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Weather in hex: Heavy rain
B5N1 Kate x 18
B5N2 Kate x 99
...bombing from 11000 feet.
ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn
How is Apbarog doing with his reconnaissance?
ORIGINAL: adarbrauner
Reconing with Bettis? How? high recon skills?
ORIGINAL: Aurorus
All 7 CVs (including Junyo) and the 3 CVLs are sweeping south in advance of a move on Fiji and the Samoan Islands. The idea is to cut off Fuel and supply shipments to Australia to slow the allied build-up and force the allies to move materials and troops off-map if Apbarog wishes to build up Australia. All of this in an effort to prevent any early alled effort on the DEI and retain access to DEI materials for as long as possible. Suva, Vava U, Canton Island, and Pago Pago are the only allied ports larger than size 1 between Christmas Island and New Zealand. Apbarog cannot store fuel or supplies (especially fuel) at size 1 bases without suffering large losses to spoilage. The plan is to deny the allies any fuel depot between Pearl Harbor and New Zealand. I sank a number of allied TKs in the DEI in the first days of the war, and I want the allied TKs and AOs to be stretched to the limit: refueing TFs instead of hauling fuel to Australia.
ORIGINAL: Yaab
Don't forget the sweet little port at Rangiroa in Tahiti. It can be built to port level 5. He can just move loaded TKs from Los Angeles to off-map, and from off-map (Cristobal) to Rangiroa, and build a nice stock of fuel at Rangiroa.
ORIGINAL: Yaab
You can feed Auckland, NZ from Rangiroa by long-legged TKs. On the last leg of the journey you ditch Auckland-Sydney route because the route is obvious. You move the fuel from Wellington,NZ (or even Christchurch, NZ) to Melbourne, AUS. It takes SOME tailoring of TKs to match the route lengths and to build up the ports, but it can be done. Japs can interdict the Rangiroa - Auckland route, but would have a hard time intedicting off map-Rangiroa and Wellington-Melbourne routes. If you can sever the Rangiroa-Auckland route, then yes, the Pacific links between USA and Australia are cut.
ORIGINAL: adarbrauner
Have you calculated embarked land units disruption by sea traveling? Where did they embark? What the total estimated sailing time to landing? Do you expect shore guns shelling, and mines? how thick is the escort screen? Do you think 2 divisions shall be enough? have you embarked support (I.E. naval and air support)? Are you bringing any artillery with you? any armor? Is there a supply convoy ready to come for after location's conquest? What air units have you planned to base at the FIjis? Do 1 eng have the range to fly there directly? Are you bringing miners and AMcs? Have you allocated the fuel to be stored at the fijies? do you plan to station any combat naval fleet at Fiji, as a deterrent for self defense but also for naval traffic attacks?
Bringing AA as well?
ORIGINAL: adarbrauner
Have you calculated embarked land units disruption by sea traveling? Where did they embark? What the total estimated sailing time to landing? Do you expect shore guns shelling, and mines? how thick is the escort screen? Do you think 2 divisions shall be enough? have you embarked support (I.E. naval and air support)? Are you bringing any artillery with you? any armor? Is there a supply convoy ready to come for after location's conquest? What air units have you planned to base at the FIjis? Do 1 eng have the range to fly there directly? Are you bringing miners and AMcs? Have you allocated the fuel to be stored at the fijies? do you plan to station any combat naval fleet at Fiji, as a deterrent for self defense but also for naval traffic attacks?
ORIGINAL: Aurorus
In other war news, an ace pilot from Kaga was KIA when his plane crashed after a routine patrol yesterday. He is the first Japanese ace to be KIA. Also, J. Sasai appears not to have been badly wounded in the battle over Koumac 3 weeks ago. He has returned to action in his Tainan squadron. He lost 7 points of experience though as a result of his wounds. He was an experience 85 pilot. He is now an experience 78 pilot. It is good to have his 80 air and 80 defense back in the action even though he is no longer Tracom eligible. Interesting how injuries to pilots can reduce their experience. I wonder if he will still be able to conduct "head-on" attacks on 4-Es, which had been his specialty, performing 4 such attacks and netting 4 4-E kills. He also received a promotion upon his return and is now a squadron leader. I may give him his own squadron later in the war if he can avoid allied DB gunners.
ORIGINAL: tarkalak
This is Sasai not Saburo Sakai.
Sakai was wounded by a TB.
