Just going through a combat report...

[Kull]

So. You are the Allies and it's early 1943. And for those newbies who are still living on a string in 1942....let me tell you. This is just the BEGINNING of the excess you will not so much revel in, as complain about. "What AM I going to do with that next set of Fletchers!?"

But even so, Allied Central War Command has its priorities, and you DO have to abide by them (in a game which deludes you into thinking that, just maybe, you *could* control EVERYTHING, lol). For example. What about your plans to build out those Balloon Units beginning to arrive on the West Coast? At the rate of, maybe, a couple balloons a month.

Here's the true beauty of the game. I imagine the young unit commander (glasses of course, perhaps even the whisper of a stutter), sending off each lonely mission, and then writing long, eventless reports justifying each one. And of course, inevitably, one of the highly trained but ludicrously inexperienced pilots, eventually "pillows one in". And, typewriter clacking, trying to shine a vague-but-oh-so helpful, light upon the event, our young officer realizes that somewhere out there, in the infinity, Planning Central won't be sending him a single replacement for a long, LONG time. (Rest assured, however, they ARE carefully studying the unit leader replacement lists)

[jdsrae]

I disagree with one point Kull, the suggestion that Personnel Division staff even know where to find the unit leader replacement lists!
I find myself regularly thinking “How did this bloke graduate Naval/Military College, let alone end up in command. He must know someone that knows someone.”

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: jdsrae

I disagree with one point Kull, the suggestion that Personnel Division staff even know where to find the unit leader replacement lists!
I find myself regularly thinking “How did this bloke graduate Naval/Military College, let alone end up in command. He must know someone that knows someone.”

Ass kissing and boot licking, not taking a chance so there are no failures attributed to him, taking credit for other peoples work . . .

[drum_taps]

I have made it to the end of April '43. It does seem like the tap has opened up a bit in terms of reinforcements. The Corsairs and Hellcats are are rolling in and I see from my intelligence screen I have a group of Thunderbolts arriving in a couple weeks. I've been getting sub chasers for the past few months. Those glorified PT boats have been surprisingly strong. Pesky Japanese subs are no longer a problem. My only gripe now is I wish the japanese still had a little more fight in them. I have been playing on historical and I was barely hanging on for the first year of war. I just kicked up the AI to hard and hope I start getting a better fight, but not too much fight[;)].

[ggeilman]

Sometimes I can't make heads or tails of the combat reports and the ships sunk. One day it shows I sunk a CVL, the next I sink it again. Other times ships that are supposedly sunk disappear from the list.

[Ian R]

If you turn off Fog of War you get the truth. But to quote Commander Spock -

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: ggeilman

Sometimes I can't make heads or tails of the combat reports and the ships sunk. One day it shows I sunk a CVL, the next I sink it again. Other times ships that are supposedly sunk disappear from the list.

This is why you need to watch combat animations and read the combat reports and ops reports. The animation virtually always shows the correct artwork for the vessels involved, so you have ship class verification. After that, which vessel of that class was sunk is a minor point. I find that most often the ship name in the animation is correct and the combat report is the one suffering FOW. The ops report can provide verification of a vessel sinking at the end of the report where the opposition admits the loss, sometimes months after the battle.

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: ggeilman

Sometimes I can't make heads or tails of the combat reports and the ships sunk. One day it shows I sunk a CVL, the next I sink it again. Other times ships that are supposedly sunk disappear from the list.

This is why you need to watch combat animations and read the combat reports and ops reports. The animation virtually always shows the correct artwork for the vessels involved, so you have ship class verification. After that, which vessel of that class was sunk is a minor point. I find that most often the ship name in the animation is correct and the combat report is the one suffering FOW. The ops report can provide verification of a vessel sinking at the end of the report where the opposition admits the loss, sometimes months after the battle.

Absolutely. I go as far as having a spreadsheet with all the enemy capital ships (down to CL). I delete them as I know they sink and have a notes section for each identifying last sighting location & date and any known damage with location and date.

[Kull]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Absolutely. I go as far as having a spreadsheet with all the enemy capital ships (down to CL). I delete them as I know they sink and have a notes section for each identifying last sighting location & date and any known damage with location and date.

(\Claude Rains mode) “I'm shocked, shocked, to find that Mike Solli would have a spreadsheet for this!"(/Claude Rains mode)

[ggeilman]

A spreadsheet sounds like a great idea if I had any idea of what the Japanese have, lol! All I know the sunk ship report shows them down 1 BB, 3 CL, 1 CVL and 7 SS so far! Post Dec 7, I have lost 1 CL and 1 sub myself though 2/2/42.

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Kull

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Absolutely. I go as far as having a spreadsheet with all the enemy capital ships (down to CL). I delete them as I know they sink and have a notes section for each identifying last sighting location & date and any known damage with location and date.

(\Claude Rains mode) “I'm shocked, shocked, to find that Mike Solli would have a spreadsheet for this!"(/Claude Rains mode)

Exactly my first thought, Kull! [:D]