LargeSlowTarget -> RE: Playing both sides (12/15/2017 6:56:04 AM)
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Officially, I would never admit that I'm playing with myself. Unofficially though, I confess that I'm playing h2h between PBEM turns. I'm role-playing and try to keep strategy and pace pretty historical, so the strategic hotspots are rather obvious (like defend / take Singers, Java, PM, Burma). Within this frame, I try to keep the daily decisions based on what can be seen on the map and not on knowledge of what the other side is doing. IOW what needs to be done will be done and there is no shying away from potential disastrous actions. Sending assets to their doom can be painful at times. It is a slow-going game and RL plus the PBEM help to clear the cache (brain) to create some sort of FOW. This - plus the inevitable mistakes one makes in games against AI / PBEM as well - often lead to unexpected results for both sides, like losing Boise on the second day of the war or having the Kuantan invasion savaged by LBA and Force Z. For me it's a great way to playtest a mod to check the changes made on both sides and to test different tactical setups. YMMV of course.
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