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

[Nemo121]

Marines have a high replacement rate and death is the coin of war.

[traskott]

Yes, but, IIRC, you can only can recover one squad lost per turn/day, so a div which lost 1/3 will take 4 months to recover.

[Nemo121]

1. It isn't necessary to wait until a unit is at full strength to commit it to combat. In Western militaries there appears to a mania for waiting until units are at full strength before committing them. We see the same in this game where most people follow a very western methodology. A USMC unit at 60% strength is quite capable of offensive action and may, if pressed into service before the enemy is ready for it, achieve much more than it would at 100% TO&E strength 2 months later.

2. There are other divisions which can carry the load in the meantime.

3. When the ferryman demands a toll you have no option but to pay it. Preference matters little to the demands of objective reality.


So, your point is valid traskott ( IMO ) but I think that the emphasis on full TO&Es is not necessarily helpful.

[Andy Mac]

Not reaslly 2/3 of the Div are in Pearl now so its only 1/3 on the atoll.
 
I dont like abandoning forces but I have gotten myself into a pretty strategic pickle - I can get out of it I just need to be patient.
 
I have a pipeline of strength arriving and all that I can do now is compromise myself by taking unnessecary casualties.
 
In 90 days KB becomes an irrelevance as far as stopping me goes - PZB needs a decisiver carrier battle now the simple fact is I dont and actually I probably dont want one.
 
I just need to sit tight and not do anything stupid until then

[Andy Mac]

I have another 5 full Divs at Peal plus 2 - 3 more in Indpt Regts and Bns all prepped for different targets
 
Another 6 or 7 Bde Gps at Aukland all prepping for new targets.
 
7 or 8 Divs at Brisbane all prepping for targets.
 
De facto when I get started LCU's are not a problem.
 
Shipping and covering the TF's are.
 
I made a mess of it by depending on a carrier led assault for the opening phase without clear superioirty in that arm.
 
I was was willing to fight it out with KB bu losing 1/4 of my carrier air to subs has reduced me to parity at best so why take the risk.
 
With hindsight had I left some naval assets in Indian Ocean and SWPAC I could be hitting Andaman islands and Port Moresby now but I over concentrated into CENTPAC and I am now paying the price.
 
The absoulute worst thing I could do now is take on KB and lose better to wait a few weeks or a couple of months and then make it count
 
Every day that passes he burns fuel at the end of a nasty logistics pipeline de facto its almost impossible for KB to remain in these waters for a long time so I can wait - I dont like it but its the smart thing to do for now given the mess I got myself into.
 
Andy

[Andy Mac]

He had Yamato et al plus Cruisers plus AR ships plus lots of subs and KB operating out here and my subs sunk a couple of tankers - I doubt he can operate for long in these waters.
 
If I weas him I would counterinvade Palmyra now with whatever he can muster and then withdraw claiming the victory.
 
He wants to tempt me out and having put torps into 2 carriers he must assume I aint going to play ball anywhere beyond 1 or 2 days transit of Pearl which is not where he wants to fight.
 
He is crossing waters with over 40 subs all it takes is a couple of lucky breaks and he is in trouble at the end of a nasty long comms line.
 
PZB has won this round largely due to his subs but all that it has achieved is stop me from risking my carriers int eh very engagement I think he needs.
 
Just now facing 700 carrier aircraft 1/3 of which are RN i.e Stringbags and Sea Hurricanes and my best fighter the F4F
 
He needs and wants a fight now.
 
In three months the odds shift from parity with the IJN having the fighter edge in quality to 2:1 in my favour with all my USN carriers having Hellcats.
 
Scaring me back to prot and safety is the worst thing he could have done - a tactical victory costing him a strategic one
 

[cookie monster]

Be patient thats alot of firepower coming to the Allies mid 43 onwards. Then the island hopping begins.

[Keifer]

If he sends the KB to support a counter invasion on Palmyra, go take Wake.

He'll have to react and it is nicely distant from his LBA.

That should drive him nuts.

[cookie monster]

[:D]

[traskott]

@Nemo: I always forgot your "soviet aproach to ground warfare" [:D].

@Andy: How much Saratoga is damaged by the torpedo ? US Carriers usually can hold more than u can expect. I have had the Hornet sailing around with 15 major flooding dmg and she makes PH-Noumea-Melbourne-combat and back to PH without trouble !!!

[Andy Mac]

All my carriers wil survive
 
Saratoga will be back when Essex arrives in about 80 days
Hornet about 3 weeks before it.
 
Broadly in 80 days 3 x RN CV's come out of refit with a capacity of 54 and 3 USN CV's return from yard dogs or from new construction.
 
And I get 3 more CVE's
 
But I cannot afford to sit still until they return so 4 Carriers are out prowling I figure he may reinvade or wait certainly my subs havwent seen KB for a while so I suspect fuel has dragged them back to Truk or Kwajalein.
 
I just need to be patient not do anything to stupid and wait for 80 days before the Hydra offensive kicks into high gear

[Andy Mac]

Well where to begin....
 
You know how I said I had to be patient....
 
well I was never any good at followign my own advice

[Andy Mac]

OK I was trying to catch Yamato on a bombardment run but to be safe I only took my fast carriers leaving the CVE's behind.
 
I get into position and miss Yamato on timing.
 
So I pull back knowing KB has retired to the marshalls because my subs saw them go...
 
So I move NE of Palmyra intending on heading back to Pearl.
 
When.....
 
 

[Andy Mac]

KB pops out 8 hexes away south of Palmyra launches a full deck strike that cripples SODAK and 3 of 4 carriers..
 
Wasp is almost certainly a gonner as is SODAK.
 
Enterprise will get away
 
Indomitable and Hornet might make it
 
Not a good day for the allies

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

In 90 days KB becomes an irrelevance as far as stopping me goes - PZB needs a decisiver carrier battle now the simple fact is I dont and actually I probably dont want one.

I just need to sit tight and not do anything stupid until then

ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

KB pops out 8 hexes away south of Palmyra launches a full deck strike that cripples SODAK and 3 of 4 carriers..

Wasp is almost certainly a gonner as is SODAK.

Enterprise will get away

Indomitable and Hornet might make it

Not a good day for the allies

...Ouch.

[traskott]

OUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, looks like as you need a whole full new plan now.

[WLockard]

The best laid plans of mice and men ...

[Andy Mac]

Thanks EUbanana I deserve that.
 
Ever done something you know is wrong when you are doing it but still do it anyway....
 
Thats what I did !!!

[Andy Mac]

I think Indomitable might get away but Wasp is dead and Hornet maybe as well....

[traskott]

Well, time to push over New Guinea and pull back the offensive at CENPAC for a year.... No other solution is available