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Banjo -> RE: An advanced beginners AAR, and what i've learned so far and hope to learn (3/24/2014 2:47:22 PM)
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It has been about four hours since I did the attack on Lodz after breakfast. They took it without losing any units. Since then I have been pondering the situation and mulling over your comments, of which I am in full agreement with the play on its an alternate start scenario. By playing on I am still learning the game, and that this was just another mistake and part of the learning process.
There have been a few things that I have done so far in the game that fall into the same catagory as the Poland issue, and have kept on with the game. Because they were small things, they might have been an inconvenience but did not drasticly alter the the flow of the game.
That being said, it is miscalculation or not understanding the situation that has determined the outcomes of wars throughout history. This to me is the biggest reason to carry on.
Now I need to give equal time for the replay cause. My wife hates it when I look at both sides of an issue when we discuss things. I have mentioned that naval operations and strategy I believe are my weak points in my knowlege of this game. When I started my very first game, I dove right in to the global war all options on and just started playing never having done more than skim through the videos online. With so many naval units, no task force "container units", or space to spread out the counters to sort them out, I just plopped the main CW fleet in Scapa, and the Japanese in Tokyo, and learn as I went along.
Its hard enough getting ones head wrapped around the convoy, supply and oil part of the game, bugs included, but add all of the options on makes it that tougher. On the other hand I believe it has made me better for it. In my previous games I had not gone more than one or two impulses after the fall of France. This gave me enough time with the navies in the west so that I can set them up better than just one big pile in a port. I am still not happy with my naval set ups in the west, but it will get there. In the east, there is no need for real naval action or movement until Japan can annex Indochina, the Dutch are set up, and the Allies begin to trickle units into asia and the Pacific. This is when I can begin to see what will probobly be needed where when the time comes for Japan to declare war.
Now I could just as easily play the scenario provided that starts me out right at that point and learn from that. To me thats the easy way of doing it. I liken it to learning how to build a house by watching it on tv, or reading a how to book. I learned how to do it by carrying lumber for the carpenters and cleaning up the jobsite, before they put tools in my hands and gave me something to do with them that was so simple a five year old could have done it. I had an autoshop teacher in high school who would hand you a part, show you where it went and would walk away. When we would ask what do we do, he would say improvise. I have watched bosses with 30 and 40 years of experience insist that what they were doing was right when I pointed something out to them. Having spent many years having to rebuild something that wasn't done right the first time. Through my own fault or others, we are all guilty of it. I see no difference here.
In short, what happens with the Germans in the begining, controls the events of the whole game. I need to have a reasonable good start for the Germans, so that the Japanese are in a reasonably historic position when they begin fighting the Allies. That is how I want to learn to play the Japanese.
I appologize for rambling on about this, and thank you for your replies and comments.
The game will be go back to the replay. Will explain things from there, but first, real life is demanding my time again for a few hours.
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