esteban
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Now that you have PM, put some engineers there and start digging. Build up the base a bit (its a 25 point IHN VP base in scenario 15, so one point of airfield upgrade = 50 VP) and build fortifications). Also build up Lae to a size 4-5 AF, and build up Dobudura to at least a size 4 airfield (that's the dot base right below Buna that was mentioned previously). If you have time and men, build up Buna, Gili Gili and Finschafen and Salamua. At the very least, garrison and fortify Gili Gili, without building up the base much. There are a lot of extra engineer units with the Kwantung Army in Manchuria that you can use, and they don't cost a lot of PP to free up, but those also have to be spread across the many other bases you will want to build up in the SRA, North Oz and the Pacific Islands. Dobudura is actually the key to defending Eastern/Southern New Guinea from the Allies. The base there can only be reached at extended B-17/B-24 range from Australia (extra op losses for the Allies, plus extra flak and fighter kills from damaged bombers that crash due to increased op losses against damaged bombers returning to Oz, plus reduced bombloads dropped on your key airfield) Also, Dobudura is very hard to reach with bombardment TFs until the Allied player can secure and build up Gili Gili. PM should be kept as an "optional" main base in case the Allied player goes all out to close down Dobudura. Fly your bombers out of PM if the Allies close down Dobudura. Oh, and those flak guns that you don't want to concentrate and PM? Put a few of them at Dobudura (and Buna if you get enough men to build that up to a size 4 AF).
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