OK sorry for some entirely off-topic, albeit funny posts, we get back to our regular programming [;)]
As you have seen, we have been viciously attacked, and backstabbed by Japanese scoundrels etc.
Anyway, we are beta testers for this parallel universe, so we read the script in advance [:D] Which is to say, we kinda expected it to happen. We expended some political points to replace pool ole Kimmel in PH, and Nimitz & his bunch are doing all they can to strike back at the Japanese. pH34r, I ar l33t n00bz [:D]
Our production is moving into full gear. We'll discuss whether to adopt "Germany first" strategy with Rooskies, but frankly, right now it seems like a natural thing to do (despite my bad WITP-themed jokes).
Our improved DD fleets managed to damage four U-Boot fleets this turn (for the damage to one of my DD fleets), making a life in the Atlantic temporarily easier, and further burdening the GE industry (damaged stuff goes back to production queue). Thus, we managed to bring more supplies to UK, and stage one of my personal favorite moves - invasion of poor old neutral Portugal. We'll do an un-holy buildup of immense forces in this poor neutral country and continue from there. I call this strategy "Peninsular war", and BTW we discuss it's nuances and possible need for tweaking on the beta board (so think twice before crying "hey!" [:D])
Interesting thing to note (though it's not visible on the screenshot) is that Portugal African colonies of Angola and Mozambique became Axis after the Portugal is attacked. No worriez though - no resources there, and regardless of that Axis has no transport ships to bring anything back from there so it's only eye candy until we assign some colonial militia to capture them.
We also transferred some subs from Atlantic shipyards to Pacific (via Panama canal). Japanese transports here we come
[:D]
Screenshot below shows the invasion of Portugal and the buildup there. To computer gurus it also shows that I am using laptop [:D]
Oleg
