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

[larryfulkerson]

I'm being asked for the password........what do you guys think I should do?? Lemme know, okay?? Okay. this time without my legs crossed. And truely. This time. Yoeh , yes YES, I tthink so mayye so. And everybody else said well um........okay with me, ,,,,,,,whatd'y others thiink about like maybe homosexual, or lude things, things I don't want to remember anymore. I'f possile. I think maybe so. What do you guys think? I'm being told it's okay now's the time. It's likebeing infinite really. "Realy letting go but in a good way." LIKE THIS!!! iT's science.IT's better than science it's really true and we can find out using science. And it's okay. Go...........now now noW NOW>>>>

[larryfulkerson]

GO now. !!!!!

[larryfulkerson]

Just let go and let science teach you. IT"S OKAY. I thinkso don't you?

[larryfulkerson]

I'm being told that UFO's are real and I'd say I think so too. Said so. I remember saying so. Or used too. Right now.!!!!

[larryfulkerson]

Hey, a symptum.........forgetting what I did just a short while ago. And remembering saying so at least one time as the best you can do

[larryfulkerson]

I don't remember posting the previous post. Did one of you guys hack my account? LOL.

[moore4807]

A stream of consciousness moment? [;)][:D][:)]

(in my best Tennessee Ernie Ford baritone) "You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...St Peter don't ya call me cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store!"

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: moore4807
A stream of consciousness moment? [;)][:D][:)]

Well here it is 21:11 on Friday 06/08/2012. I lost about 5 hours there. Weed seems a bit stronger than it used to be.

ORIGINAL: moore4807
(in my best Tennessee Ernie Ford baritone) "You load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...St Peter don't ya call me cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store!"

Sing it brother.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's my collection of Combat reports. Just two more and I can start posting them herein.

[larryfulkerson]

Jap-wise report on the game so far:

Um......I'm starting phase 2 where I ship some planes to the places where I've landed just troops in the past. I'm actually loading some planes and shipping them to the perimeter of the boundry so as to project force better. To ward off some of the air attacks and protect what I've gained already. Most of the easy parts are already grabbed now I gotta concentrate on the not so easy ones. The contested ones. Rabaul is getting hit almost every turn now with Allied B-17's and I need some CAP there to discourage that. And some AA units can't hurt there at Rabaul. And some planes couldn't hurt the Miri area and around Jolo. There seems to be an operational Allied field with some fighters at or near Cebu and I'm going to have to put a stop to that sooner or later. Because Davao is getting pounded via the air. Davao and Bubbledrop seem to be important hubs and I need them free of Allied interference for loading and unloading so I'm thinking I need some CAP at Bubbledrop too. I'm marching down to the SW on the PI and northward from Davao and soon the Allied aircraft won't have quite so many airfields to operate from as I grab them and convert them, fix them etc. I'm trying to expand ports and airflelds as I capture them so the supply of fuel and supply is important also, not just troops. They are all going in at the same time if possible. Grabbing them, expanding them, moving on to the next one and doing the same. The captured area is getting bigger and bigger with each passing turn. For the last two weeks now. Jim is fighting back here and there punching and jabbing looking for weaknesses and finding one every once in a while. His subs are really busy. I'm trying to keep my subs moving too. I'm keeping an eye on the economy and it's doing as well as I thought it might be doing about this time in the game. Nothiing is crashing down yet. Lots of resources to move still. Port Arthur is close and accessable so far. Hokkaido is a good source of resources too. Thanks, whoever told me about that.

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Jap-wise report on the game so far:

Um......I'm starting phase 2 where I ship some planes to the places where I've landed just troops in the past. I'm actually loading some planes and shipping them to the perimeter of the boundry so as to project force better. To ward off some of the air attacks and protect what I've gained already. Most of the easy parts are already grabbed now I gotta concentrate on the not so easy ones. The contested ones. Rabaul is getting hit almost every turn now with Allied B-17's and I need some CAP there to discourage that. And some AA units can't hurt there at Rabaul. And some planes couldn't hurt the Miri area and around Jolo. There seems to be an operational Allied field with some fighters at or near Cebu and I'm going to have to put a stop to that sooner or later. Because Davao is getting pounded via the air. Davao and Bubbledrop seem to be important hubs and I need them free of Allied interference for loading and unloading so I'm thinking I need some CAP at Bubbledrop too. I'm marching down to the SW on the PI and northward from Davao and soon the Allied aircraft won't have quite so many airfields to operate from as I grab them and convert them, fix them etc. I'm trying to expand ports and airflelds as I capture them so the supply of fuel and supply is important also, not just troops. They are all going in at the same time if possible. Grabbing them, expanding them, moving on to the next one and doing the same. The captured area is getting bigger and bigger with each passing turn. For the last two weeks now. Jim is fighting back here and there punching and jabbing looking for weaknesses and finding one every once in a while. His subs are really busy. I'm trying to keep my subs moving too. I'm keeping an eye on the economy and it's doing as well as I thought it might be doing about this time in the game. Nothiing is crashing down yet. Lots of resources to move still. Port Arthur is close and accessable so far. Hokkaido is a good source of resources too. Thanks, whoever told me about that.

That is about the best compliment I can hope for - it is true to what happened in real life... So far everything falling because I cannot protect it, YES I am reduced to spending an hour per turn, figuring out if I can hold my positions and if not, how far back do I fall? USN subs are not effective fighters because of the torps, but are great at intel gathering. Larry's plan is solid and what he is posting is ambitious, but doable...I can only hope Larry overexpands and loses the economy balance because I found playing the A.I. the economy is REALLY hard to get it back on track once it slides into the negative.

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie.......Jim has sent me his moves.....I ran the combat replay etc. and here's some Tracker alerts:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the combat report in it's entirety for those of you who want to see it.

[larryfulkerson]

I think maybe it might be time to start posting stuff again. I've got about 5 or 6 turns of stuff saved up now and our OPSEC is probably safe.

This is from the 17th of Dec 41:

Just from the first glance at the Intelligence display I'd say I have a lot of Manchukuo stuff that I can buy out with my PP's to use elsewhere, and I've got about 1250 PP's now.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm pretty sure Jim is going to run out of Warhawks on Clark Field eventually and if he doesn't buy out the B-17's and move them they might get trapped and destroyed also. I'm trying to capture all the possible airfields that Jim might use to fly out his aircraft and that's a hard thing to do with the B-17's range. He's still got fields he can fly stuff to in Borneo and the DEI and places like that but pretty soon those are going to be gone.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim is driving his subs hard and it shows. I've lost a bunch of ships to his subs the last couple of turns. I'm going to have to figure out how to configure my convoys to have escorts in them before I lose this war.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim and I are having our own private Sub / DD war going on near Pearl.

[larryfulkerson]

There was another altercation between my subs and an Allied TF near San Francisco.

[larryfulkerson]

One of the Hong Kong MTB's sortied and was sunk in a series of sea battles. This is the result of the third sea battle.

[larryfulkerson]

The DMS-only TF that left Cam Rahn Bay a couple of days ago finally arrived at Miri and has started their sweeping.