Land of The Giants ( A WPO Scenario: Empire101 (J) vs Historiker (A) )

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ORIGINAL: Historiker

There are Torpedo Bombers, though almost all have a range of just one hex. So it is more than unlikely that they will have any significant impact.
But this also means that there's no Naval Search to speak of.

Are there coast watchers?

How the hell to do you find each other?

I guess pickets will have to be an accepted practice in this one right?

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: Historiker

There are Torpedo Bombers, though almost all have a range of just one hex. So it is more than unlikely that they will have any significant impact.
But this also means that there's no Naval Search to speak of.

Are there coast watchers?

How the hell to do you find each other?

I guess pickets will have to be an accepted practice in this one right?

Just imagine two blind men in a huge room with baseball bats. [;)]

The game will circle around the significant bases. I'll have to establish an island chain to Japan, which he has to prevent. As he doesn't need ressources or oil, he doesn't have to conquer anything, especially as even the Philippines only can be used as fleet base, not for strategic bombing.

I guess the two men with baseball bats is a good description...

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WITP Piñata [:)]

The question is who is going to get the most candy?

[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

I guess the two men with baseball bats is a good description...

I could'nt have put it better myself!!

I have to go to work now so I can't complete the turn....but here is a taster of what is to come....first blood to Historiker!!!![:(]




Severe ( probably fatal ) damage to the minelayer Katashima Maru[:(][:(]

Tomorrow:-

First fleet engagement of the War....who will come out on top??

All this and much more...tomorrow!!

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: Historiker

There are Torpedo Bombers, though almost all have a range of just one hex. So it is more than unlikely that they will have any significant impact.
But this also means that there's no Naval Search to speak of.

Are there coast watchers?

How the hell to do you find each other?

I guess pickets will have to be an accepted practice in this one right?

I think pickets is the way to go. The way you discover an enemy fleet is easy. When one of your pickets disappears, you know there's an enemy fleet there.

This is a great game. Very quick turnaround of turns.

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: Historiker

There are Torpedo Bombers, though almost all have a range of just one hex. So it is more than unlikely that they will have any significant impact.
But this also means that there's no Naval Search to speak of.

Are there coast watchers?

How the hell to do you find each other?

I guess pickets will have to be an accepted practice in this one right?

I think pickets is the way to go. The way you discover an enemy fleet is easy. When one of your pickets disappears, you know there's an enemy fleet there.

This is a great game. Very quick turnaround of turns.

Indeed. I plan to use my approx. 100 BB as pickets.

[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: obvert




Are there coast watchers?

How the hell to do you find each other?

I guess pickets will have to be an accepted practice in this one right?

I think pickets is the way to go. The way you discover an enemy fleet is easy. When one of your pickets disappears, you know there's an enemy fleet there.

This is a great game. Very quick turnaround of turns.

Indeed. I plan to use my approx. 100 BB as pickets.

In that case I shall use 101 BB's and automatically win the game....[:D]

[Empire101]

Well I've sent the latest turn to Historiker....and what a suprising turn it turned out to be!!

First one of my Minelayers was torpedoed, but then, in an attempt to catch my Transports loading at Sasebo, this happened:[X(][X(][X(]

4 US destroyers hove into view...but unfortunately for them, the BB's Aki and Satsuma, the CL's Yahagi and Chikuma, and 4 DD's were protecting the transports.

Out gunned and outclassed, there could be only one outcome.

[Empire101]

They somehow managed to break off the engagement, but then came BACK!!, to try and get at that those transports. This time the heavily damaged USS Borie went down in a huge fireball, while the remaining three, USS Parrot, Tracey and Chandler ( surely not named after the great Raymond? ), slunk off into the night to lick their wounds.

[Empire101]

Elsewhere not so good. The Kure 1st SNLF made its initial landings on Batan Island, only to find it occupied by determined American defenders. Kure 1st SNLF was battered, and barely survived the landings.

Historikers analogy of 2 blindfolded men in a huge room with baseball bats is extremely pertinent. Recon is MUCH harder, and you end up taking more chances....with predictable results[X(]

Below are the only other significant Combat results, the torpedoeing of the ML Katushima Maru[:@]
and the disastarous assault at Batan.[:(]

[Empire101]

an extract from the upcoming novel 'Land of The Giants'...

