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

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Ok uping post count.  Since it took me 30 mins to get caught up.  I now feel greedy for imploying shallow tricks and twits to get people to talk in my AAR.  I also hope that Knoiu is getting good advise from people since I am receiving great advise.  back to lurker mode

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Oh UNP[:D]. 

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

Anyone else thinking that the Type 93 AA MG uses to much supplies if firing ? I think this is the right time and place for a healthy discussion about that post cou... I mean topic.

Grafin Zeppelin,

I've got to say-you're in rare form the past couple of weeks. You're cracking me up.

But, yes, I agree that the Type 93 AA MG uses too much supplies if firing. [:D]

[Canoerebel]

10/26/42
 
Indians on the War Path:  The Japanese sprung an ambush in the Java Sea, costing the Allies five xAP, five xAK, two SC and a KV, along with a fair bit of 77th Chidit Brigade.  The damage was inflicted by the BB Kirishima TF at Ketpang, with follow-up air strikes launched by IJ carriers (maybe the KB) posted just NW of Kuching.  Regular readers will know we expected this to happen sooner or later.  This ends the era of unimpeded expansion in the Java Sea.  I'll have to be more careful henceforth, but it's good to have enemy capital ships committed in waters where the Allies can finally get at them.

What Hath God Wrought?  I was disappointed that my CA Devonshire TF, meant to provide protection for Ketapng, failed to do so.  The TF is set to patrol at Billiton Island with a react range of three (Ketpang is three hexes away) and a very good RN commander with 68 skill, 61 inspiration, and 81 aggression...but it didn't react.  That's the beauty of AE...carrier TFs react against orders and despite every contrivance implimented to prevent them from doing so, but surface combat TFs don't react (also against orders) despite every contrivance to make them do so. 

What Now:  The Allies have alot of engineers arriving at Oosthaven.  I want to get these guys forward to expedite building at the new bases on the Java Sea rim.  I'll continue to use low-value transports and I'll increase the amount of protection provided by good combat ships.

Burma:  In Indian brigade arrives at Toungoo tomorrow.  This should give the Allies enough to take the base eventually (I think).

NoPac:  No sign of imminent counter invasion up this way.

The Rest of the Pacific:  Quiet.

What I'm Learning from GJ's Game:  I am glad I am strongly positioned to deal with Japan's abiillty to extract oil, fuel and resources from the DEI.  It looks like that may be critical to long-term Allied health in Scenario Two matches.

[bradfordkay]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Now, back in my UGA days, I was a relatively handsome lad who was pretty quiet (once again, this sounds like the beginning of a joke, but isn't).  One semester, I had back-to-back classes with this gorgeous southern belle who the entire compus was in love with (or lusted after) including some of our professors.  I, on the other hand, had hopes of a long-distance relationship with another young lady, so I wasn't "in the market," so to speak.  So I, unlike the rest of the drooling males on campus, treated this belle politely and as a friend.  Wouldn't you know it, that treatment was so different that it must have impressed her, for eventually she asked me out!  I turned her down since I was interested in that other female.  That's either very sad or very cool.  Later that year, she appeared in Playboy ("Angel is the Centerfold" by J Guiles Band, anybody?).  She was fully clothed and had won some kind of "Southern Honky Tonk women contest), but dang she was pretty!

I don't recall her name, but I know exactly who you are talking about. She wasn't in any of my classes so I never drooled over her... at least not in her presence![;)]

[Schlemiel]

Along those same lines, it would be nice to be able to order aa units to conserve ammo. I'm thinking especially of the Manilla area early in the game, after the fighters are neutralized, when a few bombers can convince your gunners to waste tons of supply.

[Grfin Zeppelin]

Yes, In my last game my opponent managed via bold and smart maneuvering to bottle up the whole 14th army in Bataan, I could do absolutely nothing to prevent that. The Philippine army then sieged me there and the Type 93 where eating all the supplies while the Allied Air force bombed me. That Type 93 thingie is realy a game breaker for me.

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I'm interested in your thoughts, PoultryLad (and those of the others).

I might have to play Japan one of these days.  No doubt it will make me a better player overall.  But here's how I will play Japan:

1942:  Japan advances rapidly and makes lots of snazzy conquests.
1943:  Japan encounters some bad luck or bad leadership or both and loses a bunch of vital assets, especially cruisers, battleships and carriers.  Japan begins to fall behind and the Allied advance is expedited.
1944 (early):  The Japanese player realizes the wheels have come off.  The Japanese player gathers all remaining asset into one massive strike force, aiming to pull a sexy inside straight.  The plan goes awry, the damage is massive, the Japanese leader blames game mechanics, the Japanese player concedes the game, wipes the moisture from his handsome brow, and gleefully looks forward to his next game as the Allied commander.

NaHh, with your history, 1943 - Japan invades Panama.

[JeffroK]

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

deprecating...... Thanks to Nemo and also Canoerebel I cant read anything fluent without my dictionary....deprecating.....heh is that even a word ? [;)]

As in Self-Deprecating. like CR and very few others here.

[Cribtop]

ChickenBoy - I know what you mean about Southerners (read Southeasterners) and (false) modesty, but you found someone modest in Texas!?!? Must've been a tourista! [:D]

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: Schlemiel

Along those same lines, it would be nice to be able to order aa units to conserve ammo. I'm thinking especially of the Manilla area early in the game, after the fighters are neutralized, when a few bombers can convince your gunners to waste tons of supply.

Place them in "rest" mode. They don't shoot at anything then.

Alfred

[Grfin Zeppelin]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Grafin Zeppelin,

I've got to say-you're in rare form the past couple of weeks. You're cracking me up.

