HansenII
Posts: 18
Joined: 1/10/2007 From: Berlin, Germany Status: offline
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Hi! I would not place anything under AI's control, if not for it's apparent stupidity, then for the fact that you'll should know every little bit of the available resources and where they do hide away...! In my opinion, its much more fun this way. It takes time (I am playing for 4 months now, never much more than 1 - 2 game turns at once). If you'll take some advice: 1.Do concentrate your forces in Burma, Singapur and the Philipines as much as you can and before they get crushed unit by unit and try to keep the Jap Forces away from doing mieschief all over (You'll loose Singapur, Hong Kong and the main Islands of the Philipines anyway, just try too buy time for evac and reinforcements). 2. The longer they are to depend on overstretched supply lines (mainly AK's, AO's, TK's and AP's which you'll attack with bombers, fighters, subs and surface ships whereever possible), the higher is the chance to keep the Jap Juggernaut at bay early on. 3. The AI is dumb enough not to cash in on youre striping less important bases in Cent Pac or elsewhere, so move them to the important places. 4. At the same time try to deny the AI to capture the main supply points (Palembang, Tarakan, a Island SE of Palembang (ressource!), Bali, Miri ) by ferrying out as many ressources and oil as you can. If you can hold them, fine. 5. Use youre only decent fighter in the beginning, the P-40, in huge numbers (i.e. at Singapur and Rangoon) to wear down the Jap fighter units. Use them from an altitude 6. Try to preserve as many forces be evacuating them as soon as possible. Do not let them surrender at Singapur if you can help it, use every fast warship as a fast transport if needs be. 7.Since you have only very limited PP's available, use them wisely, meanuing for ABDA and Units in the Philipines (base forces & smaller combat units and plane units will be all you'll be able to afford). 8. Don't panic, from time to time even the AI will give you a thrashing... In my current game I got lucky and killed 4 Jap fleet carriers while loosing only two of my own north of Borneo. In due course I have been able to hold the southern part of Java including Palembang (Oil Oil Oil), the southern part of Borneo, all of Sumatra and I have stopped the Japanese army cold south of Rangoon. I'am now in May 1942 and start recapturing Borneo bit by bit. I've killed 680 ships and 5600 planes so far with 180 rep. 3000 losses on my own. There are nearly no Zeros left, I'll mainly get Nates now, easy meat. So, enjoy it.
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