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

[larryfulkerson]

According to this Tracker report, the greatest majority of the repair work on facilities has to be done on cities in the home islands. This
is because of the bump-up's I did to increase production of aircraft and so on. I'll have to take a look around and see if I can't rearrange
the engineers to those specific cities that need them.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a list of the specific industries in those cities that need to be repaired yet. I'll have to see that they each have an engineer
before too much more time passes.

[larryfulkerson]

The xAP Huso Maru got torpedoed so the PB Shonon Maru #15 aborted it's mission and started to return to Mili but I'm going to
re-direct him to go to Truk instead. I need him to fuel up and patrol those waters where he lost his escortee to see can he find
that sub and kill it.

[larryfulkerson]

PB Ginyo Maru got a couple of hits on the xAKL Beatrice last night but she is probably long gone by now. Maybe.

[larryfulkerson]

SS O-23 was a busy little beaver last night or early this am.

[larryfulkerson]

SS Triton strikes again. That makes two of my ships hit near the same spot. I'm going to have to assign some ASW to that area and
beef up the escorts more.

[larryfulkerson]

DD Yakaze got some hits on the SS KXII early this morning but I'm not sure that's enough to send him to home and the repair yards
for long.

[larryfulkerson]

I-172 got lucky and got an Allied AO this morning. She has 10 sys damage and only 1 torpedo left so I think I'll send her home for
rearm and refit.

[larryfulkerson]

I just happened to have a sub investigating Geraldton when an xAK came by. Poor timing on Jim's part.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has obviously moved his P-40's from the Cebu area to the northern PI area. I'll have to make some adjustments and counter that.
I have some Zero's at Davao that I can move north.....let's see what happens when they arrive.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a second strike on Manila this morning. I've stood them down to rest them a bit and give the Zero's a chance to sweep up the
P-40's a little bit.

[larryfulkerson]

Operation SKIDDING CAR continues as we attempt to soften up the 22nd Indian Bde some. Taking them out is on the agenda.

[larryfulkerson]

I don't usually report on the attacks that happen in China because they don't make a very pretty picture for the AAR but this attack
had some losses and so I thouight I'd give it a whirl. Most of the attacks in China are by me against the Chinese and are really one
sided and very little damage but this one is by the Allies. Cool.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has his PBY's doing double duty as he uses them as bombers again. 10 of them this time no less. I have some AF dudes headed
to location code named Mollman and they should arrive there within a week or less. Then I can send some CAP to take down some of
those PBY's.

[moore4807]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 04, 42
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In Larry's PBEM e-mail he pointed out my subs were finally getting some hits.
Its the same ship hit twice, but not too many casualties for an AP

Sub attack near Truk at 115,105
Japanese Ships
xAP Huso Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PB Shonon Maru #15

Allied Ships
SS Triton

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Submarine attack near Truk at 115,105
Japanese Ships
xAP Huso Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Triton

Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


This AO had a DD escort, Where is it? The World Wonders...

Submarine attack near Palmyra at 170,133
Japanese Ships
SS I-172

Allied Ships
AO Ramapo, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

AO Ramapo is sighted by SS I-172
SS I-172 launches 4 torpedoes at AO Ramapo

No escort, same result... [:-]

Submarine attack near Geraldton at 48,141
Japanese Ships
SS I-158

Allied Ships
xAK Pellicula, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage


I'm doing ok in my other game vs. TommyG, its the stock version of the game so there are some differences in playing.
Understandably he has done a Sir Robin defense and I had to scout out where he went to hide. He abandoned Balikpapan and Tarakan -so no damage there when I captured them.
I found him at Broome and Derby - bombed them both with 2 of my 3 CVTF's and retired to refit.
I am unloading fuel as fast as I can from Balikpapan due to spoilage, but his contribution is to place around 10 subs in the straights there, I have 5 ASWTF's working there along with escorts.

I sent a SCTF of 2CA,3CL and 4DD's to Suva to scout TF's reported to be there. . . The battle there cost me a CA & CL, BUT scout planes told he has 2 CV's refitting there (he admitted it to me) but I have no CV's in the area, and thought about a kamikaze run at Suva's port, but I left it and returned the ships to Rabaul for repair. That's pretty much it for that game.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm doing ok in my other game vs. TommyG,

Mearly ok or really OK ! I was wondering how you were doing in your game w/ TommyG. I wasn't through posting stuff about the
combat results I just went to take a nap.....been up since just after 03:00 and my eyes were blurring. It's 15:12 now and I feel as
good as new and ready to get something done. So I guess I'll keep going from where I left off.

[larryfulkerson]

Another contribution from a contributing member of operation BEAT DOWN. Probably no damage done but it's mighty good
training.

[larryfulkerson]

My Zero's are doing sweeps over Cagayan and there's no response. This is what's called a "clue" that nobody is home. I highly
suspect that Jim has moved them north and is using them to shoot down my bombers. I've, since this attack, moved the Zero's north
too and I'm guessing the air war in the PI will change character, again.

[larryfulkerson]

An attack on the troops at Port Moresby and again, no damage listed. I'm hoping these attacks are causing disruption at least. Maybe
I'm flying the wrong kind of attack or something. Lemme check....no, they are set for ground attacks so I'm guessing I need more planes
aloft or something to get some damage listed as a result of these things.

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Mearly ok or really OK ! I was wondering how you were doing in your game w/ TommyG. I wasn't through posting stuff about the
combat results I just went to take a nap.....been up since just after 03:00 and my eyes were blurring. It's 15:12 now and I feel as
good as new and ready to get something done. So I guess I'll keep going from where I left off.

I did just about the same - I lasted until 2pm then crashed til just before 5pm, still feeling sluggish from the head cold I guess. I appreciate your leaving tidbits OPSEC wise for the readers, but if I look it will make me feel like I cheated to win. I did look once and still bugs me about Singkawing... So I'm just skipping forward when your posting OPSEC. Trying to keep it fair, once 1943 hits it will become a very different game...

I was reading on another AAR, where someone made a comment about "imposter" AAR's where people were trying to "style" thier AAR's like the one I was reading. My response is Ummm- DUH! Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery? I have my favorite AAR's and have used comments and knowledge gained from them to improve my skills in this AAR. I always try to give credit where its due, and I faithfully read between 5-10 other AAR's here. Now I wasn't called out or named as doing this - but it struck me as weird since I'm a newbie AAR player, ego wise wouldn't you want someone to like what you do enough to copy your "style"?