Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: bklooste

Is a landing on the base 3 East of vladivostok viable ?

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ORIGINAL: seydlitz

On the land side of things,
I captured both Georgetown and Taiping in Malaya this turn.
I continue bombardment attacks at Clark, Manila, Changsha, and Loyang.

Aircraft losses were relatively low.

I apologize for the short summary but I am trying a different screen capture program than previous and I am not very happy with it. Since the program that I liked has completed it's 30 free trial period I am trying to decide whether or not to purchase it or to use a different program. So far it looks like I may purchase it since it was very easy to use and I am not happy with some of the features of the other program that I am trying.

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ORIGINAL: crsutton
Just got caught up on your AAR. Very fun to read. A few comments.

As an AFB, my holy grail would be to exchange pilots 1-1 with Japan early in the war. Seems like he is doing better as most of his air losses are over his own bases. And he is losing Russian pilots-not American or British. How are your replacments pilots looking?

With another massive land front how are you equipment and troop pools? Suppy pools?

Your opponent seems to be quite passive (cautious). He should have four American carriers now and by virtue of your required need to have KB in or near the Russian theater. Not to mention the KB pilot losses, I am surprised that he is not aggressively using his carriers somewhere. Normally, I am very cautious with my Allied carriers at this stage of the war, but only because of the threat KB poses. He knows where KB is and pretty much has to be for now, it is better than signet intel. Now is the time for him to poke you some where you are vulnerable. of course, I am not faulting his strategy as the "sit back and let the Russians soak up Japan" while the Americans grow strong is not a bad idea either.

What would you be doing different if you were the Allied player?

If you had been aware of the determental effects of the bad northern weather before embarking on this crusade-would you have tried it?

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ORIGINAL: bklooste

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ORIGINAL: crsutton
Just got caught up on your AAR. Very fun to read. A few comments.

As an AFB, my holy grail would be to exchange pilots 1-1 with Japan early in the war. Seems like he is doing better as most of his air losses are over his own bases. And he is losing Russian pilots-not American or British. How are your replacments pilots looking?

With another massive land front how are you equipment and troop pools? Suppy pools?

Your opponent seems to be quite passive (cautious). He should have four American carriers now and by virtue of your required need to have KB in or near the Russian theater. Not to mention the KB pilot losses, I am surprised that he is not aggressively using his carriers somewhere. Normally, I am very cautious with my Allied carriers at this stage of the war, but only because of the threat KB poses. He knows where KB is and pretty much has to be for now, it is better than signet intel. Now is the time for him to poke you some where you are vulnerable. of course, I am not faulting his strategy as the "sit back and let the Russians soak up Japan" while the Americans grow strong is not a bad idea either.

What would you be doing different if you were the Allied player?

If you had been aware of the determental effects of the bad northern weather before embarking on this crusade-would you have tried it?

I don't think the air losses are such a big deal since if the Russian gambit works he can sweep all those forces through China and then have all the Chinese /Manchuria LCU ( minus a few garrisons) and air forces working for him. He can rebuild his bombers and just use the fighters as cover as he will have superior numbers.

I agree KB needs to go somewhere else ( DEI or Rabaul)

I was thinking the same question on the weather but the Russian March re-reinforcement and later armout would make a later invasion even more difficult.

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

Just got caught up on your AAR. Very fun to read. A few comments.

As an AFB, my holy grail would be to exchange pilots 1-1 with Japan early in the war. Seems like he is doing better as most of his air losses are over his own bases. And he is losing Russian pilots-not American or British. How are your replacments pilots looking?

With another massive land front how are you equipment and troop pools? Suppy pools?

Your opponent seems to be quite passive (cautious). He should have four American carriers now and by virtue of your required need to have KB in or near the Russian theater. Not to mention the KB pilot losses, I am surprised that he is not aggressively using his carriers somewhere. Normally, I am very cautious with my Allied carriers at this stage of the war, but only because of the threat KB poses. He knows where KB is and pretty much has to be for now, it is better than signet intel. Now is the time for him to poke you some where you are vulnerable. of course, I am not faulting his strategy as the "sit back and let the Russians soak up Japan" while the Americans grow strong is not a bad idea either.

What would you be doing different if you were the Allied player?

If you had been aware of the determental effects of the bad northern weather before embarking on this crusade-would you have tried it?

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ORIGINAL: castor troy



I don't think the air losses are such a big deal since if the Russian gambit works he can sweep all those forces through China and then have all the Chinese /Manchuria LCU ( minus a few garrisons) and air forces working for him. He can rebuild his bombers and just use the fighters as cover as he will have superior numbers.

thought restricted command units can´t cross land borders anymore

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ORIGINAL: seydlitz

My equipment and vehicle pools are in very good shape at the present primarily because I did major industry expansions on both during the first turns of the game. Currently armaments uses more HI than naval construction and I have a good sized pool.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
thought restricted command units can´t cross land borders anymore

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
thought restricted command units can´t cross land borders anymore

Negatif, we haven't implemented "borders" yet. We've said we were going to do it - but a bunch of people didn't like the idea, and it would be more complex than some other things we think might be more useful, so this one is back on the back burner for now.

So, for now, we still need to use the same ole house rules we used in WITP (or not).

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ORIGINAL: aztez

You might give SnagIt a whirl. I know it will cost few bucks but it has nice options and most importantly easy/"fast" to use.

As for the game. I still think you are an brave man to assault the Soviet Union.

Have the soviet submarines actually done any worthwile damage? There are plenty of them around. Or at least there should be.

It will also be intresting to see how the soviet armour / artillere will come into play soon. Your opponent most certainly don't have lack of these units even on such an early stage.

Keep up the good work.

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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
thought restricted command units can´t cross land borders anymore

Negatif, we haven't implemented "borders" yet. We've said we were going to do it - but a bunch of people didn't like the idea, and it would be more complex than some other things we think might be more useful, so this one is back on the back burner for now.

So, for now, we still need to use the same ole house rules we used in WITP (or not).