Brady
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From a post by me on the linked thread above: .............................. Actualy this is not realy corect at all, a very small part of the Shiping in Civilan hands (about 3, million tons of shiping, at the beging of the war, and around 50% of the total throught the war.) actualy went to suport the population: "" Coal transportation would occupy 1.8 million tons, while the movement of Aragrcutural products and suplies (450,000)and steal making materials(300,000) would absord the rest." The Japanese Industrail complex ran on coal, and the raw materials for steal and other goods for industry were carried on the Civilian ships, the Merchant ships under military controle were responsable and almost soly occupied with the transport of men and material for the war effort...direct suport of the Military. This is particulary ture of the Tankers, Alsomst all of the Oil transported to Japan was consumed soly by the military. So in a nut shell the civilian Ships suplied the War Machine, the Miliary Merchant ships took the finished product to the front. Or simply put, aprox. 1/14 th of the Total tonage of the merchant fleat was realy involved in moving goods soly for the Civilian population. ........................... WiTP has so abstracted the Japanese ecenomy that we dont even have coal in the game, we have oil, interestingly Japan had a lot of Coal in Japan proper and a lot came from Manchuko and Korea. At the very start of the war in WiTP things are not realy all that bad in terms of modeling merchant fleat, well depends on how anal you want to be, but as you move away from that time it gets very abstracted, espichaly given the fact mentioned above concerning just how many ships are not built for the game, entire classes of merchants totalying hundreds of ships and thousands of tons are absent, thats if you want to be anal about, its a game and a darn fun one, certainly I wish some aspects were better modled but by far and large it works prety good....I am waiting for WITP II, the Anal Cut....
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