The Power of Inexperience / GreyJoy(A)-Rader(J)

[GreyJoy]

Yes guys, i will focus on the islands with more potential. At the same time i'd like to remain as flexible as possible in which island to take as target....Rader is already bringing troops and supplies to the theatre (my Cats on the torrent strait keep on seeing ships coming and going)...so for sure once we get to Shortland then things will become difficult...but hey, if he's forced to bring assets here...that means less air and naval assets for India...[;)]
If i can manage to estabilish a secure base at PM and Shortland...well then i'll be in a position to decide where and when to strike.
If he wants to contest this advance he'll need his Netties and his Zeros...but he needs them in India too...so we're going to force Rader to take a difficult decision...at least that's what i hope!
 
No turns till tomorrow...Busy day for my opponent [:(]...
 
See you tomorrow gents

[pws1225]

This is a great AAR. Great job GreyjJoy. You're doing us noobs proud!

Regards, Paul

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: pws1225

This is a great AAR. Great job GreyjJoy. You're doing us noobs proud!

Regards, Paul

Thanks Paul! Glad you like it [:)]


These are my two squadrons equipped with Spitfires... These guys improved so much during the last months of the Karachi defence

[SoliInvictus202]

such pilots will prove invaluable during your time of reconquest!

[CaptBeefheart]

Good to see my old buddy Cooper-Slipper doing well.

Cheers,
CC

[GreyJoy]

Oct 23, 24 1942

Another day of pain and blood over Karachi.

The usual 350 fighter sweeps, followed by a wave of 200 Netties escorted by 130 fighters. Results are mixed. 60 planes of mine against his 130...but the Netties got through and sunk the CLs Danae and Mauritius (the latter being really a bad loss).

Finally the para-drop at Multan happened. Now Rader has a direct rail line between Jodpur and Multan and i bet he's already moving by rail his troops (they got out of the desert the last turn). We've ordered a massed bombing raid for tomorrow in order to close the Multan AF and to keep it closed as long as possible. Now everything will be decided on how fast his troops can approach Hyderabad...

The KB is moving back...she had not sunk anything this turn...lot of fuel burnt for nothing.
We keep on reinforcing Tulagi-Lunga-Tessafaronga. Now 100 Wildcats are operating there providing CAP and 35 Dive Bombers are ready to smash anything that dares to come close. Lunga has already reached level 4 AF and already has 1000 AVs. Soon 4Es will be able to be based there. Moving in Air and Naval HQs, along with AAs, and base forces.
Lot of naval activity near Rabaul. Now 11 units spotted there...must mean he's finally reinforcing this theatre...hopefully it will be too late for him to contest the Solomons.
5 US bombing squadrons are moving from CT to Oz...soon Oz will have 10 American Bombing groups.

[Fishbed]

35 dive-bombers ain't gonna be "ready to smash anything that dares to come close", but I like your spirit! Keep'on fighting mate [;)]

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: Fishbed

35 dive-bombers ain't gonna be "ready to smash anything that dares to come close", but I like your spirit! Keep'on fighting mate [;)]

Well, let's say that 35 dive bombers with very well trained pilots will be enough to stop or at least to interdict the typical "Tokyo Express"...however, if he wants to bombard Lunga, i've placed there 2 Marine CD units and a Naval CD unit...just in case[;)]

Strange enough he's not reconning Lunga, nor we've spotted any naval search plane around those skies...Seems that Rader has completely given up the whole Solomons...i think it's a mistake....if he had counterattack during the first days he could have pushed me back...but now, with 3 mutual supporting bases, with more than 1000 AVs there and with 100 marine fighters (with a decent pool of Wildcats in the backyard)...i think my conquests there are safe.

[GreyJoy]

Forgot to say that i have 4 squadrons of B-25/B-26 ready at Suva to be transfered to Lunga as soon as the AF becomes big enough.

