Lambs to the slaughter (Lowpe (J) vs Jocke; BillBrown (A)) Finished

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Into mine infested waters of LA...

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IJN screening task forces are engaging the PT boat squadrons fast and furiously. Here we sink two, but also expend some torpedoes on the little jerks...

The two previous skirmishes saw none sunk, and the PT boats did close with the San Clemente invasion force of DDs and APDs, but the IJN evaded in this case...it seems the Fast Transports are drawing the PT boats to San Clemente while others are fought at LA.

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Incredible number of engagements...but the IJN is doing well so far. However, it takes only one slip up.

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At San Diego...

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More San Diego...

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Hagikaze hits a mine at LA...

Atago hits a mine at Santa Ana...

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Bombardments of San Diego reveal the 43rd Inf Division...damage disappointing.

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With dawn, comes even more attacks....some IJN destroyer forces are outside of the air umbrella.

Allied subs mostly take a beating thru the night...but this sub got a shot off on a juicy target by attacking with the rising sun behind her.

[Lowpe]

Somehow, we have made it thru the long night....but now the pucker factor has increased exponentially![X(]

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The morning starts off normally enough.

Look, heavy rain at Chungking. Must be miserable there this time of year!

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Can't let all the twin engine bombers have all the fun.

The beloved Sonia's are very busy over Chungking.

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Incredibly, the Allies don't strike from the air....another day done.

Tomorrow our first attack at Chungking....those poor hapless Chinese took around 4,000 losses today.

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Jumping Jehosafats! The Allies attack at LA...and my additional troops haven't made it in yet.

4000 Allied Assault Value...

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Don't leave us hanging!! [:-]

[Lowpe]

A bloody 1-2 attack...and we hold.

I suspect the 4E beasties will show up here tomorrow...

[Lowpe]

The naval war...

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Bloody, bloody China![X(]

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: LoBaron

Hey lowpe! Your aar is a very entertaining journey!

While there is time due to jockes vacation, can you maybe share your thoughts on the cost of the combined operations against Hawaii and WC with with regards to fuel.

IIRC this is a scen30 game, so DBB goodies on a scen2 baseline, correct? I am aware that scen2 provides more ressources to the Japanese industry, but also increases consumption. I have no idea if the same applies to scen30.

On a standard DBB campaign Japan needs to plan operations involving combined fleet conservatively in order to have any staying power remaining in '45. Those two ops would basically autocollapse the IJ eceonomy.

Did you make any calculations on consumption and how the ops impact your late war economy?

I feel okay for now. I have 6.85 million units of fuel, and 3.4 million units of oil.

I pretty much mothballed the fleet prior to the West Coast Invasion.

I am increasing fuel stocks each day still.

Olorin increased the industry substantially, and I find trying to build resource stockpiles very difficult.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

You should pull that sub off of Repair Ship and put her on Pier Side, just to be sure the DD gets the repairs.

I juggled all the settings and these were the best, although some other settings were identical.

There is an ARD and a AS there helping...perhaps an AD too.

The 1# for the sub means it isn't doing any repairing this turn. The AS can't repair that 8 float damage.

If it were me, I'd stick the sub in the ARD until it was at 5 and then let the port fix it...

Au contraire, Master. I can't pick which ship goes into which repair ship. Or at least I don't think so except by using only one repair ship at a time and putting the others to sea.

An X means it won't repair this turn. # means no major damage repaired.

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Do you have enough to effectively blockade here? Looks like in LA one more division would do it, but would that leave Santa Ana vulnerable? Do you have more AT guns around? [:)]