The Good The Bad & The Indifferent

[BBfanboy]

Could the poor results at Shikuka and Toyohara be attributed to poor D/L on the targets?
If that is the case, the MD/L should be much better now that you have bombed it and a second attack should have more luck.

[Canoerebel]

That's a good thought. Of course, John should counter by moving fighters here pronto. How should I play it? Stand down or return?

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Could the poor results at Shikuka and Toyohara be attributed to poor D/L on the targets?
If that is the case, the MD/L should be much better now that you have bombed it and a second attack should have more luck.

To this point, are you also actively running recon missions to your strategic bombing targets?

Yes, the bombers will do their own recon, but they only boost DL by 2 points while recon type aircraft boost DL by 4 points.

[Canoerebel]

Yes, nearly all my recon squadrons are in Korea now, but I don't always target bases under reconnaissance. Trying to keep John guessing.

[Canoerebel]

Question: Microsoft, the most hated corporation in my household, did one of those automatic updates yesterday. It's done something to my game screen. Now, whenever I move the cursor around, the color of the underlying screen (which happens to be mainly bright blue) bleeds through, overtopping or "erasing" the actual game screen.

Is there a switch I need to use or something else I need to do to give the game control of my screen?

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Question: Microsoft, the most hated corporation in my household, did one of those automatic updates yesterday. It's done something to my game screen. Now, whenever I move the cursor around, the color of the underlying screen (which happens to be mainly bright blue) bleeds through, overtopping or "erasing" the actual game screen.

Is there a switch I need to use or something else I need to do to give the game control of my screen?

You have been found by the bug that appears to be destroying this game.

tm.asp?m=4390639

So far, no one has found a good fix.

[Canoerebel]

Thanks for the link, Lecivius. The second post in that threat (by witpqs) seems to have worked for me.

[Lecivius]

Interesting. It did nothing for me (and some others). Very curious [&:]

[Canoerebel]

Oops, it worked for three minutes. Short shelf life. Now I'm back to the bleed through.

[BillBrown]

Every day I give thanks that I stayed with Windows 7, never upgraded. I do hope my super computer will last a long time.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: GetAssista
At this point in the campaign you should encourage John's offensive operations on land by all means possible I guess. Cue supply drain and potential trashing of good LCUs like so many times before in those risky counter-attacks

Agreed.

For those wondering "why Korea instead of China?" here's the answer. China is a vast land sucking up supply. The terrain is good for maneuver and the Allies had a strong western army that could take on any Japanese force. But airfields and supply are too scarce and depositing any for distribution tends to see it frittered away here and there. Also, it is hard to destroy enemy units here. They're more likely to retreat further north, further from my airfields and supply and closer to his.

But Korea is sort of an "island." The supply dropped at Gunzan filters inland but not beyond my perimeter. The Japanese army there is large. Mine is large. The terrain offers some good opportunities. And everything is proximate to my big airfield. A number of targets are susceptible to bombardment TFs. I like the setup a lot. The disadvantage is that John can try a Dunkirk, but if Allied air eventually dominates, that's not as much of an option. I'll try to make John lose an army here.

Well all that and then the obvious. Big bases in Korea put almost all of Japanese industry within fighter and medium bomber range. I really don't think it is worth fighting for the interior of China at all. Secure the coast and move on to Korea as soon as possible.

[Lokasenna]

This is why I manually select my updates.

Edit - I bet if you went into windowed mode (make sure you add -px and -py switches to make sure your window isn't small), it would fix it.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: GetAssista
At this point in the campaign you should encourage John's offensive operations on land by all means possible I guess. Cue supply drain and potential trashing of good LCUs like so many times before in those risky counter-attacks

Agreed.

For those wondering "why Korea instead of China?" here's the answer. China is a vast land sucking up supply. The terrain is good for maneuver and the Allies had a strong western army that could take on any Japanese force. But airfields and supply are too scarce and depositing any for distribution tends to see it frittered away here and there. Also, it is hard to destroy enemy units here. They're more likely to retreat further north, further from my airfields and supply and closer to his.

But Korea is sort of an "island." The supply dropped at Gunzan filters inland but not beyond my perimeter. The Japanese army there is large. Mine is large. The terrain offers some good opportunities. And everything is proximate to my big airfield. A number of targets are susceptible to bombardment TFs. I like the setup a lot. The disadvantage is that John can try a Dunkirk, but if Allied air eventually dominates, that's not as much of an option. I'll try to make John lose an army here.

Well all that and then the obvious. Big bases in Korea put almost all of Japanese industry within fighter and medium bomber range. I really don't think it is worth fighting for the interior of China at all. Secure the coast and move on to Korea as soon as possible.

One of Dan's stated strategic goals was to harvest points for destruction of IJA units. Most of the ones left in China are beat up and/or low on supply so continuing the mop-up using mostly Chinese units costs little and does not take away from the Korea end-game strategy. Some supply is reaching the Chinese via the Burma road and the Indo-china LST run from CRB to Hanoi or even Foochow.

[Canoerebel]

crsutton is right. The main reason I came to Korea was the airfield(s).

BBfanboy is right. The main reason I'm still working the North China angle is that I've found that points for enemy men destroyed is the most efficient way to score points in the game. Some of you may remember that, long ago, I trailed in that category by 3,000 to 21,000. I had a hope of closing to 16,000 to 24,000 by the end of the game. Today, the score stands at 22,100 to 25,500. Pocketing and destroying Japanese units is worthwhile. That's an important objective in both Korea and China...especially if I keep struggling in the air war.

[Bearcat2]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Oops, it worked for three minutes. Short shelf life. Now I'm back to the bleed through.

Try taking out the " -dd_sw "

Originally with WIN10, game wouldn't work for me without that switch because of slow scrolling, but after this latest update, had the same problem as you currently have, took out that switch and no more bleed through and scrolling remained fast.

This is all I am using now: -deepColor -x1920 -y1080

[Canoerebel]

Thanks, Bearcat. I'll give it a try.

[witpqs]

At one point Alfred clarified the issue of base repair: while base and base fortification building requires supply, base repair does not require supply. If a base is not repairing the issue is a lack of appropriate engineers which are in combat mode and enabled (meaning not disabled squads).

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: Bearcat2

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Oops, it worked for three minutes. Short shelf life. Now I'm back to the bleed through.

Try taking out the " -dd_sw "

Originally with WIN10, game wouldn't work for me without that switch because of slow scrolling, but after this latest update, had the same problem as you currently have, took out that switch and no more bleed through and scrolling remained fast.

This is all I am using now: -deepColor -x1920 -y1080

Thanks, Bearcat. I deleted the -dd_sw from my Obvert game file and it worked. The replay ran right and the turn itself ran right. There was not bleed through nor any trouble scrolling.

I haven't tried it yet with my John game, as he won't send the turn until sometime later today (or, for that matter, tomorrow), but it should work there too.

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: witpqs
At one point Alfred clarified the issue of base repair: while base and base fortification building requires supply, base repair does not require supply. If a base is not repairing the issue is a lack of appropriate engineers which are in combat mode and enabled (meaning not disabled squads).

This is one of those things I am incapable of remembering. It just doesn't stick in my head. Same as the "no withdrawals from Pearl Harbor." Each game, I have to learn that again.

On the flip side, I've never had any trouble remember the rule about fleet carrier ops in base hexes. Alot of players seem to have it fixed in my mind that the limitation applies to any coastal hex.

[Jellicoe]

+1

Thanks Bearcat, that worked a treat - worth sticking in the main thread