Island hopping is great, but its not critical. Sometimes just having a presense in the region will do just great. This is how I build my fleets…… My flagships are my carriers. They are great for defense and their fighters can support amphibious assaults. I will have no less than 2. I then will support my fleet with destroyers. I try to build 2 for every carrier. If you build destroyers and in order to get more bang for your buck, get combined bombardment. This will increase your amphibious firepower drastically. Basically you’ll be able to do the job of a battleship at half the cost and twice the firepower. Then build the rest of your force out of transports and a couple of submarines. If you use this fleet right, you will have everyship being productive on every aspect, offense, defense, and logistics. Your maximizing your money and strength. Lets take a fleet of 2 AC’s, 6 destoyers, 2 subs, 4 troopships with 2 tanks, 2 artillary, and 4 infantry. You attack the phillipines with an amphibious assault. the 6 destroyers should pretty much wipe out all opposition. But if not, you have 4 fighters and all the ground units to clean up. Battle should be over without losing anything. Your fighters land for fleet defense. Basically you have a fleet that can hit hard on land and sea. Your enemy will think twice before hitting you.
First-strike subs on defence - is it better?
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So the Revised game gives DEFENDING subs a “sneak attack”, as well as attacking subs … so even in defence, a sub can knock off an attacker without risk of it returning fire. Do you like this better than the “old” game, where only attacking subs had this privilege?
Does it help out defence even MORE in what is already a defence-dominated game? Or does it make subs more valuable, since they’re usually floating shields anyway?
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I hate it, theres too many rules hurting the attacker, the attacker has the initiative, and theoretically wins.