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ORIGINAL: admiral56

If japanese factory has KI-67 Peggy -rd (65)x0 , does it mean that its damaged (or not working yet), since the number is in paranthesis?

Because some factories show D3A Val (0) x 8... which i assumemeans 8 planes being produced per month...

So, if a factory starts scenario 15 producing Ki-36 Ida (0)x29 and i convert it to A2M2 Zero (20)x0,

1) does it mean that its not gonna produce any zeros this month?

2) how long (approx) will it take for production to get to (0) x 20 (which I think means that its producing 20 Zeros every month???

3) dou guys fiddle with production alot? (like less Ki-36's and other less usefull planes)

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I've changed my mind on a few things,

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ORIGINAL: Oznoyng

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ORIGINAL: admiral56

If japanese factory has KI-67 Peggy -rd (65)x0 , does it mean that its damaged (or not working yet), since the number is in paranthesis?

Because some factories show D3A Val (0) x 8... which i assumemeans 8 planes being produced per month...

So, if a factory starts scenario 15 producing Ki-36 Ida (0)x29 and i convert it to A2M2 Zero (20)x0,

1) does it mean that its not gonna produce any zeros this month?

2) how long (approx) will it take for production to get to (0) x 20 (which I think means that its producing 20 Zeros every month???

3) dou guys fiddle with production alot? (like less Ki-36's and other less usefull planes)

(20) x 0 means you have 20 damaged production units and zero undamaged. Each day, if a minimum amount os supply is present in the base hex, one damaged production unit will be repaired at a cost of 1000 supply. The minimum is 10,000 iirc. Each day, the total number of undamaged production is added to a random number between 1 and 30. That number is divided by 30 and all fractions are dropped.

So on day 1: (20) x 0 - no planes are produced.
day 2: (19) x 1 - you have a 1 in 30 chance of producing a plane that day from the factory.
day 3: (18) x 2 - you have a 2 in 30 chance of producing a plane that day from the factory.
...
day 21 (0) x 20 - you have a 20 in 30 chance of producing a plane that day from the factory.

Any factory with an -rd next to it is researching the plane and will not produce any aircraft.

I fiddle with production a good bit. There are several threads running around about aircraft producition. I started one many moons ago called Zen and the Art of Japanese plane production. Look it up. I've changed my mind on a few things, but some good things to consider there anyway.

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ORIGINAL: Oznoyng
(20) x 0 means you have 20 damaged production units and zero undamaged. Each day, if a minimum amount os supply is present in the base hex, one damaged production unit will be repaired at a cost of 1000 supply.

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ORIGINAL: Captain Cruft

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ORIGINAL: Oznoyng
(20) x 0 means you have 20 damaged production units and zero undamaged. Each day, if a minimum amount os supply is present in the base hex, one damaged production unit will be repaired at a cost of 1000 supply.

This is extremely important. Convert too many factories and you will run out of supplies. I know I've done it more than once ...

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ORIGINAL: DJAndrews

I'd like to bump this to get an answer to Estaban's question and to extend it a little.

Japan starts with five, size-80 mitsubishi engine plants that won't produce engines with the amount of HI present at the site (one has 5 and the the others 10 HI). Since HI must exceed the number of engine factories for any engines to be built at a given location, that's 400 Mitsubishi engines that aren't built in the first month or two (while you expand and repair the HI to at least 80 at each location). It also means that approximately 250K of supplies is needed in the home islands, just to get these Mitsubishi factories up and running.

Was this lack of immediate production taken into account when the suggestions on converting and expanding factories was made, back when the guideline was formulated?

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ORIGINAL: Xargun

ALL HI produced per side is thrown into a pool.. Anytime a factory needs HI it checks the pool - not the individual base - for the needed HI... So if you have all your HI in japan but have a 100 airplance factory in Singapore - it would run fine as long as there was enough HI in the pool...

Xargun

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ORIGINAL: DJAndrews

Page 180 says:

"Engine Factories – These are specialty industry centers, smaller than their Aircraft Factory cousins but no less important. For engine factories at a location to function each day, the number of heavy industry points at the location must at least equal the number of Engine Factories. If this requirement is met each day, each location will build engines equal to:

(Number Of Engine Factories + a random number between 1 and 30) / 30

Any fractions are rounded down. For each engine built, 18 heavy industry points will be expended."

Was this a misprint in the manual? I read as two conditions. First there must be more HI at a location than engine factories, and second, that the pool have enough heavy industry points that can be expended.

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ORIGINAL: DJAndrews

Perhaps I'm not understanding. In my current game against the AI I am about 1 month in. I have about 35K of HI points in the pool, so according to your explanation all of my aircraft engine factories should have been running from day 1.

Now, I have about 750 Mitsubishi factories in total. However, looking at the number of Mitsubishi engines currently in the pool and in planes that have been used (in excess of those that started off in the aircraft pool) I can account for only about 350 Mitsubishi engines for the month. If the 5 bases that have low HI compared to Mitsubishi factories at the location were not producing engines during the month, then everything balances. If not, then the system as misplaced about 400 Mitsubishi engines.