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Post by HangryBird on Feb 13, 2023 8:35:01 GMT
I've made some decent progress on Pacific Front 1945. Perfect cleared the Burma missions for the Allies and close to doing the same for the West Coast missions for the Axis. Battle of Los Angeles is proving to be a unique challenge with enemy paratrooper reinforcements acting differently based on your own actions.
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Feb 13, 2023 13:29:08 GMT
HangryBird, how so? As long as we don't use AA SFs, they should land. Do you mean where they land? I don't know if they land at the most open zone, but so far, they'll drop at either the area NE or E of LA.
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Post by HangryBird on Feb 13, 2023 19:49:38 GMT
HangryBird , how so? As long as we don't use AA SFs, they should land. Do you mean where they land? I don't know if they land at the most open zone, but so far, they'll drop at either the area NE or E of LA. From my experience, MacArthur's paratroopers land either north, west, or northwest of LA. That may be due to me purposefully living my flank exposed in order to encircle MacArthur between my forces in LA on the right and my forces clearing out naval guns on the left. The second group of paratroopers is what I was referring to earlier. In my attempts so far, they've landed in the factories near LA and the required city southeast of it. They've also landed behind my forces and harassed my artillery as they tried to cross the river west of Phoenix. My ability to take Phoenix on time has been hindered by the AI's smart use of their second group of paratroopers. They force my infantry to protect my captured cities from them or else I won't be able to maintain the economy necessary to keep my tanks alive. My infantry are unable to support my advance on Phoenix, leaving the flanks of my tanks unprotected, which results in my tanks taking heavy damage. They also attack my artillery right when my tanks are crossing the river which means my tanks have a hard time killing them quickly. |
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Feb 14, 2023 3:53:47 GMT
That's odd. After MacArthur's paratrooper spam, I don't recall facing anymore of such issues.
Also, beware the central coastal city. There's an army behind that's waiting for a chance to launch a counterattack.
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Post by HangryBird on Feb 14, 2023 7:21:55 GMT
That's odd. After MacArthur's paratrooper spam, I don't recall facing anymore of such issues. Also, beware the central coastal city. There's an army behind that's waiting for a chance to launch a counterattack. I perfect cleared Battle of Los Angeles a few hours ago. What worked for me was sending my medium tanks north to bait the paratrooper reinforcements and then, lure them back south where my heavy tanks and artillery can slaughter them. I didn't go for the central coastal city until about turn 22, so I think the AI got impatient when they sent their reserves to recapture Los Angeles. An enemy heavy tank came out of nowhere and one-rounded my infantry in the city, but I was easily able to fend off the counter-attack with my navy and the forces returning from Phoenix. |
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Post by HangryBird on Feb 25, 2023 4:06:52 GMT
The Allies side of Pacific 1945 is done! Just 5 more levels to go on the Axis side! Also, in the battle of Okinawa, I accidentally nuked my allies. Oops.
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Post by Nobunaga Oda on Feb 27, 2023 16:39:16 GMT
The Allies side of Pacific 1945 is done! Just 5 more levels to go on the Axis side! Also, in the battle of Okinawa, I accidentally nuked my allies. Oops. How does one do that? Was the blast radius too big? |
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Post by HangryBird on Feb 27, 2023 19:38:02 GMT
The Allies side of Pacific 1945 is done! Just 5 more levels to go on the Axis side! Also, in the battle of Okinawa, I accidentally nuked my allies. Oops. How does one do that? Was the blast radius too big? Yes, an allied unit was on a tile next to my target and got caught in the blast radius. |
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Post by HangryBird on Mar 2, 2023 7:10:27 GMT
The extension of this challenge has been completed and with that, I can say with certainty that it is possible to perfect clear the entirety of the campaign with just free generals!
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Post by 曹操 on Mar 2, 2023 12:49:55 GMT
The extension of this challenge has been completed and with that, I can say with certainty that it is possible to perfect clear the entirety of the campaign with just free generals! Finally you are back. Anyway wanna try Elite Battle with Free General next? *Insert Evil Face here* |
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Post by HangryBird on Mar 2, 2023 22:54:40 GMT
The extension of this challenge has been completed and with that, I can say with certainty that it is possible to perfect clear the entirety of the campaign with just free generals! Finally you are back. Anyway wanna try Elite Battle with Free General next? *Insert Evil Face here*An elite battle challenge won't be feasible under my circumstances, since elite battles were added to the game in the middle of doing this challenge. Due to my current tech and special force levels, certain elite battles like Poland will be too easy and I'm not willing to restart the game to level the playing field. |
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Post by 曹操 on Mar 4, 2023 7:04:43 GMT
Finally you are back. Anyway wanna try Elite Battle with Free General next? *Insert Evil Face here*An elite battle challenge won't be feasible under my circumstances, since elite battles were added to the game in the middle of doing this challenge. Due to my current tech and special force levels, certain elite battles like Poland will be too easy and I'm not willing to restart the game to level the playing field. Well i would say is fine with high tech and SF level, as long as you only use Free General |
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Post by HangryBird on Mar 5, 2023 20:05:34 GMT
An elite battle challenge won't be feasible under my circumstances, since elite battles were added to the game in the middle of doing this challenge. Due to my current tech and special force levels, certain elite battles like Poland will be too easy and I'm not willing to restart the game to level the playing field. Well i would say is fine with high tech and SF level, as long as you only use Free General Considering that you get access to the first batch of elite battles after clearing the final non-star missions in the 1939 Western Front campaign, no it would not be fine. |
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Post by Theron of Acragas on Mar 6, 2023 5:40:58 GMT
Well i would say is fine with high tech and SF level, as long as you only use Free General Considering that you get access to the first batch of elite battles after clearing the final non-star missions in the 1939 Western Front campaign, no it would not be fine. Seems reasonable to wait until you have more upgrades to go after the Elite missions, but whatever, skip Poland. I don't think the question is really "can you beat Poland with free generals", because surely you can, but rather "how far can the free generals reasonably take you". |
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Post by HangryBird on Mar 6, 2023 7:03:14 GMT
Considering that you get access to the first batch of elite battles after clearing the final non-star missions in the 1939 Western Front campaign, no it would not be fine. Seems reasonable to wait until you have more upgrades to go after the Elite missions, but whatever, skip Poland. I don't think the question is really "can you beat Poland with free generals", because surely you can, but rather "how far can the free generals reasonably take you". The problem with skipping Poland and other levels in the earlier batches of elite battles is that they can be challenging, provided that you do them soon after unlocking them, where you don't have too many upgrades just yet. An elite battle challenge in which I only do the last one or two batches of levels is one that lacks a sufficient amount of challenges to overcome, which makes for an unsatisfying challenge as a whole. |
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