Fulkerson (J) vs Moore (A) ( no Moore )

[larryfulkerson]

This is me doing my daily Betty raid on Port Moresby. I'm not at all sure these are helping out all that much but at least it bucks up the
men to see it happen to the other guy(s).

[larryfulkerson]

For some reason known only to Jim, Jim has decided to leave his support ships at Midway despite the repeated attacks and general
mayheim and everything. So my carrier boys decided to see about that. They raided pretty well and got through the CAP okay and
then got two ships before leaving. My hat is off to them. We'll do it again tomorrow.

[larryfulkerson]

And then there was this Allied attack on my shipping at Oosthaven:

[larryfulkerson]

And this is my Nates getting chewed up pretty good. For one thing Jim is arriving at a higher altitude than my boys usually fly....I'll see if
I can't jack that up some. And for another thing his boys are more experienced than mine are. I have some AF dudes arriving in the hex
soon....maybe that will put more Nates in the air simultaneously. Numbers matter I've heard.

[larryfulkerson]

This is me setting the Nates at Moulmein to do nothing but CAP at 28K feet.

[larryfulkerson]

And then I allegidly get a couple of hits on an Allied sub:

[larryfulkerson]

And then there was this Jap bombardment attack at Manila that lacks a certain something.

[larryfulkerson]

And then this direct attack at Malang worked pretty well:

[larryfulkerson]

And then Jim attacks me at Gasmata. I have plans to relieve these guys if they can hold out long enough to get some other guys from
Rabaul to Gasmata. By boats.

[larryfulkerson]

And then Jim did his daily bombardment at Port Moresby and again I lose some people. They need some supply pretty quick now.

[larryfulkerson]

And then there was this conflaguration near Oosthaven:

[larryfulkerson]

Okay here's the situation. The Allies have allegedly got something like 4 ships two of which are a PG and a DD and they are just
hanging out at Baker Island. So I've just happened upon a TF that has a CA and a bunch of DD's and I think I'll unleash them on the
Allied formation and PB's can sweep out to the flanks and the AO's can hold back to see what else happens. And I look around to see
if I can find any backup anywhere close.

[larryfulkerson]

The TF name field contains the data "18Feb empty" and the TF has 16K loaded now, 19Feb, therefore it's loading at the rate of 16K per
day so far. I'm pretty sure the loading rate is based on the number of ships docked at the harbour, and maybe also counting those
still swinging from their anchor out in the bay waiting for their number to come up. So I may have to weight that 16K per day per ship or
per TF or something.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay....I'm calling upon all you experts out there ........I gotta question.......we're about to find out anyway but what's about to happen in
the following situation: I've got the destination and the home base set to Tokyo except that I'm not quite through loading this TF yet. So
um........will it keep loading or will it set off toward Tokyo? I'm thinking it'll just keep loading. I'll post this to remind me to look at what TF
8 does in the next turns I get from Jim.

[larryfulkerson]

And here's another one for you experts out there. Here's TF 20 sitting docked in Hong Kong loading supplies or something and I've got
the destination still set for Hong Kong but the home port is now Tarakan. I'm hoping it's going to keep loading until it's full and THEN it
will set out for Tarakan. What will it really do? Enquiring minds want to know. I'll look up TF 20 in future turns to see exactly what it does
do.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay, here's another situation: There's an Allied sub in the Banjo hex and the Banjo port is level 1 and I have a TF that has an AK that
needs to download it supplies and there's a PB or some other kind of sub chaser with that TF......so the question is should I leave that
AK there docked to the pier and free up the PB to do partolling in the waters of the port? Or do I not dock them at all? What is the
opinion of the dudes reading this? Anybody got an opinion?

[larryfulkerson]

Here's another situation: Here's a surface task force: a CA flanked by DD's, that have a DMS in their midst. They have been ordered
to assault into a port hex which may or may not have mines. So I'm putting a DMS in there but protecting the DMS with a CA and some
DD's. Or am I? Is the DMS going to be out front there when the surface combat happens? Should I have used more DMS boats? Any
body got an opinion?

[larryfulkerson]

Here's another situation thing: There's this TF that's been ordered to set up a patrol in the hex one SW of Balikpapan and then I
switched it to computer control. What will it do? Let's follow this task force to see what it does in the future.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's me doing a sort on speed cruise mode or something like that and getting a list of the ships that are computer controlled at the
top of the list and also a list of the ships that are using "C" mode which I assume is cruise mode instead of going mission speed. So....
I'm changing all those guys from C to M except for the computer controlled TF's because I've found that just putting it in computer mode
changes the speed back to "C" anyway. Hard coded I guess. So I just leave it on C in the computers hands. And watch what it does.

[larryfulkerson]

I got to wondering how busy the Pescadores are now since P. is the supply hub now. This is my answer. There's a convoy headed for
P. that is carrying fuel. I'll have to look into that and maybe re-direct it.