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ORIGINAL: wpurdom

 

In reading a number of AAR's, I'm wondering whether the cold, objective Allied strategy (outside China) for the first 6 months should be a complete Sir Robin outside of Hawaii, New Zealand, Cooktown-Geraldton, India frontier, aside from the occasion ambush with unimportant assets or by CV's when you're very sure KB is far away. (Since I haven't been able to participate in a PBEM, I'm wanting an inside retrospective analysis.) Specifically:
1. PULL BACK any land assets you can,
2. Don't engage in prolonged fighter contests where the IJ player can sweep unless you have Hurricanes for high altitude cover available - otherwise either bring your fighters forward for an ambush or keep them grounded most of the time and unpredictably rise to engage ocassionally, ala Speedy; in AE with the reduced Allied AF, it's not clear to me that attrition (outside of CV pilots) serves Allied purposes before mid-43 - on the other hand if you don't fight at all, you won't have 1st class pilots to speed up pilot training)
3. use surface forces for rare ambushes where you're not committed to sticking around - LBA support being largely illusionary or ephemeral in this phase;
4. mostly lurk and train your CV's unless there is a good target, you're sure that KB is far away, and you have LBA parity in the area for a while;
5. train your forces and move supplies.

Very boring, but can John Paul Jones' slogan be successfully applied against a IJ player of equal competence in the first six months: "he who does not dare cannot win"?

In other words, should the Allied player, train, move supplies, and lurk until late 42 or the Japanese player overcommits too far from home (clear signs of victory disease on the map)?

USS St. Louis firing on Guam, July 1944. The Cardinals and Browns faced each other in the World Series that year

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ORIGINAL: wpurdom

 

In reading a number of AAR's, I'm wondering whether the cold, objective Allied strategy (outside China) for the first 6 months should be a complete Sir Robin outside of Hawaii, New Zealand, Cooktown-Geraldton, India frontier, aside from the occasion ambush with unimportant assets or by CV's when you're very sure KB is far away. (Since I haven't been able to participate in a PBEM, I'm wanting an inside retrospective analysis.) Specifically:
1. PULL BACK any land assets you can,
2. Don't engage in prolonged fighter contests where the IJ player can sweep unless you have Hurricanes for high altitude cover available - otherwise either bring your fighters forward for an ambush or keep them grounded most of the time and unpredictably rise to engage ocassionally, ala Speedy; in AE with the reduced Allied AF, it's not clear to me that attrition (outside of CV pilots) serves Allied purposes before mid-43 - on the other hand if you don't fight at all, you won't have 1st class pilots to speed up pilot training)
3. use surface forces for rare ambushes where you're not committed to sticking around - LBA support being largely illusionary or ephemeral in this phase;
4. mostly lurk and train your CV's unless there is a good target, you're sure that KB is far away, and you have LBA parity in the area for a while;
5. train your forces and move supplies.

Very boring, but can John Paul Jones' slogan be successfully applied against a IJ player of equal competence in the first six months: "he who does not dare cannot win"?

In other words, should the Allied player, train, move supplies, and lurk until late 42 or the Japanese player overcommits too far from home (clear signs of victory disease on the map)?

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ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

BTW, the dive bomber altitude settings from michaelm (who is dev and code wrangler anyway) may be helpful:

Mission: Bombing
A/c type: DB
(1) Group altitude: 10-15K
A/c are treated as if performing a diving attack
(2) Group altitude: 16-19K
A/c are treated as if performing a glide attack
(3) Group altitude: <1K
A/c are treated as if performing a low level attack
(4) Group altitude: 20+ or 1-9K
A/c are treated as if performing a normal horizontal attack

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ORIGINAL: cfulbright

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ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

BTW, the dive bomber altitude settings from michaelm (who is dev and code wrangler anyway) may be helpful:

Mission: Bombing
A/c type: DB
(1) Group altitude: 10-15K
A/c are treated as if performing a diving attack
(2) Group altitude: 16-19K
A/c are treated as if performing a glide attack
(3) Group altitude: <1K
A/c are treated as if performing a low level attack
(4) Group altitude: 20+ or 1-9K
A/c are treated as if performing a normal horizontal attack

Is this true that if you set divebombers to 19K or 26K, they're doing horizontal bombing? That's "whack" as my kids say. Can someone confirm this?

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ORIGINAL: Grollub

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ORIGINAL: cfulbright

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ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

BTW, the dive bomber altitude settings from michaelm (who is dev and code wrangler anyway) may be helpful:

Mission: Bombing
A/c type: DB
(1) Group altitude: 10-15K
A/c are treated as if performing a diving attack
(2) Group altitude: 16-19K
A/c are treated as if performing a glide attack
(3) Group altitude: <1K
A/c are treated as if performing a low level attack
(4) Group altitude: 20+ or 1-9K
A/c are treated as if performing a normal horizontal attack

Is this true that if you set divebombers to 19K or 26K, they're doing horizontal bombing? That's "whack" as my kids say. Can someone confirm this?

As the post above states; Divebomber at 19K - It makes glide attack. Divebomber at 26K - It makes a horizontal attack. I don't know what more confirmation you need - as Sardaukar said, this is from the mouth of the dev michaelm (in this thread).

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ORIGINAL: cfulbright

Rob - thanks, I guess there's some sense in that. It also explains why my Hornet SBD's weren't doing very well against AKL's. I'll have to fix that right away.

Was it like this in original WITP, or is this a new development in AE?

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ORIGINAL: wpurdom

 

In reading a number of AAR's, I'm wondering whether the cold, objective Allied strategy (outside China) for the first 6 months should be a complete Sir Robin outside of Hawaii, New Zealand, Cooktown-Geraldton, India frontier, aside from the occasion ambush with unimportant assets or by CV's when you're very sure KB is far away. (Since I haven't been able to participate in a PBEM, I'm wanting an inside retrospective analysis.) Specifically:
1. PULL BACK any land assets you can,
2. Don't engage in prolonged fighter contests where the IJ player can sweep unless you have Hurricanes for high altitude cover available - otherwise either bring your fighters forward for an ambush or keep them grounded most of the time and unpredictably rise to engage ocassionally, ala Speedy; in AE with the reduced Allied AF, it's not clear to me that attrition (outside of CV pilots) serves Allied purposes before mid-43 - on the other hand if you don't fight at all, you won't have 1st class pilots to speed up pilot training)
3. use surface forces for rare ambushes where you're not committed to sticking around - LBA support being largely illusionary or ephemeral in this phase;
4. mostly lurk and train your CV's unless there is a good target, you're sure that KB is far away, and you have LBA parity in the area for a while;
5. train your forces and move supplies.

Very boring, but can John Paul Jones' slogan be successfully applied against a IJ player of equal competence in the first six months: "he who does not dare cannot win"?

In other words, should the Allied player, train, move supplies, and lurk until late 42 or the Japanese player overcommits too far from home (clear signs of victory disease on the map)?