Posts made by U-505

@Jennifer:

Yea, you CAN stack heavy in Ukraine or Karelia.  W. Russia, of course, is still toast.

However, Russia 2 kills whatever you stacked in Karelia or Ukraine (unless you gave up on attacking the British fleet with your airforce to defend it.)

As for Norway being “risky” it’s more 60/30 in your favor. (10% everyone looses.)  Anyway, is it not worth the risk to preserve a Submarine, Transport and Battleship?

First, Norway is 60/40 no matter what. The 10% mutual kill is in Germany’s favor. When Russia trades 3 inf, 1 arm, 1 fig for 3 inf, 1 fig and fails to take the territory it is most certainly a German victory even if they can’t do a G1 attack on sz2. Germany calls it a moral victory and then changes their plan on the fly.

Second, Russia will definitely be able to destroy whatever Germany stacks in Belo or ukraine. But at what cost? Every offensive unit they have including R1 builds. On G1 the Channel Dash becomes the wrong choice because of the missing Norway fighter, but with the extra units available to stack in the East it’s advantageous for Germany to force Russia into a bloodbath. The 2 sz8 subs go after the sz13 BB with minimal air support, The BB,TP help take Egypt and they stack everything in Ukr or Belo. They can build the CV to seal up the Baltic and nothing but inf and armor from then on. The baltic TP can keep the Russians bleeding off units to contest Karelia and Arch while the Med navy can add 2 newly built inf and a BB shot to Ukr every turn in addition to the units moving through Eastern. Will I miss sacrificing most of my German armor? Sure. But, if it allows Germany to force Russia to commit their entire builds to trading Ukraine, Karelia, and Belo, Japan is faced with nothing but scattered allied units in Asia. I can see Germany being able to keep up that offensive until at least G4 or G5 with infantry moving to defend Western being replaced by fighters coming back from Atlantic duty. And if Russia doesn’t take the bait, and holds their ground in Cauc or WR, Germany gets to hold territory they would normally be trading and Russia loses income with Germany being able to retreat strongly back to Eastern when the western Allied pressure gets too hot. Either way, Germany makes tons of income to replace their losses and will still be able to slowly fortify Western Europe. The only reason not to do it is if Russia manages to take Norway. Which is nothing more than a coin flip.

Another reason I would NEVER give anyone an 8 bid to let my opponent have a bid naval unit. I’ll go on record as saying I can win 9 out of 10 against anybody if they gave me a bid sub or TP whether I use my Channel Dash strat or not.

You could do that. OR you could just edit or delete MY post. I won’t argue about the forum rules when I’m out of line but, deleting an entire thread just to make an example of me is a bit tyrannical.

Aside from the fact that the Norway attack is a risky 60/40, Germany can immediately stack heavily in Belo or Ukraine since either Ukraine or WR won’t be attacked on R1. With a bid sub in sz8, Germany can afford to wait to see what the Russians do before deciding if the Channel Dash is the best option and if it is, Germany has the option of stacking 1 DD, 4 SS, 1 TP in sz7 and build multiple fighters for a counterattack if UK decides to go after that fleet with more than just aircraft. In that case, stacking Allied fleet in sz12 is suicidal. I’ve won enough games using the Channel Dash to know that it’s viable and with a bid naval unit in sz5, s8 or sz14 it’s even stronger.

Just me thinking pure thoughts. Nothing to see here.

And how would you propose to do that while preserving your Christian values? Putting makeshift bedrooms on the floats with big signs reading “married people having straight sex in here. The way it should be.”?

@balungaloaf:

i was just at the cubs game, with the fight b/w the 1 st baseman the other teams pitcher.  pretty cool, but not a lot of fighting, just pushing. how did the liberal sissification of america seep into our athletes?

Because losing a starting player on your team means losing games and when you’re trying to make a run at the division it’s just plain stupid. And the bench players know that they will get suspended worse than the guys who started it if they escalate the fight. If you like to watch people doing dumb shit then stick to wrestling.

@balungaloaf:

maybe i’d push for a straight pride parade.  with people in skimpy outfits showing how proud they are to be heterosexual w/ the natural ability of reproduction.  sounds like that wouldnt bother anybody in laid back chicago.  it’ll be a bigger party than the gay one.

The straight pride parade is called Oak Street beach and it lasts all summer. But good luck with that, I’m sure you’ll make a lot of friends.

@balungaloaf:

i was just in chicago.  i think i’ll move there.

