Jennifer, I’ve been trying to follow your arguments and for the most part I thought I understood where you were coming from on this subject, but now I’m confused. Let me sample some of your comments so far…
@Cmdr:
My pearl lights are generally 4 fighters, bomber, destroyer, submarine.
My pearl heavies are generally, 2 fighters, bomber, destroyer, submarine, battleship, carrier.
@Cmdr:
Why risk a battleship when you don’t have too?
@Cmdr:
Wow, so now I have to lose a Bomber in Pearl Heavy….all the more reason NOT to go Pearl Heavy. :P
OK, so I was mostly following your reasoning up to here. I didn’t quite follow the “allows you to blitz faster” argument since 2 figs in sz52 and 4 on land seems like a quicker blitz than 2 figs on land and 2 in sz51 and 2 on wake, but If you were comparing to “super heavy”, I could almost see your point because the 2 figs in sz51 would be closer than 2 in sz52, although the only additional asian territories they can attack J2 are Manchuria and Kwang (but if you’ve got bogeys there on J2 you probably have bigger issues). I guess the main difference is would be that you can land in FIC or china if you want to provide airsupport, but for this argument to hold up, it assumes you’re sending 4 figs in each case. If you only send 2 figs on Pearl heavy, those figs can already be in FIC on J1. But that didn’t seem like a real important aspect. I still figured you were a proponent of Pearl Light (unless you suspect KJF), and I could understand that.
But with this next comment, you’ve completely lost me.
@Cmdr:
I like to have 4 fighters in China. Those damn Chinese dig really good bunkers, hard to root them out, don’t want to give them 5 rounds to pick my officers off one at a time!
You’ve just spent the whole of this thead arguing for Pearl Light (which you say is 4 figs) over Pearl Heavy (which you say uses 2 figs), but now you’re saying you like to send 4 figs to China as well. So which is it? I assume you’re not winning bids of 20 and giving japan 2 extra figs.
Are you saying you like to send 4 to china, but usually don’t because they’re in pearl? Are you suggesting the potential risk of a counter in pearl is greater than the risk of getting dice fracked in china or wanting those figs on J2 for somewhere like FIC, India or Sinkiang? I guess I’m missing some subtleties here.
