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

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what happened on the ground at Iloilo:

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Operation Beat-Down at Clark Field is proceeding exceedingly slowly.

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This is what happened at Makassar:

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And I finally captured Singkawang. Finally. Now to install some Nells there with an HQ for torps and some AF guys.

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Here's the daily losses:

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Okie Dokie.....It's Saturday 07:10 and I've processed Jim's latest moves and so here's the report for 10Jan42:

Ambon's defenders fire at my invaders:

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An air strike hits Clark Field and again no Allied damage is reported.

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I'm surprised by the number of P-40's at Port Moresby in an unescorted raid and sustain some losses.

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A couple of my Lilly's were damaged in a raid on Lautem which didn't seem to do much.

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One Zero seems to be enough to prevent the Dutch from sinking my ship in an airstrike near Billiton

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Two Zero's seemd to deter a British airstrike on Kushing.

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There's a small subsurface contest near Sydney:

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The Japs finally capture Iloilo:

[larryfulkerson]

Not much happened on the ground at Clark Field. I just GOTTA move some more troops in there.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm going through my moves just now and I noticed the button on the ship display for changing the HQ of the ships in the TF. I've been rushing past doing my moves to where the TF needs to go and forgetting all about the advantages of having the correct HQ for the TF. I guess I'm saying: here's fair warning that I'm going to pay more attention to that little button from now on. I'm just saying.........

EDIT: I'm also saying I'm going to be more careful where I'm putting the HQ units themselves. I've been more or less been hit or miss in where an HQ unit goes but I'm going to find them all and position them better. Not a threat........I'm just saying.........

[larryfulkerson]

lemme see the picture before I try to explain this thing.

EDIT: Okie dokie....now that tlhe 39th Road Const Co has arrived at Samarinda I can move TF 174 to Samarinda to pick up the 146th Inf Rgmt and move it to points SW. Closer to Palembang. Hopefully somewhere that has a port and an airfield. I may have to look into the need to move ENGR's to the new spot. Think ahead, I keep forgetting to do that.

[larryfulkerson]

I found the 3rd Fleet HQ unit at Namlea ( or spelled diffferently Namlae sometimes ) and I'm moving an AA unit there to help protect the planes and the HQ unit. I'm debating whether or not to move some land combat troops there too. Lemme think about it some more.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's TF 248 and TF 297 which are ordered into the Palembang hex as of tomorrow morning in the wee am hours of the day so as to do some invasive landings and some protective bombardment. And there may be some mines in that hex so I'm taking a chance that some ship, 1 or more, may hit a mine. D'oh. Those DMS ships I had in the hex had only three days to process that hex and I'm not sure they found and dispatched every mine yet. So we'll see what happens.

[moore4807]

I just noticed this in Larry's report. Does anyone have an explanation, or where to find this out?

[koniu]

Min bombard is what close ship can go to shore during bombard.
When zero there is no limit. 1 mean 1000 yards. 2 mean 2000.

You should use it when you want to save ammo from short range AA guns (setting range bigger than those guns have) or enemy have heavy coastal defense and you what to avoid being hit.

Bigger range mean your ships are safer but also bombardment effect is smaller.

There is also another option below picture. "no escort bombard"
That mean than CL or bigger ships will only bombard and DD and smaller not. DD have no armor and CD guns can sunk them easy
If you change it, all ships will bombard.