Canoerebel -> RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent (1/9/2018 6:58:28 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel I'm interested in reading John's AAR to see if his Peanut Gallery urged him to implement an extreme points-saving strategy to postpone defeat as long as possible. Perhaps it was just his strong disinclination to take on Death Star. I think he should have combined his carriers and struck when Death Star was proximate to a nest of his airfields instead of suffering a long, lingering defeat. I haven't really read in his AAR. Here's the thing though... Having a carrier battle would, most likely, postpone defeat more than not having a carrier battle. If he sinks 4 of yours, even if he loses 7 of his (which are worth less VPs than yours) and more planes (you'd still lose a lot of planes) he's still traded at less than a 2:1 margin for you - and whatever that difference is, that's how many VPs you now need to make up for. The question, really, is whether doing that is more beneficial points-wise than raiding. At some point closer to the 2:1 ratio, raiding is better because it doesn't involve the permanent loss of assets. However, it's also permanent loss of assets for you... but at some point for you, if there's no KB lurking about then you don't need so much concentrated air cover for an invasion. LBA strikes are more fragmented than CV strikes. My thinking was this: If John managed to take out a number of Allied carriers, even at great expense to himself, I figured it would slow me down considerably. A smaller Death Star would be more susceptible when approaching major enemy airfields. Possibly it might have limited or eliminated Allied options to penetrate deeply against Formosa or China, at least for some meaningful period of time.
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