FatR
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Joined: 10/23/2009 From: St.Petersburg, Russia Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Miller Nemo states that Rader might be producing 3000 fighters a month, that is highly unlikely. Maybe half that. Why? This is scn 2, In which the Jap player pays a huge HI tax each month later in the game for the extra pilot training that comes with this scn. I realise he has banked extra HI points thanks to his conquests in India and China, but even so there is no way he can produce 3000 a month without bankrupting his economy. My guess is that Rader has been producing nothing other than fighters for the last 6 months or so. As there has never been a CV battle in this game he probably has enough naval TB and DB in the pools to last till 1955, likewise Nettys. Army bombers are pretty much useless at this stage of the game as well, apart from the torpedo carrying Ki-67. It really boils my piss when people whine "Its scen 2 so they can produce unlimited planes/pilots forever" Its a lot more complicated than that! 3000 fighters per month in 1944 in Rader's earlier condtions is not difficult, if you focus on fighter production and accept that many of them will not be of the best types. All major fleet units already should be comissioned, he probably can or did turn off merchant production, relying on the existing pool of cargo ships. I just checked my longest game, I'm making 790 fighters of all types in August of 1943, while retaining very sizeable bomber production (1346 aircraft in total) and stockpiling several types engines. Completion of remaining carriers in the building queue will allow me to more than double overall air production, while turning off some HI to preserve large stocks of fuel for fleet operation. There is a possibility of tripling it instead, by stopping all merchant construction, but fighter pilots already are a serious limiting factor on my operations. Rader either found better ways to train them than I did, or just is better at accepting losses. Bottom line, with a mastery of economics making 3-4k of fighters per month late in the war is very possible, they are just impossible to crew with competent pilots. Granted, this is a Scen 1-based game. But, Scen 2 gives huge extra stockpiles of fuel and oil by comparison, and Rader owned oil fields in India for a long time, still owns China.
< Message edited by FatR -- 12/7/2011 9:38:06 AM >
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