Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14

[larryfulkerson]

I think I may have shortened the war by about an hour. I dropped some paratroops on the bridge between north and south China
and dropped it. Now there's only a handful of bridges to come across. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

[larryfulkerson]

I just got some new moves from Thomas and I watched the replay just now and watched him take the island Viti Levu. I'm going to
eventually have to take it back.....maybe. Maybe I can make a thrust up the middle of the pacific instead and skip all the Rabaul
islands entirely.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a close up of the aforementioned island. I'm tasking all my planes to do suicide runs on one of Tom's aircraft carrier groups.
I don't expect to get very good results though because of the lack of fighters in the strike.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the results of that strike. I think maybe I sank the Kaga.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's how the air war is going right now:

[larryfulkerson]

The area between north and south China is unstable and looks ready to fail.

[Chattez]

If you got the Kaga, that's great!

The control of the Pacific depends on 10 ships: the Japanese carriers. Once they are sunk,
you can go anywhere you like, and the Japanese will be hobbled and unable to advance.

And, unlike the US, the Japanese get few new carriers, and mostly only late in the war, when it is too late to do any good.

Nothing stops the Japanese advance except sinking their carriers.

[tcarusil]

Am I correct that this scenario does not work with the public version of TOAW? In other words you need to have the unreleased beta to enjoy this.

TomC

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Chattez
If you got the Kaga, that's great!

The control of the Pacific depends on 10 ships: the Japanese carriers. Once they are sunk,
you can go anywhere you like, and the Japanese will be hobbled and unable to advance.

And, unlike the US, the Japanese get few new carriers, and mostly only late in the war, when it is too late to do any good.

Nothing stops the Japanese advance except sinking their carriers.

Thomas tells me via email that I got the Kaga and another one that starts with the letter "A" that I can't remember the name
of right now. So it seems like the game has changed. I will have a carrier in T61 and Tom won't so I can start sinking ships
sometime soon after that.

ORIGINAL: tcarusil
Am I correct that this scenario does not work with the public version of TOAW? In other words you need to have the unreleased beta to enjoy this.

Thomas and I have played this scenario using both exe's and it's doable with either but the game is remarkably different with
the new Naval Rules. And yes, the new Naval Rules come with the new beta version. Sorry about that. I'm hoping that doing an
AAR using the new beta will ENCOURAGE Matrix to make a decision about releasing something soon.

[tcarusil]

Tried to us 3xBb, but could not get the scenario to show up in the list of available scenarios. Must be doing something wrong.

I hope Matrix gets the hint and releases the "new" version soon.

TomC

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: tcarusil
Tried to us 3xBb, but could not get the scenario to show up in the list of available scenarios. Must be doing something wrong.

I hope Matrix gets the hint and releases the "new" version soon.

No, you weren't doing anything wrong. I tried to load it in the 3.4.0.202 and the 3xBb just now and neither one of them showed
the scenario. I guess it's for 3.6 or above. And if Matrix doesn't release something pretty soon then one of the beta testers
might just start giving it away covertly.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's Mindano now. Jap troops landed in Davao yesterday so I guess Tom is planning on clearing the island of partisans or
something. It won't take long.

[larryfulkerson]

I've had good luck getting units from OZ to India and thence to Burma and China. The front lines are starting to firm up a bit.
Jap troops are streaming south from north China so that wraps up the north China adventure. Tom is bent on more pushing
and shoving and fighting is still pretty hot.

[Hyding]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I've noticed that there's only two Soviet formations still in Reserve status and the rest of them are ready for orders. I can move them
and attack with them. I have no idea what caused it. My theory is that one of your ships drove past one of the Soviet units on some
isolated island somewhere on the way to Alaska and woke it up from it's garrison mode or something.

Sounds like there needs to be an exclusion zone set up to avoid activating Russian units by mistake.

Oh and by the way....thanks for this AAR and all the others you make.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: tcarusil
Tried to us 3xBb, but could not get the scenario to show up in the list of available scenarios. Must be doing something wrong.

I hope Matrix gets the hint and releases the "new" version soon.

No, you weren't doing anything wrong. I tried to load it in the 3.4.0.202 and the 3xBb just now and neither one of them showed
the scenario. I guess it's for 3.6 or above. And if Matrix doesn't release something pretty soon then one of the beta testers
might just start giving it away covertly.

Thomas has come to the rescue. He sent me via email an older version of Pacific At War and it's compatable with 3xBb.exe and
3.4.0.202. I've attached it to this post. Just truncate off the dot txt to make it a zip file and unzip it. Includes the equipment file.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Narses
Oh and by the way....thanks for this AAR and all the others you make.

You're welcome my friend. These AAR's are the book I sat down to write and got writers block. I'm unleashed when I do these AAR's
and can put all kinds of irrelavent data in there. Stories from my background. Pictures from Wikipedia. Just about anything. HTML
just might become the document of the future.

Here's the results of another naval bombardment of the airfield.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a T47 look at the front lines in China now. It's stable and quiet. Not enough supply to conduct a war.

[thomasharvey]

I have had to go on to the defensive for the moment due to the loss of the CV Kaga and Akagi, the two best carriers in the IJN. I also do not have any spare troops to continue landing on the allied defended islands. Also, the allied air power is getting so strong it gets through my CAP to hit the ships.

I may try to take some more objectives later when I get more troops. If the carriers stay back further they might be able to cover the landing and not be hit from multiple islands. I was overconfident and just sailed in to the nest of the allied airfields and paid for it.

I also failed to take Rangoon which fell in the historical war. The only trade off is a few more islands taken. That is not a good trade.

Australia is an armed camp as is most of Asia for the allies. The only thing holding back the allies is the heavy losses taken in their navy. All that will be replaced in due course so there will be even larger more desperate battles to come.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a T49 look at some of the front lines in China. Not much probing, pushing or shoving going on. The supply level procludes
a lot of that. Another problem is that the units are stronger in defense than offense and losses are heavy for any such attacks
attempted. It's like a Mexican standoff. I'm going to have to start a bombing campaign to soften up the opposition and THEN maybe
try some attacks. But that would call for more AS than I have at hand right now. I'll let the situation develop some and see what
happens.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a T49 strategic overview. I'm thinking it'd be best for me to try to take back one of the islands that are least defended. Say
Phoenix island. And then spread out from there. Also, I need to grab Wake sometime in the future.