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You're sitting pretty there for sure. I bet you could grab a few dot bases to the NW with either paras or raider battalions before the real battles start. The more you already have the better and you can even fly in the engineers and air support.

Any thoughts about exploiting something in the North Pacific while he's scrambling South?


He reinforced HEAVILY the NOPAC. Hokkaido is a fortress, with several divisions and HQs. The Kuriles are fortified too.
No, NOPAC is too obvious right now.

I have my plan. As soon as the KB is confirmed to have left the CENTPAC, i'll attack Ponape and Roi-Namur.

In Burma i'll keep the pressure up. I wanna grab Ramree, but first I need to get the air space control, which won't be easy.

Already started the advance in the Solomons.

Next weeks will be interesting
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Me and Mr.Kane have adopted the new Symon's air files... pretty curious to see how they work out!
What do you think?
They seem to work just fine, even if we didn't have any real furball since.
We abolished every HR regarding altitudes.

The only battle was fought over Kusiae, when 54 Hellcats at 100% CAP (range 0) at 32700 feet, fought against a sweep of 45 N1K2s arriving at 30,000. We traded 10 planes on each side and the Hellcats, despite 30 mhp slower, did pretty well a those altitudes.

So far everything seems smooth
Ooohh, I like to hear that.

If you guys have any issues, concerns, blivets, or penne that’s too al dente, please, please, please, oh please, pm me. Only way I can be sure the mod works for everybody is to get input from the users.

Btw, I got a serious chicken parmesan recipe made with JWE’s own ultimate marinara sauce over penne, with a balsamic vinaigrette over fall salad greens. And of course, a plate of olive oil and balsamic vinegar for chunks off a Tuscan boule. You might like it.

[ed] Wish I knew where Mr Kane was from. Seems a bit unfair to send you recipes and not him.

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Time to unleash your super weapons in the DEI....SC TF made up of only Fletcher DDs. At Full Speed they can reach 11 hexes and still get almost back to home port. Make Mr Kane pay for trying to get transports that close. [:-]
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What do you think?
They seem to work just fine, even if we didn't have any real furball since.
We abolished every HR regarding altitudes.

The only battle was fought over Kusiae, when 54 Hellcats at 100% CAP (range 0) at 32700 feet, fought against a sweep of 45 N1K2s arriving at 30,000. We traded 10 planes on each side and the Hellcats, despite 30 mhp slower, did pretty well a those altitudes.

So far everything seems smooth
Ooohh, I like to hear that.

If you guys have any issues, concerns, blivets, or penne that’s too al dente, please, please, please, oh please, pm me. Only way I can be sure the mod works for everybody is to get input from the users.

Btw, I got a serious chicken parmesan recipe made with JWE’s own ultimate marinara sauce over penne, with a balsamic vinaigrette over fall salad greens. And of course, a plate of olive oil and balsamic vinegar for chunks off a Tuscan boule. You might like it.

[ed] Wish I knew where Mr Kane was from. Seems a bit unfair to send you recipes and not him.

Ciao. JWE

For sure we will! So far everything seems to work perfectly and I haven't noticed any flaw or problem with the new a/c files. But I think we're gonna test them soon enough in the DEI carnage that will soon happen :-)

mmm... John, with all due respect, that recipe doesn't seem exactly "Italian"[:D]...I mean, Penne and Marinara sauce sounds fine (I guess a "marinara" sauce is a tomato sauce with seafood, right?), but penne doesn't match with salad or vinegar...not on the same dish!
While, if you simply had Penna with sauce and then, as a second course, a salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar...that's perfectly Italian [:D].

Basically the real "Italian" way to eat pasta is with tomato sauce. But it's the conception of "tomato sauce" the thing that it's the most difficult to export abroad.
You cannot simply put a tomato sauce as it comes out of the box.
I tell you "my" recipe:

1/2 garlic clove (cut it only one time!)
1/2 red onion
red pepper
a bit of salt
olive oil

Make it cook 1 minute on a paddle, until the garlic becomes golden (not more)

Then add a bit of white wine. Say a quarter of a glass
let the wine evaporate

Then put inside the tomato sauce. Not the "sauce" as they say, but tomato "pulped"

Let it cook for some 15/20 min, until all the water inside the pulped tomato is dried and evaporated.

