--- In aworldatwar@yahoogroups.com, donmoody@... wrote:
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> Bruce Wallace wrote:
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> > 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.

I guess I should mention I am playing a solitaire game to get a feel for the
latest rules.

>
> But, in general, the WAs need to weather the storm (i.e. survive) before
> they can go on the offensive.

This may be a principle I neglected.
The Allies put 3 RPs into general atomic research in both of 1939 and 1940, and
1 RP into radar in each of those years, as well as the RPs into air production
and SAC production.

Maybe 2 RPs could have been put into another air category in 1939, and only 1
into general atomic research, and those 2 RPs switched to the air range roll.

> 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.

I do that same thing for projects I most want to get.
I now realize that getting air range should be a "must want" result by the end
of 1940.

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>
> But like I said, there are a lot of options and choices for research.
> And hindsight is always 20/20.

As I mentioned to Eric T., this is a solitaire game, I am trying to learn all
the latest rules. I may go back and retroactively fix some things (don't even
know what or how much at this point!) to make this more playable for the Allies.

Thanks for your comments, wisdom, and advice!

Bruce Wallace

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> DonMoody
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