Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Barb

IMHO, John should:
1) Try to run MKB to join forces with KB - either to the north or south, the decision is his, but it should be done sooner than later.
2) Try to keep line Japan-Mariana-New Guinea under KB - you will be forced to run the long way around with any reinforcements/supply.
3) Try to keep the SRA "on the cheap" - less valuable combat ships, escorts, light striking forces, plus LBA
4) Run every available drop of oil/fuel/resource/supply to the Saigon/Haiphong/Hong-Kong as quickly as possible (IIRC - you are running a standard game, so supply will be generated by refineries too), before even that opportunity closes up.
5) Keep the Singapore-Sumatra-Java with troops already in the area - he should be able to shuffle them around rather quickly to keep them in strength while allowing for delaying action.
6) Try to keep Formosa-Okinawa-Kyushu line (but it could be already late)
7) Keep the Singapore-Sumatra-Java area with some land planes - both for protection and opportunistic attacks. Airfields should be plenty there...

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth


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You get tons of subs and ht risk of putting them out there is worth the reward. Escorts run out of ammo and if you hit a convoy for a few turns you will start to pick off tankers. On the other hand you probably won't have too many air gaps between the resources and the HI so air power might just stop his convoys cold. Not sure how much he can haul back with the gap closing

Yeah, this is pretty much my experience. Well trained ASW aircraft working with the (even toned down) super E class will just work havoc on subs. The good news is that they are quick to repair. Frankly, I have given up worrying about sinking the Japanese merchant ships. The sub model combined with the ability to run massive ship TFs pretty much make it impossible to impact Japanese merchant ships. I use my subs with my combat forces to go after Japanese warships. Fewer kills but they are more significant when you do succeed, and your subs are less vulnerable. Direct attacks on oil facilities will get the job done just as well as sinking tankers anyways.

It truly is the one big failing of AE in that the Japanese player should always be sweating the loss of merchant ships to submarines. But that just does not happen.

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Here's why I won't use supply to repair oil production at Miri:

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: crsutton

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ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth


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You get tons of subs and ht risk of putting them out there is worth the reward. Escorts run out of ammo and if you hit a convoy for a few turns you will start to pick off tankers. On the other hand you probably won't have too many air gaps between the resources and the HI so air power might just stop his convoys cold. Not sure how much he can haul back with the gap closing

Yeah, this is pretty much my experience. Well trained ASW aircraft working with the (even toned down) super E class will just work havoc on subs. The good news is that they are quick to repair. Frankly, I have given up worrying about sinking the Japanese merchant ships. The sub model combined with the ability to run massive ship TFs pretty much make it impossible to impact Japanese merchant ships. I use my subs with my combat forces to go after Japanese warships. Fewer kills but they are more significant when you do succeed, and your subs are less vulnerable. Direct attacks on oil facilities will get the job done just as well as sinking tankers anyways.

It truly is the one big failing of AE in that the Japanese player should always be sweating the loss of merchant ships to submarines. But that just does not happen.

As a simulator, you're correct - that is a weakness. But the developers made the decision to balance the game more, rather than go perfectly historic. The fact that the game is still interesting after all these years shows they mad a good decision.

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Can't argue with this. If the game played out historically this forum would have emptied out nine years ago..

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

No turn until Sunday night, I think.

Yesterday, John asked for a turn back so that he could run it last night. I sent it a six p.m. my time...and it entered a black hole of silence.

This morning, finding no turn in the in-box, I sent him an email reminding him that I'd be leaving town this afternoon for a weekend outing. I told him I could run any turn that arrived here by noon, my time. At 11:47 he sends an email, "I'm about to run the turn. Am I too late?"

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

No turn until Sunday night, I think.

Yesterday, John asked for a turn back so that he could run it last night. I sent it a six p.m. my time...and it entered a black hole of silence.

