Imperial Tide: DW (J) vs Nemo (A)

[PaxMondo]

All of India/Ceylon is under Japanese control with the exception of Delhi which is besieged. There are no VEH factories in India because there are no Allied aircraft factories there. Japan has to capture Allied aircraft factories which turn into VEH factories for Japan. I don't need them anyways though as I significantly expanded my VEH factories in the Home Islands and have a surplus.

Crap! Sorry, got my scenarios mixed up. You are correct of course. No AC factories in India in this scenario.

How far have you expanded your VEH factories? 240?

[Chickenboy]

Sorry, disregard previous. That's what I get for commenting on a thread before reading the whole thing to the end. I saw your AV and play through post just now. Kudos to your opponent, again, for keeping this game rolling after Nemo dropped it.

He's 'up against it' as far as the Allies are concerned. I'd be curious what he envisions 'success' looking like here.

Basically my objective is to last until the very end of the game (I believe April 1946) and Jansanko's mission is to AV me before then.

A different starting point than most! But I'm most interested to see if / how Jansanko pulls it off...

[M Peaston]

It'll be interesting to see which line of advance JanSako chooses; any thoughts on this, DesertWolf?

I'll echo something Chickenboy wrote earlier - thanks for posting updates in this forum.

[DesertWolf101]

All of India/Ceylon is under Japanese control with the exception of Delhi which is besieged. There are no VEH factories in India because there are no Allied aircraft factories there. Japan has to capture Allied aircraft factories which turn into VEH factories for Japan. I don't need them anyways though as I significantly expanded my VEH factories in the Home Islands and have a surplus.

Crap! Sorry, got my scenarios mixed up. You are correct of course. No AC factories in India in this scenario.

How far have you expanded your VEH factories? 240?

280 actually, I also expanded naval shipbuilding by quite a bit.

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[DesertWolf101]

It'll be interesting to see which line of advance JanSako chooses; any thoughts on this, DesertWolf?

I'll echo something Chickenboy wrote earlier - thanks for posting updates in this forum.

It's difficult to say since with almost all the map under Japanese control, he does not lack for options of where to start. I am massively prioritizing the Aleutians/Kuriles however. That is the most direct approach for an Allied player trying to catch up, so will be focusing on it like a hawk.

[PaxMondo]

280 actually, I also expanded naval shipbuilding by quite a bit.

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Actually, 2 other numbers really jump out at me here:

HI: you've taken/expanded by almost 3000 (1500 factories) with about 225 of those factories either idle or damaged. Wow. 1500. WOW.

Engines: You've gone from a starting 649 to a now 2649 ... 2000 increase. holy crap batman!! Your engine pools must be massive.

[traskott]

Jansanko has very little choices of advance. Alaska is too obvious. Hawái is really the only good choice….

[Chickenboy]

Jansanko has very little choices of advance. Alaska is too obvious. Hawái is really the only good choice….

Or Gilberts-Midway "one", Hawaii "two" punch.

[DesertWolf101]

280 actually, I also expanded naval shipbuilding by quite a bit.

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Actually, 2 other numbers really jump out at me here:

HI: you've taken/expanded by almost 3000 (1500 factories) with about 225 of those factories either idle or damaged. Wow. 1500. WOW.

Engines: You've gone from a starting 649 to a now 2649 ... 2000 increase. holy crap batman!! Your engine pools must be massive.

Yeah I focus on boosting my engine production in 1942 to facilitate my huge expansion in airframe production starting in 1943. Here is my engine production/pools:

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[DesertWolf101]

As for aircraft, the George has entered mass production this month (January 1943) and I will be producing about 300 of them per month. Next on the docket is the Frank, with my first research factory having reached 30 earlier.

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[Chickenboy]

What are you planning on producing that you need a >3,200 *pool* of Ha-32 engines?

[traskott]

Jansanko has very little choices of advance. Alaska is too obvious. Hawái is really the only good choice….

Or Gilberts-Midway "one", Hawaii "two" punch.

May be Midway, but its too far from everywhere.