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

[larryfulkerson]

And the next thing I want to talk about is this Jap bombardment attack at Cebu:

[larryfulkerson]

The odds are so good, as revealed by this recon by bombardment, that I've already ordered a DA for next morning.

[larryfulkerson]

And then the Allies launched some bombardment @ Port Moresby and I lost some more troops

[larryfulkerson]

I haven't been reporting a lot of attacks in China because the pictures don't look so nice.

[larryfulkerson]

I wonder if I've discovered a bug in the Reluctant Admiral scenario 70? There's a map label saying Kushu and then there's the
cursor popup that says something different and I'm wondering if it's a database error or something. Who is the arthur of this scenario
anyway......maybe we should give him(them) a head's up about this. Or maybe Jim and I are playing with an old version and it's
already been fixed. Enquiring minds want to know. Anybody else have RA 4.2 scenario 70? Does your map say the same thing?

EDIT: I've looked at the map again and I think maybe that label next to the city is in larger type and therefore stands for the, like,
province and the map popup is correct with the city name. And there is no bug at all. Well, the label IS close to the city. Too much
Black Label for so early in the am. Although, I don't feel too bad.......mankind has been numbing it's pain with something like Black
Label for at least since there were two people. The muslums invented alcohol via the distillation process in something like 700 AD. So
there's been a market for altered states of consciousness for a long time. For a reason. Pain hurts. I think maybe everybody can
understand that because, I'm guessing, most people have been hurt in one way or another, physically or mentally, or maybe they are
hurting now. Just a thought.

[larryfulkerson]

I believe I've found an AA unit in Japan that doesn't seem to have any of it's equipment.....the guns and vehicles etc. I wonder if I've
misjudged something somehow and left myself without any armament and vehicles at all in the pool.

[larryfulkerson]

I counted 12 Allied subs in this one image. Jim seems to be serious about his sub warfare. That must be like 1/3 of his fleet, maybe
more. I hadn't really thought to stop and consider where I would put the Allied subs if I were Jim. I'm guessing (1) around the home
islands, (2) around Palembang, (3) near important ports: Saigon, Hong Kong, Balikpapan, Miri etc. At least I'm thinking that's where I
would put them......at least to start.

[larryfulkerson]

I meant to post this earlier and forgot......This is the industry button panel and it shows that Armaments in the Pool is looking pretty
good I think at 30K+. But there's only 4 vehicles in the pool. I've probably left some unit that didn't need any replacements yet with it
"receives replacements" button turned on still. D'oh. So I'm thinking that I need to bump up production of vehicles a bit. Maybe a lot,
but I want to bump it up slowly and watch what happens and not overshoot in production because that stuff is expensive in HI.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's me bumping up Yokahoma from 35 to 50....making total production 215 instead of just 200. That's not a huge leap and maybe
won't make a dent in the numbers at the pool but I don't want to wreck my economy ( run out of HI too soon ).

[larryfulkerson]

I found a division in Japan that I'm not using yet. But I can't use it yet because it's in a restricted command and I can't change it
because of a lack of PP's.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has one LCU in my Gasmata hex and he's got another one headed that way, obviously trying to take Gasmata away from me so I've
dispatched a DD on a bombardment mission using 2K as the range hoping that maybe some bombardment might dissuade our Allied
unit(s) somewhat. I'll see if I can rake up another LCU to send there as well.

[larryfulkerson]

This is comparing the numbers ( fuel / oil levels ) from 6Feb42 with those from 8Feb42. You can see the differences.

[John 3rd]

You've got a lot of oil and refineries to repair. That will cost a lot of supply. NOT good.

[larryfulkerson]

Palembang:
73 oil centers and 73 refineries

Miri:
122 oil centers and 122 refineries

Tarakan:
28 oil centers and 27 refineries

Surprisingly, Balikpapan seems to be just fine the way it is. I suppose I could boost production there to get more fuel output but I don't
think I need to do that at this stage of the game. I might need it later however.

[larryfulkerson]

So there I am, going though the list of TF's and I get to one, a picket sub on Christmas Island IO, and I find out that his signal said there
were, like, 6 ships, most of them AK's and maybe a TK in the mix. These picket subs have extraordinarily hands-down handy here
lately. I've detected three (3) Allied TF's with them and there's not a lot of monkey-ing around with them once you set them on target,
so I'm impressed with using the subs as pickets.

I'm going to have to see if I can scrape together a TF of at least DD's to see if I can't give this Allied TF some trouble. I'm remembering
wiping an Allied TF off the map in some game here, maybe a few turns ago, unless it was in Rob's game, which I doubt. I'm pretty sure
it was Jim's game and it occured around Palmyra as I recall, or one of the southernmost islands in the chain. I'll go through the sunk
ships list and see if I can't reconstruct the TF in question.

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie......now I've run into a real problem with this AAR. I've got a picture of what I'm going to do about the Allied ships at Christmas
Island IO and I dare not just embed it in this post where Jim will run into it. Maybe I should just append it to this post and let people
BESIDES JIM click on it to see what it is and still maintain some OPSEC. And then when it's intelligence utility has past I'll embed it then.
That would be fair wouldn't it?

[larryfulkerson]

Here's another one of those OPSEC problems that I have. I'll change the embeding on these pictures by 10Feb or so. By then this
little operation will have succeeded or failed and we will probably know which by then. Everybody besides JIM is welcome to click on
the attached picture.

[larryfulkerson]

Most of my escorts are just one PB or one DD or one SC etc. and that's not a lot of protection for a TF of ships especially when it's a big
TF with lots of ships. I'm wondering when I should go to two escorts, what's the size threshold. I'm thinking maybe if the TF is over 10
ships are so then maybe there should be two escorts instead of just one. Anybody have any experience with this sort of thing?

Also, I think Jim may have discovered my weakest link. My economy. If Jim can starve me out with a sub blockade I'll lose. I think. Well,
I mean lose earlier than I would have. I realize that the Japs are suppposed to lose. Anyway, I'm thinking that Jim is thinking he hasn't
yet sent enough subs to the Japanese Home Islands. I've circled those that are on the surface.....there are probably at least three more
that are submerged in this picture so you can imagine the number of Allied Subs Jim has invested in the blockade. I'm not at all sure that
my boys are up to the ASW challenge. I'll have to take another look at the aerial ASW assets I may have that aren't employed yet.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the search patterns of the Japanese Home Islands. OPSEC problemo again. Sorry Jimbo.

[larryfulkerson]

Another OPSEC problem Jim. Sorry about that.