This morning, finding no turn in the in-box, I sent him an email reminding him that I'd be leaving town this afternoon for a weekend outing. I told him I could run any turn that arrived here by noon, my time. At 11:47 he sends an email, "I'm about to run the turn. Am I too late?"

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ORIGINAL: dave sindel

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

No turn until Sunday night, I think.

Yesterday, John asked for a turn back so that he could run it last night. I sent it a six p.m. my time...and it entered a black hole of silence.

This morning, finding no turn in the in-box, I sent him an email reminding him that I'd be leaving town this afternoon for a weekend outing. I told him I could run any turn that arrived here by noon, my time. At 11:47 he sends an email, "I'm about to run the turn. Am I too late?"

Hiking trip ?

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

No turn until Sunday night, I think.

Yesterday, John asked for a turn back so that he could run it last night. I sent it a six p.m. my time...and it entered a black hole of silence.

This morning, finding no turn in the in-box, I sent him an email reminding him that I'd be leaving town this afternoon for a weekend outing. I told him I could run any turn that arrived here by noon, my time. At 11:47 he sends an email, "I'm about to run the turn. Am I too late?"

You guys seem to play a lot of games outside the game so to speak. 18 hours I wouldn't worry about.

However, from a JFB standpoint, it can be tough for Japan to crank out turns right now, especially when the Deahtstar is looming (I am guessing he sees it).

You have to count 18+8 hexes all around and make changes everywhere. Planes, Task Forces, Troops etc.

Plus you have to think about everything else. In a lot of ways, the weird lines here make it hard to process a turn. It is a lot easier with a shortened defensive ring.

If he was flipping very fast turns I would worry he has mentally conceded already and you wouldn't want that. He was excited about something happening with the month turn....

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

It wasn't the lack of a turn. That happens. But the total lack of communication. No heads up: "Oops, no turn coming." No, "Sorry about that; let me tell you what happened." Just a black hole of silence. That happens a lot with John. We can call it the "I can do another without issue" effect.

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ORIGINAL: dave sindel

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

No turn until Sunday night, I think.

Yesterday, John asked for a turn back so that he could run it last night. I sent it a six p.m. my time...and it entered a black hole of silence.

This morning, finding no turn in the in-box, I sent him an email reminding him that I'd be leaving town this afternoon for a weekend outing. I told him I could run any turn that arrived here by noon, my time. At 11:47 he sends an email, "I'm about to run the turn. Am I too late?"

Hiking trip ?

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

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ORIGINAL: dave sindel

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

No turn until Sunday night, I think.

Yesterday, John asked for a turn back so that he could run it last night. I sent it a six p.m. my time...and it entered a black hole of silence.

This morning, finding no turn in the in-box, I sent him an email reminding him that I'd be leaving town this afternoon for a weekend outing. I told him I could run any turn that arrived here by noon, my time. At 11:47 he sends an email, "I'm about to run the turn. Am I too late?"

Hiking trip ?

On Sunday I'll speak on Confederate Memorial Day to a United Daughters of the Confederacy group in the little town of Commerce, Georgia. That's my wife's hometown, so we're staying with her dad tonight and tomorrow night.

The presentation will be a little story I wrote a few years ago about the remarkable interconnectivity of Georgia history: how a writer mentioned a 19th century poet who wrote about a Civil War colonel killed at Chickamauga which led his brother, a general, to leave his command in Charleston to recover the body, which delayed a court martial in Charleston, which involved a colonel (my avatar) from the town where I live, who had a great-nephew who was a used car salesman in La Jolla, California, who I spoke to by phone 20 years ago, who asked me if I was related to Daniel C. Roper (FDR's Secretary of Commerce), who had given him his first job in Washington in the 1930s.

So, somehow, I ended up with a connection to the Confederate colonel I was writing about.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

The N1K1 Rex shown on the aircraft loss screen. I didn't catch any combat with that plane and don't know what it is. Fighter? Bomber? Recon? Is it to be respected? Feared? Worshiped? Dismissed?