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Wavell's Folly: Valentines, General Lee and Stuarts in China? Possibly.

I was always curious if the admin rating of the leaders had any effect on upgrades in that unit, my play experience tells me that if they do it is very minimal in the range of a few percentage points.

I like General Evans here, he will aim to keep his force alive I hope with his timidity.



Looking at this picture, I have since gone back and set the improvised AFVs to stockpile, and turned on replacements on the off chance they can pick some up prior to reaching Paoshan.

Always a little paranoid of KB raids...there are always flaws in naval search, especially this early.

Sorry for the huge graphic, I have recently upgraded to a half decent monitor and it looks good on my screen!

I find myself in no particular hurry to launch the Baker/Christmas attacks. I have a HQc on the way and would like to land them adjacent to Christmas before attacking there. Also playing around with a very slow and gradual advance bypassing Baker (1AF) and Christmas (2 AF) and simply grabbing dot bases for a while and then pouncing instead on Marcus...not too great of a diversion distance wise...but with probing the entire IJ perimeter I think it might work.

I will keep thinking about it.

Ramillies breaks out at a blistering speed!

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Ramillies breaks out at a blistering speed!

You can't withdraw a ship with that much damage. Don't you have to get all damage categories below 50 and total damage points below 100?

Send for repairs at Colombo to save PP penalties.

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Send for repairs at Colombo to save PP penalties.

The Japanese hold Columbo - were you meaning CT or were you suggesting it be sent for a quick sinking? [:D]
I think Lowpe has time to get her to CT and repair enough of the damage to withdraw her before the due date.

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Send for repairs at Colombo to save PP penalties.

The Japanese hold Columbo - were you meaning CT or were you suggesting it be sent for a quick sinking? [:D]
I think Lowpe has time to get her to CT and repair enough of the damage to withdraw her before the due date.

Baker Island bombarded for the first time, by only two destroyers, but they put in a solid show.

Night Naval bombardment of Baker Island at 149,136

Allied Ships
DD Balch
DD Porter

Those are no ordinary destroyers! [:D]

On the leader ratings, everything I recall from hint sheets and old threads says "aggression" for ground leaders has no effect. Aggression does have an effect on the naval side and possibly on the air side. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

For the admin rating, I've split divisions into A, B and C and have clearly seen how leaders with higher admin un-disable devices more quickly, as expected. My guess is admin rating doesn't affect device upgrades.

Good luck with the Ramillies. I'm not sure what else you could do other than a suicide run.

Cheers,
CB

ORIGINAL: Lowpe


...I was always curious if the admin rating of the leaders had any effect on upgrades in that unit, my play experience tells me that if they do it is very minimal in the range of a few percentage points....

Read these threads:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.a ... y&#4381076

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.a ... e&#3605051

The short answer is no re Admin rating. That rating does have an indirect impact on device recovery which in turn impacts on what gets returned to the pools when upgrading.

Alfred

ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock

Baker Island bombarded for the first time, by only two destroyers, but they put in a solid show.

Night Naval bombardment of Baker Island at 149,136

Allied Ships
DD Balch
DD Porter

Those are no ordinary destroyers! [:D]

I love all the different destroyers the Allies have...it is a definite advantage over Japan.[:)]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Send for repairs at Colombo to save PP penalties.

That is a court martial offense! [:@]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Send for repairs at Colombo to save PP penalties.

The Japanese hold Columbo - were you meaning CT or were you suggesting it be sent for a quick sinking? [:D]
I think Lowpe has time to get her to CT and repair enough of the damage to withdraw her before the due date.

Thanks for the reminder on damage re withdrawing ships. Forgot that.

Yep...Ramillies will try to run to Mombasa and then to Cape Town. Cross your fingers![;)]

ORIGINAL: CaptBeefheart

On the leader ratings, everything I recall from hint sheets and old threads says "aggression" for ground leaders has no effect. Aggression does have an effect on the naval side and possibly on the air side. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

For the admin rating, I've split divisions into A, B and C and have clearly seen how leaders with higher admin un-disable devices more quickly, as expected. My guess is admin rating doesn't affect device upgrades.

Good luck with the Ramillies. I'm not sure what else you could do other than a suicide run.

Cheers,
CB

I don't really give any credence to the old leader charts...rather, I use the definitions of the values and think could it apply...so I do a lot of crazy things like selecting high naval skills on a dive bomber squadron commander for example.

It is probably totally a waste of PPs, but it really increases my enjoyment of the game and gives me some tidbits to throw out in the AAR.

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: Lowpe


...I was always curious if the admin rating of the leaders had any effect on upgrades in that unit, my play experience tells me that if they do it is very minimal in the range of a few percentage points....

The short answer is no re Admin rating. That rating does have an indirect impact on device recovery which in turn impacts on what gets returned to the pools when upgrading.

Alfred

Thanks Alfred...[&o]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: CaptBeefheart

On the leader ratings, everything I recall from hint sheets and old threads says "aggression" for ground leaders has no effect. Aggression does have an effect on the naval side and possibly on the air side. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

For the admin rating, I've split divisions into A, B and C and have clearly seen how leaders with higher admin un-disable devices more quickly, as expected. My guess is admin rating doesn't affect device upgrades.

Good luck with the Ramillies. I'm not sure what else you could do other than a suicide run.

Cheers,
CB

I don't really give any credence to the old leader charts...rather, I use the definitions of the values and think could it apply...so I do a lot of crazy things like selecting high naval skills on a dive bomber squadron commander for example.

It is probably totally a waste of PPs, but it really increases my enjoyment of the game and gives me some tidbits to throw out in the AAR.

Ah, giving the game a role playing flavor. That's cool.

Cheers,
CB

July 20, 1942

China is certainly hanging on, if barely. Supplies, supplies, supplies.

I need to look and see how what the HQ supply drain is....I could perhaps move extra HQ units into the wild where they wouldn't draw supplies or something else.

Wonderful game inside a game the developers have created here.

They would still draw supply unless they were WAY into the wild, just that more supply would be lost to movement friction. But moving them might reduce over stacking penalties where there are any.

I wonder if moving them closer to India will help bring supplies from there. Even with a high wastage rate, it might help. That should probably have been done at the start of the game to help bring more supplies in from/through Burma.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe


...I need to look and see how what the HQ supply drain is....I could perhaps move extra HQ units into the wild where they wouldn't draw supplies or something else...

No, that won't accomplish anything.

All HQs are not created equal when it comes to attracting the hidden extra supply demand.

In practice only a Command HQ will attract the extra supply demand. Then only if located at a base assigned to it. They have zilch effect if located outside of a base.

China starts off with only a single Command HQ, which is static, hence not mobile. Not till 1943 do any further Command HQs arrive in theatre, and they don't have any bases assigned to them. All the Chinese Corps HQs have the standard LCU supply demand, which in their case is not that much anyway. As a LCU, those Corps HQs, if located out in the field, will be fed supply from any relevant base whereas if located at a base they are fed only from that base's supply depot.

Bringing into China non Chinese LCUs simply exacerbates the existing structural supply difficulties. Expecting those units to both take replacements and upgrade devices adds to the supply difficulties.

Alfred