The death of Isolationism! Kaleun vs freeboy

[freeboy]

K attackerd around Palmyria.. I tried to bushwack his tranports and he sank a Carrier and hit the second.. oops
OK.. not much to do but state the obvious.. stay well away from the enemy in early 42...
But I had a lot of searching going on and didn't see those Carriers boob hhooo

[freeboy]

Not too much now..now it is the slow grind away as K moves toward total dominance in SRA

I cannot believe I still hold Rabaul.. boy would I love to have that base in 4 months when I can actually use it!
the second carrier attacked near Palmyria is limping back to Pearl.. looks ok! Lucky me

[freeboy]

I was able to limp Sara back to PH crazy how the floatation kept going up and down like a yoyo.. started in the twenties would go up.. then drop.. then up so more then down.. all the while system damage and speed where in the danger Zone...

I did not see those Carriers lurking anywhere around and had alot of long rang search going out... after they where hit.. sent the Dead one at 99 sys and high fires back towward PH.. sent Sara toward Palmyria away from those raiding carriers then headed east and finally back up towards PH scary after losing carriers in another pbem game.. I just saw those easy prey ships near Palmyria and said.. wtf and let loose! oopsi never never get bored as the Allies and look for excitment early

[kaleun]

Rabaul falls!

[freeboy]

I was trying to pull all my troops out, managed the large Tank unit, and right when the ships show up the guys surrneder.. what wussies!
so Rabaul falls.. it is getting on in May...

[kaleun]

Weekend update. CL Sumatra had a habit of sneaking out to Kragen and making a mess of my transports. [X(]I guess I sorted that out now.

[kaleun]

[:D]

[kaleun]

Situation in Burma

[kaleun]

China

[kaleun]

CL Sumatra with two torpedoes inside tries to withdraw to Soerabaja. The Betties have something to say about it!
Batavia is a pain in the butt. However the defences are being eroded. The problem has been too few support troops, so it takes too long to recover disruption.

[kaleun]

May 23rd 42.
Batavia's defences are down to 4.
Meanwhile, at Jemmel or whatever the name of that port East of Brunei, Freeboy had assembled a small fleet of PT boats, to what purpose, I haven't the foggiest. To prevent those guys interfering with my grandiose plans, a fast surface action fleet was sent to tangle with them.[8|]

[kaleun]

Batavia area[:)]

[freeboy]

I am amazed that he isn't in charge of Borneo yet.. my defenses there are some old guys with sling shots and dart guns

[kaleun]

I don't want Borneo yet, I want to conquer Java first, then mop up Borneo.

[kaleun]

[:D]He finally figured out where the Betties were coming from. He's been bombing the unoccupied Kragen airfield all this time.
Batavia forts are down to 3, but he seems to be withdrawing troops from there

[freeboy]

your mop is broken !
Java is a weak sister... only thing I have strong now is OZ and India.. and PH
soon we will begin to see a better US pressence with outr 5th flattop... one has been sunk![:@]

These are the slow times for the allies

[kaleun]

Batavia falls!

[freeboy]

booo hisss stinker K takes the poor dutchies and SRA into the poorer east asia co-failure sphere.. beware your doom will come riding upon a 1000lb ap bomb!

[kaleun]

May 27th, action in Java

[kaleun]

Japanese landings in Tjilap (To block the troops retreating from Batavia are heavily oposed, and create quite a bit of air action