Ruges Mod 3.38 - World Conquest

[catatonic]

May 30th, 2027

Post Battle Assessment

After the battle died down I had about 62,000 ATACMS missiles left (693,000 total missiles), in addition to those deployed in the field. I also had shot over a thousand AGM missiles from about 110 aircraft. The Chinese had shot the occasional missile, but ended up with 10,500 total - about the same number that they started out with.

Very little progress has been made towards constructing my Northern sea pier. Supply levels on my Arctic Ocean coast remain at about 1%, despite the completion of at least two temporary air fields to the South.

Once the battle had died down on May 30th the Chinese had nearly depleated their Korean peninsula of Chinese units. Korea was down to 110 units from a post-conflict total of about 400. Their super-super-base at Jinxi was reduced to meer super-base status with 427 units, down from 1000.

Here are before and after satellite-photos:

Before



After


Chinese-controlled Korea and other nearby bases were picketed clean of armor with only AA and artillery remaining. China's base at Jinxi is still a resevour of 210 WZ600 APCs and another 325 consisting of ATs and other soft units.

China is left with 252 tanks, most of which reside in their far-flung Eastern provinces. It is certain that some of the 115 tanks that currently reside in South China would rush to the aid of Beijing if it was attacked.

The U.S. has about 350 tanks.

The Chinese Capital at Beijing is left with 3 tanks and no other armored units. The only thing that prevents me from taking Beijing by airbourn assault is the presence of five S-400 Triumf long-ranged AA units.

2700 non-tank land units: 260 non-tank armored infantry units, 135 Recons and 205 ATs. The remainder of its land units consist of 2100 soft units such as Conscripts, stray Garrison units, artillery, AA and land transports.

The really bad news is that China also has 1350 aircraft, consisting of:

251 attack helos
360 figher/interceptor
187 fighter/bombers
18 multi
67 bombers
76 patrol
93 transports

[GIJoe597]

Since this is a test I am curious if China has enough forces left to repel an invader from the opposite side should another country invade? Has the mod caused China to become a paper tiger by expending its forces?

[catatonic]

Since this is a test I am curious if China has enough forces left to repel an invader from the opposite side should another country invade? Has the mod caused China to become a paper tiger by expending its forces?

I'm not sure what you mean.

When I attacked in April, 2027, China had 5602 units deployed.

If you look at the above posting and its screen shot of China's OOB after the battle with Japan and the U.S., you will see that it STILL has 252 tanks, 883 combat aircraft and 2550 other deployed land units.

The only thing that they were short on in April was missiles - 10,000. This is low by Ruges' standards. I was expecting to get clouds of Chinese missiles in my face, but luckily this did not happen.

Between Japan and the U.S. about 1000 Chinese units were killed. Most of this was armor.

Paper tiger? I don't think so.

But they were no match for Catatonic.

[GIJoe597]

The AI never will be a match for a human player. I am more interested in how the AI handles another AI. That is what dissapoints me most about the game. I really dislike seeing for example the U.S.A. taking 5 years to take Cuba or Mexico. If the AI has been improved I would think it would respond to another AI the same way it responded to you.

I have some reports that some changes were made, one example would be the adding of a ferry to Brazil and in some places supply added to facilitate the AI units movement.

Was the AI been beefed up on Defense or Offense is what I am asking? It appears from your test AAR it simply responded to your actions in a robust manner. That is fine with a human player, but how will the modified AI handle/work with/improve a AI to AI war?

Could you possibly do a test with AI to AI wars? This interests me greatly as I like to play the puppet master without actually having to fire a single shot.

[Hundane]

Could you possibly do a test with AI to AI wars? This interests me greatly as I like to play the puppet master without actually having to fire a single shot.

Theres a video and several pics about his mod.

http://www.bgforums.com/forums/viewtopi ... &start=375

Current version starts about page 26, hopefully the link puts ya there.

Well, maybe, video is a few pages back it looks like.

[catatonic]

May 30th, 2027
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NOTE:
The game has been moved to another computer with a larger screen. However, Ruges AIPARAMS.CSV file was not installed onto the new set-top computer. This file affects the level of AI aggression. This mistake was not discovered until weeks after this game was concluded and could have possibly have effected the outcome in terms of which region conquored another.
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OK, I know what you are thinking - "Catatonic, that big woosie, he talks tough about beating China, but all he actually does in steal some worthless territory from them." And all of this is true, except that my ally and I killed about 1000 Chinese units in the process.

