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Oh, another little chore that the Japanese player has to do in production (besides increasing his woefully undersized armament production by at least 3X, and increasing vehicle production by 50% or more, and tuning his air production so he isn't doing things like producing a ton of Nates he will never use) is to build up his naval ship yards so he can actually achieve on-schedule delivery of everything his navy has in the pipeline.

To date, I haven't seen a need to expand Japan's merchant shipyards, but frankly I am not looking that closely. But everything else going on in the Japanese production arena needs somewhere between significant and a-ton-of attention.

On the other hand, if the Japanese player halts construction on Shinano, that saves him enough shipbuilding points (193,680[X(]) to, say, accelerate the first 4 Unryus. Another good source of shipbuilding points is the coastal submarine program; foregoing just one of the RO boats will give you an additional 6250 points to play with; there are 33 of them in the program, you do the math. Do you really need the Oyodo and the Aganos? There's another 40,000 points. And so on....

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going by what youve told me how does halting the Shinano give you 4 unryus? i get 180 points per day. just accelerating the Shoho takes 90 points per day from the examples we talked about. just curious here...

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Hypothetical example. Say this turn you would spend 1000 points on ships under normal construction, and you will also produce 1000 shipbuilding points. Assume that you now decide you would like to accelerate a ship with a durability of 50. This will cost an additional 100 points (50 x 2). So either you must halt construction of at least 100 durability points worth of ships, or the game will halt the construction of however many ships it takes to get the points requirement back under 1000, beginning with the most expensive one.

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how to upgrade some of the AK/AP to another type? I think its feasible, as other players has reported converting some, but dunno how to proceed. I suppose it will use merchant shipyards points too?

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Oh, another little chore that the Japanese player has to do in production (besides increasing his woefully undersized armament production by at least 3X, and increasing vehicle production by 50% or more, and tuning his air production so he isn't doing things like producing a ton of Nates he will never use) is to build up his naval ship yards so he can actually achieve on-schedule delivery of everything his navy has in the pipeline.

To date, I haven't seen a need to expand Japan's merchant shipyards, but frankly I am not looking that closely. But everything else going on in the Japanese production arena needs somewhere between significant and a-ton-of attention.

On the other hand, if the Japanese player halts construction on Shinano, that saves him enough shipbuilding points (193,680[X(]) to, say, accelerate the first 4 Unryus. Another good source of shipbuilding points is the coastal submarine program; foregoing just one of the RO boats will give you an additional 6250 points to play with; there are 33 of them in the program, you do the math. Do you really need the Oyodo and the Aganos? There's another 40,000 points. And so on....

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how to upgrade some of the AK/AP to another type? I think its feasible, as other players has reported converting some, but dunno how to proceed. I suppose it will use merchant shipyards points too?

on the first turn of the campaign you can convert those in either san francisco or Osaka.

You can only convert 7000 capacity AK's iirc to AE, AR, MLE, AV,AS and AD's. They need to be disbanded in port and if you go to the ship information screen you ought to see the options there. They take about 180 days to complete after that, depending on the class they convert to. This can be only done on the very first turn of the campaign

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Accelerating a ship uses twice as many and does twice as much towards movig the ship to completion. (It advances 2 days instead of 1)

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On the other hand, does the Japanese player spend any naval construction points to repair ships? I have always assumed that if I have a damaged BB in a repair facility it must be eating up large numbers of industrial points of some kind.

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Technically, whether it matters or not, I might had been converting AK's which were already at Osaka on day one, and perhaps the real rule is it will only let you convert those, but not only on day one, but if so I would have expected just from the randomness of picking ships that I would've failed to convert one once and that never occured.

Have you seen this stated in the manual? That seems awfully restrictive if so. Have they screwed this up on a later version?

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Accelerating a ship uses twice as many and does twice as much towards movig the ship to completion. (It advances 2 days instead of 1)

IF the manual is correct (a moderately big if), Mogami has not put it quite right:

while the ship does move 2 days instead of 1

the cost is TRIPLE what it would normally be.

Since you are getting 2 days at 3 times the cost of 1 day, that means each day costs you 1.5 times - or this is 50% higher in cost - not double the cost.