WW2 Grand Strategy Question SEA BASING - Pacific At War PO Version

[larryfulkerson]

Again I think I've found most of the main Jap ships and it seems to me that the Kudo Buti hasn't moved the whole game. And the Japs are having a hard time reducing Singapore and have called in a CV to back up the BB's. There's two British CV's at the Admiralty Islands and they have weathered several Jap air attacks the survived just fine so I believe I can take the American CV's out that way as well. The Japs don't have very many aircraft on-hand so maybe I can get a lot of furballs started to make them go away.

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[larryfulkerson]

In going through all my ships I came to DD Division 4. It's down to it's last 3 DD's out of a lot. And there's no more DD's on-hand besides the Gleeves-Benson Class and it's already full of those. So I guess I should assign this ship to light duty. Like escort of units from Pearl to Johnson Island or something.
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[larryfulkerson]

I'm the blue dots in this image. The Communist Chinese are in the north and seem to be doing rather well. Notice that one of my units has staked out a route heading south to cut off the supply of the Jap units. The Nationalist Chinese are in the south and they have formed a front line that the Japs are having a really hard time breaking through. The Japs are really low on supply. I have a partisan in the Haiphong area attempting to cut the line of supply to those Japs just north of Hanoi. It occurs to me that airfields in north China look like they may be within range of the Japanese Home Islands. I'll see if I can take advantage of that somehow.

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[larryfulkerson]

I found a Jap CV all by itself just offshore of Malaya. So I'm going to do a maximum effort strike using 41 Hurricane's and 22 Spitfire II's. Their proficiency is only 46% so I don't think it will survive but at least I'll get one or two of the Jap bombers. I'm going to bring a lot more air power over here to attack on turn two because I'm not going to get a better chance to do some significant damage. There's not even an escort vessel for the AA support it could provide.

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[larryfulkerson]

I've decided to make some attacks on the next two islands looking north from Santa Isabel. I've got the ships all doing a maximum effort but I doubt that the attacks at New Georgia Islands will do much damage but I have high hopes for the attacks at Bouganville.

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[larryfulkerson]

When moving my British TF I discovered a small stack of Jap ships and it appears that one of them my be a BB. So I decided to sacrifice my planes to do the most damage I can. I can replace the planes but his ships are gone when they are sunk so I believe I can afford it better than he can.

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[larryfulkerson]

I discovered a Jap CV by itself, no naval escort but lots of LBA but regardless of the LBA I've decided to do a maximum effort strike to see if I can damage the CV but my effort is so week I doubt if that will happen. Probably I'll just damage a few planes. It's worth the effort however.

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[larryfulkerson]

My attack at Bouganville was successful in that I captured a port and airfield on the island. Now to clear out the rest of the island. I think my ships helped a lot.

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[larryfulkerson]

I appear to have sunk the IJN Takao Class CA and the Yamato Class BB has suffered some significant damage. Also, the Mogami, a CA, also was damaged. And some paint was scratched on the Nagara/Kuma/Sendai Class CL. CA Tone had two ships in the unit and one of them was sunk. So I sunk a total of two ships from that entire attack. I wonder if Elmer is going to heal his wounded ships at all.

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[larryfulkerson]

I successfully invaded a port with overwhelming support from my ships. I'm making progress. The next big island to invade is probably New Britain and it's port at Rabaul.

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[larryfulkerson]

I see where three of my squadrons evaporated and I lost a boat load of planes, but I damaged a Jap CV: Zuiho and CVE Unyo. Plus one Jap NVL ( Night fighter I believe ). But it's going to take several turns to replace the planes that were lost. I'm wondering if Elmer will heal his damaged ships.

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[larryfulkerson]

I did a follow up attack on New Georgia Islands but didn't seem to accomplish much. I guess my guys are tired and need some refit. I need to leave the ships where they are for the support they will provide.

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[larryfulkerson]

I found a friendly airfield on Borneo near Brunei and I'm using it to do a maximum effort on a small stack of Jap ships near Singapore. My aircraft probably won't survive because of the predictable response of the Jap LBA to my invasion of "his" territory. I'm thinking of sending some fighters to Brunei to act as CAP. It probably wouldn't survive either.

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[larryfulkerson]

I just received the 1st and 5th Marine Companies so I thought I'd throw them at Wake Island to see if I can't take it easily. I'm going to provide some ship support just as soon as I find who is closest to Wake. Most of my ships are in the South Pacific right now. I believe there's some CA's near Midway I can employ.

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[larryfulkerson]

I found an open port on the north coast of New Britain so I decided to pour some troops into it. I'd sure like to own Rabaul and all those airfields near there. Also, I have a follow up attack scheduled at Bouganville. Also, I have a coast road clearing attack scheduled at Madang. Also, I'm bombing a Jap remnant NE of Lea.

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[larryfulkerson]

I detected a large stack of Jap ships and 4 of them are the big boys. I'm going to make a maximum effort to strike them with my Beaufort's even though my aircraft probably won't survive the strike it'll be worth it if I can sink or damage one of them.

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