Charles2222
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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins Seems like I should re-post this here: Extrapolating anything from one combat report, especially with FOW, is pretty futile. But, I totally understand why everything is scrutinized and why all the questions are asked. You guys only have these results to go on and curiosity and anticipation are very high. With that said, I always thought that the surprise attacks on December 7th actually were not typical attacks, in that they had several bonuses/penalties applied for the Japanese and Allies that don't apply on other turns (as long as Surprise is on). I don't think that has changed in AE, so I would be particularly cautious about extrapolating from a Dec. 7th surprise attack to make any assumptions about the game. I can say for sure though that the last replay of the PH attack that I did this morning 2 BBs were lost and more Japanese planes were shot down. My sense is that the median is about 4 BBs lost, but I've seen just about every possible result. I have no idea what the average flak losses at PH are in AE, haven't really tried to keep track of that, though I know others on the team have spent a lot of time over development fine tuning many parts of the design for historical results, including flak losses. I encourage you all to ask questions, but I also encourage you _not_ to jump to conclusions. Regards, - Erik This is one of the VERY few places of WITP where I might be considered an expert, given how I replayed that first turn so often. The flak losses for PH were VERY accurate, almost every time, but where it differed greatly was that about 80% of the time, there was not a single US BB sank. The torpedo bombers were very reluctant to use torps. It sounds as though your results are suggesting that has been fixed. However, I will caution, for what little I had of playing, um, the bad guys, that the results when playing the AI, seemed to change quite a bit, so that if you played the bad guys your BB's sank a lot more in that attack than if you played the good guys.
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