A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

[Cap Mandrake]

Near Ambon Ryujo sink a couperh of crappy ships nobody even care about and gets readed paint arr ovah Ceram Sea.

[Cap Mandrake]

************Aboard I-18, 240 South of Johnston Isrand*********


XO <whispering> It's Tokuda, sir, he stirr refuses to get in mini-sub. He say nobody terr him it suicide mission.

Captain: <whispering> Let me tahk to him. <wanders over to sulking Lt.> Lt. Tokuda, you rearize it is your duty to go on mission. It-ah great honor!

Lt Tokuda: If so great-ah honor then ret idiot Tanaka go.

Captain: What about your famiry, son? Your mother will be shamed.

Lt Tokuda: Mrs. Tokuda not raise stupid son. She say where-ah goddamn rife insurance poricy.

[Cap Mandrake]

Malaysia...5th Recon Regiment jumped out ahead of the infantry.

I wonder if they could take Kluong by themselves?

It also seems that it is possible to sneak down the west coast of the peninsula and bypass Johore Bahru

[Cap Mandrake]

Though it does mean an unimproved road.

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Though it does mean an unimproved road.

You are still going to have to attack Singapore by shock attack over the river or by amphibious assault. That is going to take some time to set up.

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Though it does mean an unimproved road.

You are still going to have to attack Singapore by shock attack over the river or by amphibious assault. That is going to take some time to set up.

Yes, but if an experienced Aussie brigade is sitting in Johore it would make the attack on Singers easier.

More likely, a large flanking force would compell a withdrawal from Johore...unless we could pin them there somehow. Perhaps repeated attacks?

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Though it does mean an unimproved road.

You are still going to have to attack Singapore by shock attack over the river or by amphibious assault. That is going to take some time to set up.

Yes, but if an experienced Aussie brigade is sitting in Johore it would make the attack on Singers easier.

More likely, a large flanking force would compell a withdrawal from Johore...unless we could pin them there somehow. Perhaps repeated attacks?

Not speaking for anyone else but I can move troops from Johore to Singapore in 2-3 days. You have no chance of outmanuvering him unless he does not know your units are moving to Singapore via dirt road and that should be obvious once you reach the hex west of Johore Bharu.

I would work on strengthening the divide between Singapore/Johore Bharu and the north part of Malaya and then take both at your leisure.

[Cap Mandrake]

Yes, of course. Cut off the peninsula so the Northern units can't reach Singers. That is why, I suspect, Admirah SPrior-san has the 3 infantry regiments at Mersing moving West.

It might be possible to impede the southward movment of the Aussie brigade at jahore (when they recognize the flanking threat) by land attack or air bombardment while a larger force gets ready to cross to Singers in the West.

My recollection is that a sharp attack can reset the movement milage of unit moving "toward" a hexside. Not sure if you cna do that with air attack alone.

[Quixote]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Though it does mean an unimproved road.

Novel idea, but not possible. The map is a bit misleading. If you turn hexside detail on, you'll see you are forced to attack from Johore when attacking over land.

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yes, of course. Cut off the peninsula so the Northern units can't reach Singers. That is why, I suspect, Admirah SPrior-san has the 3 infantry regiments at Mersing moving West.

It might be possible to impede the southward movment of the Aussie brigade at jahore (when they recognize the flanking threat) by land attack or air bombardment while a larger force gets ready to cross to Singers in the West.

My recollection is that a sharp attack can reset the movement milage of unit moving "toward" a hexside. Not sure if you cna do that with air attack alone.

I know that any successful air attack will move a unit from move mode to combat mode but was not aware that you could actually essentially make a unit back up. If that is true then just add it to the ever growing list of shit that I was unaware of.

I think they make a manual or something....

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Yes, of course. Cut off the peninsula so the Northern units can't reach Singers. That is why, I suspect, Admirah SPrior-san has the 3 infantry regiments at Mersing moving West.

It might be possible to impede the southward movment of the Aussie brigade at jahore (when they recognize the flanking threat) by land attack or air bombardment while a larger force gets ready to cross to Singers in the West.

My recollection is that a sharp attack can reset the movement milage of unit moving "toward" a hexside. Not sure if you cna do that with air attack alone.

I know that any successful air attack will move a unit from move mode to combat mode but was not aware that you could actually essentially make a unit back up. If that is true then just add it to the ever growing list of shit that I was unaware of.

I think they make a manual or something....

