(A) Fulkerson vs Jap AI vers 7.0

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Here's today's losses:

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First off they sink one of my ships:

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Looks like the Louisville fought two seperate battles, one at night and one the next morning.

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And then the Albatros gets ambushed:

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And then the Japs raid Rangoon at night:

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And then Alor Star suffers a raid:

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I guess the Japs were going to invade Hong Kong by sea and they didn't count on me having some motor boats in that hex so I killed a
bunch of AK's.

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I didn't give the Pensacola that hex to move to so I guess the Pensacola just reacted into that hex and got lucky:

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And then the Jap Nells got three of my ships:

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It looks like the Japs split up their TF into at least two of them. I'm going to chase the southern group since it has better ships in it. Oh,
and the Japs bombed Wake.

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And then the British went after the Jap shipping:

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In the face of Zero's with those numbers it looks like it's time to pull all the B-17's out of the Phillippines. Or lacking the PP's maybe give
them a different mission or something. Else the losses will be staggering.

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And then there was this carrier air strike:

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And then there were a few more carrier air strikes with similar results and then the Japs captured Vigan:

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Here's the combat report if you'd like to look up how the fighting in China is going:

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TF 72 is some CL's and DD's and they just happened to be handy when a Jap Transport TF shows up on the radar screen. They are
going to go adopt the path of the enemy TF just to see if there can be a gunfight started.

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The Pensacola did spectacularly well during the night and early morning. Now they are going after 5 more enemy ships parked at
Tarawa.

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These are the three main routes I plan on taking to conquer Japan. I wannu take back a large part of China and Korea just so Elmer
can't involve the Russians. And the large island chain is desired just so I can simulate the B-29 raids that took place on Japan. And I'm
thinking that MacArthur would probably want to take back the PI and then go on to Formosa. Kinda early to be thinking positively on
strategy but this is against the AI and probably wouldn't work against a human opponent. I'll try it and see what happens.

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I'm letting TF 307 load up with fuel but a quick check of the fuel level at Columbo is starting to near the "low" mark in my opinion. And
when it hits low for sure I'm going to have to wait for shipments from CapeTown and Aben to arrive before I start dispensing again.

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An 11K+ shipment of fuel arrived at Brisbane from Sydney today which is a good thing because Brisbane was running low on fuel.