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

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And then Sydney is hit by a carrier-borne airstrike:

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And then Port Moresby is hit by a Japanese air strike:

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And then there's another carrier-borne strike near Sydney:

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And then there is some sub action near SFO:

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

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And there was a good thing that happened in China that I have to include here:

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

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More evidence that the Allied group at Mersing is out of supply: They vastly outnumber my forces but they lose in the ground
bombardment more than I do. I wonder if I dare do a DA now?

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And then the Allies do their daily ground bombardment of Port Moresby:

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And then Jim has the Allied group at Johore Bahru do a shock attack and it didn't turn out like he intended I'm guessing.

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Here's how it went on the ground at Mersing w/ an Allied ground attack:

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And of course, here's the combat report:

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I just now noticed that Jim has moved some ships into the hex with me at Mersing. He snuck past all my surface assets, and my carrier
to get to where he is now. And the hex has two separate 3-DD TF's in it and there was no surface contest. Huh. Anyway it's probably
no crisis and it'll work itself out shortly.

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TF 23 is my naval bombardment BB w/ her escorts and I've set the TF up to do a naval bombardment of Port Moresby and it's looking like
maybe she might be able to reach PM in one day this time. That's pretty cool. Maybe I can start getting more bombardments in per
week this way. Maybe.

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TF 27 was originally going to go to Bubble Drop w/ almost 9K of fuel but I've redirected it to go to Truk since Truk is seriously low on fuel.
But it's going to take about a week for this fuel to arrive. Whoa. I should have seen this coming before it happened. I'm going to have
to start doing a survey of the hubs before I end the turn to see how everybody is doing so I'll see things like this coming before hand.

EDIT: I've done a forensic analysis of the Truk fuel situation and I've come to the conclusion that it was the near simultaneous arrival and
refueling of about 4 (four) AO's that started the crisis. I should have thought of things like this and planned ahead better or something.

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Here's the SE coast of Oz situation: I had originally thought I'd have the carrier patrol north and south between Brisbane and Sydney
but all the ships at Brisbane are docked at port and have fighters to protect them including Warhawks and so far there's been no planes
at Sydney and there are ships sortie-ing from Sydney and not at Brisbane so I'm thinking now that I should leave the carriers at station
Dixie to pound the ships at Sydney for a while, say until the sorties hits about 50% or so and then go north to station Yankee to see if I
can stir up some of that air-to-air action and maybe knock down some Warhawks and give the bombers a much needed break while I
sweep the skies and then after all the fighters are delt with THEN do some naval/port attacks.

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I found some INF units available at Tokyo and I've started rounding up some AP's to start moving them out to the "field" somewhere.
They will be loading until tomorrow and then I'll ship them out toward Guam and redirect them as they get closer to their destination and
I know better where they can best be used, postponing their destination because the situatiion changes as they travel sometimes.

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TF 70 is carrying the II/81st Naval Guard unit to Singkep. I've decided to take them there out of all the places that an LCU is needed
because I need the resources Singkep might have ready. I'm hoping the hex is empty and that there won't be a fight for it. I don't want to
damage the facilities there if there are any.

EDIT: I checked on Singkep........it's got a Resources Center worth 21(0) so far.

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Here's the Wake situation: I'm finding that having too many troops on Wake's atoll is eating up supplies at a fanominal rate and I'm going
to have to correct that situation before to much more time passes. The problem is finding the shipping to do a troop movement that
isn't busy doing something else. There's troops leaving Tokyo too, you see.

EDIT: I've just had an idea......I can use a bunch of the smaller low-range AP's to move these guys....I just have to include an AO to go
with them. Cool.

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Kendari needed supplies and just happens to have some resources to pickup after the supplies are downloaded. The one problem w/
this plan is that once the resources at Kendari are gone there aren't going to be any more at Kendari......I'll have to go somewhere else
to get all my resources.