The Dessert Fox's Battle Sheet

In a battle, I discovered something shocking: Destroyers are a better value in a naval battle, IPC for IPC.

Using the calculator I found out that 80 destroyers (640 IPCs) can beat 20 battleships and 20 cruisers (640 IPCs). In addition to that destroyers can do a lot battleships and cruisers can’t do and can be in more places at once.

Destroyers aren’t king however:
Battleships and cruisers can bombard territories which may be the margin in amphibious assaults.
Unless you’re the US, you probably don’t have enough industrial capacity in your complexes to build so many destroyers.
And finally, the margin is so small that it takes 80 destroyers for the advantage to prove decisive. No power can build that many destroyers so this is purely theoretical anyway (unless you quadruple the IPC values of all territories).

@barnee that’s what I do :>>>>

Never mind, saw the answer on the next page.

@Aaron_the_Warmonger:

@simon33:

Dutch are allies. You don’t need to convert these territories to uk or Anzac control to land fighters on them. The fighters can be landed the same turn as the troops.

Are you sure?  looking at the rules i see under Dutch Territories in the pacific rulebook that They are treated as friendly to allies except for UK/ANZAC guardianship.  under friendly neutrals it says you may not attack a friendly neutral or fly air units over it, but may move land units onto it in noncombat.

I assume friendly meant friendly neutral.  So we assumed that until the dutch territory has been controlled since the start of your turn by an ally, you can’t land on it.  I would love some clarification on this if anyone has it (preferably with a rule’s citation!)  thanks everyone!

I’m sure. Dutch aren’t friendly neutral. Although the rulebook doesn’t make this as clear as I would like. Most convincing bit is here:
@Pac:

These two powers also have an arrangement with the
Dutch government in exile (Holland having been captured
by Germany) and have taken guardianship of the Dutch
territories in the Pacific.

Well, for each money value, you only need the number of players times the maximum number of those bills/chips to get more than or equal to the next value. For example, you only need 9*4=36 1’s, since no player will have more than 4 1’s, since 5’s exist. The only issue is the highest denomination, but you can probably assume that no player will have more than about 150 IPC’s ever.

The answer is no

great charts

Bob has told me that he’s too busy to update his creation, and he has denied me permission to do it… so I it looks like these charts will remain obsolete.