Well thank you very much. I do try to present the salient details and so on.
ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury
for how long do you plan to play it?
Being a JFB, I can tell you had already win; you have inflicting way too many loses for the AI to recover. That said, you can still have a lot of fun for the next months
I have dreams of waves of B-29's devestating the home island cities. But if I've already won then I'm guessing maybe I should start
over. In the next game I'll just do the Sir Robin Defense and the game will turn out different. Stay tuned.
ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury
Having only played against the AI, I can tell that the key for a longer game is to try to avoid using historical knowledge or strategies that would not work against a human (using PT boats as bait for example).
I'm using my PT boats as bait in my game w/ Jim and he doesn't shoot them either. I'm thinking that maybe I should just return them to
the pool and the problem is solved. I don't have much use for PT boats at Pearl but in the Celebes for example, they could work as
early warning picket ships or something.
ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury
The Japanese AI is in particular very vulnerable because of it inherent "wastefulness"; the Allied AI is as wasteful, but it lives in the land of the plenty, so I think it would still throw good punches later on. Japan on the other hand, had few replacements coming and
its economy, unless it successfully captures the SRA, is going to crash rather soon.
I agree. I'm into 28Mar42 in my game w/ Jim and already I'm seeing the Japanese bases w/ resource centers unable to keep up w/ my
grabbing of them. And there's a lot of one-shot sources where there's resources but no Resource Center present and once you've
moved all those resources they are gone. It's going to be interesting seeing what happens next.
So, I guess I'll start over on my game.Anybody have a favorite scenario that they want to see played?
ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury
I know that most people that wants a very challenging Jap AI goes Ironman;
the AI still as wasteful as always, but it has a lot more "toys" to play with
I've heard of the Ironman scenario. Sounds VERY challenging. Have you tried it already?
I've started over. This time I'm using scenario 70, RA 4.2 w/ a stock map. These are the losses for the first day:
So um......I couldn't get the Pearl Harbor attack into a picture, you couldn't read the text so I'm going to do the next best
thing and post the verbage of the attack here below.
Midget Sub attack inside harbor of Pearl Harbor!!!
Japanese Ships
SSX Ha-18, hits 3, heavy damage
Allied Ships
PC Taney
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Morning Air attack on Pearl Harbor , at 180,107
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 45 minutes
The sky was darkened by Japanese planes.
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 87
B5N2 Kate x 147
D3A1 Val x 135
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed by flak
B5N2 Kate: 13 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 6 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 11 damaged
D3A1 Val: 2 destroyed by flak
Allied Ships
BB Maryland, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 5, and is sunk
DD Schley, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
BB California, Torpedo hits 6, and is sunk
BB Pennsylvania, Torpedo hits 5, and is sunk
BB Tennessee, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 5, and is sunk
BB West Virginia, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
CL Helena, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
BB Oklahoma, Torpedo hits 7, and is sunk
CL Honolulu, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DM Ramsay, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
BB Arizona, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 7, and is sunk
CL Raleigh, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
BB Nevada, Torpedo hits 7, and is sunk
DD Aylwin, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire
AV Curtiss, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Phelps, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
CL Phoenix, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS Tambor, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
DM Preble, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Monaghan, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Dewey, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
AV Tangier, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
PT-23, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
DD Worden, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AV Wright, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
CL St. Louis, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hull, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DM Tracy, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DD Dale, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
SS Dolphin, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Selfridge, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
DD Bagley, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD MacDonough, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
CM Oglala, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
DD Farragut, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
AM Rail, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DMS Zane, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AR Medusa, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AR Vestal, Torpedo hits 1
DM Pruitt, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DMS Perry, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
DD Jarvis, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Patterson, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Cassin, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
DD Shaw, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AE Pyro, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AO Ramapo, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
AO Neosho, Torpedo hits 1
xAP St. Mihel, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
SS Cachalot, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PT-26, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DM Gamble, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Here's a list of the failed industries. All but one failed for lack of resources. I expect to be able to do something about almost all the
cases listed here.
I was going through the list of all TF's and found a ship that wasn't made into a TF yet at Abden and for some reason I can click on the anchor symbol all I want to and niothing happens so I'm thinking that I'm playing w/ the altered map data and it doesn't match the map
and so I'm going to have to start over yet again. So I'm abandoning this AAR to start a new one all over again.
Before you restart Larry, what are a couple of key lessons you learnt from this game ?
A couplle of key lessons I learnt from the game?
(1) don't disband a ship in a hex where there is no port and then start a repair because you'll cause the ship to be "stuck" there until the hex has a port. I found that out at Zamboanga when the port was 100% damaged. Had a BB there for minor repairs and didn't happen to notice that it said 0 days for a repair time and put her in repair mode and then when I tried to put it back in service I couldn't. D'oh.
(2) Um.....there isn't a lot of rapid moving around when you're ships are doing ASW and there's a react range you can specify so I
usually just position some PB's and SC's and TB's around my port(s) and then leave them there. The only reason I might move them
after that is if they run out of ammo.
(3) Jap ships seem to "do better" in combat against Allied ships during the early war period. More experience is likely.
(4) the RA 4.2 scenario has attenuated the supply situation a lot over the stock version and the Japanese player has to really micro-
manage the economy to prevent a late-early-war collapse of the economy due to lack of resources. Seems to come to a head in a
time period just after April of 42.
(5) the time committment of a player to a game in PBEM especially is usually total if done correctly. There's lots of things a player
can do even after he/she has sent his/her moves to one's opponent. You can do a map study and make notes on things that need
to be done yet. Planes to be moved, ships to be repaired, ports to be expanded, LCU's to be moved, etc.
I'll think of some more just after I click on "ok".
