Ian R -> RE: No Strat Bombing in China (9/25/2021 8:17:48 AM)
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Edit - my detailed responses are the red ones underneath Ranger Joe's. quote:
ORIGINAL: RangerJoe quote:
ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget 1945-level supply and fuel production available from Dec 7th, 1941. Some of this has been changed in a mod but then again, the Allies can not increase the size of their production facilities. That can also be modded simply by giving them CD convoys for such things which they do get. US war production/spending/orders peaked in July 1943, not 1945.In any event the constraint on logistics is moving it forward, rather than producing it, so averaging out arrivals of stuff (including before and after July 1943) does not produce a non historical advantage. Allies can squander numerous assets without fear for political repercussions the heavy losses would cause in a democracy. This could be modded as well simply by reducing the replacements which would make it harder to rebuild units. Except that it costs them lots of victory points, and both Centpac (Palaus) and SWPAC (liberating the entire PI, Borneo 1945, even Biak in 44) did indeed engage in unnecessary operations that squandered assets, so this claim is not accepted as "historical". In fact, politics required Washington to overlook the squandering of assets in at least one stated instance. No USN submarine torpedo shortage. All of the supplies are simplified, would you want to have to ship all of the individual heavy BB shells as well? There is also a limit to how many rounds the guns can fire before they need to be relined, this is also not in the game. This can also be affected by the types of rounds and how much propellant is used as well. What Ranger Joe says, but if you want to try and model that (did the designers allow for it in the dud rate anyway?), could we also include modelling the effect of putting barely processed Borneo crude in IJN ship bunkers? How far do you want to go? No withdrawal of certain assets sent to the ETO IRL. This can be modded as well. But the Japanese captured vessels which also does not come into play. I know that a lot of the USN 4 pipers left the theatre but that is not in the game. That is a scenario designer activity; what do you mean by "certain assets" anyway? The allied withdrawal lists are long and hundreds of things withdraw. If something was overlooked, that can be edited in. Many ship available way earlier than IRL (some ships even become available in the game the day their keel has been laid IRL). Again, mod this. The Yamato was available earlier than in the game as well, this could also be changed giving the Japanese a large boost to their shipbuilding efforts. On the other hand, the game goes to 1946 (or later), yet USN ship arrivals in theatre fall short of what was actually available in the last year of the war. I did a lot of research on this for my mod. There are considerable numbers of CA, CL, and Sumner/Gearing DDs MIA. If you are referring to arrivals of xAK liberties, or the like, are there others that turn up later than historical entry to the PTO? Does the IJ player have to give back militarised merchant hulls to the (invisible) civil administration after the initial military expansion, to haul food to the HI? Should there be a rule that unless the IJ players haul resources to the HI that are expended on a "food pool", manpower points will be damaged/eliminated? Like I said, it's a Pandora's box and maybe you should leave the lid shut. Except for the torpedoes and such supplies, everything else can be modified. The Australian AMs were built and launched in Sydney yet they show up elsewhere, this should be changed as well so the are not "destroyed while building" if a base other than Sydney is captured. Already done in my mod, please feel free to copy the info - which came from more traditional sources than wiki. If you can get a list of ships when they were actually available for service for the PTO and when they were withdrawn, then please do so. Even better if you can cite reliable sources then someone can modify a scenario for this.
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