting them somewhere where they can retreat if japan brings the whole 9 yards. India/Burma or Australia are the dogmatic choices.

Maybe if Mac had met them on the beaches , then withdrew slowly across the island to prepared lines , supplied and fortified, all the way back to Bataan (like the plan called for). But Mac couldn't follow a plan that wasn't his own , and besides , he convinced everybody that he could destroy the Japanese with the B-17's. Heck , they wouldn't even DARE to attack the islands. Yeah. And how did that work out? [8|][:(]

Well the Bataan thing is criticized by many and may not have been the wisest thing but in MacArthur's defense the pre-war plan was for the PI to hold and and the Navy to come to the rescue after fighting the decisive battle with the enemy. But air power changed that plan on day one and Mac did not seem to get the memo....

[dr.hal]

ORIGINAL: Maggot99

Another quick question if I may.

Why does a ship in a Port (Like PH) with plenty of resources have an endurance of 0? The ships aren't even damaged.

Thanks again.

Is it out of fuel?

[Mudmag99]

Yes... But there is plenty of fuel in the depot.

[dr.hal]

That's fine, but it doesn't matter if it is NOT in the fuel bunkers of the ship in question. Fill the ship up and you will resolve the issue.

[LCMS]

ORIGINAL: Trugrit

In strategic mode an -R will show up by the base to indicate transport by rail.

You can also send air groups and troops to far east using strategic mode
Provided the command structure is correct. Look for the base to show up on the transfer
screen. In this case Eastern USA to Cape Town. Notice the -s by the base.

The first 5 groups in your attachment have "-s". So this is strategic mode? How can an air group make it all the way to Cape Town on it's own? No way P39 can fly that far. -38 days? This is my first time on this game, and I am confused on these data and designations.

[BillBrown]

The -s means it will travel by cargo ship.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

I like to build up a large number of "green troops" in one place , then "blood" them against a much smaller force. That way their losses are minimum, they get extensive experience , before you send them off to fight on their own. I do the same with squadrons , constantly recycling through "nugget" pilots to gain rapid experience.

If you are sending a an air unit to the CBI via the "backdoor route", you might keep them training on route. That way you can send a slightly lesser trained unit out , and it will equal out by the time it arrives.

**** You know after reading this I wondered something...Is this gamey?" [&:][:(]

Naah! Pilots train each other by doing air maneuvers with their hands. Saves a lot of fuel and can be done anywhere.[:D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Agreed mostly, but I don't do dogmatic choices, only catmatic ones.

Does that mean cats taste better than dogs?

[kaleun]

you have to refuel the ship. it won't do it automatically