Parry and Spar, or is it... Reluctant Admiral 4.2 Fulkerson(J) vs Moore (A)

[larryfulkerson]

In addition to everything that has already happened at Loemadjang there was this Allied bombardment attack. And to cap everything
off, my guys there are out of supplies.

[larryfulkerson]

Things could be better at Port Moresby as well. I need more people there yet. My guys are getting beat up.

[larryfulkerson]

One good thing did happen though.......I captured the southern tip of Sumatra......Oosthaven.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm working my way down the list of all TF's and I've just now gotten to the one carrying the second installment of troops for Port
Moresby. It's finally fully loaded and setting off the south around the horn of the island. I expect it to land at PM in about three or four
days.

[moore4807]

First a message from my sponsor.... After feeling crappy all day Friday, it settled into a head cold today. I actually feel better today - thanks to OTC cold medicine. I'm still sleeping a lot though.
(yeah I know, who cares?) but being sick just gave me the right to write any little thing I want...Back to the War!

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 03, 42
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Larry's brought out the whippin stick here, I think this will become his way of cracking open the hard nuts!

Night Naval bombardment of Cebu at 80,86 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga
BB Haruna
CA Aoba
CA Myoko
CA Chokai
CL Abukuma
CL Yura
CL Jintsu
DD Karii
DD Arashio
DD Hamakaze

Allied ground losses:
273 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 10 destroyed, 37 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 20 (3 destroyed, 17 disabled)

Light Industry hits 3
Manpower hits 5
Resources hits 1
Fires 3185
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 29
Port hits 9
Port supply hits 3



CD guns are making a difference at Port Moresby, have to get some supplies flown in there now.

Invasion Support action off Port Moresby (98,130) - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

56 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
DD Akikaze
xAKL Kanjo Maru, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Daitei Maru
xAKL Konsan Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire
AK Awazisan Maru, Shell hits 1



These DD's just came out of repairs at Canton, still no TF 234 to be seen!

ASW attack near Canton Island at 153,143

Japanese Ships
SS RO-62, hits 3

Allied Ships
DD Crane
DD Kilty



Ouch, I didnt see them coming down the road, I'm too distracted at Canton Is. . . poor play on my part.

Ground combat at Oosthaven (48,96)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 4388 troops, 37 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 147
Defending force 2310 troops, 32 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 41

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 127

Allied adjusted defense: 10

Japanese assault odds: 12 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Oosthaven !!!

[larryfulkerson]

Talk about being distracted. I didn't notice until just now that Jim has advanced an Allied unit into the Dill hex to contest ownership
with the 1st Ind Engineer unit there. I'm going to have to do something about that I guess. He will probably own it tomorrow.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's all the ships that are being repaired somewhere. This cut and paste has been doctored to delete the location of the ship(s) for
OPSEC purposes. And there are about 30 more ships that wouldn't fit into the picture.

EDIT: Posted a new picture with all the ships under repair showing ....those at the bottom I forgot to delete the location(s). D'oh.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a rough draft of the situation in the PI. I couldn't seem to get the markers for the aircraft in there. Maybe in a latter picture.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Singapore situation. I blew up the image by 20% to make it easier to see but now you almost can't read the labels. So I guess
the trick is to blow up the image and THEN apply the labels. Now I know.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the Java situation. I've decided to invade from the end caps and move toward the middle from both ends hopefully
simultaneously.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Port Moresby area situation. Again, I couldn't get all the information in there.....airfields have no labels for instance.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Marshall's group situation:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Borneo / Sarawak / North Borneo situation:

[larryfulkerson]

You guys are probably wondering why in the world I'm posting all this "free" intel for Jim to peruse. It's not that I'm saying he's a poor
opponent,and I'm not trying to rub my skills in his face or anything like that......it's just that he's playing the Jap side in a game against
TommyG and I figure I might be able to help him see what works and also what NOT to do. Plus, the Allies have their hands full in the
early years and I figure the extra "help" might give me a better game in the long run.

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie....it's Tuesday 25Sep2012 08:31 am and I'm in possession of Jim's latest moves. Tracker says I had some LCU's that finally
reached Kluong and so I looked and what'd'ya know there's three units there in Kluong. The Infantry unit I'm sending to Johore Bahru
and one of the ARM units I'm sending to capture Mersing. The other ARM unit will attempt to make it's way into Singapore to take a look around and do some recon.

[larryfulkerson]

Tracker said that the 4th INF Rgt arrived at Cebu and I looked and yep...it did but it too is out of supplies. D'oh. I'll have to send them
a convoy of groceries and bandaids and see if I can't get them to make some progress.

[larryfulkerson]

Tracker says that Jim lost two ships and I lost three. D'oh. Also, Chengtu is showing up on the Tracker Alerts list as having grown a
new level for it's airbase, but I looked at the map and Chengtu is still in Allied hands so I'm wondering what gives.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the latest Tracker economic chart. The Oil Refinery non-producing number is still rather high because I have some refineries
that need to be repaired yet and the Palembang refineries are still turned off pending the withdrawl of some of the fuel onsite still.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a report on the spoilage and you can see that Palembang is the worst offender still. I'm running AK's and TK's in and out of there
pulling the fuel level down but even with the refineries turned off the level is still way too high.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the resource history for the home islands so far. [ I've deleted the Tracker databases and started over because of the longer
and longer load times at startup. ] I'm not sure but I think maybe I'm doing okay so far on the economy.