Lothos wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 12:38 pm

Durin69 wrote: Wed May 15, 2024 12:25 pm Is it possible to continue a game with an updated version?

No, you have to restart

I sincerely hope that the next game of Fury Software is a bit more permissive here, it's really a PITA.

Is it possible to continue a game with an updated version?

Ok, I can work with that. I'll try to see how enjoyable it will be to play against an axis AI with max advantages, and some bonus units.

How adaptive/generic the AI is? i.e. if I give tons of units in Japan to the AI, will it use it in China and the Pacific, or it won't because there is no script telling it where it should use them?

Just give these mostly useless subs when Japan DOW the US; this way, they are unable to do anything against the initial landings. And there is no need to have them before, except to abuse the rules; they have no purpose.

Some honesty here though. Not everyone has deep knowledge of WW2, but when you move neutral submarines against a coast to prevent a landing, you know what you are doing. You are abusing the game system and its limitations, period. It's borderline cheating for me. What is the next step? Crash the ...

I always know exactly on each front how many de-entrench strikes I can pull out from planes. Then, it tells me how many targets I can treat, then which ones should be prioritized. And only then do I start thinking (without any actual moves) about who will attack what, and in which order.

I now understand why you've placed some AA on the sites.

The Soviet Subs tactic is particularly despicable, I must say. It's limited in scope, but it would be an immediate show stopper for me, as representative of the mindset of my opponent.

In my 2nd ongoing PBEM, also playing the Allies, it's January 1940; the French have 800 MPP accumulated, +3 extra research chits spent, because I had just too many MPP; all units reinforced, obviously, 10 or so extra infantry units, 2 artilleries, 3 anti-airs (playing with soft limits).

So yes ...

In my 2nd ongoing PBEM, also playing the Allies, it's January 1940; the French have 800 MPP accumulated, +3 extra research chits spent, because I had just too many MPP; all units reinforced, obviously, 10 or so extra infantry units, 2 artilleries, 3 anti-airs (playing with soft limits).

So yes ...

I'm also doing in parallel a second PBEM as allies. As much as I like these guys, the French just get too many MPPs, almost 300 per turn. There are 12 turns from the start of the game to January '40 (I logged them all, so it's a fact, not a theoretical calculation). Just picture what they can buy in ...

Btw, is there still any possibility to have at some point the AI working for at least one side?

That would give more importance to Guadalcanal and such, but I don't think this precludes adding a second hex. Having a land-based airfield was very important during the Pacific War; it was relatively easy to deploy a lot of aircraft there, amounting to what several CVs could field, and thus you ...

A good balance change on the CV/CVE 'issue'. One was just too interesting, the other not enough.

Regarding island size, you already factor not only real size, but how important the locations were during WW2. So going this way, you should take a second look at the vanilla map and see that Okinawa ...

The base game featured many islands with at least two hexes, even if it meant going beyond their real size, to improve gameplay in landing operations. In your version, representing Iwo Jima, Guam, and Midway as single hexes is another map error from a gameplay perspective (contrary to the base game ...

Beyond semantics, I wish to reiterate that due to the way SC handles naval combat (which can be summarized as mostly two "death balls" clashing with each other, lacking the subtleties of the Pacific War), the current reward format for national morale is ineffective. I have observed that in our PBEM ...

Do the Japanese receive a morale bonus each year they control the major objectives? Because I sense that my opponent is just amassing ships and is not visible anywhere, as he has basically no time pressure. So, contrary to the Americans aggressively engaging the Japanese at Midway and Coral Sea, my ...

So what your thoughts about the situation? The ideal approach for the US, if there is no hurry, is to amass then strike. It's not what happened in history, they started with 3 CV but put them in operation immediately.

Do the Japanese receive a morale bonus each year they control the major objectives? Because I sense that my opponent is just amassing ships and is not visible anywhere, as he has basically no time pressure. So, contrary to the Americans aggressively engaging the Japanese at Midway and Coral Sea, my ...

I supposed he would receive reinforcements, but as I did not know how many, I assumed I would still have superiority. I also put a double line of pickets, subs then light cruisers, just in case. Perhaps he is too shy. I'll check the statistics screen; it would be a major problem if he had not ...