Islands of Destiny: RA 5.0 Japanese Side

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

Good Game John. I didnt think you would finish it but I was wrong.

Bet a lot of people felt that. I stuck to it for the learning value as well as the slight hope to get in an occasional punch/jab. It is funny to celebrate an I-Boat hitting two AKs while getting clobbered by 5 Gadzillion bombers over the Home Isles but it became that!

[Lecivius]

It's over?

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

It's over?

Game over Man. GAME OVER!

What are we gonna do?

Lets build a fire and sing a couple of songs.

[Lowpe]

Great game, great AAR, great experience.[&o]

[crsutton]

Thanks for the great game and AAR John. I enjoyed every turn.

[anarchyintheuk]

Thanks for your dedication to the game. Great aar.

[Bearcat2]

Thanks for the AAR, the most important thing I learned was when playing the Japanese, the time to throw everything at the Allies is when they try to take bases within bomber range of Japan, in this case, the Phillippines

[Grollub]

Thanks for writing a good AAR and fighting it out until the end!

[Panther Bait]

John,

Thank you for taking the time to share a tremendous game with the members of this site.

Mike

[obvert]

Thanks for all of the ups, downs, Banzais and Hurrahs!! [&o]

Well done making it well into 45 with some fight left.

[JohnDillworth]

John, re-reading some back pages of the AAR. I forget how bad that carrier battle went for you. I remembered as you loosing all your CVE's and one CV but it was a bit more than that. Dan lost a ton of planes. Can't figure out how he was able to recover and mount and offensive that required exclusively on carrier air so soon after. Thanks for sticking out to the end. The upside is you will probably be a much better player now that you know what is needed in 1944 and 1945. When you are in a writing mode I would appreciate to hear you thoughts on how you will prepare for the next "long" game

[John 3rd]

That was the deciding moment of the war. I so regret that series of turns. Was trying to play THREE Campaigns at once then and wasn't playing a single one of them WELL. Lost all the CVEs, several other carriers were lost as well as some cruisers. All because I didn't pay attention to my fuel. STUPID! Good lessons to remember though. Thanks John.

[John 3rd]

Forgot that I took a screenshot of my last day of ATA:

[durnedwolf]

Hi John,

So I was looking at the point score for Japan. The last figure I saw from you was 79,774 and then in the final it was 79,904, which is a difference of 130 points. I thought that final tally would be more drastic than 130 points as it covers bases and their port size and what not.

thanks for a great read.

[JohnDillworth]

That was the deciding moment of the war. I so regret that series of turns. Was trying to play THREE Campaigns at once then and wasn't playing a single one of them WELL. Lost all the CVEs, several other carriers were lost as well as some cruisers. All because I didn't pay attention to my fuel. STUPID! Good lessons to remember though. Thanks John.


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Well the fuel got you into trouble and thats on you. You were also the victim of the single most coordinated strike in the history of the game. Yikes!

[Bif1961]

Much like the real war the Japanese went down fighting.

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

That was the deciding moment of the war. I so regret that series of turns. Was trying to play THREE Campaigns at once then and wasn't playing a single one of them WELL. Lost all the CVEs, several other carriers were lost as well as some cruisers. All because I didn't pay attention to my fuel. STUPID! Good lessons to remember though. Thanks John.


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Well the fuel got you into trouble and thats on you. You were also the victim of the single most coordinated strike in the history of the game. Yikes!

You know...I have blanked parts of that fight out. I do believe that you are correct with the strike comment.

[John 3rd]

I just sent Dan an email titled "5-12-45."

When he opens it, it simply says "GOTCHA!"

[jwolf]

Heh, one last surprise from the Japs! [:D]

[MakeeLearn]

In the darkest depths of Fuji... new invasion being planned...