Focus Pacific: Release

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ORIGINAL: wdolson
I know this mod is Focus Pacific, but the Soviet Far East and the Japanese were a far lesser concern for the Soviets than the Germans. Hence the reason the Far Eastern forces had out dated armor. The old Soviet tanks were good enough to counter the best Japan had.

Bill

Any adjustments made here would be small. Japan's anti-armor capacity is not great to begin with, so adding a lot of heavy tanks would be a bit of overkill I think.

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: wdolson

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Soviet Armor Replacements
Soviet armor production ends in March of 42. Thanks to Bill Brown for the catch.
I'm removing the end-date for these devices, but reducing the their replacement rate by 25%.
BT-7 - Reduced to 55 from 70, removed end date
T-26S - Reduced to 60 from 80, removed end date
T-38 Tankette - Reduced to 12 from 16, removed end date.
Status: Fixed in editor, ready for patch.


This is a great fix as far as it goes, but no self respecting Soviet player would want to be using these in '43-45.
We need T34s both 76s and 85s
We need SU-76s, SU-85s, SU-122s, SU-152s
We need KV1s and KV85s
We need IS1s and IS2s
We need ISU122s and ISU152s

I know this mod is Focus Pacific, but the Soviet Far East and the Japanese were a far lesser concern for the Soviets than the Germans. Hence the reason the Far Eastern forces had out dated armor. The old Soviet tanks were good enough to counter the best Japan had.

Bill

Understood. My post was somewhat trite. I don't expect first line tanks in the Far East until after Germany falls.

Hence why 44 is probably a good start date for the T34 even though T34/76s were available in '42.

Prior to May '45 front line tanks should not be available in the Far East in any great quantity.

[Lokasenna]

I just had a look through the editor and can't find where you could increase starting HI, either. So perhaps that can't be done.

Have you considered changing the inputs/outputs of LI and HI at all?

[BillBrown]

On the device tab there is an entry for pool. You might use that.

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ORIGINAL: BillBrown

On the device tab there is an entry for pool. You might use that.

That's it! Thank you.

[Joglinks1]

Jap prep for war against the USSR.
I am not advocating more units but having the Home island Divisions bought out already or some other units relocated.
The pool of troops is large enough and japan has to make choices.
My suggestion would be increase the starting pool of PP to buy out some Home island units that can be shifted north or move some units from Indochina and splattered around places to Japan.
I would not put them on Sakhalin as it seems to me too easy to invade. The Japanese player should be forced to move them first exposing them to interdiction by soviet air or navy.

J

[Joglinks1]

My opinion on the industry is to leave it as is. In stock the home island coastal traffic cannot be attacked easily by the allies. This has changed now with the USSR active from day one.
I would expect the allied player to use the USSR air force to either start a strategic bombing campaign early forcing the Japanese player to hold a larger amount of planes in the home islands.
The other option is to attack coastal cargo traffic and start a war of attrition on the Japanese merchant navy.

I suggest leave it as is and see what the results are after a few month of game play.

on a different note, will you release a patch soon? I have to re-do my first turn as I messed up one game setting.
If there will be a patch shortly I will wait for it.
j

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Understood. My post was somewhat trite. I don't expect first line tanks in the Far East until after Germany falls.

Hence why 44 is probably a good start date for the T34 even though T34/76s were available in '42.

Prior to May '45 front line tanks should not be available in the Far East in any great quantity.

You could put a relatively small number of T-34/76 in Far East units starting in 1944 representing older T-34s retired from the war with Germany.

Another thing the Far East Russian forces could get are British and American Lend Lease tanks transferred to that theater. The western Allies gave a lot of tanks to the Russians who thought they were inferior to the T-34, but used them anyway. Usually in second line units.

Bill

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ORIGINAL: Joglinks1

Jap prep for war against the USSR.
I am not advocating more units but having the Home island Divisions bought out already or some other units relocated.
The pool of troops is large enough and japan has to make choices.
My suggestion would be increase the starting pool of PP to buy out some Home island units that can be shifted north or move some units from Indochina and splattered around places to Japan.
I would not put them on Sakhalin as it seems to me too easy to invade. The Japanese player should be forced to move them first exposing them to interdiction by soviet air or navy.
J

Thanks Joglinks, I like this solution better - having additional troops prepped and ready to go on the border just seemed like a little much. I've substantially increased Japanese staring PP so that they instead have greater flexibility with their units stationed in the Home Islands.

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ORIGINAL: Joglinks1
on a different note, will you release a patch soon? I have to re-do my first turn as I messed up one game setting.
If there will be a patch shortly I will wait for it.
j

Yes, I'm pretty close. I'm going to see if Patton has any changes for his mod and then I'll put out a new patcher.

[BillBrown]

You might want to put a combat unit of some kind in Shikuka, there is only a const unit to start and nothing arriving. In scenario 71 that could be
disasterous.

[CaptBeefheart]

The Russkie Air Force is nothing to write home about. The only good thing are those mediums which carry torps. All other bombers are pretty short-ranged (Il-2) or otherwise quite obsolete.

Cheers,
CC

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ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

The Russkie Air Force is nothing to write home about. The only good thing are those mediums which carry torps. All other bombers are pretty short-ranged (Il-2) or otherwise quite obsolete.

The TB-3s can take a beating - don't count them out. Also, you get a lot of MB-2 patrol planes. Don't be afraid to set a few of them for 100ft Naval Attack, they can often slip right under Japanese CAP.

[btd64]

Hello everyone. My version 1.4 for scenario 75 is on the way. Attached to this post is the change log. In my next post is an up to date HR's/Settings doc. Both for version 1.4. Thanks everyone....GP

[btd64]

Here is the HR's/Settings doc....GP

[paradigmblue]

Thanks Patton. I should have everything up this evening, bar any unforeseen circumstances. Time to roll up my sleeves and tackle that art problem.

[blueskywhitesun]

Hiya guys, another small error I spotted:

Air ID 449, TB2D Skypirate, has front mounted drop tanks for both normal and extended range.

Will chime in if I find more

Edit: Check the Morane MS450 for a front firing bomb on extended range.

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ORIGINAL: blueskywhitesun

Hiya guys, another small error I spotted:

Air ID 449, TB2D Skypirate, has front mounted drop tanks for both normal and extended range.

Will chime in if I find more

Edit: Check the Morane MS450 for a front firing bomb on extended range.

Great catch!

[Peever]

The CB Admiral Lutzow has just arrived in the Indian Ocean and I must say my initial reaction is negative. With all the extra aircraft and ships in the DEI it seems doubtful that this ship will be able to run the gauntlet and reach a Japanese port. We'll see what happens but I except this to be sunk soon without really inflicting any damage or adding anything helpful to Japan.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Peever
The CB Admiral Lutzow has just arrived in the Indian Ocean and I must say my initial reaction is negative. With all the extra aircraft and ships in the DEI it seems doubtful that this ship will be able to run the gauntlet and reach a Japanese port. We'll see what happens but I except this to be sunk soon without really inflicting any damage or adding anything helpful to Japan.

Mine arrived out of fuel, dead in the water. Great.