Chengtu Forts 3, looking very good.

Frank @ 29 is now day-to-day ... just need some luck. Frank@ 26 is about 1 month out ... maybe a bit less. Frank@22 is about 2 months ... thus in 2 months, or less, you will have 4 factories fully repaired earning 8%/day with engine bonus => advance 1 month ...

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With that thought, the good Admiral decides to once again check in on the R&D teams for the promising Frank fighter... Evidenly the first factory is almost ready to make progress in earnest! (29 repaired, 1 to go).


Oh, this is big news ... still '42 and you've get a Frank factory online ...

Happy New Year, there should be turns now ... update?

Mike Solli wrote: Fri Dec 12, 2025 7:10 pm Chungking took me forever to take last game.

CK takes everyone a long time. If you read "In Harm's Way" AAR he just took CK, 91 units were there ...

With the long awaited victory at Chungking, the war has now been paused until New Years while the respective Admirals are off visiting family over the Holidays... Hope all you gentle readers have a wonderful and safe holiday season!


Congrats on CK!

Variable is GOOD for you here. You may just ...

Mike Solli wrote: Thu Dec 11, 2025 10:36 pm 7 May 42
China

Maneuvering around. I decided to surround a couple of Chinese concentrations (Kanhsien and Changsha) and focus on taking Chungking and Chengtu before reducing the surrounded Chinese.

+1

5 May 42

Burma

Well, my Oscars can't compete with the RAF or USAF. They just plain suck. Today, I lost 8 (5 KIA, 1 WIA) while shooting down only 2 enemy fighters over Akyab. At least I have a nice supply of good pilots and planes. My problem is the lack of supply in Burma and the SRA to ...

4 May 42

Burma

The lovely engine RNG decided to have pity on me today at Ted's expense. Ted sent his fighters after my feeble Oscars at Akyab again, but not before he sent in those 12 unescorted Swordfish. I'm not sure what ships they were attacking because they were all shot down ...

Mike,

You will want to take ChengTu before CK if you can ... and do it by forcing those units out of the base, not killing them. Normally, ChengTu is garrisoned with a lot less units ... a swift armor strike will usually work...

Just ran the turn. My latest attack into Chengtu dropped the forts from 5 to 4! Slowly. Also got a 1-2 odds as well. With Chungking on the ropes, I see a chance of maybe maybe carrying the day before the avalanche of magical reinforcements arrive in Chengtu after taking Chungking. Here is the ...

update?


Chengtu fallen?

17Dec41 His Majesty the Emperor Hirohito - Tokyo Palace

My subjects, today I come down to you to inform you of a great number of difficult realities that the divine kingdom must unite against.

As you are aware, the previous government, against my wishes, has entered us into a war with the allies ...

Siangtan was liberated as well, but the infrastructure was totally trashed:

Manpower: 1(1)
Resources: 0(40)
LI: 0(20)
Ouch!

:ugeek: :ugeek: :ugeek:


Yeah, it would have been nice to get that extra LI but it's better that the Chinese lose that LI, in my opinion.

True, and truthfully ...

That's right. That's what you said earlier about the M3. Gotta read all those messages again. Lots of good info in there.

Woke up to Ted's turn. On my to do list to change the Betty factory to Nick.


One more advantage of building the G3M3 over Betty ... in a stock game for me, it better ...

1 May 42
China

Wenchow was liberated,
Manpower: 1(1)
Resources: 56(4)
HI: 9(1)
LI: 74(6)
Nice!!!



Siangtan was liberated as well, but the infrastructure was totally trashed:

Manpower: 1(1)
Resources: 0(40)
LI: 0(20)
Ouch!



As Pax said, the increased cruise speed of the M3 over the M2 ...

Adm Wa finally came out of his Thanksgiving food coma and a turn arrived! The Chungking attack was not fully successful, but I would say it was a draw. The attack achieved a 2-1 and dropped forts from 1 to 0. Also, I did not kill a single unit which I am happy with. Extensive Chinese losses should ...

28 Apr 42

SRA

Nine Aussie Hudsons bombed my troops at Saumlaki doing no lasting damage. Wish I had decided to build Rufes earlier. I could have countered them. I just converted an aircraft factory to the Rufe today. It'll be a while before I get enough to outfit a chutai of them.

I think I ...

Mike Solli wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 5:00 pm 27 Apr 42
Burma

I forgot to give the tanks attack orders again.

Yeah, something I've "never" done ... sure! ...

26 Apr 42

Sub War

I-19 torpedoed an empty xAP off San Francisco. That's 2 days in a row now!
You may have gotten now ... I rarely see a single torp put down a large allied ship, but 2? yeah that usually works ... (but not always, dang allied damage control ...)



Burma

Imperial Guards ...

25 Apr 42
Burma

A nice little ambush happened today. 39 Zeros from MKB caught a bombing run against the Akyab invasion TF and shot down 8 of the 10 Hurricane escort and drove off the 3 Cats attempting to bomb or torpedo the TF. There was no loss to the Japanese, only experience. :lol ...