Andy Mac v PZB This time India will Stand !!!!

[Andy Mac]

Comilla is my maion B17 AF its well protected by over 300 AA guns plus normally fighters I upgraded them when he hit me so they were all grounded

p.s. only 90th BG is currently using B17's the rest are off in transit to somewhere else [:D][:D]

[Andy Mac]

My inspection tour of important military hardware in Las Vegas continues......<I am sure morale of any soldiers posted here would improve dramatically...I know mine did !!!>

I am going to move onto my next stop tommorrow where I will begin an inspection of Los Angeles/San Diego and surrounds

Probably going to stay in Hollywood havent decided yet have hire car will go where my nose leads me - looking for corruption and innefficiency of course [:D][:D]

[Walloc]

Any one got the bookie odds on that Andy falls to the alure of Hollywood. Becomes a move star, stay in Hollywood and this is the end of a fine AAR?[:D]

Kind regards, and have a nice vacation Andy, erm i mean inspection sorry my bad

Rasmus

[witpqs]

Andy,

I fixed the title of the page for you!

[Andy Mac]

Thank you Vegas definitely Fell I managed to leave with the same amount of money that i arrived with which I am told is some feat....

(A bunch of the luckiest Canadian Girls <hammered obviously> were shooting at a craps table at 3am afrter the nightclubs emptied and I was lucky enough to be there was a 1 hr roll got me back to even )

OK confession time I missed LA - I know I know how can you miss a city that size....

Well on I15 I missed the turn off for I10 and kept on going so I am going to inspect Seaworld and San Diego harbour and defences tomorrow instead then head back to LA in a day or so....the title is part of a deliberate fals information trail that wiitpqs is helping me with to throw PZB off honest its nothing at all to do with my navigaion (or lack thereof) skills....

[witpqs]

As it's confession time - you are better off missing LA! [:D]

If you like zoos San Diego zoo is one of the best.

[Andy Mac]

Did the zoo, did seaworld and visited the USS Midway saw a full size F4U !!!

Then went to do Hollywood now back in Vegas I didscovered a new game I quite like so I am playing that and lying by the pool

So far so good.

Not done a turn in 10 days so starting to get withdrawal symptoms but both my turns are on my home PC in the UK ;((

[Andy Mac]

OK I am back done 2 turns so far I am in the midst of re deployment and build up
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I am steadily transferring striking power to SWPAC and SOPAC
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SEAC still has some strike power but its now on the defensive for a while.
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I will update in more detail future intentions in a few days whebn I have sorted out my plans !!!

[Andy Mac]

OK got a hard decision to make PZB has most of KB doing a flybye of the Marquesas
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Not a huge problem as I have very little in the area but about 700 miles due north I have 6 Fleet Carriers plus support its late 42 and IRL the USN would have went for them even with the RN along but i just dont know - I dont need to fight yet I can wait
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If I fight and lose I lose big because it will cripple my 43 offensive

[Flying Tiger]

how many carriers left in KB?? And what are the quality of your navy pilots compared to KB pilots?? And do you have ANY land based air you can add to the equation? Even 4E heavies - which wont hit anything obviously but just may wear down his fighters some.

[castor troy]

speaking about real life, the Allied sure would have sent the carriers in, speaking about the game, I wouldn´t. Even though there were quite some nice examples of Allied carriers trashing Japanese ones lately, with F4F-4 for you and 150+ Kates for him that are worth two or three times an Allied bomber I just wouldn´t risk it. I did in late 42 with something like 600 carrier based ac (of which 350 were fighters) and KB totally trashed me with a single 500+ aircraft strike. We were able to sink a crappy Japanese carrier for the loss of something like 3 BBs, 1 CV and halve a dozen CVE plus other stuff heavily damaged. Out of something like 250 fighters on Cap, some 80 engaged and we took down around 70-80 enemy ac. Our counter strike faced 80 Zeroes, that took down 80-90 ac... go figure. Having nearly the whole USN in these TFs, flak wasn´t existing and not a factor at all, so you can´t even rely on having more and better ships with more and better flak (yes, the upgrades were all done at that time, I wasn´t fighting with 1.1 flak).

