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OK I will pop into John's AAR. Which means I can no longer give you advice (LOL, that's probably a good thing).

But I will continue reading this, it's fascinating. You are a terrific player and did so well.

How many carriers did you lose? chin up, you're allies, you get a crapload of s**t SOON.

ORIGINAL: Anachro
I'll be happy if I can successfully take Ceylon. I don't think John can take it back..yet. One CVL survives for now, unspotted.

Why don’t you take this unfortunate occurrence as an instrument to lure John even deeper into the western mess he’s in now His naval victory will sure make him view Ceylon land assault perspectives even more positively. And it’s a trap

ORIGINAL: GetAssista

ORIGINAL: Anachro
I'll be happy if I can successfully take Ceylon. I don't think John can take it back..yet. One CVL survives for now, unspotted.

Why don’t you take this unfortunate occurrence as an instrument to lure John even deeper into the western mess he’s in now His naval victory will sure make him view Ceylon land assault perspectives even more positively. And it’s a trap

+1. That was what I was thinking as well when I first read about your mishap. You are still in great shape.

Haven't been posting much, but this AAR is a regular read for me - I would really miss it if you stopped updating.

Hartwig

Condolences on your defeat at sea. Have to agree with CR that you blinked.

I learned a long time ago playing Uncommon Valor that the best hope the Allies have for engaging the KB before '44 is under heavy LBA cover.

John is obviously jazzed now as he is suddenly posting in his AAR again.

ORIGINAL: Timotheus

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

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using recon + mouseover + nav search + combat report tallies

Please explain mouseover to this newbie?
Thanks in advance.

Use your mouse to roll your cursor over a base/TF/LCU etc. icon and a pop-up will give you info. That's a mouseover.

Wishing you a speedy recovery from the Syndrome. It's affected most, if not all, of us.

Staffer: "Mr President !!! We have lost the carrier Hornet !!! In fact, we lost so many carriers, that we do not have ANY in operation right now !!!".

FDR: "Whelp, that's it, draft a surrender note to the Japanese Empire...".

Staffer: "Errr... Sir.... We will produce roughly 50 carriers in about a years time with full warplane complement...".

FDR: "No! I have had enough!!!" - proceeds to stomp foot so that the whole wheelchair is shaking. "I give up!!!".

Door opens and in pops Dewey. "Da hell is goin' on hear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Staffer: "Sudden carrier loss syndrome, sir".

Dewey: "Goddam' !!!!! Dat's it... Ahma runnin' fer his jerb!!!!!". Chomps cigar.

ORIGINAL: Timotheus

Staffer: "Mr President !!! We have lost the carrier Hornet !!! In fact, we lost so many carriers, that we do not have ANY in operation right now !!!".

FDR: "Whelp, that's it, draft a surrender note to the Japanese Empire...".

Staffer: "Errr... Sir.... We will produce roughly 50 carriers in about a years time with full warplane complement...".

FDR: "No! I have had enough!!!" - proceeds to stomp foot so that the whole wheelchair is shaking. "I give up!!!".

Door opens and in pops Dewey. "Da hell is goin' on hear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Staffer: "Sudden carrier loss syndrome, sir".

Dewey: "Goddam' !!!!! Dat's it... Ahma runnin' fer his jerb!!!!!". Chomps cigar.

Impressive gumption on Admiral Dewey's part, especially when you consider that he'd been dead for 25 years when the Hornet was lost.

Different Dewey.

Tonight is reflection. You'd be surprised how a good book can help bring serenity...serenity I most certainly did not have yesterday. My room is in shambles.

The night is always darkest before the dawn. A new day, a whole new game and all that. New planning for the IO starts tomorrow.

^^^
Glad to hear it, godspeed and good luck to you.

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Different Dewey.

Oh, the little man on the wedding cake? I think the accent threw me off...

Serenity now!!!!!

I have to admit, I am selfish.

