PAW 1941-45 me (Axis) vs warspite1 (Allies)

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what's going on in southern China currently. I've located what I think is the AVG at Chungking and I'm still at war in the air with it. I haven't had a good look at the losses yet. I'm still fighting for the railroad and while I'm at it I'd like to capture a city on the Burma road and the Ledo road. The idea for clearing China is to deny the Allies any large bomber bases this close to the home islands, especially northern China. Most of the Jap supply is coming from the cities on the coast but the rail doesn't run all the way along the coast so I'd like to get the part that will allow travel from Singapore to Pieking. I'm pretty sure that's a two-turn trip.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the island of Java currently. I'm grabbing the middle of the island so that the supply flow for the enemy will be cut off for at least half of them and I'll get to own and use the airfields and the ports that come with it. I'm going to reduce one half of the island at a time unless I can dig up some more troops from somewhere.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a look at Malaya and some of Sumatra. Fighting is going on for the length of the country except for at Singapore. I need to get those folks at Manila over here to open up yet another front so that I can move everybody down to Singapore and start the seige. Either that or use the BB's to defeat the CD guns at Singers and do a naval bombardment to soften up the defenses. I'll do that just as soon as the ships at Manila can no longer reach Allied targets. Which will be soon now.

[larryfulkerson]

I dropped some paratroopers on the Ledo road blocking the flow of supply and the Chinese have reacted already and it's looking like I may be forced off the road and down the highway.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm going through the OOB moving units and I've come to one of my subchasers parked near Poso, Celebes and I'm checking out the ports that he can reach and I've found an open one on Ceylon which means I can invade there anytime I want. I've probably got a division somewhere that I can use for this mission if I can just find them.

[larryfulkerson]

Rob probably has a unit in Kingston, Tasmania but I drove down there with one of my DD groups and converted Hobart to my control anyway. It'll probably switch back to Allied control by next turn. And I'm going to see what other ports are open.

[larryfulkerson]

According to the Planned Combats dialog I've got 32 battles planned and it's going to take about half of the turn. If that's how it happens then perhaps I'll be able to reconfigure the attacking units better. A lot of those attacks are just bombers doing a direct attack on a small Allied stack and there's at least one airfield strike scheduled. I'll cover the more important battles.

[larryfulkerson]

I took a crack at Vanua Levu and the attack failed and now the assaulters are out in the water.

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I took a crack at Vanua Levu and the attack failed and now the assaulters are out in the water.

To steal a line, "How long can you tread water?".

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
I took a crack at Vanua Levu and the attack failed and now the assaulters are out in the water.

To steal a line, "How long can you tread water?".

LOL. Actually what really happened is the first guy out of the landing craft tripped and fell down right in front of a whole column of moving men and they all crumpled into a huge crawling mass of humanity with weapons. They got it sorted out eventually but the entire company was late getting into their positions and the attack had to be delayed and by then the Allies were reacting and the head dude called it all off and they got back on the boats and now they are on the transports awaiting further orders. The head dude on the ground is explaining to the higher head dude why it got called off. He's going into great detail. He was in the middle of his exposition when I left quietly to type this post.

[hingram]

"Our intel was wrong. There were TWO of them"

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: hingram
"Our intel was wrong. There were TWO of them"

At least two...maybe more. It was dark....

[MikeJ19]

You guys crack me up!

[larryfulkerson]

I did a "close" from the menu and then chose "save and close" and the game engine
wrote a SAL file to my hard disk and I zipped it up and attached it here below.
It's turn seven of our game and you can check out the dialogs and reports and
move some units around if you'd like. It's T7 before I have moved anybody. This
is right after the playback.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the PI currently and I'm in the final stages of mopping up. My units are tired and have to save up their supply to make each attack although the supply level is getting a lot better. I'm planning on moving these units to Malaya to finish up the Singapore campaign. And then it's off to Rangoon and eventually India.

[larryfulkerson]

Ian has driven what I believe is the CV Enterprise out into the South Pacific to near Vanau Levu and has probably got the intention of attacking me. He's flown in a lot of aircraft to the various islands in the area and probably thinks his LBA will CAP his carriers but I think if I bring more than two carriers I can launch an attack that might just get through and sink his carrier. Will have to give it a try.

[larryfulkerson]

The Chinese are moving away from my units, backing up moving north and west and I'm chasing them into the jungle. I'm hoping to capture them and liquidate them but I'll need jet ski's to do that because they are moving at least as fast as my units are. I'm guessing that most of these guys will get away to India.

[devoncop]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Ian has driven what I believe is the CV Enterprise out into the South Pacific to near Vanau Levu and has probably got the intention of attacking me. He's flown in a lot of aircraft to the various islands in the area and probably thinks his LBA will CAP his carriers but I think if I bring more than two carriers I can launch an attack that might just get through and sink his carrier. Will have to give it a try.

Don't blame me Larry.....that is Rob's doing [;)]

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: devoncop

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
Ian has driven what I believe is the CV Enterprise out into the South Pacific to near Vanau Levu and has probably got the intention of attacking me. He's flown in a lot of aircraft to the various islands in the area and probably thinks his LBA will CAP his carriers but I think if I bring more than two carriers I can launch an attack that might just get through and sink his carrier. Will have to give it a try.

Don't blame me Larry.....that is Rob's doing [;)]

Rob may need a better intelligence officer. I've got three carriers in the south pacific within range of launching an attack on the Enterprise and I'm afraid that he'll think I'm ganging up on him if I sink his carrier. He might think it's a bit much and demand a restart or something. Maybe not. Sinking his carrier is going to frustrate him I'm pretty sure. I need to make a raid of the US west coast to help get this carrier war going. Rob has grabbed all the Aleutian Islands before I could get some people up there so it would take some naval support to get one of the islands back from him. I'm still debating about landing on the north coast of Australia. There's no supply up there i'm guessing so even if I capture something I'd have to leave almost immediately from lack of supply. I'm just guessing. Maybe some more recon will help. I don't want a big fight getting ashore.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Rangoon area right now. The supply flow isn't getting all the way to the end of the trail. I'm going to have to rotate units in and out of that area replacing the tired ones with fresh ones. I believe there's a supply point at Rangoon and that will be my primary goal for this operation. The name of the operation to take down Rangoon is Operation Shiny Chevy. Maybe if I clear out some of the surrounding hexes the supply flow will increase?