So I bet that you want to see this drama pursued to its conclusion - you want to see me REALLY take down China, right? OK.

When we last left our hero (me), China had been severely pounded by the U.S. and Japan, losing 1100 units and taking about 400,000 casualties. The U.S. had parked nine aircraft carriers off the Eastern shore of Mancheria and had beaten the crap out of the Chinese units that had previously driven Japan out of Southern Mancheria.

China's attack seemed to falter as though they had expended as many units as they thought reasonable and were about to "calm down" as AIs usually do. Here is a satillite photo of Southern Mancheria on May 30th:



Notice that China has stopped sending armor North and that most of the attacking Chinese units are some soft dis-organized MLRS units that are not even packing missiles. I commented about how China had expended most of its tanks and armor in the region. This would probably have been the end of this scenerio, except that I kept the game running into June just to check out some facts for the the AAR.

Also notice - the Chinese MAR (Military Approval Rating) is still 100%, despite the huge of can of "whoop-ass" that I opened on them.

But then the combat sounds started again. When I panned back to Mancheria I finally noticed that Japan had been mounting a counter-offensive with fresh units:



Maybe the show was not actually over yet. And I still have 693,000 missiles that I haven't fired yet!

[catatonic]

June 17th, 2027

The Japanese acquitted themselves admirably and re-took literally all of the Mancherian territory that they were ceeded at the fall of Russia:



But look at what is happening down South:



To my great surprise, China reached down into their deep barrel of offensive might and pulled out another full-blown counter-attack. China orders 60 more WZ600 APCs to sortie out of its super-base at Jinxi and sends them North to protect their land fab complex North of Vladivostok. Chinese tanks begin to flow North as well.

One of the things that I love in life is to "plink" at helpless tanks and other unsuspecting enemy armor with "death from the sky" - high-performance aircraft and AGM missiles. My carriers and their 36 killer-aircraft squadrons were still right where I had left them. How could I resist?

GAME ON!

[catatonic]

June 26th, 2027

Here is a sat-photo of the carnage and "Whoop-ass" that my coastal carrier plane squadrons and my Japanese allies unleashed upon the Chinese interlopers along the Vladivostok highway on June 17th:



Here is a sat-photo of the pastoral Mancherian country-side after the battle. This is ten days later. Notice the few lingering Chinese dirtbags around Vladivostok:



The part inside the pink borders is Japanese territory, the brown is U.S.

And you will just have to accept this AAR "post card" and take my word that U.S. forces unloaded thousands of air-to-ground missiles on Chinese APCs, tanks, MLRS artillery, supply trucks and the occasional Recon unit.

The most annoying part was trying to neutralize the three enemy super-long-range enemy S-400 AA units that kept "dinging" my little airplanes. What fun is crushing an enemy into jelly when they can fight back and hurt you?

P.S.

Dear Mom, Dad and SR2020 Warriors,

I nuked the Airfield/Fab/Barracks that China was so determied to defend.

Having a wonderful time, wish you were here.

Love,

Catatonic

[catatonic]

July 15th, 2027

It looks like the "coast is clear" so we (the U.S.) decided to leave our comfortable home in Japanese-protected Northern Mancheria and move down South. So me and 1307 friends (units) took a stroll down to Chinese-controlled Vladivostok. No one there was at home, so who would notice?



The part inside the pink borders is Japanese territory, the brown is U.S.

Our Japanese "ally" escorts U.S. forces, attaching themselves to us like a lamparay to a larger fish. Everywhere the U.S. goes in China from this time on, there will be Japanese "companions" who capture annoying little pieces of Chinese territory, fragmenting our own captured territory.

On a strategic level, the SR knows that the only important thing is conquoring the enemy (China) and not who ends up owning what part or what resources. Certainly it is not vital to U.S. interests who owns this fab or that factory. But it is very difficult to guage one's military success when the territory that you have "conquored" is fragmented into the colors of one ally or another.

