Posts made by kendric

If Japan is the slow axis power to kill russia, and germany is the fast one, wouldn’t taking british IPCs away from the german fight where its nice and close, to australia where you are building boats, just be a gift wrapped package for germany?

I think you missed what i was saying. This is a feint. It forces a reaction but you never plan to attack. You feint and grab their NO at the same time as making yours easier to get. Its a cash grab not an actual assault on US. after this you are pretty much done with USA. Unless of course they don’t respond and you can take WU on J2.

I was messing around with this in solo play and I came up with something interesting on the japan side of things. This might work well with the german transport idea or just as a separate japan strat to give a regular Germany an easier time of things. Basically you start this out the same as mentioned for japan, except instead of hitting mainland USA you send all their boats and invade Hawaii, and Philippines and Alaska. This puts you with about 4-5 ground troops and a lot of planes(you move all carriers east) in strike range of west US. This forces a US reaction. Then on turn 2 you just move everything back west and then take Aus and the other islands with all the troops in the Pacific. What this does is slows down your china a bit(but you still can take a few countries) and denies US 5 via loosing Hawaii as well as locks down your 5 ipc no in short order. You also stalled 1 turn of US production, or at least 70% of their production, which then has to walk across to Eastern USA which will take 1-2 turns depending on what they built to counter you. If they built all tanks they will have too many tanks for how many transports they have which is another plus. You also get the income from Alaska and Hawaii on round 1. There is room to grab one of the 4 ipc British islands on round 1 as well I believe. Hopefully it messes up their supply lines to Africa for a bit! This is just a neat idea, and not necessarily the end all be all strat. You could even consider killing the the US carrier on J2(is it close enough given a range of 3 for fighters on a carrier that moves towards its target?) to give Italy more breathing room for its navy.

90 ipc is probably enough money for japan to supress UK and russian income via strategic bombing, as well as sinking the atlantic fleets. As long as germany can turtle up and get a massive stack of infantry to hold off the current forces there may be no reinforcements.

For fun games its prob a neat idea, but I bet there is some combo out there that you can do that would become unstoppable.

I have no idea if this would work. Maybe somebody else can comment. Japans main problem is it has tons of cash but it takes a while to put it in action against Moscow. Has anyone tried (especially once you confirm USA is ignoring you) a massive bombers strat. Flying them all to Germany(so quick to get into action), and using them to clear the Atlantic of American transports. If you can cut off the flow of troops from UK and US, Germany should be able to steam roll Russia. Ok so this just popped into my head and I’m sure there are big flaws with it but now that bombers are cheap, seems like a good way to quickly mobilize the Godzilla economy.
Thoughts?

Atleast japan can only bomb moscow for 12 a turn instead of the 20 on germany :)
One counter to thsi might be for germany to repair only 12-13 (from -10 to 2-3) and build only fighters or something. And just turtle till japan gets there.

I don’t think tech should be considered when talking about balance. I don’t think any revised player I have matched up with has ever wanted tech. They may be fun\cool but they distort balance with too much randomness, even with the new rules. Any game where you research becomes a non reproducible strategy. Leave tech for playing-for-fun games and leave it out when playing-for-balance/competitive play.

The sad thing is, until triplea a supports the new sub rules, I won’t be able to test this out :) I like the live action playing of triplea. I should just offer to code it for them or something heh. Does anyone know if the engine is being modified for anniv? I know the map files are out already but not the engine mods.

What I was saying about subs is best summed up with an MMORPG term, kiting. You bring the sub in, they either don’t respond and maybe you sink a transport, or not, and if they do respond you run away 2 squares or 1 depending on how close. If they persue with destroyer and land planes nearby, your sub just did its job and distracted 1 or more planes. Then retreat some more and repeat as needed, coming back to “pull” them again as needed. This is a job for 1-2 subs at most.

Maybe just use them for pacific island sailing. If the japanese are keeping multiple fighters
bombers out in their islands which are not under invasion threat, then they are not on the mainland helping. When the DD comes to stop you from harassing his transports, if it comes alone, it has to come towards you and thus you will be the one who gets to attack. If he sends more then 1 DD then you just diverted a lot for only 6 bucks and you can run away and then either he follows in which case you wasted more of its time or if he goes back you go back. Basically use them to make it more work to get all those infantry off the various pacific islands that usually get taken to the mainland. Every sub that makes a DD chase it just bought 2 IPCs right? Just dont let them attack first. Make the first move and they have to come to you

Wasn’t the rule that transports have to be hit last. Well if air is an illegal target for a sub, then the last target is the transport. So the sub should hit the transports. Its then up to enemy air to kill the sub before it kills all the transports one at a time.

I plan to groom my daughter into playing this game. Wish me luck! Maybe there will be 2 females… You will have to wait a while though, she is only 1 now.

the triplea low luck just gives the aa GUN a to-hit = to the # of planes
so if you bring 6 planes you lose 1 for sure, the other 5 bomb as normal. If you bring 5 it rolls and on 5 or less they lose 1 bomber.

I think their main point is to hold it one round then you can land german fighters + maybe move in reinforcements. After that perhaps they can fly back to japan.

don’t forget if you leave causcaus almost empty, and italy takes it, germany can land planes there, in addition to its ground troops, before russia gets to move.

Welcome to this cool game. Just wanted to point out something you said that was slightly incorrect. Not sure if you meant it this way but you said:
basically, correct me if im wrong, but teh “ship bombardment” works more or less like he “sneak attack” of the submarine, right? in that they get to fire a shot and then withdraw from battle, is this correct.

Thats not exactly how subs work. Subs fire a sneak attack(assuming no destroyer) and then the defenders may take losses, but then the defenders do get to fire back. Then you can either have the subs stay and fight another round, or submerge(if no destroyers).
Just thought I would point that out.
Subs cant hit air btw if you hadn’t seen that rule.

Another thing that may have happened is too much other activities(island hopping, naval building, teching), and not enough “boots on the ground” grunts heading to the key victory locations.

in the 41 scenario, there is no china if japan knows what its doing. There will be like no moves for the player controlling them to really do. Before their first turn its likely they will have no units, or almost no units. So its not much of a break from their regular routine. There isn’t a good division because of this. US is kinda slow, UK and russia are the only fast action ones.

Bombers can threaten both the UK naval and russia, its not like building bombers is a compelte neglect to russia. Its only a partial neglect.