Chicago is too laid back for you, balung. Th gay pride parade is one of the biggest and best parties in town and the only thing we get fanatical about is food(no ketchup on hotdogs) and sports(White Sox suck, Cubs rule).

I always knew that medical professionals were supressing violent instincts. Did they use a no-knock warrant, a flash-bang grenade, and a kick in the nuts on him?  :lol:

Sounds to me like his assailants need the no-knock warrant treatment.

Seriously though. Since his medical history documents a heart attack following a previous beating, I think the ER was definitely the appropriate place for him to be taken.

Don’t discount a UK IC in Norway. As long as you can foresee the UK earning at least 33 IPC’s then it makes more sense for the UK to build there. UK’s job is to provide an early buffer between Germany and Russia to allow Russia to turn it’s attention toward Japan. 11 UK units going into Europe every turn almost single-handedly matches Germany’s production which leaves the Russians free. That allows the US to land less units in Europe to maintain the Germany containment wall and send more units through Africa to protect the UK’s income and press Japan.

I see no reason for the Allies to wait until the US can take Norway and build an IC there because the UK needs the income more than the US, by the time the US gets into position to take Norway their transport system is already completely set up, and the US production capacity is never seriously taxed so there is no need to build another IC when the transports are already there.

Spartan,

Low Luck requires that you pay very close attention to everything on the board. I would recommend that you not play Low Luck until you are familiar with the more advanced techniques in the game. You can sometimes get away with mistakes using ADS but Low Luck is far less forgiving. You either have to play mistake free or you will lose a lot.

Fear and loathing in Canada.

But that’s just the half of it.

Since I worked for a defense contractor and am familiar with security clearance procedures I know that certain medications you may be taking for diagnosed illnesses can reflect poorly on your clearance status or application, especially now that it’s post 9/11, so if there are any contractor employees suffering from paranoia or other mental illnesses, they would probably never admit it or even accept treatment for fear of losing their clearance. I assume this would also apply to military technicians and high ranking officers as well. The mentally ill working in the name of US defense. Now that is truly scary.

@ncscswitch:

@U-505:

Sure is. It was a small error that turned into something huge and quite possibly could have ended the game in round 1. I don’t like to be reminded that I almost lost a game because I forgot to move a unit in the correct phase, do you? I can forgive myself for losing because of an intended tactical error or because I got hosed by the dice, but I take pride in not making stupid little mistakes. Especially ones that could cost me a game.

You know something U-505…

It hurt like hell to lose that game.  But in all honesty, I deserved to lose for “Rule Lawyering” you on the SUB move, since it would have been a legal move that turn, just not in the phase you did it.

In case I missed it previously, congratulations on pulling out the victory in that game.  Hard fought, and WELL DESERVED on your part!

Looking back, I was kind of pissed that you didn’t offer me the chance to move the sub but, in reality, the blame rests squarely on me. You were on the ball and I wasn’t. Professional courtesy in the other games doesn’t really apply with regards to the Tourney. You had every right to take advantage of my lapse in judgement. I was kicking myself for quite a few turns for that blunder.

Sure is. It was a small error that turned into something huge and quite possibly could have ended the game in round 1. I don’t like to be reminded that I almost lost a game because I forgot to move a unit in the correct phase, do you? I can forgive myself for losing because of an intended tactical error or because I got hosed by the dice, but I take pride in not making stupid little mistakes. Especially ones that could cost me a game.

@ncscswitch:

I have only twice (out of around 40 games) had the opportunity to educate my opponent on the effctiveness of “Doolittle’s Raid”, though targetting navy instead of bombing Japan.  In both cases, it led to a MASSIVE early reduction in Japan’s power.  About a 3-4 turn delay in Japan getting going in Asia, and that is with NO expensitures by the Allies for additional units in the Pacific.

The only reason you got me with the Doolittle raid was because I had forgotten that my sub in sz45 was in a hostile sz and you demanded that I use it in combat instead of allowing me the courtesy of moving it to sz60 (it’s intended move during non-com) to back up the CV I had moved there to protect my TP’s. With the sub added there you would never had attacked sz60. And for the record, I won that game anyway  :evil:.

@ncscswitch:

Even if you just clear the territory, Japan can;t follow up and capitalize and take India on J1 since they lack manpower in FIC (and the SZ59 TRN is dead).  So, while UK may not re-take Egypt, they keep India (which you basically surrender on an India counter).

