obvert
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Joined: 1/17/2011 From: PDX (and now) London, UK Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Lowpe I am not risking a whole lot. My Radier du war, the Tone, a support destroyer. This time she is joined by a CL and another destroyer supported with a CS which is staying pretty back and should be very low risk. The Tone, which has raided quite often, striking at Karachi once netting several xak and three juicy 20 VP AMCs, and at Perth nailing a tanker, several xaks, an xap or two and two more dinky amcs. I feel that when the Tone goes down, she will have earned her fuel. But my point is that if the Allies don't feel they need to protect all their lines then an even bigger hammer falls on Japan. I want him having to click and set patrols, hunt raiders. Hopefully just a few Japanese ships can tie down a whole bunch more Allied. Yes, the Allies are huge, but the mental shock of having raiders show up in unexpected places is great...at least when it happens to me. Not risking a lot!!!!!?????!!! A CS is a CVL. Even without conversion using float fighters make them a low CAP CVL for the KB in addition to supplying the much needed extra search that can make a huge difference in a CV battle. The Tone is a modern CA and you don't get even close to enough of those as Japan. They're still really useful as the game goes on due to their speed and punch. I can't say I didn't also risk these high value ships, but I would advocate now against it. The shock to the Allies is minimal unless you manage to stumble on and sink some CVEs or a division on board transports. It all can happen, but there are other ways to get him thinking that his rear areas are in danger. Have you been able to take advantage of the 21 hex range of the G3M3 and LR recon yet? Have you sent out hunter/killer sub groups led by a few Glen subs and using the other 20+ knot I-boats? With those if you catch something there's little risk for you and a LOT for him, especially if he's not using enough escort. Anyway, I know this is fun, and I did a LOT of port raids and a few deep ocean raids with a really optimistic idea it would do something for me. The KB raids were more effective, but the deep ocean raids weren't. As the game got further toward the end I realized for me the gamble outweighed the benefit.
< Message edited by obvert -- 1/11/2015 10:29:48 PM >
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