A lotta grumpy old-timers in this thread. I hope your year is off to a good start!

Yep. I own it.

It is a classic and cost me a good amount of $$$! It came out in 1971. The work is solid and pretty good. The class descriptions are solid and well done.

My preferred book covering the building of the fleet and respective classes is Jentschura's Warships of the Imperial Japanese ...

I am playing the complete campaign against the AI. It is 10/1/42.When I attack Wake Is.with 4 CV’s I loose many Wildcats to the Zero’s ,which I expected but the DB’s on airfield attack destroy very few planes on the ground. If I send in a BB and CA,CL task force the come in and tear the place up ...

Hey John - have you seen a book called Japanese Warships of World War II by A.J. Watts?

John, now you know how Yamato felt when he planned out Midway and it all went in the toilet... <wry grin>

That would be Yamamoto, not the battleship! Yamato = Mountain Spirit. Yamamoto = Mountain Man

Yamamoto's plan included steps to ensure the US carriers were at PH. The first one - sub ...

I just want to really catch a break right now. Carefully planned attacking with all the remaining carriers (big and small), moved to position, sprang the trap, and what is my reward? The AI refuses to fly my aircraft. The plan was to SEVER the Allied army on Sumatra and then destroy it. Now ...

Bigred - thank you for the Tracker screenshots. Those torpedo broadsides sure look sweet - yes?

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Tenryu is a CM? I thought she was a Light Cruiser...


They are playing a modified scenario, if I remember correctly, in the original game the Tenryu could also carry mines.


Thanks for the FYI, Ranger Joe. Hey, John or BigRed - did the Tenryu start as a CL and then have an upgrade ...

bigred wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:15 am44-5-8:

Tenryu is a CM? I thought she was a Light Cruiser...

As Paul will attest, in the greater scheme of things, it isn't much but it IS something! Over my 18+ years of playing, I have sunk several Essex but never by sub. Very nice.


Nice to see some Japanese sub-action. Back in the day, I had a sub (I think it was the I-158) that took out an American ...

Yes, but not with you - rofl.

<t> Okay - caught up. You are in early '43 with no restrictions on troops.<br/>
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Can you share with us your plans? It sounds like India is off the plate. Are you just sitting on what you have or are you going for something like Oz or the Aleutians ---> Alaska?<br/>
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Are you setting up ...

I'd buy that - I micro-manage too. I'm still wading through the posts to catch myself up to the current postings. [:)]

I was just wondering if the reason your troops took such heavy losses (300 squads destroyed) was due to not crossing in Combat mode. I mean - sometimes you just get a really bad roll from the dice-gods but if you were in Move mode while crossing a river... Ouch.

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My troops have crossed into Singapore !! The initial shock attack went badly I feel with a ton of casualties on my side.<br/>
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Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)<br/>
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Japanese Shock attack<br/>
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<t> Hi Erik,<br/>
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Wow. After reading through six pages of this I'm pretty sure I could print it out and grow a most excellent garden. I appreciate what you and the moderators are trying to do. From the outside looking in it looks a lot like herding cats. I wish you the best of luck.<br ...

No round spots of dead grass; must not own a dog?

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The three high level phases of getting this done<br/>
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1 - Produce initial public beta - this would include everything that would be in the final release<br/>
(( we would expect to iterate on public beta releases for a while, to ...

She was his wife in real life so of course he was sleeping with her - lol.

<t> 1. Exceptions: Amphibious TFs and Landing Craft TFs are presumed to have an amphibious assault Mission and have different unloading rules that are not bound by Port Size restrictions, but the exemption only applies for ships ( APA, AKA, and LCx/LSx) that have an “Amphibious Unload Bonus ...