<r> <B><s>[b]</s>September. 18<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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The e-mail containing the turn was interesting (and also indicative of how long it's taken me to recover):<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ANZAC day today. Somewhat ironically we choose to remember one of the more botched amphibious campaigns ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>September. 16<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Currently I have the flu so there will probably be a few more laughable mistakes than usual over the weekend...<br/>
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A disappointing day - who didn't see that one coming? - as the only groups to fly were two with Blenheims aimed at ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>September. 15<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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So, those radio transmissions steaming out of Tokyo Bay? They made 400 miles overnight - due east. No prized for guessing what that force is; certainly it would fit with my expectations for Japanese carrier use, ie distant escort - current ...

<r> Style's pushing it a bit, I think...<br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>September. 14<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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USS Sturgeon bounces a torpedo off a Japanese destroyer off the New Hebrides; this is one of the bombardment forces returning from Niue. Interesting that they're skittering all the way back ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>September. 13<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Mostly quiet; usual litany of submarine failures off Sakhalin etc, but those have in the main reached the point of not being worth talking about by now.<br/>
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Only action really worthy of the name was raid by 200 Japanese bombers on ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Crackaces<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>The other interesting point is that it actually costs less fuel in transport to ship stuff from Cape Town to Perth than it does to ship it from San Francisco to Brisbane <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I think <I><s>[i]</s ...

So you've, uh, checked for mines at Bataan, right? That one always gets me right at the beginning...would in theory expect a whole bunch there right now, though I haven't checked how many mines the Japanese produce late-war.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: obvert<br/>
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Off map to south OZ does seem a good way to go. It would be hard to be out there all of the time searching for the points at which you leave the wormhole. One good KB raid would cause a bit of a problem though if your opponent decided to go ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>On Supplying Australia<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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"Once I take Fiji the Allied supply line to Australia will be cut."<br/>
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"Closing down the Pacific entirely to Allied shipping..."<br/>
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"If I can take Port Moresby, advance into Samoa/Fiji etc, I'm hoping to slowly ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>September. 12<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Combat-wise, nothing really worthy of the term.<br/>
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Signal-wise, we pin down 62nd Inf Group (previously in the 'unconfirmed but suspected' category, which leaves me dangerously conscious of my own brilliance) as aimed at...Amchitka ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>September. 11<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Minor Japanese Navy fighter sweep over Niue is met by 18 Wildcats. Results good; one friendly aircraft lost for 6-8 Japanese. Fighters at Vava'u have scuttled off back to Fiji in shame.<br/>
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A second Japanese fighter group takes ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: vettim89<br/>
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Likewise, the KNIL garrisons at outlying bases will also be made static. Again, the political realities of the Dutch having no where else to go. Also, many of these formations were raised locally and likely weren't about to board a plane or ...

<r> This post was going to be a big smug one about how I'd figured out how you can do gradual increases in production of particular aircraft types. Then I thought about it a bit more and came to the conclusion that, while the idea (use 'production chit' aircraft to switch factories over to specific ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: John 3rd<br/>
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I am highly concerned about anymore Allied ships to the OOB. What we have already allowed is a pretty large boost in strength as well as numbers. Stanislav is back at work on the Mod so we have forward motion. No idea much past that...<br ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>September. 10<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Niue in fact sees two bombardments; coast artillery manages to fire back this time, though without hitting anything. Ships involved are Kinugasa, Aoba, Isuzu, Nagara, Ushio, Oboro, Amagiri, Yugiri, in addition to the immediate return of the ...

<t> Yeah, I was sort of working on the assumption that that was the case (hence all the caveats); I guess for me personally it just seems better to have a somewhat finer grain size for these sorts of ships, since a withdrawl is a replacement but a sinking is final, if you get what I mean. I don't ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Don Bowen<br/>
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Not sure if it applies to any of the above, but the Eastern Fleet was based on the coast of Africa for the last half of 42 and well into 43. This is outside of the map area of AE and ships assigned to the Eastern fleet need to be ...

<t> Well, I dunno about rolling. Maybe whatever a car with square wheels does?<br/>
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Anyway; because I'm an enormous nerd I was loitering in the university library (read: trying to avoid doing any actual work) a few weeks back and found they have a set of the MOD 'War with Japan' histories ...

<r> Since it's been a rather long time since I had a turn back from New Zealand, I've been sandboxing an Aleutians battle...configurations are ours as known (6CV, 3BB, 8CA, 3CLAA, 24 DD but with fewer fighters, slightly worse pilots and leaders - as a 'what if everything goes wrong' type thing - and ...

Perhaps more importantly, US surface ship (Mk. 15 - 60% dud rate) and aircraft (Mk. 13 - 50% dud rate) torpedoes will work too...