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CLOSED - Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite ... - 4/20/2012 11:57:46 AM   
castor troy


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Thread title already tells it, I am looking for an opponent that matches these characteristics. Looking for IJ opponent or am going to play the Japanese myself if there won't be someone playing the Japanese to take me on. I can crack out 15-20 turns a week if you supply me, so this is not going to be a slow game and as it is going to be my only PBEM I don't want to have a slow game. You should be reliable and experienced, if you are well known on the forum that would be nice too, rather hard to judge somebody who's totally new to the forum.

Babeslite scen 26b, extended map. If you have never played Babes so far, have a look, you do not want to go back to stock afterwards. Thanks again to all the Babes guys for their excellent work.

I am going to do a fully detailed AAR again, which again brings up my initial demand, I need a reliable opponent because otherwise I am not only wasting my time for the game but also for doing the AAR.

Settings:

Realism options:

FOW ON
advanced Weather OFF
Allied damage control ON
PDU ON
historical first turn OFF
Dec 7 surprise ON
reliable USN torps OFF
realistic R&D OFF
no unit withdrawels OFF
reinforcements VARIABLE +/- 60 days

Game options:

combat reports ON
auto sub ops OFF
TF move radius ON
plane move radius ON
facilities expand OFF
auto upgrade ships and airgroups OFF
air and ground replacements OFF
turn cycle 1 TURN


House rules:

no new Allied TFs on turn 1
only one Japanese aerial port strike on turn 1
cease fire in China until 1 Feb 42
no Allied strategic bombing of occupied Allied territory at any time, Allied strategic bombing only allowed on Japanese held territory of 12/7/41
no Japanese strat bombing in China
no Allied 4E bombers on naval attack below 10.000ft. Valid for Army 4Es, not valid for Allied NAVY heavy bombers at any time
as realistic R&D is turned OFF, no overabuse of this function. Means to not produce any aircraft earlier than 3-4 months of their normal arrival as it would be quite off to see Shidens or whatever super advanced ac a year earlier (or even earlier) and it has been proved already that R&D can go totally off in that respect. realistic R&D off so that the IJ can research ac they actually want to build when they are researched, not to speed up R&D
paying pp for restricted units crossing borders

If you think the hrs are biased to one side or the other, I am of course going with them no matter which side I play. If you want to have more hr, fine with me. In general I am looking for a game that isn't aiming at totally exploiting every game feature/routine to it's max. There is an endless list of things that might be seen gamey, ppl should just go with a little common sense. Strategically, everything goes. I don't care if you attack India, Australia, US West Coast, Hawaii or whereever. But if you do, do it in a reasonable way. Example? Want to invade India and your next bigger base is Rangoon, doing your invasion at Karachi using the fantasy amphib bonus is bullocks. You want to take the whole sub continent with a single para unit? Bullocks. If you defeat me, I will applaud you, if you've got a strategy that is really pushing the edge, stick to the game if you wake up and realize your strategy sux.

Which brings me again to the request, I need a reliable opponent. If you are experienced, it should be easier to be reliable as that shouldn't lead to a crazy strategy and you should be used to PBEM anyway, something that experience is bringing along.

My HQ is in Austria, same or common time zone preffered.

ciao
Chris





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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/20/2012 1:10:59 PM   
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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/20/2012 1:36:34 PM   
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Good Luck!!

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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/20/2012 2:28:33 PM   
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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

If I didn't have two games ongoing right now, I would jump in here. But......

Good Luck!!



and you would be very welcome

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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/20/2012 3:47:16 PM   
SuluSea


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Status: offline 		My apology to you Chris for asking this in your request for opponents but I'm interested in your thinking on a couple of your house rules.

I'm wondering why you request a china cease fire? The developers have it pretty well balanced from my experience.

Another strange one is why have realistic R&D turned off if you restrict the opponent to a 3/4 month window. Have you considered leaving realistic on and letting your opponent play his game?

Thanks.

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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/21/2012 12:53:24 PM   
castor troy


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ORIGINAL: SuluSea

My apology to you Chris for asking this in your request for opponents but I'm interested in your thinking on a couple of your house rules.

I'm wondering why you request a china cease fire? The developers have it pretty well balanced from my experience.

Another strange one is why have realistic R&D turned off if you restrict the opponent to a 3/4 month window. Have you considered leaving realistic on and letting your opponent play his game?

Thanks.



no appology needed Sulu. China cease fire is there to give the Chinese some time to regroup. It has much to do with hindsight and unlike with aircraft and ships that can be relocated in a couple of turns, moving LCUs takes quite some time and it is just too easy to exploit the "I know all the positions of your LCUs" situation. Playing the Japanese and going for China, I would rate my chance as 80% to knock them out and 90% without a cease fire and the chance for the Chinese to reposition their forces.

