...Baby one more time - (A) vs. Lowpe (J)

[DesertWolf101]

I like this format - I will be watching

[Lokasenna]

January 2 uploaded.

[RangerJoe]

Very nice, thank you.

[Lokasenna]

Just got the next turn, January 7th, and I definitely lost track of time while doing the orders - I did show some extra stuff, but it still clocked in at 20 minutes [:'(]. Might need to look into some basic splicing and dicing capabilities, as OBS Studio doesn't do that.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Well, the forum doesn't like when I log in except through a private browser - something about the login cookies breaks it (although I haven't tested this in a few months).

You might be able to fix that by clearing/deleting the cookies for just this site. Once in a while the site seems to store a malformed or overly-large cookie.

You can also clear all cookies, but that will cause you to have to re-login on any site you use as opposed to only this site.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Well, the forum doesn't like when I log in except through a private browser - something about the login cookies breaks it (although I haven't tested this in a few months).

You might be able to fix that by clearing/deleting the cookies for just this site. Once in a while the site seems to store a malformed or overly-large cookie.

You can also clear all cookies, but that will cause you to have to re-login on any site you use as opposed to only this site.

It's working now. I hadn't tried it in months, because this just never worked.

[Lokasenna]

Got another turn today - I think I'll adopt the practice of posting a video every two turns right now, just to create a bigger gap. I think later on I'd be a bit nervous with only a 4-day separation between posted video and state of game. So get on Lowpe in his AAR to speed up the turns [:'(].

[Lokasenna]

January 3

Warning: long video. Feel free to skip ahead/skip around.

Approximate timestamps:

Shipyard shuffle - 00:05-01:45

India stuff - 01:48-09:00

China - 09:19-10:30

CENTPAC/SOPAC - 10:45-13:30

China again - 13:30-15:30

SOPAC - 15:40-18:20ish

Ceylon - 18:45

[Lokasenna]

It occurred to me that I should maybe link to the replay videos as well.

January 3 Replay

[Lokasenna]

January 4 orders

Another long one (22 minutes...). I'm working on this, I promise. The one I did last turn clocked in at under 7 minutes. More timestamps:

00:20 - enemy CVs spotted and setting up more search, with arcs

01:52 - Tabiteuea & Gilberts check-in, including more search arcs and saying I don't have a lot else to do at the end of this, following by 16 more minutes of noodling around.

05:45 - Various SOPAC logistics and planning things

10:50 - Back to CENTPAC/Hawaii

12:42 - Tracker checklist

13:45 - CONUS and pilots

15:00 - Ground units killed at Singapore, buying a few back, including checking Devices in Tracker as part of my decision-making process

19:31 - SIGINT check

19:38 - Last item on Tracker checklist: China

[Lokasenna]

January 4 Replay

Nickel summary:

- No eyes on enemy CVs near Babeldaob.
- Blah-blah-blahmbing in China
- Sub sinking confusion (wherein I thought Narwhal sank but it was Perch)
- Some forts expand

[Bif1961]

Enjoying the videos didn't know about the color of the search fan meaning which side of the search fan is searched first. I figured X numbers of planes fly out in their designated fan at the same time. Learn something new all the time playing this game and listening to others as they play.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Enjoying the videos didn't know about the color of the search fan meaning which side of the search fan is searched first. I figured X numbers of planes fly out in their designated fan at the same time. Learn something new all the time playing this game and listening to others as they play.

Thanks! I know they're a time commitment to watch/listen to so I really appreciate it. I'm trying to keep them down to the good bits and only do the long stuff with musing as I scroll around on something really important, not minutiae.

Blue is morning phase, green is afternoon phase, and black is both!

ASW colors are different - teal and white, if I remember correctly.

[awaw]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
December 11
Not much. Port Blair falls to paratroopers. Some ships sunk by KB and Netties near there - ships fleeing the DEI, and got caught.

Hi, will you be able to share, what are the para units used in this ops? That is a very early capture!

Thanks
awaw

[Lokasenna]

I don't remember where they start, but I think it's around Indochina or southern China or Taiwan. By using air transport from their starting point, you can get them to Bangkok and from Bangkok or Chumphon (in Malaysia) you can paradrop them on Port Blair. I've done it really early like this as well.

Ground combat at Port Blair (46,58)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 204 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Defending force 306 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6

Japanese adjusted assault: 12

Allied adjusted defense: 3

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Port Blair !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed
Buffalo PR.I: 1 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
291 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 29 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
Yokosuka 3rd SNLF /2

Defending units:
Port Blair RN Det

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

The Yokosuka 3rd SNLF paras start at Kagi on Taiwan along with the Yokosuka 1st SNLF. You can also put them on a ship to one of the malaysian ports and airlift them to Port Blair from there.

[awaw]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
I don't remember where they start, but I think it's around Indochina or southern China or Taiwan. By using air transport from their starting point, you can get them to Bangkok and from Bangkok or Chumphon (in Malaysia) you can paradrop them on Port Blair. I've done it really early like this as well.

Thank you for the details/prompt response!

[Lokasenna]

Just sent the January 13th turn, so I've got 2 turns to upload. Will do that tonight or tomorrow.

[Lokasenna]

Alright, I actually got a batch of videos uploaded. Busy day so just a link for now, more to come along with timestamps/summaries.

The January 7th orders video is my last long orders video, I promise.

January 5, 1942 Orders