Nikademus
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Guys
This is a pretty radical strategy. Strategic withdrawal in mid '42 to the inner defence perimeter. Do you have a calculated logic to this. You think defending that line before the Allies can grind you down on the outer perimeter is going to be more successful? Really interested to hear what you are thinking.
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Andrew
The logic is that, China excepted...the situation we are facing in the Pacific is equivilent to a year later than the actual date. Joe and I tend to favor 'historical' flavored approaches so enshewed risky or gamey tactics in favor of a studied, careful approach. (an example would be the oft mentioned "lunge" technique whereby a Japan player quickly tries to take the outermost objectives first, then work their way back before an Allied player can employ hindsight and assets to key bases that were later points of contention and/or value)
With AE's expansion of the # of bases in the SRA in particular, coupled with the aggressive play of our opponents we quickly fell behind schedule and have never gained back the lost time. During said time our opponents quickly and efficiently 'telephone poled' key bases in Northern Oz....Suva, Adak, New Guneau and Burma. By the time our hands were largely freed of the SRA campaign objectives, these bases were so secure as to require each, a maximum effort on our part to take any 'one' of them. The only bright point to the campaign was the Timor operation....really their only mistake.
We chose Adak because of the tendancy for RT to attack Northern Japan and the game 'does' provide an easy short cut allow such a strategy to succeed. Adak was a means of preventing this but ultimately failed as the Allies were too dug in and had PT's. Now all we can do is fortify the Kuriles and make any attempts there to build 4E bases costly. In NG....PM and two former dot/level 1 bases have all been built up to level 4-6 airfields and with the power of B-17's, control all the air around NG, even reaching distant Hollandia. Coupled with the fact that Darwin is a level 8 airbase and telephone poled, we figure that that is the best shortest path back for RT to take. (and there are so many level 4 capable bases there to capture....we can't garrison them all) This makes the entire NG/Solomons region superfulous so we are abandoning it and denying them a chance to attrit us further. This leaves CENTPAC. Again....with their intensions pretty apparant, leaving substantial forces around Kwaj. will only make their job easier come 43 (which at this rate will feel like 44 for us) so we are consolidating our defenses around our one partially intact advantage....our carrier groups.
Will it work? probably not. Allied bombers in AE are more formidable than in stock so unless we have massive CAP's we won't stand much chance. But with the arty tone down....maybe we can make it costly and win a few more naval victories. But to max that chance we need to remove ourselves from nearby land bases than harbor lots of big bombers. We can do that in the CENTPac......Burma is more of a problem here. Joe's in charge there though so i'll let him wax poetic on the withdrawl strategy there in the face of the Allied air onslaught (led by the level 8 base at Akyab)
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