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ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

There are many air units for Allies that can be used for pilot training and thus should not be upgraded. This is especially true with permanently restricted ones at West Coast. It'd be waste to give them "latest and greatest".

As Kull said, auto-upgrade can easily drain your stocks of e.g. P-40E where you really don't want to. You want your best planes in front lines, not in backwaters.

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ORIGINAL: Kull
About the only quibble is that I saw a lot of air units set to upgrade automatically (i.e. whenever the pool has enough units of the upgrade type). I don't recommend this for any air units, really ever.

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Nicely done. And I have no problem in the instances where your recommendations deviate from mine. There's probably 1000's of way to set-up the Allies, so I'm sure it's beneficial for new players to see some examples of that.

About the only quibble is that I saw a lot of air units set to upgrade automatically (i.e. whenever the pool has enough units of the upgrade type). I don't recommend this for any air units, really ever. As an example, those P-36 Mohawks in Anchorage could empty your pool of P-40Es in a heartbeat, and you are going to NEED everyone of those to make up for combat losses elsewhere. It's basically the same rationale behind not setting land units to auto-upgrade or reinforce, except it's even more critical with airframes.

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

Just about any upgrade option available for the Allies, be it airgroups, LCUs or ships, should be turned off by default and thoughtfully toggled afterwards on a case-by-case basis for optimal distribution of rather limited pools. Or for ships to not get stuck in dangerous areas.

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ORIGINAL: Kull

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

Just about any upgrade option available for the Allies, be it airgroups, LCUs or ships, should be turned off by default and thoughtfully toggled afterwards on a case-by-case basis for optimal distribution of rather limited pools. Or for ships to not get stuck in dangerous areas.

I've noticed that all your ships are also set to upgrade by default. As GetAssista notes above, that can be an issue when suddenly you have ships parked in frontline ports, slowly upgrading for a week or more, subject to air or amphibious assault the whole time. And there's nothing you can do to speed that up. It can also sideline an entire class of transports and escorts, usually when you least want that to happen.

A few other items:

- As you noticed, moving air units will sometimes leave damaged fragments behind. The good news is, you don't have to micromanage that. So long as the parent unit is within transfer range, the fragment will fly out to rejoin it, the turn after repair is complete.

- Be careful when adding airframes to understrength air units. For example, the reason I expanded those Canadian floatplane units to 8 instead of 12, is because the island Base Support units only have aviation support of 8. Expanding beyond the limit impacts repairability (and duration of repair) as well as flight ops (the numbers that can fly on any given mission). And in this specific case there's a limited number of Stranraer replacements, and it's a loooong time until those CansoA's become available. You were doing something similar with Rangoon, but there it's actually dangerous because that's a frontline base. So even though you'd like to load it up with fighters, the starting AV support is extremely low, and unsupported fighters will quickly pick up lots of unrepaired damage, and even things like the number which fly on any given CAP mission will be less than you hoped.

I don't often say "why" things are done the way they are in the spreadsheet - and kudos to you for taking on that mission - but there's usually a pretty sound underlying explanation.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Wenchow has HI and LI that generates supply and Resource centers in the hex too. Plus 6 Manpower points. That makes it a good place to make a stand and a place you don't want to hand over intact to the enemy. Fighting in a hex with industry can result in damage to the industry if your troops get evicted or destroyed.