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Nope! I hope to be emptying China of a good number of troops soon, so maybe then....
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What are political points typically used for?
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It's been ages but I know for reassigning leaders, and reassigning units to different commands.
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HannibalBarca posted:What are political points typically used for? Moving units from restricted Korea/Japan/China commands to places that matter.
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I thought they could also be used to optimize production, get factories building newer aircraft engines, etc? I also know that for the allies you can use them to keep ships that are due to be transferred out of the theater, in theater for longer. I don't know if there's any Japanese equivalent.
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Apr 13, 2017 17:20
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Improving damage control? That would allow you to keep ships around for longer.
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PPs play a bigger role in play by email games because by default the allies can do things like moving a bunch of Chinese armies to India where they use the glut of supply to become monstrous. In PBEM games national armies like the Chinese tend to be restricted so they can't cross out of China, but PP can be spent to reassign them to other commands and allow movement. Typically this gets done to move US, Indian and Australian divisions from Home defense to allow use elsewhere. PP also is needed to change commanders for ships, as well as land and air units.
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   We start by losing more planes.  A 100lb bomb is not much, but its something.   Here we trade planes.   The Chinese art Chungking finally make an attack, but its with a tiny proportion of their force and it ends poorly. The AV is high, but terrain is king.   The carriers found nothing to play with, so now we wait. I have sent more troops to Sinyang to try and clear the Chinese troops from that city. I don't think I'll send any more to Chungking, as it would be a waste of men.
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Apr 14, 2017 05:11
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So what are you going to do with all those men from Hankow?
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Apr 14, 2017 05:56
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Clear sinyang then move them out of China.
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   What is happening here? Invasion or raid?  Liberators seem easier to kill than B-17's at the moment.  Not that they are toothless by any means.  The carriers reach Tarawa. The murder begins.  The Kiddo Butai makes it's own fun.  This would be nicer if they were loaded with marines.  So, I am considering withdrawing troops from China to help me push in the South Pacific area, what do you guys think?  Only one confirmed kill today.
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Apr 14, 2017 15:50
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How much is additionally pushing really useful here? It seems to me at some point the Allies gain the advantage and its about holding ground, would it be more useful to reassign these troops and just dig in all over the place?
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Apr 14, 2017 15:52
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revert to the Kantai Kessen strategy: every island a fortress! wear down the Americans and lure them into the Philippine Sea for the DECISIVE BATTLE 
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Yeah I think the troops would be better off building fortress islands rather than trying to take more territory.
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Apr 14, 2017 16:02
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Crazycryodude posted:Yeah I think the troops would be better off building fortress islands rather than trying to take more territory. Why bother when you can just sail around it? Or use any number of other islands to leap-frog around it?
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There are planes on the island that will kill either you or all the civilian ships coming in behind to keep you supplied. Admittedly this plan relies on Grey still having planes/pilots, which I guess isn't exactly a given now.
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Apr 14, 2017 16:31
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You bombed Isis a few times though, so... yeah. A few karma points for the Japanese war machine.
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14 April 1943 Norwegian escort destroyer Eskdale, torpedoed in the English Channel by German E-boats.
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Also at this point is the best bet in China to just try to keep the Chinese bottled up in Chungking for the rest of the game?
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Apr 14, 2017 17:32
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i imagined at some point you meant to take chungking
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Go for Fiji. All the Allied troops in the area probably got thrown at Noumea, So it's probably fairly lightly defended.
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Crazycryodude posted:There are planes on the island that will kill either you or all the civilian ships coming in behind to keep you supplied. This also assumes you keep those planes in supply, along with the "Fortress", which could, again, quite easily be cut off when you're the Japanese with a smaller navy than the allies, and less replacements in every category.
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Apr 14, 2017 19:09
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If you have free troops, invade India. Don't be a coward, Grey.
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Apr 14, 2017 19:12
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I take back everything I said earlier, it's totally time to invade India.
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Apr 14, 2017 19:17
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Try to invade Fiji and Samoa, and land some troops one hex away from Darwin so that they can march into the city.
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Apr 14, 2017 19:43
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My vote isn't to turn this into the "Total War" debacle from 3 years ago. Do whatever gives the best chance for prolonging the war increasing the slim possibility of victory.
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Apr 14, 2017 19:48
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I would deffo vote for invading the poo poo out of India
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Apr 14, 2017 19:52
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Have we thought about harnessing the power of Tafiti to throw lava balls at the US Navy?
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Apr 14, 2017 19:56
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If you are going to send over a hundred thousand pixel men to their miserable deaths then there is only really one option. Pearl.
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A proper invasion of India would require a lot of ship support and the KB, but the Americans are continually operating in the South Pacific and that's a competing demand that makes India kind of unfeasible. Northern or Western Australia, or doing a 1-hex from Port Morsbey or Darwin, seem more realistic.
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Apr 14, 2017 20:04
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Conquer alaska
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Landing a hex outside of Darwin and a hex outside of Perth while also taking the undefended bases on Australia's western coast basically means that they lose a lot of nearby submarine bases. It doesn't completely eliminate the threat, but it'll go a long way to reducing your shipping losses. Also, have you taken the non-Chunking bases in China? There are quite a few of them in Northern China that aren't nearly that well defended now that you've taken out the large Chinese formations outside of the Chunking area, so they should be easy targets for some extra VP.
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Apr 14, 2017 20:35
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Can't you conquer Winnipeg or something silly? I remember because of how the map projection is, that theres some Canadian city that is represented, and its way way inland...
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Apr 14, 2017 20:46
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I propose a simple plan: sink Hawaii.
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Apr 14, 2017 20:51
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I would absolutely love to see Grey risk everything on an all or nothing effort to take Hawaii
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Apr 14, 2017 21:16
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Bypass Hawaii, go straight for the keystone to the Pacific: Vancouver Island.
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Apr 14, 2017 22:36
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Go for Alaska!
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You guys have forgotten Grey can't even take Noumea. Getting a bit over large for britches here. The power of Japan is clearly the Navy, not the armies. Grey should follow the current path of attritional warfare, surely the Americans must run out of ships sometime.
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If grey moves 100k troops from China to New Caledonia, I bet he can take Noumea. Or alternatively, if he were to assault Noumea with an ongoing bombardment campaign for a month, to reduce their organization and readiness, and then attack with well-rested, well-supplied troops that had planned for the attack till the planning was at 100%, I expect he could take Noumea without much more than what's already there.
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