composer99 -> RE: Mistakes... (10/18/2013 7:50:57 PM)
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Without having the setup rules I can't see why the CW can't set up in Ceylon - although Columbo is a minor port so you can't set up the whole fleet, and the major port in Ceylon (whose name I can't spell) is only on Bay of Bengal like Calcutta, so you don't do any favours to the fleet setting it up there. At any rate it is a bad idea for the Allies to let their carriers get caught out facing the full might of Japanese carrier & land-based air early on in Guadalcanal. Better to have a 'hit them where they ain't' strategy, or wait for stormy weather and try to sink CVs if the battle fleet can close in (3+ surprise to pick a target). Assuming your actual question is whether or not it is a good idea to land land units in Ceylon to defend it, the answer is, unhelpfully, what do the victory conditions punish more? Losing land units (which granted I don't think you can build at discretion) or victory hexes? I suspect you're better off fighting to defend Ceylon and make the Japanese waste time in the Bay of Bengal while the US forces advance, hopefully with little resistance. Watch out for Japanese strikes on your sealift, though, because you may want to shuttle units back from Ceylon to India down the road. Of course none of that appears topical to your present situation where the CW fleet is trapped in the Bay of Bengal with the Japanese CV fleet bearing down on it...
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