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Chiteng -> (4/19/2003 4:40:36 AM)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Micah Goodman
[B]I am playing the game with the latest patch against a Japanese computer player. Granted this is my first full game but those darn subs are kicking my A**. I have lost one damaged carrier, four damaged CA’s two healthy ones and three of four DD’s. The Japanese park their subs in what I have begun to call torpedo ally five to eight hex squares North West of Nomua. I sent a bombardment group of about eight CA’s and several DD’s to jump a supply task force at Guadalcanal. I came out with a slight advantage over the Japanese, (he lost a CA two DD’s and several others damaged to my loss of a single DD and several other CA’s and DD’s damaged) but on the trip back those Japanese subs slaughtered me. Two more CA’s lost two damaged and sent back to Pearl Harbor. So I sent out three SC groups of three each and another slaughter took place. 6 SC’s lost to one damaged Japanese sub. After sending two groups of four DD’s to find them they left, or I just missed them.
One mistake I know I made was failing to send some DD escorts from Nomua to follow the cripples home. But holy cow I had visions of fanatical Japanese officers surfacing and sink my ships with Samurai swords! As I get better and refine my tactics hopefully my losses will decrease but at this rate the Japanese can retire their Aircraft Carriers and just send subs south. So far my only attempt to lay mines (USS Argonaut) ended with her loss to A Japanese DD south of Rabual. [/B][/QUOTE]
You must use your planes to spot subs.
lots and lots of planes.
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