Novel naval base placements?

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@ussgordoncaptain

Whoa, so true. Contingent on taking Denmark though.

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@crockett36

True. If you want to reach the Philippines, you can still do by the end of the third turn through the South Pacific. Doesn’t work for Guam, you need the naval base.

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@cornwallis

True. I’ve only thought about the US before war, including a plan to send the Atlantic fleet before the US declared war. Naval base on Fiji and Samoa were the core of this plan (didn’t work because of the rules).

I can see how it might be useful though.

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@superbattleshipyamato said in Novel naval base placements?:

@crockett36

True. If you want to reach the Philippines, you can still do by the end of the third turn through the South Pacific. Doesn’t work for Guam, you need the naval base.

if you are not at war, you can’t use the naval base off queensland, so can you get to the philippines by t3 with everything? I wasn’t trying to get the Ps any way. It’s too “on the way” for the Japanese. That’s why I don’t like the S Pac strategy for the US. Japan can fork the Allies in two or three different ways from Mal.

Guam slows them down, takes them backwards, gives Calcutta life while pining a great deal of units. From Guam, the air force can launch onto the mainland and the navy retreat. You can threaten to convoy. You can move north in the noncom to strangle Honshu.

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@crockett36

Makes sense. Every time the US moved their fleet to the Philippines Japan crushes, meaning that the US is out of the game for two turns.

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@crockett36

And for the West Coast fleet to reach the Philippines (Atlantic Fleet can’t) you go to Johnston Island, eastern New Guinea, then Philippines, you can be there by the end of the third turn when you declare war.

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My route includes air cover all the way

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@crockett36

And for the West Coast fleet to reach the Philippines (Atlantic Fleet can’t) you go to Johnston Island, eastern New Guinea, then Philippines, you can be there by the end of the third turn whencyou declrare war.

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@crockett36

Flying aircraft to Wake Island, then Guam, then the Philippines would get all the aircraft on the Pacific board in the Philippines the same time as the fleet. They’re separated, however, so if a Japanese player decides to declare war first, you’re done for.

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@superbattleshipyamato said in Novel naval base placements?:

@crockett36

And for the West Coast fleet to reach the Philippines (Atlantic Fleet can’t) you go to Johnston Island, eastern New Guinea, then Philippines, you can be there by the end of the third turn whencyou declrare war.

Any troops would have to stay aboard ship. Increasing losses.

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@crockett36

Exactly. It is overall an extremely stupid move unless Japan acts very unconventionally or equally stupidly. I’ve stopped doing it. Much better for the US to build up forces.

Recommendation: Try to get Super Submarines and Improved Shipyards if you want to research. Makes the US (or any naval power) near invincible.