You still damage the Japan Navy with your UK fleet, sinking a ship, maybe two depending on how many BB’s are brought to SZ59
You still bleed off forces from Pearl, increasing the casualties there
And you bleed off/kill FIGs increasing casualty rates for China on J1, and for future battles due to lost airpower (from the FIC attack, and then from attacks in SZ59 and Pearl)

If it goes terribly wrong, what have you lost as UK?  You are gambling on nearly equal forces, and can ALWAYS RETREAT if round 1 dice go wrong (you CAN’T lose the UK FIG on the first round, even with the worst possible dice).

Giving Germany a free armor blitz through Africa is far more damaging than keeping India for a few extra turns.

And I never bleed off forces that are going to sz52. Either I go in with overwhelming force or I don’t go in. Gambling with Japans navy is a sure way to get beaten.

And if it comes down to having to split my forces to attack sz52, sz59, and China, I will attack sz52 and only make one of the two other attacks, usually sz59. Eliminating the UK naval threat allows Japan to focus their entire navy on the US and it doesn’t hurt my feelings to let the China fighter survive because the US/UK forces in Asia are limited and Russia will have a hard time reinforcing Asia with Germany sending 40+ IPC’s worth of units at them every turn.

If you aren’t going to counterattack Egypt with the UK fighter then you would probably be better off using it to help attack the Japanese sub and then adding it to the US forces in sz52. At least that way, you give the US better odds with a counterattack in sz52 on their turn or even preserve that fleet entirely if Japan decides against attacking it.

@ncscswitch:

@ezto:

3 inf, 1 ftr from india is ot a sure win against Fic

True, only 50/50 to TAKE FIC.

But it is 3 in 5 for killing all of the Japan forces there, including a FIG, which secures india another round AND reduces the forces available for China.

C’mon Switch. That is a huge gamble. The average result is a cleared territory which means the UK fighter dies with the Japanese fighter. What’s left after that, 2 inf, 1 AA in the middle east and no Egypt counterattack. That’s a big gift to be giving Germany if it goes average.

For the small battles experience will give you a good indication of what you need to attack or defend with but for the larger battles it helps me run multiple variations of the same battle in the time it would take me to do one in my head or on paper.

It also helps with the naval battles so I can decide if it’s worthwhile to lose fighters or surface ships and save subs in cases where my opponent decides to lose his last destroyer. Or at what point do I need to lose a bomber to save a ground unit when I’m defending a territory.

It’s not too hard to eyeball a battle but the sims just make it a lot quicker.

That is why I always give Japan 2 IPC’s from the bid. So I can build 4 TP on J1. There is no reason to build an IC when Japan will be hard pressed to place 8 units out of Japan until you are making at least 40 IPC’s. The extra TP’s can be used to evacuate some or all of the islands before the US gets rolling.

And hit sz52 with 1 BB, 1 CV, 3 fig, 1 DD and the sz45 sub if it survives. And take the third fighter as your first loss. It still baffles me why people insist on going into sz52 without maximum force when one bad round can immediately put Japan behind the 8-ball. With 1 BB, 1 CV, 1 DD, 2 fig in sz52 the odds are greatly in Japan’s favor against a US counterattack. Let the Allied players gamble against Japan. And if the UK player attacks the sub with the sz35 fig and lands it on the US CV add the bomber to the attack and take it as your second casualty.

Japan’s navy can also be split up as long as your entire navy stays within range of both sz60 and the Solomans.

As far as I’m concerned the Allies need a lot of help to make a KJF work. Just don’t give them any of that help.

Actually the biggest downside is that you have just completely hamstrung the UK1 counterattack on Egypt. For the price of setting Japan back for a turn in the Pacific you’ll be letting Germany control the bulk of Africa for at least 2 turns without them having to send any more units and freed up the German BB/TP to immediately start pounding on Russia’s southern flank.

As Japan, I would just say “screw sz52” and crush the UK fleet with 2 BB’s, 1 CV, 1 DD and some aircraft as well as counterattack Borneo with the loaded sz60 TP and a couple fighters. That still leaves japan with plenty of forces to overrun China. Japan will most likely come out of that down a couple IPC’s they normally would earn but largely intact forcewise and with Australia and India very lightly defended and Africa under German control the UK will be lucky to be earning 20 IPC’s by turn 3.

And it’s bad enough that you’ll be sacrificing 1/3 of what Japan starts with on mainland Asia but it’s also heartbreaking to watch the armor die because you can’t retreat it from the battle if it goes badly.