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ORIGINAL: Lemurs!

The reasoning behind some aircraft being set to zero is that is how Matrix had it and i did not change it.

Don, if you wish you could make those '1' but they are very non important aircraft.

Mike

Wirraway

ORIGINAL: Tom Hunter

Wirraway

Didn't Australia produce something like 750 of these? Why set them to one per month, that would have them producing them from 1939 to 2021 to get the full run. [:D]

As always, comments appreciated.

ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

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PG Wake @ Shanghai

I have run the first turn three times now but in no case did the Wake ever get a shot off. On two occasions the game said "PG Wake opens fire on Japanese ships" but it did not actually do so. My theory is that because sys damage is at 50 the ship effectively "doesn't work". It might be worth reducing it to 49?

Some Australian and Dutch base forces have objectives in China

Like the Chinese base forces heading for Russia ... All these look like the result of a wholesale shift in Location slot numbers at some point caused by using the Insert button in the "editor".

Strange penetration results

For a laugh I tried an experiment with the British DDs at Hong Kong. On Dec 8th they headed over to Pescadores (6 hexes away) on a Surface Combat mission with Retirement Allowed set. Sure enough, a night surface combat ensued and a convoy containing APDs, PGs et all was encountered.

What was bizarre was that multiple 4.5in shell hits from the DDs bounced off the deck armour of the opposing ships. Specifically, the APDs suffered precisely no penetrations from about 5 hits. I can't remember the range but I think it was about 6,000 - 8,000 yards. Looking in the database within the game it seems the 4.5in gun has a pen value of 35 and the APDs have a deck armour rating of 5. So ???

Land combat and gameplay

In my main test I am now at 22nd Dec 1941. Khota Baru has just fallen, much to my relief. This was solely down to the 18th Div but it seemed much harder work than usual. Maybe this is just because I am playing both sides though. I have for example been using the Allied level bombers in Malaya on ground attack rather than the futile naval attack.

Hong Kong is down to fort level 42. The last combat odds were 7-1. Casualties have been about even. It seems like it's going to be the new year before the base falls but I suppose the defenders might just collapse at some point. Attacking forces are 23rd Army, 38th Div, 19th Eng Regt and 1st Heavy Arty Brigade with no air support. I have not used Shock Attack.

Intrinsic Supply on West Coast

Two weeks into the game and I am convinced this is completely unnecessary. Supply at SF is c.260,000 whilst at LA it is c.110,000. The other bases without intrinsic supply are at between 60,000 - 80,000. United States has plenty too. This is with no ships left in the ports, they are all carrying stuff westward.

Intrinsic Oil in Perth and Adelaide

Just noticed this. Presumably this is to represent shipments from the Cape similar to the intrinsics in Karachi/Bombay. I like it, and the amount is not overwhelming.

Non-Generic Merchant Shipping

Before actually playing the CHS I wasn't really bothered about this one way or the other but having now played with it for a while I can honestly say it's one of the best features. Forming up transport convoys is fun again!

Aircraft bombloads

These seem to have been reduced across the board (not just for the Allies). I am all for this, it makes flattening bases much more difficult, as it should be.

ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund

I might aswell ask in here rather than open up a new thread on it.
I was planning to dl the alpha tonight and have a look at this one. Do I need to create a separate install if I want to be able to play "vanilla" witp aswell?

ORIGINAL: michaelm

The AI does not cheat.

It just has a better understanding of its own logic.[:D][:D]

Michael

ORIGINAL: Don Bowen

OK - it appears that the Dutch ordered at total of 65 CW-22B Falcon. Of these 35 had been delivered prior to the outbreak of the war and 21 more were enroute when the NEI fell (see: http://www.marsethistoria.nl/artikelen/ ... tralia.htm). I've not bothered to try and trace the remaining 9 as I assume they would have been delivered if Java had held out.

Apparently 34 were still in service (see: http://www.orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/016 ... rcraft.htm) and 23 were issued to squadrons (see: http://www.geocities.com/dutcheastindies/Dutch_OOB.html)

Therefore, I am considering the following changes:

CW-22 Falcon (Aircraft 135): set pool to 11 (34 minus 23), set replacement rate to 3 (7 would be better - 21 aircraft by end Feb, 42 - but would accumulate too many over time).

As always, comments appreciated.

ORIGINAL: Herrbear

Why not create a factory in US. It will convert to F-5A in 6/42. Set at 6 would give you 42 extra and 18 by 2/42.

ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

A minor point:

If you remove the intrinsic fuel from Cristobal then you need to add some at Panama City. Otherwise it will need shipping from the West Coast.

ORIGINAL: bstarr

Just noticed something - shouldn't Akyab be in 30, 28? Certainly looks closer to the atlas I'm looking at, and it won't be so impossible for Japan to take it. There is a town called Maungdaw located in 30, 27 (that's where Akyab is now) but I doubt it should be included in the game.
bs

 Base             OLD           NEW
 Name          Port   Air    Port  Air   Other
 ---------------------------------------------
 Hue             -    1(5)   0(1)  1(5)  Airfield -> Base
 Kyoto           -    1(4)   2(2)  1(4)  Airfield -> Base
 Taiden          -    1(4)   1(2)  1(4)  Airfield -> Base
 Anshan          -    1(4)   1(2)  1(4)  Airfield -> Base
 Soochow        5(6)  1(6)    -    1(6)  Remove port values 
 Noumea         6(6)  3(2)   3(3)  3(2)
 Brisbane       6(9)  8(9)   5(5)  6(9)
 Townsville     5(5)  3(5)   4(5)  3(5)
 Cairns         5(5)  3(5)   3(4)  3(5)
 Darwin         2(3)  3(5)   3(3)  3(5)  Add 5 resources
 Daly Waters                             Add 5 resources
 Bora Bora      0(3)  0(3)   1(3)  0(3)
 Wellington     6(6)  6(6)   4(5)  4(4)
 Christchurch   6(6)  4(6)   4(5)  4(6)
 Hamilton        -    1(5)    -    1(6)
 Seattle       10(9) 10(9)   6(8)  7(9)
 San Diego     10(9) 10(9)   6(8)  7(9) 
 Middle East    9(9)  3(4)   9(9)  3(6)  Add 300 Daily Oil
 
 Cristobal                               Remove 1000 daily fuel
 Panama City                             Add 1000 daily fuel (or less??)
 
 Move Akyab from (30,27) to (30,28) - Possibly
 
 

• Reducing the size of the port at Noumea has been discussed already, but I also think that some of the Australian and NZ ports should be reduced further as well.
• I have added a couple of tentative reduced starting port values for US West coast bases as well (this was suggested by eMonticello).
• I think that a few resources should be added back to Darwin (actually split Darwin/Daly Waters).
• I have not addressed the huge fuel/supply generation in the USA, or the moving of daily fuel to coastal bases. Some people think the amount of supply generation in the USA should be reduced further, but I think we need to be cautious. How much supply does the US war machine need in late '44, for example?
• Oil should definitely be generated in the Middle East base, for shipment to India. This should be daily oil and not an oil resource, as this base is NOT meant to be invaded by the Japanese, and the presence of an oil resource centre would only entice some players more.
• As the Middle East base is a representative base, I think the potential size of its airfield should be increased.
• Pry told me that Bora Bora did have some basic port facilities at the start of the war.