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

[larryfulkerson]

And then Jim has his guys do a suicide attack on me just north of Singapore. We'll have to ask him why for.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the combat report just in case you're keeping up with developments in China:

[larryfulkerson]

I've got TF 10 loading up the last component of 4th Div to be moved to Merak to join the other two components of the 4th division. When
I have all three of them together again I can merge them into one big unit and then maybe we can get this advance rolling again.

[larryfulkerson]

Pescadores received a huge shipment of supplies from Tokyo which is a good thing because P. was down to it's last 30K or so.

[larryfulkerson]

Babar is receiving more engineers. I'm in a hurry to build up the airfield and the port there. It's the closest base to Darwin and I need it
for my Zero's and my bombers. I want to build it up to level 3 at least and have a level 3 port there just in case I go offensive in this area.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the situation in the northern eastern shore of Oz. I've located two subs and some small ships in Townsville and I have suspecions
that the BB I'm after is also at Townsville. I'll find out by some attacks whether or not the BB is there. Some naval attacks and some port
attacks ought to break things lose here.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 173 was originally going to go to Palembang but hey, I got to looking around and Merak is low on supplies and there's going to be a
major battle at Batavia soon and that'll eat up some supply so I'd better stop by Merak and unload some there to be used later surely.
Besides supplies are starting to pile up at the major production centers. I've been doing too good a job making sure they are supplied
and so I can start concentrating on moving people again. Engineers are needed down near the "front line" and AF dudes are needed to
make a path for the planes to fly back and forth freely so they can get to where they need to be quickly as the situation might shift from
time to time. Jim will probably act on some whim of his pretty soon now and get adventurous and inventive. He's going to have some
really great idea to try something and we'll get to see some more drama. Either that or I'll finally get my act together and put together
some kind of offensive attack on Midway say, just to get some kind of drama going. Not just for the AAR, but in the spirit of the Japs who
fought this thing. That's what they would do I'm pretty sure. So I'll do that.

[larryfulkerson]

Tomorrow Wake should receive about 23K of fuel from Tokyo, which is a good thing because Wake was down to about 800. This will
enable an offensive toward Midway. I gotta stock up on supplies here too.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 413 is a TF built around an AO which in this case is going to Truk to be re-assigned an area to loiter. I've got about 9 AO's from
Marcus Island to Tulagi just in case the carriers need a gas station out somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I'm sort of pre-positioning
them to be used in the future. The trouble with this parking of AO's in the middle of nowhere is the sub threat and the need for some
picket ships to guard the AO's. Something to come between trouble and the AO There's nothing like an Allied TF to get your heart
going. I'm still building my picket line so it's still ify but better than nothing.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay.......I've received Jim's moves just minutes ago, did the combat replay and immediately loaded the turn into Tracker and here's
some of the Alerts:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the resource history for the home islands:

[larryfulkerson]

First of all there was some inconsequential sub attacks and nobody was connecting anywhere and then all of a sudden one of my subs
near Pearl pumped 3 torpedoes into the Enterprise. Wow what a game upsetter. I'm pretty sure Jim is livid.

[larryfulkerson]

And then there was some more stuff we can skip and then this raid on Darwin happened:

[larryfulkerson]

And then there was this raid on Manila:

[larryfulkerson]

The air war over Northern Java continues:

[larryfulkerson]

This is the first of two of these attacks on the BB Warspite. This one got through the P-40's and got hits on the big guy. I'm going to
have to look into why my bombers are using bombs instead of torps.

[larryfulkerson]

And then a bunch more stuff happened and this little thing happened:

[larryfulkerson]

This is the second of the two carrier raids on Townsville and the shipping there, mostly the BB Warspite. I see my boys are going after
the rest of the fleet too. I guess they figure that the BB is done for.

[larryfulkerson]

1st China Assault / B finally arrived at Port Moresby and they are dodging bullets getting ashore:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's how it went on the ground at Manila: