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RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:36 am
by Lowpe
Into mine infested waters of LA...
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:41 am
by Lowpe
IJN screening task forces are engaging the PT boat squadrons fast and furiously. Here we sink two, but also expend some torpedoes on the little jerks...
The two previous skirmishes saw none sunk, and the PT boats did close with the San Clemente invasion force of DDs and APDs, but the IJN evaded in this case...it seems the Fast Transports are drawing the PT boats to San Clemente while others are fought at LA.
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:44 am
by Lowpe
Incredible number of engagements...but the IJN is doing well so far. However, it takes only one slip up.
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:48 am
by Lowpe
At San Diego...
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:50 am
by Lowpe
More San Diego...
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:53 am
by Lowpe
Hagikaze hits a mine at LA...
Atago hits a mine at Santa Ana...
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:55 am
by Lowpe
Bombardments of San Diego reveal the 43rd Inf Division...damage disappointing.
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:59 am
by Lowpe
With dawn, comes even more attacks....some IJN destroyer forces are outside of the air umbrella.
Allied subs mostly take a beating thru the night...but this sub got a shot off on a juicy target by attacking with the rising sun behind her.
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:02 am
by Lowpe
Somehow, we have made it thru the long night....but now the pucker factor has increased exponentially![X(]
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:04 am
by Lowpe
The morning starts off normally enough.
Look, heavy rain at Chungking. Must be miserable there this time of year!
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:06 am
by Lowpe
Can't let all the twin engine bombers have all the fun.
The beloved Sonia's are very busy over Chungking.
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:12 am
by Lowpe
Incredibly, the Allies don't strike from the air....another day done.
Tomorrow our first attack at Chungking....those poor hapless Chinese took around 4,000 losses today.
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:14 am
by Lowpe
Jumping Jehosafats! The Allies attack at LA...and my additional troops haven't made it in yet.
4000 Allied Assault Value...
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:17 am
by obvert
Don't leave us hanging!! [:-]
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:22 am
by Lowpe
A bloody 1-2 attack...and we hold.
I suspect the 4E beasties will show up here tomorrow...
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:22 am
by Lowpe
The naval war...
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:31 am
by Lowpe
Bloody, bloody China![X(]
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:35 am
by Lowpe
ORIGINAL: LoBaron
Hey lowpe! Your aar is a very entertaining journey!
While there is time due to jockes vacation, can you maybe share your thoughts on the cost of the combined operations against Hawaii and WC with with regards to fuel.
IIRC this is a scen30 game, so DBB goodies on a scen2 baseline, correct? I am aware that scen2 provides more ressources to the Japanese industry, but also increases consumption. I have no idea if the same applies to scen30.
On a standard DBB campaign Japan needs to plan operations involving combined fleet conservatively in order to have any staying power remaining in '45. Those two ops would basically autocollapse the IJ eceonomy.
Did you make any calculations on consumption and how the ops impact your late war economy?
I feel okay for now. I have 6.85 million units of fuel, and 3.4 million units of oil.
I pretty much mothballed the fleet prior to the West Coast Invasion.
I am increasing fuel stocks each day still.
Olorin increased the industry substantially, and I find trying to build resource stockpiles very difficult.
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:44 am
by Lowpe
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
You should pull that sub off of Repair Ship and put her on Pier Side, just to be sure the DD gets the repairs.
I juggled all the settings and these were the best, although some other settings were identical.
There is an ARD and a AS there helping...perhaps an AD too.
The 1# for the sub means it isn't doing any repairing this turn. The AS can't repair that 8 float damage.
If it were me, I'd stick the sub in the ARD until it was at 5 and then let the port fix it...
Au contraire, Master. I can't pick which ship goes into which repair ship. Or at least I don't think so except by using only one repair ship at a time and putting the others to sea.
An X means it won't repair this turn. # means no major damage repaired.
RE: Manila Falls
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:56 am
by obvert
Do you have enough to effectively blockade here? Looks like in LA one more division would do it, but would that leave Santa Ana vulnerable? Do you have more AT guns around? [:)]