Yamato hugger -> RE: Class A vs Class C (7/28/2008 12:41:16 PM)
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I dont agree with that. I have a game that is at 30 Jan 44. I (Japan) am leading on points 56k to 25k. I just conducted a successful amphib invasion of Whyalla with 3 divs (he is pinned down at Tennant Creek in the north and Cairns in the east). This should allow me to trap and destroy the units in central Oz. I have had Perth - Darwin - Cairns since summer 42. I am holding the line in Burma and China. I had all the Aleutians but have been diven back to Dutch Harbor. I got very lucky at Perth. It could have gone either way. He chose to Pursue after an attack (about the only time he did if I recall) to open a retreat route for the units in the base itself, and (because its 2 day turns) one of my advancing brigades moved around him and cut his supplies off. He lost 2 divs in the pocket and 2 or 3 more at Perth itself. I have repulsed invasions of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Midway (twice) and re-took Dutch Harbor. The allied player is very aggressive (which I am using against him) but hardly incompetent. He did deploy the 18th Brit Div to Java (which was destroyed) and has committed his carriers piecemeal, but I have met his carriers on more or less equal terms (numbers of planes) and come off about 2 to 1. This game is 2 day turns and I have been picking and choosing when to fight. In other words, I have kept the initiative this far. I have a defense in depth (every base east of Truk has a division plus support defending) and lines of Glen boats and AVs out front ( and occasionally some mine layers) to spot him before he makes contact and I deploy my carriers behind my land bases so he has to take their wrath and deplete his fighter groups before meeting my carrier planes. This has worked well up until recently, but the allied air bonus is starting to take its toll. I hope this is eliminated in AE. I had been averaging a 2-1 kill ratio until '44. I am on the short end of 1.5-1 now and its only going to get worse. But I am confident I can hold the 2:1 point raito for a '45 victory. Edit: I fight his bomber swarms in Burma with engineers and AA guns. I have my fighters back out of his escorts range, and every so often they come out to strike and then run right back. He will flatten a base in 1 turn, but 3 turns later it is fully repaired. I have 300 engineers per base at the ones he can hit (I used my PPs to pull most of the engineers out of Manchuria and Japan).
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