Mike McCreery
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ORIGINAL: Lowpe Fascinating. Now the real question is can you get those hungry mouths to actually contribute to the war effort before the game is over? Or will they just eat, and eat, and eat? I spent the whole afternoon trying to get a handle upon what I was facing. About 50 units arrived at Chengtu before I was prepared for them. The next reinforcements are scheduled for 2 days but I am not sure if they are going to show up tomorrow like they did today. I now have a color coded excel spreadsheet that is 80 rows deep and columns through the letter O telling me what is showing up and now I have an organization chart of all of it. My calculations revealed that todays reinforcements should take 15,000 supplies to go from 0 to whatever their listed requirement is. So, easily that should be doubled to account for anything and everything so 30K. There are large groups of reinforcements equal to the size of the first group scheduled for days 2,3,4,5 & 6. Guessing them to be all of the same relative size yields the need for about 200,000 tons of supply to outfit the current army. Guessing how much will be lost due to transportation is far beyond my abilities and that is where the experiment comes in. The reinforcements today totaled over 6000AV so given 6 days we are looking at easily over 20,000 AV at full supply. There are drawbacks however. Currently the armies are at 40 experience and 40 morale. The TOE of all replacement armies is 30% of the total strength. There are currently 5700 older squads along with 400 newer squads and a production rate of 350 squads a month in the supply pools. Given 6 months I can outfit about 14 divisions with full troops up to their strength of 700+ squads. In my last game I found the Chinese troops to be very poor and did not work well in combat. They mostly performed garrison roles. Based on those experiences my primary goal is to use the Chinese army as a garrison force for well, China... Since Russia is pushing Japan into Korea and the Allies are on the other side pushing harder it does not seem like there is a lot of use for the Chinese army. The Chinese airforce was mostly disbanded before the collapse and it isnt going to grow back. The NCAC will act as a garrison for Chengtu and the surrounding area. I can build the 7th New Chinese Corps inside a ring of supplied cities. The CAF HQ and China Command are Static now at Chengtu which is fine given the condition of the airforce. 1st war area and 2nd war area have not begun to respawn yet but consist of 18 infantry corps, 4 construction regiments, 2 base forces, 1 cavalry corps, and a Provisional chinese corps will plan on moving toward eastern China. 3rd war area is composed of 12 infantry corps, 1 construction regiment, 1 base force and a new chinese corps will move to Tuyun for strat move east toward Wuchang 4th war area is composed of 6 infantry corps and 6 base forces will head for Canton for garrison duty. 5th war area is composed of 10 infantry corps and a construction regiment and will head for the Sian region and Ankang. 6th War area is composed of 14 infantry corps and 2 construction regiments and will head NE for sining and parts north. 7th War Area is composed of 3 infantry corps, 2 base forces, and a construction regiment and will head for The Tsuyung/Kunming area. 8th War area is composed of 1 infantry corps, 4 base forces and 3 brigades and will head south to Hanoi/Haiphong. 9th War area is composed of 13 infantry corps, 1 construction regiment and 1 base force and will head south to the Shanghai area. Central Reserve will be moving NE of Chungking. It has 8 infantry corps and a lot of the artillery, AT and AA units. Jingcha War Area is composed of 11 infantry corps and a base force will head east to Wuchang Area. Lusu war area is composed of 4 light infantry corps will head south to the foochow coast. Of course, that is just off the top of my head ;]
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