Noumea, Efate and Lungaville keep on growing fast and well. The only real problem remains fuel...i need to make more efforts in this matter in the next weeks.

[GreyJoy]

...i was reading back this AAR when Rader landed in India...wow...seems like a century ago!...however, i was considering the options he had...really think that if he had marched all the way to Dehli and Northern India, landing at the same time at Karachi with the KB in cover...well...there would have been no other options for me rather than a slow and painfull capitulation...at that time i barely have 2500 AVs in the whole India...most of them retreating towards Karachi...with no air cover...no forts to hide beyond...with the KB sitting in front of Karachi forbidding any reinforcement from Aden and with those tank armies ourflanking my poor battered divisions...well it would have been a massacre

[Canoerebel]

Choosing to defend Karachi was a very wise choice, in part because Margaret Lockwood was born there. On the slimmest chance she might return for a visit at any time during the war, the place deserved the utmost protection.

P.S. Among her other noted roles, Lockwood had the lead in Alfred Hitchcock's 1939 suspense movie The Lady Vanishes, a great flick.

[GreyJoy]

[:)]...it's amazing how those beauties appear now different from our 2011 beauty standards! FWIW i remain fixed on the typical beauty from the 70s...thin, blonde and naturally hairy[8D]

However i was really scared when i had to make the choice (Karaci, Bombay or both) cause i remember that everybody was arguing that the x2 bonus of Karachi wasn't comparable with Bombay's 4x .... think i did the right thing that time

[Canoerebel]

Under the peculiar circumstances of your game, Karachi was indeed the right choice.  You intuitively felt that to be the case, and you were rewarded for sticking to your hunch.
 
Under most circumstances, I think Bombay would have been preferable.  That's assuming that the Japanese player wasn't going to delay for three months, and also that you had the American carriers available to attend to supply and reinforcement escort in an emergency.  Had rader come full-bore for Karachi in May 1942, including a landing at Surat or that oddly-named base across the bight, India would have fallen.  Under that scenario, you could have defended Bombay more effectively.
 
But you are to be congratulated for playing the game as you saw it.
 
P.S.  What's this about hairy women?

[jeffk3510]

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

[:)]...it's amazing how those beauties appear now different from our 2011 beauty standards! FWIW i remain fixed on the typical beauty from the 70s...thin, blonde and naturally hairy[8D]

However i was really scared when i had to make the choice (Karaci, Bombay or both) cause i remember that everybody was arguing that the x2 bonus of Karachi wasn't comparable with Bombay's 4x .... think i did the right thing that time

WTF?[&:]

[Canoerebel]

Does the existence of "naturally hairy women" suggest that there are unnaturally hairy women?

Is a naturally hair woman somehow preferable to an unnaturally hairy one?  If so, why?

P.S.  I am hurting my own cause in boosting GreyJoy's AAR count.

[jeffk3510]

I could post a picture, but this is a family friendly environment...but I, too, am curious.

[GreyJoy]

"Naturally hairy" in my mind means...naturally unshaved...I think we all lost that "taste" of beauty...since 1990 (and i do blame the porn industry for that) we slowly got used to a completely shaved woman...a woman that has no more hair...anywhere...which is exactly the opposite of the typical 70s (or even 80s) woman...which shaved only her legs ... i still remember my first GF...even if we were in the early 90s the youngests weren't contaminated by this damned "trand"...
...nowdays it's almost impossible to find that kind of women...everything under 40 is bald like a bowling ball...damned modernity!

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Does the existence of "naturally hairy women" suggest that there are unnaturally hairy women?

Is a naturally hair woman somehow preferable to an unnaturally hairy one?  If so, why?

P.S.  I am hurting my own cause in boosting GreyJoy's AAR count.

This is an "Unnaturally hairy woman"

[GreyJoy]

...and this the "Naturally hairy woman"

...PS: was pretty hard to find images that could fit this family friend forum [:D]

[Canoerebel]

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I just don't know what else to say about this topic and the comments thus far.