2 Turn Ship Construction

Yea thats from AARHE developed like 6 years ago. We thru it out eventually because it was not very playable because the number of pieces on naval are too few and when you build them you usually buy them because of a crisis and the reaction of 2 turns could mean the difference of victory and defeat. AARHE has other ideas of great merit so keep reading it and post ideas from it.

I can see it helps the cash poor nations, but your writing it as a mandate and NO BATTLESHIP OR CARRIER CAN BE CONSTRUCTED BEFORE TWO TURNS.

I suggest it be an option for players to buy an expensive unit . That is you can build a CV or BB or perhaps a bomber over a turn turn period, but its not a requirement. Thats way it wont screw up the game like it did when playing revised and you needed the damm carrier right away.

Besides if you look at it its not needed because you just:

1. save up 50% of the money on the first turn
2. spend the full amount of the purchase and buy the unit

Its not like your “half Battleship” can be used on the first turn, so you dont need such a rule. Thats what we discovered in AARHE and the reason why it was dropped.

I saw the post on BGG. I may have even posted in that thread that he was reading an old version of AARHE

Perhaps give the player the option to build at full price in one turn or reduced price in two turns?

Battleship: 20 IPC in 1 turn, 12 IPC in 2 turns
Cruiser: 12 IPC in 1 turn, 8 IPC in 2 turns
Carrier: 14 IPC in 1 turn, 10 IPC in 2 turns

Destroyers, transports and Submarines no change.

The advantage of building it over the two turns is that you get money off the cost.  You are rewarded for patience.

That makes no sence. Why is it cheaper to build something over a longer period of time?

@Imperious:

The advantage of building it over the two turns is that you get money off the cost.  You are rewarded for patience.

That makes no sence. Why is it cheaper to build something over a longer period of time?

Bear in mind I once held the position of Project Manager (one of MANY) for a major construction company (PirTano Construction).  With that experience in mind, I can tell you that the cost of completing a project in half the time is usually more than double the cost.

Here’s why:

1)  You have to pay overtime usually
2)  You have to pay for rush orders from your suppliers
3)  You have to increase your labor force
4)  You’ll have to reimburse the unions to keep them happy

Generally speaking, I would say this rule should be written in similar wording as follows:

It takes two rounds to build a battleship, carrier or cruiser.  However, if you decide, you may pay an extra 5 IPC per ship to decrease the build time and build it in one round instead of two.

That extra IPC would account for people being pulled in after hours, extra workers called in, extra cost on materials, extra management (since it is a lot harder to keep your Critical Path lined up) etc.

In both cases i think your assuming the games build time are always “rushed orders” I assume they are not. I assume further that to increase the build time over twice the actual time it takes to build X would cost MORE because your tying up the equipment for twice the time, employing the same people for a contract to build for twice the length of time, adding inflation of war materials and rising costs.

Building ships like the liberty ships which took a week to construct was the most economical way to go because it was so well organized. If you had a huge ship half built and decided to take twice as long the costs most likely go up. Think housing construction.

The longer a product takes the more it costs the company because they don’t make money on producing something else.

I guess an easy way to think of it would be material cost alone:

You can chose to pay ground freight or overnight airmail.  Obviously shipping concrete and steel parts airmail is going to be prohibitively more expensive than freight.  But you are paying for the speed through the extra costs.  There’s a story of a man hired to build a bridge out in California.  He was told he would get some insanely large bonus if he finished ahead of schedule and passed all the inspections.  He hired helicopter crews to air haul huge sections of pre-assembled bridge sections cross country at exorbitant rates to finish for the maximum bonus (it was prorated.)

He still made a profit, but the costs were crazy.

Also, keep in mind that one crane is usually shared for many jobs as are specific crews, and managers etc.  If you are doubling the speed of production on one job, that detracts from their abilities to do their other jobs (because they are spending more than twice the time on the rush job.)

For instance, once the sections of a boat are laid in place by the crane, you really don’t need that crane any more until that section is anchored, wired, plumbed, welded and riveted in place so that crane can go to the next boat and the next.  But at double time pace, that crane’s going to have less time to make the rounds which means you would need another crane to pick up the slack.

In the biz we have something called float time.  The maximum time we expect a section of the critical path (that would be the series of events that if delayed, delay the entire project and if sped up can speed up the entire project) and the minimum time we expect a section of the project to be completed.  During the “float” (or the difference between the two) we schedule those workers not immediately being used for that part of the project to other projects so we can maximize their efficiency.

By rushing the order you are taking out all the float time from the critical path (this usually results in the creation of new paths or additional critical paths) and you are taking those resources away from other projects which could also create more critical paths or new critical paths there.

You can chose to pay ground freight or overnight airmail.

Why are you assuming this is an airmail?

