Aussie Affair, Beta's Twilight

[Luskan]

A handful of big bases is easy prey for allied uber bombers.
Easier to do 20 medium bases.

They were all at full TOE.

[Raverdave]

ORIGINAL: WhoCares

Did you send the british fleet to bombard Tokyo or do you just not return ships when requested???

Nah, I followed orders and sent them back. I'd rather loose PPs than give Luskan some extra "free" game points.

[Raverdave]

ORIGINAL: Luskan

Another very quiet turn. I just found 50+base forces sitting on their asses doing nothing

So we have a few quiet turns and he ends up "Finding" 50 base units just sitting on their collective arses'?
[8|] Brillant.

[Raverdave]

Still not much happening. We are both busy just sorting out supply issues. Combat is limited to yet another raid on Rabal just to keep their heads down, but there is little left there to bomb.

[Luskan]

And play is slowed now that I have a bit of an IT issue. Getting there though.

[Raverdave]

His IT issue is that he can't find the "Any" key.[:D]

[51st Highland Div]

ORIGINAL: Raverdave

His IT issue is that he can't find the "Any" key.[:D]

Yeah i have a problem finding that as well...must be the European keyboard [:'(]

[Raverdave]

Quick update........ Luskan is still MIA with 'puter problems so everything is in a holding patten. We will get back to the war as soon as banananananananana boy has got it fixed.

[Luskan]

puter fixed but now away with work. 24 hours and play will resume.

[EUBanana]

ORIGINAL: WhoCares

Did you send the british fleet to bombard Tokyo or do you just not return ships when requested???

Anyway, just add your experiences to the Wiki so we can document all the facettes of this part of the game [8D]

Didn't return any ships. They were mostly in the Pacific so I couldnt even if I wanted to. [;)]

Winston wanted a CV and two BBs back in 1942, that cleaned out my PPs in good order.

[Raverdave]

Well I got a move from the banana boy and it was not a turn that I enjoyed watching. I have been trying to sus out what was on the Tarawa group of Islands without alerting ratbrain what I was upto, not easy to do, because I didn't want to make a move and find the jap CV force sitting waiting for me. So instead having not seen or heard anything on the intel screen, and having had a couple of subs sitting one hex away and not seeing any ships move in or out, I decide to do some recon by fire and sent in the USMC Recon Battalion who promptly shock attacked some 700+ jap troops dug in. The losses where so heavy that I fear that the entire unit will be lost next turn. Well at least I now know what he has there.[8|]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/05/43

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TF 1108 troops unloading over beach at Tarawa, 85,91



Allied ground losses:
186 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Tarawa

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 600 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 713 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles

Allied assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0)



Allied ground losses:
193 casualties reported

[Oliver Heindorf]

recon by force, nothing unusual but I think there is no way out...

[Raverdave]

Another turn paaes with little or no action. My force on Tarawa is destroyed as I had thought. Not much else to report except to say that the logistical arm is flat out and will be for the next few months.

[Luskan]

Pretty quiet.

[Raverdave]

......................almost too quiet.

[51st Highland Div]

Yes he must be up to something...[:D]

[Luskan]

Air battles appeared this turn to spice things up.

Raver has put hundreds of aircraft in his last base in northern china (completely cut off from supply) not sure how this is possible to maintain, but it was a big airstrike. Seems China is no longer one big happy training ground for my pilots.

At Kendai Raver launched 130 P-38s with a few bombers in tow. My 20 odd fighters met them and I lost 22, Raver lost 10 in the air to air combat and another 6 on the way home, so 22 to 16. Kendari is harder to defend than all the other bases because there are no other great airfields in close proximity.

I sank a couple of allied subs. nothing too exciting. And murdered those yanks on Tarawa.

[Raverdave]

22 Jap planes for 16 of my P-38s and I will point out that these guys were greenhorns. It is a good ratio that i can sustain but Luskan can't, and the ratio will only get better in my favour as time goes on. As I said, these guys were very green with exp of an average of 58 !

[Capt. Harlock]

Raver lost 10 in the air to air combat and another 6 on the way home, so 22 to 16.

I realize that this is getting into the microsoopic details of the game, but does losing planes on the way home give Raver a better chance to rescue the pilots?

[Luskan]

Nope - the sharks eat them.