GJ (Allies) - Mr.Kane (Japan) - The allies declare their defeat

[BBfanboy]

"Sitting on their hands" is a good English expression, especially if you are using it in connection with anything Percival is not doing ...[;)]

[witpqs]

(is this an understandable english?

Perfectly!

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

"Sitting on their hands" is a good English expression, especially if you are using it in connection with anything Percival is not doing ...[;)]

ahahahahahahahha
[:D]

Thanks!

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

(is this an understandable english?

Perfectly!

Thanks, when i try to elaborate some sentences that are a bit less basic than usual, i Always fear my written english would fail

[ny59giants]

Don't forget there is a difference between English and American. I speak American and had trouble understanding some English years ago when I was up in northern England.

[GreyJoy]

Well, yes, i'd be happy if i could speak like a 5 years old american, english or australian child

Guys... June 17.... Bombay is abbandoned! The siege is left! 200,000 japanese are moving back to Poona!!!! GOD!

Tomorrow we'll be Landing at Tarawa...

Ha he really abbandoned the idea of taking Bombay? Now that the forts are down to zero!?!?!? Is it a trap?!!?!?!?

[GreyJoy]

The KB is still at Bombay...so i have to fear only the LBA in the pacific for the moment... and if the KB moves back... well...i have many units waiting to get back to India and be used against him in Burma etc....

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: njp72

Yep, in the end he got there too late.

I would argue you have to blockade Karachi before the Aussies roll up.

The Japanese lack the firepower and the staying power for sieges.

Heroic but doomed, very Japanese

As a note: In our game I was one turn away from off loading the Aussie's at Karachi before the KB showed up and everybody ran off board to safety I can endorse that njp72 knows from which he has experience [;)]

[Crackaces]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Well, yes, i'd be happy if i could speak like a 5 years old american, english or australian child

Guys... June 17.... Bombay is abbandoned! The siege is left! 200,000 japanese are moving back to Poona!!!! GOD!

Tomorrow we'll be Landing at Tarawa...

Ha he really abbandoned the idea of taking Bombay? Now that the forts are down to zero!?!?!? Is it a trap?!!?!?!?

Just one uneducated thought GreyJoy ...it might be that the units at Bombay have become disrupted/disabled to the point where 2:1 cannot be achieved and there is not enough forces to continue the siege/exchange bad units for good .. and thus an abandonment and reset to a different plan rather than stalemate leading to eventual destruction when your reinforcements arrive... and eventually they will arrive ..

[Cribtop]

What a fight! Did he bail out too soon? I doubt it. I bet his army is a mess. Is he still bombing to suppress forts? If so, maybe he's coming back, but I doubt it.

[GreyJoy]

June 18, 1942

The allies landed at Tarawa against the 83rd naval guard unit. There was no fight to be called a fight. The 24th division, supported by tanks and combat eng destroyed it immediately.

Now the Gilberts are in danger. Good.

Now we need yo be carefull in india. He will be fighting in the continent i guess.... Time for a war of manouvre...

[crsutton]

A nice fight GJ. But if he does not crack you in India, and I don't think he will, he will be in the same position as Rader. Over extended and he should lose the war fairly quickly. A failed attack such as India or Oz just burns through so much fuel and resources for Japan.

[GreyJoy]

June 19, 1942

While Bombay breathes again (forts up to 2 in 4 days!) and while the main body of the combined Fleet seems to be deploying at Colombo, the allies are consolidating in CENTPAC. We're sending lots of base forces, Engineers, tanks etc to the islands around Tarawa and Tabiutea. The idea is to occupy strongly this area of the pacific, so to start threatening the overextended left flank of the Japanese penetration at Suva.
From what i can tell, the positions held by the allies at Horn Island, Noumea, Pago Pago and now tarawa-Tabiutea can really put in danger the japanese conquests in the Solomons.

In China i think he's redeploying again, probably trying for the North another time. However i do think he cannot keep all those divisions bound in India foreever without conquering China... really too little units will be available for garrisoning the pacific and the DEI.

Don't really know what he wants to do now with India. In an email he said that the campaign isn't over again... probably he may want to attack Dehli area and so to threaten Karachi's flank... but without taking Bombay and with an army of 2000 AVs ready to get out of there i don't know how that strategy would be doable. The Kb remains necessary in India...as soon as the KB moves away i don't think he has the strenght to keep the naval Embargo...and if the sealanes are open, the masses i can send to India may really be a problem for him...

Will be really interesting!

[GreyJoy]

This is the strategic map, with the allied strongpoints and the most recent offensive operation (SOPAC and CENTPAC), threatening the overxtended japanese conquests in the Fijii

[Canoerebel]

Kudos for your opponent for doing something big and fun on an epic scale! Now, though, he's going to have to pay the piper. He's going to have big problems everywhere.

How much did it help you to go through with the previous experience vs. Rader under your belt?

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Kudos for your opponent for doing something big and fun on an epic scale! Now, though, he's going to have to pay the piper. He's going to have big problems everywhere.

How much did it help you to go through with the previous experience vs. Rader under your belt?

How much?
A LOT!
but the thing that really thought me the most has been my ongoing game against QBall... untill you play the other side you don't really know the exact strenght of the japanese forces, their weak spots and their true abilities. Then, a thing that really changes the game is SL. With a stacking limited map, the Whole thing changes prespective and the land war assumes a completely different flavour.
Brad, however, has taught me how to be able to do something offensive even in early 1942... the allies should never simply sir Robin... there's a lot your forces can do in 1942...the japs are strong but only in a single vector (basically where the KB is)...is you let that vector consumes its own energy, you'll find weak spots everywhere else

[ny59giants]

The Gilberts are yours now and the Marshalls will fall soon afterwards. Its just a matter of time. Tabiteuea is the key with its stacking limit (40k) and base potential. A nice place to send your newly arriving SeaBees.

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

The Gilberts are yours now and the Marshalls will fall soon afterwards. Its just a matter of time. Tabiteuea is the key with its stacking limit (40k) and base potential. A nice place to send your newly arriving SeaBees.

Yes, already sent there some of engineer units. And am building cairns, coocktown and portland roads... Soon we're gonna make Suva unholdable.

June 20, 1942

Despite what he said in his mail, i think he's abbandoning India. The KB is still at Colombo but seems that most of the combined fleet is getting back to Singa....

[GreyJoy]

June 21, 1942

I do think the japanese army is really retreating from India. No more air units are present on the front (Surat, Poona or anything near our lines). We've saved Dehli moving there the 5th Indian Division, who repulsed an attack of the enemy tanks and destroyed a Whole regiment in the counterattack.

Anyway, the main AP/AKs are already moving back to PH, leaving back only the xAP and xAKs...things i can lose.

Tarawa should be secure now. 1 full division, 2 Tank Bns, 1 Artillery unit, 1 Marine CD guns unit, some combat engineers and 200 mines. Enough.

Now it's time to move units, supplies and fuel to Oz...

[paullus99]

Keep moving, hitting and moving - if you can keep him reacting to you, all the better.....