RE: 18th November:
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:21 am
Harlock,
Well, if I win or lose I want to win or lose based on play and not on something unfair. Obviously though I play the game as opposed to following history rigidly so I'm fine with sending in 100 PT boats in a night, if they're in range etc etc. With that said, where I draw the line is where I draw the line and I wouldn't want to beat Damian in some sense just because the code F'ed up.
Schlemiel,
To be honest I don't think that spreading CV TFs out is much of a defence. At best it would just reduce your losses since only a single hex worth of CVs would get slaughtered. I think that the testing I'm planning this weekend should help actually put a statistical basis on this. Until that data is in I'm not really sure how the Allies can counter this except by not getting themselves into situations where the Japanese can throw such huge numbers at them. Actually that's pretty easy because so long as you don't invade the Home Islands you shouldn't be facing such massive strikes.
Damian's initial take is that an HR would be impossible to enforce and, in any case, he isn't going to be doing something as silly as running up to within 100 miles of the coast of Japan with his CVs ( which is purely suicidal if Japan isn't utterly devastated already ). GJ's error was not in the tactics of his defence etc ( although his altitude band staggering was wasteful and his CAP settings were poor ) but the fact that he ever put that operation into motion. That operation should have been aborted the instant it was thought of.
Well, if I win or lose I want to win or lose based on play and not on something unfair. Obviously though I play the game as opposed to following history rigidly so I'm fine with sending in 100 PT boats in a night, if they're in range etc etc. With that said, where I draw the line is where I draw the line and I wouldn't want to beat Damian in some sense just because the code F'ed up.
Schlemiel,
To be honest I don't think that spreading CV TFs out is much of a defence. At best it would just reduce your losses since only a single hex worth of CVs would get slaughtered. I think that the testing I'm planning this weekend should help actually put a statistical basis on this. Until that data is in I'm not really sure how the Allies can counter this except by not getting themselves into situations where the Japanese can throw such huge numbers at them. Actually that's pretty easy because so long as you don't invade the Home Islands you shouldn't be facing such massive strikes.
Damian's initial take is that an HR would be impossible to enforce and, in any case, he isn't going to be doing something as silly as running up to within 100 miles of the coast of Japan with his CVs ( which is purely suicidal if Japan isn't utterly devastated already ). GJ's error was not in the tactics of his defence etc ( although his altitude band staggering was wasteful and his CAP settings were poor ) but the fact that he ever put that operation into motion. That operation should have been aborted the instant it was thought of.