Coral Sea Much More Fun - Thoughts on Other Scens

[Gregor_SSG]

ORIGINAL: Adam Parker

I've played Coral Sea 6 times now as the US. Here's my record:

US carriers lost 12.
IJN carriers lost 1.

I just can't go to the Great Barrier Reef anymore [:)]

How does one play cat and mouse with the Japanese - I personally think they're flying spotter planes out of Brisbane in this one?

Toursits [;)].

Damn, Alan has spotted our super secret '5th Column' option where covert Japanese teams, under a cover story of shark spotting, hire civilian aircraft and cruise over the Coral Sea, secretly reporting all his dispositions back to Tokyo.

Gregor

[Rick Bradley]

I got a marginal victory as the US in my first try at the Coral Sea. I was able to strike the 2 big guys first with only minor damage to the Yorktown. The Zuikaku was reported as sunk but in fact found out at the end that it had been badly damaged and the damaged the Shokaku also. You really can't be a cowboy because you will lose. I later got the Yorktown within range of those darn Bettys and about 3 torpedos hits did her in. Hung the Lexington around south of PM along with the surface group until it became evident that the Japanese invasion force had turned around with the damage to the two big carriers and then headed to port. I lost 79 carrier aircraft to the Japanese 127. Many of my loses were due to the Lexington being sunk and the Yorktown being far away. I have a question about that and will make it another post.

GREAT GAME, I think it has legs.

[Reg]

ORIGINAL: Chris Merchant

yep, the AI uses the same game routines as the human player, so it gets similarly dodgy sighting reports from its planes for instance, and doesn't receive any kind of bonus for anything.

That's a pretty well crafted computer opponent I'd say.

SSG has always been known for the quality of their AI.....