Pacific (June 23rd - September 20th 1943)
I have been quite busy in recent months but it is time pick up the story. The progress in this game has been ongoing allthough same cannot be said about allied offensives so far.
Personally I think the best way to get you updated is simply to through theatre by theatre with short recaps.
Actually not that much has been happening. Dave hasn't launched offensives and things has been somewhat of an stalemate with few exceptions.
Ok.. enough of that and here is the summary of the situation around:
Northern Pacific
Quiet. Allied LBA's dominate the skies above Dutch Harbour and Umnak Island.
Japanese do not seem to have that much there in terms of infantry so my estimate is that he has his forces stacked around Adak Island and further towards Japan.
China
The ceasefire is ongoing. No action to report.
This ceasefire will hold until I will break it. Meaning that japanese wohn't move further unless chinese armies launch offensives here.
Very much undecieded when or whether to break this thing later on. The supply situation overall here is very poor.
Now I'am just rebuilding corps units which have taken quite a beating in this PBEM.
CenPac & South Pacific
Allied forces have secured Fiji's, Samoa's and Noumea.
There has not been much there in terms of an infantry.
Currently the focus is to secure New Hebrides and build up bases here. We have been bombing Efate and Luganville lately and the enemy airfields are closed.
I spotted CV Junyo about a month south of Solomon's but Dave opted not to intervene with our Noumea operation.
I conducted couple of carrier raids few weeks back close to Lunga and Tulagi. The result was quite a few japanese lba aircraft downed and few merchants sunk.
This revealed that he is building up the airfields around Solomons though and the allied signit has shown heavy volume traffic at Rabaul and Truk.
We will conduct few ampbitious landings in next few turns.
I must say that the logistic about the offensives have set me back a bit. I was not aware how much supplies and fuel we need and allied side do need a lot of them.
My mistake and it takes time correct this. The hingsight is always ideal and this shows here.
India & Burma
We had few quiet months here but I have conducted large scale lba bombing runs againts central burma in past weeks.
It is really hard to close down airfields and he has many mutual supporting ones here.
The bad thing about these is that he has won 1,5 : 1 odds in terms of aircraft lost here. Thus letting me to believe his pilot pools are propably in very good shape!
Overall Japanese have lost +8000 planes in this PBEM so far but that does not show up in terms of gameplay.
I have been reluctant of launching the ground offensives here yet. Instead I have been moving more units into frontlines.
To be honest very much undecieded how to deal with this "mess" in Burma. We need to dislodge the enemy here but the big question is how are we going to achieve this.
Allied intel has shown that Dave has shipped ground reinforcements here. How much? Well, I really don't know as of yet.
