Huge Success!! Shanghai is almost recaptured

[sir_lovealot]

As I said in my previous post, I diverted 200k+ chinese troops to Burma at early months of the war. I succeeded in recapture all of Siam, after broke through japanese lines and completely destroy 5 jap divisions in Burma. I am able to isolate Malaya by land at Songkhia. My combined army is keep on rolling by recapturing Saigon and Hanoi without much resistance offered by Jap's engineers and HQ units. After recapturing Hongkong, my force is swelled by numbers by combining other chinese troops locked in stalemate in this particular area.

Today is September 13th, 1943
My 650,000 british, Indian, and Chinese troops are at the gate of Shanghai. They're not only strong in number but also battle hardened after arduous long voyage all the way from Burma, with average of 99 experience points. I have to admit, US and ANZAC forces are a little ignored. To compensate this, I have recaptured Rabaul and Saipan by the middle of 1943. Truk port and airfield are under daily bombardment by 4 bomber groups from Rabaul. Marshall islands is completely bypassed. It is possible because I am able to succesfully defend Wake Is. and gain significant foothold in Central Pacific. Next month I will begin the invasion of Luzon at the perfect landing spot, [43,53] coordinate. By early 1944, I will invade Formosa at another perfect spot [49,44] coordinate to form a 'line of death' to strangle japanese empire, instead of invading strategically unimportant Okinawa and Iwojima.

I will use Shanghai and its satellite cities as the B-29 bombers and with its fairly good ship repair facility as the forward base of US carriers.

I'm confident, by early 1945 I will win an automatic victory without the need of atomic bombs.

[tsimmonds]

What is their supply requirement? How are you furnishing supply to them?

[sir_lovealot]

The frontline in China is a straight line between Wuhan and Shanghai. The supply line to Yunan (500 supplies/day) is absolutely secure. I somehow by accident managed to slip 6 AKs to Camranh Bay, when they mindlessly returned to San Francisco through Malacca strait. These cargo ships are running continuous supply to Hongkong from Camranh bay. I have 900,000+ supplies at Tavoy, perhaps that's the reason why Camranh Bay never run out of supplies.

[tsimmonds]

You are certainly romping the AI. That looks like it's been a fun game. After this one's done though, you should look for a PBEM. I bet you'd enjoy the challenge.

[Theng]

Maybe it's time to up the difficulty level? What difficulty level are you actually playing? Historic is a push-over, play hard or very hard

[sir_lovealot]

I'm playing at historical level.

But I think, the biggest contribution of my success is major flaw in AI. it virtually has no strategic initiative, it only react tactically by conducting local counter-attack..

If I play PBEM, human opponents will certainly attack Kunming with full force, once he detects large proportion of chinese troops are in Burma.

Just like many wargames, the difficulty level in WitP is based on quantitative parameters like logistic or combat advantages instead of qualitative parameters like better AI strategic judgement. That does'nt sound realistic enough for me....

I think I'll play as jap, after I win this.

PBEM play is simply impossible for me, the internet fee for private connection in my place is unaffordable.

[UncleBuck]

Good Job ,

Livingon Bali huh? I am invadign that soon in my game [:D]

UB

[sir_lovealot]

Yeah...come over... land at our sunny beach and enjoy our hospitality [8D]

Well.. not many people in my island are using internet.This discourages local ISPs to compete and make marketing manouvers, like offering affordable private connection. As you know..business competition is good for customers.

The plus side is...software piracy is rampant in my country. [:D] I can rent newest title like Call of Duty: 'United Offensive' at CD rental in my neighborhood for less than 1 US$.

Well...don't get wrong..I bought WitP because it is worth my money. I've been waiting for it since Uncommon Valor was released.