Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead! - dennishe vs njp72 - early 1944

[dennishe]

Fortunately the Japanese garrison at Jaluit was small and after a Bn of USMC paratroopers was dropped, 30 B24Ds bombarded the island and after two BBs and many CAs and CLs pounded the Japanese troops, the island now is mine...

[dennishe]

Once again the US Navy hastingly had to retreat for incoming IJN warships after a successful invasion...

[witpqs]

Was Spruance on Minneapolis?

[dennishe]

No, he was on Astoria. At least after the battle

[dennishe]

The British are on the move...

[dennishe]

I have quite some dive and torpedobombers in the area, but my scouts failed to spot KB. Perhaps tomorrow...

[dennishe]

There is some heavy fighting going on in Russia

[Empire101]

What happened to KB ref post #266??

[dennishe]

ORIGINAL: Empire101

What happened to KB ref post #266??

This is a bit of an anticlimax. [:(]
It left. My opponent knows that I have quite some planes in the Gilberts. These include divebombers, torpedobombers and lots of wildcats and corsairs. KB therefore cannot stay within the range of the TBFs and SBDs too long. At most of the islands the airfield level is 5 or 6 and one or more aviations regiments or HQs are present to support a massive strike. KB therefore seems to follow a guerilla warfare tactic, wherein it strikes unexpected and than covers one or two BB or CA TFs, which carry out a naval bombardment.

[Crackaces]

You do have an interesting quote .. "Soviets continue to bombard Soviet airfields .." Sounds like Red Star-White Star ..[8D] I am amusing the IJ are focuing on Soviet Airfields .. a good strategy since I beleive the game does not have aircraft replacement pools until '45 ..

[dennishe]

ORIGINAL: Crackaces

You do have an interesting quote .. "Soviets continue to bombard Soviet airfields .." Sounds like Red Star-White Star ..[8D] I am amusing the IJ are focuing on Soviet Airfields .. a good strategy since I beleive the game does not have aircraft replacement pools until '45 ..

I probably meant "IJ continues to bombard Soviet airfields.." Yes, there are only a few MiG-3 replacements and not much more, which is worrysome for the Soviet Air Force commanders. But the Soviet - German front is more important of course. And the Luftwaffe has to be taken out first.

I grounded quite some planes for a couple of surprises later on this year. An to shoot down a couple of unescorted bombers, when the fighters are back at the British, Australian and American fronts. Other than that everything is focussed on the war at land. The Japanese have a lot of divisions and I still do not have a clear picture where they are. My troops in the Vladivostok area are very strong. And if he doesn't attack there at some point, I will counterattack. Not sure in which direction yet. The problem is that the Japanese troops have cutt of Vladivostok from everything else. With such a vast amount of ground between Moskou and Vladivostok it was impossible to prevent. Now it is important to see if Vladivostok can sustain itself. There are quite some resources nearby...

[dennishe]

Japanese carriers harrass our shipping at Perth

[dennishe]

The Soviets are far from winning yet...

[dennishe]

There is a short delay in updates as quite some events require a little bit of secretcy at the moment

[dennishe]

Operation Whiskey in the jar is finally going smoothly, after the US I Corps got pinned down behind enemy lines for a couple of months...

[dennishe]

I'm trying to get some troops at Milne Bay, but it is not going to be easy...

[dennishe]

And now we also got rid of most of the Ki-44s

[dennishe]

Not so many aces in Burma, yet still very decent results...

[dennishe]

Slowly the US Navy takes over full initiative in the Marshalls

[dennishe]

No Japanese troops were alive during the shock attack. A month of 50+ B24 bombardments must have been a little overkill...