GreyJoy
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ORIGINAL: Smeulders Hope you don't take this the wrong way, but did you actually have any idea about what was in the army chasing you ? If I'm not mistake this is a rought timeline. 1) Radar gives up on capturing India, sends many divisions of to other areas. 2) You go on the offensive towards Multan 3) Radar starts switching forces back to India Now there are a couple of ways to explain this. 1) As you seem to be doing, Radar just thought it a good idea to stop his India offensive for a couple of months and give his troops a cruise to the Solomons and back before the final attack 2) Radar thought he'd be able to outflank you army and destroy it away from your bases. He's bringing in extra forces for the final attack, which could work because your army would be crippled in the open. 3) Radar knows he is outmatched in India and is bringing in forces for defensive purposes. The sortie from Multan consisted of weak units/engineers/etc.... He knew your recon was bad due to a lack of airfields and tried to bluff you with the amount of units. I wouldn't be surprised if it was 3, but I'm not going to blame you for retreating. You didn't have any way of telling 2 and 3 apart so the retreat was the prudent move. However, right now it's looking more and more like that was the case. His bombing is giving him very good recon and Radar decided to give up the chase. Your retreating army is almost certainly too strong to be defeated in the open by Radar's (Doesn't mean that you could have taken Multan though, he'll have high forts there) I don't think you should worry about an attack on your bases too much. Thanks mate! If i have to be honest, i think option 2 was, till the Japanese Tank Army defeat, the most probable. As far as i can tell right now there are at least 6 big identified divisions at Multan, plus all those tank units we've fought against. I do think Rader's plan was to lure me east of the Multan river, knowing that i had to keep my stack united in order to be able to defend against his bombers, and, after having engaged my main army with a decent force that he was sure was not going to be defeated in open ground, move behind my shoulders a 1000 AV Tank corp to cut my supply path and retreat route, thus opening the very gates of a possible future land offensive against an -almost- undefended Karachi. The mistake he has made with his tanks was brutal, and, united with the fact that i sniffed something and moved back behind the river just in time, saved my butt from a total annihilation. When he realized he was no more able to win the race game towards Hyderabad because his bombers were unable (due to the forced very high cieling) to slow me down enough, he halted the advance and got back to Multan. now if this hypotesis corresponds to reality, we have a strong japanese army in Multan and many more big units aboard Marus moving to India. Obviously the latters can be redirected somewhere else now, but it's clear that, unless i completeley mistaken the situation and a japanese army pops up from nowhere, my two Indian bases are safe for the moment being. Med will be open in 40 days and so we'll be able to bring in more supplies to help the struggle. But it's also clear that untill i'll be able to fight back in the Indian skies, the "status quo" could not be changed. I might add a comment if I could strcitly from a newbie to the game but experinced at wargaming. I would propose that Radier is desperate for an instant victory. The move back into the solomons was to give him time but now he has no time so the India campaign is one last thrust to find victory. Probably as desperate as the "Battle of the Bulge". I would also propose that Radier now respects GreyJoy's abilities and can figure that he will be able to use the 1944 - 1945 forces with complete competence. I beleive Radier asked himself , "given the immediate circumstances How do I win this thing ???.." Capture India! .. I do beleive this was the orginal plan, but he did not completly stick to this strategy responding to the Solomons thinking he could out think GreyJoy somehow. Much like moving chess pieces in a basic opening move because it works, but without really understanding where the pieces will be in the middle of the game. It works only if the player has an establsihed strategy at the begning not just because the pieces get into an establsihed position. Also, I now understand what CR has been saying in this thread. Just like how the BoTB hastened German defeat .. this foray in India so late in the scheme of things will produce an instant result like the Bulge, cause some drama, but in fact hasten defeat. It will be fun to watch ... Just my .02 .. Thanks Crackeces! As far as i can tell he was wise not to push against Karachi and to move back to respond to my invasion of the Solomons. It was too late for Karachi...his main mistake was to wait so much time before crossing the LOD and when he finally did he found that we had entranched so much and so deep that was a suicide to attack. However his SOPAC counterinvasion was initially a complete success. He managed to storm an entire allied Corp at PM (2 divisions, 3 arty units, 2 Combat eng rgt) and was ready to storm the Solomons...then the turning point was at Tulagi. 5 Divisions weren't enough to dislodge 2 Allied regiments well entrenched and that halted his offensive...and so we are here now, after 5 long months of fightings. However he did again a masterpiece of deception and counter-intelligence. For months he has been shipping back his big units to India right in front of my nose, while i thought he was going to counterinvade Tulagi....i was so full of my mistaken thoughts that didn't see the danger and sent all my Indian army against what i thought was a lightly defended outpost (Multan)...he sniffed the chance of inflicting me a final defeat and he attempted to...he did only one mistake with his tanks and that saved my day. Luckly for me i had sniffed too that there were something plain wrong and got back behind the Multan river in time not to be cut out...but it was close.... So now we have a HUGE jap army in India...what should i do?...have to re-think about my overall Indian strategy...
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