And with John's business being fast food, I'm sure the last few months have been more than a little stressful too.

Holy moley - that's a really bad RNG roll right there.

He really loves to split his forces, doesn't he?

Yet another instance where he put an inferior carrier force within easy striking distance of a superior Allied Force.

Oh no, Monty died.....don't think many will cry over it.

<t> Of course the original scenario isn't "balanced." Its a reasonable representation of what the capabilities of the two sides had and what they could accomplish using those resources by making alternate decisions on deployments (and in the case of Japan, running the economy in a different way).<br ...

<t> There should be a means of adjusting the economy in a way that, if Japan expands their capabilities (and fleet / air force) in the way this mod allows them to, there is no way that Japan should be able to accumulate millions of points of reserves - either in fuel or other resources, since you ...

Oh, and I agree.

Given the relative numbers, why would Japan go to war in the first place?

<t> So, under the hood, John guaranteed that he’d be able to run his fantasy fleet 100% of the time, across 1/2 the planet, for years, without any real need to put extra effort into taking oil field which will already fall easily to his enhanced forces anyway?<br/>
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Rationalizing Naval and ...

<t> Okay, those numbers just don't make sense at all....in the 1940s, there was no "technological" way to increase oil production to the scope laid out in those numbers. Even if you "boosted" production - and what does that even mean? you'd actually be spending more of your industrial output (and ...

Well, part of the downside would be finding an Allied player who is masochistic enough to put up with it.

Most Japanese Factories were glorified machine shops...even the concept that they could manufacture hundreds of large 4-engine bombers is beyond laughable.

<t> Not surprising that his cavalier attitude came back and bit him in the ass....this is exactly what happened with his last game with Dan - running his carriers all over the place & then losing all of his light carriers in a single afternoon - with follow up strikes the next two days which ...

Sorry, but John is an ass....

John is bleeding his surface fleet for what is an almost indefensible outpost...he must feel like he'll be able to inflict serious losses on you - but now that you know where a lot of his ships are, this definitely opens up opportunities elsewhere.

I, for one, wouldn't put anything past John if it involves him thinking he can destroy allied units (or just kill things).

He does like to put his head in the lion's mouth, doesn't he?

Yeah, that's a defect of the mod, for sure. But, he definitely is a "no guts, no glory" kind of guy.

He could never handle playing Allied - its too boring.

So, he's actually passing PH, which puts him in a horrible position, should you sortie & cut off his path of retreat.

If he burns up a bunch of sorties on merchants, and then you pounce, he's screwed (again).

<t> John doesn't seem to learn much from past mistakes....here he is, sending his fleet off on what appears to be another wild goose chase.<br/>
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You know exactly where his carriers are & he doesn't know where yours are. The last two times he's done this, it's burned him badly. I guess I ...

I agree - John is always going to be fishing around to go on the Offensive. He needs to fix of killing something Allied, in a lot of cases, anything Allied.