Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

OK been a while since I messed about

Attached to this thread are revised and updated Scen 1 and 2.

Main changes.
Bases - Lots of new bases in NZ/Aus/China/Burma/Malaya some are to make the AI perform better some are purely because it offended me to have railway lines on the map that couldn't be used bases are in the 1600 - 1720 range if you want to look at them - some of the names may be slightly out especially in China.

Resources etc - A little more on map LI for both sides to better reflect food production reduced off map supply and 'magic supply to compensate in most cases. (China/Burma/SEA/Russia mostly)

A few minor aircraft tweaks - eg Beaufighters now attack bombers becdause the code handles them better as attack bombers than FB's same with Mosquitoes - if you don't like change back

More allied aircraft set to CW nationality especially FAA types as FAA sqns are a mix of nationalities and this allows them all to use the aircraft.

Small tweaks to OOB in China (splitting units) to cope with new bases

Post 6/45 increases in US and CW device replacements to reflect re prioritisation of replacement to the hot war - basically just in case the game is still going until mid 46

An updated AI file please delete all existing aei01-00x.dat and aei01-00x.dat files if you want to keep them copy to a subfiolder - at present the new AI file has NO variants and therefore will not overwrite the existing files so you need to delete them or you wont be using the latest files.

Scen 2 only on top of existing Scen 2 increases - added about 30 additional ships to the IJN to make them a little stronger in mid war period 6/42 - 12/43 specifically 2 extra CA's and few tankers, Ak's, DD's and a couple of my surprise AMC's again feel free to delete they are at the end of the file - they give both the AI and an IJN player a couple of extra toys to play with when the Fletchers start rolling in but not enough to unbalance scen.

Lots of tweaks and corrections that have been sent in as well over the last couple of years - I am sure I have missed a few so feel free to let me know of any errors in the thread below.

Edit v2
Added Cav Designation to 1st Chinese Cav Corps
Adjusted MG device in 7811 Chinese corps
Changed Device in Mobile Eenhid
Amended Wiraway Bomb Load
Removed Port from Reid River
Moved starting Location 1st motor Bde (aus) to Brisbane
Updated Dutch and Soviet Subs to match class files
Wright now arrives day 3 at PH
Moved Alchiba/Aries and Mauna Loa to later arrival dates


v3 a few HQ changes in 45 per Kulls spot on Air groups and a few Chinese HQ changes
Enjoy

v4 fixed Boomerang bomb load and tried again with Kulls updates !!!

v5 Corrected a couple of issues with Chinese supply caps on bases, amended 24th Chinese Base Force, Corrected 2 ships from list above moved from PH to Anchorage, reverted Beaufighters and Mosquitos back to FB's undoing change above as on balance not an air guy so trusting original team more than my testing, added 5 new Gulf bases in Australia, removed Fairey Battle except as Invasion reinforcements


Andy

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ORIGINAL: Yaab

Andy, there were SEVERAL bases in Burma with fort level 6.

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

Um I think v6 was just another fort level being too high in an out of the way base

Tanaka send me a save and i will take a look at your issue

a.mcphie@btinternet.com

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Yeah, there's quite a few omissions and just flat out incorrect stuff involving the Naval OOBs. That said, the team got the vast majority of the important ones right.

One reason for the DaBabes mods was to fix exactly this sort of thing. Load up a DaBabesA scenario and you'll see a host of vessels that are absent from AE (although not Sea Witch or the Bendigo squadron at Singapore). I love the addition of all the merchants that were actually on their way to-from Hawaii, plus all the real-life ARDs in various Allied ports, and actual ACMs outside the USA (so all non-West Coast minefields don't start depleting from Day1).

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ORIGINAL: clamel

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Yeah, there's quite a few omissions and just flat out incorrect stuff involving the Naval OOBs. That said, the team got the vast majority of the important ones right.

