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This is possible in 105 due to the high rate of production of new LCU - it is optimized for Japan.
By 14 February in Test Ten Alpha we have only two manpower points - but maximum production is 920
and actual production is 840 - well over the 600 you think is appropriate.
800 or even 1000 MP centers still gives you up to 24-30k per month. And you need about 60-100k monthly only for new units arriving. And something for replacements. Also this means that most of manpower generates outside of home islands - not sure it is right conception. And as i said i doubt it should be constraint - except a very heavy combat losses. It was not a limitation IRL.
Here is wrong place for discussion, a think.
As for update - i will check it, thanks for notification.
P.S. - do you have some kind of glossary? For example only yesterday i realized that "BW" in the plane name means biological weapon. Still don't know what means "COOP".
This is a good place for discussion - but we can move it to the design forum RHS thread - or to private mail -
if you prefer.
I am very pleased (a) to have solved the problem of constantly growing manpower pools and (b) that you
caused me to review it. I do think a slight upward revision is appropriate (probably two, given the number
of manpower centers likely to fall).
As for it being a constraint, Matrix conception is sound. As for manpower being mainly "offshore" - this may
not be their view - but it is certainly correct. First of all, "Japan" in manpower terms (right up until
surrender) was considered to include Korea and Formosa. The empire could not feed itself without them,
and for that reason, giving up either was never acceptable to Japan. [Their concept was also true: starvation
was rampant in Japan until the Cold War changed US politics. Saburo Sakai's wife died of starvation as late as
1948.] More important, Japan raised millions of troops in Manchukuo and in China, and very large numbers in other
places. As well, Japan was semi-welcome in many areas (due to real and strong anti-colonial sentiment), at least
until Japanese occupation behaviors changed that. In Indonesia, the local commander was court martialed for a
policy of getting along - was convicted - but both he and his policy were left in place because the court found
"it was in Japan's interests." Among other things, oil production had been restored in less time than planned
IN SPITE OF losing almost all the Japanese industry experts sent to do that! [Their ship was sunk.] This happened
because native workers were more able to repair things than either the Dutch or Japanese realized. RHS has
many (not all - we omit those not armed with firearms) of these Axis allied formations - as well as the Thai
military (although both Thai and other SRA Allied units exist, both early and late in the war). It is quite good
to have manpower generated in these places, both for military and for industrial construction purposes.
I will revise the setting of manpower for the next test. Evaluation of current tests shows it has been perhaps
more of a constraint than I intended. I had little hope 1 was small enough given huge pools with the value 5 -
and with at least 100% more manpower centers. But I should have watched the impact more closely. So thanks
for bringing up the matter.
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