(A) Fulkerson vs Jap AI vers 7.0

[catwhoorg]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

If you filter out everything except for the Resources and sort them w/ biggest producer at the top you'll find that Salt Lake City and
Takhoma are the biggest two and consequently I'm guessing a lot of resources will leave the west coast via Takhoma.

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I was just thinking today about How I need a way to identify big producers of oil/fuel etc.
This shows me how.

I am sure over time I'll have the main ones committed to memory.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: catwhoorg

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
If you filter out everything except for the Resources and sort them w/ biggest producer at the top you'll find that Salt Lake City and
Takhoma are the biggest two and consequently I'm guessing a lot of resources will leave the west coast via Takhoma.

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I was just thinking today about How I need a way to identify big producers of oil/fuel etc.
This shows me how.

I am sure over time I'll have the main ones committed to memory.

I'm playing this game as the Japs against Jim and simultaneously I'm playing against the AI as the Allies and I don't trust my memory so
I have to know how to look this information up again and again. This is the list of cities that have fuel. I've checked this list against the
cities that have oil refineries and most of the big fuel cities have a refinery. I'm glad you find the technique handy.

[larryfulkerson]

SC CH-4# is in the same hex as an Allied sub unescorted and she's got no ASW and I'm leaving it in the hex because I'm hoping that the
sub expends torps on the SC rather than a more expensive ship, of which there are many in the hex. I'm using the SC as bait so that she
can use her outstanding manuevering ability to make a torp miss her and even though the surface fight might not be equal CH-4 could
easily damage a sub and a damaged sub is good news right now. So I'll leave her there for now.

EDIT: Yeah, I know I posted this thing in the wrong AAR. Just skip over this bad boy.

[larryfulkerson]

Tokyo is getting low on fuel. And there's an awful lot of traffic that is going to continue to pass through there for the next 30 days and I'll
need fuel for all that........I'm going to put a temporary moratorium on the export of fuel from Tokyo. I'll still send supplies out of course
and the goal is to have about 500K of fuel in Tokyo again as the "working level" for this hub in the pipeline. I'm guessing that Tokyo will
have 500K of fuel in about 2.5 weeks or so. There's a huge refinery in Tokyo: 265(45) so far w/ repair turned on so maybe we'll see
more yet out of Tokyo......anyway, there's fuel coming into Tokyo fast enough to gimme that 500K figure again soon.

EDIT: Wrong post again. Then there's the next post and it's in the wrong AAR too. I'm moving them one at a time.

[larryfulkerson]

I probably shouldn't be doing this but I stripped off the BB from the Air Combat TF and some of the carriers escorts and made a ad hoc
Surface TF to charge back into the Kwajalein hex and see if I can't cause some carnage. Manufacture some mayheim.

EDIT: This post too is in the wrong AAR. Consider it advertizing. Or something.

[nicwb]

Hi larry - I forgot to ask - what level have you set the AI on ?

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: nicwb
Hi larry - I forgot to ask - what level have you set the AI on ?

Excellent question. I didn't change any of the preferences so I'm guessing it's "historical". But from the performance I''m getting from
the AI so far I probably should have gone for something a little harder. I'm slamming all his invasion TF's and killing all the troops before
they land and the Jap invasions are behind schedlue. I'm playing the Jap side in a PBEM with Jim Moore and it's going a lot better so I'm
guessing a human player is the way to go if you can swing it. At least for playability or reasonable results in your gameplay.

[larryfulkerson]

Well, I ended the turn and have some fresh combat results to post. First of all here's some new Tracker Alerts:

[nicwb]

Thanks for the reply Larry - I guess your right about a human player being the way to go. But you can still have fun and learn the mechanics of the game with the AI.

[larryfulkerson]

This combat result displays the Miri situation pretty well. The Japs are invading again and my ships are on the hunt for the transports.
This has happened twice before and it looks like this time they might actually get somebody ashore at Miri. We'll see.

[larryfulkerson]

Elmer has subs, well, at least one sub, at the bottom of Australia already. Good to know. Those 4 hits are going to slow down this sub
pretty well, I expect.

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British Sailor is on the sunk ships list so I'm pretty sure it went down in this attack:

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And then we had a night-time encounter with the Japs:

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And another TK bites the dust:

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Some of my DD's had a good day:

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This is just one of the several that occured and is typical of the results. No hits on my DD's yet. So far so good.

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Here's where a couple of my Hudson's inflict some casualties w/o getting a hit. Evidently. I guess they scared them so badly they died.

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And then there was a Jap air strike on Iba:

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And then a bunch of stuff happened in China and then this attack happened: Right outside of Pearl one of my AP's get's hit.

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And then the Japs do a shock attack at Rabaul: