And even more distrubing is the recent sighting of a large battlegroup moving into the bay of bengal which had at least 3 BBs and some 5 to 6 CAs and CLs. I have NOTHING that can go up against a large force of that size and still come out the other end floating. Sure the RN has a couple of BBs and BCs but would any of YOU guys risk them at this stage of the war? nah thought not.
You bet I would! You'll probably have to send the silly things back anyway. So why not go after the surface TF? It's a long way back to Tokyo for repairs, your subs could clog up some straits looking for wounded, and the ships wouldn't be around for a while to interfere in other areas. You are going to get tons of ships in the future - expend what you have now if you can hamper the Japanese advance.
I mid ocean intercepted a couple of MSWs in the bay of bengal and sunk them this turn. Not really too impressive since I caught them with 2 bbs and attendant cas and cls and escorts. I was actually hoping I'd catch the damaged POW and Repulse that are limping westward towards Trincomalee (I've kept my trick up my sleeve for now - I'm saving it for when it will get me more).
I ahven't been able to run the RN to earth yet - but I will soon enough. Unfortunately all my CVs and such are all tasked with other missions at the moment and couldn' be spared.
I also to kweilin - no big deal as there were no resources to be had, and Raver didn't give a stuff if I took it or not (only had 5000 troops there - he probably forgot about them). No - Raver has a big army sitting behind a big nasty fort at Wuchow, which keeps a LOT of my troops sitting at Canton shadowing them - but not nearly strong enough to try and overcome the fort size. If they come out in the open, then I'm in like flynn, but as things are, Raver has forced a stalemate there in the south (not really a stalemate since that army is going to get bigger and stronger and more experienced and sooner or later I'm going to have to try and root them out).
I plan to start bombing the place regularly to try and put a bit of downward pressure on Wuchow, but as Raver knows too well, I can't exactly yank 3 divisions out of my northern army to have a go at Wuchow because I'd be asking for trouble.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
And even more distrubing is the recent sighting of a large battlegroup moving into the bay of bengal which had at least 3 BBs and some 5 to 6 CAs and CLs. I have NOTHING that can go up against a large force of that size and still come out the other end floating. Sure the RN has a couple of BBs and BCs but would any of YOU guys risk them at this stage of the war? nah thought not.
You bet I would! You'll probably have to send the silly things back anyway. So why not go after the surface TF? It's a long way back to Tokyo for repairs, your subs could clog up some straits looking for wounded, and the ships wouldn't be around for a while to interfere in other areas. You are going to get tons of ships in the future - expend what you have now if you can hamper the Japanese advance.
Cheers -
Dave Baranyi
POW and Repulse are both carring damage, and they are two of three of my big ships. Once again it looks like Luskan is going to run wild in the Bay of Bengal and there is little that I can do about it. I guess that I am lucky that Luskan didn't task of few CVEs as well (I am really surprised that he didn't to tell you the truth).
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Are you guys planning to scrap this PBEM and restart on a release-version game, or is that pretty much what you have now?
I am not sure about Luskan, but I would like to keep this going, as it puts us a few months ahead of the general public and is a good "Crystal Ball" for others.
I have now played this game either with others or against the AI some 50 times and am keen to get past the point where I am always taking the lumps.......that is if Luskan has the balls to continue.[:'(]
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Well as Luskan has already posted he did a mid-ocean intercept and sank two RAN MSWs, but what is worse is that I have totally lost where the evil battle group has gone! The Bay of Bengal is a very big body of water and I have very few long range search aircraft. One minute he is smacking up a couple of MSWs and the next "PooF" they have gone and I can't see them anywhere. It is more worrying because I have a small TF of CLAA, CAs and DDs steaming in the area, none of which have seaplanes. I am effectivly blind.
Ah Ha! Just spotted a CV TF with what looks like at least two fleet carriers just to the south east of Singapore and heading west. They can only be heading for the Bay of Bengal. Looks like the Brits are in for some hard rain.
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
I love the way Raver assumes. It is like asking me to do something different.
Very quiet again this turn.
