Olympic 45

[larryfulkerson]

I have a theory about the appearance of the enemy Batallion that has spawned behind my lines. I think that the Bn. was scheduled
to spawn but I owned the hex so it didn't appear. And then partisans converted the hex and once it was "available" the Bn spawned
automatically. Now I have to deal w/ it. And I've got my hands full at the moment. Maybe I can find a division that isn't doing much and
devote them to rear area clean up.

[larryfulkerson]

The expected reinforcements display says that I'm going to get a boat-load of units after I capture hex 29,61 and the same goes for
the other beach contested. So I'm going to have units coming out of my ears.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T27 front lines: All that's left is some mop-up.

[larryfulkerson]

OK.........T28 and I see these screens:

[larryfulkerson]

T28 and still just mopping up. The ending of this scenario, for me, is kinda anticlimactic.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm going to do the nuclear strike on Nagasaki about 8 months too early just to see what the results are. Pretty cool being able to
sort of duplicate something about real history.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the combat result of dropping the Nuke on Nagasaki. I don't remember assigning some B-17's to the attack but I see there's a
group of them there. Not necessary as it turns out. I see the fallout drifted to the east contaminating lots of Jap terrain.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Jap losses so far. There are two things I wanted to say about that: (1) there's only 4 command groups left and I'm thinking
I should go after them. (2) I didn't get to shoot down very many planes, since they were withdrawn so early. It might behove the Jap
player to go for three-dot attacks w/ his ( or her ) planes because of the shortened period of time of their availability.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's turn 30's front lines. There's not much left to do. The scenario should end after tomorrow's turn. ( Each game turn is one
day simulated. )

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T30 Allied losses:

[larryfulkerson]

I dropped a couple more bridges just for insurance. Might help slow down the flow of supplies to the Jap units that are left.

[larryfulkerson]

It just occurs to me that someone else might want to try out this scenario too. I've attached it below.

Just replace the dot txt w/ dot zip and unzip it and you'll have the lgf_Olympic 45.sce file, the scenario.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what I'm doing w/ the airplanes. Some of them are light green but have them on "rest". I'm resting everybody who is 50% or
less. That seems to give me use of the plane every other turn. Not too bad.

[larryfulkerson]

OK. The scenario ended and evidently I won. Um......I want to play this scenario but from the Jap side and see if it's still playable.
Stay tuned.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the start of the Jap side of things. The Allies are going through their turn, it just started and so far the ships are bombarding and
we've come to a place where I'd like to make a change to the scenario. Steve Sill said something about modding this thing for us and
so, note to Steve: Um.....would it be possible to move the Jap planes at that airfield to some other airfield so that they don't get
bombarded on turn 1 by the Allies? Thanks.

EDIT: That flotilla bombarded those squadrons again later in the combat phase and evaporated all the planes at the airfield. The
Japs won't get the use of them now. I guess.

[larryfulkerson]

It seems that the Japs start the game w/ 265 units in play. I'll show you some of the expected reinforcements in a later post.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the expected reinforcements I promised you. Nobody new on turn 4 but lots of stuff on turns 3 and 5. I'm wondering if any of
the Jap units can reconstitute. I don't remember any Allied units coming back from the dead so I don't expect any Japs to either.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a close up of where the action is taking place. Nothing is happening up north.

[sPzAbt653]

... would it be possible to move the Jap planes at that airfield to some other airfield so that they don't get bombarded on turn 1 by the Allies?

I took a look and actually all the Jap airfields are within range of possible naval bombardment. The turn 1 start locations limit the airfield attacks, but after turn 1 the US player can move those naval units anywhere and attack any of the Jap airfields. So, I don't think there is anything I can do.

I guess maybe we can make excuses and say that if the US player wants to bomb planes instead of the Jap defenders, then there is that trade off ?

[sPzAbt653]

I see the scenario designer (John P. Boomershine) succeeded in getting Elmer to pull off Amphibious Invasions. Hip Hip [&o]