fbastos -> RE: couple of rookie questions (1/3/2005 7:09:34 AM)
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1) the 40th Inf Div is on the west coast and Id like to move it. But it is lacking 411 of its support total (i.e 411 elements are disabled and 170 are fine). Its only adding 1 per day. Is it going to speed up or will it take 1.3 years to fill out its TOE for support? If I move it forward right now it is a big suport burden on the base I plant it at. 2) More general, I'm not trying to do anything big in SE asia. This being the AI I am against and not a human... if I move up everything I can to the imphal/kohima area can I easily hold there or am I going to get clobbered and leave india wide open? (I've read I can pretty much igonore China against the AI, which I am doing) 1) You are reading (411) x 170; this means that 411 support squads are damaged, and therefore are half strength, while 170 are full strength. The TOE is 536 support squads, so you have a bit more squads than the authorized for this division. Now, you want to repair 411 squads fast. The best way to do that is to move the unit into a base that has that base's command HQ. So you can move to San Francisco (which is an West Coast base and has the West Coast Command HQ), and it will repair much faster. Or you can also move to Hawaii (which is Central Pacific and has the Central Pacific Command HQ), for the same results. You will probably find useful to send it to Hawaii, the reason being that it will be closer to the front, so you will use the time to move it there as time to grow it up a bit more (rather than bringing it full strength and then wasting time moving it full strength around). Now, say that it listed as (0) x 170, meaning that you need 411 replacements rather than repair. Then you would definitely want to leave it in the West Coast, because each base will send replacements to all the nearby units, so it helps a lot to have an unit in range of multiple bases. 2) C'mon, play historically... you can't just abandon the good people of Burma to a horrible occupation just because you fear the Japanese. Queen Victoria II would fire you for that, and Churchill would roast you. Try to defend it! More to the point, Rangoon is a good base and have the best airfield in the region. It also has oil: Rangoon and Myitkina have 100 oil, which are important for Australia, and if you lose the Rangoon-Myitkina line then you will find it hard to push a counter-attack from the North, as the roads are very bad there. Also, if you lose your roads to Yunan then you will lose Burma road, which is a crucial source of supplies to China. You gotta try to keep Lashio open, as the name of the game in China is supplies. F.
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