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And then all the aircraft landed and they started into the naval movement and the first of the sub combats, this one
in Singapore's harbor and it seems the Allies found one of my subs and attacked it or I attacked first or something.
I suffered two hits on a good sub. I'm going to leave him out there if I can....he's still got good TT's to launch.

This next contest is one that almost didn't happen. As I recall these DD's were escorts for a troop transportation TF
headed for Aparii and were following that TF and it seems that one of them sighted a sub and they were off to the
chase. The search was unproductive and no DC's were dropped. Empty sonar signals was the sound in background.

And THEN there was this bombardment of Kota Bharu ( I finally learned how to spell it ) and it sppears that there's a
firestorm going on ashore and that means more damage than we see now. The BB's alone were the ones shooting because
I may need the little ones to be my shield from Allied ships. I think I may have put a TT into Prince of Wales and the
Repulse both. If that's true then maybe I won't have to wait before too long before the Miri lake is for private
patrons only.

And THEN the Japs invaded Wake. The initial landing was rapid and all the troops got off the boats. I'm making this up
because I have no idea what's going on there. I'm assuming they got ashore because as I recall there going to be a shock
attack happen just because of the stacking limits or something. It's an very small island after all.

And then there was the invasion of Guam.

And then there was this imvasion of Kota Bharu and the escorts did their jobs and opened a way for the troops to make
it ashore and into the tree-line. We're here to stay. [ Quote from a diary ]

And the Japs landed at Vigan and Legaspi and here on the coast of Thailand and I posted this one because I thought maybe
it might be time to post something again. Once every combat or 4 minutes whichever comes first.

And then there were landings at the smaller ports on the coast of Malaya north of Singora and the lower southern part of
Thailand. And then there were these landings at Kieveng. Light losses and we're ashore to stay.

And then the Japs landed at Hollandia.

And then follow-on forces landed at Kota Bharu and then the Japs started their landings at Wewak.

And then there was THIS combat in China somewhere.

And then the shock attack at Wake happened and the Japs took it on the nose.
But maybe I can get the CA's and CL's to bombard one more time to even the
playing field a little bit. He's got lots of guns.

And then the Allies tried some counter-battery at Kota Bharu and got clobbered. They might want to just sneak out the
back way and leave the city to me.

So um......after the combat replay finished I saved the game as #4 and then used Windows Explorer to move a copy
of the file to my Tracker folder replacing the #4 that was there from yesterday ( 07Dec, T1 ) and started up
Tracker and asked for it to read a turn and it did. Sort of. It shows alerts now, shows T2 data, but the date
and last turn loaded are wrong. Tracker isn't keeping up with the turns. For some reason. Maybe it's because
of the error message I clicked over....something about bases not being the same size. Or maybe the names of the
bases aren't the same size or something. That's probably it. I'll see if I can make it do it again and grab a
copy of the screen for a cut and paste of the error. To post it.

I've deleted the trackerdb.* files and started over with the new T2 file and it initialized the database and
now there's no alerts.....I'll have to resort to combat reporter for those now. But the problem now is that
it's referring to a ship that I don't own. I looked around and it's not being build, it's not in the fleet,
I don't know where it's come from. I can't depend on Tracker for all my game navigation needs. This means
I can't give Brian the maximum game I might could have. I'll have to do everything by hand and use my MK-1
eyeballs to gauge the rates of increase and decrease at the ports etc. Okay, so be it. Meanwhile I'm
switching my RHS II anti-AI game to the stock version. It doesn't mean a restart fortunately.

So um.....I'm starting the procedures I go through when I process my moves. The first thing I do is check out the
air losses, especially after the Pearl strikes and the Manila and Singapore port raids. I'm thinking I got off
really light this time. It's not going to be so easy from now on however because the surprise bonus is a thing of
the past now. He's going to have CAP's and LRCAP's and so on going on.

I just now discovered that I lost 33 pilots today to wounds or still missing and I expect the operational tempo
to remain the same or increase in the near future so I guess this is what I have to look forward to. And some
of those pilots were some of the best too. I'm tempted to start culling the squadrons for some TRACOM pilots
but I don't want to do that just yet because most of those pilots are already in the training squadrons or they
are busy in the slot they occupy currently. I'll look into it and give you a full report.

Here's what I'm talking about. This squadron needed a better leader so I replaced him. Also I noticed a bunch
of TRACOM-qualified pilots and I'm wondering how many of them I can cull. I need TRACOM pilots but not at the
expense of the operational squadrons. What's the best mix you guys?

The squadron above has 5 TRACOM pilots out of 17 pilots so I took all but a couple and filled in the squadron
with some 60+ pilots so it's almost as good as new.

If I recall correctly submarine I-121 took two hits from DC's and is now limping to Saigon with major damage.
I'm thinking it's going to make it there and be ready for duty in about a month yard time. Maybe not that long.