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From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Strategy for Midway.
Message-ID: <125@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 01:48:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 01:48:07 1985
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Posted from  wade@nmtvax.UUCP
> 
>      Here is my strategy for the game Midway, feel free to ignore it
> as garbage and foolishness.
> 
> To Win as Americans:
>      Take Midway, the ships always get mopped up in short order by the
> Japanese fleet.

Also, Midway has the advantage of already being sighted.  This means you can
send as many scouts out and recall them when you want to.  Recalling (break
radio silence?) doesn't affect you at all because the Japanese already know
where you are.

> First, put all 30 fighters into CAP, then get your
> bombers off the ground so they won't get wiped out in the first few
> waves of attacks.  If you haven't sighted any enemy ships yet, send
> your bombers out after one of your own ships, they won't hurt it, they
> will just go out and come back later.  This serves the purpose to get
> them off the ground because they tend to die quickly if they are on the
> ground when Midway gets attacked.

Actually, you can also just send them aftr Midway itself.  The planes will
just circle overhead until they run out of fuel or you recall them.  The
advantage is that they don't take any time to get home when you recall them.


I have noticed a bug in the game where attack squadrons (especially torp
bombers) do not land immediately after returning to home base.  They always
wait until they run out of fuel and needlessly circle overhead.  This
affects both human and computer run ships.  The human can always over-
ride the circling by recalling them.  The computer, on the other hand, just
waits for them to land and, therefore, doesn't utilize his planes as
effectively.  I'll post a fix to net.sources.bugs.

				robert
-- 
Robert Viduya
Georgia Institute of Technology

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