General Patton vs. larryfulkerson Focus Pacific #75

[larryfulkerson]

Thanks for posting all that stuff. I'm studying it all. I'm going to look for patterns and try to match
them. See what you're doing and do it that way. I'll post my corresponding pictures as soon as I
can fire up Tracker.

[ny59giants]

Japan - I increase supply by 3k to 5k for those bases with minor repairs going on. For major bases and your two main airframe producing bases, I go up by 7k to ensure you have enough.

Vehicle Production - I would steadily increase up to 200. We can go up more later...Some now, then beginning of Jan and then beginning of Feb.

Repair Shipyards - Don't do any expansions until next month or later.

Heavy Industry - I expand Hong Kong to 100, Singapore to 80, and Georgetown to 20 once captured.

[larryfulkerson]

According to this Tracker page I'm only shipping about 2/3 of the RES I need to ship. And my oil shipments don't nearly keep up with
demand. After I'm through shipping all the invasion troops to their stations I'll have some ships freed up to ship goodies. Also, I can
use the short-range ships on longer ranges than I've been using them. They can go from Hong Kong to Nagasaki/Sasebo so I may
as well do that. I've got the longer-ranged ships on the Tokyo -> Truk and Tokyo -> Babeldoab routes. Also, I need to start hauling
stuff out of Miri as soon as practical.

[ny59giants]

Resources - You should use smaller xAKs to get it out of Sakhalin to Japan, Port Arthur to Japan, and Shanghai to Japan right now.

With game open, hit the "B" button to pull up bases. Click on the "Show Resource and Garrison Data" on top slightly to right. Sort by "Resources" to see which bases outside of Japan its stockpiling at. [;)] Go get it!!
Same for Oil.

[larryfulkerson]

Japan - I increase supply by 3k to 5k for those bases with minor repairs going on. For major bases and your two main airframe producing bases, I go up by 7k to ensure you have enough.

I do almost the same thing but I add on the stockpiling of supplies at those bases that
need to be at 10K asap. I realize that this means I need to monitor it but I've been
doing that and most of the bases are already over 10K or near it.

Vehicle Production - I would steadily increase up to 200. We can go up more later...Some now, then beginning of Jan and then beginning of Feb.

I had about 15K Armament points which I thought was a really thick cushion so I turned off
the Armaments production and converted the factory at Tokyo to Vehicles ( 180(0) ). As
soon as the Armaments level sinks down to about 1K then I'll turn some of them back on.

Repair Shipyards - Don't do any expansions until next month or later.

I had bumped up the Naha shipyard at Okinawa from 7(0) to 7(3). It depends on how many ships
get sent to Nagasaki instead of repairing at Naha as to how high I'm going with it.

Heavy Industry - I expand Hong Kong to 100, Singapore to 80, and Georgetown to 20 once captured.

Sounds good. I'll do it.

[larryfulkerson]

Resources - You should use smaller xAKs to get it out of Sakhalin to Japan, Port Arthur to Japan, and Shanghai to Japan right now.

I've got ships on those routes already. I'm using the longer-ranged ships for that. I'll
switch out for the smaller ships as they reach port.

With game open, hit the "B" button to pull up bases. Click on the "Resources" on top slightly to right. Sort by Resources to see which bases outside of Japan its stockpiling at. Go get it!!
Same for Oil.

Yeah, I did that and located all the really good goodies places and I'm making plans to
grab what I can asap.

[ny59giants]

I can assist in all economic matters except which planes to produce vs another plane. There are plenty of players who you can get that from. Just an FYI.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
I can assist in all economic matters except which planes to produce vs another plane. There are plenty of players who you can get that from. Just an FYI.

Thanks for all your help my friend. Invaluable info passing through here. Here's the supplies and fuel right now. Tracker says I'm
running low. I knew that already.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what I used to find the RES cities and this is where I'm going right now for RES. As I capture
more bases with RES I'll add more routes. Also, I want to grab all the little oil centers in and around
the Celebes. Babo, etc.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the numbers for my ship building. Almost everything is turned off and that's because I want to accrue about 1K points in the
pool for both of them before anything else happens and then I want to start building the CV's, CVE's, and CVL's in that order if possible
and I'm bumping up the Nav and Merch shipyard factories to the next nearest 10's decimal so that will help a little. I don't think I have
the supplies that it would take to bump up the Nav and Merch factories very much, especially I mean right now. I'm trying to get supplies
out to the field to the troops that are invading a lot of new places and some of those places aren't at 10K yet. And they need to be to
get the expansions to the airfield and port going. And that's important. I keep forgetting to include some AF dudes in the invasion force.
So I repair the airfield and still can't use it until the AF dudes arrive. Also, I've learned you CAN fly aircraft to one of those support
fields that doesn't have any AF support and the squadron will slowly all go down for maint.

