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[BBfanboy]

CMF is Commonwealth Militia Force so you do not need to add Militia at the end of the CMF acronym. Australian units on home soil have CMF militia unless you let them upgrade to AIF squads (regular troops, better firepower in their TOE). AIF squads are in short supply at first so only let your front line units take those.

[larryfulkerson]

Ah so. Thanks a lot.

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[RangerJoe]

I've got the 10th Light Horse Bat. Armoured Unit commanded by LTC Gardner, P. headed for Sydney, AUS from Geralton, AUS and it should arrive within a week. But I don't seem to be able to find "CMF Militia" nor unit "CMF Infantry squads" any where. I searched Tracker as well and Tracker has never heard of them. They don't seem to be in the "coming reinforcements list" etc. So I'm forced to ask you where I might find them please sir.
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Those are Australian infantry squad devices. Look in the database, see what each type of squad upgrades to. Plan accordingly.

The Burmese and Malayan squad devices upgrade to Indian 1944 Infantry Squads as well so don't needlessly lose them either.

When your Australian ground units are disbanded/withdrawn, the devices go into your pools. Plan your upgrades accordingly . . .

[larryfulkerson]

I discovered why you said: "Always give the units reserve aircraft before giving the replacements otherwise you can't give them the reserve aircraft." because lots of times I did it the wrong way and discovered you're correct. I'll have to wait until next turn to do a lot of them. D'oh.

Also, you have kindly provided me with all the information I needed to find those CMF dudes. Thank you very much.

Also, stuffing my training squadrons with pilots makes a lot of sense and I thought to myself: "self, maybe you should stuff ALL your squadrons with pilots." So I did.

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[RangerJoe]

Did you look in the database to see what infantry devices upgrade to what infantry device? For example, Dutch Militia Squads upgrade to Dutch Infantry Squads. So stockpile your Dutch Squads or don't give your units with Dutch squads replacements until you have upgraded the Militia Squads to Infantry Squads. There are other upgrades to keep an eye on as well.

Consider buying out Dutch units like those small part of a larger base force unit. They are cheap and can be withdrawn to Australia if you were to lose the DEI. Even the Dutch Infantry that gets wrecked is also useful if it can be bought out cheap enough and at least part of the unit is saved. Why? Even if those units only have support devices they can help heal units at a friendly base that have been in combat and don't have enough of their own support to heal themselves all that well. If they do have combat values, then they can garrison bases that require a garrison.

[larryfulkerson]

I found the database very interesting indeed. I'll have to spend some time there to get everything set up correctly. Buy out the good Dutch units that die....got it. They will come in handy to garrison some of my dot bases and whatnot. I especially yearn for more engineers and Dutch engineers ( if there are any ) will fill in just fine.

I'm going through all the bases and airfields and setting the stockpiling as appropriate and I'm coming to a lot of bases that don't have anything occupying it and I don't anticipate using it for a couple of years so in order to exhaust all the supply at that base I'm turning on the building of forts. That way if and when the Japs capture the place it may have less supply there than otherwise.

A lot of my cities have some Resources and a Light Industry both there so for those I'm turning on the stockpiling of Resources so that the Light Industry there will have an ample supply. Otherwise there's the possibility that the Resources level will drop too low to run the LI.

It's taken quite a while to get this far but I'll be through in about an hour or so. I just remembered that I have to give all the idle ships a mission and the Combat ships at Pearl will build one or several TF's and attack the KB. They are probably going to die anyway so I may as well try to get lucky with them before they are gone.

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[larryfulkerson]

It looks to me like the NZ town of Waiouru is inland and yet it has a button to expand the port. How is this possible. Scenario bug?

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[RangerJoe]

It looks to me like the NZ town of Waiouru is inland and yet it has a button to expand the port. How is this possible. Scenario bug?
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That is an error and you should report it. There is a map thread out there by the map maker Andrew Brown but I can't find it. I suggest reporting it here:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... &start=760

[BBfanboy]

That town is not on the Stock map so it looks like an oversight when that map was made - the base should be set as a Primary Air Base, not a Port.

