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

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JocMeister my friend: I have you and your ships ( AK's ) headed to Palembang to pick up some fuel to move it to Cam Ranh Bay.

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Reg dude: Your commander of TF 771, I believe and if so then you are nursing your submarine toward port because of the damage
lyou received in combat. You and your crew will have a month off while the damage is being repaired.

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Okay you guys......on Sat. am 02:08 I received Jim's moves and so what follows is the combat results from 12Feb42.

EDIT: There were several surface attacks and an Allied sub attack all happening at Midway.

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There was a night-time bombardment of Cebu and unless I'm mistaken this is the computer-controlled bombardment. By that I mean I
put the TF under computer control......and there were spotters and everything. I guess it worked.

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There were several sub / ASW contests.........this one is different in that a sub actually got hit this time.

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Although the combatants are gone from the hex at this time, there was a night-time surface event near Efate.

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DMS W-20 got sunk by this event:

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And then the next thing that happens is that my carrier-borne Zero's do a sweep of Midway.

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Here's a raid on Port Moresby by my Betty's.

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And then my Sally's on Borneo make a raid on Java:

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And the AVG chewed up my Lilly's. I've since put them on stand-down.

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And then my Zero's on Malaya and some Betty's stage a raid on Singapore. I don't know why they insist on being so horribly
outnumbered all the time. Maybe it's something about a target-rich environment.

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And then there was this late afternoon carrier-borne raid on Midway in which some more ships are hit.

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And then there's THIS attack, another whole separate attack by the Kate remnants it's looking like.

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And then there's this furball that happened right overhead above the Honsho. The deck crew launched the birds
and then stood on deck and watched as overhead, right above their heads there's a multitude of contrails, circles
and arcs and some falling smokey trails headed downward down. Swirling and noisy and dynamic. You had to be
there to know what it was like.

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And we finally get a hit or two on that Allied sub that's been snooping around location code named Banjo Wangie. To get a hit at all
is almost rare so to get three hits on one sub in one contest is like, phenominal or monumental or something.

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And then there was this bombardment attack by ART and INF elements and me, the Jap, lose more people than the Allies.
There's something wrong with this picture, so I'm dropping back to bombardment by the ART elements only so as to cut
down on the number of people getting hurt. Why lose people if you don't really really need to? I think I remember a time
before when we WERE using just ART elements and I decided it wasn't moving fast enough and put the INF on the case
too. Therefore all the losses now. So it's either go faster and lose more people or go slower and spare the casualties.
It's becoming starkly evident for me now. Let's try with ART elements only for a while longer and let the men dust themselves
off and rest a bit. Hey that's an idea.....take one unit at a time and REST them in a hex further back than the front lines.
I'll have to look into that idea.

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And then there was this ground combat near Kuantan.

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And then there was this ground bombardment at Probo. I've done my recon by bombardment now for the DA tomorrow.

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And then there was this attack at location code named Bear Claw.