Then turn it off. Add some fresh basil...and voilà! That's a tomato sauce[:D]


Mr.Kane (Tom) is from Poland
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Time to unleash your super weapons in the DEI....SC TF made up of only Fletcher DDs. At Full Speed they can reach 11 hexes and still get almost back to home port. Make Mr Kane pay for trying to get transports that close. [:-]


mmm..i haven't been very lucky with DDs in my game. Both with the allies and with Japan. I tend to lose tons of them for very little gain...

Surely the DEI seems the right place to use them[:D]
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I mean, Penne and Marinara sauce sounds fine (I guess a "marinara" sauce is a tomato sauce with seafood, right?), but penne doesn't match with salad or vinegar...not on the same dish!

A 'marinara' outside of Italy is exactly the sauce you describe; just a hearty, garlicy cooked tomato sauce. For pasta or pizza.
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Cold penne works perfectly in a salad! Add some feta, grilled chicken, grilled bell peppers, black olives, sundried tomatoes (in oil) and some nice olive oil together with your salad of choice. Perfect for a day on the beach!

PS. Don´t forget to bring the beer... [:D]
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For sure we will! So far everything seems to work perfectly and I haven't noticed any flaw or problem with the new a/c files. But I think we're gonna test them soon enough in the DEI carnage that will soon happen :-)

mmm... John, with all due respect, that recipe doesn't seem exactly "Italian"[:D]...I mean, Penne and Marinara sauce sounds fine (I guess a "marinara" sauce is a tomato sauce with seafood, right?), but penne doesn't match with salad or vinegar...not on the same dish!
While, if you simply had Penna with sauce and then, as a second course, a salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar...that's perfectly Italian [:D].
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Cool ! Any info on planes will be greatly appreciated.

I make my marinara just like you, olive oil, onion, fresh garlic , red wine, and tomatoes. Nothing out of a can. Americans sequence things different from you Euro folks. Americans serve salad first, sometimes, but mostly with the main dish. I much prefer ya’lls way, but when in Rome .. [8D]. Oh, well … at least some of us know what fork to use [:D].

Ok, enough trampling on your AAR. I’ll go visit Tom and tell kielbasa and sauerkraut jokes [:D]. Keep things a bit even.

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Cold penne works perfectly in a salad! Add some feta, grilled chicken, grilled bell peppers, black olives, sundried tomatoes (in oil) and some nice olive oil together with your salad of choice. Perfect for a day on the beach!

PS. Don´t forget to bring the beer... [:D]

And you're Swedish?!

Feta is what the Greeks meant by ambrosia, I swear. Olive oil was probably nectar.
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And you're Swedish?!

Feta is what the Greeks meant by ambrosia, I swear. Olive oil was probably nectar.

We eat a lot of foreign food here. "Friday Tacos" is pretty much an institution here in sweden. But I guess any Mexican seeing what we call tacos would be pretty upset! [:D]

Lots of Greek and Italian foods here. Not much from the French kitchen though. Sushi is also a big thing here. Swedish traditional food has been out of fashion for a long time but slowly coming back.
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Dec 2- 12, 1943

The allies have estabilished a solid foothold on southern DEI.

Koepang is well garrisoned, mined and is building up nicely.
Roti and Sawo-Elanden too.
Allied troops are also delivered to Wakamoe (sp?!) and Menaboro.

The Japanese reaction has been fast.
The 43rd Division has been moved from Palembang and sent to Sosarbaja.
Several convoys are spotted moving to Kendari, Ambon and the Mollucces in general.

After the first days, where we gained the control of the airspace of Timor thanks to a series of bombardment runs to Dili and LAutem, the japs managed to exploit the window we gave them (needed to refuel/rearm at Port Hedland) and moved a strong air corp to Lautem, along with several CA/CLs.

They even dared to try to intercept my shippings to/from Timor, but failed. Our air force failed too, however, to inflict any damage to the bandits... all my TB missed because of the weather [:o]

The KB is nowhere to be seen. I bet she's hiding at Bab... Kusiae/Ponape sector has been left on itself. Without the KB guarding its approaches, we managed to send a strong reinforcement convoy to Kusiae, which is now strongly garrisoned (25,000 men), mined and supplied. 120 fighters and 70 SDBs are present. Soon Ponape will be threatened.

The allied CV fleet remains in the CENTPAC and will cover the next operations against the Japanese bastions.

