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ORIGINAL: skraft16
So, does anyone know if the allied AI or AI in general goes after resource and oil sites specifically, or does it do pretty much do all manpower or industry attacks?

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ORIGINAL: skraft16

Thanks, GetAssista

I notice in reading the Admiral's Edition manual that resource centers/sites now only produce resources. As I recall, they used to produce some supply points in the original WITP edition. This made them important targets for air attacks if you wanted to better starve enemy military forces of supplies. Now, you should really worry about hitting heavy and light industry if you want to do that, as these facilities seem to be the only source of supply points.

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Things got to the point that I started championing a house rule against any strategic bombing except for industry and manpower attacks, to keep this ahistorical economic devastation from happening. It seems cheesey to me that you should be able to bomb farms/rubber plantations/mines and oil fields directly and that should have such an impact.

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ORIGINAL: Uncivil Engineer

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ORIGINAL: skraft16

Thanks, GetAssista

I notice in reading the Admiral's Edition manual that resource centers/sites now only produce resources. As I recall, they used to produce some supply points in the original WITP edition. This made them important targets for air attacks if you wanted to better starve enemy military forces of supplies. Now, you should really worry about hitting heavy and light industry if you want to do that, as these facilities seem to be the only source of supply points.

In my opinion, heavy industry should be the primary Allied target (after oil) as it has the greatest impact on Japanese industry. Without HI points there can be no aircraft. Don't worry too much about what the AI does; in any event it cheats.

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ORIGINAL: skraft16

Thanks, GetAssista

I notice in reading the Admiral's Edition manual that resource centers/sites now only produce resources. As I recall, they used to produce some supply points in the original WITP edition. This made them important targets for air attacks if you wanted to better starve enemy military forces of supplies. Now, you should really worry about hitting heavy and light industry if you want to do that, as these facilities seem to be the only source of supply points.

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ORIGINAL: skraft16

So, I have the original version of WITP, and I finally decided that I had the time to take the plunge and buy the Admiral's Edition.

So I thought I would play a campaign game vs. the AI to acquaint myself to the "new" edition. I would like to know if the allies, when controlled by the AI, specifically target oil or resource facilities in the admirals edition, or if they mostly do "manpower" and HI/LI attacks.

I found that in the original edition, attacks on oil fields and resource sites were overpowered. In my one PBEM game using the original edition, once I had secured the SW Pacific and Burma, I committed nearly every Japanese army bomber squadron to repeated attacks on Chinese factories, and especially the Chinese oil and resource sites. The Chinese army then starved and were mopped up by mid-1943. Of course, payback is a female dog, and the Americans can do this to the Japanese home islands late in the game and then mop up the ill-supplied Japanese Home Army.

Things got to the point that I started championing a house rule against any strategic bombing except for industry and manpower attacks, to keep this ahistorical economic devastation from happening. It seems cheesey to me that you should be able to bomb farms/rubber plantations/mines and oil fields directly and that should have such an impact.

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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

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ORIGINAL: skraft16

So, I have the original version of WITP, and I finally decided that I had the time to take the plunge and buy the Admiral's Edition.

So I thought I would play a campaign game vs. the AI to acquaint myself to the "new" edition. I would like to know if the allies, when controlled by the AI, specifically target oil or resource facilities in the admirals edition, or if they mostly do "manpower" and HI/LI attacks.

I found that in the original edition, attacks on oil fields and resource sites were overpowered. In my one PBEM game using the original edition, once I had secured the SW Pacific and Burma, I committed nearly every Japanese army bomber squadron to repeated attacks on Chinese factories, and especially the Chinese oil and resource sites. The Chinese army then starved and were mopped up by mid-1943. Of course, payback is a female dog, and the Americans can do this to the Japanese home islands late in the game and then mop up the ill-supplied Japanese Home Army.

Things got to the point that I started championing a house rule against any strategic bombing except for industry and manpower attacks, to keep this ahistorical economic devastation from happening. It seems cheesey to me that you should be able to bomb farms/rubber plantations/mines and oil fields directly and that should have such an impact.

When you get to PBEM, almost all games include a HR against strategic bombing in China for that reason....it's too easy to decimate the Chinese

In general in WITP-AE, the limitation for the Empire is usually supply. Bombing OIL will hurt supply production (eventually downstream OIL is converted to SUPPLY), and bombing HI will hurt supply production. Bomb those. Bombing LI also helps, but LI is more dispersed.

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So, I have the original version of WITP, and I finally decided that I had the time to take the plunge and buy the Admiral's Edition.

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe
To stop the production of Japanese aircraft, bomb the engine factories. Decide which engines Japan needs for his best fighter aircraft and concentrate on those factories.