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JWE -> RE: IJA Shipping Eng Squad (7/11/2011 5:04:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg
Thanks guys - that sounds easy enough to understand. Shore Party devices provide the load/unload bonus of NavSup, but no repair or rearm bonus. Cool.
JWE - Absolutely would love to hear about any other Easter eggs - especially as they applied to the good guys aka Japan.
It’s not really an AEaster egg, but it’s something that’s not documented and which is used in babes a lot. And they apply to both sides equally, including the 'good guys' [;)]
Engineer squad types with anti-armor (A/A) of 1 or less cannot reduce forts.
Engineer or Squad device types with anti-soft (A/S) of 8 or less cannot add to AV.
Engineer or Squad device types with shore party (S/P) switch set can give load/unload bonuses.
So there’s lot of different kind of Eng and Sqd types that can get made up that have different capabilities. Can make up eng labor sqds that are Sqd types (not Eng types) that can’t do much of anything except consume supply and take up room on troopships. There’s about 32 different interesting combinations one can devise.
Eng vs Sqd – determines if it can build or not (Eng can, Sqd cannot, no matter what it is ‘named’)
A/A – determines if an Eng type can help reduce forts or not.
A/S – determines if an Eng or Sqd type can add to assault value or not.
S/P – determines if an Eng or Sqd type can give load/unload bonus or not.
Engineers can always ‘build’, but their other options are:
A/A - y - y - y - y - n - n - n - n (can they reduce forts)
A/S - y - y - n - n - y - y - n - n (can they assault)
S/P - y - n - y - n - y - n - y - n (can they load/unload)
Squads cannot ‘build’ or reduce forts, so their options are:
A/S - y - y - n - n (can they assault)
S/P - y - n - y - n (can they load/unload)
So there is a mix of devices that range from SeaBees that can do everything, to Constr Labor that can't do anything but eat and take up room on troopships. Babes engineering Bns (for both sides) are a mix of different devices, such that each Bn has its actual manpower count and as close to its actual capabilities as possible. You will find it much harder to reduce forts in Babes, and much harder to build things until the SeaBees start coming on line. Unfortunately, Japan has a lot of 'termite' squads in its eng units, so they are worth way less than in stock. There are some high value engineer units, but not all that many. Probably won't want to use them as combat assault units unless you really have to. Woof !!
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