PinkyGen
Paper copying intern
Port Howard
Falklands War Pbem!!!!
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PinkyGen
Paper copying intern
Port Leith
Darius
Smith, Wesson, and me
Ah, so now I see Operation Clamp would have worked against you Pinkygen; con must have done a half-assed frontal assault. To win this scenario you have to mass all your forces at once, strike at the right spot, and put fighter and destroyer escorts on the same square as every transport (at least when you're close to the islands). Looks like Britain here just shout out occasional ships to be slaughtered piecemeal. 
Aravorn
Deity
Darius
Ya Ya Ya, anybody ever told you that you can make a guy feel real bad, just kidding. You got it right. I did not do one of the prime axioms of war: concentrate your forces and strike at the weakest point. And by the time I did mass forces and get to the Islands my loses were such that I had to dash for the first and closest target and hope for the best. In other words the invasion for me by that time had become a one shot deal. Any counterattack by PG with my forces outside of a city waiting for the next turn would have been disasterous. Hell it was a disaster for me anyway.
I think you and PG ought to play so I could watch one of the two get slaughtered and do some laughing here myself
More later, I dont know how long Im going to be able to stay up.
Ya Ya Ya, anybody ever told you that you can make a guy feel real bad, just kidding. You got it right. I did not do one of the prime axioms of war: concentrate your forces and strike at the weakest point. And by the time I did mass forces and get to the Islands my loses were such that I had to dash for the first and closest target and hope for the best. In other words the invasion for me by that time had become a one shot deal. Any counterattack by PG with my forces outside of a city waiting for the next turn would have been disasterous. Hell it was a disaster for me anyway.
I think you and PG ought to play so I could watch one of the two get slaughtered and do some laughing here myself
More later, I dont know how long Im going to be able to stay up.
PinkyGen
Paper copying intern
Oh, I have no doubt I would have used a different strategy against one so devious as Darius. Probably have spread my forces out more.
Information is most of the battle. He who finds the enemy first has the advantage. I had ships north of the Falklands the whole time (admittely healing) and they spotted nothing, so I had somewhat of an idea where England was coming from.
With that said, I think England has the advantage in the scenario. Merely have proper destroyer escort, and air cover, and then hammer at the Argentinians when you get your navy together and am in range. The English player must make mistakes in order for Argentina to win. If I hadn't sunk all those transports, it would have been very different.
Information is most of the battle. He who finds the enemy first has the advantage. I had ships north of the Falklands the whole time (admittely healing) and they spotted nothing, so I had somewhat of an idea where England was coming from.
With that said, I think England has the advantage in the scenario. Merely have proper destroyer escort, and air cover, and then hammer at the Argentinians when you get your navy together and am in range. The English player must make mistakes in order for Argentina to win. If I hadn't sunk all those transports, it would have been very different.
academia
Master of the Universe
mmm... interesting idea... what about a PG vs. Darius final match??
Do you like the idea?
Anyway, i´d like you to post your final critics, comments, things to add, change, etc.
After that, i´ll release another version (hopefully the last one)
Do you agree?
Do you like the idea?
Anyway, i´d like you to post your final critics, comments, things to add, change, etc.
After that, i´ll release another version (hopefully the last one)
Do you agree?
Darius
Smith, Wesson, and me
I'd be willing to do another game. Pinkygen has AIM so it'd work well, but where do you live? I got a France vibe but have no idea. 
PinkyGen
Paper copying intern
Originally posted by Darius
I'd be willing to do another game. Pinkygen has AIM so it'd work well, but where do you live? I got a France vibe but have no idea.
France vibe? What is it, the poor spelling because I type fast and don't read my posts?
I live in Cincinnati OH, right now attending college at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. I will soon be vacationing for this weekend at Colgate University, and am next weekend doing a Model UN trip at Georgetown in Washington DC. As you can see, the schedule has become somewhat full. Nevertheless, I'll be happy to play against Darius, though I think the man of 20 PBEM's will clean my clock. To make it more interesting, I am willing to switch positions, have Darius be Argentina, and I be England. Can Darius defeat his owns strategy? Can I learn from England's mistakes and correct them, while trying to guess what defensive strategy Darius will take?Who knows.
As for final comments:
Those English ships, even the frigates, are hard to sink even with veteran Canberras. It takes exocets, or two or three Canberra's do it. I realize in real life this was the case, but this is a problem of realism vs even-sideness. Perhaps you should either weaken the english ships, or allow the Argentinian player to build exocets.
