Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: Alfred

Manual

S.2.5.1 - combat reports - if off not produced for Signit or Combat Operations
S.2.6.5 - combat animations
S.2.6.6 - combat summaries - if on a text summary produced immediately after the battle

Alfred

Thanks Alfred, I had read it and actually for once understood it.

I wonder, and not that I am saying that your opponent is doing this, if a player ran the turn with those reports on for himself, then ran it with those reports off for the opponent if the results would be the same. If that is the case, then it could be a way for someone to cheat his opponent. Again, I am not stating that your opponent or any opponent here is doing so, but it could be a possibility.

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ORIGINAL: Nomad

If you move the 51st PG to Eastern USA, then you can move them to Capetown. You do not need any ships to do it, the assumption is that there is
the necessary shipping off map.

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Level 3 port...she should be safe I think from subs...can't recall with 100%

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: Evoken

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Ok, so I am guessing this isn't normal.

Did you watch another replay or end turn on your AI game ? I believe this happens when the game replaces sigint and operation files with a new turn , check your archive folder if you have it enabled. Combat Reports , Combat Animation and Combat Summaries are clientside i am pretty sure , i can turn them on and off in my allied PBEM game.

If he doesnt want to see those thats fine but i think you should have them on as it makes it easier for your AAR and for readers

Bingo!, Evoken. I set the game up so long ago, I forgot I set it to archive...pretty much because I want to play with Intel Monkey.

Everything is working fine...just your noobish AFB here forgetting how and when reports are generated. Expect many more signs of complete ignorance!

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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I also bought out the 254th. Now November 1942 and I have the General Lees but having trouble getting enough motorized support and support squads. The latter is because I followed someone's advice to let the Chinese units take support squads and the former because there are so many units that want trucks. I haven't the patience or focus to shut down all the competing demands and build a stockpile just for this one unit.

I didn't know that the Chinese took motorized support much, so I guess you are saying you turned replacements on for all? most? half? Chinese units and they have managed to drain the support pools?

Wow, I didn't think it possible to deplete them.

I have turned replacements support on for some Chinese units, but only those destined for off base defense in x3 terrain. Those units that will defend in bases will rely upon an HQ to share support.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: Evoken

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Ok, so I am guessing this isn't normal.

Did you watch another replay or end turn on your AI game ? I believe this happens when the game replaces sigint and operation files with a new turn , check your archive folder if you have it enabled. Combat Reports , Combat Animation and Combat Summaries are clientside i am pretty sure , i can turn them on and off in my allied PBEM game.

If he doesnt want to see those thats fine but i think you should have them on as it makes it easier for your AAR and for readers

Bingo!, Evoken. I set the game up so long ago, I forgot I set it to archive...pretty much because I want to play with Intel Monkey.

Everything is working fine...just your noobish AFB here forgetting how and when reports are generated. Expect many more signs of complete ignorance!

I suppose if you still have the emails you could re-run the combat animations just to get the reports.

If you have not even gotten the 001 files for each turn, then a more manual approach (read: not yet automated) would be required. When you open a turn the combat report - the true one, with no sync bug - gets written out. You could copy that to the archive folder with the proper date appended.

The same might be true for the SigInt report, I just don't remember if the other reports get written out when you open a turn, or if it's only the combat report.

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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

On USAAF Training, one quick bit of advice: Train some units right away on NAV-B. At the end of the month a Group of A-24s shows up in Brisbane. They are useful with decent pilots, but the ones they come with are horrendous. Train some up and maybe they can at least be 50-ish in NAV-B by the time you get the planes.

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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

On USAAF Training, one quick bit of advice: Train some units right away on NAV-B. At the end of the month a Group of A-24s shows up in Brisbane. They are useful with decent pilots, but the ones they come with are horrendous. Train some up and maybe they can at least be 50-ish in NAV-B by the time you get the planes.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

How much shipping do I need to send to Aden and Abadan?

I see a fair number of troops arrive at Aden and some planes, and only one late in the game at Abadan. So a fair bit of xaps.

Fuel and cargo ships seem to need to go to Abadan more so than Aden.

Am I missing anything strange?

