Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Elladan

Ponape is ok but I would reconsider Woleai operation again when you feel it's time to start something new. It's a risky operation and not much profit can be gained there, so maybe there will be better targets then. Say Marcus or Marianas, or maybe something in DEI.

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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

If you've got a US AK (not sure if Brit AK will work), load it with supply and get it within about 10-12 hexes of Karachi. Then create 3 PT boat task forces and send them into Karachi at full speed. If you get lucky you might surprise a bombardment run and slam a torp into a BB. No sense sending larger task forces as usually only one or two boats get to shoot no matter how many boats are in the force. Also the more task forces you send, the more surprise rolls you make and the better chance you have to get a boat within striking range unseen.

Jim

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ORIGINAL: Gen.Hoepner
Allied max defense: 4860 - adjusted defense: 6830 * i hope my adjusted defences were better....not even doubled.......can't hope of holding

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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

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ORIGINAL: Gen.Hoepner
Allied max defense: 4860 - adjusted defense: 6830 * i hope my adjusted defences were better....not even doubled.......can't hope of holding

This is a good thing G. H. The more he attacks like this the higher your units experience grows at little cost to you except in supplies. Soon your units will all exceed 50% experience and then your adjusted AV will be more than doubled. Don't complain to him about these attacks, let him train your army for you, and then he'll get a nasty surprise when he finally attacks.

Track your units progress, my guess is every unit gets 2-4 experience per attack right now. In my game I trained my units up to about 55-59 experience with bombardments, and now they are holding their own on defense. 7 corps managed to withstand an attack by 8 Japanese divisions, 2 brigades, 1 tank regiment and 2 artillery regiments (check post 214 in my AAR), even though a few of them were still under 50 experience.

Japan’s non-adjusted AV was almost double my non-adjusted AV, so our overall situation is similar even though there are larger numbers of troops involved in your fight.

My units were entrenched to level 3 in forest terrain, and their adjusted AV was only 400 points less than their non-adjusted AV. So once you get half or more of your units above 50 experience, I bet your adjusted AV will better than double given your fort levels.

Jim

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At Changsha he attacked again with a single unit...this practice makes me burn a LOT of supplies...it's like if we're facing a general attack,while it's only a recon attack...but the supply-consumption system doesn't recognize the difference...

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They're nasty and gamey, but frankly I think he deserves a sound a$$ kicking.

-F-

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They're nasty and gamey, but frankly I think he deserves a sound a$$ kicking.

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ORIGINAL: mdiehl

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They're nasty and gamey, but frankly I think he deserves a sound a$$ kicking.

I have to agree. The one-unit-attack resource-depletion scam seems quite gamey. I can see making a single one-unit attack if that gleaned good recon, but repeating it just to run down opfor supplies is absurd. I do hope that the AE version will frequently result in the complete annihilation of units that make these sorts of unsupported attacks, rather than rewarding an player for attacking piecemeal.

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ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

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ORIGINAL: Gen.Hoepner
Allied max defense: 4860 - adjusted defense: 6830 * i hope my adjusted defences were better....not even doubled.......can't hope of holding

This is a good thing G. H. The more he attacks like this the higher your units experience grows at little cost to you except in supplies. Soon your units will all exceed 50% experience and then your adjusted AV will be more than doubled. Don't complain to him about these attacks, let him train your army for you, and then he'll get a nasty surprise when he finally attacks.

Track your units progress, my guess is every unit gets 2-4 experience per attack right now. In my game I trained my units up to about 55-59 experience with bombardments, and now they are holding their own on defense. 7 corps managed to withstand an attack by 8 Japanese divisions, 2 brigades, 1 tank regiment and 2 artillery regiments (check post 214 in my AAR), even though a few of them were still under 50 experience.

Japan’s non-adjusted AV was almost double my non-adjusted AV, so our overall situation is similar even though there are larger numbers of troops involved in your fight.

My units were entrenched to level 3 in forest terrain, and their adjusted AV was only 400 points less than their non-adjusted AV. So once you get half or more of your units above 50 experience, I bet your adjusted AV will better than double given your fort levels.

Jim

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ORIGINAL: Feinder


Not to scare you, but keep an eye on your disablements.  Arty can cause massive disablement casualties (and the "attack with only one unit causes 2 bombardment rounds), also your supply loss (and burn more repair disablments) which could lead to capitulation.

Just be advised that he's exploiting every crack in the game at this point.  That to me is no holds barred - I'd follow only the letter of his house-rules, and take advantage of every exploit you can get your hands on : For starters divided every LCU you have in Karachi.  The damage is NOT proportionate to all sub-units (it's lesser compared to a non-divided unit).   The also recover fatigue faster.  And speaking of which, you can break-down for a turn, then reform, then break down again, and your fatigue will be less than if you had remained divided or whole (not sure why, but there's a bug in the routine there as well).

There are all sorts of nasty things you learn when you've experiented with the engine.  I don't use exploits against my opponents, because they don't exploit either.

If you'd like I can also tell you a trick or two about "fooling" the naval model as well.

They're nasty and gamey, but frankly I think he deserves a sound a$$ kicking.

-F- 

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p.s. every bomber that is on naval attack is not hitting your airbase.

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ORIGINAL: Gen.Hoepner

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ORIGINAL: Feinder


Not to scare you, but keep an eye on your disablements.  Arty can cause massive disablement casualties (and the "attack with only one unit causes 2 bombardment rounds), also your supply loss (and burn more repair disablments) which could lead to capitulation.

Just be advised that he's exploiting every crack in the game at this point.  That to me is no holds barred - I'd follow only the letter of his house-rules, and take advantage of every exploit you can get your hands on : For starters divided every LCU you have in Karachi.  The damage is NOT proportionate to all sub-units (it's lesser compared to a non-divided unit).   The also recover fatigue faster.  And speaking of which, you can break-down for a turn, then reform, then break down again, and your fatigue will be less than if you had remained divided or whole (not sure why, but there's a bug in the routine there as well).

There are all sorts of nasty things you learn when you've experiented with the engine.  I don't use exploits against my opponents, because they don't exploit either.

If you'd like I can also tell you a trick or two about "fooling" the naval model as well.

They're nasty and gamey, but frankly I think he deserves a sound a$$ kicking.

-F- 

Thx mate, but i'd prefer to play it clean. I'm using divided units only if i have to use the sub-units in different hexes. If the sub unit and the parental one are in the same hex i re-unite them. Seems this is a good way of using the regimental level of this option (divide unit) and at the same time keeping the game fair.
I'm having fun all the way, no matters what he's doing (however that thing isn't contemplated in the HRs).