Tokyo Rose was a Hussy! Chez (J) vs. Canoe (A)

[Durbik]

DEI: Patrols report the KB - at least five fleet carriers - at Balikpan.

Ha! Waiting for GreyJoy to notice that

[vettim89]

Reminds me of a movie:

Shoeless Joe: "Okay the last two were high and tight. Now he doesn't want to walk you and load the bases. Where do you think the next pitch will be?"

Moonlight Graham: "Either low and away or in my ear"

Shoeless Joe: "Low and away .............................. but make sure you look out for in your ear"

Good advice always

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: Durbik

DEI: Patrols report the KB - at least five fleet carriers - at Balikpan.

Ha! Waiting for GreyJoy to notice that

LOL...didn't notice that simply 'cause for me all those strange name have different ways of spelling the same name
So it could be Balikpan or Balikapan or Balikpapan...it doesn't really matter
Sosarbaja, Scoodra...not to talk about the "chinese ones"!!! Luckly i lost China very early so i now don't bother anymore with those damned chinese names![:D]


Anyway...from what you just said CR (about the 4th div stuck in Bataan since its fall) it really seems to me that there's something wrong at the moment.
No matter what kind of "cover up-trap" he could be trying to lay against you....he's clearly doing every possible thing that could hurt his ability to exploit japanese initial general bonuses.

What is he doing with the KB there without an invasion fleet?!?!!? i understand he has lost tons of transport ships...but not nearly enough to halt his shipping capabilities at this early stage of war!

Have you seen in the sightin report some major units prepping for Palembang or Ostaven or any other sensible place??

[Canoerebel]

No prep reports in weeks or longer, which is certainly an oddity.  He's got to prep for Palembang and whichever base he chooses as a D-Day target on Sumatra.
 
Yes, Japan has a nearly limitless number of transports, so I doubt he's crippled.   But if he lands at Oosthaven, Benkolen or Palembang, he might need eight to ten divisions right from the get-go, and I think that might stretch Japan's transport capacity.  (That makes me wonder whether he might try a cheap "across the yellow roads" campaign starting from his own bases in westeren Sumatra.  His supply situation would get ugly, but he might prefer it.)
 
As for the KB at Balikpan, I don't know that there isn't an invasion force in the area.  My patrol coverage isn't fullproof by any means.

[GreyJoy]

10 divisions to break your defences there? Sure of that? I mean the dutchs and the early Indians aren't exactly the best soldiers in the world in WITP AE...for sure the american units you brought there will help but his AVs may have more "weight" than yours...

[Canoerebel]

No, he's got to have at least ten divisions to handle Palembang in any sort of timely way - maybe more like 15.
 
The Allies will eventually have 2,500 to 3,500 AV at Palembang.  Multiply this by terrain (3x), preparation (a 2x for perhaps 1750 AV), and fort level (I'm guessing something like 1.5x for five forts on the way to six).  So, at the outset, the Allies should have an adjusted AV of well over 10,000.
 
And these are pretty high quality troops too.  There aren't many Americans, but there are plenty of good Australia, British, Indian and Dutch units.  And many of the lower experience units have been training for months.
 
The Japanese are going to need alot of AV and a LONG sustained bombing campaign to deal with that.  If that Allies can maul the invasion force at sea or on the beaches, that makes the equation that much more difficult to solve for Japan.

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: Durbik

DEI: Patrols report the KB - at least five fleet carriers - at Balikpan.

Ha! Waiting for GreyJoy to notice that

This iemail totally mystified me. I didn't know what Durbik was getting at since I knew that Balikpan was spelled "Balikpan," just as I've been spellling it for umpteen years. But when I next opened the turn file, I just happened to notice that it's....Balikpapan! Curses! I've been spelling it wrong forever and forever. And the shame of it is that I like my spelling better because it's easier to type and probably easier to say.

Perhaps I should speak up like the Confederate soldier who, upon being told there was no such word as "cooter" in Webster's Dictionary, replied: "I have as much right to make a dictionary as Mr. Webster."

[Canoerebel]

5/8/42
 
DEI:  Increasing enemy activity in the DEI suggests that something is up.  The big carrier TF at Balikpapan wasn't sighted today, although patrols reported a TF with some kind of carrier of Borneo's southeast cape on a westerly course as though heading into the Java Sea.  There is another TF to the south, closer to Dempasar, and a big combat TF up near Tarakan on a southerly course.  That's enough to get my full attention.  The Allied carrier TFs and three BB TFs are steaming east, to take position between Java and Cacos Island.  Lots of enemy sub activity around Oosthaven, damaging an xAK and sinking a TK.  An RN KV claimed one of the subs.

