Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: rockmedic109
AGP is the PT boat tender.  At a size 3 port with 3000 supplies, they will reload the PT boats torpedoes...otherwise you need a size 9 port.....which usually has less of a need for PT boats.

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APD is a fast transport vessel....useful in small {one battalion} invasions.  I've read somewhere that the fast transport mission is bugged.

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LSD, LST, etc....these are your landing craft.  They are able to dump ALL of their troops in one turn.  a very useful ability., particuliarly in atoll landings.  They also produce to lowest casulties in landings.  Speaking of which, having a lot of prep points {100!} is also extremely desired for landings. 

This game does not have a learning curve. It has a learning cliff.

"Bomb early, bomb often, bomb everything." - Niceguy

Any bugs I report are always straight stock games.

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ORIGINAL: dtravel

The "pickup troops" function of Fast Transport is broken. Does not work, never did.

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits"- Darwin Awards 2003

"No plan survives contact with the enemy." - Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke

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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Like I said it has worked fine for me. I am playing japan late in the war and have been using bothto evacuate bases that are under the Allied air umbrella.

Stock scn 15 ver 1.08.04

I posted the proceedure for issing orders since it is counter intuative. It took me a while to figure out how to use it since it does not follow a logical order. The "Pick up unit" should have been on the orders screen and the unit to be selected would have been a more logical choice for selecting the unit you want to pick up than clicking on that unit's location.

Yet another example of the learning cliff.

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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

The only problem I have had is that sometimes the TF returns to the home port with the picked up unit but does not unload until done manually. I play 2 day turns so I don't know if this has any effect.

I have had more problems with FT TFs not going to a base with the units it claimed to have just loaded.

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ORIGINAL: Cpt Sherwood

1. Only b will work. You can not load aircraft of a restricted command on a ship. Just pay to switch them to SWPac and fly them out when you want to.

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2. Do not try to engage the entire KB with your two CVs. Your aircraft are not very good, your pilots are good but not as good as the IJN ones. You are greatly inferior in numbers.

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3. Do not worry about stoping any Allied production. It is set in concrete and can not be changed.

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4. AVs and AVDs will service Patrol aircraft only. They are useful to provide PBY support at minor bases.

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5. Mostly they die. You have to switch them to an unrestriced command and then try to run a gauntlet. You can move smaller forecs( base forces, etc. using Subs or transport aircraft )

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6. When you find out, let the rest of us know. The problem is that you need to get your pilots more experience, better leadership, and Air HQs amoung other things.

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7. No. The local commander selects which Naval target to attack.

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Good luck and ask any more questions you want.

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ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

1. You will get 50 points a day. If you want to change that, you will have to go into the Scenario Editor, edit it and restart.

2. Japanese get the Zero Bonus. Starts at +5 to MVR and drops by one per month. This will make it much harder to shoot down his Zeros. You are better off hitting him where he has no Zeros for 5 months.

3. You don't have to spend any industry. You have no control over the industry. You will just get these planes. Yes, some you won't want but that happened IRL {P-400s?}.

4. Any float plane. PBY, PBM, Kingfishers, etc. No planes that land exclusively on land.

5. Having them die in place is not a bad thing. They slow the Japanese down, allowing you to build up a defense. The only units that would be nice to keep would be Base Forces, 4th Marines and Asiatic HQ.

6. There are a few cheating ways of getting experience. I don't use them anymore. Makes the game way too easy. But if you must know.....
a. Have your bombers make supply runs to the base they are stationed at. Runs their experience up quickly.
b. Bomb little dot islands. Something with very little value and very little defense. Gets experience without risking much. This is arguably not gamey, but I usually choose a target that has some reason to be attacked.

7. You don't. CVs are supposed to be the main target, but if you do not have enough escorts, your bombers won't fly against them. You could use commanders with higher agression ratings {Admirals and Squadron commanders}, but I do not know if it will help much.

Have fun!

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ORIGINAL: rockmedic109

Do NOT send anything back to the west coast until it has 0 Flotation. Otherwise they can continue to leak and end up doing an Oklahoma on the way to SF {Oklahoma foundered on the way...1946, I think}.

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You should read the manual carefully regarding ship repair.

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Basically, the higher the port size, the better the chance at repair. Note, I said chance. The bigger the ship, the smaller the chance. Battleships and Carriers need the largest port to really repair. A repair yard at the port gives ANOTHER chance {a possiblity of two repairs taking place} if the number of repair points exceeds the DUR of the ship. A repair yard can build up 4 days worth of repair points....thus a small 15 point repair yard will never have enough repair points to help in the repair of anything larger than a cruiser. A Naval HQ boosts the effective port size for repair determination {I think the Admin rating of the HQ commander has somthing to do with this}. Up to four ARs can be used to boost the effective port size {one each} for repair determination. Up to 2 ADs can be used the same way to repair DDs. Up to 2 AS can be used to similiarly repair subs. And if there is any "item" {radar, gun, etc} that is disabled on the ship, that item will not be repaired except at a repair yard. I probably missed something, but that is all I can think of right now.

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If you have a ship that is flooding and will not make it to a major port, you can stop by a nearby level 1 or 2 port in the hopes that the small port will stop the flooding. Then, when flotation damage is back to 0, you can continue to the repair yard. Might save you a ship. Also, you can rush an AR to the aforementioned port to increase it's odds.

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Dive bombers are the most accurate, though they take AA at the level they come in at and at 2000'. Torpedo planes take AA at the level they come in at and 200'. Torpedo planes are the best at causing Flotation damage which {obviously} is what causes a ship to sink.

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Most of the battleships and some of the cruisers are nearly impervious to bombs {especially the 500 pounders}. The bombs will cause minor SYS damage, ruin equipment {AA guns, Radar, etc} and start fires.

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The big four engine bombers seem to be more effective than they should be. I think this is due to the program giving a certain percent chance of a bomb hitting and the B-17/24/29 carry a LOT of bombs. Using 4e bombers on naval attack for anything short of a crucial base {Pearl, SF, etc} seems gamey. I also use them at higher altitudes {no lower than 11,000'} which may mitigate this somewhat.

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6. How do I get my airgroups to attack IN FORCE, and not just 3-4 planes at a
time?

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ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Is the TF or the area set to computer control?