I am assuming its normal ground freight = normal build schedule.

So i’m my mind the proper analogy is: I send the thing my normal shipping and you want to have a guy psychically walk to new york to drop it off.

If your building homes you want them build during the normal state of construction. That way they can be on the market to sell. If you want to waste wages you employ the guys twice as long and goof around building the home and make less money.

The normal method is build time = 1 turn and both of you keep calling it a “Rush job” and that has not been established.

Still i have no idea why you just don’t save the money on turn 1 and buy the thing on turn 2. That does the same thing, but if you want to make the naval units even cheaper by a 2 turn build thing, then it must balance with the other naval because AA50 already dropped the prices on naval and to make the BB even cheaper you have already made the most powerful unit even cheaper.

If you compare the prices the BB is top ship. The CA CV and DD have no contentions to the BB by cost/value.

plug in 20 CA vs. 12 BB in any battle sim.

Carrier groups will beat Battleships if they are defending.  Destroyer groups will always beat Battleships.  Cruisers suck against everything always.  They lose when attacking Subs and a Destroyer is present.

no they don’t. I have done dozens of sims with equal purchases of BB to CV + fighters or BB vs DD or BB vs CA and also done the same with some or all of the other ships thrown in and the BB wins anytime.

In fact the cruiser is a really poor buy and its cost should be 11 IPC

OK fine:

12 BB vs. 20 CA Battleships win 85.056%

3 CV + 6 fighters (102 IPC) vs 5 BB  the BB wins 72.071%

If you take the same thing and add 5 CA and 5 DD to each side the side with the Battleships win  72.485%

If you got 6 BB attacking w/ 1 DESTROYER  (128 IPC) vs. 21 SS  (126) the Battleships win 48.237%

also 6 DD attacking 8 SS win 59.612% of the time, but subs win if they are attacking.

3 CV + 6 fighters (102 IPC) vs 5 BB (100 IPC) the BB wins 72.071%
(Are the CV+Fighters attacking?)

yes but>>>

lets say you got:

3 CV, 6 Fighters, 5 DD and 5 CA defending against

6 BB, 5 DD and 5 CA attacking  (both at 220 IPC)

the attackers win 46.125%, but reversed the difference is 71.517% for the BB

The “JUICE” as they call it in the casino shows over all that when the BB mixed in with other ships and compared with
the CV and fighters mixed in with other ships , that the BB reigns supreme. Plus if you add in the idea of hit and run tactics, the BB can soak off 6 hits while cleaning up the defenders because they cant take ‘free hits’

The subs are greater on offense, but horrible on defense…so they are only to be used for attacking

The DD and CA are just soakers, while the CV and fighters can be used multipurpose.

The BB is king at 20 IPC

If you want to make the cruisers more competitive the price should be at 11 IPC, but still they fair poor vs the BB but marginally.

the attackers win 46.125%, but reversed the difference is 71.517% for the BB
That is because Carrier Groups are weak on offense

That makes the choice poorer to buy also.

Quote from: Imperious Leader on Today at 06:17:21 pm
The “JUICE” as they call it in the casino shows over all that when the BB mixed in with other ships and compared with
the CV and fighters mixed in with other ships , that the BB reigns supreme. Plus if you add in the idea of hit and run tactics, the BB can soak off 6 hits while cleaning up the defenders because they cant take ‘free hits’
And that is why Battleships are a good unit.  However, they will NOT defeat an equally costed fleet of Destroyers in a fight to the death.

Quote from: Imperious Leader on Today at 06:17:21 pm
The subs are greater on offense, but horrible on defense…so they are only to be used for attacking
Horrible on defense?

20 Subs have 20 Defense, 20 HP
6 Battleships have 24 Defense, 12 HP
10 Cruisers have 30 Defense, 10 HP
15 Destroyers have 30 Defense, 15 HP

Yes, they have weak attacks, but they have a superior ability to absorb hits.

but in combat thats all that is concerned, and it proves one is inferior to the other. Nothing else matters except the results of combat.

Quote from: Imperious Leader on Today at 06:17:21 pm
The DD and CA are just soakers, while the CV and fighters can be used multipurpose.
DD and CA both have superior Attack/Defense per IPC than Battleships, while DD also have more HP per IPC, though they lose Attack/Defense faster when damaged than BBs.

Quote from: Imperious Leader on Today at 06:17:21 pm
If you want to make the cruisers more competitive the price should be at 11 IPC, but still they fair poor vs the BB but marginally.
Why not 10 IPCs?

The sims show that the balance changes huge in favor of cruisers at 10, but 11 is close to 50% Thats what you want namely for all the units to be basically close on a cost value basis, and THEN have some unique ability that you use them for a specific function, ASW, Shore shot, etc…