Nail's Newbie Question of the Day

[Nail78]

Well that does pose a good question why would I withdraw? Is that good usage of my political points too keep the ships in the Indian Ocean? I am playing the 43 campaign and it would put me in the hole political point wise. How often in the campaign will Sir Winston ask for ships be sent back too the homefront?

[Mistmatz]

I think tis based on a monthly dice roll

[Nikademus]

sure did....scared the crap out of you. Bet you had to change your shorts.....

[Nikademus]

usually once a month or every other month. If you've accumulated enough PP's, its not too hard to ignore the order.

[Speedysteve]

Terrified. I mean who wouldn't be seeing 12 poor excuses for lawnmowers (let alone fighters) along with 6 poor excuses for typewriters against my hordes[8|]

[Nikademus]

yeah well now you get to see Sea Hurricanes and Martlets instead of lawnmowers and Cadillacs.

enjoy dweeb....

[Mike Solli]

I look at it as easy kills.[:D]

[Speedysteve]

I plan to Grue........I plan to.

[Nikademus]

that reminds me....check your closet

[Speedysteve]

Have you stored your blow ups there in case your GF MK1 checks your place?

[Nikademus]

There's a burned out lightbulb that needs to be changed.......

[niceguy2005]

ORIGINAL: Nail78

Well that does pose a good question why would I withdraw? Is that good usage of my political points too keep the ships in the Indian Ocean? I am playing the 43 campaign and it would put me in the hole political point wise. How often in the campaign will Sir Winston ask for ships be sent back too the homefront?

Hi Nail, welcome to the game.

I think this choice if highly situational. Mr. Churchil apparently is highly whimsical and wants varying types of ships back and it has little to do with what is going on in your war. Early in the game I send back pretty much everything except CVs. I hold on to those if at all possible. Later in the war I will hold on to ships if I think I have the PP to pay for them. I find DDs run in short supply, probably because I manage to get a lot of them sunk fighting it out with the Japs in the DEI. Therefore, I try to hold on to those. I also try to hang on to the BBs as I like to save them for shore bombardment for later in the game. Still, I send a lot of the ships back early on because i would much rather spend the PP saving dutch units, aircraft from PI, changing leaders or activating Oz and NZ units.

[Nail78]

I tend too agree with Amiral. I believe that PP points would be much rather well spent drawing troops from Australia and even Canada than keeping a few ships. Especially this month because the Admiralty is requesting a CLAA & 2 DD's. Without giving away too much of what is in store for me, is the Imperial Navy much of a force in the Indian Ocean in 1943? I am midway through July 43 and the only thing I have seen of the Jap navy so far is 1 submarine sighting.

[bradfordkay]

You should always worry when you haven't sighted the Japanese carriers for some time. Where are they? How will they mess up my plans?

In those times, I make sure not to send any important naval forces into contested areas, unless I feel that these forces have a reasonable chance against a group of six Japanese carriers. If I have seen the enemy carriers recently, then I can adjust my operations around their location...

EDIT: I have never started a 1943 scenario. I have no idea as to whether the IJN has enough fuel, pilots, or aircraft to be of much threat then, though I know that they do still have a great deal of strength (numbers of capital ships).

I do not like to send any British destroyers back under the Withdrawal routine, as there aren't enough of them to start with. I'm with the others in that during the early game, I return any capital ships that are requested, preferring to use my PP for unit movements. Later on is when I start trying to weigh the advantages or disadvantages of keeping them. You can go into negative PPs by refusing to withdraw ships, but you will not be able to change any leaders or the HQ to which any unit reports when you don't have enough PPs.

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: Nail78

I tend too agree with Amiral. I believe that PP points would be much rather well spent drawing troops from Australia and even Canada than keeping a few ships. Especially this month because the Admiralty is requesting a CLAA & 2 DD's. Without giving away too much of what is in store for me, is the Imperial Navy much of a force in the Indian Ocean in 1943? I am midway through July 43 and the only thing I have seen of the Jap navy so far is 1 submarine sighting.

Well, its not like you have to keep the RN in the Indian Ocean twiddling its thumbs...

I've got Ramilles in with all the Pearl veterans in my big bombardment force, and fairly soon will have Revenge teamed up with Idaho in another bombardment force when they two of them get out of Seattle.

[Nail78]

I noticed the icons for ground units have different color's what does that mean? For instance The Allies have a light green, a dark almost olive green colored icon. The Japanese ground forces are Dark Red and then there is a Pink colored one? The Chinenese forces have some Yellow colored icons, and a lot of tan colred ones.

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: Nail78

I noticed the icons for ground units have different color's what does that mean? For instance The Allies have a light green, a dark almost olive green colored icon. The Japanese ground forces are Dark Red and then there is a Pink colored one? The Chinenese forces have some Yellow colored icons, and a lot of tan colred ones.

Its just nationality I think. I noticed it can even blend sometimes, I reinforced China with some RAF HQ units and their colour changed to a sort of greeny-yellow. [;)]

[Feinder]

The brighter the color, the more troops there are. Allies are green, Japan is red. And China gets their own color, yellow. There is some "strangeness" in the colors in China. You occasionally get a Chinese stack that's green (bad rice I guess). I actually think it has to do with the HQ of some of the units in the stack. But it doesn't really hurt anything, so I haven't bothered testing to see what's making it do it.

-F-

[dtravel]

Some Chinese units start the war assigned to SEAC. They show up on the map as green.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Feinder

The brighter the color, the more troops there are. Allies are green, Japan is red. And China gets their own color, yellow. There is some "strangeness" in the colors in China. You occasionally get a Chinese stack that's green (bad rice I guess). I actually think it has to do with the HQ of some of the units in the stack. But it doesn't really hurt anything, so I haven't bothered testing to see what's making it do it.

-F-

I thought it was the other way around - the more there are, the darker it gets. It works this way for mines and airfields, i am sure (but it might work opposite for troops).