Luskan v DadMan: A Banana Republic?

[Admiral DadMan]

I've committed some serious tactical blunders - overthinking most likely, and just plain violation of military principles.

I'm holding on everywhere I can that I won't get creamed but I'm a year at least away from significant forces to stem the tide...

BTW, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has sortied again from Kawajalein with the KB Death Star headed toward Midway/Pearl. I am deploying to hold whatever line I can.

Saratoga is directed to run away and Yorktown is also standing clear.

[Admiral DadMan]

Day Air attack on TF at 34,52

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-21 Sally x 45

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD John D. Ford, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AS Canopus, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Tanager, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Quail, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

So much for sneaking out of Manila by going west instead of South...

[Mr.Frag]

Again, he isn't the first allied opponent to loose to this little gambit (thanks to Frag).

Glad you liked that one ... it's dirty, rotten, evil, and a few other unprintable things I can think of [X(]

[Admiral DadMan]

Dadman was bombarding my advancing troops with Anzac CAs and CLs. Why he didn't FT Sopac out of there before my troops took them down I'll never know.

I wasn't thinking correctly, I needed more sea lift, and that was on the way, just not fast enough. I feared his Nell/Betty A/Gs based at Noumea.

And no, it wasn't Nimitz commanding, it was Kimmel... RIP you bugger. As to defensing this gambit, I would have had to grasp the full impact of it to have gotten the 2nd Marines on the hop. I'm not that perceptive.

[Raverdave]

ORIGINAL: Admiral DadMan

Day Air attack on TF at 34,52

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-21 Sally x 45

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD John D. Ford, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AS Canopus, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Tanager, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Quail, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

So much for sneaking out of Manila by going west instead of South...

Break your Tfs down to one ship..........by having three or more you are making things way too easy for him. IIRC in the first game against Luskan I lost close to 100 ships in under two weeks..........in our current PBEM I only lost about 20 of the ships fleeing the PI and DEI.

[Admiral DadMan]

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

Break your Tfs down to one ship..........by having three or more you are making things way too easy for him. IIRC in the first game against Luskan I lost close to 100 ships in under two weeks..........in our current PBEM I only lost about 20 of the ships fleeing the PI and DEI.

Good point. You'd think with all the hours invested in playing/testing, I'd think to do these things. I guess that's why Mogami always liked playing me.

[Admiral DadMan]

Well, more of the same for me, as he continues to kick, my butt out of the Philipines and DEI. He's taken Clark Field, PI, and Tarakan, near Borneo. Losing Clark Field, meant the loss of some 50 aircraft, mostly because I didn't want to spend the PPs to move them. An error in retrospect.

Moulemein fell last turn, Rangoon is next. He's banging away at Alor Star pretty hard. I imagine it will only take another week.

So, it's more subs and flubs.

He holds the initiative, and he knows it

[Luskan]

Well, a bit of R and R is scheduled for half my hard working navy, while the other half continues to roll forward. Balikpapan and Samarinda are next on the menu and they won't last long, which will give me enough resources to stay on even keel for the next few weeks as I expand my industries to expand my war effort.

In Burma I think Dadman is going to get cut off and beaten - the reason my Malayan advance was so pathetic is because the extra two divisions I usually send to malaya are in burma.

Alor star is shitting me. The brits have learnt how to bomb and crippled a dozen transports (only sank one) last turn. I'm still sinking his ships, but I'm more concerned about making some progress in malaya before he evacuates all the units I'd hoped to trap and kill, like the aussies, and the big Singapore command HQ etc.

[Admiral DadMan]

ORIGINAL: Luskan

Alor star is shitting me. The brits have learnt how to bomb and crippled a dozen transports (only sank one) last turn. I'm still sinking his ships, but I'm more concerned about making some progress in malaya before he evacuates all the units I'd hoped to trap and kill, like the aussies, and the big Singapore command HQ etc.

I'm training them to be able to blast the crap out of anything that float on water...

"I am the law, and the law is NOT mocked!"

I have committed a few more strategic blunders, which will in time make this bugger "Luskan the Butcher" all the harder to crush. In a few years...

[Admiral DadMan]

So, He has now taken Alor Star in his bid to slowly swallow up the Maylay Pennisula. Hardly unexpected. Performed a nice end-around by grabbing Moulemein and cutting off Rangoon. I was too stupid not to abandon Rangoon or station troops along a blocking path.

Looks like he's mounting something from Kendari perhaps into Timor to cut the supply lines to Java.

KB has apparently departed CenPac and is parts unknown. I had feared a swipe at Midway, but I'm guessing he was just trolling for chum.

IJN SubCom has set a blockade along the West Coast near San Francisco, and I am working as best I can to counter that threat with what I have on hand.

[Luskan]

Well my sub net is for your hoardes of brutalised battleships limping home. I'm so ready for them.