What's your Strategy?
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ORIGINAL: ny59giants
I'll be your Allied opponent if you want.
However, I will miss reading your AAR and your rants.[:D]
Seriously?
You would then get my rants exclusively by email! [:D][:D]
ORIGINAL: castor troy
Seems Helpless and me have just gotten into the discussion phase again. Half an hour of the acception of my surrender my opponent has sent me an email offering me to redo the turn with the P38s downgraded to other fighters as he missed this sentense in the design notes.
Should I go on with my rant PBEM? [:D]
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
quote:
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
I'll be your Allied opponent if you want.
However, I will miss reading your AAR and your rants.[:D]
Seriously?
You would then get my rants exclusively by email! [:D][:D]
As long as I get to 9am EST (I live within the American eastern time zone) to check my e-mails and get them before the whole world gets access to them. I'm fine with them (I am a Crisis Counselor for Children/Adolescents IRL and am use to dealing with rants). If the time comes to find an opponent, I'm game.
ORIGINAL: Big B
ORIGINAL: castor troy
Seems Helpless and me have just gotten into the discussion phase again. Half an hour of the acception of my surrender my opponent has sent me an email offering me to redo the turn with the P38s downgraded to other fighters as he missed this sentense in the design notes.
Should I go on with my rant PBEM? [:D]
Personally - I think you would both be better off to have a rematch with 1.4 in a couple of days.
Most of the things that bothered you most have been addressed, and the air model looks (I think) much better...not to saying it's less "bloody", but Nate's and Oscar I's are very much worth while now, etc.
Also China will be far less capable of offensive action, and the Philippine Army will be less effective overall...
I'd say - cool off a few days and do a re-match.
. I´m not as lucky as the Chinese and the bombers that are ordered to attack Amboina don´t fly and get destroyed on the ground. The attacking bombers aren´t suffering at all IMO. Many Zeroes are destroyed. Looking at the base there are so few operational aircraft that 100% must have been destroyed or damaged with this attack (a couple of them are repaired after the replay). The bomber units there have all around 3-5 planes undamaged. Same goes for the Zeroes. We have 350 air support at the base. Several AA regiments. The base isn´t operational for offensive actions anymore with an airfield damage of 78 and an airbase damage of 43! And this after one unescorted long range strike of 13 hexes against the second best defended Japanese base on the map. [8|]
Two torps into San Francisco would have been worth losing the sub though. Would love to have some statistics in the game. Following my feeling then 75% of all shots at warships were misses so far. At least now I know why my subs in this area are spotted by Dauntless all the time. This is a hunter killer group with the Long Island in it. What a pity I don´t have some carriers in the area. The TF is in range of my 108 Betties at Noumea though, never seen an attack so far... Of course I won´t see any transports in this area as they surely take a complete different route.
While knowing that Op losses happened alot I wonder if it really was normal to lose 10%+ of the planes that were launched when not even facing enemy fighters nor flak... LRCAP must be some VERY dangerous mission... [:o]
This is the hex where I have to shock attack into (the one I originally owned..). There are six units! 1 HQ, 1 tank regiment, 5 divisions. So ALL the attacking bombers decide to attack the HQ unit with an assault value of 0! [8|] Only the Allied bombers have the privileg to disperse and attack more than one unit and disrupting them all. My bombers focus on ONE unit and to make it completely laughable they focus on a target without any combat troops! Perhaps we should compare the losses. The 100 Allied bombers cause 600+ casualties at Mandalay, the 180 IJA bombers cause 180 casualties with this attack. Whopping one casualty (disabled) for an attacking bomber. I don´t face any flak fire and lose 6 Sallies to ops (there is no daitai with exp below 75, in fact there are mostly 85+ exp daitais). The 100 Allied bombers lose 1 bomber to ops attacking a target with 5 AA regiments and 4 base forces...ORIGINAL: ny59giants
A lot of the process done by the AI involves the unit ID number. For LCU's, the HQ units have a lower ID and thus are subjects to attacks first (land and by air). When it comes to naval units, the lower numbers are looked at first when it comes to expending shipyard repair points. Thus, CV's are 1st, BB's are 2nd, etc. I would imagine it is a software thing. [&:][&:]
On the question of mines inflicting damage, there was a thread some time ago that explained the differences that each type have. I just had a DD hit a mine early in the game in a shallow hex next to Jolo and sunk with 1 hit.[:(][:(]
I had SS Shark launch 4 torpedo attacks against an AK off the north coast of Luzon and none exploded. [:@][:@] However, my opponent is not happy with my sub and PT Boat success so far in 12/41. [:D][:D]
I had SS Shark launch 4 torpedo attacks against an AK off the north coast of Luzon and none exploded
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
In an abstract sort of way it does. Maybe not as much if you look at combat in the WW2 way, but look at how the USA took out Iraq twice. The mission of the LBA's and then the LCU's was to take out the Command and Control of the military. Without effective leadership, your combat units are less effective. In WitP that is reflected in the amount of support your units need to function well and that comes mainly from HQ's. If the HQ's are weakened, then your combat strenght is also weakened.
If the top few LCU's got hit then only those units would be weakened and not the whole stack of units. Then everyone would break down there top few infantry units to Brigades/Regiments and only one division would be knocked out of combat. With the HQ's taking the hit, the whole stack is weakeneed (less support).
I'm not saying I support this way to resolve combat, but this is the way I see it being done.
FYI - I made my 1001 post on your AAR and earned my "Matrix Legion of Merit" with you. [:D]
