Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: jcax101

Dramatic subject line aside, any thoughts on the following questions related to playing the latest update of scen. 1

1) Some Japanese artillery units (#3588 Botanko Hvy Gun for instance) use the 24cm T45 (#757) which seems to go out of production in Jan 42 if I'm reading the industry screen correctly. The gun doesn't have an upgrade path, and if there isn't any production, what happens when the guns are destroyed in the unit?

2) Is there a road traffic jam value? In other words is there a stacking value that causes the road movement rate to lower?
No. Simply a limitation of the game engine.

3) Is there an ammo value for aircraft guns? The Nick seems to run out of ammo quickly, and I was wondering if there was a way to look up the value on other models?
Sort of. IIRC fighters have a limited number of times they can fire their guns in any given battle. I do not remember what the number is. Beyond that "ammo" for aircraft guns is not tracked, nor is it in the scenario files. Again, a limitation of the game engine. Making a limit of how many times a fighter can fire its guns in a battle was a way the developers were able to do a little in that area.

4) Thought I read where the max movement of a TF is 9 hexes, but some ships could go farther than this based on their speed. Is 9 the max movement for a TF?
No, I think it is 12.

5) Do the search units in a CV TF have to detect the enemy in order to attack it, or does the CV TF get to use the detection results of land based naval search assets as part of the attack routine? All other factors aside (weather, etc) say a Mavis detects a strike worthy TF within range of 1st Air Fleet, but the naval search effort from 1st Air Fleet didn't detect it. Does the Mavis sighting get passed onto 1st Air Fleet?
Yes. The sharing of information is unrealistically good, or even perfect. But having some planes in the CV TF search can provide more and/or better sightings and therefore a greater DL and therefore better chances for strikes to find the target.

6) During the replay, in the scrolling combat events at the bottom I see some searches in a blue text while others are in white. What do the two different colors mean?

Many thanks.
Scott

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What AF damage level prevents troop movement via ai

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ORIGINAL: jcax101

A duck? I didn't mean to cry fowl

I forgot one question. What AF damage level prevents troop movement via air from friendly AF to damaged friendly AF? Thought it might be the same as CAP damage but it doesn't appear to be

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ORIGINAL: jcax101

A duck? I didn't mean to cry fowl

I forgot one question. What AF damage level prevents troop movement via air from friendly AF to damaged friendly AF? Thought it might be the same as CAP damage but it doesn't appear to be

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ORIGINAL: jcax101

Dramatic subject line aside, any thoughts on the following questions related to playing the latest update of scen. 1

1) Some Japanese artillery units (#3588 Botanko Hvy Gun for instance) use the 24cm T45 (#757) which seems to go out of production in Jan 42 if I'm reading the industry screen correctly. The gun doesn't have an upgrade path, and if there isn't any production, what happens when the guns are destroyed in the unit?

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

This is buildable in stock Scen 1, you can build as many as you like/need.




The IJA actually built about 80 of these ...

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ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Good shot Pax and thanks for the historical explanation.

Jorge, land units movement and mobility is a part of the game where there's a lot to talk about (or probably and better, not much to talk unfortunately).

I personally stilldo not understand how a unit speed is in fact calculated and determined. According to manual, by memory that's dependant only by the type and definition of the mother unit (motorized/armoured rather than legged) without much consideration of the sub units and components types and characteristics, thus having only three base speeds;

still I have the impression that some units pertaining to the same mobility cathegory may have different speeds...


I don't still wholly understand what does determine unit's speed.

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The Type 45 24-centimeter heavy howitzers were the first such heavy siege gun designed and built entirely in Japan after the Russo-Japanese War. Extremely heavy, they were initially deployed in 1912 as coastal artillery guns, but they were designed to be able to break down into components for transportation with the help of ten vehicles. They could only be reloaded at horizontal elevation. 80 of them were built during the design's production life.

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i cheat and use seaplanes port to port then the airfield size is moot.

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ORIGINAL: rustysi

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i cheat and use seaplanes port to port then the airfield size is moot.

Not a cheat. Why would you say that?

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ORIGINAL: jcax101

Thanks BBFanboy. All are good comments. The Engineer squads are air transportable; you are correct less than 9 load cost are air transportable and less than 7 for air assault. Have flown the Engineer squads all over the AO. Enemy CAP I should have addressed, and there isn't any. Nearest enemy AF is five hexes away and we cover the new base with LRCAP.

Still wondering if there is an AF damage level that prevents air transport, similar to the formulas for CAP and strike missions.