The Accidental War Obvert vs Lowpe

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Bless you Oscar.

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Ann as an anti-ship platform



An afternoon strike plants 3 more bombs on the merchant ship for no loss.

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Outer Mongolia!

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Magwe is swept, but now Beasts are showing up...5 oil hits.

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In Manchuko, the Kotou pocket is not attacked....

Equal losses in a IJA deliberate attack at Lashio, where the Allies are reinforcing.

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Sumatra...

I have to watch out for a counterattack towards Palembang...I have lots of units there but not much in assault value.

If only the Mutsu and Haruna had avoided the sub contact the prior day...but I will still take this past day.

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Still nail biting time here in Manchuko...

Shortage of recon planes really hurts. Shortage of decent troops hurts even more.[;)]

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Reported ship losses for the day.

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The Air War...it is brutal.[X(]

I foolishly let the Allies get in a few good bombardments...but one of them led to sinking the Repulse for little cost and that in turn let the over confident Allies send their CVs to Balikpapen where I was able to sink them...so not bad when viewed in that light.

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Lower Sumatra

744 guns at Palembang...10,000 men but only 27 assault value.[X(]

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Dutch Air Force aggressive as is the Allies all over.

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Resources in transit for Honshu dropped to 450K, and Honshu's resource stockpile climbed for only the fourth time this game. But it was a 120k climb, and port Fusan is one off its highest level, and is pulling resources nicely....now at 130k in port.

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Pretty much a preparing and loading turn.


Identified the Infantry Division, based on exp and TOE, that will be bought out and in what order. Changed prep on 55 exp troops...I can buy the first 1/3rd of a division now.

In Malacca Straits, a light bombardment of Sabang will happen, but heavy ASW aerial coverage is being setup before further ops there. Moving support ship and combat ships to the area.

Sakhalin...working on a 2nd landing to secure the bridgehead at Alexandrvosk, while bombarding Shikuka and organizing the invasion of that base.

Played the ship repair game...so much of the IJN is in repair mode.

Beefed up the air defenses over Magwe a bit, but nowhere enough.

So much to do each turn...

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My first new plane model of the war! Huzzah!

I guess I will upgrade to it, primarily because of -5 engine...I am down to 10 of them.

My transports have gotten a huge work out this game...almost always busy.

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Radar!!!!

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CR termed the phrase friction...attritional losses.

I hope to inflict some friction by slowing down the tempo of offensive operations against the Allied sub fleets which are massed at both Sakhalin and in the Straits of Malacca. I have pushed too hard in some spots, and Allied subs have been far more effective than they should be at this point.

I am also dabbling in using the twin engine bombers.

At this point, I am not in a huge hurry. If I can do a landing in Java in say July, I will be happy.

My two recently arrived garrison units are now loaded on ships and will be leaving...I decided to send one to the Kuriles and one to the SRA -- a compromise I am not really happy about.

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March 1, 1942

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Oops.

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Singers...a few British Cruisers bombard for minimal effect thanks to the forts the local troops have built up. Bombardment goes well.

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Magwe bombed again...really need more fighters...