your bag of dirty tricks.....

[wild_Willie2]

Hi guy’s let’s brag about al the devious things you have done to the AI or even better to your pbem opponent.

My favourites:

Holding a single IJN carriers (prefer KAGA) back in the east pacific after the pearl harbour strike, I use the subs near pearl as a scouting line in the east pacific and pounce some transport taskforce while your opponent saw the rest of the KB retreat near midway….
This costs your opponent (probably) some units and forces him to take al kind of time consuming measures to counter it. I unfortunately revealed the existence of my single carrier to soon and “only” bagged 4 destroyers (BAD INTEL).

Another one is to “lure” your opponent into an offensive with a weak force and then land a division or 2 at his rear to cut of his retreat.

[von Murrin]

Always take the dot bases in your rear. One of my favorite nuisance tactics is to sub transport a small portion of a base force into a dot base which I still own as well as some minimal supply. Then I fly in some high experience search aircraft for night naval bombing. Everybody leaves in the next day or two.

In the entire time I've played WITP, this has gotten 23 ships, including a CVE.[:D]

[SpitfireIX]

ORIGINAL: von Murrin

Always take the dot bases in your rear. One of my favorite nuisance tactics is to sub transport a small portion of a base force into a dot base which I still own as well as some minimal supply. Then I fly in some high experience search aircraft for night naval bombing. Everybody leaves in the next day or two.

In the entire time I've played WITP, this has gotten 23 ships, including a CVE.[:D]

von, sorry if this has been asked before, but could you please explain what's going on in your avatar picture? It looks like you cat is kung-fu-kicking your dog in the head.[&:]

[von Murrin]

That's precisely what's happening.[:D]

[MadmanRick]

The most devious trick I've played was to send an empty transport TF near to Bombay, as if I was going to invade it. I knew my PBEM opponent had some heavy surface units there, but I wasn't sure which ones. I had snuck a CV TF in behind the empty TF, to slam any SAG's that appeared. I managed a torp hit or two on Prince Of Wales, before he redocked his ships. Then I sprung the real plan. I sent in the full transports to Karachi, as I had planned all along and because he was already wary of my CV's he didn't try to disrupt my invasion. Everything worked to perfection, except that I was only able to score a minimal number of hits on his SAG. I am still battling at this moment to take Karachi, but it should go over fairly soon, as I hold a more than 10-1 advantage.

Rick

[Behemoth]

WOW, madman, Nice trick. Hats off. I can just see myself falling for this one... maybe even a few times. Thx for the tips guys!
-B

[wild_Willie2]

Madman, that IS devious. You misuse the game dynamix for your personal gain, GREAT.

[Oliver Heindorf]

ORIGINAL: von Murrin

That's precisely what's happening.[:D]

Kung-Fu Kitty ! YEAH ! [:D]

[von Murrin]

[:D]

Speaking of my avatar, drunken kitty should be coming off vacation sometime over the next few weeks.[:'(]

[DeepSix]

Your cat's name wouldn't be "Kato" would it?[;)]

[LittleJoe]

I like sending Japanese Pc and PG boats to "test" the defences before any invasion.

Thats about as devious as i get.

[mapr]

ORIGINAL: wild_Willie2

Madman, that IS devious. You misuse the game dynamix for your personal gain, GREAT.

I feel that not any more devious than this ships 'docked in port'/'ships in TF' stuff. I think opponent used game rules in much worse way as I think that doing tricks with ports is wery gamey.

That is because this makes Madman-like situations to be just quessing game whether ships are in port or not and whether which ships are there. Quessing game in a wery bad way in my opininion. Attacking player has no sensible way to try to locate those nasty BB's or even CV's only. Or any other certain ship type he is willing to sink.

Because of this, one is able to try wery nasty tricks to attacking player if he keeps he's fleets if hex with good sized port and some planes and wery good chance in succeeding.

[herbieh]

Nothing personal, you guys are too gamey for me[8|]

This must be the win at any cost the game thread. Note the game thread

Still, very devious

But not my cup of tea.

[pad152]

As allies right after Pearl, I like to sail the Enterprise & Lex CV groups straight to Manila, this has a real nasty effect on Japanese shipping in area.[:D]

[mogami]

Hi, See my Felix with his bag of tricks (holding up the Matrix Logo)

In my opinion a trick is when I am able to make the enemy react in a predicted manner that results in outcomes in my favor. I don't manipulate game mechanics I manipulate my opponents.

My most common method is simply to let the enemy succeed for a while. Be it bombardments with TF or air. It is my belief the other guy will be unable to quit while he is ahead and they will always come back one more time. The trick is to be ready when they do.

[janushm]

basically like mogami said...making my enemy react in a certain manner.....like he has the KB heading for colombo...i spot him early on as northern sumatra is still mine and a patrol squad or 2 are based there ...i manage to evac every combat vessel to the south and keep a couple of AK's in port to make it seem the port isnt abandoned.

meanwhile i base every fighter in the indian/burman theatre of war there and prepare to shoot down some elite KB flyers

[BraveHome]

ORIGINAL: Mogami
In my opinion a trick is when I am able to make the enemy react in a predicted manner that results in outcomes in my favor. I don't manipulate game mechanics I manipulate my opponents.

My most common method is simply to let the enemy succeed for a while. Be it bombardments with TF or air. It is my belief the other guy will be unable to quit while he is ahead and they will always come back one more time. The trick is to be ready when they do.

Have you been advising my PBEM opponent?! [:D]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: von Murrin

[:D]

Speaking of my avatar, drunken kitty should be coming off vacation sometime over the next few weeks.[:'(]

Yay! I see drunken kitty is back!!!

Reminds me of the sights on (or maybe just off) Bourbon Street![:D]

[Nikademus]

I like to lull my opponents into complacency by presenting them with a deliberately muddled and disorganized series of offensives that progress in fits and starts, generally giving off the impression that they'd been poorly planned.

All intentional of course.....all part of the master plan.....oh yeah....Redrum....

[Feinder]

Knavey and I have what I am quite sure, is the single most dirty trick available in game. I can in good conscience say that it is neither an exploit or gamey. It doesn't even have anything with loading units one way, or bait-n-swich, or even standing down spotters (which I thot I was very clever for doing that). It has been very tempting these past months to share it as a "strategy suggestion". However, seeing as we have several games going on at the moment (and other due to start with v1.5), it would be very unwise to share it with the masses.

And boy it's a doosey, and I have never seen any reference on these boards of any other players having discovered this dark secret. But if share even the slightest inkling of what it does for us, Knavey would probably release a trio of rabies infected rotweilers on me (and to give credit where it's due, Knavey was the one who made the initial observation).

And so, I maintain my silence, and cast all of my PBEM opponents a smug grin.

-F-