ORIGINAL: mind_messing
Correct.
Also never sent replacements or upgrades to LCU's that will withdraw. They'll happily take it off to Europe and you'll never see it again.
Clear.
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
I think Lowpe goes in to detail in his AAR.
The essence of it is that you divide your Australian divisions into A/B/C components and stockpile the squads until you have enough to upgrade a full component. Because of how the rules work, if you upgrade 100 militia to inf squads, those 100 militia go back to the pools and get upgraded to inf squad there. So over several turns you can sequentially upgrade units.
The AIF upgrade is slightly trickier as those squads are much more scarce. It's been a while since I checked but IIRC you may need to disband some units to get it in a timely manner.
Note that Australian squads have a very low replacement rate, so take care if using them widely.
I'll have a look there then. Currently, I'm mostly repairing australian disablements and sending replacements to the 1st Australian Division. Don't have much in the pool for anything else.
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
Not in my opinion.
Chinese inf squads have a massively high built rate, something like 10 squads/day (that then doubles come 1943).
You want those to be getting on to the map ASAP, preferably into high AV units with good leaders. I turn on the replacement taps to units that are going to be defending key positions over the course of 1942.
My problem is supply consumption, rather than squad replacement rate. Moreover, if you consider just 4 Chinese Corps in India, it's well over 3,300 squads. Even if some are already in the TOE of the units, it's still a massive effort even with the 350/squads per-month Chinese replacement rate.
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
This is a mistake.
It will not influence the fate of Singapore in any substantial way, and the British and Commonwealth devices are some of the biggest pinch points for the Allies generally.
The British Inf squads you will need to keep around so that the British divisions (which will form some of your few combat effective formations in this region in 1942) can face sustained combat.
It is vital to note that a large number of the Indian divisions have British squads as part of their TOE, so British squads are also needed to enable these formations to keep a healthy TOE.
Over time more British Inf squads will be freed by TOE upgrades in Indian LCU's, but that is a concern for 1943. See page 313 of the manual for further info.
The Indian Inf squads you will need to fill out the divisions already in India.
Then there's the shared Commonwealth pool, which is anything from Bren and Vickers squads (both key components in a units firepower) to the 3 inch mortars, up to 25 pounder guns. This is the real pinch point, as they're used in British, Indian, Australian and New Zealand units so there is far more demand for these devices than will be met.
What's needed is a very tight control over what you get as replacement and via convoys, and appropriate assignment of the devices to formations that can take full advantage of it.
More than inf squads, I'm concerned by the pool of commonwealth devices, which looks bleak for basically the entire match. I'm a little bit less concerned about the troops in India, since the units in Singapore don't absorb so many squads in the end. The biggest deal is represented by the devices.
My target is to reach 1,000AV behind forts lvl4 in Singapore. Currently, I am at 750AV circa with another good 50 which will be repaired in a reasonable time. Other 150AV will come from troops being currently airlifted from the few bases still in my possession in Malaya. I plan to put a good 50-100AV of replacements in Singapore before shutting off the replacements.
The idea is that they cannot stop the Japanese hordes, but I'd like to embroil him in a traditional siege rather than a swift conquest.
I have no idea of his current disposition. He has a little bit more than 2 division worth of AV (various regiments which start divided at 7th DEC) in Celebes/Moluccas area and Aleutinians.
Some more have captured Wake/Rabaul.
Then there is the 33rd Division near Tavoy.
Finally, the stack in Luzon I haven't checked yet.
In a very optimistic scenario, I have 8-9 IJA Division around. If he has split them in a roughly equal manner between Luzon and Malaya, I face around 2,000AV. Now, it's not really likely I can defend Singapore with 1,000AV against Omar's 2,000AV, but I hope the base won't simply crumble at the river crossing and I can inflict sufficient losses to make it a a little bit slower than otherwise.
My main target is to offer a little bit more than a token resistance in the base. Honestly, I don't know how he has divided his forces between Singapore and Luzon. In any case, resisting until mid-January would be a completely different thing than resisting until the 1st of December. Given my current situation, two weeks there change a lot.
In the meanwhile, he's reinforcing his SoPac expeditionary force. I have literally zero information from NavS, but I have picked up an interesting "heavy traffic" here:
; Julia Child
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