Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14

[larryfulkerson]

Here's south China now. My boys are being pushed backward and they are trying to maintain a front line.

[larryfulkerson]

New turn, new moves from Tom. Here's the Manila situation now. Thomas is expanding away from the coast and there's not a
whole lot I can do to fight back. I've already evacuated the aircraft, fighters to China and bombers to Australia. I was going to
try to get the South Pacific HQ unit to OZ but it's not looking like it's going to be possible.

[larryfulkerson]

There's a Chinese aircraft unit, a fighter unit, that's protecting the Ledo road and I thought you might like to know what
kind of performance I'm getting from that unit. They aren't particularly good fighters so I'm using them off and on for CS
missions.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's Singapore now. The Japs have already assaulted the hex once and didn't get anywhere. A second assault might just finish
the job off.

[larryfulkerson]

This is what the Rangoon area looks like. I'm seeing some Japs on the river entering Burma and I just happened to have some
troops handy for it.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the same area in T4. As I suspected the Japs were traveling enmass and I just happened to catch them on the river ready to
step on Burma soil.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Port Moresby area now. I'm watching for Japs coming south across the mountains like he did last time.

[larryfulkerson]

New turn new moves. Here's the 81st Phillippine Inf Division parked at Bataan and it's down to it's very last squad. I'm sorry for it
and wish I could just disband it. Oh well.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's south China now. I've gotten some partisans into Hanoi and wrecked the rail. Now I don't know whether to head north or
south with the partisans. I'll think about it some more.

[larryfulkerson]

This is what northern China looks like now. I've beat up the rails just about, well, needs more work actually. But there's so many
Japs in the AO that the Communist Chinese troops here have their hands full. I need especially to go after the bridges somehow.
Thomas knows that and has posted guards at a lot of the crossings. D'oh. I'm wondering if I ought to just evacuate the northern
part of China and move everybody south. But on the other hand the Chinese troops here are tying up a lot of the Japs best troops.

I think maybe I'll try to get them moving south somehow.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Burma front now. Against common sense and good advice I'm going to try a Merrills Murraders type of raid to see
if I can get into the Jap rear areas with something besides partisans. Depending on the results it might be worth the sacrifice
of a unit or two. Might even shorten the war. Worth a try.

[larryfulkerson]

This is what's happening at Singapore. My guys are dug in and well supplied and are in relatively good shape so far. There's
the equivalent of about two divisions of Allied troops facing probably about the equivalent of three brigades and I COULD attack
but that would just make a bad situation worse. Suppose I won the attack, then what? Nah, I'll just wait it out. Too late to
evacuate the troops and I dare not fly some planes in there. On the other hand it might be a good way to get rid of some of these
spotter plane units.

[larryfulkerson]

I got curious and checked out the ANZAC HQ unit and found that it doesn't have any command groups either and it's not
been combat yet so I'm guessing that none of the HQ units have any command squads as part of it's equipment. I'd be
curious to know what difference introducing them might make. It might be fun for the Allied player to try to get
MacArthur out of the PI.

[larryfulkerson]

I had a minor tragedy just now. I'm moving units and came to the 1st Aus Inf Div and felt like I needed to use it to reinforce
Java before the Japs get there in force and I broke the division down into three pieces and tried to sail them without escorts
to Java and only one of the three brigades survived the trip. D'oh. Well at least they have some more troops there now.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what Port Moresby looks like now. I'm just about to capture the port to the east and I notice that one of the spotter planes
I had parked on Rabaul's island is gone now. I'm using it as bait for when the Japs do an airfield attack I can get some of my
fighter units to fly AS and shoot some of them down. It's worth it.

[larryfulkerson]

I opened the unit display for BB Nevada and found an astonishing amount of damage. I'm guessing it's from the Pearl Strike.
So some of these ships I'm going to have to park somewhere and let them heal. If this was WITP-AE I'd send them to the
west coast but here I guess I can send them to Alaska or somewhere.

[larryfulkerson]

I was checking out the numbers on the spotter planes just now and found that I've successfully gotten rid of most of the
British Walrus's and only 3 of the Kingfishers. More work needs to be done.

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie.......I finished moving all the units and hit the "do the attacks" button and I see this occur.
This is my sacrificial final blitz 3-dot attack on the Jap unit that was the garrison here.
I have no idea why the Japs just evaporated unless they were dead tired already. Which is probable.

[larryfulkerson]

New turn new moves. Here's what the Manila area looks like now. The Japs are almost finished mopping up. Hardly anybody left.

[larryfulkerson]

I finally managed to drop a bridge, a major bridge, into the water. Now I can officially count the railroad offline.