The Good The Bad & The Indifferent

[JeffroK]

I reckon the war would have finished far sooner if after Sumatra you.............

Well done, steering the Allied Steamroller is an art, what do you do and where do you do it. You chose an approach and stuck to it. Once you learn the finer arts of the game you could be dangerous.[8D]

I'll also add that JIII played a bad game, after (actually during) your Sumatra campaign he has run around in circles and reacted far too late to your approaches.

Have fun against Obvert, should be a different level of opponent.

[witpqs]

Congratulations on your victory and to both of you on your great competition! [8D]

"The Good The Bad & The Indifferent" AAR is done?! I might have to start drinking...

[apbarog]

Congratulations, and thanks for your work on this AAR. It has been a daily read of mine since day 1. Always something interesting, whether it be in-game or in-life or in-history.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: apbarog

Congratulations, and thanks for your work on this AAR. It has been a daily read of mine since day 1. Always something interesting, whether it be in-game or in-life or in-history.

What he said, many times over. Great suspense novel in your AAR and game play.

BTW, speaking of 2:1, the post count in your AAR is over double the post count of John's! I'll read his now to see how things looked from his perspective.
Kudos to you both! [&o][&o]

[Barb]

A bit of anticlimax within climactic air battles Somehow similar to the two A-bombs ending things with all pretty well being poised and prepared for operation Olympic/Coronet (Downfall). One day you are at the thick of it dishing it out, and the next one you found yourself without real purpose...

[adarbrauner]

"but early on I'm likely to spend alot more time outdoors, running, hiking and mountain biking. March, April and May in Georgia are (usually) superb months for outdoors activities. "


Congrs for your

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victory sir, thanks to the L-rd.


Can you read now John's thread?

Is it possible to speak openly about it?

In my opinion, John's single major mistake was in not battling you harder, much harder in Luzon.

Otherwise, he's been a superlative Japanese player always, even beyond belief.

[Smoky Stoker]

Dan-

It seemed likely that you would beat the historical victory date for the last couple of years, but big congratulations on doing so. You fought well and JIII fought on after the conclusion was no longer in doubt, which makes both of you guys I would like to have on my side. Equally, thank you for the incredible amount of work you put in on this AAR.

[Miller]

Well played Sir.

[Encircled]

Great read and well done!

[Bearcat2]

Congratulations on your victory !!
Thanks for the AAR, it was entertaining and I learned a lot.

[MakeeLearn]

In din of battle whisper of cease
time for war, noon , time for peace
Waves shall not awash valor and deed
nor with sunset their memory cede

[Chickenboy]

Congratulations to you and John for finishing this game after so many years. [8D]

[Lowpe]

Congratulations of finishing this beast of a game with a dedicated and excellent AAR to boot![&o]

[Mike McCreery]

Congratulations on the victory and thanks for another great AAR.

[Drakanel]

Congratulations, and thanks a lot for the AAR. It was quite fun though I did not follow it since the beginning.

Curious to see where your game with Obvert will go now.

[paullus99]

Congratulations - this has been one hell of an AAR.

Best of luck with all of your future endeavors.

[Canoerebel]

Thanks to each of you writing. Messages from all you guys are much appreciated, whether you are frequent contributors, lurkers, regulars or newcomers.

I haven't heard from John yet, so I don't know his desires about continuing or halting. I assume the latter but won't act on that until he sends confirmation.

One other aspect of the fun of the game was creating the diagrams. Those took a lot of time. It was fun when I had the time and stressful when time was short. But it was also time spent usefully. Through this and through a class I've been teaching the past few years, I've learned something about creating and displaying images. I'm not going to receive any calls from National Geographic or Smithsonian to do their work, but what I've learned is sufficient for the classes I teach and the occasions when I do historical presentations. Hey, AE is educational in so many ways!

[Canoerebel]

Just received this from John III:

Picked up by radio throughout the Pacific and Indian Ocean Theatres:

May 11, 1945
0800 Hours Tokyo Time

TO: Admiral Chester Nimitz (Daniel Roper)
FROM: Prime Minister Yamamoto (John R. Cochran, III)

As the leading representative of the Empire of Japan we, hereby, surrender unconditionally to the Allied air, sea, and land forces arrayed against us.

All Imperial Forces shall stand down immediately.

Please listen to Radio Tokyo at 1200 Hours Tokyo time for a message from the Emperor of Japan.

It is done and well fought Sir. I had to finish my AAR narrative before I could send this.
John

[JohnDillworth]

Well Dan, I have been dying to ask for about a year. Where you aware that John was bringing millions of gallons of fuel and oil from the DEI to Japan up until about a week ago? Huge convoys of tankers have been plowing the seas unmolested keeping the industries humming at full capacity.

[Canoerebel]

Someone noted early today or last night that this has an element of "coitus interruptus" (my term, no this). Indeed it does:

1. The Western Allied army in Korea and China is 60% to 70% prepped for Japan.
2. 1st Australian Division and many other units are in the DEI and fully prepped for targets in Java.
3. Fusan was likely to fall within ten days unless reinforced (possible but unlikely).
4. Singers would take some doing but would fall within a month or two.

With Korea and China all but done, I would detach the fast carrier component of Death Star for service in the DEI, leaving the CVEs and many of the BBs in the Yellow Sea region.

Death Star would cover the movement of additional troops to Malaya (7th Aussie Div. needs to be picked up from Mindanao, where John has some big airfields). 8th Indian Div. just arrived in Malaya but will need a week to reach Singers.

Then DS would move to the eastern DEI to cover the invasion of Java. From there it would escort 2.5 million supply from Boela to Korea.

The biggest issue is Allied 4EB numbers. I pushed them hard to close out the game. Too hard. My B-24 squadrons are whittled down to nothing. I'd have to consolidate them, but I have nothing to swap out squadrons to. The USAAF has no bombers in the pools at all. B-29B numbers are decent and would be able to dish out some punishment but not on the scale we've seen thus far.

There are a decent number of B-25 and other 2EBs in the DEI. I need some of them to deal with Singers. They probably don't have the legs or the endurance to handle a campaign against Tokyo from Korea, but I'd look into that.

In two months time, the Allies would hold all of mainland Asia including Singapore, probably most of Java and part of Sumatra. John wouldn't have any safe harbors left in the DEI. The Allies probably by then would've landed in the Home Islands, beginning the long, tough campaign to take city by city. Taking a big base or two west of Tokyo would allow the 2EB (and reinforced 4EB squadrons) to target all of the Home Islands and the Kuriles. John would probably be able to hide his fleet in small, remote bases for awhile but eventually the hiding places would be eliminated.

By August 1945, I doubt there would be anything left in a meaningful sense.

But the wise actions of the enemy leader today save us from that exercise in futility. I'd likely be the only one who'd enjoy laying waste to the Empire.