General Patton vs. larryfulkerson Focus Pacific #75

[ny59giants]

Check Bangkok, its probably low itself and thus not allowing supplies there to go into interior. It will need to have 2x normal before it lets some go.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Check Bangkok, its probably low itself and thus not allowing supplies there to go into interior. It will need to have 2x normal before it lets some go.

I'm thinking Bangkok is good to go according to the supply levels. Do I need to shut off the expansion of the airfield? Jack up the
supplies required some more?

[ny59giants]

Bangkok only has 2x its required. Thus, you need to ship in supplies there for it to be able to send some to interior bases.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Bangkok only has 2x its required. Thus, you need to ship in supplies there for it to be able to send some to interior bases.

Oh.......I get it now. And that's an easy fix. I've got ships going there for RES anyway, what's one more ship going to hurt?
Thanks for your insight. I've learned enough so far to give Brian a better game. This is a blast by the way. Really fun.

[larryfulkerson]

I was surprised to find all my transports busy with major tasks and I had to really look around far afield for some supplies. I found a TF
at PI that was unloading supplies and that port already has sufficient supplies for it's needs so I re-purposed the TF for Bangkok. It's
going to take a while to get there, probably the better part of a week. Maybe I should reduce the supplies required at Bangkok to give
"permission" for supplies to begin to flow again?

[larryfulkerson]

New moves from Brian: I've watched the combat replay and now I'm exploring through Tracker and according to the Global page most
everything is just fine so far. There's been a rapid increase in HI and a slow decline in RES. Fuel is rising slowly oil is about the same
as the beginning of the game. I'm happy with the way things are running.

[larryfulkerson]

Most of my home island cities are at or above 10K in supplies and I've shipped the greatest majority of supplies I'm going to ship for a
while so I've been spending supplies bumping up the production of a lot of my planes. I need to take a look at the engines for those
bad boys and make sure sufficient are being made. There's a bottleneck for the Betty's.....the engine. There's only 1 Ha-32 in the pool.
So I need to crank up production of that engine asap. But I'm keeping an eye on all the engines and I'm aiming for a pool of about 500
for the most needed engines ( Ha-35, etc. ). So far so good.

[larryfulkerson]

I did some cutting and pasting just for my needs and then thought I'd share it with you guys. I'm pairing up each
plane I'm building with the engine it needs before I decide which planes to cull and which engines to stop. The
information is already packed so much that it makes the picture busy so I've decided to consider each engine one
at a time and explain my reasoning I'm deciding that way.So expect a series of engine decision posts.

[larryfulkerson]

So here's my analysis of the first engine in the list. Good thing Brian doesn't expect my moves until tomorrow morning. I get to work on
my moves all night, well, up until about 04:00 my Tucson time because that's about 7:00 his time and I'd like to have my moves there
for him to get at right away. Then I can expect some moves about 16:30 my time and the process starts again. We've become war-
gamming machines. As long as it's fun.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what I think of the Hitachi ( early ) engine:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's my analysis of the Hitachi Amakaze:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what I think of the Kawasaki ( early ):

[larryfulkerson]

And next is the Ha-31. I'm not really all that excited about any of the planes except for maybe the Nick. I like it that it's a
fighter-bomber and can almost defend itself. I'm not experienced with the Jap planes and these are just my first impressions.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Ha-32 analysis.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's my opinion about the Ha-33:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's my choice about the Ha-34. It's not producing very many but then it's got a very limited demand.

EDIT: Updated the image with more info.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's my synopsis of the Ha-35:

EDIT: I'm too lazy to count all the engines needed by the planes I'm producing and use that as a baseline.
I'd rather produce whatever I need to to keep about 510 engines in the pool.

[larryfulkerson]

And I thought I'd even post something for the Ha-5 just because I could.

[larryfulkerson]

And the last two I want to comment about:

[larryfulkerson]

Oh, yeah, I meant to tell you earlier but I forgot.......Brian charged Tarawa with his carriers and sank my invasion fleet. The image
below shows the condition of the only survivor. I suspect he's going to hang around and do another strike just to finish off the TF.
And of course I sent no air cover with the invasion TF, you'd think I would have thought of that, but NNnnnnoooooooo. At least the
troops got ashore first. Now I'm wondering if it's profitable to chase him with my carriers because he's sure to be long gone by the
time I get there.