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

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie....I've received Jim's moves Saturday afternoon, finished working on Rob's moves Sunday am and did Jim's combat replay
and stuff like that. Here's the latest results of combat:

Despite lots of DD's and PB's in the traffic between Palembang and Singkawang Jim manages to get a sub in position undetected and
sinks one of my ships. I guess I need to fly some ASW down there really fast to find the Allied subs before this happens again. If I can
manage to find the Allied subs I can generally re-route my TF's around them. Finding them in time is the hard part I guess.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the latest sunk ships list and you can see that the ship hit in the above panel is indeed on the list.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim and I are in an epic-level sub / ASW war near the home islands. I count at least 5 Allied subs in and around the islands. I'm
having to escort everything in and out of the ports and it's turning into a major hassle. Good job on Jim's part.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm in the process of capturing all the smaller islands south of the Celebes and SE of Java and I'm finding it annoying to lose perfectly
good troops just coming across the beach. I sorta wish there was some process to "land" at the port of those empty islands and avoid
the losses. But alas, I suppose there's not that provision.

[larryfulkerson]

The Allies sub KXII is certaintly busy. Here's one of his attacks on the surface where my ship shoots back. The hits probably won't put
the sub out of business but might slow him down some.

[larryfulkerson]

My theory is that SS Tuna got at least one torp strike on one of my DD's but the torp was a dud. Otherwise maybe all four torps missed
or maybe all four were duds. At any rate, nobody was hurt on either side.

[larryfulkerson]

It's becoming obvious that I'm going to have to start escorting all my TF's in and around the Rabaul area since there are so many
Allied subs operating there. The Liverpool Maru is one lucky ship in that the torp strikes were duds I'm guessing. Either that or both
torps missed.

[larryfulkerson]

Palmyra is the scene of a lot of sub action yesterday and lots of Allied ships are hit and one of my subs gets some damage and will
probably have to retire to port. Where are Jim's escorts?

[larryfulkerson]

There's only three subs operating in the Palmyra area and none of them has accumulated enough damage to warrent their retirement
yet. They are running low on torps and ammo however. As soon as they go winchester I'll pull them back to port to rearm.

[larryfulkerson]

After being hit there's only 4 points of Sys damage and I've still got some torps left so I'm thinking of hanging around Midway to see
can I manage to get a strike on that Alliled AO that may or may not be there.

[larryfulkerson]

The Shun Yuan is showing up on the sunk ships list now.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm going to have to move a lot of escorts to the West side of Ominato now to combat the sub(s) operating there. I should have
thought of that earlier......my fault.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's an aborted Allied sub attack near Truk.

[larryfulkerson]

I don't know how well you can see this but Jim has snuck a sub into my minefield and into the port at Makassar to do an attack.

[larryfulkerson]

I would rather he attacked the Allied CA or the AK but at least he sunk the AM. Better than nothing.

[larryfulkerson]

Operation Beat-Down continues at Manila

[larryfulkerson]

My Kate's are still getting some practice in ground strikes SW of Kuantan

[larryfulkerson]

I had some Kate's based at Canton but the AVG decimated them despite the presence of some Oscar's and I've had to stand down the
entire squadron for refit.

[larryfulkerson]

The damage is accumulating at Johore Bahru. I don't remember my thinking process as to why I'm continuing to attack there.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's another senseless attack on the Allied formations at Bataan. I've since diverted the Nell's to concentrate on Manila.