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RevRick -> RE: Anyone know... (12/5/2006 4:36:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Honda
No please, it's gamey...[:-]
If someone takes Tokio in '43, it that gamey?
Sorry, but I belive I outplayed my opponent in a fashion that is anything but gamey. I can't belive I'm defending myself, but here...I had 8(!) IJA divs preparing for Sydney 3 months doing nothing in the meantime. I invaded east India to conceal a major operation on the other side of the world. I lost 3 CVs (2 sunk) for the operation and went ahead anyway. I had to sail many days in hostile waters avoiding detection, and when i finally arrived my whole strategy could have been flawed by just 1 or 2 divs. C'mon man!!!
If the Allies take Tokyo in '43 by sinking the KB, wiping out the bases in the way, and hitting with enough SUSTAINABLE (as in, keeping it supplied) force to take it because there is nothing to interfere with the flow of supplies - yes. If it is an attack in which those conditions are not met (KB active and afloat, Truk, Tarawa,Kwajalein, the Marianas, New Guinea, the PI still in Japanese hands and not menaced by much more than holding forces at best) and there is no defense in the HI to speak of - yes that is gamey because no one who was in command of a real force for any nation would leave themselves that exposed to the loss of a landing force because they were cut of and unsupplied.
If you drop 8 divisions out of the blue on Sydney, that would not conquer Australia. I would, undoubtedly garner attention for all the other cities in the country, and - unless you had taken New Caladonia, the NE coast of Australia, neutralized any air force which could interdict, and had no viable Naval Forces which could break your supply line (No CVs in particular), and had eliminated the sub threat, you would wind up with a large force, representing a substantial part of your nations capital investment, stranded and out of supply on an enemy held continent. The same with Karachi. If the Indian Subcontinent has been captured in the process, then good on you. If you jump to Karachi ignoring everything else and leave your rear, and both flanks open to any form of attack which can threaten your supply base (home) and your supply train then you are playing in a fashion which would have got you kicked out of any military training school in the world worth its salt. In other words, employing any game mechanic which is instituted to represent the rest of the world to win the game by what is obviously an artificial means is unsupportable in anything other than a misapplication of the mechanical practice of the game, and, IMO, unethical in the extreme.
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