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My last Japan game I chased 73 ships into Singapore. Couldn't begin to port strike that many thanks to massed AAA, but they kept coming out and fighting. Had to keep shuffling my wounded cags and surface ships out for repairs, but by the time I marched into Singapore about 20 crippled RN and French ships ran for Rangoon. None made it. Yamato was pride of the fleet and had almost 70 experience by the time it was over. Banzai!
I found that to be a major key for me as US vs Japan. Having extra cags with level 10 airports for repairs and ports to fix damaged ships. I always had three CVs in reserve to replace damaged ones in my main taskfoce of at least 4 CVs and a nice big fat Surface battle fleet to jump in against jap monster stacks. They would throw 30+ ships at me in one battle and my only choice was to try and match them. It was quite ridiculous really. Then... I'd figure out which port they would run to for repairs and park small CV and SAG taskforce outside their port and keep pounding the hell out of them. Sank 4 CVs that way in just one port. They would try and run at night so I'd keep some small cruisers fleets to spot them and send the cags after them. Poor bastards.
The Naval AI is just so awful and easy to exploit : /.
As the UK just park a carrier fleet off the coast of Kiel, and after Danzig, you'll be engaged with Germany's entire Uboat fleet. And then you'll have wont the Battle of the Atlantic.
As the UK just park a carrier fleet off the coast of Kiel, and after Danzig, you'll be engaged with Germany's entire Uboat fleet. And then you'll have wont the Battle of the Atlantic.
I wouldn't be too reliant on that exploit. The AI learned how to bomb CTFs with TACs and NAVs at some point. I've had fleets get hosed by sitting too close to Germany.
Totally a fair point and I agree. However I don't notice their bombers early on, perhaps the AI sends most of them to Poland.
In a recent USA game, I had two rotating US CTFs (3 CV/6 CL) in the ocean next to Tinian, where slowly but surely some 40 Japanese ships became bottled up. I didn't bother attacking the port due to the above-mentioned massed AA, but instead of breaking out at once, they would try to break out every couple days with 1-4 ships. I would damage everything badly, and some times sink a ship.
When I finally used my Marines to assault in late '43, it was a massive defeat for the Japanese. I had both CTFs lurking offshore, in separate spaces so I could quickly exchange if I needed, and when the Japanese fleet tried to flee from the battle, they picked the direction I expected (south, believe it or not) and that's where the other CTF was stationed, this time with CAS and TAC in support from Guam.
Halsey and Nimitz were maxed out by the end of that entire period of time.
When I finally used my Marines to assault in late '43, it was a massive defeat for the Japanese. I had both CTFs lurking offshore, in separate spaces so I could quickly exchange if I needed, and when the Japanese fleet tried to flee from the battle, they picked the direction I expected (south, believe it or not) and that's where the other CTF was stationed, this time with CAS and TAC in support from Guam.
Halsey and Nimitz were maxed out by the end of that entire period of time.
I wish I took a screen shot at the time ... but in my Japan game, my CTF of 3CVs, 1 CA and 6CLs which had served me well till then, ran into a massive stack of 88 UK ships with at least 5 CVs, in the Gulf of Aden. I lost the battle of course, but survived, without losing a ship, to fight another day.