I agree with Raver - is nice to be ahead of the public (who is going to read our AARs if they're all playing their own games at the same stage????!).
This is pretty much a release version - every now and then we update the .exe but only minor changes all told.
With the current operations on hold, I'm glad I'm about to make a big dent in some of Raver's northern troops at Lanchow. Hopefully I'll trap them up there and slaughter them en masse.
Also, bombing of singapore and manila and batan (soon to be renamed batanana) and Clark continues. My less brilliant pilots (sonias, lilies, sallies etc) are gaining valuable target practise at the hapless allied troops - Raver has AA at singapore, but elsewhere his aa batteries have long since being effective. My bombers in malaya and pi will continue to blast the supply base out from under Raver untli his troops are well and truly starved to oblivion before I actually try and fight them.
As for China, well as soon as the PI and malaya falls, I'll be moving some serious air power to burma to start smacking Raver's troops around there. I have the AVG warhawks (or are they kitty hawks) at about 60 strong, but since the allies dont have 60 avaition support units at the one place anywhere in burma they're a bit handicapped for a while. Besides, my Banana-Hawks will tear them to shreds without too much trouble.
As for my battle groups, I have a specific plan and timetable for all those units and the cvs on the map - and I'm gonig to stick to it if I possibly can. So I had to break off pursiut of those damaged RN ships. Sooner or later winnie is going to demand a british BB and some scort back, and Raver will be forced to make a choice - send back the damaged POW (she's not that badly damaged, judging from her speed) or the slower, older, and certainly less useful (short range) Revenge (so named because when she gets sunk the poms will want revenge). That old and slow makes her too slow for effective bombardment (she'd be in easy betty range for about 3 turns before she actually got to bombard the airfield etc.). So if that happens Raver is most likely to send Revenge back and keep POW holed up until she's fixed (might take a while, not as many repair points on that side of the map).
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
Well I have spotted that bloody battlegroup again, but I am not sure what they are up to reports show that they are heading east, to bombard maybe?. Equally puzzeling is a lone CA spotted south of the main body heading south..........a damaged ship maybe?
Luskan has now moved some 23 LCUs into Lunchow, looks like this will be the first really bad drubbing that I have faced on the main land.[:(]
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Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
I am really interested to see what Luskan is doing. I wonder if he has an amphibious group with him and is planning a coastal landing in India? or is just trying to lure out the RN for a fight?
I for one will continue reading your AAR even while busy with my own games - I find it entertaining and if you look hard enough there is some useful information - both of what to do and what not.
I for one will continue reading your AAR even while busy with my own games - I find it entertaining and if you look hard enough there is some useful information - both of what to do and what not.
I definitely will keep looking at the AARs.
Just because I may play some touch football on weekends does not mean I do not watch the NFL[:)]
It's nice to watch the first division play.
Appear at places to which he must hasten; move swiftly where he does not expect you.
Sun Tzu
That old and slow makes her too slow for effective bombardment (she'd be in easy betty range for about 3 turns before she actually got to bombard the airfield etc.).
Does this mean that betty's will now make naval attacks in open ocean? They didn't do that in UV. Only at ports where Naval TF's were spotted.
Does this mean that betty's will now make naval attacks in open ocean? They didn't do that in UV. Only at ports where Naval TF's were spotted.
Land air power is now something to fear. If you've been following the various AAR's, you will see many times where land based aircraft not only come out to spank shipping, but also go out and attack CV TF's! [X(]
Mogami just about ruined my day with a bunch of crappy Dutch aircraft coming out and clobbering KB! It cost him lots of aircraft, but it also knocked one of my CV's down to a speed of 21 [:(]
Well that last move was interesting.................Luskan hit Lanchow with over 250,000 troops against my force of 76,000..........it cost him over 5000 dead and wounded while my losses were more modest with only 700.[:)] To make matters worse for Luskan he is right at the very end of his supply train.[:D] Methinks that Lanchow is going to be worse that Luskan expected.
