Ken Estes
Posts: 125
Joined: 9/14/2006 From: Seattle Status: offline
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Greetings. I started playing the WITP campaign [JA side] in Sept06, upgrading to v. 1.8.0.4 a month later. Despite the severe learning curve, after doing the tutor at the Marianas and a few false starts I was well on my way to bringing the eight corners of the world under one roof. Despite some clear warnings I noted in the forum to not try many changes of the fragile JA industrial set-up, I fell victim to Victory Disease. In Nov42, I made a mistake by trying to turn on max production of aircraft, accelerating shipbuilding and expanding heavy industry and armament production at the same time. Osaka went to 0 fuel and 0 supply next turn and I turned all unneeded aircraft and engine production back off; the supply and fuel slowly restored as did a little of the ship repair capacity, almost zero'd by this ambitious move. On Dec 22nd 1942 I had the first return of fuel supplied at Osaka. But then just some supplies appeared. Although the autoconvoy function does a good job in sending out fuel/supplies to garrisons and JA cities, it utterly fails to distribute resources/oil to industry. So I found that Osaka had 999,999 resource and 1/4 million oil points, yet the industrial cities were near zero. Who knows how many resource pts past 999,999 Osaka received? Anyway, I looked back to the day 1 set-up, and all the big industrial cities have 85-89K in each category. So the JA player is simply up against the clock and it runs out around Jun-Dec42, later for me, as I mostly shut down production of planes I did not want, never really got around to switching/repairing production changes, thus maybe drained less? As a result, I first began to take control of resource/oil transport, but then shut off all auto-convoy, let the garrisons starve while I restocked industrial cities. I was aided by some accumulation in certain JA cities, Sasebo and several northern ones, where no industries were in play to deplete. Anyway, by 1Feb43 I finished stocking the big 3 [Nagano, Tokyo, Kiti]industrial cities with 20K each, those with industry 400+ at 10K and lesser with 5K each oil and resource. The initial JA industry was maybe around 1200 and I have revived it to slightly over 500, but without improving much production. In fact production of aircraft and ships has not come back, and armament/armor production also collapsed. It is now Oct43 and I have not had any new production for a year, and the ship repair remains a paltry 3-5 per major port. So far I have recorded surplus Hvy Ind as high as 744, but usage seems to be only around 15-1700/day if I am reading the report right. It really seems to be all stopped. I have run out of almost all pool weapons/combat aircraft, have not delivered a new ship since those before DD Teruzuki. Any ideas?? Sardaukar has helped me a lot and you can read my journal of this campaign at: http://63.99.108.76/forums/index.php?showtopic=17711
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