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ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Dec 7th Pre Turn PP expenditures:
100 points total: 8 Corp Commander switches in China
Dec 9th Turn PP:
254th Armored Bde 5 points
CNAC Transport Sqdrn 50 points
Remainder: HQ and Corp Commanders in China
Dec 11th Turn PP:
2nd KNIL AA Btln 18 points
That is as far as I have gotten.
I am kind of loath to buy out units for rebuilding....rather let them die. The air squadrons on Luzon look nice, but all withdraw eventually in 42 sometime. So, I am tempted to use them from Mindanao and disband them.
The B17s though are awfully tempting to buy out. 32 pp, they can get to Ledo very easily and start ferrying supplies once the runway reaches 5. Even Calcutta is only a 4 though...so they would sit idle training for a while. Or with poor pilots they can do nuisance raids against Japanese bases. On the fence here both options are attractive.
I am not too interested in buying out a full US Division, because I have a hard time seeing where I would use it effectively (other than India). I think I can hold off till January for shipping large combat units there.
There is a wonderful synergy in shipping US forces to Cape Town and once there deciding to send them to India or Oz, but I suspect that is a much longer trip than to Oz directly (but safer perhaps). So I am assigning a probability of final usage of Oz versus India. Those with a good likelihood of Oz usage will go there via New Zealand and risk the IJN interception.
I think I will be hard pressed early on to get the required shipping together for all the free units anyhow. Especially if planning a Marcus Island gambit.
I would like to have a few PP stored up as a reserve, and also perhaps to change leaders in Malaya, Burma and India to go along with my aggressive use in China. China is always going to need some spare PP for leader changes. Plus, then there are the naval commanders and air leaders that all need changing....this is probably where the bulk of turn 3 PP go.
Turn 4 I should be able to buy out more Indian/British/Commonwealth units for air shipment to China, or to risk a ship transit to Rangoon.
I think I am really going to burn thru the first four hundred points doing a lot of leader changes and very modest unit buyouts. I don't think that is typical AFB behavior. I can easily see spending close to 1000 points on leader changes in December.
What actual practical in game effect is there to be had in switching Kimmel out for someone with Nimitz being the obvious choice? I am not sure I see one early on unless Pearl is a battlefield. It is a Command HQ, and my intuition is to put in the best choice for all the hidden benefits as soon as possible.
I see nothing wrong with buying that transport squadron out to the China Air Task Force HQ, at 12 points instead of 50 (assuming it is going to be used within China or flying stuff to China).
EDIT: +1 on leaving Kimmel at PH. Put Nimitz in charge of an Air Combat TF and let your opponent know you have a Nimitz Carrier TF ...
< Message edited by BBfanboy -- 7/27/2020 5:19:31 PM >
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RE: Hell Hath Frozen Over (Scout1 (J) vs Lowpe (A) - 
But 1vp and 10% supply loss occurs even without partisans causing damage...just need to get an attack. 
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