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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

Yes, Aden is always supply and fuel starved; you will only be taking troops and air squadrons from here

I personally prefer AKVs on other theaters, I simply use xAKs or xAPs to move the squadrons and wait a few days to get the planes ready. Obviously that will depend on how your game goes

supply and fuel should move to Cape Town and from here to Australia/ India/ Ceylon. You will get some from convoys, but not enough

I would start taking fuel (supply too) from Ceylon (not Abadan) and move it to India or Australia until depleted; as there is a good chance of Japanese capture. Once Ceylon is out of fuel, those tankers go to Abadan

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Move fuel from Abadan to Karachi. Pick up fuel at Cochin to send to Ceylon if needed or to Australia.

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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

Yes, Aden is always supply and fuel starved; you will only be taking troops and air squadrons from here

I personally prefer AKVs on other theaters, I simply use xAKs or xAPs to move the squadrons and wait a few days to get the planes ready. Obviously that will depend on how your game goes

supply and fuel should move to Cape Town and from here to Australia/ India/ Ceylon. You will get some from convoys, but not enough

I would start taking fuel (supply too) from Ceylon (not Abadan) and move it to India or Australia until depleted; as there is a good chance of Japanese capture. Once Ceylon is out of fuel, those tankers go to Abadan

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

Yes, Aden is always supply and fuel starved; you will only be taking troops and air squadrons from here

I personally prefer AKVs on other theaters, I simply use xAKs or xAPs to move the squadrons and wait a few days to get the planes ready. Obviously that will depend on how your game goes

supply and fuel should move to Cape Town and from here to Australia/ India/ Ceylon. You will get some from convoys, but not enough

I would start taking fuel (supply too) from Ceylon (not Abadan) and move it to India or Australia until depleted; as there is a good chance of Japanese capture. Once Ceylon is out of fuel, those tankers go to Abadan

Supply at Abadan depends on whether your mod allows the 10% supply generation from the Refineries. If so, Abadan will get more supply than needed and can ship to Aden or Karachi or the islands west of India. If not, you need to bring in supply to expand the port so it can handle all the tankers that show up there.

IIRC even one air unit shows up there, and I sometimes send air units from Aden to Abadan to hitch a ride on those cargo ships to Karachi. I am not using the extended map though, so the direct connection between Aden and Abadan is secure. Not sure I would like to take the border hexes on map to get between them - an obvious I-boat patrol zone.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I really don't like American CA for anything other than bombarding and CV duty. The Brooklyns are great SAGs, the Omaha's torpedoes don't work, and the Helena's are good with the CVs too.

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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I really don't like American CA for anything other than bombarding and CV duty. The Brooklyns are great SAGs, the Omaha's torpedoes don't work, and the Helena's are good with the CVs too.

IMO, overlooked units early are HMS Glasgow and HMS Mauritius. Everyone talks about big bad Boise, but these two ships have almost as many 6-in guns, include RN night training, and also have withdrawl dates.....which means if you lose them, you're not losing a long-term asset, just a short-term one. I have a game going as Allies, and HMS Glasgow sank 2 CS units basically by herself.

For those reasons, I would use them more aggressively than the other options in the DEI. The RN has alot of cruisers early that have withdrawl dates. Some of them are not very good, like the C-class, but if you lose them you're not going to miss them, and that has some value in itself

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I really don't like American CA for anything other than bombarding and CV duty. The Brooklyns are great SAGs, the Omaha's torpedoes don't work, and the Helena's are good with the CVs too.

IMO, overlooked units early are HMS Glasgow and HMS Mauritius. Everyone talks about big bad Boise, but these two ships have almost as many 6-in guns, include RN night training, and also have withdrawl dates.....which means if you lose them, you're not losing a long-term asset, just a short-term one. I have a game going as Allies, and HMS Glasgow sank 2 CS units basically by herself.

For those reasons, I would use them more aggressively than the other options in the DEI. The RN has alot of cruisers early that have withdrawl dates. Some of them are not very good, like the C-class, but if you lose them you're not going to miss them, and that has some value in itself

+1 on British warships plus a lot have radars. Boise's Captain is poor at start...maybe I will have points to swap him out on the next turn. A fair number of British warships return too, though, but by that time I guess most AFBs suffer from unit overload.

I do like the 8" guns on the British Cruisers.