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In a rather unique way to open a war, The Haruna Cover Force--moving to protect the Kuantan Landing--scores the first combat of the war with a poor and helpless AKL. A sinking is a sinking even if rather small!

Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941

The war opens with a solid and well done attack against Battleship Row. The Kido Butai launch 92 Zero, 141 Val, and 144 Kate. CARDIV Five's Kanko Daitai attack and Airfields doing serious damage while the other four Kanko and all six Kambaku Daitais clobber Pearl Harbor. For the loss of five Vals (Kanko) and 18 Kates (Kambaku) the war opens.

Results:
Battleship Row
Arizona 3 800 Kg and 2 250 Kg Bombs with 1 TT hit. MAGAZINE EXPLOSION----SUNK!
Oklahoma 1 250 Kg Bomb and 4 TTs: On Fire, Heavy Damage
California 3 800 Kg and 2 250 Kg Bombs and 3 TTs: Heavy Damage, On Fire
Nevada 2 800 Kg and 3 250 Kg Bombs and 5 TTs: On Fire, Heavy Damage POSSIBLY SUNK/SINKING
Maryland 3 800 Kg and 5 250 Kg Bombs and 2 TT: On Fire
West Virginia: 4 800 Kg and 3 250 Kg Bombs and 7 TT: Heavy Damage, Heavy Fires PROBABLY SINKING!
Tennessee 2 800 Kg Bombs and 2 TT: Heavy Fires

Cruisers
CA San Francisco 1 800 Kg Bomb and 1 TT: On Fire
CL Helena, St. Louis, and Anchorage 1 250 Kg Bomb each.

Other Ships
AV Wright 2 800 Kg Bombs On Fire, PC SUNK, AO 1 800 Kg Bomb, AMc SUNK


There were three TT Duds. Three Daitai of Kates dropped Bombs with an equal amount dropping TTs. Like that number pretty well. It worked very effectively.

Looks like Arizona and West Virginia SUNK and possibly Nevada. NICE!

KB retires towards Midway...

Is it just me or did it kind of send a shiver of fear/sadness down your spine to get a magazine explosion on Arizona?

Cruisers
CA San Francisco 1 800 Kg Bomb and 1 TT: On Fire
CL Helena, St. Louis, and Anchorage 1 250 Kg Bomb each.

Doesn't get the headlines the BBs do, but this is what I look at as Allied player. The modern American CLs have the better AA vs the CAs and help supplement the CV TFs at start.

Criptop: It always seems to me that the PH attack gets either Arizona blown up or Oklahoma take 7 TTs. Does almost seem PROGRAMMED that way. Yep. Sad.

Michael and I are always on the same page here. I am quite happy to see those CAs/CLs take damage to start with. I mentioned there were three dud TTs in the attack and one was against San Fran (could have been SWEET!) and the other against the Anchorage.


Lew and I are rolling. Just sent the 12-9 turn back to him. NO major surprises yet. Had a bad day with unescorted Betty/Nell over Luzon. Lost almost 20 bombers due to my Zeros being STUPID! The massacre is thoroughly rolling along. Will Post details tonight after work.

WE have been getting in a 1 turn+ a day so have reached 12-11. Plan on a thorough update later today (we're doing a Garage Sale right now) detailing action and events.

I've decided to rule out the deep ball in a couple of locations for this campaign:

1. India=Tar Baby. I hate the idea of messing with India in ANY game so we're throwing that out.
2. Aussieland: We'll take NW Australia and push through Tennant Creek. No farther then that.
3. Alaska: Useless and doesn't gain anything.
4. China: Will take what I want then settle into solid lines and buyout IJA units as fast as possible. Already plan on buying those three EXCELLENT Regiments that start in northern China (all have 80+ EXP).
5. Hawaii: Not possible.

Definite Planning:

1. Midway. I am skipping Wake to start with and am sending the South Seas Force and 15th Base Force to take Midway. They have BC Ishitaka and 4 CA added to BLAST those Marines in preparation for the landing. KB Covers.
2. Line Islands: Will take these bases to deny them to the enemy. KB shall scoot over there in 2-3days and keep all reinforcements from arriving at Christmas until I can grab it.

Those are the initial 'bigger' plans.

Dec 15, 1941

This is a GREAT way to start the day! Just took Canton by Fast TF and had four I-Boats patrolling in the area. One finds CA Astoria and plants TWO Torps into her tender side. Sinking sounds follow...

I have run on the same install of WitP for 2-3 years (since I bought this computer) and have heavily modified the file with JWEs Extended Map and Stacking Limits, updates, Betas, all sorts of additional ship/plane art, ChemKid's new (BEAUTIFUL) map, and all sorts of things I am currently forgetting The file is--as of this morning--CORRUPTED and dies at the same place every time. Ran it three times this morning.

Have to do a complete install. CRAP! Nicest word presently circulating in my mind presently. Guess there will be no turns between lew and I for a day or two while I straighten this out...

How many of you have had this rare and WONDERFUL gift happen to you?


Suicide is a VIABLE choice presently...

Hasn't (fingers and eyes crossed) happened to me ... yet!
This game makes frequent read and write operations to the hard drive to check and update the game save data as you play.
Heavy use for 2-3 years could mean the start of hard drive failure. Better back up everything now!

In a word "YES"

Unfortunately I'm not home or I'd e-mail 1108r9 to you. After the last mess I saved everything to an external HDD and keep it so I have an "idiot-proof" copy.

I remember somebody had the official patch on a side site (like your RA website) but I also remember people talking that it was not accessible anymore... Hopefully I'll be back home by lunchtime tomorrow, so if no one gets it to you by then I'll be glad too...

Yeah, I am keeping a separate install of stock plus r9 in the event of disaster. I play the game off other installs.

Looks like we are now OK. Had to back-up two turns but the new Dec 16th turn ran fine last night.

This is my 11,000th post.

HOLY CATS!

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Very KIND words. THANK YOU SIR!

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Here we have four CVs (CarDiv2 and CarDiv5) keeping the Americans AWAY from Christmas Isle. It will be invaded in 2-3 days. The target was a TF carrying a Marine Defense Bn:

Here we have CarDiv1 smashing an American STF (1 CA, 2 CL, and 4 DD) trying to prevent the Midway landing. They failed and the Atoll was taken on Dec 19th.

Lew and I are getting a turn a day in. We just rolled the New Year and the Japanese Offensive is rolling along. Things have not gone easily though and that is a bit of an issue. As normal, Lew has been hyper aggressive using his warships to punch and punch at the Japanese. This pattern has been somewhat disturbingly effective. The Kaigun has lost BC Kongo and a CA due to a pair of encounters with Force Z where damage was taken and then a dratted Dutch SS finished the job. Quite sad...

The KB has split with elements covering various landings. Here is a big picture map of their operations:

Since I plan to have a game with Cribtop (once his match with Michael is far enough along) I have been reticent to detail much of the action and ESPECIALLY the planning of this current game.