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Admiral_Arctic -> (12/7/2002 12:28:26 AM)
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As the Japanese I move the big Base units back to Truk whenever they have 25 air support in the damaged (bracket) section. It is crazy to let them dwindle down too far and their morale drops too (which might affect air missions in some undisclosed way). I try to have Lunga with 250 air support and 450 planes.
I try to keep 250 air support at Truk too. This base can have over 500 planes- many of them training for their day in the sun- and you don't want the trainers to wait days for their planes to be ready. I am always rotating the smaller base guys too. It is a big job- but you have to keep your assets effective.
With ALL units (in bases like PM, GG, Lae, Buna, Lunga, Shortlands, Rabaul) I try to move them out of the malaria zones before they start to loss assets. So if a CD unit has (4) 4 guns it is due for movement. Or an AA unit has only 9 of its 18 75mm guns I move that too. If you leave units in the malaria zone too long they will be no value in a battle anyways- you may as well leave it undefended instead of lossing everything there to disease and then a small invasion force takes out a whole regiment.
Obviously you have to take in consideration of threats and operations, and sometimes units will stay longer. But there can be a long lull in between the end of Japan's offensive and the Allied counter-attacks. If the Japs are quite stronger they might expect to wait 4-6 months. How withered would your force be??? If they Allies attack early- you still need to have fresh units waiting.
The Japs have HEAPS of ground troops- more than enough to rotate.
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