R&D can be exploited in a way to have 1945 aircraft show up in 1943 as has been proven in tests. This is, well, I would say BS. As there's PDU on, one should be able to R&D those aircraft he wants to build (instead of R&D of ac he won't build at all), but not having an even more fantasy situation as to having late war aircraft showing up in mid war when the Allied are stuck with their real life replacements.

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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/21/2012 7:02:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Castror, realistic R&D does not mean that japanese player have to researh planes he don't need. With realistic R&D Japan only have certain number of R&D factories, but player can convert those factories freely. Realistic R&D off means that japanese player can also change production factories to R&D factories, and get some of the plane models much earlier.

Only reason to have realistic R&D off is to give japanese player ability to get some of the plane models much, much earlier. Realistic R&D off together with your HR together does not make sense...

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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/21/2012 8:01:42 PM   
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Castror, realistic R&D does not mean that japanese player have to researh planes he don't need. With realistic R&D Japan only have certain number of R&D factories, but player can convert those factories freely. Realistic R&D off means that japanese player can also change production factories to R&D factories, and get some of the plane models much earlier.

Only reason to have realistic R&D off is to give japanese player ability to get some of the plane models much, much earlier. Realistic R&D off together with your HR together does not make sense...



oh it still does make sense to me, a lot of sense. Because having late war aircraft showing up in 43 is plain and easy total BS.

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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/21/2012 8:08:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not saying your HR doesn't make sense. But why have realistic R&D off, when japanese player can't use that option anyway?

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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/22/2012 1:34:20 PM   
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I'm not saying your HR doesn't make sense. But why have realistic R&D off, when japanese player can't use that option anyway?


can't he use it? Speeding up e.g. the Frank by 4 months sounds like a nice use to me. Considering that every IJ player usually produces 250 or more of that fighter per month that would mean 1000 more Franks.

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RE: Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babeslite 26b, ... - 4/22/2012 2:38:25 PM   
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ORIGINAL: castor troy

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ORIGINAL: SuluSea

My apology to you Chris for asking this in your request for opponents but I'm interested in your thinking on a couple of your house rules.

I'm wondering why you request a china cease fire? The developers have it pretty well balanced from my experience.

Another strange one is why have realistic R&D turned off if you restrict the opponent to a 3/4 month window. Have you considered leaving realistic on and letting your opponent play his game?

Thanks.



no appology needed Sulu. China cease fire is there to give the Chinese some time to regroup. It has much to do with hindsight and unlike with aircraft and ships that can be relocated in a couple of turns, moving LCUs takes quite some time and it is just too easy to exploit the "I know all the positions of your LCUs" situation. Playing the Japanese and going for China, I would rate my chance as 80% to knock them out and 90% without a cease fire and the chance for the Chinese to reposition their forces.

R&D can be exploited in a way to have 1945 aircraft show up in 1943 as has been proven in tests. This is, well, I would say BS. As there's PDU on, one should be able to R&D those aircraft he wants to build (instead of R&D of ac he won't build at all), but not having an even more fantasy situation as to having late war aircraft showing up in mid war when the Allied are stuck with their real life replacements.


Hi Chris thanks for answering the question. I agree that Knowing the Chinese OOB is a bonus but the same knowledge reciprocates for a longer part of the game for the Allies all over the map (using intel, bombing and peaking at the japanese OOB). By the time the IJA is allowed to attack all your forces will have 100% prep leading to a China offensive sooner than under normal conditions, the very same with unfettered pilot training that would happen in the theatre. I'm back to playing the Allies for now and view it myself as I've had in the past I have to be willing to take my medicine to dish it out later.


The R&D program is available to be abused by skipping airframes un the upgrade path. I'd call that cheating but if the IJ side uses the tools as created by the developer it looks like it's playing the game as designed. Japan gets little without paying for it using the economy so there are tradeoffs. Obviously the goal of any R&D program is to get rid of trash and focus on the better airframes but nothing Japan can build are wonder weapons and they will be always outclassed by Allied planes come mid and late war.


Thanks again for telling me your thoughts behind it, wishing you find a reliable opponent and game that you both enjoy.



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RE: CLOSED - Experienced, reliable, fast paced - Babesl... - 4/23/2012 7:22:04 AM   
castor troy


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Status: offline 		thanks to all that sent a pm suggesting a game. Sorry that I haven't been able to answer everyone, I have found an opponent.

cheers
Chris

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