One reason for the DaBabes mods was to fix exactly this sort of thing. Load up a DaBabesA scenario and you'll see a host of vessels that are absent from AE (although not Sea Witch or the Bendigo squadron at Singapore). I love the addition of all the merchants that were actually on their way to-from Hawaii, plus all the real-life ARDs in various Allied ports, and actual ACMs outside the USA (so all non-West Coast minefields don't start depleting from Day1).

It's an amasing work to get all that is in already. A few misses is bound to happen.
Haven't looked too long on Editing, but normally can't get my hands on a game without trying something.
Just before digging in, could a couple of added ships in the DB be done without anything else get messed up ?.
Still a newbie so I got a lot to learn, but all you guys have helped a ton with so much info in so many threads.

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ORIGINAL: Kull

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ORIGINAL: clamel

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ORIGINAL: Kull

Yeah, there's quite a few omissions and just flat out incorrect stuff involving the Naval OOBs. That said, the team got the vast majority of the important ones right.

One reason for the DaBabes mods was to fix exactly this sort of thing. Load up a DaBabesA scenario and you'll see a host of vessels that are absent from AE (although not Sea Witch or the Bendigo squadron at Singapore). I love the addition of all the merchants that were actually on their way to-from Hawaii, plus all the real-life ARDs in various Allied ports, and actual ACMs outside the USA (so all non-West Coast minefields don't start depleting from Day1).

It's an amasing work to get all that is in already. A few misses is bound to happen.
Haven't looked too long on Editing, but normally can't get my hands on a game without trying something.
Just before digging in, could a couple of added ships in the DB be done without anything else get messed up ?.
Still a newbie so I got a lot to learn, but all you guys have helped a ton with so much info in so many threads.

Adding new ships is certainly doable, and even more so is fixing things like arrival dates of those which are already present (or due to arrive at some point). So long as you make use of existing classes, the AI won't have any problems with the changes and/or additions, since it "does stuff" based on classes, not individual ships. That's one reason why DaBabes Lite works seamlessly with the existing AI. There's a few mods out there which have done their homework on ship arrivals, for example, "Bottlenecks in the Pacific". So you could use that as a reference.

The problem with many otherwise wonderful mods isn't their accuracy but rather the presence of new classes or ones that shifted to new IDs, and that can break the AI - fine for PBEM, but not solo play.

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I tread lightly in that DB. Know from many that certain things can brake important stuff.
Been editing (even official) OOBs since way back. However detailed an OOB is when released it always can be "imporved" with some tinkering. Just a bit

Big thanks for the info. I will dig into the threads about editing and learn more. Just so late joining this party of taming this Beast of a game.
Big thanks Kull

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ORIGINAL: Kull

There's another alternative (or, "in addition to"). On 12/28/41, anti-British Burmese formed the "Burma Defence Army" (under Japanese auspices), which initially consisted of a few hundred volunteers in 6 different units. They accompanied the Japanese invasion force, and by March had grown to 10,000+. Although poorly trained and armed, it sounds like the perfect solution for a garrison force. Quickly available, and can be realistically scripted to occupy some of the many new dot bases once they are captured or flip to the Japanese. The Japanese quickly wore out their welcome (as they did everywhere else), so you could even set them all to disband in early '44.

Note: The Japanese don't have a "Burmese Squad" device, but they DO have a "Local Militia" which is every bit as pathetic. That device isn't buildable, so you could either create the BDA units at full size or (better) have them arrive with few cadres but have a "Local Militia" pool so they can grow (but only to the limit set by the number of devices in the pool)

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

I have 2 small changes to make

1.l a few burma milita bns in 43 - I didnt think when I added the extra dot bases about the impact on japanese need for garrisons I hate 'ant' units in 43+ but in this case 4 weak bns of burmese militia are not going to break the engine and are probably needed
2. I have an aircraft art pointer wrong

Both are really minor and you dont need to wait for them

I have an AI update as well but waiting on more feedback and it wont impact on PBEM