My favorite part is the attempted dig at the end.
Nice enough guy, but has some real issues to what playing a balanced a sporting game means.
Wasnt a dig. Was the truth. I knew the next time you were handed a defeat you'd quit. Was a matter of time. Played enough games to see it coming.
What commands are you releasing your units to?
I noticed you didnt answer THIS question.
So, as I said. Its ok for the allies to buy out units at a 25% rate, but not the Japs? Interesting...
The para stuff was mainly covered in these 2 E mails:
I didnt use a fragment. The entire Yokosuka Assault Bde dropped. Or at least as much as I could carry. The entire bde is there now, which Im sure you are about to find out.
And as I said, the Japs DID use squad to platoon sized drop to capture unoccupied bases (as did the Germans), so when they did it HISTORICALLY then yes frankly, I could give a rats ass what the "experts" on the board think. Ask them how many of them spent 11 years in the army, 3 of them TRAINING paratroops, Rangers, and special forces.
The Mavis L isnt a patrol plane. Its a transport. I dont have a mission list to search with it, or recon. It has the missions available to it that transports do. Nothing more, nothing less.
The people on the board claim that landing by sub is "gamey" as well, even though the US did it at Makin, and the Japs were planning to do it at Tinian as well. The people that oppose that are left-overs from WitP where you could lift whole divisions by sea. You cant do that in AE. Only airborne units can be moved by sub.
I guard my rear area bases - at least the ones I care about. I assume you will drop on anything within range of your longest range seaplane (PBY-4). Part of the game, part of war.
And yes, the seaplane torpedo exploit I have played against as well. While I will admit they did do it in the real war, the accuracy of the planes in the game is way out of whack. Like night bombing used to be (thank God Michael fixed that).
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Dont get me wrong, Im not saying that it applies in all cases. Dropping a fragment on San Francisco for example. No way a couple dozen guys are going to "control" anything. But a remote island base with no garrison, or likewise a remote airfield in the middle of Alaska? 4 guys with BB guns could "control" it. So making a hard and fast rule on it isnt appropriate. Kalgoorie is in the middle of a high traffic area, thus I dropped the entire unit not a fragment.
He had "assumed" that I dropped a fragment on Kalgoorie when in fact I dropped an entire para brigade on it. Love how he presents his "facts" and people eat it up like they are actually "facts". As they say, there are 2 sides to every story. I dont think I used my parachute units in an un-historical way. Likewise, I didnt commit units to battle in a manner outside the "spirit of the game.
Paying "full price" for a division means you can get about 1 a month. Look at when I sent released units into battle:
14th div in Feb 42 (2 months in).
8th and 9th divs in Apr 42 (4 months in).
1st div in Jul 42 (7 months in).
20th in Aug 42 (8 months in).
24th in Oct 42 (10 months in).
I released a total of 10 divisions in 10 months. Exactly on the "full price" timeline. Like I said, was just a matter of time before you quit on me. No dig, just a fact.
