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

[moore4807]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 31, 41
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A little action around Pearl Harbor - those pesky varmints just won't quit!

Sub attack near Pearl Harbor at 182,105
Japanese Ships
SS I-25

Allied Ships
DMS Elliot
DM Sicard

SS I-25 launches 2 torpedoes at DMS Elliot
I-25 diving deep ....
DM Sicard fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


Sub attack near Pearl Harbor at 182,105
Japanese Ships
SS I-173

Allied Ships
DM Sicard

SS I-173 launches 2 torpedoes at DM Sicard
I-173 diving deep ....
DM Sicard fails to find sub, continues to search...
DM Sicard attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-173 eludes ASW attack from DM Sicard
DM Sicard cannot reach attack position over SS I-173
Escort abandons search for sub


ASW attack near Pearl Harbor at 181,103
Japanese Ships
SS I-172

Allied Ships
DD Mugford

SS I-172 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Mugford
I-172 diving deep ....
DD Mugford fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

The best news today to close out the year

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 97,130
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid spotted at 5 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 3
P-40E Warhawk x 4

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Hauraki Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

And to finish our entertainment - Orphan Annie's favorite song, the beat goes on!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tavoy !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Loewoek !!!

[moore4807]

This is what I'm curious about... Tracker only seems to "track" certain turns. I've gone and tried to figure what, if anything I'm doing different for these turns opposed to the rest. Any ideas? can I go back and "get" the missing turns? I enclosed a pix of the list...

On the home front - I'm glad to get to 1942. I havent lost any carriers and ship repairs are going well so far. The "old" BB's are mostly beyond repair and just taking up space in PH, but I can't make myself scuttle them and give up the VP's. Right or wrong folks?

Looking at streamlining my cargo TF's to a hub and spoke system instead of trying to cover 600 TF's all over the Pacific. I understand what geofflambert is saying about autoconvoys, this early in the game it isn't about holding any particular line or stockpiling for the future.

For 1942 I pretty much need 3 HUBS (Pearl Harbor - Sydney - Dutch Harbor/Anchorage) and 15-30 AK's/AKL's at each to accomplish the spoke. TK/AO are going to get protection no matter what, so I just have to figure out where I'm going to make the HUBS for fuel. Comments?

Finally THANKS to all who have read and commented in this AAR +3K reads is more than I ever hoped for when we started, hopefully we have been entertaining and informative for you! I have learned a lot from the AAR's and know I'm not evem one of the middleweights on these threads, but I'm having a blast and wouldn't trade it for any other game...

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: moore4807
...can I go back and "get" the missing turns?

Are you saving each of the turns...the actual files? If so you can delete the db files and start over reading in each of the files but my understanding is that once you've read in a subsequent turn you can only load turns AFTER that turn. I'm hoping you've saved the files and can start over.

[larryfulkerson]

We had a rumble last night ( 2Jan42 ) and some of the ships involved got hurt. I'm hoping this might clear the field for the AK's that are wondering around in this area.

[larryfulkerson]

I guess I needed more escort ships for the AO that got hit. D'oh. I'll see if I can't round up some more escorts.

[larryfulkerson]

One of my subs at Midway got hit but there was no major damage, however the sub is close enough to Winchester to go back to Kwajalien to rearm and refit. Winchester is for ammo, bingo is for fuel.

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: moore4807
...can I go back and "get" the missing turns?

Are you saving each of the turns...the actual files? If so you can delete the db files and start over reading in each of the files but my understanding is that once you've read in a subsequent turn you can only load turns AFTER that turn. I'm hoping you've saved the files and can start over.

The answer is yes I am saving the turns. Exactly which files in the "Save" folder should I be looking for?

Each time you send me a game file I've saved it into the "C:/Reluctant Admiral/Save" file. Each e-mail from you is also is saved in a sub file for just this type reason... I'm wondering if Tracker is looking in the WitPAE save files under "C:Matrix Games" as a default. I am pointing it to the Reluctant Admiral save file but you see in the pix what shows...

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

One of my subs at Midway got hit but there was no major damage, however the sub is close enough to Winchester to go back to Kwajalien to rearm and refit. Winchester is for ammo, bingo is for fuel.

BTW - the Catalina's and Devastator squadrons have been reporting subs hit nearly every turn at Midway... Obviously FOW and overeager crewmen are equally misleading!

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: moore4807
The answer is yes I am saving the turns. Exactly which files in the "Save" folder should I be looking for?

Um.......each of the files I've been sending you have exactly the same file name so in order to save it long term you would had to rename it or else the subsequent file I send to you will overwrite it.

ORIGINAL: moore4807
Each time you send me a game file I've saved it into the "C:/Reluctant Admiral/Save" file.

That's the right place to save it to load it into WITP-AE ( RA 4.2 ) but you can also save it as a different filename into the Tracker directory if you wish. That's where I save mine, although I'm overwriting the file each time in the Tracker folder so as to have just one file to load each time I start up Tracker.

ORIGINAL: moore4807
Each e-mail from you is also is saved in a sub file for just this type reason...

Yeah, but are you renaming the files?

ORIGINAL: moore4807
I'm wondering if Tracker is looking in the WitPAE save files under "C:Matrix Games" as a default. I am pointing it to the Reluctant Admiral save file but you see in the pix what shows...

The place where it looks for the files is indicated in the "witptracker.properties" file as a single line entry

Here's the contents of my witptracker.properties file:

Dir=[C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition]
GameType=[1]
Side=[0]
Password=[test]
SaveFile=[wpae022.pws]
SaveMode=[0]
Header=[me vs Jim]
TurnCycle=[1].

[larryfulkerson]

I'm sustaining a lot of damage to my ships during the landings at Ambon.

[larryfulkerson]

One of my DD's was getting hits on an Alllied sub and then went Winchester so it's back to port to rearm with him.

[larryfulkerson]

Another rumble that gutted both the combatants involved. I'm guessing that only the SS Boise survived but it's hard to say. Only Jim knows. And he's not saying.........so far.

[larryfulkerson]

The beatdown via air is continuing but it's going extreamly slowly. I'm hoping to see more Allied casualties in the future.

[larryfulkerson]

I don't have many Zero's near Ambon but those that are there are acting correctly. Good CAP action for this raid.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm going to have to move some CAP planes to Kendari to avoid ship losses. Those Catalina's are getting closer and closer all the time.

[larryfulkerson]

The CL Sendi received some serious damage from a torp thrown by Allied air power. It's going to have to retire to refit now.

[larryfulkerson]

At least the CAP is working at Salamaua. I think these B-17's are coming from the Australian mainland.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim let me sink several of this throw-away ships. I guess he was tired of telling them where to go when they didn't have much to do when they arrived there. LOL.

[larryfulkerson]

Another expensive raid on Singapore. I'm losing a lot of planes to these raids but that was expected.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's an example where the British got through the AAA fire and got a hit on one of my CA's. D'oh.