I just checked the thread for my previous game with OPilot, where I was the Allied player. It's quite different. I was attacking Manila on 9 Dec 43. Here's the link to the previous game for those interested to compare: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10685&t=323646&start=1...

Solomons and New Guinea 10 Dec 43

Kwajalein to Truk 10 Dec 43

Northern Australia 10 Dec 43

China 10 Dec 43

Burma and Western China 10 Dec 43

Aleutians 10 Dec 43

10 Dec 43 The war has continued. Most of the time since my last update, the Japanese Navy has been sitting in Japan. Carrier pilots have been training, and many hundreds of the original KB pilots are in the Reserve pool, waiting for an end-game strategy that I hope to employ, hoping to get Sams on ...

We now jump to 9 Aug 43. The war has continued. The Aussies built up Gove and took Bathurst Island, adjacent to Darwin. They've also taken Port Hedland on the northern Australian coast. I slipped a tank division into Darwin when the enemy was taking Gove, and a Japanese infantry division, with suppo...

End of May 1943 Australian forces have captured Gove. I had a big Japanese brigade there and they held for awhile. Just one Australian battalion was landed at first. OPilot had to reinforce over a month's time and land 3 more big units, as well as lots of engineers and some Australian armor. P-38s ...

Cudos to Matrix Games for recognizing Gary Grigsby's 40th anniversary since his game Guadalcanal Campaign. His games have been a big part of my life, literally tens of thousands of hours. Thank you Gary.

Cudos to Matrix Games for recognizing Gary Grigsby's 40th anniversary since his game Guadalcanal Campaign. His games have been a big part of my life, literally tens of thousands of hours. Thank you Gary.

https://www.matrixgames.com/news/40-yea ... nniversary

Hey, I just noticed that I had my 20 year forum anniversary in May. Many thousands of hours of War in the Pacific and it's predecessors. All the way back to Gary Grigsby's Guadalcanal Campaign in 1982.

It's early May 1943, and the Allies are on the move. In the beginning of April, just when almost all of my Japanese carriers went into upgrades in Japan, OPilot made the jump to invading Noumea. He used all of his carriers, including at least one British carrier. I did little to oppose the landing. ...

apbarog - this one on a tactical pause or done? I miss the posts!!! The game continues. This thread does not, due to lack of reader interest and my loss of enthusiasm to post daily. IdahoNYer, it's early April 1943 now and OPilot just invaded and took Noumea. This is his first major invasion, not c...

13 Feb 43 Permit engaged xAK Ume Maru at Saumlaki, missing with many torpedoes but hitting with 2, and getting 4 gun hits, sinking the ship. A heavy artillery unit was almost completely unloaded, with a few big guns not able to be unloaded in the size 1 port. No escort with the ship. OPilot hadn't ...

12 Feb 43 2 days ago, I brought a cruiser force west of Rangoon, trying to get into position to bombard. The ships were spotted. Instead of pulling back, I ordered them to the Burma coast, 3 hexes from Rangoon, and provided LRCAP. The task force wasn't spotted, so I ordered them to bombard Akyab an...

11 Feb 43 Magwe and what's left of its oil was the target for the Allies today. Hurricanes swept, about 3 squadrons of them. There was a light Japanese ranged CAP overhead consisting of 5 Oscars, 1 Tojo and 3 Tonys, to begin with. More arrived with later strikes, including against heavy bombers. So...

10 Feb 43 A US cruiser force and maybe some APDs were spotted at a dot base in the Aleutians west of Dutch Harbor. I suspected that troops were landing there, as the cruisers were there for a few days. Sallys bombed the 13th US Naval CB's there, at Yunaska Island. Part of OPilot's slow creeping adv...

9 Feb 43 4 groups of Hurricanes swept Taung Gyi. 28 Nicks were on CAP. All Hurricanes came in at over 30k feet. 11 Nicks lost and downed 5 Hurricanes. Moved in 2 Oscars units to Taung Gyi and set the fighters at Toungoo to range 3 to help cover Taung Gyi. Shwebo was bombed heavily by B25's at 3000 ...