After showing the natural resources in china, australia and the pacific in WWW SP Japan#2 ( 51:35), I was a little bit shocked and wondered why there is so little aluminium in southeast asia and how japan could build its planes at all.
Ok Japan ( as they conquered large territories ) in ´42 captured most of the important - then known - bauxite deposits in Shandong Province/China, Malaya and Indonesia ... and a few others, but in total on the map in 1936 there is ZERO Alu ( except for 6 units in Indonesia).
Australia has zero Aluminium at game start, which is ok. Australia produced aluminium before the war but using bauxite from malaya and indonesia ( soon to be overrun by japan) and began to utilize their own bauxite resources from 41 on.
A quick calculation and comparison to the produced aircraft by japan from 42 - 45 ( 62.000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_aircraft_production) with the amount you could actually produce after being at war and not able to trade unhindered I came up with the following:
Japan could feed 7 MF fully with its 14 Aluminium units at hand producing the cheapest planes (e.g. prewar Fighter or CAS-I 2 Alu / 22 IC) . Lets assume a doubled output of each factory due to tech and laws ( 10 output ) and a efficiency of 80% and you could produce 2,54 planes daily or a total of 3716 from 42 - 45. That is.....meagre.
Conclusion: Either the resource map changes each year or if it stays the same then aluminium is seriously underwhelming in SEA.
Ok Japan ( as they conquered large territories ) in ´42 captured most of the important - then known - bauxite deposits in Shandong Province/China, Malaya and Indonesia ... and a few others, but in total on the map in 1936 there is ZERO Alu ( except for 6 units in Indonesia).
Australia has zero Aluminium at game start, which is ok. Australia produced aluminium before the war but using bauxite from malaya and indonesia ( soon to be overrun by japan) and began to utilize their own bauxite resources from 41 on.
A quick calculation and comparison to the produced aircraft by japan from 42 - 45 ( 62.000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_aircraft_production) with the amount you could actually produce after being at war and not able to trade unhindered I came up with the following:
Japan could feed 7 MF fully with its 14 Aluminium units at hand producing the cheapest planes (e.g. prewar Fighter or CAS-I 2 Alu / 22 IC) . Lets assume a doubled output of each factory due to tech and laws ( 10 output ) and a efficiency of 80% and you could produce 2,54 planes daily or a total of 3716 from 42 - 45. That is.....meagre.
Conclusion: Either the resource map changes each year or if it stays the same then aluminium is seriously underwhelming in SEA.
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but I guess it could do no harm by pointing it out rather sooner than later
