Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Tanaka

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ORIGINAL: Cavalry Corp

I also once had the durability 0 issue in my mod a long way back - I think thats the issue.

the same applies to ships if durability is 0 I think they cannot come on the map.

Hope my mod gains some traction eventually...

Took a look at your mod post but do not see a summary of what the mod does or is or what the key features are? What your goal is? I would recommend putting something like that at the top of your post to gain more traction...

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget


• Manila subs are not waiting to be sunk by a first-turn port strike – IMO that popular opening move is a silly “20:20 hindsight” exploit, as much as first-turn carrier hunting. Most of them are assigned to TFs – it’s an Dec 7th PM scenario and after the Clark Field strike they got orders to move or pull the plug to hide

Cheers,
LargeSlowTarget

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In Mundy's AAR he discovered that civilians can have an outsized effect on combat. I think you nerfed it subsequently, but it occurred to me that another solution would be starting them all in Strat mode, if that's possible.

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I assume you left Sealion and Seadragon in port? Both were undergoing overhaul and unable to submerge even in the shallows of the bay on 10 Dec (local time) when the Japanese turned their attention to Cavite. Sealion's engines were dismantled (Blair, p.142).

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He did not.

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BTW, LST - Are you familiar with the mechanic where Base forces 'grow oversized' when located on large airfields? [...] The question (finally!) is if you left this in place or not. No idea if it is moddable to begin with.

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Andy Mac -> RE: HQ types (5/29/2020 10:10:09 AM)

Av Support in some units is an AI crutch basically the AI is allowed to increase Av Support to meet its needs if its at a base

So say an AI script send a sqn of 24 fighters to a particular base it will only do so if the base has av support present

Now if the base force that was supposed to provide the av support either was destroyed or delayed then the air move wont happen - to minimise when this happens numerous units have 0 av support in their TOE although I believe its suppressed to a human player on screen.

It give redundancy to the AI basically the Ai will see ah base x is not missing av support it has 0 av support - the difference between 0 and not existing is quite profound for the AI as it allows the AI to proceed with the script.

The AI also gets a cheat that if a base has insufficient av support for the number of aircraft the AI can increase by normal reinforcement the number of AV support squads in an LCU above its TOE

So lets assume a Japanese Area Army with 0 Av support is the only unit at a base with 100 Zeros - the 0 av support will over time increase above TOE to 100 Av Support to help the Ai manage its Av Support

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I think you are referring to what Andy Mac explains in the quote below - and the answer is "not moddable since a mechanic for the AI only" - you will need to make do with a shortage of aircraft mechanics, like the Japanese had to.

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

The R&D at game start is set to airframes which were under development in Dec 41 in the real war. You can change the R&D factories to whatever other airframe you want to research, but to acctually accelerate R&D you will need to pay the price in HI and supplies to expand and repair the R&D - otherwise any airframe you choose will become available at the historic date. And with the limited number of R&D factories available you will have to choose wisely which airframes to accelerate.

To take your example: There is a Judy R&D factory and an Emily R&D factory at start. Since the Emily will become available in 4/42 without accelerating R&D, you may decide it is not worth spending HI and supplies to expand and repair its R&D factory in order to advance the availability date one month, if at all - 4/42 is too close to get the necessary 100 research points. So you can switch it to something else, like a second Judy R&D factory. But you will still need to pay the price for factory expansion if you want to accelerate the availability date of the Judy - even twice if you assign two R&D factories to Judy.

It is the very idea of this scenario to slow down the Japanese R&D. You can still accelerate airframe availability dates, but not for multiple airframes all at once. I expect that experienced players will concentrate R&D to get the AM5 Zero and the first Tojo asap, then switch R&D to George or Jack or Sam and to Frank.

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ORIGINAL: SierraJuliet

So here I am diving off the deep end. I hate diving. Not prone to frolicking in water too much either. I do, however, digress. Mundy has been patiently throwing a line out for some time now (… fishing. Also, not on my list of favourite past times) casting for an opponent to take him on in LargeSlowTarget's Bottlenecks Mod. Since my last game with Tocaff wrapped up I’ve been a little removed from AE. Travel is my excuse. I was thinking of getting a game up and going next year but Mundy’s persistence has won out. A little peek at what LST has offered in this Mod and it is intriguing. Reminds me of what first attracted me to Pac War… the chance to put yourself in the shoes of the great and famous and see if you could do better. This Mod looks like it will do just that. Pearl Harbour and the first up aerial attacks and beach landings of 7/8 December are hard coded in. We take over as Pearl Harbour burns and Kimmel rips off his Admiral insignia.