Bay of Bengal:  The enemy TF believed to be heading toward Rangoon on a FT mission seems to be all the way back near Georgetown, but cursor intel shows six units at Rangood where there were just two yesterday.  My assessment is that Steve is using air transport and FT convoys to bring in reinforcements.  My FT convoy can land a battalion of American infantry at Tavoy or Moulmein in two days.  First I'll recon Moulmein to see if it's occupied.  The rest of the Allied ground troops are aboard transports near Trincomalee.  They are porbably five to six days away from any port selected.

China:  The Chiense got another crack at the already-savaged 34th and 39th Divisions.  These two ought to be out of action for a long time.  Now the Chinese will kind of regroup to gauge the lay of the land, enenmy reinforcements, and whether new opportunities to strike exist.

CenPac:  The Tarawa/Baker/Ocean invasion TFs leave San Diego tonight.

SoPac:  The lead Pago Pago relief TFs are about five days out.  Still no enemy attack here - the landing must have completely disrupted them and left them without supply.

[paullus99]

If something really is afoot in the DEI (and all indications are pointing in that direction - he wouldn't commit the KB unless he was serious this time), your timing for the CENTPAC operations is perfect & proceeding with the Malaysian strategem will certainly divert his attention at this critical juncture.

[vettim89]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Durbik

DEI: Patrols report the KB - at least five fleet carriers - at Balikpan.

Ha! Waiting for GreyJoy to notice that

This iemail totally mystified me. I didn't know what Durbik was getting at since I knew that Balikpan was spelled "Balikpan," just as I've been spellling it for umpteen years. But when I next opened the turn file, I just happened to notice that it's....Balikpapan! Curses! I've been spelling it wrong forever and forever. And the shame of it is that I like my spelling better because it's easier to type and probably easier to say.

Perhaps I should speak up like the Confederate soldier who, upon being told there was no such word as "cooter" in Webster's Dictionary, replied: "I have as much right to make a dictionary as Mr. Webster."

Well good thing you are not a magazine editor or other profession where people expect you to be able to spell

[Cribtop]

ORIGINAL: vettim89

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Durbik

Ha! Waiting for GreyJoy to notice that

This iemail totally mystified me. I didn't know what Durbik was getting at since I knew that Balikpan was spelled "Balikpan," just as I've been spellling it for umpteen years. But when I next opened the turn file, I just happened to notice that it's....Balikpapan! Curses! I've been spelling it wrong forever and forever. And the shame of it is that I like my spelling better because it's easier to type and probably easier to say.

Perhaps I should speak up like the Confederate soldier who, upon being told there was no such word as "cooter" in Webster's Dictionary, replied: "I have as much right to make a dictionary as Mr. Webster."

Well good thing you are not a magazine editor or other profession where people expect you to be able to spell

Yeah. Also, could you please give us a screenshot of this "Rangood" place?

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: vettim89
Well good thing you are not a magazine editor or other profession where people expect you to be able to spell

[8D]

[:D]

[:-]

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: Cribtop
[Yeah. Also, could you please give us a screenshot of this "Rangood" place?

Darn it, my fingers weren't working right early this a.m. Also, I spilled iced tea on my keyboard a few years ago. I cleaned it up, but the keys stick a little bit. I could buy a new one, but I do not like to waste things. Besides, when I get tired on occasion, I can lay my head on the keyboard and lick the space key.

[vettim89]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Cribtop
[Yeah. Also, could you please give us a screenshot of this "Rangood" place?

Darn it, my fingers weren't working right early this a.m. Also, I spilled iced tea on my keyboard a few years ago. I cleaned it up, but the keys stick a little bit. I could buy a new one, but I do not like to waste things. Besides, when I get tired on occasion, I can lay my head on the keyboard and lick the space key.

To quote my teenage daughters, "Ewwww"

[JohnDillworth]

Darn it, my fingers weren't working right early this a.m. Also, I spilled iced tea on my keyboard a few years ago. I cleaned it up, but the keys stick a little bit. I could buy a new one, but I do not like to waste things. Besides, when I get tired on occasion, I can lay my head on the keyboard and lick the space key.

