war in the pacific; Willie is Japanese, larry is alllies

[larryfulkerson]

The CV Enterprise entered the game by itself. I added the escorts, 2 CA's and multiple DD's and I ran the group out to near Guadalcanal to join the other CV's, Lexington and Yorktown, both of which are near Rabaul. I'm trying to make a death star.

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[larryfulkerson]

I attacked a Jap unit on Truk just to see the contents of the unit and I didn't suffer any losses because I attacked with one dot but I got a complete rundown of the OOB of the Jap unit. It looks pretty massive.

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[larryfulkerson]

I attacked the southernmost Jap unit and lost nothing but got a handful of Jap planes. I attacked with 3 dots with the P-40's but they didn't lose anybody. That's a good sign.

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[larryfulkerson]

I attacked one of Willie's subchasers and sunk it with the loss of a handful of planes. Plus I damaged a couple of Jap Nate's and an Oscar.

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[larryfulkerson]

During the Jap turn the Japs pushed my unit out of the city but lost next to nothing doing it. I notice that the Jap unit has some organic mortar's.

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[larryfulkerson]

Here's the results of a Jap attack near Macao, China. Again, I lost a lot more than the Japs.

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[larryfulkerson]

I've got a PBY squadron at Kavieng, NZ that has the range to spy the Jap equipment at Truk island. I don't see any aircraft there so I'm pretty sure Willie can't see as far as I can so I'm not so sure he knows where my CV's are etc. I see some Jap DD's there for support. I need to attack them since there's no aircraft to conflict with my attack(s).

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[larryfulkerson]

Before I have moved anybody I have a situation near Rabaul where I'm just about to add the Enterprise group to the other two CV's closer to Rabaul, the Yorktown and the Lexington. There's also a stack full of CA's and DD's nearby to screen my carriers. I'm going to look around to see if I can find his carriers, to see if I have any aircraft cover that I can count on, and move some more LCU's into this area to cover some of these empty ports.

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[larryfulkerson]

I thought I would attack some Jap aircraft to see what happens and I lost more than the Japs so I think I might ought to quit doing that so often

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[larryfulkerson]

I drove the CA Houston out of the Manila harbor and attacked a Jap CL and a Jap DD and I had the range advantage them so I didn't get any harm but I sank the Jap DD. I'm going to retreat back to the Manila harbor for safety.

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[larryfulkerson]

I performed an air strike on a stack of Jap DD's and sank one of them with the damage to my side being one damaged Beaufort. A good trade if you ask me.

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[larryfulkerson]

During the Jap turn Willie floated some LCU's from Japan and when he neared the city of Palanan and my aircraft struck his units and killed a significant portion of them. I believe it was an HQ unit but it had no command squads or porters in it. But it had trucks and horses for mobility I suppose. I notice that it has the 1938 version of rifle squad.

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[larryfulkerson]

Willie pushed one of my infantry units backward with severe losses near Hong Kong. The AVG defended and we traded aircraft, one each. This attack is a problem. I have no reserves nearby to help out and I'm not quite holding back.

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[larryfulkerson]

In an attack on Bangkok Willie's forces lost more than I did. That's a good sign. I can't station any aircraft there because the enemy is too close and he could use that artillery to bombard them and that wouldn't be good. But I can post some aircraft nearby to fly CAP for them.

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[larryfulkerson]

I've got a partisan unit that I managed to walk into Peiking and cleared three of the airfields so Willie will have to occupy them again to get them back. And if he doesn't act quickly I'll be able to clear the other three airfields next turn. I'm wondering what kind of result I would get by attacking his CD guns with my partisan set to ignore losses. I may have to try that.

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[larryfulkerson]

I managed to get one of my Viet Minh units to move onto a hex with a bridge, blow the bridge, then move toward an intact enemy airfield but then ran out of MP's and had to settle for clearing only one airfield. It will be interesting to see how the Japanese respond.

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[larryfulkerson]

Hey you guys, bad news. Willie's dad died and the latest email I received from him was over a week ago so it's looking like he's having to deal with real life issues and it's highly possible that our game has reached an end. I've found a version of this scenario that reportedly has an AI or PO for the Japs. it's called "PAW41-45Axis PO.sce" and I think I may be talked into doing that scenario instead.

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