Ooops, I did it again (Lowpe (J) vs ?(A)

[Lowpe]

RN Destroyers dodged Betty strikes (25 am, 25 pm) only got one Mabel hit...plucky ships

[Lowpe]

Find some B17s...

[Lowpe]

British fight back..

[Lowpe]

Petes are protecting the invasion fleet...this group attacks and misses.

We need that 2nd strike to take down Repulse...

[Lowpe]

Repulse weaves and avoids the torpedoes!

[Lowpe]

All the best pilots went here I guess...

[Lowpe]

Was worried about this attack...

[Lowpe]

Marblehead, Houston, Boise disband into the base east of Jolo…

One of our cruisers forces went the wrong way...but can support taking Cagayan.

Not great here, will see what tomorrow brings.[:)]

[Lowpe]

Khota Bahru and Kuantan will fall...

Sad to see Repulse get away, but she has a lot of damaged devices at least.

For the first time playing Japan I got the Prince of Wales.[:)]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Marblehead, Houston, Boise disband into the base east of Jolo…

One of our cruisers forces went the wrong way...but can support taking Cagayan.

Not great here, will see what tomorrow brings.[:)]

Sweet, you can capture Cagayan and capture those damaged B-17s. [:D]

[Bif1961]

I almost forgot you had a war going on here instead of the sitzkrieg! [:D]

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe


...For the first time playing Japan I got the Prince of Wales.[:)]...

You mean you bought yourself a new suit to wear when playing Japan. A style made very popular in the 1920s and 1930s by the Prince. I had one a long time ago.

Alfred

[Lowpe]

Expensive suit...wool.

[GetAssista]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Expensive suit...wool.

[manly image]

Wow, Lowpe, that suit looks good on you, and you look good in the suite [:D]
Kerchief in the colors of WITP map is a nice touch too!

[Lowpe]

China

Here we can see some Allied movements, which tells us about our opponents state of mind/goals. We will get a much clearer picture over the next few days as recon floods into China from Manchuko.

With no HR, we are looking at a Sian/Ankang push with relatively large forces from Manchuko Garrison -- I put the entire garrison into SR mode[;)]. Goal most likely bypassing Sian and looking to grab Tienshui to cut off the northern oil from Chungking quickly and then moving asap into the Chungking plains head south and look to cut the Kunming/Kweiyang road.

The Ichang flank is merely to deny those excellent Chinese Corps around Ichang a fast retreat and to save Ichang which makes for a great air base.

We need to cut the Changsha rail line and have some kind of push from Canton north too.

Two squadrons of Chinese Flying Tigers escaped the first day to China...most likely Kunming. We need to handle them quickly. The third squadron went to Rangoon and lost 13 fighters.

[Lowpe]

I told Lok to take his time with the first turn, but he wouldn't listen and gave me the turn back after only a few hours. Now lots more drudgery...

Resizing...something I never really do a lot of, also changing restricted air units to independent another thing I don't really do.

The critical aspects of this 2nd turn is to get the ability to rearm ships into the SRA as fast as possible, avoid flying into CAP Traps, establish air dominance in the SRA (Luzon fighters are still quite strong, Singers less so, and attrit Dutch) set up for the pincer above Singapore perhaps even accomplish some of it, watch out for low level air attacks. Grab Cagayan, Kuantan, Kota Bahru. Establish perimeter defense Kuriles to the Marshalls and move quickly on Rabaul before the Aussies show up there.

All the Pacific work needs to be done without KB support which makes it challenging. I am hoping this lures the American CVs into the Marshalls where I feel confident I can nail at least one CV....but I suspect he won't fall for it.

It would be nice to clear the boards of Houston, Marblehead, Boise, Mauritius, and Repulse. I have a good shot at doing this, not without some risk though.

[Lowpe]

In this AndyMac mod, Japan starts with 3 Oscar factories, and also plentiful IJAAF bomber factories too. Generally I like those Harbin factories to make something later game like Franks/George, so they will stay smallish so I can convert them over later without losing too much supply...but for now we need Oscar Ic production badly to expand.

I think I am going Topsy I and II for transports, just need to double check that.

I am going to increase 1 point a day for the plane builds...and I still need to tweak the supply levels at bases more. Will most likely be switching the Nate to Val/Zero builds early on for the expansion phase.

Planes I really need to build to assure expansion: Zero, Val, Kate, Oscar Ic. To a much lesser degree Jake, Dinah, Betty, Nell, Mavis, Rufe as production is decent there or usage lowish.

[Lowpe]

This will be another slow Japanese turn. I really dislike the opening of the game especially for Japan. Much prefer the game after the perimeter is established...

Little easter egg here, start with an Agano class.[:)]

I just divided a Dave size 6 squadron into thirds and sent 2 floatplanes to her to give some aerial search capability (and upgraded them to Jakes).

[Lowpe]

Should be interesting here...

Have to worry about torpedo carrying planes of course, cap traps, and the BC Repulse and CL Mauritius. The Mauritius worries me more to be honest.

[RangerJoe]

There is no Viet Nam, there is French Indochina.

I don't understand why the Japanese troop carrying task forces had ships with widely disparate speeds. That does not work very well in my opinion. That is one thing that I try to avoid.