Tazo
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Joined: 7/29/2009 From: Toulouse, France Status: offline
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I agree, FOW works well ! After 2 months of Guadalcanal campaign I had a "certain" idea of which jap ships mine were able to sunk and this was confirmed by the "list of sunk ships" in the menu counting the points. But... I looked at the current turn from the other side just to figure out if it was worth continuing after very intense operations and then... surprise, some of the actually sunk ships were quiet different, not the same name or class, and my score was three times the one I believed in. Indeed the zui and the sho I pursued after our last battle 31 sept' (when they escaped thanks to bad weather)... were sunk just after the attacks (the date and location are listed and true for the active side), so my planes under the stormy weather failed to see this, and this is why I only succeeded in attacking a CA/DD surface TF retiring the next two days, I was not happy since I especially micromanaged all the sector recos to catch them again... So the FOW is working and the reports are really likely to provide bad infos ! Or missing some important ones ! I'm not sure how I will have learned this "two CV sunk" later... and with my Wasp suddenly sunk during the night by a submarine thus letting the Saratoga alone while waiting 40 and 70 days the 2 others CV being repaired, I would have hard time under this frustrating uncertainty with respect to the severely damaged jap CVs. Great simulation of FOW, with major impact on the player's decisions ! Likewise, the reco of this jap turn showed some of the "sighted ships" hex I knew to be empty. Also, some busy days my pilots reported the Yamato everywhere, say in two TFs ! I damaged then even sunk her after multi-dive bombings... several times in different locations ! And indeed she was returned in a port, only lightly damaged, while another BB was sunk and another back home for long repair. As IRL we have to be careful with reports and try to proceed by logical deduction. So I can imagine large scale uncertainty during the full campaign... ( Now I go for a second Guadal this time played entirely to report to Andy the long range performance of the AI, to confirm strengh and weakness - and improve or clarify a few possibilities for the Jap. To prepare for the grand campaign I think it is worth exploring deeply this not too long scenario I love so much. )
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There is only two kinds of operational plans, good ones and bad ones. The good ones almost always fail under unexpected circumstances that often make the bad ones succeed. -- Napoléon. With AE immortality is no more a curse. -- A lucky man.
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