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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

For buyable units, try to fly just a part to another base that the AI may not capture right away. If the main part is destroyed, the fragment is now the unit and it should be cheaper to buy out.

That is definitely something I will do when I am playing my first pbem match.

ORIGINAL: huda0816

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

For buyable units, try to fly just a part to another base that the AI may not capture right away. If the main part is destroyed, the fragment is now the unit and it should be cheaper to buy out.

That is definitely something I will do when I am playing my first pbem match.

And in PBEM this could be seen as rather gamey. There's a reason how the political points system was incorporated.

ORIGINAL: castor troy

ORIGINAL: huda0816

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

For buyable units, try to fly just a part to another base that the AI may not capture right away. If the main part is destroyed, the fragment is now the unit and it should be cheaper to buy out.

That is definitely something I will do when I am playing my first pbem match.

And in PBEM this could be seen as rather gamey. There's a reason how the political points system was incorporated.

Yeah, but with everything I have read so far I thought min-maxing is a must in multiplayer games.

Depends on your opponent most of my games are not like that

ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

Depends on your opponent most of my games are not like that

I am looking forward to play my first multiplayer game but first I have to be careful that the AI will not autowin in 1942.

Thank you for your effort to create this challenging scenario.

May I ask where the Kido Butai is in April 1942. I didn't see it since Pearl Harbor and I am afraid it could smash my party at any minute.

Not sure there are a number of scripts so it could be anywhere !!!

ORIGINAL: huda0816
May I ask where the Kido Butai is in April 1942. I didn't see it since Pearl Harbor and I am afraid it could smash my party at any minute.

There's a number of tricks you can use to guess the location of KB with some degree of certainty. First pay attention to your SigInt log and look for the places of high radio traffic that are not major ports. Recurring ones in the middle of nowhere is a sign that something big is passing. Second, check the detection level of your submarines (hopefully they are all over the map and not all hugging the Home Islands). High detection level means a lot of NavSearch is passing above, and if there is no large airfield nearby then it must be some floating airfield. There are lots of small plane-carrying raiders though in Ironman, some of them might get those DLs up too I guess.

Also, AI usually divides KB into smaller divisions in 42 and can be in many places at once.

If you need only some air support at a base, it is not gamey to put just part of the unit there. This will allow PBYs and Float Planes to operate from a base with no AF and they will not be vulnerable to an attack.

The same for Naval support in that moving just some there will provide some Naval Support for unloading assistance as well as some repair capabilities for damaged ships although they will not help repairs if there is no port capability there.

Right now I am just trying to figure out where to put the 18th division. It is 1/2 and it is to me too late to try and get it into Rangoon.

Then move it to India or Australia, whichever is closer and safer to move to. It is not well trained so it can not attack effectively but it can defend better than a lot of the Indian units.

I usually have the 18th Division head to India as Ranger Joe points out the unit is very low trained. I feel the best two options against the AI are 6th & 7th Australian Divisions to India or Australia, I send them to Australia and use them along with SWPAC forces.

Somehow I started unloading them at Addu so I have spent quite a few turns loading them back up. Will probably drop them at Madras as these are very high value transports.

ORIGINAL: ggeilman

Somehow I started unloading them at Addu so I have spent quite a few turns loading them back up. Will probably drop them at Madras as these are very high value transports.

Whenever you may have a chance of making an unscheduled stop at a location that it is possible to unload it it always a good practice to set the TF to Do Not Unload.

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: ggeilman

Somehow I started unloading them at Addu so I have spent quite a few turns loading them back up. Will probably drop them at Madras as these are very high value transports.

Whenever you may have a chance of making an unscheduled stop at a location that it is possible to unload it it always a good practice to set the TF to Do Not Unload.

Good advice. I am learning that the hard way! They are finally moving again on 1/3/42. Calcutta may even be too risky at this point.

ORIGINAL: ggeilman

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: ggeilman

Somehow I started unloading them at Addu so I have spent quite a few turns loading them back up. Will probably drop them at Madras as these are very high value transports.

Whenever you may have a chance of making an unscheduled stop at a location that it is possible to unload it it always a good practice to set the TF to Do Not Unload.

Good advice. I am learning that the hard way! They are finally moving again on 1/3/42. Calcutta may even be too risky at this point.

Actually, I think that you are learning the easy way since you are more likely to remember it.

ORIGINAL: ggeilman

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: ggeilman

Somehow I started unloading them at Addu so I have spent quite a few turns loading them back up. Will probably drop them at Madras as these are very high value transports.

Whenever you may have a chance of making an unscheduled stop at a location that it is possible to unload it it always a good practice to set the TF to Do Not Unload.

Good advice. I am learning that the hard way! They are finally moving again on 1/3/42. Calcutta may even be too risky at this point.

Drop them off at Cochin and rail them up.

Speaking of Cochin...........I have a habit of referring to whatever units end up garrisoning that base as.....wait for it..........................The Cochin Few.

Oh, that's bad, really bad.[8|][:D]