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

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

This ship constitutes the entire Japanese Strategic Reserve. I've got him tucked away in a nice safe place, I'm not saying where just yet but he's ready to move to where he's needed at a moment's notice.

[:D] Umm - Col Doolittle, Your orders are to get aboard the Hornet forthwith! You will proceed to Yokosuka...Yes Yokosuka - FORGET Tokyo! there's a BIG juicy target just sitting there.... That is alll...

[larryfulkerson]

Yeah, I did kinda telegraph where it was. Now I gotta move it. D'oh.

EDIT: I found a clear-cut example of how much it costs to move a small Transport one hex: 4000 / 100 = 40 / hex in fuel.

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Yeah, I did kinda telegraph where it was. Now I gotta move it. D'oh.

EDIT: I found a clear-cut example of how much it costs to move a small Transport one hex: 4000 / 100 = 40 / hex in fuel.

[8D] Now I have some subs in the area, I WILL NOT send any of them to target this BB...However since two subs are nearby - IF the ship comes into thier reaction range - I'm not going to guarantee safe passage [:-]


Ahhh!! Sugar!! I grabbed the wrong post!

BTW - I still havent got the hang of estimating the distance with the AK's... One of my TF's had to be rescued because it ran out of fuel 3 hexes from its destination, the prior TF (that had to go rescue the aformentioned out-of-fuel TF) reached it with plenty of fuel and was smaller sized ships than the ones being rescued. another example of P A Y A T T E N T I O N!!!!!!!!!!

[larryfulkerson]

I was going over some Tracker alerts just now and noticed quite by accident that there was an Allied PT boat sunk by an Allied mine in
78,77.

I totally missed that during the combat replay and the combat report. And the operation report. Lots of little nugets to dig out of the
Tracker database that are easy to miss the first couple of times.

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dikie.....It's Sat. 16:42 pm and I am possessed of Jim's moves for 14Jan42 and I'll now start the combat results of 14Jan42:

Here's some ASW attacks near Washington State etc. 8 Torpedoes were loosed in these events and that makes I-15 almost winchester, almost out of shots. I'm debating whether or not to recall him to port to rearm but he's got a couple of torps left so I tend to lean toward just leaving him there for a bit to see what happens next.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the first of a couple of bombardment missions at Kuantan. This one caused some significant damage and I'm hopeful for the early downfall of Kuantan to my DA attacks.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the second of the naval bombardment missions performed by Japanese ships yesterday ( last night ). More significant damage and I'm thinking it's helping prep the Allied ground forces for some ground assaulting. I think I'll order up a DA on the ground just to see what the result is.

EDIT: I've reviewed the odds on the ground and I think maybe a bombardment mission is in order to get some gauge of the magnitude of the land forces involved. I don't want to loose ground troops for no good reason after all.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the results of a night-time bombardment of Koepang. Significant damage and I'm thinking a successful mission.

EDIT: I've reviewed the ground forces involved and I've ordered up a bombardment mission for the ground troops. I'm thinking too, that some more bombardment by ships is needed unless and until I can get some more ground troops into that hex.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has sneeked a sub into the harbour at Singkawang and has gotten a hit on one of my transports. D'oh. This despite the presence
of several ASW patrols. I'm thinking of evacuating all the non-combatant ships out of the hex to a safer place for right now.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has also gotten one of his subs into the harbour at Makassar and I'm unable to protect the ships there too. All non-combatant ships
will have to evacuate there too.

[larryfulkerson]

I had an unescorted AV out in harm's way and a Dutch sub found her. The damage is extensive as you can see so I'm going to have to
pull her back to a repair yard somewhere to fix the damage if I can get her back to safety somehow. The sub may chase her for all I
know. It would be just like Jim to do that just to guarantee a sinkage. I would too.

[larryfulkerson]

Even when they outnumber and AVG my Nates are no match. I wonder if I should stand down the Nates or hope for some Allied
losses. One more contest to get a gauge of the conflict might be in order. If no Allied losses then I'll stand down the Nates and try to
find some Oscar's to fly there instead.

[larryfulkerson]

This raid is another example of the insignificant amount of damage being done by these raids. I'm thinking I'm going to need a bigger
gaggle of planes to really get to the level of shock and awe. I may need to give some thought to flying a lot more bombers into the AO
to give some juice to my Beat-Down program. Clark Field may be a tough nut to crack.

[larryfulkerson]

The air war near Singapore is still going on. I'm wondering if I'm hitting the correct target. I'm guessing that Singapore itself would be
more appropriate to hit but at least there were some Allied losses on this raid.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm guessing this raid on Dili occured before Dili was captured. Anyway, I've boosted the altitude of the Lilly's to 10K feet and maybe that
will prevent some of the damage that occured during the raid. I've moved a Mavis unit to Dili to give a much better view of the Darwin sea area.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the result of another expensive unescorted raid into Singapore. It's costly but I'm told it's necessary to keep the Allies from
building up their fort level. I hope that's true. I don't need a high-level fort to be there when and if I finally get there.

[larryfulkerson]

Another Allied raid on Hanoi. I'm wondering if I ought to move a Nate group into that hex to do some CAP at the very least.

[larryfulkerson]

As a side note, this is the state of health of some of my air groups. Not too great but then they've been flying since the start of the war.
I'm infusing more pilots and upping the level of rest on some of the groups to try to boost the morale and lower the fatigue of them. We'll
see if it works in future turns.

[larryfulkerson]

And here's a carrier raid on Singapore that indeed WAS escorted and it STILL got shotup pretty well. This raid was expensive. And
not much Allied damage was done. I'm not sure this raid was worth doing. I'm not sure it's worth doing again.

[larryfulkerson]

There aren't many places to stage some fighters so most of my long-range raids are going to be unescorted. But still, they tend to be
expensive raids because they tend to get shot up pretty badly.