As soon as Koepang will become a AF lvl 9, things will become problematic for the Japs. Several bomber groups are waiting in Oz.

The whole operation went smooth. The waited Japanese reaction isn't over, obviously, but their flank is now open and we cannot be pushed back from where we stand.
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Owning Koepang is like driving a rusty nail into his knee!
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Owning Koepang is like driving a rusty nail into his knee!


hopefully...

Dec 13, 14 and 15, 1943

The Japs are moving the Whole combined fleet to the Southern DEI. The Mutsu was shot by the SS Sargo near Menado...Hit but no explosion[:@]

Kendari now has 65k men[X(]...till 4 days ago there were just 12k... he's clearly creating a perimeter from Kai-Enlanden-Ambon-Kendari and Makassar... good.

Koepang is growing strong. Port 4 and AF 6 and building fast with 450 Engineers[8D]
We're also reinforcing Weingapoe and Memboro. The Japs are countering trying to reinforce Bima... poor choice imho. too many islands there to defend for him.

Kusiase is now almost ready. As soon as it reaches AF lvl 6 we'll start the air and naval campaign to reduce to silence Ponape.

The KB should still be at Bab, while the allies now have 7 CVs, 5 CVLs and 10 CVEs in the pacific. Enough to face the KB once again. The Yorktown II is the only CV that still needs repair time... 75 more days to go[:(]
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Nic - I partially blame you for Mr Kane's preparations to invade both coast of Australia. [;)] Your landings on Timor have shown him the need to secure at least western Australia from this happening to him in our game. When AE came out, it was quickly realized that it was important to secure northern Australia from Horn Island down to Tennant Creek and over to Exmouth as Japan. IMO, the whole of western Australia should be added to list after major bases in DEI/SRA are secure by a Japanese player.
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It's been a while since I updated this thread.
The game has rushed during the Christmas holidays.

We're now in July 1944! [X(]

The allies have seized the SW DEI, conquering Koepang, Roti, Dili, and all the islands up until Bima. Makassar has been closed several times by naval and air bombings. In this process we've lost 1 modern BB (The Washington), 1 CL (The Cleveland), 2 CLs damaged and 10 DDs lost. There's a Japanese army left at Lautem but should not pose any real problem.
Sosarbaja is now in sight...


In the north, we've landed at Sebang (Sumatra), advancing with a 100,000 men army down till Medan. 2 Japs divisions defended Medan for one month, but have then been pushed back south. The allies moved over and cross the channel (with paradrops), conquering Alor Star, GeorgeTown and Taiping. Here the japs sent not less than 6 divisions to stop my advance (and they managed to stop us!).
During these operations, several naval and air battles have occurred.
The KB moved first to attack my Sebang landings, but 4 allied CVs and 15 CVEs stopped them (only suffering minor damage). The KB moved back to shades.
Then in a series of battles, we've exchanged 1 BB, 1 BC, 3 CA, 2 CLs and more than 20 DDs for 1 BB, 2 CA, at least 2 CLs and several DDs (I think at least 20).

We kept pushing on and we reached Padang, where we've been stopped by another huge Jap army (4 Divisions!).
So we've landed 60k men at Bankeloen (sp!?), but found a reinforced division behind 6 forts.... The KB arrived again but this time I had all my CVs with me... another draw... bad weather prevented me to inflict any real damage but at least we've downed in 2 days all the striking KB's planes, suffering only minor damage on a couple of CVs.
The landings at Bankoleng forced the Padang Army to abandon its places and now we are again marching south!

The SAM is online at 6/44[X(][X(]...which is bad...

Now all his air army is concentrated at Singapore... 1000 fighters.... 400 more at Palembang.... our navy is just 6 clicks away... the base south of Medan...ready to strike...
The Yamato and Musashi are defending Singa...while the KB, after its moving back after the last battle, is nowehere in sight.

My CVs are supporting another massive landing at Padang and another operation at Benkoleng...

Northern Burma has been abandoned and reoccupied by the allies. Now the path to China is open! This forced the japs to abandon the campaign in northern China in order to send all those troops back to Malaya in order to stop the allied threat...

A really thrilling game is u ask me
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With Sams online you will need Corsairs on your CVs...

Any maps coming up? [:)]
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Yes, maps!
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Sorry for the delay guys...


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