@Gamerman01:
@vonLettowVorbeck1914:
Like it seems you said, the ANZAC trns can be blocked fairly easily.
I ALSO said that perhaps the USA fleet staying at home in Z10 as it did in the Sword game might be enough to get the ANZ transports in. THERE IS INCREASING EVIDENCE THAT YOU’RE NOT READING OR COMPREHENDING A LOT OF THINGS I POST, EITHER. In the Sword game, Japan didn’t attack the fleet until J4.
Another thing that needs to be considered is if the USA should send their fleet south and not tangle with the Japanese at all, since we have agreed there is nothing they can do (unless they can see the ANZ reinforcements in safely). This could make a big difference for the Allies in the post WUS era.
Our game was the very first I’ve ever tried in this edition against this strategy. Naturally, I would change a couple things.
There is no need to send the 3 UK air all the way up to China.
There isn’t a huge need to immediately send a single UK bomber to WUS. That money would probably be better spent preparing for war with Japan after J4.
So 3 ANZ fighters and possibly 2 loaded transports are really all the other allies need to send up.
Now you need to play games out to conclusion with players who know what they’re doing, to see if Japan can really even win more than 60-70% of games this way.
60-70% because that’s about the percentage they win without a bid, playing traditional strategies.
Just look at the map in the game you are playing me in now. The USA fleet going home gets smashed J3 no sweat. Japan can hit with the 4 planes from the carriers plus 4 planes from japan plus 2 bombers from Japan. Add 4 more planes onto that if I had moved the carrier from SZ 6 (the only reason it was in 6 is because I wanted to hedge my bets in Hong Kong) Â Correct me if I am wrong, but in the Sword game wasn’t the US being attacked on land the same turn it was being attacked in SZ 10? If that is the game I was thinking of, Japan attacked to draw the scramble and then retreat (while winning W USA with extreme ease), or not get scrambled and wipe the American fleet out.
I am wholly unconvinced the USA just retreating it’s fleet does any real good. It would be useless as an offensive force (perhaps individual ships can take out blocks, but it can’t harm the body of the IJN, and as I wrote up before, The allies stacking one sea zone may prevent Japan wiping out the combined fleet, but Japan can always just go around until the stack is on a capital’s SZ. Had you read anything of what I posted before you came into the thread, you would have seen why it is important for the US to block at least Alaska and probably also the Aleutians.
I am not sure why you are arguing against your planes going to china and your UK bomber buy, those were your moves in the “best” allied strategy, not my moves. You said the strat was the best one the allies could put out, but now say you would change a few things. Get offended if you must, but I feel like we have wasted a game then since you could have just read my posts and noted a few things that have already been tried and what the Allies’ situation is once USA falls.
Apologies on not being able to read all your posts; when you post several in succession, I often respond to the first, and then in the middle of responding to the second, you respond to my response to the first, and then the last one or two get glossed over as I go from there. I myself will try to combine more together for easier tracking. But for me to put forth serious effort to read everything you write, you need to show me a little effort in doing something other than blowing off the 4 pages posted before you came in the thread.
Please try to imagine how frustrating it is for me to play a game where you make mistakes as the allies that I have already noted in the thread as being critical to avoid (or at least explain in detail why you did not make those moves) (at the very least Alaska needs to be blocked, I am more certain of this than anything else in the situation). If you want to experiment some strats without an Alaska block, please do so on your own time and upload the game. If the Allies then stop Japan without an Alaska block in your tests I would be happy to see if there is anything I would have done differently as Japan, and then try a game from there if I think so.