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

[larryfulkerson]

It's looking like Jim may have succeeded in pulling everybody back to Singers already. Except for a couple of places on the east coast. Well, good for him.

[larryfulkerson]

I have turned off the combat attacking at Ambon because of this result from our DA.

[larryfulkerson]

Kendari fell finally:

[larryfulkerson]

And the best news so far this turn: Balikpapan fell. Good deal.

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
Jim and I don't have a house rule that says single-ship TF's are prohibited, and besides if it was *MY* TF being attacked like in this
case I'm pretty sure that I'd do exactly the same thing. This kind of move on Jim's part shows how realisticlly he desires to play this
game and I'm all for that.

I'm pretty sure most of the house rules in this regard involve screening carrier groups with single ship AK or AKL TFs. I don't think many have a problem with scattering whether under attack by sea or air.

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
Jim and I don't have a house rule that says single-ship TF's are prohibited, and besides if it was *MY* TF being attacked like in this
case I'm pretty sure that I'd do exactly the same thing. This kind of move on Jim's part shows how realisticlly he desires to play this
game and I'm all for that.

I'm pretty sure most of the house rules in this regard involve screening carrier groups with single ship AK or AKL TFs. I don't think many have a problem with scattering whether under attack by sea or air.

Yeah I thought I was being slick - sending a four ship TF ahead of the 8 ship TF, I figured one of two would make it to Pago Pago.
Little did I expect to find his KB sitting in the SWOPAC/CENPAC area - I figured he would be supporting Port Moresby or Australia ops...

K.I.S.S.!!! 50K of supply is cost of lesson learned!

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a list of my subs. Almost all of them have some kind of damage or other. Four or five of them are heading for repair yards and the rest are going to eventually have to do the same I figure.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has turned Cagayan into a fortress. I'm going to have to gather up all the troops I have left over at this point in time in the PI southern islands just to try to reduce this one place. That's going to slow down the invading on the islands of Java and put me severely behind schedule. Maybe I should do a siege here as well as in the more northern places ( Manila ) and just put enough people to hold it for now and do some ship bombardments, sweeps (ugh, please no ), and some ....hummmmmm....... maybe I should just let this place run outta supply and grab it on the cheap a year from now or something. Decisions, decisions......

EDIT: How do you cut off the supply to a port city like Cagayan? And more important, how does one decrease the supply level of an enemy port city? Sispect it has something to do with bombardment via ship and air. Too much enemy air power present to safely do an air bombardment. That leaves bombardment via ship. I'll have to start planning something clever to do this "Operation Cebu Reduction".

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has a couple of ships headed NW from north Aus. I'm moving a sub to the area where he's headed just to try to counter his move. I don't remember right off the top of my head where my CA's and CL's are right now, not to mention the CVL, CVE, and CV's that might be available nearby......I don't have everything memorized yet. Plus Rob's game is very very similar to this game so it's hard to keep the two games separated in my head. I'm kinda using data from both of them at the same time in the way I play. I mean that's possible......I'm not doing it consciously of course. I'm saying I'm having to allow for the possibility that that's what's happening: that I'm playing both games at the same time each time I do my moves, either for Jim or Rob. It's possible, probably probable. So I'm going to double check everything and keep my memory dynamic. I'll have to.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got a small group of damaged ships that were based at Wake and I decided to round them up and send them to get fixed at the home islands. I emptied the AO at Wake before they departed and I don't anticipate any problems with them arriving in the HI's. They used to be the surface combat force based at Wake and so now there's not much at Wake to repel an Allied invasion. I hope Jim hasn't got any adventurous plans with his carriers or anything. Hint, hint.

[larryfulkerson]

I snuck into a port near Soerabaja and got the intell that there's about 10 PT boats there at Soerabaja and not much else. Having gotten that piece of information I think I'll try to sneak my sub out of there.

[larryfulkerson]

Some more information about Soerabaja:

EDIT: Plus there's a repair yard there, which is invaluable for the Japs.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got a BB and 3 DD's headed to Wake but it'll be close to a week before they get close to the port there.

[larryfulkerson]

I've located what may or may not be an Allied CVE in or near Brisbane and if it IS a CVE then it's worth pursuing with one or more of my carriers. I'll pull the Shokaku or one of the other CV's off line and make the trip over here to check it out. I'll even run one or more of my nearby subs into the port there to take a look.

[larryfulkerson]

Totally off topic and besides the point of this AAR......I just now went to the web site depicted in the very bottom line of this AAR page and found out that for less than $40 a person can purchase some forum software to run a site like this one. I'd do it but I don't have a static IP address.....you'd need one of those for the DNS name to point to the same place all the time. Century Link is my ISP and they assign me a new IP address every day. I've looked into it with Century Link and for a small fee I can purchase a static IP address ( for like $5 or something each month ) and then be able to set up a forum or a web site of somekind with a forum but then I'd end up acting as the default web admin dude and the forum monitor etc. and that can add up to hours out of the day and I'd rather play WITP.

Just a thought.

[larryfulkerson]

I lack a couple of AK's having enough ships to load up the INF unit and move it to Ambon. Ambon is having a tough time of it and can use some extra hands to go around. I'll look around and see if there's not an AK or two not doing anything important that I can use.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got 2 CV's and 3 CVL's headed for the Singkawang area to help support the Palembang effort. I need to grab Palembang as early as I can before he (Jim ) turns it into a fortress that I can't take. It's probably already too late. Better late than never.

[larryfulkerson]

I've finally gotten the 8th Tank Rgt loaded on ships, I think I'll send them to Ambon to try to break the logjam. The Ambon dudes are outnumbered so this tank regiment might make a difference one way or another.

[larryfulkerson]

I've even got some ships pulling resources and oil out of Hong Kong for the home islands. I gotta be careful and not let Hong Kong run outta that kind of thing though. The light industry there ( 220(0) so far ) will need some of those resources.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm mostly concentrating on getting my home island resources from Shikuka and oil from Port Arthur. But that's going to change when the refineries at Miri and Brunei and whereever else there are refineries are starting to output some oil. Plus there's a lot at Hong Kong that can be moved yet. I'm hoping Palembang doesn't get roughed up by Jim's Allied air power. Some B-17's or other kind of bomber could wreck the oil refineries there and put me out of business oil-wise.