RHS II scen 129 GP and me

[larryfulkerson]

I found an Ann group then thought I'd to a full report on the squadron. Here's what I see:

[adarbrauner]

Interesting would be to know the meaning for those abbreviations: GSptKg

[larryfulkerson]

Interesting would be to know the meaning for those abbreviations: GSptKg

My guess is "ground support kilogram" although that's just a wild guess.

[Yaab]

I vaguely remeber this meant "ground support package". It means bombs are dropped in sticks rather than individually. Thus, "4x50KgPackage x 2" means you drop two sticks of four 50kg bombs instead of eight individual bombs. This reduces losses in bombed LCUs.

[larryfulkerson]

This reduces losses in bombed LCUs.

Why would you want to lessen the losses of the LCU's you're bombing? I don't get it.

Also, A while back I mentioned transports that can't load RES and I found one while
playing my anti-AI game. It's a British ship but still a cargo hold is a cargo hold.
I have no idea why it can't load RES but the button to do so is greyed out. I remember
seeing a similar ship in RHS.

[larryfulkerson]

New moves from Brian just now. I'm watching the combat replay and some of my Nate boys ran into the AVG
and got chewed up over Changsha. I'll have to send for my expert sweepers. They are just about done with
their job over Manila as Brian could field only 3 P-40's the entire day. I'll do some airfield strikes to
close the airfield just in case but I'm thinking the air war over Manila is largely over with.

[larryfulkerson]

My carrier flyboys got lucky and executed a successful strike on Zamboanga's conglomeration of Allied TF's.
Brian had a boat-load of ships in the harbor there....it was a target rich environment. You hardly had to
aim. I need some more strikes just like that.

[MakeeLearn]

ZAM Boanga!!!

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn
ZAM Boanga!!!

I quite agree.

Meanwhile I thought it might be prudent to lay some mines where I can so I got a CM to lay some at Singkawang
and a sub just last night laid some at Palembang. In the harbor. I gotta give that guy a medal. So we should
see some fireworks sometime soon. Maybe. There's been a lot of ASW going on, especially around the Home
Islands.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the latest economic chart. I'm using more oil and RES than I'm bringing in, I get that. I'm slowly learning
how to use this chart.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the economic overview. The number of all the categories except RES went up during this month, which the
data for this month started late. I couldn't get Tracker to read my first couple of turns. Some kind of error
message or other. But 9Dec41 loaded just fine and it's been great ever since. Fingers crossed.

So bottom line is I need to bring more oil and RES to the home islands. A LOT more RES than I'm getting now.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the economic forecast for the main Home Island, Honshu. It looks right for the period. Except for the
number of RES entering the country. I've got to quit transporting some of the troops and concentrate more on
getting RES into Tokyo.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the summary for the economy, the economic report, the first tab.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's some of the aircraft numbers so far. I have more Nates than any other kind of plane so I thought I'd put
some of them into combat, a quiet place with not much going on, somewhere in China, and wouldn't you know their
first mission was over Chungking or someplace and the AVG just happened to be on CAP higher than the Nates and
my boys fell out of the sky like flies. I got them killed. So now they mostly just train the younger pilots.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the situation in the Celebes. I've got four carriers with 70% of their sorties left and I'm aiming them
for the congregation of Allied ships north of Davao. I've circled them on the map in yellow so you can find them
better.

[larryfulkerson]

Quick question: What could possibly have happened to approx. 1.2K of my pilots between the first turn and now? They are
just missing from the Roster. I haven't lost that many planes yet.....could I really have lost that many pilots?

[larryfulkerson]

Got some new moves from Brian just now and I'm still watching the combat replay but I thought I ought to report
the air strike on Cagayan's port in which I sunk a lot of Allied shipping, missed a couple of ships, need to do
another strike to get the rest of them.

[larryfulkerson]

The Japs did their bombardment at Hong Kong again and this time there were some Allied hits, not many though.
I've got another division on it's way to Hong Kong and I'm hoping that it'll make some difference but I think
the thing it needs is a lot of airpower descending upon it. Rain fire from the air on it. That's the theory.

[Zecke]

i used to make Kido butais-as you--but my bbs and CAs i always missing[:D]..somehow i found them later in ports

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Zecke
I used to make Kido butais-as you--but my bbs and CAs I always missing[:D]..somehow I found them later in ports

Yeah, I was wondering where all my BB's anc CA's had gone. I found some of them in the shipyards getting repaired
but I have no idea what damaged them. Maybe it's a built-in upgrade for them for this scenario.