Usually I would just stay away from KB if there isn´t a must to engage it. While the Allied ships may be better, the air arm of the Japanese is clearly superior IMO, Zeroes can take down Allied 1E bombers and the Japanese can send masses of Kates and nothing in your arsenal is as good or as effective as the Kate if they get through your Cap and IMO they sure will if you face a big strike. And then it´s only the weather that can save you.

[EUBanana]

Seems to me that the best way to deal with KB is force him to use KB to suppress Allied airbases for a while which can actually put up a fight. The LBA will lose but hopefully they, and the AA guns, will rack up kills and slowly the katana will lose the sharp edge.

You might not even need fighters, an AA unit or two seems to be able to shoot down 10-20 Vals/Kates a raid, if you include ops losses. Not much individually but if he makes a habit of doing this he will lose his edge. It kinda depends on how he uses KB though of course, personally from what I've seen, as an AFB playing against KB, is that I wouldn't use KB for anything except sinking ships if I can at all help it.

The other way is to just harass him constantly with subs, eventually you will hit. EVen the Allied torpedoes can do this. Again if he's being conservative with KB this is hard to do.

Seems to me that one way or another most CV clashes are decided long before the CVs actually meet. [:D]

[HMS Resolution]

"None but brave deserve the fair."

[Andy Mac]

I sent them in yesterday and they hit Oi and a pair of DD's so a nice haul
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My fatigue was a little higher than I expected so I pulled em back to the East of the marquesas to wait to see what KB does.
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I unloaded a Sqn of Albacores onto my island in the marquesas to provide some bite to the islands strkie capability

[Andy Mac]

In other news I am moving lots of engineers and base forces into the bases in the NE of Australia I want to build up bases to take B24's and B17's to suppress NG
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2 full Corps are prepping for an attack into SWPAC to accomlish it i will need amphib capability so LST's and APA's are moving to SWPAC it will take time but when i am ready I will hit NG hard

[Andy Mac]

Not a lot to say carriers are still shadow boxing down at the marquesas
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I am working up plans and will be ready soon to move again

[Andy Mac]

last few turns have been fascinating heavy attacks in Burma as I hit his bases hard - PZB responds with a successful hit on Comilla - honours even more or less - conclusion I need to beef up my AA defences of my main bomber bases
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Int he marquesas my carriers took a hit when his sub hit big E I had 4 USN Fleet CV's, 2 RN Fleet CV's and 3 CVE's but I have decided to pull back to refuel and rearm
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My Carriers are out of Torps, low on fuel and inside 60 days I add 2 more CV's (1 RN plus a repaired Hornet) and 3 CVE's to the fleet plus Indomitable and Hermes will have joined the fleet.
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i.e. at present I have 490 carrier aircraft inside of 60 days I can increase that to 750....if I take losses now and lose that edge it would make attacks in early 43 risky - why take the risk...???
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I think I will sit back and go on the attack in 60 days with a co ordinated CENTPAC offensive
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[Andy Mac]

Just to explain why I am being a bit of a woose in the Marquesas
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let me outline why
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Operation Hydra II
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Objective a rolling series of attacks throughout the Central and South West Pacific theatres
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Start Date 20th February 1943
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Forces Utilised
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CENTPAC
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Phase 1
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Attacks on Christmas Island, Canton Island, Palmyra and Baker Islands in short order - i.e. no operational pause other thant he time needed for my amphibs to reload troops are all prepped units involved I US Corps - 1st and 3rd Marine Divs, 24th 25th 37th and 43rd US Divs
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Phase 2
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Attacks on New Guinea I Amphib Corps 2nd Marine, 27th, 40th, 41st, 8th Aus Div
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Phase 3
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Attacks on Port Blair and Sabang by Indian XXXIII Corps 18th British, 26th Indian, 6th and 7th Australian, 2nd British Divs
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Basically I dont want to take irreplacveable losses that would stall this long planned offensive

[Andy Mac]

Bit of a baney kicking off in Burma a jap Div just took out the base south of Myktina looks like he is trying to flank me
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I dont mind as it keeps him away from the main theatre

[Andy Mac]

japanese landings at my base in the marquesas not a lot I can do unless I am willing to commit my Carriers (and I am not as I have my own plans)