Slitherine

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#1. naval combat is broken - from the very first relase of the game. I wont go into details, you guys just have to ask yourself one question - did anyone sink enemy CV with SC TF?.

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ORIGINAL: Dan Nichols

Have you considered taking Marcus and Wake Islands for use as Naval Search bases?

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

The lack of movement in other areas would be a reason not to put GreyJoy on a pedestal just yet.

Pressure in the Solomons or Burma and continued movements around Perth/DEI COULD have had Rader wondering about what else is in the pipelines. While GJ knows if he has enough strength for a second approach Rader will be wondering about the seemingly bottomless Allied LCU bucket.  Every japanese aircraft destroyed at Rabaul or over Timor & Burma will not be faced over Hokkaido, every LCU defending threatened (doesnt mean attacked) base around NG, Rabaul or Sumatra isnt defending Honshu.

Are you making sure the Red Army is ready?  It might be that pressure on the home front (or a mistake)sees Rader activate them, may not happen but be ready.

Are your subs in place to interdict Raders sea transport of LCU back to the HI?

In between Strat Bombing and smashing LCU, occaisionaly do some mining of ports, this could restrict his barge traffic or hurt a few major Naval assets.

IMHO, You should be able to take Hokkaido, do barges lift heavy equipment or will you be faced by Infantry only? The Allied LCU by this point start to be too powerful for japanese LCU (and you may be facing Home Defence type units for a bit).  Hokkaido will then become a big airbase, time will come whan you have to pick up your LCU and do another switch of approach (dont know where to though, maybe some of those mid pacific islands are vulnerable) again, the threat of this plus your latest attack might make Rader defend places you have no interest in.

Keep bashing on, you have stolen second base, but there is a lot of work to come before you make home plate!

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Kamis will come...i'm sure...but i have so many mutual supporting AFs now that i don't fear them no more...not there anyway...my CVs soon will not be needed anymore in NOPAC and will be free to do something else...thinking about a raid somewhere in his interior lines between japan and DEI...

Ruminating on kamis . . .

Not this month or next probably, but one wild (and I mean out there) idea he could try is "suicidal kami bases." He needs a straddle kami base on your northern convoy routes. He could try to grab an island--from Truk probably or maybe the Marianas--shoot in some light aviation support and a few hundred kamis and take out as many transports as he can before it dies. At worst he might flush you out like quail and make you re-route to the south where he has a trap set. Not Dutch Harbor probably (too tough a nut to crack), but something in that area. Kodiak? One of the western Aleuts? Don't know. If he did it right he might not need to transport the planes. Multi-engine might make it on organic fuel (I haven't counted hexes; that ruins a good ruminaiton.)

My point is, don't assume he can only use kamis in the last mile. For that matter, the AI has emptied several carreir air wings on me as kamis and then run away. Poor pilots work for that if he's flush with planes.

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ORIGINAL: pauk

#1. naval combat is broken - from the very first relase of the game. I wont go into details, you guys just have to ask yourself one question - did anyone sink enemy CV with SC TF?.

Yes. What is your point about that?

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

GJ, AFAIK the attachment of air unit to air HQs means nothing. There is some honest speculation about it, but no developer has given credence to it.

You might consider letting the 4EBs go in without escort. The only time your fighters should fly that range is on sweep. On escort they face that additional negative modifier.

2EB do need escort if they are facing opposition, and then, well, losses will be taken!

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: pauk

#1. naval combat is broken - from the very first relase of the game. I wont go into details, you guys just have to ask yourself one question - did anyone sink enemy CV with SC TF?.

Yes. What is your point about that?

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: pauk

#1. naval combat is broken - from the very first relase of the game. I wont go into details, you guys just have to ask yourself one question - did anyone sink enemy CV with SC TF?.

Yes. What is your point about that?

Yes,

Glorious by Scharnhorst & Gniesenu

Did it have to be in the Pacific?

The IJN tried bloody hard at Leyte Gulf, only failed when they got scared

Whoops, missed witpqs and Johndillworths posts

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ORIGINAL: paullus99

I feel for GJ - the amount of continued coordination and careful planning will consume a lot of time and energy on his part. Of course, with all of the attention focused on Northern Japan right now, it will also pay to continue to push forward any and all operations in other areas of the map as well, because every soldier, plane & ship that Rader is forced to keep somewhere else is one less that he can throw at GJs current position in the north.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

GJ, AFAIK the attachment of air unit to air HQs means nothing. There is some honest speculation about it, but no developer has given credence to it.

You might consider letting the 4EBs go in without escort. The only time your fighters should fly that range is on sweep. On escort they face that additional negative modifier.

2EB do need escort if they are facing opposition, and then, well, losses will be taken!

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ORIGINAL: 1275psi

Well one thing Grey Joy...........thanks for the heads up!.........this is one Japanese player who is rushing gazzillions of troops north!!!
This is so scary as a Japanese player I feel sick...................

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Rader is concerned with only one thing at this point:  NoPac.  Everything else is essentially irrelevant.  The only exception is his convoy system to transport fuel and resources from the DEI to Japan.  He'll protect his important producing bases and his convoy routes.  He'll also keep some small forces in other regions hoping for chances to sting GJ's own forces.

If I was Rader, one thing I would consider doing is invading Russia.  He has twelve zillion infantry units; he most likely isn't going to evict GJ from Hokkaido, but he might try an end around, hoping to kind of surround GJ's NoPac garrisons from the rear - Perhaps even look for a bad weather chance at invading the Russian bases on the Kamchatka Peninsula. His big armies in New Guinea and elsewhere aren't needed there, so put them to use vanquishing Russia, or trying to?

I dunno.  That would be a long shot, since GJ can now reinforce Russia with Western Allied troops should he need to do so.  But it's something rader will probably look at.

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ORIGINAL: pauk



#1. naval combat is broken - from the very first relase of the game. I wont go into details, you guys just have to ask yourself one question - did anyone sink enemy CV with SC TF?.

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GJ, AFAIK the attachment of air unit to air HQs means nothing.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Don't forget to put Harbin in Manchuria on your strategic bombing list. There is usually a nice size fighter factory there. Some player have expanded that one to a very large size feeling it will not be targeted.

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ORIGINAL: paullus99

You should also be able to close down his remaining port facilities as well, preventing him from bringing in heavy equipment for his troops.

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

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ORIGINAL: paullus99

I feel for GJ - the amount of continued coordination and careful planning will consume a lot of time and energy on his part. Of course, with all of the attention focused on Northern Japan right now, it will also pay to continue to push forward any and all operations in other areas of the map as well, because every soldier, plane & ship that Rader is forced to keep somewhere else is one less that he can throw at GJs current position in the north.

Feel for him? He is living a Allied fanboy's dream right now. I feel for his girlfriend...