What is there to like about this Mod. No full Sir Robin, Fortress Palembang, Mersing Gambit, Manila Sub Slaughter or first turn deep invasions! Civilian units, blockade runners, U-Boats, Doolittle Raiders, the Thai Airforce and Navy plus lots more.

What to get used to. Slowed down ops tempo and the brakes are on for production and decreased shipping availability. No more Japanese merchant shipping sitting idle I expect. Expect to see me under the hammer straight away.

Here’s to a most intriguing MOD from LST. And thanks Mundy for taking me on.

Now to find out just what I have here and work out a plan of attack.

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

"Full Sir Robin" means avoiding fighting if possible and the evacuation of all movable assets from the SRA to "safe" areas like India and Australia - in other words limiting losses as much as possible for maximum force preservation. The term comes from a Monty Python sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8

Don't want to blow my own trumpet, but Andrew Brown's new map updates have in part been inspired by my mod and he has incorporated them into his map update.

I strongly recommend using the map mod I provide with the mod files, because I have made some changes NOT included in Andrew's map update in order to fit some bases I have added.

I have followed the various forum posts about map errors, wrong hexsides etc. and I have provided an updated Pwhexdat file only recently.

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

@Tanaka: The air units are stood down and training because this is a "Dec 7th post-attack" scenario with the historic damage done to PH, Clark Field, Malaya, Wake etc. - no additional airstrikes are supposed to fly on the first turn. And yes, many land units and subs have move or patrol orders and most ships scattered around the map have been put into convoys heading for "collection points" in order to save time and reduce the first turn clickfest. While modding I had to make so many restarts and I got tired of doing the same thousands of clicks time and again to setup my standard opening moves.

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Consult, someone has been able to take and raise the level of ports, of all the bases from Hanoi, to Shanghai? If that feat is achieved, is it possible that the oil/fuel/resources offloaded in saigon will reach HongKong, Shanghai?

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What did the river crossings with yellow X mean?

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ORIGINAL: Anomander Rake

Hi LST. We are still playing your mod. Now we have end of February 1943.
I understand that some things in mod was changed so maybe many of my comments are no longer valid.
1. A plenty of dot bases good working in China but it is annoying when those deprived of troops pass "for free" to Japan side (and it need garrisons).
2. I'm not sure that is good idea in Burma. I think taht baselines significantly simplify the supply even without roads.
3. I have some problems with ASW weapons in aircrafts. I don't know if this is due to the general weakening of ASW or the reason is similiar to this http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4503597
4. Some aircraft performance is very bad. Oscars, even IIb version are very weak. Sonias also are useless when enemy have even few AA guns. Bombers should be harder. Now a little defence fighter advance gives bombers butchery.

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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

Hi AR,

thanks for your feedback.

1. All Chinese-owned dot bases in China have a tiny Chinese "Civilian Administration" garrison unit in order to prevent the auto-flipping of dot bases to the Japanese side. All dot bases also have a minimum daily supply of 1 in order to keep the Administrators alive. Don't see where your issues comes from.

2. The dot bases in Burma and elsewhere do have a supply CAP, which in roadless jungle is very low (10 per day IIRC). If the supply CAP is working as I believe it does, supply flow through dot bases should be limited.

3. The version you are using should have only one plane using the dedicated ASW weapon filter and a "depth charge" - the Jake. The "depth charge" is actually a renamed bomb device, so should behave like a regular bomb. Could you please give more details about the problems you face?

4. Oscars have always been weak and I did not even touch their stats at all in my mod. The KI-51 is now a dive bomber with "Attack bomber" ability and armor even for the A model - the plane has been designed as ground attack airplane for both low-level and dive bombing. However, in the game anything lighter than 100kg bombs is pretty ineffective against troops in terrain other than "clear", and no Allied player worth his salt will keep troops in the open as long as Japan has air superiority. Best use for the Ki-51 and similar light bombers is hitting airfields or ports in order to prevent fort construction.