Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Maximizing Artillery:

I am involved in several artillery duels with the Allies, and I am usually winning them all on VP each day against the Allies.

However, I think I can do better.

For one, I am not flying Recon over these locations and should. I have a shortage of search craft, but I will try it and hope for low losses since I will work on the arc and try to stay away from Allied CAP. Perhaps handpicking pilots with high defense plus recon and flying exceptionally high will do the job. Perhaps the runway location, arcs, range and target can be manipulated to reduce losses.

Question: If I simply put in a target but set the arc away from the target (to a safe area) will I still search that target. I believe the answer is if the range is 3 or less I will, but how about beyond that.

Or, can I set the range to 0 but still recon a location 10 hexes away if that is the target?

I will experiment here and let you know.


Recon is only a point to point mission. To get recon on enemy LCU arcs do not apply, only clicking on the specific hex you want to recon.

For naval search/ASW planes only fly the arc sectors.


Secondly, the short legged artillery (range 12 or less) will go to potential invasion spots, or where deliberate attacks are likely. No reason to use mortars and rockets with their exceptional short range in hexes where deliberate ground attacks are not very likely. At least I think so.


Read my post in this thread.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3701981&mpage=1&key=counter%2Cbattery�



Third: I am going to examine the leaders more carefully and swap out those starting with the most powerful units. I have almost totally ignored this aspect of the game with regard to Artillery.

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Recon is only a point to point mission. To get recon on enemy LCU arcs do not apply, only clicking on the specific hex you want to recon.

For naval search/ASW planes only fly the arc sectors.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

The least action in a turn since 1943 most likely.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

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Recon is only a point to point mission. To get recon on enemy LCU arcs do not apply, only clicking on the specific hex you want to recon.

For naval search/ASW planes only fly the arc sectors.

Alfred, once again many thanks. I have been assigning arcs to recon squadrons all the time. I don't know where I first assumed they use them.

According to the manual, a Recon squadron will at most fly 4 planes in a day?




If the target of a Recon mission is Commanders Discretion, is the targeting per the description of automatic combat targeting in the manual?

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Thinking about it, what is the target of invasion? I have to play for eventualities here...

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Thinking about it, what is the target of invasion? I have to play for eventualities here...

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ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

As to getting reinforcements there, air or barge, perhaps?


Cheers,
CC

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ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

I'm not sure what others think, but perhaps your opponent would do better with the CVEs in a separate CVE TF set to follow an invasion TF, which would itself follow at least one surface TF running interference.

Cheers,
CC

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ORIGINAL: Barb

As I see it he is trying to seal off Japan (something he should have done much earlier instead of slugging it out on the sacred soil of Japan. I bet his next invasions would try to take some isolated islands around Kyushu to seal you off completely.

Just my 2 cents