Imperial Tide: DW (J) vs Nemo (A)

[PaxMondo]

Wow! I'm really impressed with your Karachi attack. Obviously, you have a lot of reserves near by and are able to replace trashed ID's with new ones. Where are you re-building your beat up ID's? Also, how many days in between attacks? Finally, do you own all of India with this, or did you walk up the coast from Bombay?

Amazing job!!!

[DesertWolf101]

Wow! I'm really impressed with your Karachi attack. Obviously, you have a lot of reserves near by and are able to replace trashed ID's with new ones. Where are you re-building your beat up ID's? Also, how many days in between attacks? Finally, do you own all of India with this, or did you walk up the coast from Bombay?

Amazing job!!!

I have captured all of India and Ceylon except for the beseiged Allies in Delhi and Karachi and some out of supply remnants around the India-Burma border. I rebuild my devisions at Hyderabad (Sindh), with around a week between each attack on Karachi. Here is the latest map:

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[PaxMondo]

Crikey, so you've taken just about everything except the PI (although it looks like you have Mindanao). You've also taken most of the SE pacific. You've also already taken the Aleutians.

So that only leaves: SOV, OZ, NZ, and NA.

I think I might take out NA to Vancouver. You could strat bomb a ton of VP's from there.

I never like going for OZ. Lotta resources to do it, not much reward, easy for the allies to retake.

NZ can be fun as it is much quicker, but like OZ not much reward and again the allies can retake easily.

SOV: worse than OZ in terms of effort and reward, BUT it does help the end game. Still, hard to keep the SOV units bottled up ...

Anyway, you have a few weeks after you cleanup the PI ... whatever you choose will be entertaining ...

[CaptBeefheart]

Crikey, so you've taken just about everything except the PI (although it looks like you have Mindanao). You've also taken most of the SE pacific. You've also already taken the Aleutians.

So that only leaves: SOV, OZ, NZ, and NA.

I think I might take out NA to Vancouver. You could strat bomb a ton of VP's from there.

I never like going for OZ. Lotta resources to do it, not much reward, easy for the allies to retake.

NZ can be fun as it is much quicker, but like OZ not much reward and again the allies can retake easily.

SOV: worse than OZ in terms of effort and reward, BUT it does help the end game. Still, hard to keep the SOV units bottled up ...

Anyway, you have a few weeks after you cleanup the PI ... whatever you choose will be entertaining ...

The thing about OZ and NZ is how does he get there, what with the South Pacific in Japanese hands. Maybe a Cape Town to West OZ invasion? Barring an NA invasion, taking the Antipodes might be the only chance to do something interesting.

Cheers,
CB

[John 3rd]

I've taken both Australia and NZ in Campaigns. If you want a limited thrust that does not require huge numbers of troops, drive on NZ. You have already activated the emergency reinforcements so that means nothing. NZ completely cuts Aussieland off and you might bag a good amount of shipping...

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I would eyeball taking Seattle and Portland. Change the b29 factory and at portland keep the CVEs out of the game.

[DesertWolf101]

The campaign continues, now November 8, 1942.

At Karachi, the combination of huge amounts of flak, superpowered Allied engineers, and stacking limits make taking the city extremely difficult. This is what I mean: when I get the forts reduced to level 2 or 3, it's a struggle to keep them reduced at that level as the Allied flak is very dense and makes low level bombing impossible and engineers are extremely effective at ultra fast repair. Even regular BB/CA shuttle bombardments don't do the trick. I am also unable to overwhelm the allies at Karachi at that fort level since I can only bring so many troops in at a time due to stacking limits. Essentially, the strategy has now shifted to exhausting the garrison's supply. My mistake here was underestimating the insane repair speed of Allied engineers.

Elsewhere on the map, I have cleared out the Philippines and am gearing up for new offensive action. The game remains very interesting. Here is the current score:

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[DesertWolf101]

Here is the strategic map:

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[CaptBeefheart]

I was going to say you have to bleed the supplies at Karachi but you figured it out by the end of the paragraph. Hopefully the stockpile there is low.

Can't wait to see where you hit next. Could it be the ever elusive successful invasion of North America? The world wonders.

Cheers,
CB