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obvert -> RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent (7/6/2016 5:29:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: poodlebrain
CR's efficient, and quite effective, use of the initiative he gained at Sumatra has been writing the tale of this game for the last year. John is just along to play the foil.
No initiative was gained in Sumatra. Period. The IJ shouldn't be expanding in late 43. They should be doing exactly what Lowpe and Alfred have mentioned, along with others including myself over many iterations of this discussion; preparing for defense, counterpunching judiciously and conserving economic resources for the future.
What I think upon further consideration is that (obviously) Dan played this entire game catered to JIII and it would have been very different had it been a different player. This psychological understanding of an opponent is probably his biggest strength as an AE player. He also doesn't get too rattled when something (even major) goes wrong and he simply plans a creative solution to counter the problem (the almost Hokkaido and actual Aleutians and Cent Pac invasions after Sumatra).
In a subjective sense, playing against JIII, Sumatra may have been a positive for the Allies psychologically, as it somehow led him to believe he could pleasure cruise the KB anywhere and disregard his preparation behind the lines. Had it been njp72, Lowpe, Lokasenna, me or just about any other Japanese player at that point, they would have conceded the Eastern Aleutians and Cent Pac and used the time to avoid what is now happening in game by reorganizing and allocating forces to likely Allied invasion vectors; No Pac, So Pac and Cent Pac. They would have also tucked away the KB for a surprise moment later.
I'm beginning to understand Dan's idea about Sumatra, because I see that he is only seeing this in a subjective sense, playing this game against JIII, where some of us see other possibilities outside of that dual psychology.
Whatever. He's kickin serious ass now, and it's fun to watch. [:)]
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