The Good The Bad & The Indifferent

[Canoerebel]

2/3/45

Battle of Gunzan: Mixed shock attack and deliberate attack by Allied army is immediately decisive.

[Canoerebel]

2/3/45

Battle of Hong Kong: 3:1 attack drops forts to 2 with heavier damage to the Japanese. Perhaps most significant, Chinese losses were light. HK will fall next time or the time after, I think.

[Canoerebel]

2/3/45

Paratroops Assault: This fails.

[Canoerebel]

2/3/45

Para-Assault Taikyu: This one works. Temporarily, at least, Fusan is isolated from the rest of Asia.

[Canoerebel]

2/3/45

Paratroop Assault Patani: Allies land behind Japanese MLR but the lodgment is vulnerable...but John wish to fight here? Probably.

[FlyByKnight]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

"Hunting wabbits" is one of John's signature comments early in the game, when KB is on the prowl.

Good thing the hunter is now becoming the hunted. Even if he hasn't quite realized it.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: JeffK

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn



Hunting Wabbits!

But its Duck Season!!!

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

Some of the best smallmouth bass fishing in the world. Less than a 2 minute walk from the house. Bald Eagles fish there too, along with otters, kingfishers...ect.... somewhere down the line I try to get in.

Don't know why I gave up fishing. Have not been out in a decade. Smallmouth are the best in my opinion. Probably because you can fish for them in streams that don't require a boat. Funny, I spent ten years on merchant ships and I hate being in boats. I like walking and wading around in water. Largemouth are just to easy.

[Canoerebel]

2/3/45

With so much going on this was a fun turn to watch and then handle for tomorrow.

Funnel Cakes: More troops (strat mode) and supply are ready to unload, but I'm pulling most ships back to Death Star, waiting to see if John strikes. The engineers are ashore to build the airfield (currently level 1). While that's going on, the priority is to handle enemy attacks by air and sea.

Fancy Pants: Hong Kong will fall very soon. Suchow should fall tomorrow. Several hundred points scored for enemy units destroyed here and at Gunzan.

[CaptBeefheart]

Congratulations on the successful Korean lodgement. In the Small World Department, I was in "Taiden" (nowadays "Daejeon"--or "Big Field" in English, a city about as exciting as its name) on the weekend (November 11 and 12) to visit a brewery operated by a French pal. Some of the customers at the brewery were USAF guys from "Gunzan" (AKA Gunsan).

You might have a decent shot at Russian activation if you can round up all those troops on the south coast of Korea. Worst case it would force him to depopulate China to make up for losses.

Cheers,
CC

[Canoerebel]

2/4/45

Naval Battle of Gunzan: John commits his combat TF in a very unfriendly environment and pays a price but not a crippling one.

CB Iwaki and CA Chikuma flag the TF. It first encounters a USN sub, then PT boats, then a good USN CL/DD TF, and then more PT boats. The sum total of the action is three IJN DDs sunk, CB Iwaki taking a torp and some shell hits, and the USN losing CL Astoria.

From a Victory Points standpoint, this is a standoff or modest enemy victory. From a war standpoint its a major Allied victory. The enemy TF is hit hard and is now loitering behind Allied lines.

That John would commit in such an environment is eye-opening. I know he's bringing more...but how soon will it arrive? Do I have a few days now to unload more troops and supply or should I wait one more day to make sure Iwaki and Chikuma clear the area? That's the question I'm dealing with now.

To replace CL Astoria (and her DD escorts, which now need ammo), a stouter TF flagged by CA Baltimore just arrived.

This is a good place in which to fight. The circumstances and OOBs are favorable. But at some point I sure hope the Victory Points total reflects my optimism, because it didn't work out that way today.

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

Some of the best smallmouth bass fishing in the world. Less than a 2 minute walk from the house. Bald Eagles fish there too, along with otters, kingfishers...ect.... somewhere down the line I try to get in.

Don't know why I gave up fishing. Have not been out in a decade. Smallmouth are the best in my opinion. Probably because you can fish for them in streams that don't require a boat. Funny, I spent ten years on merchant ships and I hate being in boats. I like walking and wading around in water. Largemouth are just to easy.

It's fun. I've been doing a lot of panfishing since spring. Using a light rod/reel setup - 4 or 6 lb line. Catching a Smallie is like catching a Sailfish. They fight like hell, they even fly up out of the water like a Sailfish. Caught some beautiful Sunfish. When the water gets up Largemouth Bass are around. And fishing can be as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be. $20 at Walmart, you can leave with 1 thing or a arms full. I stay on the "cheap cheap" side although Ive been looking at a Okuma Ceymar C-25 spinning reel, must be from playing as IJ. Reviews show it to be very good reel for $35.

Lots of good youtube vids on panfishing. Bait type, bait color, cranking/jigging... always something new to try. Orange did very well this summer... along with me making the bait do a pole dance under water... the fish can't resist.[:D]

[MakeeLearn]

There must be a shortage of Saki for the Kamikazes.

[JohnDillworth]

Why is this eye opening? John always sends a fast surface combat or bombardment task force to every major landing. You usually have a smaller task force, generally fight to a draw and then he does the same thing the next day or so with the same result. Ships go to the yard and on to the next landing. John does this all the time expecting to to shoot up the entire landing force and he never gets through and you never have quite enough muscle to give him a real black eye. The only difference this time is an allied torpedo actually hit something. BTW, are your surface combatants up to date on their refits? That would help

[Canoerebel]

I had lots more combat TFs a hex away, including big ones with big ships. John's TF never got past the outer ring of defenses, though. But, yes, so many times results like these have happened.

Most of my combat ships are fully upgraded. Most of my carriers aren't.

[Canoerebel]

2/4/45

Funnel Cakes: The armor advances a hex and should chew up the retiring defenders of Gunzan tomorrow.

Fancy Pants: Suchow held today but should fall the day after tomorrow. I'm optimistic that Hong Kong falls tomorrow.

[Canoerebel]

2/4/45

KB East: Roaming the South Seas.

[witpqs]

IMO, leave them at Pago Pago. If the enemy carriers continue eastward you have a chance for a nighttime destroyer intercept to menace the enemy carriers with torpedoes.

[Canoerebel]

I've done so, and increased CAP to about 225 fighters.

[BBfanboy]

Re: the Kukong pocket, the terrain may be X3 but if they are truly cut off and have been fighting they will be out of supply very soon, if not already. That means they fight at 25% AV which more than makes up for the terrain - and their disablements don't recover very fast. If you have some PP the Chinese units should have decent leaders.