Burma 42-43 revised

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:23 am

Here's my T5 moves. The Japs reacted to my cutting their supply off by moving everybody off the river hex and I thought they went
south but I could be wrong. And I did some moving and attacking and this is where everybody ended up so far. I've ventured far
enough south to wangle a draw out of the scenario. So far so good.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:08 am

Here's my T6 moves. I've formed a sort of arc to make a front line kind of thing and I'm not at all sure that I've cleared out my rear
areas. I'm pretty sure all the Japs are moved south but I have no proof. I hope there's no big surprises in this scenario.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:21 am

Here's the front lines at the beginning of T7: The Japs have blown the bridge down south and I put my engineers on the case but the
Japs attacked and forced my engineers out of the hex. Very rude to say the least. So I've got to re-think my strategy. I can't seem to
repair the bridge w/ my engineers unless and until I get possession of all adjacent hexes to the bridge. Evidently. That's going to need
a push of some kind on the East side of the broken bridge and supply isn't all that much over there. Yet. Especially now that partisans
have cut the LOC's to the supply source(s). I've got to peel off some forces to keep the LOC's open. I'm not sure if that partisan
activity is simulated and abstracted or if there's an actual partisan unit spawned there. I'll go have a look.

EDIT: It turns out that the partisan activity is simulated and abstracted. There's no new Partisan unit to chase down.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:30 am

Here's the supply situation at the south end in T7:and you can see that it's just on the edge of being OK. I'm short of troops now that
I have to 'garrison' the territory taken. Partisan activity might be qwelled by my putting troops in good places. That's the theory.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:48 am

So the end turn button brought the Jap half of the turn and they didn't move anything and then I see this T8 screen about the Japs
winning the scenario. And here I thought there were 30+ turns to this thing. Shows what I know. And anyway, Steve Sill has gotten
the new version of Goodwood to me and he wants me to test out his changes. So I guess that's what I'll do now.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 8:53 am

I finally hit the end turn button and it presented me w/ the Jap side of the end of the scenario. So I hit the end turn button again and it
went to the Allied side of the conflict now that it's ended. I didn't know it would do that. That's pretty cool. Now that the game has
ended the end turn button is a toggle between the presentation of which side.

EDIT: Oh, yeah, I wanted to say that I looked up the scenario briefing again and sure enough there's supposed to be 30 turns. So I
have no idea why it ended early. I guess there's an event I was supposed to trigger and didn't or something. I'll look into it.

sPzAbt653 · Post by **sPzAbt653** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:11 pm

I checked for you, it looks like the Jap partisans got 4,0 or 7,0 ... and you could have snatched a victory by capturing Akyab. I didn't see anything in the briefing about either of these occurances. Excellent documentation on unit colors, though.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:19 pm

Hey Steve: Thanks a heap for looking into that for me. For us. I thought it might be something like that. Now I know. Would be really
helpful for some kind of warning about this kind of thing.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 2:48 am

So I'm through w/ the second time through Goodwood and I thought I'd like to tackle the Burma 42-43 scenario but this time
play the Jap side. This is the front lines after the Allies did their turn 1 thing and I haven't moved anybody yet. As you can see all the
heavy guns are at the bottom of the map and there's not much to contain the Allied forces in their march south. So I've got to roust
the units south and move them north quickly.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:01 am

I did a quick once over of the OOB. There's a lot of tired units and the Milita that was attacked in the Allied T1 is orange already.

I've got 50 for sealift cap. which is just enough to run one unit to another port. And the only other ports that I don't have belongs to
the British and I don't have the strength to take it away from him yet. I need to look into expected reinforcements next.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:05 am

Here's the expected reinforcements.....as you can see it's not much. I gotta wait until T4 before I get any at all. D'oh. Well, I'll just have
to do something like break the bridges and make the Allied side try to take them away from me. That's the theory.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:21 am

Here's my T1 moves. I destroyed the north bridge and I've parked some engineers on the south bridge ready to destroy that one as
well. I've formed a line across the West axis of approach. And I've put a light screen, some roadblockers, further north to slow down
the Allied advance. I can't move the partisans so I've put them on the one-dot stance. I'm guarding the broken bridge so that the Allies
can't park their engineer on it to repair it. They get some arty in T2 as I recall so my guarding the bridge won't last long after that.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:32 am

Here's the combat result of an Allied attack on my broken bridge defenders. I lost relatively little even though the Allied side used their
long range arty on the position. This might work ok after all. I can see that I need to intercept an Allied unit on the East side of the map.
I'm not sure I can get a unit to the bridge before he gets there. D'oh.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:42 am

Here's my T2 moves:

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:49 am

Here's the combat result of an Allied attack on my broken bridge defenders. The fiercest attack yet. Elmer prepped me w/ some arty
for about two rounds before this strike occured.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:01 am

Here's my T3 moves: I'm hoping that one unit on the broken bridge can hold out long enough for me to get some help to him.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:08 am

During the Allied T4 there were several fierce attacks from the Allies on the bridge hex defender and now in the Jap T4 everybody,
well almost everybody, has an orange stripe and can't move nor attack. D'oh. So I'm guessing the bridge will fall in T5 and Elmer will
repair it in T6ish and then the rest of the game goes downhill from there. I can see it all now. I'm going to have to rely on my
partisans to raise some cane in the rear areas.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:29 am

Here's the disaster that was turn 5. The Allies took the bridge hex and so far there's no engineers but I guess that's next. And Elmer
brutally brushed aside my "front line" and are now pushing south. I destroyed the bridge down south but I'm pretty sure the Allies
will take it back. It's looking kinda grim.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:45 am

Here's the T6 situation before I've moved anybody. I've gotten some reinforcements due to an event and they are needed badly.
Maybe we can salvage this situation somehow.

larryfulkerson · Post by **larryfulkerson** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:02 am

Here's the situation in T7. The Allies have destroyed my "front line" and are going to force the bridge hex down south.

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