...Captain Matsuba prowled the bridge of the Satsuma. He was tired but could'nt sleep, as his taskforce had been given the dishonourable task of guarding the invasion forces loading in the harbour. He was not a happy man .

Suddenly Ensign Abe came upto him and saluted. ' There are upto four unidentified craft coming around the headland sir....they are not giving any identification signals.'

Matsuba nodded his appreciation. He looked out through his binoculars and scanned the horizon. Within minutes the four strange ships came round the headland and headed straight for the harbour mouth. They were too close to the minefield.

Suddenly a sheet of flame shot up from one of the ships. It had hit a mine and it was plain to everyone on the bridge that they were not Japanese.

'Action Stations, Action Stations'. The sirens began to wail. Matsuba was perplexed. Who was insane enough to sail straight into Satusba on a suicide mission. There was one man, but no.... it could'nt be him....could it??.

Matsuba focused on the bridge of the leading enemy ship ( it was the Parrot ). He stared in amazement....it was none other than Rear Admiral 'Mad' Jack McMad, the maddest man from Madtown, his old drinking companion from his days while training at Dartmouth Naval College. It could only be him...no one else was mad enough.

Ensign Abe saluted. 'The guns are ready and awaiting orders Captain.'
Matsuba inwardly sighed. 'Fire at will', he replied.

The Satsuma's and Aki's guns roared their first volley in unison. The Battleships had spoken.

Matsuba was not a happy man. It was going to be a night to remember.

[Historiker]

Rear Admiral 'Mad' Jack McMad, the maddest man from Madtown

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Allright... [:D]

+++ WAR: First Japanese troops have entered Chinese territory. +++
+++ French and British troops coordinate their defenses, as their demobilized armies will take many months, or even years, to be combat ready and shipped to Asia. +++
+++ The Netherland Government insists on its neutrality and is determined to defend it against any aggressor. While no troops of the entente are allowed into dutch territories, defense consultation have started. +++

[Empire101]

The Battleship 'Satsuma'

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I have wanted to play this game but never knew what it was like and thought it might of been dead.  I will have to watch and maybe buy it.
 

[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

Looks fun...never played this or UV

UV was the game that got me hooked into a spiral of addiction that has spread virally through WitP, WPO, and AE.

My name is Empire101 and I'm an AE addict.

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ORIGINAL: Empire101

The Battleship 'Satsuma'

I noticed on that link to the colored ships that stye had a lot of those old ones there. Nice to see you using it. I have no idea about most of them. Weird ungainly things, guns mounted all over the place, but strangely beautiful and stately.

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: Empire101

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510

Looks fun...never played this or UV

UV was the game that got me hooked into a spiral of addiction that has spread virally through WitP, WPO, and AE.

My name is Empire101 and I'm an AE addict.

Welcome to the club. For me, it started with UV.

[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: obvert


I noticed on that link to the colored ships that stye had a lot of those old ones there. Nice to see you using it. I have no idea about most of them. Weird ungainly things, guns mounted all over the place, but strangely beautiful and stately.

Some of them certainly are weird and ungainly, and some have a rare beauty, a majesty almost.
It is a good site, some of the pictures are great.

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
Welcome to the club. For me, it started with UV.

UV has alot to answer for!![:D]

There was a game that I used to play on my old Commodore <=64. I think it was the forerunner of UV. It was called 'War in the South Pacific', I think, and was by Gary Grigsby.
That was the true begining of my interest in the Pacific War.

Happy Days!![;)]

[Empire101]

Well the turn started dramatically, and two PG's ( again trying to intercept incoming amph transports near Laog/Vigan),
collided with the 9th Battle Squadron..... all a bit one sided against all that firepower,
but my opponent is playing more like he is in the Royal Navy....engage the enemy whenever and wherever you see them.


An opponent with a Heart of Oak!!

The PGs were given short shrift, although one managed to escape my clutches.

[Empire101]

Next, four destroyers, again trying to intercept amph TF's met up with a bombardment TF heading for the cursed Batan Island.
The Truxton bore the brunt, and broke in half, taking her crew with her, but her valiant rearguard action stopped the BB's from pummelling the others.