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ORIGINAL: CrackingShow

I don't play this game because it looks very complicated to play, but I do enjoy reading AARs sometimes.

Thought I'd just drop a comment to say very well done dude. I've enjoyed your rants on the numerous flaws on the game, and I liked how you didn't make any big blunders by splitting up your carriers to be killed individually or in small groups. Splitting up and trying to accomplish too much is a common mistake players make!

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ORIGINAL: 29000Kevin

Well Mundy finally placed himself into a position once again where he could possibly cause real damage to Japanese Empire, provided if he can maintain his position in the SRA after the Death Star leaves the area.


yeah his move is a threatening one indeed but moving in and taking a base doesn't mean one can hold it, as we have seen in the Allied operation against Calcutta which brought halve a million men


I'm having a sense that Winston Churchill has taken command over the Pacific war after the constant failures by the Americans to land a decisive victory, because this seems to be the Pacific version of "Europe's soft Underbelly".

Although the "Soft underbelly" wasn't really soft to begin with as the Italian campaign would prove, the Allied Balkans Liberation plan was scrapped in favor of Landing in Southern France and Churchill already had a reputation with a certain Mediterranean campaign in World War 1 when he proposed the naval attack on the Dardanelles, which evolved into the Gallipoli campaign that ended in Entente Defeat.


it really depends where he is going to land but striking from Australia into Southern Borneo or Australia means hitting the soft belly for sure


Mundy meanwhile is losing an unstainable amount of Fighters so he might strike out soon if he figures that your not attempting to seriously harm his carriers.

Remember he has SIGINT and he will eventually know WHERE KB is camping out in the SRA and he could suddenly strike out at you if he figures out where your holding back.


will take like a week until his fighters are worn down and that's the timespan he has for his invasion, from day 8 on it will only go worse and worse with every day


I've also noticed the lack of IJN Submarines in the Banda Sea, the water is deep enough so not sure why we can't see them yet.
I also presume that you have MTB boats available to help pick away at any Amphibious assaults or even Bombardments against the islands.


the subs that are stationed in the Pacific weren't alerted as I never expected this move that far North but there are 10 subs coming down from Singapore. But to see a real effect I'd rather have 50 subs operating against the enemy fleet

Let's just hope that all your SCTF's forces have Radar as we saw how the disastrous Surface action went without Radar back in the Bay of Bengal campaign.


it's mid 45 and all my ships have undergone all their upgrades (only Hiyo and Junyo are currently undergoing theirs in Japan) but SC TF won't have much of an impact anymore at this stage of the war, more like a sponge to suck up damage and to deplete the enemy's ammo


God forbid in any Surface action that we have any Battleships or Cruisers "Escorting" damaged Destroyers, we reach a point were damaged ships that can't defend themselves should just be abandoned, unless their a capital ship, Maybe having a Light Cruiser in those Task Force might make the game just send a Light Cruiser and Heavy to defend the damage ship instead of a Battleship like it did last time.

Is their any Night Air Attacks coming? Since we have reached the point where some Japanese planes have Radar fitted on them also the Moon and weather helps a lot during Night attacks, same can be said for the Allies, Darkness and weather will hopefully be our Friends in the coming battles, otherwise the Dice rolls will decide your fate.


no night attacks, Mundy and me think the same about night bombing so if he doesn't start tactical night bombing I won't do either, it's just screwed in the game. If he does I could just set 600 of my KB bombers to night nav attack and cause serious losses to the enemy (have done that once in another game which immediately ended with the enemy complaining about a gamey attack - while he bombed me into the stone age with nothing but tactical night attacks for months)


The obsolescence of the "old" N1K2-J George is becoming obvious, it should've been upgraded to the N1K5-J variant to keep the IJNAF competitive in offensive strikes but its too late now and the J7W Shinden or something else would've been delayed if such an scenario had happened, instead we have a great point Defense Fighter against the VVS (Soviet Air Forces), the B-29, the B-29's brother the B-32 Dominator, The ultimate form of the P-51H Mustang and the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star...


haven't put any research into the N1K5 as I wanted to go with the N1K3 due to service level 2 but it doesn't make much difference, usually I just go for the last variant. The -5 never did much better in late war for me other than having more firepower with the two center line MGs though


We are now in 1945, looking back at the 1946 completed AAR that reach to the very end. May 28, 1946 appears to be the end date for the game,
I repeat May 28, 1946 appears to be the official End date for WiTP:AE and forces an Auto Victory that you cannot skip, but maybe I'm wrong.

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Meanwhile Imperial Japan's Ally in the European Front is well not having a great time...


April the 8th, 1945.
The Royal Air Force bombs Lützkendorf in the final raid in the Allied campaign against the German oil industry.

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And as of April the 4th the front line was this...

All I can say is that the situation could be worse... of course some Butterflys from sinking of many Western Allied Assets such as the sinking of the largest ship in the world, RMS Queen Elizabeth near the island of Pago Pago and the sinking of the SS America during the doomed attempt to Dunkirk the Allied Forces in Singapore along with other Ocean Liners.

But anyway, its likely to assume that a lot of German "tourist" who definitely aren't War Criminals are likely to set sail in U-Boats and head for Japanese India.

Unfortunately the things that those "tourist" are running from will be following them,
Remember the B-17's at the start of the Pacific War? Well their coming back with a vengeance...

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ORIGINAL: jdsrae

Do you just put low experience and skill pilots in the “pathfinders” or are you losing good strike pilots?

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ORIGINAL: WriterNotViking

Exciting developments, Castor. Best of luck in the upcoming clash.