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

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Rabaul effort

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Turn finally finished, these early turns are simply are bear...

Really concentrating on trying to take ground quickly and avoiding losses to ships, less so with sinking low value ships. Mersing invasion is loading, Rabaul invasion is 3 days or so away.

For the most part resting a lot of the bombers this turn...

Manilla has 70 fighters and we will sweep with a large sentai of Zeroes while another rests.

Interesting to see Lok's playstyle...more comments on this next turn.

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Dec 10, 1941

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Previous fight they put two hits on a lone AS, and here they catch Pecos...heavy fires, heavy damage on both ships.

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In the midst of the Thundering Herd, four American destroyers engage in a long range fight (no hits) with our little destroyer squadron....the Americans expend a lot of torpedoes and ammo without result.

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Caught!

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Fun daylight fight

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Kudos to Adelaide...it catches two xakl off Kavieng and sinks them with their troops, and nails these two in the morning, but after they landed their troops...

It was a risk and I knew the chances were low of landing at Kavieng...but not much lost.

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Allies put mines at Mersing. Expected.

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Strafing the port!

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Punishing the Thundering Herd....

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Destroyers hard to hit in thunderstorms!

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Sunk!

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still obscured by thunderstorms, we manage to sink three destroyer...perhaps low on flak ammo.

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Good progress here

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Pretty

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Sweeps over Rangoon and Manilla do okay. Nothing flew over Singers, bad weather.

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I think we sank four destroyers...and depleted the ammo on another four.

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Just finished the turn...so much to do with no HR...all of China. I think I will never play a no HR game again, and insist upon PP to cross borders at a bare minimum. If I only was playing one game, or one of the games was in 1943 I might feel differently.[:'(]


Attacking Miri...AA is unloaded there too, although Allies seem to have retreated a good chunk of bombers from the SRA. Perhaps they are hiding at one of the Dutch level 4 runways. Have to assume that they are.

Looks like two days for Mersing invasion...

Shokaku and her sis are headed to just off Ceylon...

Thundering herd is being attacked again...

Rabaul invasion is standing to...waiting for surface ships and Taiyo which should be one day. Taking Manus today, and will be able to fly search from there tomorrow. Search from Tarawa tomorrow too, plenty of subs watching the Marshalls approach.

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Dec 11, 1941

The leading task force in the Thundering Herd is the AS Otus….and she simply can't take 40cm hits.