Slitherine

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Runway attack.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Thanks Mr. Kane, your advice is always greatly appreciated!

For this raid on the deathstar, there was 3 squadrons at a size 5 base with Air HQ. The fighter escort, the kamikaze strike squadron, and some Jakes flying night search.

The weather was bad, so perhaps that played a part. It seems to me I should be able to punch thru a 200 plane CAP.

It looks like, bases on Allied air search, the deathstar is heading for Hong Kong.

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had thought rebuilding units cost armaments, vehicles, and manpower points only.
Not supply. But reading earlier I saw a post where the supply cost of rebuilding destroyed units really hurt
Japan

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Each Logistics base that the unit is within supply range of may send replacements, so there is an advantage
of being near lots of well stocked bases.

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The base with the HQ must have supplies that are at
least equal to twice the base’s supply needs plus the supplies that will be expended in creating
the sub unit, the supply base must be within twice the maximum range of the aircraft type, and
there must be planes in the pool equal to:
»» 10 + (plane build rate / 2)
If these conditions are met, a sub unit of damaged planes will be placed at the HQ’s location
and supplies will be expended from the base.. Note Japanese build rates are usually 0 when
production is on. Another subgroup will not be formed for the air unit until at least 7 days have
elapsed.
A maximum of 12 planes will be added to a group as replacements every 7 days.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

The best I can find in the manual is excess supply may be used for replacements.

I found a post in an old thread saying the cost is 1 supply point per load cost for replacements. Have to watch that!

Hmm...

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I decided to buy back a destroyed division from Hokkaido that I was unable to evacuate a splinter. The PP cost was very low, under 20 PP I recall.

It arrived today.

I had thought rebuilding units cost armaments, vehicles, and manpower points only. Not supply. But reading earlier I saw a post where the supply cost of rebuilding destroyed units really hurt Japan.

So, back to the manual. Page 233 says to rebuild a vehicle it costs 1 vehicle and 1 manpower point per load cost of the vehicle in question. No supply. Whew! Now it does take HI to build the vehicle or armament point (and it takes fuel to build the HI). Infantry and weapons costs armaments points equal to load cost.

So in general, the larger the load cost the greater the armament or vehicle cost. Manpower is so plentiful as to be not a problem.

So the real cost to be worried about rebuilding units is the ongoing supply drain from the rebuilt unit, and the HI cost which might take away from making planes.

Therefore, the question becomes, can I effectively use that unit to merit its ongoing supply cost? And, is it worthwhile spending the PP to rebuild it in the first place (as opposed to buying out an existing unit from Manchuko/China)?

Now then, here comes the question of sunk costs. I have a pool of 202,000 armament points so the HI is already spent. New unit armament costs going out one year will be 100,000 points. So that gives me a solid 100,000 points of armaments for replacing troop losses. More than sufficient, since it is unlikely I will be around in a full year.

Now Vehicle points I am in serious trouble with. I will never be able to replace the motorized support, and will struggle mightily to replace tank losses.

Last turn I banked a positive 3500 HI points and have 1.4 million.

So my real economic woes will be vehicles (too few); plane engines (worrisome if he continues to focus on their destruction), supply (always Japan's weakpoint), and of course the kicker victory points.

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When a device is upgraded or replaced, 1 supply is used per load cost of the new device.
Load cost per device can't be found in-game, but can be found in Tracker ...

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In combat, supply use seems to be correlated to losses taken. The better combat goes for one side, the less supply they will use. This makes calculating supply needs for combat units tricky, as many factors influence combat and thus the supply usage.
The range of supply use during combat is very large, one series of tests saw increases ranging from +5% to +300%.

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ORIGINAL: Crackaces

First .. the game has changed in many respects from the manual although the manual provides basic guidance
reliance on the manual totally will be surprising at least .. frustrating at worse ..

However, there are a few that have documented the actual software behavior rather than the designed behavior ..

From: http://witp-ae.wikia.com/wiki/Supply_Usage:_Ground_Units

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When a device is upgraded or replaced, 1 supply is used per load cost of the new device.
Load cost per device can't be found in-game, but can be found in Tracker ...

My experience with Allied replacements after buying out units aligned with the above .. also my 3rd opponent's
experience buying out a bunch of units and leaving them in Tokyo ...

Of note ..from the same wiki page

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In combat, supply use seems to be correlated to losses taken. The better combat goes for one side, the less supply they will use. This makes calculating supply needs for combat units tricky, as many factors influence combat and thus the supply usage.
The range of supply use during combat is very large, one series of tests saw increases ranging from +5% to +300%.

Slogs like Burma and PI and I would assume home islands ... use supplies .. a lot of supplies ..

Thus I believe that if one is going to attack the home islands . it is pretty critical to reduce supply capacity ..or a WWI slog is assured ..

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I'll have to do a test