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CaptDave -> From an Effective Newbie to the Real Ones (6/10/2007 12:45:02 AM)
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I've been playing the game almost since it became available, but have managed not to devote my life to it -- in terms of experience, I'm still at the newbie level. That said, here are a couple things based on previous posts.
1. General advice: when playing against the AI, do your best to ignore the rampant comments in the forum about what the AI will not do. In my mind it's unrealistic to be fully aware of the enemy's specific short- and long-term intentions, but more important, you don't want to get into a rut and then switch to PBEM. A human player has infinitely more creativity than the AI!
2. Similarly, I try to base my plans to some extent on what knowledge was available in real life, as well as what has become known in the game. When setting strategy for 1942, I try to forget what we now know happened for real. This sort of goes along with #1, since the AI will (as I understand it) pretty much follow the original script to the extent that it can.
3. I seem to be luckier than most with my submarines, although I certainly have my share of dud torpedoes. The point here is simply not to write them off as worthless.
4. Likewise, I do pretty well with my ASW air patrols, at least around Hawaii (the surface patrols do better, of course). I tend to set both my search and my ASW patrols at 6000 feet, with a combination of PBYs and otherwise-useless bombers (A20?) on ASW. Most of the PBYs go into search, and they drop the occasional bomb, as well, but the ASW patrols are the real killers here.
5. Just to reiterate #1, in a slightly modified way, forget your own experience of exactly what the AI will do and concentrate more on what it could do -- in other words, focus on your enemy's capabilities more than his intentions, just as you would on the real battlefield (of course, you still have to estimate the probability of his intentions, since your resources aren't unlimited).
6. Most important of all: have fun!
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