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Yakface -> RE: CHS Economy... (11/25/2007 4:26:17 AM)
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Hi Blamo
There is not a whole lot wrong with that picture except for a couple of biggies - supply is disaterously low. 2 million is about the absolute minimum needed to run the war and you are at 1.5 (unless you ahve 500K loaded on ships which the computer doesn't count). HI pool is just badly low. Supply can be one of two things (or both together I suspect) and HI the second of these two:
1) A symptom of expanding your industrial base too quickly. Each factory (HI, aircraft, engine, whatever) resource, oil and manpower that is repaired costs 1000 supply. Without a big reserve pool you will be having problems expanding/repairing factories for new aircraft and converting to the advanced engines. Also you may have problems replacing aircraft in/upgrading existing squadrons as I suspect finding somewhere with 20K supply near the front might be difficult.
You have built a lot of engine factories (though not that many actual aircraft factories), HI has been expanded, vehicle factories have doubled, ship repair......pretty much eveything as far as I can tell. At this point I would suggest turning off the repair for everything - stop it gobbling up your supplies. When you get back over about 2 million you can start putting some of the important ones back to repair.
Early in 43 you will need to start changing engine factories over to the advanced Naks and Mits for the later aircraft, you will need a decent supply reserve to be able to do this. Don't build expand engine factories, convert some of existing factories you won't be needing all of.
2) The second reason that may account for low supplies and a relatively low HI pool is - factories starved of oil and or resources. Easiest way to check - take the turn before this one, add the HI 'in pool now' and the 'used from pool' compare with the same sum from this turn. If it doesn't come to 13539 (or pretty close) something is badly wrong. Check what you are missing from home islands or China/Manchuria and ship it in quick. Things won't get better until HI is running at close on 100% efficiency. Looking at the figures, at some point HI has been working well below capacity. Don't neglect convoying oil/resources to home islands.
Is your HI 'in pool now' going up at the moment? If not then firstly do number 2 above. If that is OK then start switching off some of the factories that use HI.
Vehicle factories could stand being switched off for a bit - you have enough vehicle assembly for roughly 200 of your best tanks already + whatever tanks are already built. There are probably only 2 more armoured divisions to come and replacements for existing units. I suspect you won't be needing to run your vehicle factories for more than half of the rest of the war to produce enough to last you until end of 45.
Switch off some aircraft production and corresponding engine production. You probably only need to switch off a relatively small amount - things you have a lot of in your replacement pool (Unless the air war has been going badly you must have decent pools of some aircraft especially in this mod with reduced A2A bloodiness). No matter how many A6M3 and A6M3A's you have in the pool, do not halt these. They are probably better than the A6M5 and when that one comes in all those factories convert and cannot be changed back. Once you have HI in pool heading in the right direction by about 1K points evey day, start selecting what you want to switch back on.
Naval shipyard pool is low. If you are accelerating any ships, put them back to normal. If you are building the Shinano, halt it. Once you are approaching 1000 naval points in the pool you can accelerate something, if it drops below 500, put it back to normal. You need to constantly micromanage this area (unfortunately)
Supplies are the biggest of your problems and must be impacting upon your ability to fight even now. My first game of CHS I did pretty much the same as you have, expanded everything too quickly. I caught it at 1.9 million and things were ok. Everything else can be managed from where you are without seriously impacting on your war effort. Japanese economy needs constant attention or it tends to nose dive alarmingly quickly.
Hope this helps
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