> Should the Allies have put RPs into some other air project
> in 1939 to have available to switch into a bad air range
> research roll in 1939?
About as much as any alliance faction, the Western Allies have research
choices.
I have no idea what the long term WA research plan was in your game.
But, in general, the WAs need to weather the storm (i.e. survive) before
they can go on the offensive.
IMO, producing SAC is more of an offensive research allocation -
especially in 1940 after a poor roll for Air Range in 1939.
If I had rolled well for Air GR in 1939 (i.e. achieved an Air GR result in
1939 or am assured of achieving an Air GR result in 1940 on a roll of 1 or
2 with only 1 RP allocated), I might assign an RP to SAC production so as
to take advantage of that Air GR result (and if I rolled the '1' and
needed a '2' for the Air GR, I'd reassign that RP allocated to SAC
production so as to get the Air GR result).
But even so, I'd wait until all my other Air research projects (or at
least Air Range) had been rolled before producing the SAC (same as I'd
likely wait until Summer 1940 to produce any interceptors, in case I
needed the RP assigned to Air production for reassignment).
Similarly, in 1939, as the WAs (and most other Alliance factions), I
either put 1 or 3 (or no) RPs in a GR category.
Because reassignment of RPs can guarantee the equivalent of having rolled
a '3' (but not higher), I generally only use an allocation of 2 RPs in a
non-high tech project when a roll of '3' would achieve a result with 2 RPs
allocated but a roll of '3' would not achieve a result if only 1 RP was
allocated.
But like I said, there are a lot of options and choices for research.
And hindsight is always 20/20.
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