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

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has some ships fleeing to the West originating from Broome. Maybe I should chase them down. On the other hand they may just be little boys and not worth going after. What to do?

[moore4807]

OK, this may be a whiny complaint - and not against Larry either...
How can Larry "see" all three TF's leaving Broome when he clearly doesn't have a ship any closer than 8 hexes away (thus out of float plane range), and more than 13 hexes away from the nearest base? I'm also able to see some things I shouldn't, but chalked it up to coastwatchers - these ships are two hexes out at sea! If I have any complaint about this great game its that we "see" too much of our opponent - there should be more of a "ghost" quality of play where ships are concerned. Or am I just being too nit picky???

PS. Please remember that this is my first game against a live opponent, all my others have been against the A.I. - so Ive never "seen" the other side of things... I'm going to leave this post, but I'm second guessing how it reads now that I wrote it.

[moore4807]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 11, 42
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Larry's subs continue to sink valuable ships right at my front door...

Submarine attack near San Francisco at 217,72
Japanese Ships
SS I-26

Allied Ships
TK Mobilfuel, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires

TK Mobilfuel is sighted by SS I-26
SS I-26 launches 2 torpedoes

Larry included in his email turn that I outnumbered him at Palembang...obviously looking at me to try an attack... He actually outnumbers me by around 1K.
I still may attack but it will be foolhardy. Larry also has at least 2CV in his TF nearby. So I will be taking casualties from the air too.

Ground combat at Palembang (48,91)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 976 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 58
Defending force 4282 troops, 37 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 146

Assaulting units:
So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion
Djambi Base Force
Palembang Base Force

Defending units:
4th/A Div /1


Japanese forces CAPTURE Ambon !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Kolaka !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Babar !!!

[House Stark]

ORIGINAL: moore4807

OK, this may be a whiny complaint - and not against Larry either...
How can Larry "see" all three TF's leaving Broome when he clearly doesn't have a ship any closer than 8 hexes away (thus out of float plane range), and more than 13 hexes away from the nearest base? I'm also able to see some things I shouldn't, but chalked it up to coastwatchers - these ships are two hexes out at sea! If I have any complaint about this great game its that we "see" too much of our opponent - there should be more of a "ghost" quality of play where ships are concerned. Or am I just being too nit picky???

PS. Please remember that this is my first game against a live opponent, all my others have been against the A.I. - so Ive never "seen" the other side of things... I'm going to leave this post, but I'm second guessing how it reads now that I wrote it.

I'm pretty sure Jakes have a range of 10/8, so if Larry's using them at extended range they might have spotted those ships. Also, the Japanese occasionally get notified of ships via SigInt, even though it happens far less than for the Allies.

[larryfulkerson]

House Stark is absolutely correct. I parked a CS with 24 floatplanes north of Broome and my Jakes indeed can see that far. So I'm scooping out Broome from the air. All is well with the game, no bugs or anomolies.

[moore4807]

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Thank you House Stark... D'oh... I was looking at Petes with the 4/3 range... My Bad!
Nice Job Larry - I never even thought you could pack 24 recon aircraft on a CS ship. I learn something new every day!

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie.....it's Wed. 25July2012 23:46 and I'm in possession of Jim's moves and this is the latest combat results ( 13Jan42 )

Here's some Tracker alerts:

[larryfulkerson]

And here's the Tracker economic chart :

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the resource history for the Japanese Home Islands. It's doing pretty well overall I'm guessing.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm producing only about 100 Zero's per month and I would have thought I might need something like 300. Anybody have a really good
idea how many Zero's I should be pumping out? Also, I've got a lot of factories in repair mode still. So um......do I have to have 10K
supplies in each of the repairing cities to get them to repair? Maybe that's why there's so many cities in repair mode.......I'll have to look
into that. It's time for a monthly city-by-city review any way.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim's got some transports, I guess, headed SW near Tarawa......maybe I should try to chase them down and sink 'em.

[larryfulkerson]

The Palembang Invasion TF's' landed there while there were still at least 36 mines in the Allied minefield. That's interesting that only 1 ship ( a DD ) hit a mine. I wonder how many more mines there are.......the minefield dot is still showing on the map.

EDIT: I estimate that I've cleared about 50 mines already including previous turns and this episode. And 1 sunk DD.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the first of several surface contacts that occured last night and today so far.

[larryfulkerson]

SS Plumbers helper is still making a nusiance of himself. I just can't seem to make him go away. My ASW assets need a bunch more training or something I guess.

[larryfulkerson]

Dutch sub SS KX is being bothersome. He's missed one ship and hit another and I'm pretty sure the adventure and drama isn't over yet. I'm going to have to fly some ASW down there pretty quick to add to the DD's and PB's I already have available nearby.

[larryfulkerson]

So it turns out that Saigon and Cam Rahn Bay are popular tourist attractions for the Allied sailors, at least the silent corps. I count at
least 3 and possibly as many as 6 subs around this AO and I'm going to have to fly some more ASW in there to help out the SC's and
PB's I have patrolling around there already. If I can't sail any damaged ships into Saigon then I'll have to send them all the way to Hong
Kong to get repaired. D'oh. Maybe Palembang has a repair yard. Lemme get back to you on that.

[larryfulkerson]

No repair yard at Palembang.....drat. It's a pain to have to send a ship 1/2 way around the world just to get it repaired. The Allies have a
lot of convient repair yards and his damaged ships don't have to go very far to get to them. That's one reason the Japs lost the war I
bet.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the third of the several surface contacts....here I've bungled into a gaggle of Allied PT boats. Not much of a contest really.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got a squadron of Betty's at Rabaul that insists on going on unescorted raids into Port Moresby. I've stood them down to prevent that
happening anymore. Unless and until my CAP and escort(s) are in place I can't see making any more expensive raids to PM.

[larryfulkerson]

Operation Beat-Down at Clark Field is officially not working. This loss rate will have Allies on PI for the rest of the war. I've got troops
moving into Clark Field and Manila and I'm going to start doing deliberate attacks and or bombardments just as soon as the fatigue level
is lower than it is now.

EDIT: And by the way, and appropo of nothing at all, what's the record number of posts by a single person on this forum anyway?