RHS II scen 129 GP and me

[larryfulkerson]

What kind of ship captain drives his ship into the rocks? The ship was sunk and the captain was lost and good
riddance. I need better captains than that. It must have happened at night or something. I'll send an email.

[larryfulkerson]

I found a few RES centers that I can repair and thereby get more RES out of the ground than before. There's a lot
more places yet that have RES centers that can repair but they don't yet have the supply to make the expansion.
As soon as they do I'll bump them too. I thought I'd go through the separate industries and find those places I
can repair right now. Concentrating on RES and OIL and HI.

[larryfulkerson]

I beefed up my sweeping squadrons in Malaya and there was a huge furball over Singapore yesterday. Even though my
Zero's were outnumbered they shot down lots of Buffalo planes and I need doing things like this to whittle down
the CAP over Singapore. This kind of thing needs to happen at Manila and Clark too.

[larryfulkerson]

I know I mentioned it already but here's what happened at Guam yesterday.

[larryfulkerson]

I neglected to put the horde at Kota Bharu on DA and they didn't attack but they did get bombarded by the Allies
and that revealed the superiority of the Japs so I really did put them on DA this time so they should attack
tomorrow. I expect the hex to fall this coming turn or the next.

[larryfulkerson]

I made the mistake of invading Kuching too early and they went in without escorts and there's all kinds of Allied
LBA within range but they are doing okie dokie so far. The Japs at Kuching attacked but it turns out that I didn't
send quite enough troops and the best I can muster is a 1 : 1 ratio. At least the forts are 0 now.

[larryfulkerson]

I wasn't expecting any mines at Cebu and drove my sub in there and it hit a mine and sank. My fault. There's no
way to detect mines other than driving a ship in there though. I always try to make it a cheap ship.

[larryfulkerson]

I got lucky yesterday. An Allied sub, the Pompaneou or something or other, launched 4 TT's at my ships and didn't
hit any. Or maybe hit but it didn't explode. At any rate I'm sure he's going to try it again so I'll have to
find another spot to loiter. I've already fueled up the carriers so there's no good reason to stay there anyway.

[larryfulkerson]

I drove a sub into Hilo's harbor and the I-1 launched 4 TT's and missed an AVD. D'oh. I might need to replace
that ship captain. I'll have a look at him. I donno, he looks okay. Just a fluke.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the captain of the I-1 and he looks fine to me. He was just having a hard day.

[larryfulkerson]

There were three separate encounters by my SCTF and Brian's. Both task forces broke off before combat but
there it is. Combat on the river waters. I'm going to see if I can't get my planes to target those ships.

[ny59giants]

IJN airframes for ‘42 - Zero, Rufe, Nell (not Betty) as 2nd gen have better range, Nell Recon (love their range😁), Emily, and 6 to 8 George factories on 1st model.

IJA - Tojo, Lily, and Helen. You need the Tojo until Franks. Helens are great once you get them. Lily should come in as DBs later.

[larryfulkerson]

The I-2 is a sub operating near Pearl and yesterday he got TT hits on an xAPc ship and it's on the sunk ships list.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
IJN airframes for ‘42 - Zero, Rufe, Nell (not Betty) as 2nd gen have better range, Nell Recon (love their range??), Emily, and 6 to 8 George factories on 1st model.

IJA - Tojo, Lily, and Helen. You need the Tojo until Franks. Helens are great once you get them. Lily should come in as DBs later.

Thanks Michael. You answered my questions about planes. I'll make it happen asap.

[ny59giants]

Amphib TFs vs CD guns: Those Dutch CD guns can be nasty! Form TF and only load troops, no extra supplies. Form another small Amphib TF and load supplies. Merge. Add a pair of BBs to soak up hits. If possible, take Ship Eng (Naval Support) to speed up unloading.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's how the ports are doing right now. I made the mistake of loading supplies with the troops and ran Shanghi
out of supplies. I've got TF's carrying some to Shanghi but it's going to be a couple of days until it gets there.
Meanwhile Pescadores is running low on supplies. I must have a TF there that's loading supplies too.

[larryfulkerson]

I've revamped the aircraft factories more along the lines of Michael's advice. I don't know half the models that
are available. There's some more changes needed yet I'm guessing. More George's and Nell's.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Amphib TFs vs CD guns: Those Dutch CD guns can be nasty!

I'm finding that out.

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Form TF and only load troops, no extra supplies. Form another small Amphib TF and load supplies. Merge.

I like the idea of different missions for the TF's. I'm wondering why you need to merge them. Can
you not let one follow the other?

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Add a pair of BBs to soak up hits. If possible, take Ship Eng (Naval Support) to speed up unloading.

I had thought about the BB's before but I never thought to take some shipping engineers along too.
Great idea. I'll see if I can't find some.

[larryfulkerson]

I was looking around for shipping engineers ( I found one at Hiroshima, it's moving to Tokyo now ) and I found
Kwajalien was overstuffed with troops. From the beginning of the game and I'm only finding it now. Well, I need
to get some ships together and move somebody obviously. Maybe for Rabaul.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's how the war is going right now.