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ANav_slith -> RE: Calling all lurkers (and forumites) - STATUS UPDATE please! (4/10/2020 3:47:01 PM)
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Long time lurker here. I've been playing AE almost since it was released. I've read many posts and picked up a lot of "how too" information from this forum over that time. I'm old and tired. I burned out on forums long ago, so I don't participate. Though I must say this one appears to be run well, by whoever runs it. Thank you very much.
I consider AE the best war game ever made period. The two major issues I have with it are that either the designers didn't know much about ships. By that I mean the nuts and bolts of what keeps a ship underway and the massive effort needed to keep fixing them, or they chose to ignore most of this aspect for playability reasons.
The other problem is with us, the players. We know to much about this war. We have knowledge we shouldn't have, and mostly can't restrain ourselves from acting on it. So we take advantage and do things the real combatants would not do.
The Pacific war was a long, brutal, and fasinating battle of attrition. However the game can't replicat that unless the Japanese, at least in geneal, attempt to do what they historically needed to do. While the Allied side tries to forget what he knows about this war, pin his ears back and fight hard with what he's got right from the beginning.
However because of these issues in my experience the war usually ends with a couple of Jutland sized events sometime late 42, early 43. Hense the desire of many of you for fantasy scenarios. Whats needed of course are house rules to restrain ourselves, but how can you make, and live by, house rules for so vast a game? In my view you can't.
The thing is to find a compatible opponent who sees the game more or less as you do. Then try to get all the way to 1945. Then switch sides and try again. If you can do that there is no need for fantasy.
I'm currently playing a scenario 29 big babes. The date is July 1942. I am the Japanese. So far I've taken the Philippines, The Dutch Indies, Malaya, and am trying to move down the Solomons. I'm also slogging through Burma on whats proven to be a hard campaign so far. The Allies have taken a stand South of Mandalay, and my supply situation is so critical I can't build up strength to break through. The Allies have strongly re-enforced Port Blair So supplies will only get worse. I have to take Port Blair and shed a lot of blood, or accept the situation as it is. The Allies have also kept me out of Buna. So that is problematic for my hold on New Guinea, and New Britian. The air war here is just starting to tilt in his favor which bodes ill for the sons of Nippon. A few fork tail devils have made their appearance, UGH!!
We had been doing a turn a day until our response to this virus put my friend on shift work. So the battle has slowed considerably
OK I've unlurked myself.
Thanks again
Jess
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