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ORIGINAL: doktor1957

Hi all:
In my battle against the AI, I have recaptured Singapore. I would like to create a PT boat TF here to harrass IJN shipping coming out of Palembang. I have a transport TF with supplies in Singapore, and 20 k supplies in the base itself. Intelligence screen says I have 40 pt boats available, yet the create PT boat button on both the TF and Base screens is not available (greyed out). What gives?

Dave
San Diegp

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ORIGINAL: Bradley7735

Check to see if you can do it in an American base. I'm betting you don't have British PT's available. The 40 available are probably all American.

You can change the HQ of Singapore to one of the American HQ's and then probably create PT's. I'm not sure, though.

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

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ORIGINAL: Bradley7735

Check to see if you can do it in an American base. I'm betting you don't have British PT's available. The 40 available are probably all American.

You can change the HQ of Singapore to one of the American HQ's and then probably create PT's. I'm not sure, though.

An interesting thought. However, it seems to have something to do with supplies. If you use USN ships hauling supplies from SF, you will note they have the ability to create PTs (from the TF screen, iirc). If you use USN ships hauling supplies from Karachi, i don't think they have the same option. I could be wrong on this, but many moons ago, there was some investigation about how come sometimes you could create PTs, and sometimes you couldn't. There never was a very satisfactory answer. The experiment of changing the HQ of Singapore would be interesting (if expensive in PPs).

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It's the HQ. Task forces have the same HQ as the port in which they are formed. Look at the strategic map and select only one HQ. You'll see the land bases and LCU's for that HQ, but you'll also see some task forces all over the map. Especially West coast. You'll see any auto-convoy task force and any you form from the WC and send to Australia.

Also, PP's for changing Singapore will be not that great. SE Asia is a non-restricted HQ, so it's only 10 times the AF plus the Port. So maybe 150 to 180 in total cost. (not insignificant, but also not 1800)

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ORIGINAL: Bradley7735

Some of the MTB's are Dutch. Some are British. Just about all of them are US, though. It's possible that the Dutch one's don't respawn. I don't know for sure. I play the AI and I just don't use PT's vs the AI.

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ORIGINAL: tabpub

It's not at all just the base;
if the base is American, then it can build PT if there are scads of supplies there.
If there is an American transport with supplies, it can create PT.
You can send an empty American AK to a port, load supplies from said port and then create.

To a prior post, there a a bunch of US AK's that are either in Karachi or reinforce there. Most of them were the (insert state name)ian's that you see.

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

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ORIGINAL: tabpub

It's not at all just the base;
if the base is American, then it can build PT if there are scads of supplies there.
If there is an American transport with supplies, it can create PT.
You can send an empty American AK to a port, load supplies from said port and then create.

To a prior post, there a a bunch of US AK's that are either in Karachi or reinforce there. Most of them were the (insert state name)ian's that you see.

I might be wrong, but as i stated earlier, i thought the USN transports that came in at Karachi could NOT make PTs.

An easy test about the base is to (1) verify if this is true, (USN ships forming at Karachi can not make PTs) and if they can't, then (2) make a new transport TF with the USN ships, assign them home port of SF, and see if they can then make PTs.

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I guess that the PT's that I build in Akyab are magical then or something. Or the ones in Darwin. All I did was make sure that there was an American AK with supplies and <boom>, there are the little children floating around her.