Back in the fold - Miller vs borner

[Miller]

September 43 is almost upon us. PM is now an uber base stuffed with over 1000 a/c. A port strike on Rabual caught most of my remaining CVs, the damage caused putting most of them out of the game, although none will sink. He now has enough CVs on the board to push for the necessary bases to win the game.

To be honest, the best thing I could do now is simply send everything back to Truk out of range of his bombers and do nothing, however that would be disrespectful to my opponent. I doubt my airforce will be able to even put a dent in any future Allied invasion attempt. I still have a powerful surface fleet but they will be hammered by his airforce.

Its going to get nasty[:(]

[borner]

The allies are finally on the move. The carrier TF is sw of Shortland and was successfuly in getting some air strikes to fly against it instead of the landing forces, although these did take some punnishment, including 2 old BB's and a few CA's being put out of action. US para forces have taken Lea Lea, and units are landing on Gili Gili and next to Lugna.  Nearly 300 enemy planes have been lost in the last two days. Aus forces are marching NE from PM to Buna to secure those bases. Hopefully these operations will be finished quickly. As Miller points out. PM is now quite large and secure, with B-25 controling the Soloman sea which will hopefully keep the IJN from bothering my landing TF's

[RGIJN]

ORIGINAL: borner

The allies are finally on the move. The carrier TF is sw of Shortland and was successfuly in getting some air strikes to fly against it instead of the landing forces, although these did take some punnishment, including 2 old BB's and a few CA's being put out of action.

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So you´re about to invade The Shortlands now? kinda map would be cool.

[Miller]

I would do one but I dont know how[:D]

Anyway, its now mid September and the Allies are pushing on both fronts. Troops have marched from PM to Buna and are beseiging the defenders, who are holding firm for now. Troops have also been landed on Gili-Gili, I more concerned about this base as it is hard to keep in supply. Over in the Solomons he has landed at Taivu, the base to the east of Lunga....but again the strong garrison there is standing firm for now.

I have oppossed these moves without much success. The bulk of my LBA is now at Rabual and most of it flew against the GG invasion forces, sinking a few transports and damaging a lot at heavy cost, mainly fighter op losses. I did send a strong CA/CL force towards the area but it was swamped by bombers flying from PM before it could reach his ships, several CAs and DDs went down for nothing.

I sent all my remaining BBs down to attack the shipping unloading at Taivu, they ran into a similar size TF containing 6 BBs......the battle came out even but my cripples were sunk by his CV based air whilst his will survive but at least they are out of action for the rest of the game. Anywhere south of Rabual is a no-go zone for any of my ships due to his CVs roaming in this area, so not much I can do now to oppose him with any hope of success.

Points gap is down to 2000 now, but as I said to Brian if I was hoping for a points win the best thing I could do would be to stand down all my air units and send all my ships back to Truk, but that would make for a boring end to the game so i wont be doing that. Hopefully i can get a few more meaningful blows in before the end of the game.

[Miller]

The game ends on the 15th November with the Allies 1500 points ahead. GG, Buna and Lunga have all fallen and my airforce is spent on fruitless attacks. I do still have strong surface forces but with his carriers sailing around with impunity I cannot get them through to attack without being destroyed.

Ship losses overall were pretty even, we both lost approx 5 CV/CVLs, 4 BBs, 15 or so CA/CL and 60ish DDs. His transport losses were higher, but this is usually the case for the Allies in UV. Aircraft losses were my undoing, having lost 3700 alone to ops losses and almost 3500 in a2a, more than double borner's losses.

A very entertaining game, I think Brian is moving on to AE now as the number of available UV opponents has dropped to almost zero. I will finish my game against Ralf and then perhaps its time to hang up my UV boots for good.[&o]

[RGIJN]

ORIGINAL: Miller

The game ends on the 15th November with the Allies 1500 points ahead. GG, Buna and Lunga have all fallen and my airforce is spent on fruitless attacks. I do still have strong surface forces but with his carriers sailing around with impunity I cannot get them through to attack without being destroyed.

Ship losses overall were pretty even, we both lost approx 5 CV/CVLs, 4 BBs, 15 or so CA/CL and 60ish DDs. His transport losses were higher, but this is usually the case for the Allies in UV. Aircraft losses were my undoing, having lost 3700 alone to ops losses and almost 3500 in a2a, more than double borner's losses.

A very entertaining game, I think Brian is moving on to AE now as the number of available UV opponents has dropped to almost zero.

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[&o]

Very nice AAR guys! And the result shows once more the lethal force of the allied "steamroller", once launched in 1943 it will more than even out so much of the IJN´s earlier gainings...

However, this is pretty correct seen historically. Aside from some "bugs" in the game as the Corsair issue the industrial might of the US was just overwhelming.

[RGIJN]

ORIGINAL: Miller

I will finish my game against Ralf and then perhaps its time to hang up my UV boots for good.[&o]

Hope at least for a re-match after the current one...! [;)]

Can´t believe UV is about to fade out.........

[Miller]

ORIGINAL: RGIJN

ORIGINAL: Miller

I will finish my game against Ralf and then perhaps its time to hang up my UV boots for good.[&o]

Hope at least for a re-match after the current one...! [;)]

Can´t believe UV is about to fade out.........

Perhaps, with me as the Japs.

Considering UV is almost 10 years old it has had a good run........the original WITP has been abandoned by just about everyone since AE came out.

[tocaff]

Hmmm, a UV game vs "Miller the Killer"? Interesting.

WITP is not totally dead, I've got my game AAR going, a multi player and I'm starting another as the Empire of the Sun.

[borner]

It is sad that UV has such a lack of interest. It is a very fun game. As Miller said, I have bought WITP/AE and am starting to learn that system. Hopefully will get a small PBEM going in a few weeks. Still, I think I will looking to keep a UV game or two going when I can. Thanks to Miller for the game and the education on this one. A very enjoyable game all around!