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I sorted the Naval ships according to arrival date and this is the results. I don't know if I'm going to need
any MTB's or MGB's but I'm counting on the SC's to make good escorts. I've cancelled all the subs and now I've
got Naval points to burn. I've started the accelleration on several ships but for the most part it's all done
for a while.

I attacked the port at Macao and sank some ships that happened to be in the harbor. I need to do that again to
get the rest of them.

That engine listed at the top of the list, there's over 500+ of them so I'm going to trim production back a bit.

According to your screenshot (WITP Chart) on Jan 15th, you have 4.4M in supply (that's 1M more than I have!). Where is the shortage?? [&:][&:] If you have shortage in Japan, that means you are expanding too much (bases, industry, and/or shipping out). The biggest issue you have is Oil. I hope you are repairing those that are damaged.

Here's me turning off the production of the Nikajima Ha-5/1000 temporarily to see how it effects the pool levels.

You need to sort out your region file. You show over 500,000 supply at "unknown region" where is that? It is hard to do well if your information/data is suspect/bad.

Bu the way, I see you have a number of bases with stockpile set on for supply and fuel. You should never have to set stockpiles, it should be very rare to set any, let alone many of your bases.

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
According to your screenshot (WITP Chart) on Jan 15th, you have 4.4M in supply (that's 1M more than I have!). Where is the shortage?? [&:][&:] If you have shortage in Japan, that means you are expanding too much (bases, industry, and/or shipping out). The biggest issue you have is Oil. I hope you are repairing those that are damaged.

Here's all the things I'm repairing right now. Notice that most of them aren't in the home islands. I've already
expanded all the stuff that needs expanding in the home islands, that's why there was a supply problem. But now
the levels are going up and I can expand again. And yes, the oil wells at Miri, Brunei, and Balikpapan are being
repaired as we speak.

I'll post another WITP Chart so we can see what's going on right now.

ORIGINAL: BillBrown
You need to sort out your region file. You show over 500,000 supply at "unknown region" where is that? It is hard to do well if your information/data is suspect/bad.

Bu the way, I see you have a number of bases with stockpile set on for supply and fuel. You should never have to set stockpiles, it should be very rare to set any, let alone many of your bases.

I got my region file from Yaab and he warned me that there were a lot of places that don't have the right region
yet. I'll get around to fixing that someday.

EDIT: I'm checking the cities every turn to see who needs to be turned off. I've noticed that the levels rise
faster with stockpiling on. But when I get to the magic level ( 10K+)) I turn it off again. But I can see how
just setting the "required supplies" level correctly will eventually get the job done too.

Here's the latest Tracker WITP Chart and I'm concerned about the number of pilots. I used to have about twice
that many. Well, maybe not twice that many but over 6K+ pilots at the start IIRC.

BB Hyuga came out of the repair yards last night and now needs escorts to get back into the war. But Hong Kong's
port is still too small to rearm the BB. Until the AKE's arrive at Hong Kong I'll have to try Pescadores's port
until I find one that will rearm it. There's always the ports in the home islands if nowhere else.

On the other hand most of the damage at Hong Kong has been repaired and it's struggling to get some supply. I'm
shipping in some from Takao.

I'm not sure but I think it's an engineer unit but it's run by a rear admiral and it's got four staff cars and
some Axis arty observers to boot. I've got to get this bad boy into combat somewhere. Maybe southern China.
But for now it's doing a fine job at Hong Kong.

Here's a list of the troop transports TF's and it looks like there's lots of them. I'm buying out the LCU's that
moved to Fusan and Shanghi and they are leaving the ports daily for other places. Lots of troops moving.

Okay, it's official, Jan. 20, 1941 Miri became operational. All the damage is fixed and the oil refinery is
humming along and Miri has top cover and the only thing missing is the AF dudes.

EDIT: Also, I don't remember pulling oil out of Miri before so this may be the very first TF loading now.

I noticed that Karor has no HQ unit to despense TT's to the squadrons and I thought I'd go looking for one to
move there and then I noticed that Miri has three HQ units there for some reason. I'm using them for the AF
support section of the HQ units and if I had some dedicated AF guys there I could move one or two of the HQ's.
There's lots of those kinds of things at Fusan just waiting for a boat-ride.

All my minelayers are back from their initial mission and they are refit and refueled all they need are some
mines and there's no HQ at Babeldoab ( Karor in RHS ) to despense them so they have laid all the mines they
are going to lay for a while. I could have sworn that I had an HQ there. I need one there. I'll look around.

Here's the ship repair yard at Karor: As you can see I've got some CS's in the oven....they are all conversions
from other ship types, I don't remember which. There's only two ships in the shipyard right now but that's
going to change when just one more ship limps into harbor looking for repairs. There's several getting repaired
from combat already.

I found a 24-man AF unit at Pescadores that volunteered to go to Miri and replace those HQ units. They should be
there in about two weeks.

Larry, your "unknown region" has substantial amounts of res/oil. I think this warrants a closer look.

ORIGINAL: Yaab
Larry, your "unknown region" has substantial amounts of res/oil. I think this warrants a closer look.

I think you're right. But the way to fix the region problem has only one permanent fix. I mean I could
change the region assignment in Tracker so it's right. But there's no way to write the change that I'm
aware of. So the only permanent fix is for somebody to look all those places up and fix the regions file
we're using when we import a regions file. That's my understanding.

I found a way to export the Bases in unknown region 1 to a CSV file that can be loaded in excell to be viewed, edited, etc.
and I've attached it here below if somebody wants to be adventuresome and find the region for all these bases.

I guess its something I'll have to do eventually. I'll get started.