RE: (open places) World War III - East vs West: Game III -
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:54 pm
Rufus,
You played a good game once you got some experience under your belt. Your not doing that badly as PDRC stands. I don't think you are in a position to go down very quickly....on the other hand...it looks like you would have a very uphill struggle to try to turn things around from this point and make significant gains.
The India\Pakistan thing is a very interesting dynamic. I believe PDRC has to get in there VERY quickly if the US player is competent and doing reasonably well elsewhere. The border area between Burma and India is a real natural choke-point with difficult terrain and a very constricted axis of attack. If the US player can bring down Pakistan at a reasonable speed and pump forces into India before the PDRC can push through that area... he can basicly stack up the PDRC's advance in that area and turn it into Flanders circa 1915 (which interesting is what alot of Europe seems to have resembled for a good portion of this game). You almost pushed through that choke point at one point to be able to do a little more open field manuver...but even then I had some units a little further back to help contain that advance. Right now, I think you'd have a tough time pushing through and sustaining an advance on that front.
Your biggest problem I think is that you lost your Navy. Which pretty much limits your options in the Pacific...and leaves mine fairly open. I think PDRC plays a little bit in this Scenerio like Japan does in WWII. You've got a very decent Navy...and even a local advantage against the US at start. However, your time window for sustaining that advantage is limited unless you can seize production quickly and pump alot into naval builds.
Basicaly you've got to get maximum use of the advantage while you've got it... and exploit it quickly. At the same time you've got to preserve your navy as much as possible. Even if you don't exploit your local advantage at start....you have to preserve some naval power as a threat in being....otherwise you allow the US to pretty much operate with impunity... and hit you pretty much wherever it wants....without worrying over-much about retaliation or protecting it's backfield.
One big factor that also hurt you in this particular game was that I was able to steam-roll the Middle-East very quickly....and PACT never made much progress in Turkey...thus not forcing me to worry much about that front. This allowed me to really concentrate on pumping resources (and naval forces) into Asia...without having to worry much about the Middle-East...and to easly ship replacements from the East Coast of the US into India without worrying about any interdiction. That's a huge boon to the US.
Chris
You played a good game once you got some experience under your belt. Your not doing that badly as PDRC stands. I don't think you are in a position to go down very quickly....on the other hand...it looks like you would have a very uphill struggle to try to turn things around from this point and make significant gains.
The India\Pakistan thing is a very interesting dynamic. I believe PDRC has to get in there VERY quickly if the US player is competent and doing reasonably well elsewhere. The border area between Burma and India is a real natural choke-point with difficult terrain and a very constricted axis of attack. If the US player can bring down Pakistan at a reasonable speed and pump forces into India before the PDRC can push through that area... he can basicly stack up the PDRC's advance in that area and turn it into Flanders circa 1915 (which interesting is what alot of Europe seems to have resembled for a good portion of this game). You almost pushed through that choke point at one point to be able to do a little more open field manuver...but even then I had some units a little further back to help contain that advance. Right now, I think you'd have a tough time pushing through and sustaining an advance on that front.
Your biggest problem I think is that you lost your Navy. Which pretty much limits your options in the Pacific...and leaves mine fairly open. I think PDRC plays a little bit in this Scenerio like Japan does in WWII. You've got a very decent Navy...and even a local advantage against the US at start. However, your time window for sustaining that advantage is limited unless you can seize production quickly and pump alot into naval builds.
Basicaly you've got to get maximum use of the advantage while you've got it... and exploit it quickly. At the same time you've got to preserve your navy as much as possible. Even if you don't exploit your local advantage at start....you have to preserve some naval power as a threat in being....otherwise you allow the US to pretty much operate with impunity... and hit you pretty much wherever it wants....without worrying over-much about retaliation or protecting it's backfield.
One big factor that also hurt you in this particular game was that I was able to steam-roll the Middle-East very quickly....and PACT never made much progress in Turkey...thus not forcing me to worry much about that front. This allowed me to really concentrate on pumping resources (and naval forces) into Asia...without having to worry much about the Middle-East...and to easly ship replacements from the East Coast of the US into India without worrying about any interdiction. That's a huge boon to the US.
Chris