<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: BBfanboy<br/>
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However, what DOES often work is to have KB splitting its attention between attacking a land target or invasion fleet and get surprised by arrival of allied CVs.
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Ahh yes the ol' Allied strategy @ Midway. But like you ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: BBfanboy<br/>
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Until you can replace your Devastators with Avengers and get F4F-4s on all your carriers, you will not be able to take on equal numbers of Japanese CVs even if they have fewer planes. Their pilots still have the skill advantage. <br/>
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<r> <U><s>[u]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Week 20: April 20th – April 26th 1942<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/u]</e></U><br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>North Pacific:<e>[/b]</e></B> <br/>
An AA unit has arrived in Seattle and is on its way to Adak to beef up the garrison there. No IJN activity in the region.<br/>
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<r> <U><s>[u]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Week 19: April 13th – April 19th 1942<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/u]</e></U><br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>North Pacific:<e>[/b]</e></B> <br/>
Adak is coming along nicely. No IJN activity in the region.<br/>
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The small IJN ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: BBfanboy<br/>
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They are going to need some music for that trek.... <br/>
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<LINK link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf_xZVhaAKs"><s>[link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf_xZVhaAKs]</s>CCR- Run Through The Jungle<e>[/link]</e></LINK ...

<r> <U><s>[u]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Week 18: April 6th – April 12th 1942<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/u]</e></U><br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>North Pacific: <e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
Adak is coming along nicely. Now that Sub and Ammunition tenders are stationed at the port, I reassign the home base of some subs patrolling ...

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Well done on the interception - chewing up his amphib forces will put a real crimp in his future operations. Did you get the LSD? Very valuable ship - allows a lot of troops to land in the first wave. <br/>
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Unless there were several ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: BBfanboy<br/>
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3 TFs likely means three different islands in the group leading to Milne Bay. <br/>
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Just as an indication of how much FOW there is in your naval search, the Japanese have ONE LSD in their entire fleet for the first year.
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<r> **SPECIAL REPORT: April 10th 1942***<br/>
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Rossel Island invasion force sighted by PBY patrols west of Shortlands! Enterprise and Hermes are steaming from the south @ full speed to intercept. While there are no reports of enemy carriers in the area, CV Task Force commander has been ...

<r> <U><s>[u]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Week 17: March 30th – April 5th 1942<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/u]</e></U><br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>North Pacific:<e>[/b]</e></B> <br/>
Adak is coming along nicely. Once construction here is complete, I may move westward down the Aleutian chain to occupy a forward base with a ...

<r> <U><s>[u]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Situation Report – April 1st 1942<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/u]</e></U><br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>Central Pacific: <e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
Surface Forces: 2-CV , 8-BB, 7-CA, 30-DD (@Pearl Harbor)<br/>
Fuel Reserves: 488K @ Pearl Harbor<br/>
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Good call. SS Cuttlefish found the Ashigara near Rennel Island and put four torpedoes into her...unfortunately all were duds. [:@]

I'll keep shadowing the Japanese cruiser and hopefully get a few more shots at her in the coming days.

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What class of cruiser were those CAs you hit around Noumea, and where is their nearest refuge?<br/>
Five bombs on one of the Kako ...

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What class of cruiser were those CAs you hit around Noumea, and where is their nearest refuge?<br/>
Five bombs on one of the Kako class CAs is almost certain to sink it, while the Atago class can absorb that and travel a fair distance ...

<r> <U><s>[u]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Week 16: March 23rd – March 29th 1942<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/u]</e></U><br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>North Pacific: <e>[/b]</e></B>Adak is now a level 1 airfield. Switching to port facility upgrades.<br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>Central Pacific: <e>[/b]</e></B>Another KB Jr. raid ...

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-Cape town is running low on supplies (I’m shipping them to India and Australia faster than they are being replenished). I am forming up a convoy to ...

<r> <U><s>[u]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Week 15: March 16th – March 22nd 1942<e>[/b]</e></B><e>[/u]</e></U><br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>North Pacific:<e>[/b]</e></B> By the end of the week, my engineers finally reached Adak and began base expansion. Initial efforts will be to expand the airfield to level 1, so ...

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Vaitupo or whatever it is called is worthless in my view. It takes forever to upgrade port and airfield there...hell it will take you forever to reload the Marines to move them somewhere useful. For me a full US base force barely built ...

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But there is hope. As I recall Michael made a change (long ago) where you can access and change the upgrage and take replacement settings of reinforcements en masse. Play around with the screens that display all LCU and all air groups (not ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jmalter<br/>
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There's another Preference you should review, in the Realism Options block. "Auto convert obsolete devices" should be ON. Inf & Eng squad-types in the pools that have passed their sell-by date will gradually auto-convert to the current device ...