DeadInThrench
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Joined: 12/27/2006 From: NE Pennsylvania, USA Status: offline
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I have been playing the Russo-Japanese war scenario (Double Eagle-Rising Sun) and you must get a hang of naval tactics to get off the ground with this one and... Historically (as I understand it), the Japanese wiped out the Russian Pacific fleet at the start of the war. So the Russians sent their Baltic fleet to the Pacific to deal with the situation and, the Japanese wiped that one out also in the naval battle of Tsushima. But, in this scenario, repeating history along these lines, is at best not obvious. First, it appears, at least in this scenario, defenders in naval combat seem to have a big advantage. If you go toe-to-toe (e.g. range of 1) with a defender, even if you have significantly greater (e.g. maybe 5-1) force, you are still lucky to come out of it taking less damage than you inflict. You can instead bombard at a range of 2, and here from my experience things seem to be a bit better, but still seems like the defender has a significant advantage. I have tried all sorts of different strategies.... doing the first turn or 2 many times, tried attacking the fleet in Port Arthur, etc, and the strategy that seems to work best, is taking care of the situation near Soul and then moving your fleet away before turn 1 is over. With that.... Elmer... sends his Port Arthur fleet (most of it) to bombard... and every limit losses bombard means a supply decrease of 20%. So, you let him do this for a turn or two (multiple bombards in each turn) and his fleet is just about dead meat. You can then attack and wipe that fleet out with minimum losses. Then, you should still have enough ships left to deal with the remaining Russian naval, whereas if you go toe-to-toe you will lose too many ships to the extent that you won't be able to deal effectively with things otherwise. Yeah, the trouble with this strategy, if you ever played this PBEM, the human opponent would probably not make the same mistake. Hmmmm... yeah... Elmer was bombarding Pusan also but, after I wiped out his Port Arthur fleet, he stopped <g>. Maybe some learning ability in Elmer I dunno. Comments?? DiT
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