[larryfulkerson]

It looks to me like the KB is moving to the east with 10 ships in the TF but the hex is overcast so the spotter could be wrong. At any rate I'm using my last operational CA and some assorted DD's to make up my ambush TF to go after the KB. I don't expect any of those ships to survive but I've just got to go after those Jap carriers while they are so close. I'm not sure just how many operational aircraft I have left but maybe I should put up some CAP if possible. Most of my aircraft are stood down because of low morale but in this case I think maybe I should push the tired pilots to do just a little bit more.

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[larryfulkerson]

We've suffered a lot of facility damage at Pearl but I've got 49K support dudes there....maybe they can fix all of it pretty soon. 64% runway damage is pretty rough but according to the game engine I can still launch aircraft. None of my bombers or fighters are in any shape to volley forth. Most of them are in the hangers being fixed by tired mechanics fueled by cold coffee. I have the opportunity and motive to start the expansion of the port and forts but I think it might be more prudent to fix the damage as the first priority. I've got two AMc's doing minesweeping in port just in case.

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[larryfulkerson]

I've arrived at the stage of the game where I assign missions to the ships and I'll only mention the relevent ones to not bore you but the significant missions I'll bring to your attention. Here we have TF49 which is a group of 4 DD's that will devote themselves to tracking down and killing the one spotted sub SW of Pearl.

There's TF57 also leaving port headed for Hilo. Hilo has some RESources but no LT industry to consume it so I thought I'd send them to Pearl to keep it's LI going strong. That will neccessatate my traversing some potentially dangerous hexes probably without escorts most of the time. Also, to ward away any Jap submarine laid mines I'm sending two AMc's to do full time mine sweeping.

I've moved a Seagull to Hilo to do ASW work there. That squadron is low on morale right now and therefore stood down, but tomorrow I'm going to send out the patrols at 1K feet to take a good look around. I generally hate subs, having to keep up with them, make sure they don't run out of gas, and especially Jap subs.

I'm going to devote several squadrons of float planes of vaious types to do just ASW for subs and the rest of the bigger float planes can do ASW for surface ships. I'd like to get them trained at SFO and ship them to Pearl when they pop out of the educational oven.

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[larryfulkerson]

I thought Seattle could afford to supply Dutch Harbor with almost 9K of supplies so TF82 is going to be escorted to DH after they get through loading, sometime in the wee hours of the morning. They are to launch before dawn if possible to avoid any Jap subs lurking in the bay west of Victoria. I'm going to get the ASW screens up ASAP to sort of CAP those transports.

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[larryfulkerson]

Seattle has an engineer unit and an infantry unit that were begging me to lift them out to Adak and I couldn't say no. So the 1/153rd Inf Bn and the Bremerton USN Base Force are headed to Adak where as you can see I have turned on the stockpiling of supply to get ready for the future inhabitants. I expect to have enough supply to get started soon.

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[RangerJoe]

Damage to facilities is repaired before any forts are built as well as any facility expansion.

A CS convoy of a small xAKL with an escort should be sufficient to bring the resources to Oahu. There may be a stockpile so more than one may be needed at first. Start from Hilo and as needed, on the return bring any supplies if they are needed. Oahu will need more resources but bring them from the South Pacific on returning cargo vessels.

Send any PT Boats before the other surface combat vessels, mob the enemy with subs as well. Bring as many combat ships that can be used but in many small surface combat task forces. Night Search could be useful here as well, have some CATs carry torpedoes on night naval attack but only if the experience of the pilots is 50+ otherwise they don't know how to fly at night.

Use Naval Search to find ships at 6K, use ASW for the submarines at 1K. I have had carrier TBs on ASW attack surface ships that they saw.

Start pulling as much fuel and then oil from the DEI to Australia. You won't needed the resources in Australia but it is better to haul them away as well if there is no fuel to haul. Use Osthaven to haul fuel to Batavia using smaller tankers and AOs, it will flow to the larger port Soerabaja.

[larryfulkerson]

Damage to facilities is repaired before any forts are built as well as any facility expansion.

