I understand your frustrations Lowpe, but I will echo some of the previous posters. We do appreciate the time you take to post your AAR, and I certainly hope that you continue.

The WITP AE community remains very vibrant (arguably even more so now), but the vast majority of players have ...

I understand your frustrations Lowpe, but I will echo some of the previous posters. We do appreciate the time you take to post your AAR, and I certainly hope that you continue.

The WITP AE community remains very vibrant (arguably even more so now), but the vast majority of players have migrated ...

Strategic Bombing against Japan is tough and tougher still without the Marianas. You need big bases and the service level of the B-29's is awful. Can't see where else he could base those beasts unless he goes for a Northern Home Island. Never to early to start thinking about night fighters.

My experience attacking BB's with carriers at this point in the war is torpedoes don't work. You might end up getting a dozen hits with bombs that don't penetrate nor do much beyond some operational damage and you will lose a lot of SBD's doing it. BB's can soak up a lot of dive bomber hits without ...

<r> Oh I'd say the Japanese CA's have been pretty badly treated too.
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<t> Wikipedia is often wrong because it's only as good as what people put into it. As for the Seadragon, it was a Sargo class sub so it was a post S-boat, pre Gato class sub. The torpedo exploded, so that lends credence to the Mark 10 theory [:D] Anyway, the Sargo class sub served throughout the war ...

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Finished off a previously damaged Iboat...<br/>
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Clark AFB falls...but most of the troops had evacuated to Bataan. Not sure if this was the right move, but I thought I would experiment a bit.<br/>
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<t> "The Governor of She said to Confucius, 'In our village we have an example of a straight person. When the father stole a sheep, the son gave evidence against him.' Confucius answered, 'In our village those who are straight are quite different. Fathers cover up for their sons, and sons cover up ...

<t> Once your torpedoes work a bit better and once the facet of Fletcher's opens up a bit you might want to try some 2xDD TF's as raiders. They are fast, hard to detect, have good range, are hard to hit and they actually pack a bit of a punch. Right now anything with decent AAA value should be ...

<t> What we would call corruption might be what other cultures would call "business norms". As you say, so many factions with so many different loyalties. It's hard enough today setting aside our Judeo-Christian/democratic/western values to consider the way things are done in foreign cultures. It ...

<t> I have, Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 is an outstanding book and we are blessed that is was written by an author of Barbara Tuchmans caliber. Hard to digest a complex station and a complex man but the corruption was real. It was ingrained, it was cultural and it was ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Blundered into an Iboat wolfpack between Xmas Pearl and the West Coast...lost an AKV loaded with a P38 recon group. Ouch. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Ouch indeed. That is a good a poke in the eye that you could have gotten. You never have enough recon and this really hurts in ...

Allies simply don't have much good ASW at this stage. Their best stuff is the DD's, but as you say, they are elsewhere. Make hay while the sun shines. When the ASW shows up, it shows up in large numbers. Good hunting!

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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I felt pretty confident I was going to hurt his battleships at Cochin...Japan couldn't get DL on subs a few hexes outside of Colombo, but I figured it would be planes finishing it off.<br/>
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do these BB's have float planes? If so get rid of them. This way you opponent might think an actual sinking is FOW.

<t> Foxes got into the hen-house. He can either bring more to evacuate, bring more to fight on the ground, or leave his guys there to die. I didn't see any troops listed as lost so I'm not sure if that transport force was coming or going. Not good either way. You opponent is in a spot here. The ...

<t> IRL, by late 1942 pretty much all of the U.S. pre-war navy was at the bottom of the Pacific or in dry dock. By the end of 1943 U.S. industry would have replaced all of that and then some. Japan simply can't do that. As long as you do not get sucked into a carrier battle you can continue to go ...

That's a lot of float planes for a single CA, no?