Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))

[Lowpe]

Finished the turn! Yeah...these first turns are killers. Still I expect I missed a fair bit...and dababes is very different to stock...lots to relearn, plus pdu off.

Bought out two B17 units from the Philippines...

Two armored units in India...

2nd Marine Division elements to Cape Town, with along a half dozen or more base forces, plus V Bomber and a Fighter Squadron.

2 Fighter Squadrons from Pearl leaving for Oz, along with every Cat squadron for Luzon...

Cap traps and some targeted naval attacks and moving forces into hiding spots...

I will probably wake up tomorrow with another turn in the mail box...but I want to take a day or two off! We are on opposite sides of the world, but I suspect we might flip quite a few turns very fast either early in the morning or late in the evening...but not just now. I need to go slow and learn the ob.

[ny59giants]

In my experience with Nathan, we did 2 plus weekdays and up to 4 on weekends. Nice thing to do with your morning coffee before work. [:)]

[CaptBeefheart]

You call that a booze? Been sipping a bit of this. Buddy of mine got it from the Class 6 from Camp Humphreys.

Cheers,
CB

[Lowpe]

Dec 9th, 1941

NJP gets me the turn back with the dawn...argh. Still doing Lok's turn, won't get to this till tomorrow.

[Lowpe]

What is he trying to do, set up a huge Thundering Herd pincer?

[Lowpe]

Two strikes on Shanghai had fires over 1000. Hopefully something is damaged...it almost always takes a solid day for accurate reports to flow back in.

[Lowpe]

Not too bad...

[Lowpe]

Thoughts?

Forgot to withdraw planes yesterday...

Thracian found six merchant ships, but they skeddadled after three hits...

Boise and Houston heading east from Luzon...I guess the Thundering Herd will follow and meet up with Lady Lex and E, which are approaching Wake Island.

Going to be using PP to buy troops for early deployment I think...

[Lowpe]

Can I get these guys into Rangoon? DejaVu.[8|]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

What is he trying to do, set up a huge Thundering Herd pincer?

Looks like he wants to secure Palembang, Java and the Eastern DEI ASAP and backfill the bypassed areas later.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Can I get these guys into Rangoon? DejaVu.[8|]

Maybe the weather gods will cover for you! If he does spot you and lines up his bombers to hit south of Rangoon, I see no reason why you couldn't unload at Ramree Island instead since the TF is Amphibious.

[Lowpe]

The leading edge of the Catalina migration!

[Lowpe]

A wrinkle in the Cat plan...no torpedoes.[:(]

[Lowpe]

Petty Officer Hackett leads the way in the beautiful Blenheim IF.[8|]

[Lowpe]

I have two PT boat squadrons set to intercept the Aparri invasion forces, but the leading Q boat squadron is very poorly piloted, while the other PT squadron is well led. The idea is that the Q boat squadron acts as a diversion, while the PT boat squadron can follow them in and actually do something.

Don't hold your breath!

Looks like NJP will bottle up the Luzon forces and not totally skip them.





The one sub tf is a transport carrying 500 supplies to China, while a second sub transport is a hex or two ahead with 200 supplies.

[Jorge_Stanbury]

Fastest and most maneuverable plane out there [:)]

Shouldn't they be categorized as night fighter?

[Lowpe]

Boise and Houston would get to Aparri for a daytime intercept, but then most likely would die to Betties and Nells…

Japan will sure LRCAP Aparri...there are 51 fighters at Takao and planes at the tip of Formosa.

Awfully tempting.[;)]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

Fastest and most maneuverable plane out there [:)]

Shouldn't they be categorized as night fighter?

That was what they were used for but I see no radar sets on the plane in the game.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

Fastest and most maneuverable plane out there [:)]

Shouldn't they be categorized as night fighter?

That was what they were used for but I see no radar sets on the plane in the game.

IIRC there is only one squadron of them and no replacements- not worth programming an upgrade since 90% of the time they will be expended in the first six weeks. I think the initial idea was to get a fighter with good range, as opposed to the dismal range of the Hurricane and modest range of the Spitfire. The leading pilot in the Blenheim 1F must be good with the 4 x centerline MGs against unescorted bombers. The good times won't last for him, so he spends his nights at Raffles sipping G&T and retelling his exploits. That is the other reason they are not being used as night fighters... [:)]

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
The good times won't last for him, so he spends his nights at Raffles sipping G&T and retelling his exploits.

Indeed!