Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

A little questionette if I may make so bold: How does one copy and paste the combat reports? There doesn't appear to be a right click or CTRL left click capability.

Thanks

They should be in the "SAVE" folder of your AE install. The combat report for the current turn is always undated, but previous turns will have the date after them.

"combatreport.txt" is the current combat report, "combatreport_450101.txt" is the combat report for a Jan 1st 1945 turn.

You can copy/paste from the .txt file.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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So my fellow noob AllenK and I have decided to throw ourselves in at the deep end and try a full campaign game. I tried Coral Sea as the Allies a few times circa 10 years ago, got creamed and haven't been back since. I think that this provides the perfect background to try a full campaign as the Japanese......

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I recently played TOAW IV's Pacific campaign and had some fun with that - but it was just waaaay to unrealistic to keep the interest.

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will this be akin to the Gorn's "AAR" wherein nearly all of the posts took place before hostilities

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ORIGINAL: rustysi

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I recently played TOAW IV's Pacific campaign and had some fun with that - but it was just waaaay to unrealistic to keep the interest.

I've had an older version of the game, and was thinking of getting the new now that its on sale. Does something like this make you want to recommend against the purchase.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: rustysi

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I recently played TOAW IV's Pacific campaign and had some fun with that - but it was just waaaay to unrealistic to keep the interest.

I've had an older version of the game, and was thinking of getting the new now that its on sale. Does something like this make you want to recommend against the purchase.

warspite1

I think it depends what you want it for. I played a Case Yellow scenario, but having played DC:WtP this offered nothing really. As said the Pacific Campaign just wasn't worth it from a realism perspective. BUT - I bought the game solely because I wanted to play a Mediterranean game - and it certainly scratched that itch (sadly too little naval action but a really fun campaign all the same). If you liked the earlier versions of TOAW then it may appeal. I certainly liked the game mechanics - just could have had better scenarios.

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ORIGINAL: Zorch

Warspite, are you using the xls that has every Jap ship/plane/unit and their Turn 1 location? I forget whose it is.
You don't have to make the same moves as given in the xls; I use it to make sure I didn't miss anybody.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Congratulations, you also sank 3 DDs and a DMS, plus more ships may sink if they can't get the fires out.

A suggestion for next time, don't have the Zeros strafe, just bomb the airfield at 10,000 feet or so to avoid the light flak. If they need to engage fighters, they will drop the bombs. If it not against the HRs, have the Zeros strafe/bomb the Lahaina port and even include one Val unit.

Fighters work great strafing against MTBs/PTs, don't waste any more torpedoes on them. In my current game as allies, the American/Filipino fleet of nine PT boats sank three ships and left one sinking. Later that night, the eight British MTBs sank SIX ships. All of those ships were heading for Luzon with troops onboard. So send in a surface task force or two before the invasion fleets. Of course, the little boats might evade them and then engage the invasions.

If you stay for a second turn, move away to avoid a night surface action and have naval strike first with a port attack second. Someone did stick around for a second day and lost some IJN carriers to a night surface action.

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

If you stay for a second turn, move away to avoid a night surface action and have naval strike first with a port attack second. Someone did stick around for a second day and lost some IJN carriers to a night surface action.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

7th December 1941

The Kido Butai are unleashed on the unsuspecting Americans on a sleepy Sunday morning just before Christmas.

Only the WeeVee appears to have sunk and the cream of the Japanese naval air arm don't appear to have destroyed too many American aircraft either. I am hoping the fog of war is at play here because otherwise that's potentially a bit disappointing. I do like the fact that I appear to have hit a few CA's though.

Sadly over a third of KB's fighters are destroyed or damaged, 10% of the torpedo bombers and 13% of the dive bombers. Nagumo is summoned for a de-brief.....

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing
We'll agree to differ on this one Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing
We'll agree to differ on this one Chickenboy

That's OK. I understand that there are those that *really* like Tracker. For me, it's not worth the effort. And I'll share that POV.

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ORIGINAL: Zorch

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing
We'll agree to differ on this one Chickenboy

That's OK. I understand that there are those that *really* like Tracker. For me, it's not worth the effort. And I'll share that POV.

If I were you, I'd expect the Spanish Inquisition.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

The Bettys and Nells of the 22nd Air Flotilla appear to have made short work of HM Ships Prince of Wales and Repulse. However the follow up attacks against the destroyers proved to be a mistake as the fighters took a heavy toll.

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

We'll agree to differ on this one Chickenboy, but failing to use tracker is putting yourself at a serious disadvantage.

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A) Found on other screens
B) Summarized / extrapolated / surmised sufficiently elsewhere. Say you want to know how much supply there is on Honshu-in a general way. Is there a single base that serves as an 'acid test' to underscore production / supply shortfalls? [spoiler alert: There is]
C) Replicated manually or dispensed with altogether

A - Tracker lets you navigate extremely easily between widely different topics without much clicking. Say you get a new radar set. Tracker concentrates all the information on the build rate, availability dates and the specific stats for that radar. All that information in-game is separate.
B - Yeah, the key there is "general way". Tracker gives you the exact number, broken down by base, without excessive manual addition.
C - Sure, you can do the sums yourself, or you can let Tracker do it and save the time for plotting the turn. Tracker also won't make mistakes, as humans are prone to do when adding airframe production before their morning coffee.

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A) Notoriously user unfriendly to get started. Not for technophobes that don't enjoy fiddling with programs ad nauseum that make their life "easier".
B) Increased potential for 'paralysis by analysis'-may vary user by user. More detailed information about minutiae may not be meaningful for the big strategic picture.

A - We're agreed here. I've had some trouble with Tracker in the past, but nothing that wasn't solved with a search on the forum.
B - Ah, but Tracker even gives you the option to filter by the important stuff. That Port Arthur is out of resources is critical information, that the umpteenth regiment arrived at some hex is not.

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Probably unhelpful (my opinion) for a first time PBEM player playing Japanese for the first time trying to grapple with 'big picture' items instead of minutiae.

I disagree completely. Tracker is very helpful for playing Japan, point blank, irrespective of skill level.

The screenshot posted by Zorch is the best example for the present case - a general overview of IJ industry. Here we can see that green info = good, and red info = bad, as well as daily production and global totals. Gathering that info from the game alone is an exceptionally tedious process.