Xargun
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Joined: 2/14/2004 From: Near Columbus, Ohio Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Raverdave Great AAR guys..............would both of you care to post a "what I did wrong" post script ? I am sure that everyone would find this most interesting. Well my list is very long... Well not long, but quite easy to see - at least from my standpoint... 1. Due to inexperience about Malaria's effects on my troops I paused roughly 2 weeks in my battles in both Malaya and PI... Thus gave Rob more time in both locations - reason he was able to get so many units out of Singapore.. 2. Did not send enough men to PI. Japan starts the game with 1-2 divisions not earmarked for action and I sent them elsewhere - they need to go to PI to have enough forces to defeat the large numbers of PA units... The PA units are not tough, but have numbers on their side. 3. The weather... I hate it... But nothing I really did wrong.. Just that the weather over Formosa and PI was never good - except during the first month of the war - and when it came time to march on the heavily defended PI bases, the weather prevented most of my planes from flying each day - thus they couldn't bomb the enemy units and cause disruption. 4. Naval Forces.. I lost a lot of ships due to no escorting, or hanging around too long (Wake). A lot of those losses I would say were my fault for not escorting the TFs or such... But many of them (especially subs) were lost due to just using the ships - CD guns, dutch air attacks, subs attacking enemy ships... But I still had heavy losses and need to decrease them so I have enough ships to fight with in the late war. 5. Paratroopers... I wasted about 2/3rds of my paratrooper regiments in stupid attacks and lack of patience. I did finally use them to capture a base, but it was their third time used and they were smacked around the other 2 times. Waste of men and equipment. 6. Seal off the Malacca Straight faster. Once I took the initial bases on the east coast of Malaya I needed to move my Sallies as well as shorter range DBs and TBs to these base to close off the straight. I had subs in the straight the entire war, and they fired once at the POW & Repulse TF as if fled and not again I believe - waste of assets.. I should have used air power to close the straight - more efficient in all regards. 7. Strategy... I spent a lot of time trying to make Japan's industry work better that I didn't put enough time into my overall war strategy - I need to hit key locations early and place bombers / fighters in them to sink ships fleeing the SRA and DEI... In the game I did not do this, allowing most (if not all) shipping in the SRA and DEI to escape unmolested. I did have my baby CVs interdicting shipping near Borneo, but they cannot kill enough due to their small numbers... In all I think I did a decent job but feel I can move my timetables up by roughly 2 weeks easily in Malaya and by adding more troops into PI, I should be able to speed up that conquest as well. I also believe I can use my navy much more efficient as to decrease my losses. But alot of that depends on how aggressive Rob gets... So its hard to say. Xargun
< Message edited by Xargun -- 8/9/2004 6:50:11 PM >
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