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

[moore4807]

Things are looking up...yeah not really but something is better than nothing...<smile>
11 of the twelve cargo ships I sent to Pago Pago are now fish houses...
It also says I bagged the CA Suzuya, nothing from Larry about that soo I'll assume it's FOW.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: moore4807
Larry - I was just rereading the last couple pages of posts and saw where you wanted to scuttle the ARD??? Its a mobile repair dock that can fix damage to flotation with supply... Not as fast as regular drydocks, but very important around Truk, Kwajalein, Beetlebob, or even Wake if you take over Midway. Very valuable in my experience and highly sought after to destroy by the Allies as not having it will force you to go to a regular drydock further behind the lines...

It's a mobile drydock.......how cool is that. Well, I found a second one of them so I guess I won't scuttle them after all.

That sunken CA isn't showing on my sunk ships screen so I'm guessing your game engine is FOW-ing you Jim.

[moore4807]

Larry,

In the game manual there is an appendix with descriptions of all the ship types and designations... hope it helps you

I started using it so much I actually printed out the appendix on paper and had them laminated... I still have them today on top of my computer...

[larryfulkerson]

Yeah, I was aware of the appendix section for ship types I was just too lazy to look up the ARD type. But thanks though.

EDIT: Ambon is NOT an uncontested landing site.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim still has P-40's sweeping Davao and I've still got some Zero's based there.

[larryfulkerson]

Another good carrier strike at Batavia got some hits on some ships there.

[larryfulkerson]

And yet another successful carrier strike

[larryfulkerson]

And yet still another good carrier strike near Canton Island

[larryfulkerson]

This may be the last of the good carrier strikes for this turn

[larryfulkerson]

This is how it went on the ground at Iloilo this turn

[larryfulkerson]

The Clark Field ground pounding is proceeding slowly. Exceedingly slowly.

[larryfulkerson]

Ground pounding at this pace could last for literally years. Something else needs to be done.

[larryfulkerson]

This is a picture of the list of subs that have major damage. I've been hard on my subs. They deserve better treatment.

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

This is a picture of the list of subs that have major damage. I've been hard on my subs. They deserve better treatment.

Hmm, and I was all ready to pat my ASW guys on the back for a good job [:'(]

[moore4807]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 04, 42
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For the best news of the day...

Pre-Invasion action off Ambon (76,109)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force
70 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAK Huzikawa Maru, Shell hits 10, heavy fires
PB Kanko Maru
xAK Otori Maru

Japanese ground losses:
57 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

120mm CD Gun Battery engaging xAK Huzikawa Maru at 10,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Battery engaging xAK Huzikawa Maru at 10,000 yards
PB Kanko Maru fired at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 5,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards



Invasion Support action off Ambon (76,109)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force
37 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAK Huzikawa Maru, Shell hits 3, heavy fires
xAK Hino Maru #3, Shell hits 13, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Okuyo Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
PB Kanko Maru
xAK Otori Maru

75mm CD Gun Battery engaging xAK Huzikawa Maru at 7,000 yards
120mm CD Gun Battery engaging xAK Hino Maru #3 at 7,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Battery engaging xAK Okuyo Maru at 7,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Battery engaging xAK Hino Maru #3 at 7,000 yards
PB Kanko Maru fired at enemy troops



Pre-Invasion action off Ambon (76,109)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force
62 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kumakawa Maru, Shell hits 11, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Nanpo Maru
TB Tomozuru
xAK Sydney Maru #2

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)

120mm CD Gun Battery engaging xAKL Kumakawa Maru at 6,000 yards
TB Tomozuru firing to suppress enemy battery at 6,000 yards
75mm CD Gun Battery engaging xAKL Kumakawa Maru at 6,000 yards
TB Tomozuru firing to suppress enemy battery at 6,000 yards
PB Nanpo Maru fired at enemy guns
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 5,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards



KB is swinging westward...but not in enough of a hurry to spare a TF

Morning Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 153,143
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 30
B5N2 Kate x 44
D3A1 Val x 30

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Downes
DD Cassin, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
TK Gulfland, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Reid, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Porter
xAK Laida
xAK Florence D., Bomb hits 2, heavy fires

wait - more affordable fish housing units courtesy of the KB???

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 153,143
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 30
B5N2 Kate x 18
D3A1 Val x 38

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD Porter
DD Reid, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Laida, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
DD Downes
DD Cassin, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage


Banshee's finally see action...with predictable rookie results

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Milne Bay at 99,133
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 5 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 3

Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Teruzuki

And to close out tonight's performance... The beatdown goes on!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Boela !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Pare Pare !!!

[larryfulkerson]

It's Thursday 12July2012 14:32 and I'm in possession of Jim's moves for 06Jan42 and here's some Tracker alerts:

[larryfulkerson]

I'm guessing that only the Dud-ness of Jim's torpedoes saved my AK. I had dispatched this AK to Ocean Island to refuel the port so it's loaded with all kinds of fuel and would burn brightly if torped.

[larryfulkerson]

The Yorktown is showing up on the sunk ships list but with only one torp hit I'm not 100% sure I should believe it's sunk. More likely it's just limping back to SFO and will spend some time in the shipyard. Only Jim knows for sure and he hasn't said anything about it yet.

[larryfulkerson]

SS plumber's helper is still being a pest. I've got aviation assets and ASW ships operating in that area so maybe he'll go away after a while.

[larryfulkerson]

This was a largely inconsequential raid on Clark Field. Maybe I should ship some more troops in there and try to take it by ground assault?