Air HQ Check

[alanschu]

I have done so with Port Moresby and Luganville (the latter was pretty cheap though) for the air group increase. Brisbane is pretty far away.

I should look through threads/manual to remember all the HQ alignment benefits. I remember some but didn't realize others and/or remembered them in my current game. I almost never change base ownership and that might be bad in some isolated incidents.

[Scott_USN]

Yeah I may give manual a search if it is still relevant. Noumea was only 50 points to change to SOPAC even months before the HQ arrives at Pearl.

[RangerJoe]

If you are going to change a base as well as build it up, change the base before building it up as it is cheaper to do then.

[Ian R]

Late war, after the Soviets clear the IJA from the Asian mainland, I rail in the US airbase construction engineers and pay to transfer Fusan, and the half dozen or so bases that can build to level 9 on the Korean peninsula, to SWPAC, after which the SWPAC Command HQ, Eighth Air force, and he 8AF sub HQs all go there in the front row (except Fusan - the escort fighters, sweepers, and medium bombers go there). Tiger Force slots in to a couple of level 9 bases just behind.

Most of these bases are all within air HQ range of each other, and importantly, Fusan. As a result, coordination is usually good, unless the weather screws things up. Some bomb groups will get lost or or arrive in dribs and drabs, but usually after the day's main raid arrives in large numbers with lots of escorts. Just remember to put some Mustangs at each bomber base, in case isolated weather shuts down Fusan.