Continental Clash - Cuttlefish (J) vs castor troy (A)

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

Kudos to Cuttlefish for not giving up, because it's not good

Those air losses are very light on both sides; Greyjoy and I have combined lost more than twice as many aircraft by the same date

That must mean a lack of major air battles, or aggressiveness

from my point of view, there is just nothing around when it comes down to the enemy's airforce so I just keep pounding his destroyed, empty airfields. Whenever the enemy airforce shows up, Cuttlefish turns around after a couple of days as my P-47/Corsair/P-38 sweeps are killing him, let alone the destroyed aircraft on the ground afterwards by 300 4E attacking.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Kudos to you opponent for not giving up already! [X(]

Cuttlefish still hangs in there, even though he probably isn't really motivated which isn't surprising when looking at the situation. The game has been really boring for quite some time already but we stick to one turn a day (I'd preferre three a day) and while there were an offer to surrender already after losing pretty much the rest of his carriers we agreed to carry on. My intention for carrying on was the hope trying to land on the home islands.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: castor troy

long time no update as it just wasn't really worth it as the game was boring enough already and the AAR would only be famous for the most boring PBEM ever. The game was going on though and is now in 9/43, biggest highlight was the destruction of the rest of the IJN carrier force around Borneo at the beginning of 43 for the loss of Wasp.

Below the current situation. We crushed Burma long ago, then Thailand, then Indochina and what was left on Malaysia. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Mindanao and Southern China, the Allied machine was rolling over the Japanese at will, destroying enemy units left and right. There are some red dots left on the map on NE Borneo but these bases are all no threat and can be taken by two btn at will. Currently we have landed 3500 av on Luzon with another 3000 waiting to be brought in. The enemy is split in two already with three div cut off on Southern Luzon, these units are no threat. If they move, they will be bombed and destroyed by the Allied air armada. There is one full enemy division at Manila with a crushed one plus lots of support units but in total not even 1000 av. A small garisson at Clark Field and that's it on Northern Luzon as Cuttlefish made a huge mistake putting those three divs into the Southern bases as these bases are all death traps (two of them in clear terrain).

Luzon will be completely cleared in a couple of weeks for nearly no loss and then we can think of landing on Japan already, that will be around March 44 or so. Formosa is bombed from the Southern China bases, I can land there at will with about 6000 Commonwealth av while I only need 1500 to take the whole island. China is a mess for the Japanese already, as the Chinese are fully supplied with roughly 30,000 av available plus the RAF/USAAF having some 800 fighters plus 500 bombers at level 9 bases, destroying everything in range.

As you can see, I left CENTPAC completely untouched, that's a theatre where I always thought one would give the Japanese a better chance to strike back than elsewhere and I just don't need these islands/atolls.

Ouch! Are you sure that Cuttlefish is not just playing a cruel joke on you and you have actually been beating his 8 year old son for the past six months while he is watching TV.....?

[castor troy]

I'll hope not but I'll see in a couple of months when attempting to land closer or on Japan. If he really just pulls my leg sending me turns he didn't look at that would be the most disappointing event since I've started playing WITP. [:(]