Nice blog. The only thing I'd have done differently is protect Guam. I will max out airfield, coastal forts, AA, infrastructure, and naval bases.
Thanks! I guess I figured I wouldn't be able to keep Guam supplied, given that it's right in the middle of Japanese possessions. And I didn't want to build up its defenses just to hand them to the Japanese (since that would make it harder for me when I needed to take it back).
About the surprise attack on pearl it gives a bonus to the Japanese Fleets for several months, they will preform better in combat.
Thanks for the info. That's a neat way of doing it.
You're allied with the allies so you have military access to their provs you can transport your forces to Great Britain if you want and rebase them at their naval ports. That should give you the range to get to Africa if you want.
I don't know. It doesn't look like it, right now, but I'm no longer allied with the Allies.
Here's the deal: I was still on the same day that Japan had declared war (trying to decide on a new plan for the Atlantic), when I heard about the event which will cause Vichy France to choose sides. I wasn't sure how that would work, and I didn't want to screw it up, so I reloaded my save which was
immediately after Japan's declaration of war. And this time, I didn't ask the Allies to let me join them.
I figured that they would ask me pretty soon (and that it might be the event needed for the Vichy France decision). I hadn't done anything else, so it wasn't really backtracking much. As I say, I was still on the same day. Anyway, I set about my war plans, making all sorts of changes,... but before I got to the end of the month, the game crashed and I lost everything I'd done.
That's the first time I've had the game crash, but I didn't feel like doing it all over again, so I put it aside for awhile. I'll be getting back to it this afternoon. But right now, I'm not much further along than when I wrote that blog posting (the big difference being that I'm
not allied with the Allies yet).
I
was, however, just given Greenland and Iceland, yet I can't get troops even to Iceland. It's far more than my transport range. So I don't know how I'd get them to Great Britain, even if I
were allied with them.
The AI has unlimited naval range meaning there ships can go anywhere from anywhere take that into account with your war against Japan.
Oh,
that's something I didn't know. I figured that I didn't have to worry about enemy submarines - along either coast - because they wouldn't have nearly the range to get there (and that they
certainly wouldn't be able to haul troops there).
Thanks for the heads up!
Black Watch said:
Strange. I can't think of anything at the moment that would cause such a large drop in your IC. I haven't played the US yet, so there might be things I'm not aware of.
That's OK. Ever since I set production to automatic, I haven't had that problem.
By the way, I read in your blog entry that you've decided not to defend the Philippines. Don't leave my homeland alone!
Heh, heh. Partly, that's because I like the idea of starting the war as it happened in real life. I knew that the Japanese would make a surprise attack, and I even knew approximately when they'd do it, but I didn't want to game that
too much.
So I left some ships at Pearl Harbor (expecting to lose some of them, which, of course, didn't happen) and some at the Philippines, and I didn't try to make the Philippines impregnable. Admittedly, I did build up most of my Pacific holdings (not Guam), but I was more interested in role-playing the game a bit than using any omniscience.
But when I play the Philippines, things go differently. In fact, in my very best Philippines game (which I might post a screenshot of), I actually annexed Japan!
I'm impressed!
That's why I don't play multiplayer games. I have enough trouble against an inept AI!