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Having trouble expanding the airfield at Guadacanal - 8/23/2009 3:46:06 PM   
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I have captured Guadalcanal in August and it's the middle of November and I have not been able to expand the airfield. It's at 22%. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I have plenty of supply, support, HQ, a dozen construction battalions.

What mode should I have the construction battalions in? Rest, reserve or combat?

I'd appreciate any hints you may have
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RE: Having trouble expanding the airfield at Guadacanal - 8/23/2009 3:54:49 PM   
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What scenario are you playing? If playing scenario 001 and you have sufficient engineers, then check to make sure they are in combat mode.



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RE: Having trouble expanding the airfield at Guadacanal - 8/23/2009 3:55:56 PM   
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Support units use the combat mode for operations. How much supply is there and the % to complete this level hasn't budged? How many engineers are there (and vehicles)?

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RE: Having trouble expanding the airfield at Guadacanal - 8/23/2009 4:05:59 PM   
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It's the Guadalcanal scenario. I have tons of supply (40,000) and the level is moving very, very slowly.

I think the problem here is I had them in rest mode. I'll move them to combat and see what happens.

Thank you

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RE: Having trouble expanding the airfield at Guadacanal - 8/23/2009 4:48:44 PM   
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Are you trying to expand the base beyond it's SPS of two? That gets progressively slower and more difficult.

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RE: Having trouble expanding the airfield at Guadacanal - 8/23/2009 6:29:46 PM   
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It's the Guadalcanal scenario. I have tons of supply (40,000) and the level is moving very, very slowly.

I think the problem here is I had them in rest mode. I'll move them to combat and see what happens.

Thank you


Right, in the Guadalcanal scenario then Lunga airbase has an SPS of (0) and is already built out to a size of 2 - so you will see it expanding very slowly regardless. It will be possible to build it to 3 before then end of the scenario - but the historical operations during the game represented timeframe - can be performed from a level-2 airfield - so perhaps best to focus on how to use the level-2 airfield you already have!



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RE: Having trouble expanding the airfield at Guadacanal - 8/23/2009 7:37:50 PM   
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Wow, does that mean I can only base 2 or 3 air groups there? It makes GDL seem pretty weak as an airbase.

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RE: Having trouble expanding the airfield at Guadacanal - 8/23/2009 10:53:59 PM   
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Wow, does that mean I can only base 2 or 3 air groups there? It makes GDL seem pretty weak as an airbase.


So you think you have problems...

From History of Marine Corp Aviation in World War II, Robert Sherrod (p 118-119):

"[Information about the replacement of the 1st MarDiv with the 2nd MarDiv in early Nov 42] Incisive as these changes on land and sea might be, they were equaled if not surpassed by the transformation of Guadalcanal's aerial facilities. Admiral Fitch, ComAirSoPac, designated Henderson Field a Marine Corp air base 15 November. Fighter No. 1 was so vulnerable during rainy weather it had to be abandoned. Fighter No. 2 (Kukum) was used instead from the middle of December 1942 to March 1943.

The base commander, Colonel William J. Fox, began to build up the entire runway system of Henderson and Fighter No. 2 to get proper drainage. For this it was necessary to haul coral: the coral at Lunga Plain was too rotten and slushy. There still were not enough tools - the 2 1/2 ton bundles of Marston mats sometimes had to be broken down before they could be unloaded, for lack of a hoist - and it was still necessary to use the four small Japanese road rollers which had been captured more than three months earlier, but Guadalcanal's air facilities soon took on the appearance of semipermanence. Even the barrage-balloon squadrons were sent up from Noumea, to fend off enemy dive bombers."

"The number of planes available showed a comfortable rise. By 20 November there were 101: 8 TBF's, 1 P-400, 16 P-39's, 17 P-38's, 35 F4F-4's, 24 SBD's. Nine days later there were 188, including 71 F4F's. So many squadrons flew into Guadalcanal the last two months of the year, some of them for only a few days at a time, that it is doubtful that any unimpeachable record exists of all transitions."

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