Goodness me you write for a living you cheap @#!&! Go buy yourself a keyboard. I assume you wouldn't use one of those new fangled wireless ones so I will recommend a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Yes, it's "ergonomic" but it's really wonderful, great key feel and cost about $25. While its no IBM Model M http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2009/07/model_m_big.jpg IT was my must have keyboard until I switched to laptops exclusively. You deserve a good keyboard

[princep01]

Those LYBs are a couple of months late and a silver dollar short in the DEI. I know it is Scenario 2, but they could bring the kitcken sink and Godzilla too, and they are going to be decisively defeated at the shoreline.

After that, it really doesn't matter where "Ramgood" pr "Rangoose" is...the Tojo fans are going to surrender.

Masterfully played Admiral CR

[whippleofd]

ORIGINAL: princep01

Those LYBs are a couple of months late and a silver dollar short in the DEI. I know it is Scenario 2, but they could bring the kitcken sink and Godzilla too, and they are going to be decisively defeated at the shoreline.

After that, it really doesn't matter where "Ramgood" pr "Rangoose" is...the Tojo fans are going to surrender.

Masterfully played Admiral CR

In my mind the game was decided when he disrupted the Rabaul invasion... twice.

Whipple

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel



Darn it, my fingers weren't working right early this a.m. Also, I spilled iced tea on my keyboard a few years ago. I cleaned it up, but the keys stick a little bit. I could buy a new one, but I do not like to waste things. Besides, when I get tired on occasion, I can lay my head on the keyboard and lick the space key.

LOL...i regularly do that...usually with coffea and ash... i tend to write with a mug of coffea in my left hand and a sigarette between my left-hand fingers... when it happens to put down under the keyboard on the desk magically appear 4 or 5 little hills of ash [:D]

I agree that, with his attention which now seems finally focused in the DEI, it's the PERFECT time to attack in the Gilberts!...do you have any CV left in CENTPAC or they're all in I.O.? Cause i think a couple of Netties daitais could be waiting for you at Wotje and without any air cover they could hurt you quite a bit...

[Miller]

Its a pity CheZ no longer updates his AAR, would be interesting to know how he was going to try and pull this game round......

[Canoerebel]

5/9/42
 
Singapore:  A month ago, an Allied CL/DD force caught unprotected Japanese shipping at Singapore and sank perhaps 20 to 30 merchants.  You knew Chez would never allow that to happen again, but it did...almost.  The same CL/DD force left the same port on the same mission and caugh dozens of merchants unprotected (confirming a hunch that the combat TF recently sighted enroute to Rangoon was the only one operating in the area).  The CL/DD force tangled with a sub, sank it, and then fought with about five large merchant TFs.  For some reason, the action was fairly light, with the Allies sinking at least one PB and one xAK and damaging another PB and at least two more xAK.  The enemy force included CS Chitose, a CL or two, and several DDs.  Surely Chez has learned a lesson this time?
 
Bay of Bengal:  My FT force is in position seven hexes due south of Moulmein, but I don't think my recon flew yesterday.  I don't show any detection level for Moulmein.  I have a hunch it's vacant, but I'm not positive.  Do I pull the trigger, or do I wait one more day (my TF wasn't detected) and add another recon squadron to the mix (this one operating out of a better supplied base?  I haven't issued the orders yet...but I think I'll give it one more day.
 
DEI:  Suddenly no major activity around Java, plus no signs of the KB.  The Allied carriers and BB TFs are in place just NE of Cocos Island, where they'll remain a few more days "just in case."  A base force is unloading at Cocos Island.  The last big CD unit (American) is inbound for Benkolen.  I'm weighing whether it can be best used there (probably) or at Cocos, which will be invaded eventually.
 
China:  The Chinese troops are reorganizing before looking for the next battle.  There is one obvious opportunity across the river from Loyang, but I feel sure Steve will evacuate his vulnerable force.  Nevertheless, the Chinese will take a shot.
 
CenPac:  Oops, one of the two big Tarawa invasion TFs wasn't given destination orders, so didn't depart San Diego yesterday.  I think Tarawa is lightly held, though I can't be certain since Steve probably has plenty of troops to disperse around the map.  I may try a little pre-invasion with a 100%-prepped Marine unit and 100%-prepped tank unit currently at Hawaii.  This force could go in a day or two early.  If Tarawa was weakly defended, that would save the use of the bigger force including 32nd Div.  On the other hand, if it were more strongly held, I could promplty land the remainder.  I like that idea.
 
Pago Pago:  Lead element of the relief force might be just three days out.  I've detached two loaded DMs to lay a minefield there.  ETA two days.