Since I cannot build a sea pier on the Arctic ocean, due to low supply, I steamed my transport/tankers down to Japan and unloaded them there. Here is the U.S. convoy, head for the battle-front across Sakhalin Island:



The U.S. has taken the air field at Vozdvizhenka and is about to take Vladivostok, which is undefended except for garrison units and four submarines:



We armed one of our DDG-1000 Zumwalt destroyers with ASROC missiles. It then attacks and destroys all of the Chineses submarines.

[catatonic]

July 26th, 2027

The flow of dozens of Chinese armored defenders has stopped. The entire battle now seems to be a town-to-town campaign.



The pink regions in this sat-photo are Japanese, the brown U.S. and the green are Chinese.

I have indentified a important trend here - Chinese MAR (Military Approval Rating) has finally started to decline - to 87%.

Japanese "allied" units dog my forces at every step, slipping in and claiming hexes that I conquor for Japan. Japan has become another opposition force, surpassed only by the garrisons that defend the Chinese towns and facilities that my forces encounter on their drive Westward towards Beijing.

Meanwhile back in the CONUS we attempt to transport more units to the Asian battle-field:



This sat-photo is of the U.S. West coast with San Franscisco Bay in the center-right.

[catatonic]

July 30th, 2027

I do not know how long this game is going to last. A week ago I thought that it was just an overly-long Ruges beta test. Now it has become a U.S. campaign to conquor China. Tomorrow it may be an effort to conquor the remaining non-allied regions on the map and win the game.

Therefore here is the strategic plan:

1. Take back Korea from China.

2. Neutralize the long-range Chinese AA that stands between the U.S. forces and the Chinese Capital at Beijing.

3. Complete the U.S. mobilization of tanks and the other U.S. units remaining in the CONUS and transport them to Asia.

We could bypass Korea but then its Asian weapons fabs might fall to Japan. If the game continues, the U.S. will need these.

I have decided to take the Chinese Capital by airborne assault, but the Chinese AA between U.S. forces and the Capital remain too strong.

The game settings are still set on no "Fixed Capitals", so I may need to chase the Chinese politburo from city to city all over China in order to finally conquor China.

The U.S. needs the units that are still deployed back in the CONUS (Continential U.S.), especially the newly manufactured high-tech tanks.

Chinese MAR (Military Approval Rating) is now down to 44%, from 100% in June.

Here is the current tactical picture:



The current Chinese Capital of Beijing is at the bottom left. U.S. and Japanese allied forces are approaching from the East (far right). They can either proceed West towards Beijing or South into Korea (bottom right).

In the center screen are the reminder of two Chinese super-bases and a lot of long-range AA that is blocking a U.S. airborne assault on Beijing. These central units consist largely of soft Chinese artillery and AA.

The U.S. would like to deploy its tank-transport ships from CONUS and unload them at sea piers on the Western Korean coast (bottom-center-left). The Chinese naval vessels blocking the central harbor are mostly weak Frigate and Patrol class vessels that threaten shipping but little else.

[catatonic]

August 22nd, 2027

The U.S. takes the Korean Peninsula, except for those pink sections that Japanese tanks have arrived at first:



Areas bordered in pink are Japanese.

This is a huge set-back for China and its MAR falls from 87% to an unbelievable 3%.

The U.S. could land its transported units from CONUS to a sea pier that is 1300 km closer to the battle-line, if it were not for the pesky Chinese ships that remain in the Yellow Sea.

[catatonic]

August 29th, 2027

The U.S. has consolidated its new assets in Korea.



Again, pink areas belong to the pesky Japanese.

The U.S. forces that were ordered South into the Korean pinensula are now redeployed Westward towards China.



Areas bordered in brown belong to the U.S.

The U.S. forces are now closing in on the Chinese bases at Jinxi and Shenyang, since these fabs/bases shelter the heavy Chinese AA unit that prohibit the U.S. from delivering a decisive airborne assault on the Chinese Capital city.

China's MAR has fallen an additional 1% down to a new low of just 2%. Will they surrender?

[catatonic]

September 2nd, 2027

U.S. CONUS Recon, AA and MLRS artillery units queue up in San Diego for transport to Asia:



The U.S. continues to load and transport tanks to the battle-zone from Fort Ord, California (CONUS):

[catatonic]

September 27th, 2027

U.S. submarines and P-3C Orion aircraft patrol the Yellow sea in preperation or the arrival of U.S. tanks and other combat units from the CONUS: