Bullwinkle58
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel It might matter, a bit. As you noted a week or two ago, the cumulative affect of losing ships (or whatever) does impact the bottom line. John's going to score some points here and there, but I don't need to give him any more assists. The thing about the little Judy raid that somehow penetrated Death Star to score a hit on Pensacola....what happens when 1,000 kamikazes, bombers and escorts show up? Can DS CAP handle the threat? I think so, but I don't know for sure. John will never have a better chance to strike than tomorrow, so perhaps we'll find out. Am I making a mistake by invading Korea? I suppose its debatable, like everything. The thing is, I KNOW I can use an airfield to good effect in achieving the final victory. And I THINK Death Star is up to the task (part of the equation - if John loses 750 aircraft in return for 375 points of Allied shipping, it works out fine for auto-vic purposes). I do wish I had enough experience to better gauge whether I'm taking the wrong chance here. That's part of playing deeply and learning new things. I don't think Korea is a mistake. It directly supports the strat bombing effort in the same ways an Hokkaido plunge does. At this point my comments here should be construed as "have a beer" comments., or "cup of coffee" if you like. Not advisory; just observational. You're doing fine, and better than fine, and I guess that's the heart of my comment above. You are volunteering for carpal tunnel when all you need to really do is burn him down. You can table the land war, table the southern map, table Indo-China and Malaysia, and just bomb and be done. You don't because the amateur shrink in me senses anticipatory nostalgia. This is soon over, and you and John move on. Maybe forever in game terms, maybe for just years. So the more you do every turn, the more complexity you add, the longer the goodbye lasts. Sweet. I also wish he had tried a mass kami effort. I REALLY want to see what can be done in those terms with current patches. It's been years since I faced them. There would be carnage, yes, and that was his last, best chance to play a real VP game and stave off defeat past August and the Decisive marker. But he doesn't seem to want to play. I think it would have been good for you too, as obvert will sure as all hell hit you with mass kamis. I'm going to follow your game with obvert to see if you got bad habits from this one. John lets you get away with a lot of cheese (in a baseball sense of the word, to confuse the Brits here ) that obvert will punish. The picture of your checkerboard subs in shallow water, week after week, month after month, just amazes me for one example. In RL the Allies didn't stop fighting in China once the strat bombing began. So I get it. But if your wrists start barking . . .
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