If you make an actual deliberate attack on a unit and it does not flee, I think it gives up its movement and goes into Combat/Defend mode with no movement (i.e. it digs in).
Air and artillery attacks alone will not do it - they will set Combat/defend mode with movement continuing.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
My recollection is that a sharp attack can reset the movement milage of unit moving "toward" a hexside. Not sure if you cna do that with air attack alone.

Yes. You can take troops out of 'move' and put 'em into 'combat' movement. If you are fortunate enough to ground attack some troops in strategic move mode, it'll gut 'em.

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
My recollection is that a sharp attack can reset the movement milage of unit moving "toward" a hexside. Not sure if you cna do that with air attack alone.

Yes. You can take troops out of 'move' and put 'em into 'combat' movement. If you are fortunate enough to ground attack some troops in strategic move mode, it'll gut 'em.

I'm pretty sure they only get knocked out of move mode and into combat mode without losing movement progress.

However, my experience with this is when only moving some of the units out of the hex, not all.

Happens a lot in China. Some of the units in a stack get mauled and I'll pull them out to be replaced with fresh units since I am playing with stacking limits and don't want to move fresh units in without pulling some out.

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
My recollection is that a sharp attack can reset the movement milage of unit moving "toward" a hexside. Not sure if you cna do that with air attack alone.

Yes. You can take troops out of 'move' and put 'em into 'combat' movement. If you are fortunate enough to ground attack some troops in strategic move mode, it'll gut 'em.

I'm pretty sure they only get knocked out of move mode and into combat mode without losing movement progress.

However, my experience with this is when only moving some of the units out of the hex, not all.

Happens a lot in China. Some of the units in a stack get mauled and I'll pull them out to be replaced with fresh units since I am playing with stacking limits and don't want to move fresh units in without pulling some out.

It has been my experience that when you are moving a stack of units that only the units the air force actually attacks have a chance to be shifted from move to combat mode. At one point in my game NJP was regularly bombing the crap out of stacks I had evacuating Australia and I would have to go in on a turn by turn basis and move those units that got attacked back into move mode.

Units in the stack that were not attacked did not change modes.

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
My recollection is that a sharp attack can reset the movement milage of unit moving "toward" a hexside. Not sure if you cna do that with air attack alone.

Yes. You can take troops out of 'move' and put 'em into 'combat' movement. If you are fortunate enough to ground attack some troops in strategic move mode, it'll gut 'em.

I'm pretty sure they only get knocked out of move mode and into combat mode without losing movement progress.

However, my experience with this is when only moving some of the units out of the hex, not all.

Happens a lot in China. Some of the units in a stack get mauled and I'll pull them out to be replaced with fresh units since I am playing with stacking limits and don't want to move fresh units in without pulling some out.

If I remember right there was a strange software behavior that some circumstance caused mileage to be reset ..
for me the environment included crossing an enemy held hex-side and the enemy using airpower against the moving units ..
suddenly the expected crossing did not happen and the units would stay in place. I suspect there were other factors
in play that I did not understand to formulate the right pattern ...

I have no time to play WITP these days so I live vicariously through this forum ..

[Cap Mandrake]

Right..so here is what I have..after a bout 21K words posted:

1) Ground attacks probably can reset movment to zero...maybe

2) Air attack may possibly.... in some cases... reset movement but it seems somehow related to the Mauder minimum or perhaps intergalactic neutrino storms...or maybe heartburn,

3) None of this matters here because you can't sneak down the coast West of Johore because your men will fall in the Malacca Strait and get stung to death by jellyfish.

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Right..so here is what I have..after a bout 21K words posted:

1) Ground attacks probably can reset movment to zero...maybe

2) Air attack may possibly.... in some cases... reset movement but it seems somehow related to the Mauder minimum or perhaps intergalactic neutrino storms...or maybe heartburn,

3) None of this matters here because you can't sneak down the coast West of Johore because your men will fall in the Malacca Strait and get stung to death by jellyfish.

You forgot about the alien zombie dolphins but other than that yeah...

[pws1225]

I thought those were on the east coast. Learn something new every day.

[Cap Mandrake]

************December Ereven, 1941(d)************


Captain Mandrake-san open turn then go outside for wahrk...then see propitious sign for December Ereven. Onry probrem is Mandrake-san no-ah sure which side propitious sign for.

[Cap Mandrake]

You may need to adjust your monitor brightness. There is an "X" made by contrails and an "I". The "X" is a bit harder to see because of the....wait for it...Rising Sun