But, yes, I agree that the Type 93 AA MG uses too much supplies if firing. [:D]

[:)]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cribtop

ChickenBoy - I know what you mean about Southerners (read Southeasterners) and (false) modesty, but you found someone modest in Texas!?!? Must've been a tourista! [:D]

Heh...please note Cribtop that I mentioned living in Texas, but that my observations thereafter did not localize on that demographic. I know what you mean about Texans and their "modesty". There's no expression of which I am aware that says 'everything's big in Georgia.' [;)]

[SqzMyLemon]

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: Schlemiel

Along those same lines, it would be nice to be able to order aa units to conserve ammo. I'm thinking especially of the Manilla area early in the game, after the fighters are neutralized, when a few bombers can convince your gunners to waste tons of supply.

Place them in "rest" mode. They don't shoot at anything then.

Alfred

Wouldn't that make the ground troops more susceptable to loss from air attack, being in rest mode?

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: SqzMyLemon

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: Schlemiel

Along those same lines, it would be nice to be able to order aa units to conserve ammo. I'm thinking especially of the Manilla area early in the game, after the fighters are neutralized, when a few bombers can convince your gunners to waste tons of supply.

Place them in "rest" mode. They don't shoot at anything then.

Alfred

Wouldn't that make the ground troops more susceptable to loss from air attack, being in rest mode?

Yes.

Heh, you can't have everything.[:)]

if you want to "conserve" supply this is how the game mechanism operates. You do get the benefit that if no flak is being put up, you might goad the opponent into thinking that you have run out of supply and therefore he launches a premature attack.

Alfred

[Canoerebel]

10/27/42
 
NoPac:  Four days until winter with no sign of enemy moves on Onne or Para.  I am keeping my fingers crossed.  I have a train of small supply TFs waiting for bad weather, back up by a DD TF, Wasp TF, a CVE TF, and a two-CVE TF (the latter about three days from the scene).  If winter arrives before Japan does, the Allies will seriously bump the garrisons at these two islands over the winter.  This will become a fairly high political point priority until the bases are deemed secure.  By spring, I want six or more forts at each base, maximum supply, and probably 1500 AV at Para and 500 at Onne (right now they have 600 and 150, respectively).

DEI:  The Kirishima TF retired to reload, opening a window for transports to venture forth, but I held them back.  I wanted to see if Steve had more combat ships or carriers to commit.  In other words, I want to get a measure of the new paradigm before I take any calculated risks.  So, it will be a little while before I send troops forward to Borneo.  In the meantime, though, I can attend to Billiton, Toboali and Muntok - mainly getting additional engineer forces there to expedite airfield building.  Those three airfields will control the Java Sea once they each reach about level six and higher.  That, in turn, will make it possible for the Allies to then attend to Pontianak, Ketapang and Singakwang, because it will be most difficult and expensive for Japan to stick its nose into the newly established hornet's nest.  Then, once those Borneo bases have large airfields, the Allies can begin systematically pounding the port facilities at the bases with lots of oil.  That's the plan.

Burma:  With 350 AV at Toungoo facing less than 50 behind three forts and in jungle terrain, the Allies should be able to take this base.  A deliberate attack tomorrow.

[Schlemiel]

Alfred, would reserve mode have a similar effect to rest for AA units?

Canoerebel, I believe Paramushiro can build up to a base that can hold unlimited supplies, good luck putting that at max supply What are the current port/airfield levels at Para for you?

[obvert]

Are you starting to get the masses of Dakotas yet at this point? I forget the OOB for the Allies. If so are they a factor in getting supply or more engineers onto Borneo while the fleets are parrying each others moves?

[Canoerebel]

Para is currently two port, three airfield, four forts.
 
I don't have a flood of transports at this point.  I have a few squadrons employed on Sumatra (mainly providing supply to Singkep - an island near Singapore - and Pontianak.  I also have some flying supply from India to Burma.

[Canoerebel]

10/28/42
 
NoPac:  No sign of impending Japanese counterinvasion. [X(]
 
SWPac:  Big transport TF carrying engineers just arrived at Milne Bay (port and airfield already level three).  Only three DDs as escort, so this is risky.  Lots of enemy shipping at Lunga, though to this point all IJ attention has been focused on Ndeni with none on MB.
 
DEI:  Lots of subs between Oosthaven and Billiton Island.  ASW damaged two, but a third put two TT into BC Repulse.  Wtih damage in the 30s, she'll retire to Oost.  Eventually, she'll go to Colombo.  Royal Sovereign just returned to Oos from months in the yards at Colombo.  The sub that did the evil deed was I-22, which previously has been a pain in the rear-end over around Trivandrum.  I'll get her one of these days.  Djambi airfield goes to level three. Lots of troop transports unloading at Billiton.  Two SeaBee units just arriving at Oost.  One will go to Billiton, the other I'll probably try to sneak into Ketapang.
 
Burma:  Deliberate attack at Toungoo failed despite immense advantage in raw AV.  70-AV tank unit will arrive in two days and we'll try again.
 
China:  An IJ stack from Chengchow has marched right into the teeth of the Chinese stack (5,400 AV) near Nanyang.  This is intersting, because the Chinese have just returned from the mauling of the two IJA divisions and one brigade.  This Chinese army is strong, experienced and has a history of success.  The IJ stack is eight units (with two more possibly on the way).  Even if it is a full eight divisions (unlikely) that's not enough to dislodge the Chinese stack.  Meanwhile, the Chinese have additional troops that can be committed or that can be used to try a flanking maneuver.  Steve may have a well-though-out plan her, but I think he's walking on thin ice.