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In my current game against the AI, I held Naga until February 4, 1942, and I still hold Clark, Bataan, and Manila. Supply is certainly a problem, and I made all the newbie mistakes: based my subs out of Manila for too long; left all replacements on. To be honest, I'm surprised I've got as much supply as I do.

At least I didn't suck up supply running B-17 missions out of the PI; they moved to the DEI early.

Just for information, the PI supply run from Karachi was a dismal failure. Luck counts in war and I had none that day. The Japanese carriers that I had not seen for over a month showed up in the South China Sea as the 15 ship AK-only convoy headed east. Needless to say, there are now 15 fully-laden AK's on the bottom of the South China Sea. The only redeeming thing about the whole incident is when a Dutch submarine had the good fortune of putting two fish into the side of the Akagi.

I am fighting for a delay on Luzon and am using many of the tactics found here. So far so good. I only reccomend evacuating one LCU, the 150 Av Support unit and the B-17 BG/S.

Two questions, I've moved as much supply in as I could before the IJN closed the souther approaches to Manilla with airpower.

1) Do you turn off replacements for your defenders? I turn off the air groups, and badly mauled engineer units as I dont want them sucking down supply as they won't add much to the defense late. I do however let the engineers rebuild early as I want their support units. I'm thinking of turning off any replacements now as I want my boys to have bullets once the battle starts.

2) Do you use bombardment missions at Clark? Again I'm concerned about supplies but I'm also worried about leaving the enemy unfettered.

Ok one more:
3) How much do you load up Clark versus Bataan and Manilla? Right now I have 3 Divisions in Manilla, and I left Bataan with its deault load of troops. Everything else moved to Clark. I might have moved a couple of engineer units to Clark just for support.