Glad the game continues, good luck and good hunting.

Welcome back your dreams are your ticket out, welcome back to the say old place that you laughed about, for the names have not changed since you been around and your dreams of conquest still remian.

Congrats and now time for lessons learned and build upon your experience as being the evil empire.

<t> I also had an early war American carrier with medium damage sink suddenly over night when it was making cruise speed a day out of Sydney following a carrier battle a few days before. It had been slowly recovering damage and seemed to be in no danger of sinking. However the end came quickly when ...

That show that Rangoon was grossly over stacked with aircraft because of the extremely high ground loses when you bombed the air base there.

<t> In India the goal for the Allies is to defend the major ports first, until more resources arrive over the next 6-12 months. Once you have secured the ports then you can defend Ledo to ensure a supply flow into China to help your defense there. You might also garrison the few Islands in the India ...

He has been exposed with the sinking of the majority of the RN and your taking of Chittagong which opens up the south-eastern plains of India and road to take Ledo and shut down supplies to China over the Hump. That will benfit your China campaign as his defenses crumble for lack of supplies.

That was quick after you said you would take it, was it the Bambino calling his shot?

<t> Some of the early war CVEs come replacement F4Fs and SBD squadrons already on them so, they are already ferrying aircraft. I use the Long Island to be a bridge to allow short legged F4Fs and SBDs to get to islands that they don't have the range for as I out eh Long Island between the bases and ...

<t> You need to defend the supply route to eastern and western OZ. Defend the major ports in India and the 3xterrain in China. Do that and he will come to you as you try to build up your Allied pools of LCUs squads and air planes. For the Allies it is a trade of space for time, if he is going slowly ...

Anticipation!

I would suggest FoW for 7 of 8 BBs being sunk as your torpedo attack was at about 80% hit success. Did you see the float planes from the BBs being ground loses or the VPs that add up to 7 BBs being sunk?

Slow BBs usually come off poorly against Japanese TFs with faster cruisers and DDs.

That was a quick victory against Bataan, which usually holds out till April or May 42.

Good old WIPAE SIGINT

He believes he should be carrying his shields into battle every day or be carried out on them.

<t> If he was running his damaged carrier at flank speed to stay ahead of your KB he might have suffered catastrophic failure of his battle damage ending in a rapid sinking when he wasn't suspecting it. I had an American carrier in a previous game in the early 192 period that had medium damage ...

Good job to you both taking the conflict to the end is the exception and not the rule and I am sure there were many lessons learned by going the distance that can be applied in future contests.

Congrats now you have PH back in friendly hands, now the work of putting it back into operation.

A Very nice point harvest for sure.