Clearing the battle area won't do you much good if you sink the ship in the process.

There is a matrix of considerations to take into account which humans are pretty good at, and the game AI isn't. Certainly get clear, but also take into account flooding levels and current flotation damage. There ...

Not sure I like the idea of an auto-resolve. For me at least, the attraction of the game is designing the ships within the current available tech and budget, and then seeing how they go against the computer opponents--after engineering a war against them, or alternatively, being stuck with a war you ...

Been thinking about a better way of doing Fleet Organisation after playing USA for a while. With this one, as with GB, you will at some point need to deal with global commitments out of various bases/areas. At the moment this is quite fiddly and difficult to maintain.

Would it be possible in a ...

I'm trying a compromise solution, which is to assign the DDs to divisions but not subordinate them to anything and leave them as Independent.

This seems to work reasonably well.

I suppose the point is to mange the evolution of your naval forces in line with technology, economics and your strategy.

Consider 'chasing ships around in circles' to be less of an arcade game, more of discovering whether your designs are any good or not vs. what the AI comes up with.

Granted the ...

One small update to this. I have found, more or less by accident, that the game does a better job of managing DD divisions that I do.

So I've modified how I use FO:
--put everything bigger than a DD into a division as before, with associated roles and lead assignments
--Just leave the DDs as a ...

Anyone else noticed that when you detach a ship due to damage, the AI seems to do everything possible to make sure it DOESN'T get home?
--speed to squadron max, regardless of flooding
--wandering around the battle area in every direction EXCEPT towards port and safety?
--heading towards the nearest ...

I tried changing every occurrence of the objective I could find, to the one plausible value I found in the sac file. This turned out to be the right place, and there were batteries there.

However, the transports were still trundling off to the NW for a walking tour if Inner Mongolia when I started ...

And it's happened again. This time I'm trying to invade Sakhalin. The Locate bullseye is at 0,0

Save file attached.

Hacking the save file once more...

Success. 5 Cruisers badly knocked around, vs. 2 Chinese Bs sent to the bottom.
Invasion successful.

Conclusions:
1. Geographic objective setting seems to have an intermittent but nasty bug. It works, usually, but when it doesn't, oh boy.
2. Changing the overall objective in the save doesn't seem ...

Utterly exasperated by all this, I've unset AI control for the invasion force.
I forgot to mention that this is my second attempt to invade S. Korea in five months, and exactly the same thing happened both times. I'm not having it.

This is going to make the invasion easier, but if it all worked ...

Nope. Still obstinately heading course 292, into Mongolia.

Going to hack on the save file some more to see if I can do anything about it.

Update: taking a cue from the Doctor King, I've hand patched the sac file so I can continue my game.

The original co-ordinates for the objective were 159N 208W, which is of course impossible. Looks like the co-ordinate arithmetic is way off somewhere, and the fallback is that chunk of ocean off W ...

And I will re-use this Subject: line because it works!

I am playing Japan, looking to invade Southern Korea which is held by China.

Can't see the destination; clicked Locate.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot:
invasion target southern korea.PNG

And sure enough the invasion convoy dutifully sails off the ...

See screenshot.
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Allied to France, only at war with GB. Our combined blockade strength is 436, GB is 473, not quite 110% in fact they are 1 B shy, since I just sank two.

Also these calculations appear to be all over the place. What is the meaning of the separate figures for France and ...

Set sound volume to 0 does the trick--for everything.

You have been framed maybe?

Other games have this. Not sure if RTW does.

I think there might be more to it than that.

I'm finding as the game wears on, that while my CAP eventually gets very good at shooting down enemy strikes, they are truly abysmal at locating and attacking enemy carrier forces, even with elite training and decent planes. I've seen this many times ...

Hi all,

Apologies for banging on again on this subject, but I'm more convinced than ever that the way possessions are being handled in the game isn't right.

In my current campaign, as Germany yet again, I hammered the French between 1892 and 1897 and, much against my better judgement, took Corsica ...

In my current game, I've lost more than 1500 aux. The next highest loss level is UK with around 80.

Nothing bad has happened so far (1927), and I've not had unrest above 3. Even if you're blockaded, the public eats up major victories and things have to get really, really bad before you get stood ...