fulkerson v Rob.......no Rob please

[larryfulkerson]

Things are starting to happen near Darwin. I've got a CV headed that way even as we speak.

[larryfulkerson]

My CV launched it's first alpha strike on ships in the Darwin harbour

[larryfulkerson]

The steady march to the SW continues:

[larryfulkerson]

I'm in possession of some new moves from Rob. I loaded the turn and watched the combat replay and here's the combat report for the 24th of Dec:

Here's the new Tracker alerts:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a detailed look at the economy so far:

[larryfulkerson]

This is the first of two encounters......in the second one Lepus is finally sunk.

[larryfulkerson]

This time the CD guns at Rabaul are relatively accurate. I'm getting hits even before landing anybody.

[larryfulkerson]

Those Dutch bombers are finding their targets. I've got some CAP inbound but they're not there quite yet.

[larryfulkerson]

The next time I try to invade somewhere I need to remember to include some air cover for the forces involved.

[larryfulkerson]

At least my Nate's have found something they can do.

[larryfulkerson]

The mop-up of Manila survivors continues. There's a couple more ships to get but that should be the end of them, I'm guessing.

[larryfulkerson]

The sweeping of Clark Field continues. Maybe a few more days like today and then a week more.

[larryfulkerson]

Those Allied ships must look awfully tiny from 15,000 feet up. Maybe I should try a little lower. Say 1,000 feet.

[larryfulkerson]

My air cover should be arriving any day now.

[larryfulkerson]

The Nate's are outnumbered so the Hudson's are getting through. It's not looking good right now. I may have to concede this airfield.

[larryfulkerson]

I starting to think that one CVL isn't enough of a force to try to project force in this part of the world right now.

[larryfulkerson]

Once again I got lucky and there were no hits on my ships so far. He's going to connect one of these days.

[larryfulkerson]

Again, sheer blind luck saved my ship at Tarakan. It's just a matter of time before these attacks are successful......that's why air cover is needed badly.

[PaxMondo]

Not really...dutch exp and skills are really low.  Takes a lot of luck to get hits.

[Puhis]

Even untrained pilots can easily get very good hit rate when flying low level (1 bomb hit out of 5 at least).

But I wouldn't worry about 2 Dutch bomber flying low level. Or P-35s, when 100 lb bombs can just scrath the paint of cruisers.