Serpentis posted:

Still, even if Manila's defenders hold til next week, at least it'll fall some time before Bataan, which if current divisional CO's tactics are anything to measure by, will collapse sometime in 2018.

pthighs posted:

You can put 25 ships in a combat fleet. For a Japanese Air Combat task force, you get an air coordination penalty if there are greater than 200 + (random number between 1 and 200) planes in your task force.

I seem to remember that there is a bit of a penalty for surface combat task forces after 15 ships or so, but I can't find where that is, and it doesn't apply in this case anyways.

Drone posted:

The real question: is there a Kobayashi Maru in-game?

Zeroisanumber posted:

IIRC, Grey saved both the PoW and the Repulse last time out and got them to Johannesburg for repairs. He got them sunk later, of course, as part of his ongoing vendetta with the Royal Navy, but they weren't killed the first day.

goatface posted:

Yamato had enough AA to be able to mount an effective defence as part of a fleet. Instead she had one cruiser and some destroyers against a metric fuckload of enemy aircraft who were getting very good at killing large ships.


edit - Basically, lol, guns on boats

A White Guy posted:

And two battlecruisers, with 4 destroyer escort managed to kill a grand total of 4 thinly armored planes. Early war AA was a joke.

A White Guy posted:

The Sinking of Prince of Wales and the Repulse .

Dreamsicle posted:

So I'm thinking of actually buying WITP once it goes on a 50% sale and I recall a guide for the Coral Sea or Guadalcanal scenario. Can someone please link it? Is there also a first turn guide for the main campaign for either side?

ZombieLenin posted:

I haven't played the game in almost 4 years and I just started again, thanks to this thread.

Basically I am having to relearn most of the game again, but I used this both when I started and now, with manual in hand.

It's a bit outdated and starts the player off in the campaign rather than a smaller scenario because that's how I learn games. I always have to jump into the deep end and learn to swim.

I recognize this is not how everyone learns, so it might not be for you, but it does a fairly good job of walking a new player through "what to do."

ZombieLenin posted:

3. Consider using bombs on your US Torpedo bombers. These bombers torpedoes have a 50% dud rate until 1943.

ZombieLenin posted:

She seems to in Focus Pacific. Honestly, most of these mods seem to heavily favor the Japanese given the Japanese players' ability to control production and churn out more airframes than the United States...

Which seems totally ridiculous. The American player should either have more control over production, or their should be a "production AI" for the Allies that is responsive to Japanese production.

gradenko_2000 posted:

If you mean Player Defined Upgrades, it helps insofar as making sure your front-line squadrons are using the better airframes, but it can still mean Japan has you beat on the relative number of and quality of airframes.

Mikl posted:

Look forward to a double post in two years' time, since 1944 was a leap year!

e. Also 1948, of course. Can you even keep the game going into 1948, or does it have to stop earlier than that?

uPen posted:

steinrokkan posted:

I'm not quite sure why the hell you'd send such a giant TF to a size 3 port in the first place. That should really be such an obvious no no that you should automatically disregard it without even thinking about it.

IIRC, port size 3 is barely big enough to unload vehicles from transports.

megane posted:

Did Grey sink literally anything at Pearl Harbor

Kemper Boyd posted:

You'd lose a whole lot less cargo ships if you'd run them as convoys with at least one destroyer escort. That way, subs don't do gun runs on them.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

PT-25
DD Bagley
DD Monaghan
DD Shaw
DM Breese
AM Tern
AMc Redbird

All sunk at Pearl. Not exactly critical ships

CannonFodder posted:

Bombardment to whittle down their forces while the rest of your troops rest.

Oh, you only have 38 guns? Ummm...

Comrade Koba posted:

code:

Previous report of sinking of AVP Arend incorrect. Intelligence reports ship has been un-sunk.

Saros posted:

From memory the trigger line runs E-W one hex south of Karachi so basically all of it.

SOLarian posted:

Didn't you do something similiar when you were playing as the allies? Huge Cruiser-TF trying to take out the carriers? I guess the AI had a lot less luck with that tactic.