Parry and Spar, or is it... Reluctant Admiral 4.2 Fulkerson(J) vs Moore (A)

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Tracker report on Oil. It says I have about 320 days worth of oil in the home islands left.

[larryfulkerson]

This Tracker report on fuel says the home islands have about 128 more days of fuel left.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's me boosting the Oil Refiniery output at Tokyo by 10.

[larryfulkerson]

There's no Allied minefield dot on the map any longer so I'm guessing I finally cleared the Allied minefield at Singkawang.

[larryfulkerson]

My boys detected a minefield at Makassar. Good thing I didn't run ramshackle into it with a non-minesweeper type.

[moore4807]

I'm back! [>:] Yeah I know...
Larry,
great job posting and keeping the readers up to date... played a month and were just shy of 3K hits read??? Awesome!

I'll post the AAr stuff Tuesday & get caught up... Nothing shocking or good... just the steady grinding of the Empire juggernaught...for now!

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: moore4807
great job posting and keeping the readers up to date... played a month and were just shy of 3K hits read??? Awesome!

Thanks to all the readers who contributed to the 3K hits we've had so far. My dad would thank you too but he's dead.

ORIGINAL: moore4807
I'll post the AAr stuff Tuesday & get caught up.

Oh, shoot, it's almost 23:00 on Monday.......I only have just less then an hour to get the rest of my stuff posted. No problem....I'll just stay up a little later than I usually do on Monday night. Watch the sun come up maybe. That's always inspiring when you're down. Watch the sun come up and the sky turn all those wonderful colors......all in slow motion.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay dokie now that he's attacked somebody I guess the prudent thing would be to move him off Malacca and somewhere maybe more useful.

[larryfulkerson]

He went into the harbour and found no minefield and survived. Good for him. He decided not to launch a torp at a target. Replace the captain of this boat? What do you guys think of his behaviour you guys?

[larryfulkerson]

The SERIOUS ground pounding has begun at Clark Field. I've got multiple squadrons tasked to Clark Field and I intend to keep this up until the Jap ground forces can start to make some headway. I'm guessing Jim will back everybody he can off onto Bataan and hold up until the end. I've tried to split his forces into several parts so I can digest them one at a time with the same Jap folks. Now I see there's some 58K Allied dudes at Manila. Whoa. This may take some time to come.

[larryfulkerson]

I don't remember what I was thinking when I ordered this BB-heavy TF to wander so close to LBA's. I'd better back those ships out of there before the Dutch air force finds the secret combination to the air-to-ship shooting. They came pretty close with these bomb solvoes. Maybe I could move the CV TF in closer for some LRCAP of some kind. Although I can't imagine getting the CV's in under the umbrella of the LBA would be a good idea either. Sure would like to take out some of those Allied ships though. Maybe I should raid the harbour where they are all parked. Maybe there's a minefield there preventing me. Decisions, decisions.

[larryfulkerson]

There's only a Mavis group flying out of Namlae and I need to move some fighters into there pretty quickly because the Catalina's have the range to bother me. And Jim has three of them flying now. I'm going to get a ship hurt if there isn't some air cover PDQ.

[larryfulkerson]

But there were Claude's and Zero's at Lae....... so where was the CAP? Maybe I need an airbase land unit in Lae or something. Jim's got 5 B-17's operating in this AO and he's going to eventually hit something, maybe something important so I need to sort out the lack of CAP problem.

[larryfulkerson]

I believe I'm about to lose 3 AK's for no good reason. I was shooting for the port NW of Port Moresby along the coast and I didn't figure in some LBA's besides the 2 B-17's I knew about. Ooops. Miscalculation on my part. Fortunately, the forces involved aren't all that high..... some three AK's and a small land force. I might not even get to land them at the beach either.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got 31 Nate's based at Samar so I'm not sure why there wasn't more of a CAP in this instance. Nate's aren't much of a fighter compared to P-40's but they are better than nothing I guess. But there is no protection when they don't fly. Maybe I need some air field ground unit in the airbase hex or something.

[larryfulkerson]

Every torpedo missed.....both of them.

[larryfulkerson]

The bombardment process going on at Clark Field is going to take a while.

[larryfulkerson]

Those guys at Iloilo are going to need some reinforcements before any gains can be made.

[larryfulkerson]

I think I'm ready to try a direct assault or direct attack or whatever a DA is at Balikpapan.

[larryfulkerson]

Those guys at Kendari can use some reinforcement before any DA-ing is attempted.