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

[larryfulkerson]

There were about a half a dozen attacks in China......this is one of them:

[larryfulkerson]

And then this happened. Here's how it went on the ground at Manila:

[larryfulkerson]

And Jim is still trying for Gasmata. I have some people at Rabaul that are getting ready to board the boats to head over to Gasmata
and put an end to this sillyness. And when they get through there they will head over to Port Moresby to stabilize that situation.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's me making sure that the expand port and expand airbase are both turned off and I made sure the repair on the refinery is turned
off so there's only the Oil Center left to work on. Get the oil flowing and then talk about expanding the port and the airbase and the
refinery.

[larryfulkerson]

When last we left TF 8 yesterday, we had her docked, and doing a loading operation, but the destination and home base were both set
to Tokyo. So we were wondering what was going to happen: take off for Tokyo, or stay there and load. So now we know, the TF is still
loading at the dock. Proof that's what happens when that situation comes up. Good to know.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's location Bubble Drop just about to receive a huge 11K+ slug of fuel. I've checked out the base hex and there's no limit on the
fuel and supplies you can store there so I plan to max it out at some point only because it's so valuable to the hub and spoke kind of
thing I have going on with Tokyo and points to the west and south. I'm surprised that Jim isn't jamming a lot of subs into those waters
because that would really wreck the traffic going in and out of there. Most of it is escorted, true, but he might be able to pick off a ship
or two just because of the law of averages.

OT: Obamma just now won the presidential election according to Google. Now back to the game.

[larryfulkerson]

Traffic has backed up Hakodate so I'm sending this TF to the northernmost port that has goodies and there's two possible routes it could
take and I'm leaning toward the one that starts off to the west and goes through the gap and then north rather than the one that just
takes off to the east into Allied sub territory and then goes north. I'm thinking there would be fewer Allied subs on the first route than the
second. Fewest subs wins.

[larryfulkerson]

When we last left TF 20 it was sitting in Hong Kong loading supplies and the destination was set to Hong Kong and the home base was
set to Tarakan. We were wondering what would happen to the TF. Well it turns out that the ship stayed there and completely loaded
and didn't leave the port for Tarakan. That may be because it only just now finished loading and didn't have enough points left to do
the undockiing and leave port. So I'm thinking I'll just leave it there docked in Hong Kong and see what happens when it's already in it's
destination and not in it's home port. Will it decide on it's own to take off for Tarakan? We'll see in a future post what happened to TF
20.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's TF 26 and it's unloading just before disembarking for the most northern port for resources ( I don't remember the
name of it right now....starts with an S ) and the destination is set for where they are and the home port is set to the most northern port.
So the question is will they stay there unloading or take off for the north or what? We'll see in a future post.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's how crazy busy it has become for Tokyo. Tokyo is the locus of 99% of the supplies leaving the home islands and Tokyo has
the largest reserve of fuel of any base and that makes it one busy port. A lot of the troop transports have already loaded and left but
there's a large fuel TF loading and at least one supply TF that's still loading. A lot of the convoys that are inbound are coming from a
long way away as seen in the endurance needed column. And there's a lot of resources and oil headed for Tokyo.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 48 is uploading a huge slug of fuel for somewhere and I've looked at all the hubs and I'm thinking Wake might need some of that
fuel before too long. I'll send it there first to refuel Wake and then on to Truk or whereever it needs to go then.

[larryfulkerson]

When we last left TF 56 it was given a hex to set up a patrol in and set on computer control and I was wondering what it would do and
this post solves that question. It moved to the hex it was supposed to and is on patrol there. So I can change it back to human control
any time now.

[larryfulkerson]

I've since switched TF 56 to human control, and I had to change the speed to mission from cruise, and I'm commanding a one hex move
more to the middle of the channel and I've just noticed that it seems that TF 56 is counting the one hex move to the destination hex in
the calculation it does for the distance to home port. I don't know why I noticed that just now. Not easily predicted that.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 61 is a single sub that's finally arriving at Diego Garcia. I have no idea what's there now or if there's anything there.
When playing as the Allies I used to use that base as a staging base for entering the off-map area and for those off-map
entering the map it's a convienient place to head for and I'm guessing I'll see at least one Allied ship pass through here.
We'll see.

[larryfulkerson]

I have spread out some picket ships in the New Hebrides just in case Jim decides on some adventures in that part of the world. I have
lots of backup ready to sail in that direction given the word. I can't be everywhere at once but I can spread some ships out and be ready
to race to any threatened spot quickly.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got a lot of subs that were damaged around Pearl Harbour and San Francisco and most of them have made it all the way back to
Kwajalein and are being repaired for emergency things prior to being sailed to Yokahoma for final repairs. I can't fix the major damage
at Kwajalein but I can make them fit for sailing to the repair shipyards in the home islands.

[larryfulkerson]

I've found some ships at Zamboanga that show 0 days left to be repaired but that might be because the port has been 95% damaged
and that probably means no repairs are happening. And the game engine won't let me change them back to in-service for some
reason and if I could do that I could eventually move them to a different port to be repaired. Since I can't change the ships I guess I'll
have to repair Zambo's port. I'll look around and see if I can find some engineers ready to move to Zambo real quick.

[larryfulkerson]

I've found the same situation at Kuantan: There's 2 separate DD's at Kuantan that have 0 days left to repair and I can't change them to
a different port.......I mean I can't change them back to in-service from stood-down and pierside. I guess the moral of the story is not to
try to repair ships in a port that is damaged.

[larryfulkerson]

I guess I need some engineers at Baybay as well for the same situation is there as well. Fortunately, this situation deals with a limited
number of ships.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a ship at Mili that I can't change to in-service and Mili doesn't even have a port. For some reason this ship got disbanded at a
spot where there's no port and now I'll have to build a port there to move the ship.