Cap Mandrake
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Joined: 11/15/2002 From: Southern California Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: sprior Seriously, what's the risk/benefit here? If we take it can we keep it supplied and open or will be just have a bunch of hungry marines and a churned up field? No banyans for you, marine. Right, one would need a 50K supply "drop" with the initial landing. I still have to work out how many days that would take to get across the beach. Technically we don't have to "take it" as it is a friendly green dot. One would need to take enough AK's to unload 40-50K supplies in 3-4 days. It would then be a race to get the field up and running to a level 2 ASAP. The benefit would be the incipient isolation of the huge Jap presence in New Caledonia. Of course, they might try a counter landing, but their landing force would be vulnerable to the surpise appearance of the Allied carriers. I'm still working out the details. Ah...logistics. Everytime Cap Mandrake opens the door on the subject of logistics, I feel there is an opportunity for me to do some unsolicited pro bono work and translate the manual for his benefit. Unless there is a typo in the above quote, we are talking about moving beaucoup men and materiel to a green dot base. Ahemm...cough...cough...perchance the logistics haven't been quite fully factored in to this contemplated exercise. 1. A dot base has a 5000 supply limit before supply wastage comes into play. Dropping off 50k of supply is going to lead to an awful lot of wastage. 2. The unloading rate of a cargo/transport TF at a dot base is extremely low, only 100 supply per day. 3. The unloading rate of an amphibious TF to a friendly owned dot base is provided on page 128 of the manual. For illustrative purposes, an AK in an amphibious TF would unload 300 supply daily (per AK ship), where the daily unload rate for an xAK in an amphibious TF is 125 supply (per xAK ship). In summary, a 1-2 ship (AK or xAK) TF will carry sufficient supply to bring you up to the wastage limits. That single ship will take in the vicinity of 3 weeks to fully unload its cargo at the dot base. Alfred Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves. Number 3 says it all. 300 supply per turn per AK...even 20 AK's would unload only 6,000 per turn so it would take 4 days to reach 20,000 even without wastage. Meanwhile, the carriers would have to remain on station as beucoups bombers would deploy to Lunga. Better perhaps would be to plan an attack on Luganville (after the proper preparation) which already has a level one airfield. I so hate it when reality interferes with fantasy. ...on the other hand...there is Rossel Is..........
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