Shark7 -> RE: Chinese army's in AE (6/20/2009 3:45:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: wpurdom1 This is the most notable example of a more general problem which I do not think is reasonable to address prior to WITP2 if that fabled production ever comes to life. There is no coordination penalties for offensive cooperation of non-cooperating entities such as exist in TOAW. Chinese Nationalist armies should not be able to coordinate with Communist armies at all. Further, recent research convinces me that CCP forces only twice engaged in offensive action (even guerrilla attacks) against the Japanese prior to August, 1945, both attacks being against Mao's orders and prior to 12/7/1941 (the Hundred Regiment offensive being the most famous). In contrast CCP forces and Nationalist forces did attack one another. See Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. At a different level, Nationalist forces and warlord forces could possibly attack the same target, but not without severe penalties or separate combat resolution. And it is likewise unimaginable that British and Chinese forces could coordinate without severe penalties. The lack of coordination between Japanese Army and Navy air and land forces are legendary, though as in TOAW, I'm sure the land forces could stubbornly defend without coordination. Thai force offensive cooperation with Japanese or Manchurian cooperation with the Japanese is likewise hard to imagine. Even cooperation between US Army and Marine Corps units should probably be subject to some penalty similar to the lowest level in TOAW. Ultimately, despite improvements, I would suspect that AE is not going to be a sophisticated land warfare engine. If the designers in a later patch do something to restricted command land marches, they might contemplate whether there is any reasonable way to turn off the offensive capacity of certain units such as the CCP and the Thais. UNRELATED ISSUE - Is there any way to reclaim my old comatose identity as wpurdom, Posts: 162, Joined: 10/27/2000, Decatur, GA, USA? I was moderately active until mid-2004, but then only occasionally lurked until the beginning of 2009 when AE seemed to be approaching. I forgot my password, and the email account I entered under (wpurdom@randomc.com) has been inactive for a few years. And I think I have similar problems on the registered user side of my accounts, so can I qualify as a registered user of WITP when the manual comes out? (I probably still have my original WITP disk). Historically the biggest problem with coordination were the egoes of the commanders involved. D-Day was impressive not only because of the scale, but also due to Eisenhower's ability to get the various pompous, self-absorbed glory seekers to actually work together in some capacity.
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