[REQ] Campaign improvements required and doable
I did some of these myself, but I think they should be part of a larger mod such as RFB:
- Make Port Darwin an advance base. Exmouth Gulf was used, but in 1943 and 44, Darwin was the major supply point for Freemantle boats
- Activate Midway only after the Battle
- Change activation date of the Mios Woendi advance base to 10/44 instead of 10/43. Right now it is practically a base deep in enemy waters, before the Biak Invasion of Spring 1944. AFAIK Mios opened in October 44.
More difficult:
- Enable Corregidor as a base. It is in the files, but not active and I couldnt get it to work.
- Set starting point for Pearl Careers to Midway after a certain date. Either as a new Flottilla or as a replacement for Pearl.
- Same goes for Marianas in October 1944 for Pearl Boats
- Set Manus Island as starting base for Brisbane boats in 1944, same as above
- Set Subic Bay as starting point for Brisbane or Freemantle boats in Feb 1945.
- no more special operations to mainland japan except photo recon, and restrict these to harbors historically accessible to US Boats (no inland sea).
- no Specops for Asiatic and Brisbane boats until late 1942
- enable supply (modified soldier dropoff missions?) to Corregidor and Mindanao in early 1942 for Pac boats.
- no pilot rescue missions until early 1944 at all
Re the ship layers:
- totally remove convoys from 1941 and 1942
- in 1943 there should be some unescorted convoys
- drastically reduce single merchants for 43 and 44, and all traffic for 45.
- exchange fleet destroyers in normal convoys for Minesweepers, Minelayers, older destroyers and Subchasers
- can we somehow increase the frequency of armed merchants and make most japanese merchants armed right from the start of the war?
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