EDIT: I just sent my moves to Brian so we should have something to post this time tomorrow. Or maybe if he's really quick I can post
something about the game late tonight. It's Saturday about noon here in Tucson now.

[ny59giants]

Please post Industry Global so I can see HI and supply consumption. See my earlier post that I shared.

661k is for All repairs. Most are engine and airframe. If FP is like RHS then there is too much to repair at start. Thus, the need for screen shot. I think you need to halt repairs for any Engine that are future that may be eating up supplies right now.

[ny59giants]

Resources - Don't gather them from any of the islands that make up Japan (ie - Hakodate). Send construction engineers to Keijo to expand port to max.
Port Arthur - you can use what I call "dual capacity" xAKs. Those that have a small liquid capacity can be used to haul small amounts of oil back to Japan along with resources in Cargo TFs. Any Manchurian based troops that are awaiting PP go here if I'm sending them someplace else.

[ny59giants]

Naval Shipyard - I think you will need to expand this a lot! Details to follow as we go along.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Please post Industry Global so I can see HI and supply consumption. See my earlier post that I shared.

Here's the global HI screenshot. I'm going to have to look around more......I didn't know this global page existed.

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
661k is for All repairs. Most are engine and airframe. If FP is like RHS then there is too much to repair at start. Thus, the need for screen shot. I think you need to halt repairs for any Engine that are future that may be eating up supplies right now.

Shutting off the engines for the future sounds good. I think I'll shut off the engines I'm building that don't have a cooresponding
airframe for it also. No sense building engines I'll never use.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Resources - Don't gather them from any of the islands that make up Japan (ie - Hakodate). Send construction engineers to Keijo to expand port to max.

Does this include Shikura and Toyohoma as well?

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Port Arthur - you can use what I call "dual capacity" xAKs. Those that have a small liquid capacity can be used to haul small amounts of oil back to Japan along with resources in Cargo TFs. Any Manchurian based troops that are awaiting PP go here if I'm sending them someplace else.

Sounds like a good idea. I made the mistake of attacking Vladivostok with a Betty I missed during pre-flight and now I'm at war with
the Russians. I expect Brian to make some kind of moves to rush people to the border and stuff but I'm not really expecting any
gunfire.

I like the idea of using the dual-purpose AK's for Port Arthur. I'll see if I can round up those kind and rush them to PA.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Naval Shipyard - I think you will need to expand this a lot! Details to follow as we go along.

I've already expanded the Nav Shipyard and Merch shipyard to the next nearest 10's decimal so that will give me round
numbers for the estimate of what I'm building for each. It's expensive to make these kind of repairs I've found. My supply
level dropped in the home island cities from last turn to this. Part of that is that I'm trying to reach 10K in each city that
has something to expand which is most of them. Yeah, I've noticed that there's not nearly enough Nav ship building going
on. Too many ships and not enough points for them all.

[larryfulkerson]

New moves from Brian: Hey you guys I have an idea I want to bounce off you to see if it sticks or what. Here's the situation: The Guam
invasion force is within a couple of days sailing time and it's got a carrier for top cover and a SCTF for any surprises out of the fog and
the transports themselves. I'm thinking of detaching the Big guns to go bombard Guam before the transports get within range and use
the carrier as top cover for both groups. I am even designating some spotter planes for the bombardment mission and I need to
remember to return them to daytime duties afterward.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm not sure if Brian is going to start a shooting war here soon but this situation sure has the makings of a major push. And I DID attack
his port and sink a bunch of his subs. A Russian war would be interesting.

[larryfulkerson]

Back in T1 I had about a dozen small island places that had LI that was failing for lack of RES and now in T4 it's down to just the four
listed. I need to run about 900 RES out to Kwajalein and about 300 to each of the others and then after that they should be able to
take care of themselves after their RES center catches up with demand.

[larryfulkerson]

When I loaded the troops for Davao I forgot to set the "load troops only" switch and it loaded a BUNCH of supplies from Babeldoab and
ran my hub dry. Empty shelves. So I formed an emergency TF consisting of an AD that's unloading it's supplies as an emergency
download for food, bullets, bandaids, etc. There's a convoy on it's way, it's just not here yet. The AD can reload sometime in the future.