Fulkerson (J) vs Moore (A) ( no Moore )

[larryfulkerson]

TF 4 made it through the gauntlet of Allied subs last night and now it's carrying almost 42K of fuel to Bubble Drop. It should arrive there
in about 16 days or so.

[larryfulkerson]

I keep finding these resources sources all over the map. Christmas Island IO has about 100K resources, and there's a fairly big cache
there at Makassar and some at Kendari. I'm going to have to get some dedicated routes set up and let the computer control them......
that would be pretty cool. I'll let you know how it goes for me. The computer controlled stuff........ Never mind.

EDIT: I finally remembered what I wanted to say about this TF. It was headed for Bubble Drop w/o any cargo aboard. And I changed it
because I figured that there was 22K+ of shipping space going to waste so I redirected them to Makassar for some resources.

[larryfulkerson]

In all the recent re-fueling of CV's and surface escorts one of my AO's got nearly drained. The next biggest fuel hub is Truk so I'm
sending it to Truk and leaving two other AO's in the local Wake island area. My combatants are running low on ammo and some of them
need fuel and almost all of them have some damage to some degree or the other. I'm leaning toward maybe calling it a day for now,
retire to Wake and repair the ships, rearm, refuel, and recomit. Total elapsed time: maybe a week or so. By then I can maybe go
bombard Midway again some, damage some planes maybe, find some Allied ships there maybe.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what the strategic map looks like now-a-days. I've got my skirmishers out and float planes are searching in the appropriate
direction(s). Midway is busy, there's a contact near Tarawa and I've got my carriers headed that way even as we speak.

[larryfulkerson]

This is what the supply / fuel / oil / resources levels look like now. This scene just cries out for more supplies and TF's are being loaded
up at Tokyo even as we speak. So in about a week or so we should see an infusion of supplies from the home islands. That and fuel.

[larryfulkerson]

Somehow or other Rota ended up with much too much fuel to store properly and spoilage has become a problem there. So I've got a
tanker uploading fuel from Rota to bring the fuel level down to less than 3K.

[larryfulkerson]

Task Force 336 is delivering a giant 10K+ load of fuel to Sapporo that it loaded at Shanghi. That and Port Arthur have been good
sources of fuel for the home islands so far. The fuel TF 338 has is going to help keep the HI industry going at Sapporo because it
eats fuel and TF 338 has a lot.

[larryfulkerson]

I just now discovered the location of the 2nd China Assault Division quite by accident. How in the world did it get landed way out in the
middle of nowhere. I'm partially posting this to remind me to move some AK's up there to see if I can move it somewhere else.

[larryfulkerson]

TF 381 is a test of the waypoint processing for me....I'm not in the habit of giving TF's waypoints that involve refueling and so I'm not
really sure that it works.....I trust it and will use it if it works. We'll find out if TF 381 refuels at Kavieng or not.

[larryfulkerson]

I was messing w/ TF 576 just now and BB Fuso is in that TF and I noticed that there's an upgrade available 6/43 and got curious as to
what kinds of changes would be made in the upgrade and looked and found that there's an installation of two radar sets one of which
has a 62 mile range. It would be about 45 days in the shipyard though and I'm not sure I want to be without the services of one of my
BB's for that long.

[larryfulkerson]

Okay it's now Tuesday 08:02 and I've just sent my moves to Jim.

[cohimbra]

I see you are in febrary and I don't know if you know this, but it isn't write anywhere so I tell
you, because I think that's an important thing to the japanese player. Take a look to your CL Tenryu
and CL Tatsuta, they can upgrade at the beginning of the month; turn 'upgrade=yes' and then you can
convert this two ship to a very useful CLAA, the only two that you get in all the game.
They required 150/160 (I don't remember well...) days for the conversion, so if you want this ship
you need to hurry, they can go to the Kido Butai TF to offer more AA cover or wherever you want.
Because my poor english I could have done a bit of confusion, so I attach a picture and you can see
the differences between the original CL and the converted CLAA, then you can send me to hell [:D]:

[SqzMyLemon]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I was messing w/ TF 576 just now and BB Fuso is in that TF and I noticed that there's an upgrade available 6/43 and got curious as to
what kinds of changes would be made in the upgrade and looked and found that there's an installation of two radar sets one of which
has a 62 mile range. It would be about 45 days in the shipyard though and I'm not sure I want to be without the services of one of my
BB's for that long.

Unless you want to continue the war using the Mark 1 Eye Ball, I'd upgrade every Japanese ship to radar without hesitation.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: cohimbra
I see you are in febrary and I don't know if you know this, but it isn't write anywhere so I tell
you, because I think that's an important thing to the japanese player. Take a look to your CL Tenryu
and CL Tatsuta, they can upgrade at the beginning of the month; turn 'upgrade=yes' and then you can
convert this two ship to a very useful CLAA, the only two that you get in all the game.
They required 150/160 (I don't remember well...) days for the conversion, so if you want this ship
you need to hurry, they can go to the Kido Butai TF to offer more AA cover or wherever you want.
Because my poor english I could have done a bit of confusion, so I attach a picture and you can see
the differences between the original CL and the converted CLAA, then you can send me to hell [:D]:

Thank you for that heads up on the two CL's that can convert to CLAA's. I'll do it at my earliest convienence.

ORIGINAL: SqzMyLemon
Unless you want to continue the war using the Mark 1 Eye Ball, I'd upgrade every Japanese ship to radar without hesitation.

Does the radar really make all that much difference in their performance? Sounds good to me. I'll do it.

[SqzMyLemon]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Does the radar really make all that much difference in their performance? Sounds good to me. I'll do it.

No idea, but that's a great question. I figure you have to play as if it does.

[larryfulkerson]

okay..........Jim and I exchanged emails and I have his moves. I did the combat replay etc. and here's the latest combat reports and so
on. How about this Tracker report on the resource history of the Jap home islands. It looks like I may have started getting oil and
resources into the home islands and there's a lot of supplies leaving Tokyo for south lands.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim got some ships into the waters SW of Singers and now I have raiders in my major shipping lanes. I've got some DD's I can send to
see what they can do to dissuade our intruders. I still don't know how Jim got some ships in that close w/o me seeing them coming.
Maybe they came from Singers and I just didn't detect them until now. Anyway, they're here now.

[larryfulkerson]

And there I was..........and then this happened:

[larryfulkerson]

I may have gotten some hits on an Allied sub near Java:

[larryfulkerson]

And then there was another furball over Midway. Those Wildcats have had some training or something. They are representing
themselves rather well in my opinion. They aren't fallling out of the sky like the Buffaloes were.