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Originally posted by The Rock Doctor
How is your infrastructure in terms of availabilty and suitable size? I know Bharat will be doing a bit of expansion as destroyers grow past the 120 m threshold...
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...In the case of a nation with a moderate industrial base - such as the Philippines - it is possible to expand existing docks and slips while maintaining a reasonable construction rate...
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Originally posted by Jefgte
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...In the case of a nation with a moderate industrial base - such as the Philippines - it is possible to expand existing docks and slips while maintaining a reasonable construction rate...
I agree with medium nation, of course, increase infrastructures are possible but;
IC for infrastructures are lost for Warships...
Jef
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Originally posted by BruceDuncan
Building more warships than one can reasonably support in the long term is just wasteful.
I play Yugoslavia, with only two factories and very little in the way of infrastructure. It has been a challenge to do so, even with the proceeds from a lot of ship sales and scrapping. It means building ships for specific missions, not just to look good, or merely to keep up with the neighbors.
Within those limits I actually did expand my infrastructure - it was necessary to gain some domestic construction capacity - but I also built abroad. That is one option a smaller nation has.
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Originally posted by Kaiser Kirk
Also, while China is the obvious most recent spat, it's the only one you discuss. With Indochina heading for independence, the old animosity with the Iberians on San HiananDo, the Brits in Sarawak, and oil flowing from Tarakan on Dutch Borneo they should all matter...so I'm presuming that not talking about them means they aren't foreseen as a problem?
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
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Originally posted by BruceDuncan
It's one of the reasons I think so poorly of Wesworld's Collect-a-Navies: there is no analysis of needs or missions, just an unthinking, almost animalistic hunger to add another set of numbers to a list in the belief that people will look at it and take that force more seriously.
On a tangent, I'm wondering if the RCN falls under that analysis.
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Originally posted by ShinRa_Inc
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
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Originally posted by BruceDuncan
It's one of the reasons I think so poorly of Wesworld's Collect-a-Navies: there is no analysis of needs or missions, just an unthinking, almost animalistic hunger to add another set of numbers to a list in the belief that people will look at it and take that force more seriously.
On a tangent, I'm wondering if the RCN falls under that analysis.
As I told you the last time you asked, I don't believe the RCN is a Collect-a-Navy. You've limited your acquisitions to ships which make sense for the roles you've set out, you update or refit them to match your objectives, and discard when necessary - in other words, you're not blinded by the numbers. If I thought the RCN was a Collect-a-Navy, I'd have to level the same charge against Chile - which, I believe, has certainly acquired more secondhand ships from more varied sources than Canada has.
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Originally posted by BruceDuncan
So yes, for the Philippines, the threat posed by China - with its ever-growing collection of ships from around the world - is its major concern and the foe by which it measures its needs.
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Originally posted by Kaiser Kirk
Interesting and decently thought out overall.
One aspect the Philippines has going for it is better access to China's SLOC than China has to yours. Oil, Rubber, Tin, Mica (radios), Bauxite and other resources can all pretty easily flow from the East Indies to the Philippines behind the Sulu Archepelago, as can supplies from Australia. Supplies from America are fairly safe from raiding as well.
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Originally posted by BruceDuncan
The growing amphibious assault potential of China is seen as a major threat. If China were ever to establishment a beachhead on Luzon it would be extremely difficult to throw them back. This same threat applies to San Hainando, Indochina and Borneo, a point Philippine diplomats are quick to remind their counterparts about.
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