This is the funnest (... english is hard, OK) AAR I have read lately for any game. I would not like it if it ended.

But really, the Allies get so many toys SOON that losing a carrier or two.. or six... really, it is not much. Drop in the ocean.

[:D]


edit: This Dewey:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey

I should have went with Wendell Wilkie, would make more sense what with the caricature cigar....

Situation - April 19th, 1943

John moved further north the turn after I lost a CV, a CVL, and CVL Hermes (lol). He probably expected whatever remained to be heavily damaged and sink or flee to the nearest port as a necessity. Fortunately for me, CVL Melbourne wasn't in mortal danger, so I opted to move her away from my ports and to the northwest. She will continue to Capetown for repair.

Here's how I see the situation now. John has good D/L on Bombay, I have lots of ships there (including a damaged CL and DD). John likes to sink ships...and the sudden DL on a place he hasn't been recon'ing makes me believe he will port strike it, especially since he must know there aren't many fighters there. A lot of these ships are worthless. I actually hope John stays and strikes. I want to use up as much of his ammo/sorties as possible; I want to deplete his KB, cognizant that it must be running lower on fuel due to roving around for a week or more without a tanker in sight and little fuel in the one port he visited, Addu. He will retire soon, but I bet he will take targets of opportunity...like Bombay...along the way.



I didn't say this before. But when John's force ran up, a single AM ran into it (causing me lots of consternation for what that portended). It has minimal surface forces. It has something like 4 CVs and 6 CVLs in the force...it is top-heavy with carriers and little protection otherwise. Opportunities.

This is all said above with the knowledge of John's path of retreat. His forces seem to be converging once again on Addu...and this has been his staging base in the past. I'm guessing his carriers will head here when they are done in the north, most likely to the west of the Maldives somewhere.

I lost a CV, a CVL, and CVL Hermes.

OK, I don't want to minimize your losses ... but that doesn't sound nearly as bad as you let on yesterday. I had imagined a Midway type of disaster and this is very far from that. Keep up the fight!

I haven't read John's AAR, so I don't know what was his strategy on setting up that carrier strike. But here is my speculation. Let's say he's had good recon on South India and Colombo for a while. So he saw all the stuff you had in that area ... but no carriers. Then, the obvious question, where are they? The most likely answer would be to the north, along the Indian coast. Hence, order full speed ahead and charge into battle. In any case, whether by accident or design, he sure made the right move and kudos to him.

You must understand, Jwolf. It was Midway disaster for me! The horror of Sudden Carrier Loss Syndrome is quite great. [:D] But I agree it's not too bad. Like I said, the large majority of Allied carriers are in Australia. If John lingers in the IO, perhaps they'll make an appearance there soon enough. I think it was more the frustration of this being a fluke more than anything else. I'm convinced it was this: John had DL on Cochin where he saw in port and out of it I had a bunch of good transports. So, to get something, he decided to flank speed north and sink those transports. In the process, he got lucky and sank some carriers.

As for the game, I was never in danger of stopping or not posting. I meant more that I'd take yesterday to collect my thoughts and cool down. It's never good to do orders and turns in the heat of the moment when your head is not in the right place. John just sent me a note, VERY PATRONIZING, which means he might have been worried about that. Not sure what people have been posting in his AAR![:D]

Sorry, but John is an ass....

When John dons his "gay AE apparel," he sometimes can be an in-game ass with his boasting and taunting. But that's just his game persona and only covers part of his gaming personality. He's also fun and exuberant and experienced and altogether a blast to play. Once he sheds his "gay AE apparel" and assumes normal life, he's a great guy. I think he's exuberant in life too, but he's generous and welcoming and warm.

Sometimes we get crossways with folks in the Forum (I am chief among sinners in that regard). But I think 99.5% of the people here are fine men who would do anything for anybody else. There is 0.5% trolls, but the rest of us are good men.

Shhhhh Dan! Alfred will go after you for spreading misinformation!