I think that bananananana boy is simply looking to sunk ships in the Bay of Bengal rather than looking to land troops. The situation in India is such that while Luskan could land troops they would soon be over come by large numbers which I can move very fast on the excellent rail links that exsist there.
If he is able to shut down the RN, it gives him a secure western flank. But to go ship hunting Luskan is going to have to sail all the way up the west coast of India..........lets wait and see if he is THAT brave[:D]
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Lanchow didn't go so well on the first turn, but this turn I lost 2000 while Raver lost 1500, and my troops are still set to "attack!" when I check them - so they're happy to continue the fight. Once out of Lanchow I can chase Raver's 80000 up the road to where htey are out of supply and enialate them en masse. Finally.
That will give my troops more than enough time to recoup and regroup for the next big offensive in China (even is Raver is just sitting back and waiting for my in that industrial heartland).
Last two turns saw my 2 (yes 2!) big surface battle groups bombard Akyab, taking out about 20 pommy planes on the ground. I'm aware of the lack of LBA resources in Burma and the bay of bengal, especially whhen it comes to longer ranged aircraft that can be used for searching and didn't want his prying eyes seeing my movements further down the coast. I've already got one division about to try for Rangoon, while I've got a mixed brigade or two up my sleeve that he hasn't spotted yet.
In addition to this, I have 3 armoured units in the area (not as moblie as I'd hoped) one of which is sitting north of Rangoon, controlling an important rail intersection. It is important because the rules for the Burma road are that if the allied player can trace a lin from mandalay over the hump into china, then the chinese get about 500 free supplies a turn. If they can trace a supply line from Rangoon along the railway, up to the ledo road and over the hump they get something like 1500 - so just be being there I've chopped about 1000 free supply points per day out from under the chinese. Since they're short on food and supply anyway this is good - means that even when their divisions reappear, they will recoup much more slowly.
Operation Banana Kiss hasn't been forgotten. Is just going to take longer than expected.
Apart from the gargantuan land battle in china, things are really quiet. I've taken the opportunity to rest a few squadrons, do a few repairs on some transports and reorganise my supply network to better support my far flung bases.
One mistake I've made is that after I took Rabaul I started bulding the fort (which is great, as the place is now unassailable, fort size is 4 or 5 getting bigger and I've got more troops there than Raver has in the entire PNG/solomons area getting ready for a jump off for some other objectives) but I forgot to start expanding the port and airfield (just not big enough to be the majob hub I wanted it to be). Lax of me - so I've commenced construction there. Was sort of hoping I'd have a port size 6 or 7 to refit ships in but not yet.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
Hmmmm.......Luskans post carrys some worrying information...........large amount of troops at Rabal can only mean one thing.....he is planning to launch an early attack on PNG. Not something that I can really prevent at this stage. Yes I have the troops on the west coast and also in both NZ and Oz, but I am very short on PPs and just to move a division will cost me something like 2000 PPs...........I just don't have that [:(]. Infact the entire southern pacific is wide open at this stage of the game. Lucky for me that Luskan is still tied up in Malaya/China/Burma/PI. Actually he really need to think about the DEI as I have been busy planning the defence of that paying very very close attention to Java, so if I am right he will not really be able to even think about the south pacific until April.
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
Lanchow progresses, fort size down to 1 and my losses were 2300, ravers were 1800, so next turn the fort size reaches zero and I stop deliberate attacking and shock attack (maybe the turn after to give the troops a little break.
This turn I'll steal Rangoon, again, not that Raver cares atm.
Raver doesn't have any aircraft in the south pacific, and he is going to need them. With 5 nif units at rabaul (only 1 of any real size, but still) once I have the supplies I need I can strike in any direction.
With dancing Bananas and Storm Troopers who needs BBs?
I am in the early stages of planning an operation designed to lift the moral of the folks at home. People are still shocked at the attack on PH and already then Senate committes are forming with the USN firmly in their sights. So with this in mind the USN has come up with a brillant plan that will nodoubt shock the Japanese whom are currently suffering from "victory sickness".
I am fighting the good and just war, and I have God on my side.
Never argue with an idiot, he will only drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.
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