Originally posted by moot
Ignore field numbers and country placement, and P14 is green.
C20 was free.
C13 was taken to safety about that far, closer south actually.
Why is C20 less interesting here?
C13 would certainly have been given over had a good reason been proposed.
TY- for saving that map. It's clear to me that the priority of some was to hide the boat so the enemy wouldn’t take it. I have a few comments that might make u wonder why they might do that.
1. W/ c20 on top of A11, where will enemy fighter's up to get a cap on 10 while 14 is taken by m3's?!?!? Oh yeah.. Rook leadership doesn’t encourage defending their fields, especially when it’s on their main island and directly in line with our advancing forces right? 14 was capped purely by the nature of its location and our advance, but no one sees that.. "HIDE THE BOAT"(and make it useless).
2. w/ A10 rolling troops to 11 and C20 parked in front of it, V3 attacking a4 and C13 (by now) s of A10, what exactly was the bish threat? The only real threat was A15 and it’s seated to advance on A11, not A10. Bish are still restricted to GV assault on 14(which has cap from 10 and local GV defense), but again "HIDE THE BOAT"(and make it useless)
3. With the high probability of a jabo mission @ C20, MW thought it wise to cap it while rook forces invaded. W C13 in the area, a lost TG-20 would be redirected directly into 11 to get ack and LVT assaults in close. This would detain all bish @ 11 to a 10-mile radius while c13 moved south to provide air support, still giving us advantage @ 11 and securing the fight. But " HIDE THE BOAT" ( and make it useless)
As I see it, the low tactical knowledge of the rook leadership has seriously disrupted any hope the rooks have of consistent victory. It seems they are limited to overwhelming headcount wins on Sunday nights. I don’t blame the average rook, they see the high ranks making decisions and assume its because they know something the regular guys doesn’t, this is simply not the case. It seems to me the rook leadership has achieved high rank watching other rooks die while they vulch. Make no mistake rooks, your leaders are not using strategy to win, they are using pawns, and not winning nearly often enough.
As for the matter of the boats specifically, this isn’t the first time MW has had problems using CV's. I personally have seen as many as 4 CV's hiding in the corner of the map for days at a time. This bothers me because I remember being a newbie and the boats were the coolest thing about the game. It saddens me that rooks (and rooks alone) hide the boats simply because the person in charge doesn’t know how or when to use them. I assure you that I have NEVER seen a boat hidden in knightland, or in bishland(although I wasn’t bish for long).
I did see a rook leader use a boat once, He took it from me because he planned to chase a p47 raid to A9 with it, I reminded him that planes are a lot faster than boats and he probably wouldn’t catch them. But that didn’t matter, “if I want the boat, I need to get my rank up”, he said, and move the boat north away from 10 where the bish had set up shop. 30 mins later, and 25 miles north, bish held out @ 10 until he logged and I sent the boat south. 20 min after that 10 was captured.
There are times when a boat should be moved away from a fight, these examples are clearly not them. Poor planning, strategy and zero respect for others is rampant in rookland, and until rooks as a nation face that, they will continue to lose 6 nights a week. And as the other nations discover new ways to dispatch the RJO,( as we almost did last night) rookland grows closer to VOD each day. (VOD=Valley of dweebs)
Again I stress to rooks that as a whole, you’re a great bunch of guys, but your leaders are doing nothing to encourage teamwork and even less to promote tactical success. This is evident in the 5 hour vulchathon @ a10 that very day, because no one wanted to take 14. ("we will just lose it again")