It seems odd to me that Argentinas main forces do not start at the islands, but by the shore. This makes the islands harder to conquer, and risk of disaster hitting my troops. It takes a couple of weeks for the islands to be secure, and by this time, if the English hurry, they are arriving at the islands. Argentina is much closer to the Falklands than England, I think they should have more time to reinforce.
Do nuclear submarines have anti-air factor on? They are very hard to sink. I think if an airplane spots a sub, it should be able to be sunk. How can a sub shoot a plane down?
Basically, make my Argentinian life easier.
Oh yeah, for the English, maybe have the carriers start with some air cover.
Aravorn
Deity
France?
Darius even a dumb pollock like me knew PG was going to Cornell! You need to work on your situational awareness. I'd like to see the playoff as well.
Here are some additonal ideas and an image, enjoy!
After looking at PGs snapshots I feel now that the scenario is more balanced, it may be tilted towards the Brits. He still had a fairly sizable force garrisoning the cities after he beefed up the Fitz Roy Base defenses to repell my assault. Attached is my image. In order to make the scenario more UNPREDICTABLE. I believe the planes should be placed up north. This way they are with the task force from the beginning and gives the Brits more options on manuover. One such option was demonstrated by my arrows, and different colors for captions.
Also why not release all the units at once, After someone has played this once they are going to wait around in that upper corner as the Brits until all there forces are released and ready to mass force anyway.
Thats what I would do this time if I replayed it.
Just some ideas, I know you are all stressed out about scenarios Academia. Bottom line is that these are my opinions to give you ideas to possibly make your scenario better.
Darius even a dumb pollock like me knew PG was going to Cornell! You need to work on your situational awareness. I'd like to see the playoff as well.Here are some additonal ideas and an image, enjoy!
After looking at PGs snapshots I feel now that the scenario is more balanced, it may be tilted towards the Brits. He still had a fairly sizable force garrisoning the cities after he beefed up the Fitz Roy Base defenses to repell my assault. Attached is my image. In order to make the scenario more UNPREDICTABLE. I believe the planes should be placed up north. This way they are with the task force from the beginning and gives the Brits more options on manuover. One such option was demonstrated by my arrows, and different colors for captions.
Also why not release all the units at once, After someone has played this once they are going to wait around in that upper corner as the Brits until all there forces are released and ready to mass force anyway.
Thats what I would do this time if I replayed it.
Just some ideas, I know you are all stressed out about scenarios Academia. Bottom line is that these are my opinions to give you ideas to possibly make your scenario better.
Darius
Smith, Wesson, and me
Heh heh, I at first I thought you were American for a bunch of reasons, but then you posted this at AoW:
Couldn't get much more confusing than that, eh? I took that strange quote and combined it with the fact that you were playing France in two games... I feel like an ass now.
Couldn't get much more confusing than that, eh?
I took that strange quote and combined it with the fact that you were playing France in two games... I feel like an ass now.
Darius
Smith, Wesson, and me
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Smith, Wesson, and me
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Smith, Wesson, and me
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Aravorn
Deity
Pinky Gen this is a dead PBEM so do you have any problems with me zapping my save files to free up server space?
Darius
Smith, Wesson, and me
Actually the mods are beginning to do that themselves (at my request), so you don't have to unless you want to save SunTzu's time. Something tells me you don't.
Aravorn
Deity
Originally posted by Darius
Actually the mods are beginning to do that themselves (at my request), so you don't have to unless you want to save SunTzu's time. Something tells me you don't.
Now dont try getting me in trouble AGAIN Darius.
This would help out the group and I would assume the mods would start from the oldest to the newest and this is pretty new so I figured what the hell. I hate it when the site slows to a crawl and Im on DSL and a T-1 line. Cant imagine what the dial in guys have to put up with. So I may be a rude bumper but occassionally I feel benevalent.
Darius
Smith, Wesson, and me
I don't think PBEM files affect the speed of your connection. They are the cause of the small file size limit, but I don't think it affects transmission of data at all.
They are the cause of the small file size limit, but I don't think it affects transmission of data at all.
Aravorn
Deity
Originally posted by Darius
I don't think PBEM files affect the speed of your connection.
No but a loaded down server can change the response time of the server, like a couple of nights ago I was on T-1 and the server response felt like it was a 28K modem. So it helps keep our sever squeeky clean and full of pep and response time, right?
