You know, I’m kind of surprised that Larry didn’t include US Submarines in costing 3 IPCs for convoy raiding. Historically, the US submarine force did the same thing to Japanese merchant shipping that German U-boats did to Allied shipping in the Atlantic. In fact, the US submarines were actually successful at it whereas through convoying and ASW improvements, the U-boat threat in the Atlantic was gradually reduced. US subs were so successful that in 1944 the US Navy had to cut back on submarine production because they already had too many and were running out of targets since they had so crippled the Japanese importing.
Keeping Track of IPC
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@barnee thanks heaps.
While I’m on a role!!
Keeping track of the national production/IPC at the top of the board… to recalculate them at any time, do you count the numbers territories you possess? And is there a good online calculator to help with this?
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Please create new threads for new topics. Thank you.
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What i normaly do is using the roundels of the countries and updating it at the end of the turn.
So each new country you capture you place the roundel upside down. Then when you did all your non-combat moves you have an update board phase where you flip the roundels and update the tracker.
This way you dont forget a country and you keep it updated so no need to count all countries individualy. -
@shadowhawk Just got done writing an Android app to keep track of all the IPCs that a Power should get. We got sick and tired and also a waste of time in determining how many IPCs one gets at the end of a turn.
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@LewisClark
Nice, still requires manual updating ofcourse same as the ipc tracker.But its less error prone i guess as you cant accidentally shift a roundel on the tracker.
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@shadowhawk Yes but it is just one click and a confirmation in the app. The database select does all of the work.
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@LewisClark said in Keeping Track of IPC:
@shadowhawk Just got done writing an Android app to keep track of all the IPCs that a Power should get. We got sick and tired and also a waste of time in determining how many IPCs one gets at the end of a turn.
Its good to combine with my idea to use roundels to keep track of countries you still need to process in the App.
So you can do that update phase while the active players does his non-combat/placement.When there is a lot of combat going on ( like china vs japan ) i tend to do roll all combat and then update the surivors in the countries. Having a huge stack of dice means i can use the dice to represent surviving units.
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@allister I had the same problem about tracking the income. Therefore I created this Excel Table, (this screeenshoted here is only valid for BM). If there is interest I can invest some time to adjust it for OOB or have a look if i can find a former OOB version anywhere on my hard drive.
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@fasthard thanks heaps for that!!!