A CS convoy of a small xAKL with an escort should be sufficient to bring the resources to Oahu. There may be a stockpile so more than one may be needed at first. Start from Hilo and as needed, on the return bring any supplies if they are needed. Oahu will need more resources but bring them from the South Pacific on returning cargo vessels.

Send any PT Boats before the other surface combat vessels, mob the enemy with subs as well. Bring as many combat ships that can be used but in many small surface combat task forces. Night Search could be useful here as well, have some CATs carry torpedoes on night naval attack but only if the experience of the pilots is 50+ otherwise they don't know how to fly at night.

Use Naval Search to find ships at 6K, use ASW for the submarines at 1K. I have had carrier TBs on ASW attack surface ships that they saw.

Start pulling as much fuel and then oil from the DEI to Australia. You won't needed the resources in Australia but it is better to haul them away as well if there is no fuel to haul. Use Osthaven to haul fuel to Batavia using smaller tankers and AOs, it will flow to the larger port Soerabaja.

Thanks so much. I will make it happen. I've already built the TF's attacking the KB and I think I sent the PT's second so I'll disband those and build the in reverse order. I discovered that at Manila I also needed to build the ASW TF first before anything else SO THAT it would move first through that harbor hex. Else the Jap subs would rampage.

[larryfulkerson]

CV Saratoga was parked at San Diego and I decided I needed it out near Pearl instead so I gave him an escort and we're leaving port for Pearl at this time. 15:14 Tucson time. We should arrive there in two or three days barring any problems.

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[RangerJoe]

CV Saratoga was parked at San Diego and I decided I needed it out near Pearl instead so I gave him an escort and we're leaving port for Pearl at this time. 15:14 Tucson time. We should arrive there in two or three days barring any problems.
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Train your DBs but also have some Naval Search because they might find subs. But have the Carrier TF follow an ASW TF. If your Devastators are trained enough in Torpedo Bombing, have them perform some ASW as well as train. Train your fighters but have a low CAP percentage to shoot down any Glens.

[RangerJoe]

Damage to facilities is repaired before any forts are built as well as any facility expansion.

A CS convoy of a small xAKL with an escort should be sufficient to bring the resources to Oahu. There may be a stockpile so more than one may be needed at first. Start from Hilo and as needed, on the return bring any supplies if they are needed. Oahu will need more resources but bring them from the South Pacific on returning cargo vessels.

Send any PT Boats before the other surface combat vessels, mob the enemy with subs as well. Bring as many combat ships that can be used but in many small surface combat task forces. Night Search could be useful here as well, have some CATs carry torpedoes on night naval attack but only if the experience of the pilots is 50+ otherwise they don't know how to fly at night.

Use Naval Search to find ships at 6K, use ASW for the submarines at 1K. I have had carrier TBs on ASW attack surface ships that they saw.

Start pulling as much fuel and then oil from the DEI to Australia. You won't needed the resources in Australia but it is better to haul them away as well if there is no fuel to haul. Use Osthaven to haul fuel to Batavia using smaller tankers and AOs, it will flow to the larger port Soerabaja.

Thanks so much. I will make it happen. I've already built the TF's attacking the KB and I think I sent the PT's second so I'll disband those and build the in reverse order. I discovered that at Manila I also needed to build the ASW TF first before anything else SO THAT it would move first through that harbor hex. Else the Jap subs would rampage.

A submarine usually lays mines at Bataan (red dot) so have the AMs sweep mines first.

[RangerJoe]

CMF is Commonwealth Militia Force so you do not need to add Militia at the end of the CMF acronym. Australian units on home soil have CMF militia unless you let them upgrade to AIF squads (regular troops, better firepower in their TOE). AIF squads are in short supply at first so only let your front line units take those.

In the game, the device name in the database is the CMF Militia Section which upgrades to the CMF Inf Section which upgrades to the AIF 42 Squad. The Aus (Mtd Rifles) device upgrades to the CMF Inf Section. There is a way to have most if not all of these CMF devices upgrade to the AIF 42 Squad without having a lot of surplus CMF devices in the pools except for the Aus (Mtd Rifles) which continue to be delivered. Unfortunately, there is no Beersheba charge for them on All Hallow's Eve.