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ORIGINAL: Chris21wen

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

I would spend all my Political Points for the entire game to have Jody drafted, in uniform and sent overseas.[;)]

Is that a US thing? Who the h%^% is Jody.

ORIGINAL: Kull

To me the only thing that seems problematic is being able to assign units to HQs which aren't on the map yet.

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

The PP system is rather elegant and effective. It takes thought, creativity and management. It doesn't make things impossible, but instead challenging. I like it 100%.

The only tweak I'd make is to allow units to increase prep time while aboard ship sailing for some distant shore. If not at the usual rate, some dampened rate. And possibility the rate would be more dampened for an xAK than for an APA.

I was unaware of that, are you sure? When I played Allied I thought they did prep in route. Now that I play Axis I mostly don't prep since half the time it becomes intelligence for the allied player, what the target is, what the targeting unit is and a rough idea of when.

And by in route I meant shipboard. They definitely prep on the march. I turned 60 recently and you can't trust my memory but it seems to me that I could check their progress shipboard and it did advance.

ORIGINAL: wegman58

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

The PP system is rather elegant and effective. It takes thought, creativity and management. It doesn't make things impossible, but instead challenging. I like it 100%.

The only tweak I'd make is to allow units to increase prep time while aboard ship sailing for some distant shore. If not at the usual rate, some dampened rate. And possibility the rate would be more dampened for an xAK than for an APA.

I was unaware of that, are you sure? When I played Allied I thought they did prep in route. Now that I play Axis I mostly don't prep since half the time it becomes intelligence for the allied player, what the target is, what the targeting unit is and a rough idea of when.

And by in route I meant shipboard. They definitely prep on the march. I turned 60 recently and you can't trust my memory but it seems to me that I could check their progress shipboard and it did advance.

I'm playing now and I have some Prep 0 shipboard, so it doesn't advance.

AND - I spend a reserve active duty period on a Viet Nam era LPA (USS FRANCIS MARION - LPA 249). I'd like to know WHERE you would prep. And I imagine the WW II LPA/APA were even more cramped. NOT like the modern ships with large open spaces.

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Air crews train shipboard. And I mean when their planes are crated. WTF?

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Prep is staff work mostly, there's no reason I know of it can't proceed aboard ship. The soldiers don't have a clue where they are going, whether by foot, by sea or by air.

I see this most often when combining three regiments or brigades into a division - whereupon the AI chooses the least competent commander of the three regiment COs to be Divisional Commander. And then there are all the ones who have some bizarre number like 30 or 50 or even 250 as their PP value,

I've never really found a hardship in finding enough PPs to meet my needs and find some of the mods with inflated PP rates per day over the top.

The only thing I think is wrong with the PP system, in broad strokes (I've got quibbles beyond this Big Quibble), is that Japan starts with a bank of them while the Allies do not. The Allies should start with at least 200 PPs, IMHO.

ORIGINAL: spence

The thing I really don't know about is how restrictive this may be the the Allied OOB.

Back to the original question about the restrictiveness of PPs re the Allied OOB.

The following early reinforcement divisions are assigned to the West Coast Command:
27th, 32nd, 40th and 41st...IIRC one can buy them out at reduced cost at less than TO&E saving 500 PPs or so on the first one (but they will have poor experience and morale).

The Americal Division starts out needing to have the 164th Regt bought out - the other regiments are already in a non-restricted command (forget which one).

Each of the Divisions in Hawaii at start are assigned to the restricted Hawaii Command but each contains only 2 regts. The third for each is assigned to a non-restricted command (forget which one).

The 2nd Marine Division has one Regt assigned to the West Coast at start and lacks the 6th Regt which enters at reduced strength some months after the start.

Thus the US has no major combat formations that may be immediately assigned to a non restricted command except for 1 Marine Regt and two Army Regts.

The deployable Chinese forces were meant to be purchased 'on the cheap'.

buying out engineers and some of the artillery and flak units are ridiculously cheap,

I should add is my biggest headache is when I have bought out regiments to only discover that one part of a division is assigned to a different HQ. There is 700 PP down the toilet...