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December 23rd 1941

Kenny bugged out at Yenan and Rangoon. Both have been captured. I hoped to destroy units at Rangoon but now I will have to chase them into the jungle.[:@]

Hong Kong just fell as did Manila and Clark Field. My airdrop on Bataan was repulsed after 6 days so the units at Clark were able to retreat to Bataan. Hopefully they were mauled enough before retreating that it will be a short seige.

Second nasty surface engagement near Rabaul left 2 of my CLs and 3 DDs barely afloat. Fortunetly I took Rabaul a few days ago and can put them into port. I will be happy if any of them survive. Intel screen says I only sunk the LeTriumph in this battle but Kenny tells me that the Boisie also saw sunk (scutteled).

Started a limited advance into the DEI, mainly with the goal of taking out the Dutch Air Force. Menado was captured at the cost of a few Aps put out of action for 2-3 months. Landed at Amboinia and suffered heavy trasport damage from A/C. Surface action there was a draw with no ships sunk on either side although a few of my DDs may sink if they don't get back to a port soon. I forgot to load supplies with the troops so they will have to capture what they need to survive.

Starting to have fuel/supply shortages. That is the cost of a rapid advance. I may have to pause a few turns to let the supply train catch up.

Mourning period can now begin...the sinking of the "Great Boise." [&o][&o]
Those Brooklyn and Helena class CL's are tough little ships. I have Boise and a few Flush Decks trying to create havoc in the eastern SRA. [:D]
Her sister CL's are heading that way at flank speed!!

Born and raised in East Brunswick, NJ!! Gotta love the Giants, Mets, Devils!!

Down with the Yankees, Jets, Islanders, Eagles!!!

yes the Boise will be greatly missed as its probably every Allied Fan boys favorite ship in the 1st few months.

unfortunately the Boise took 2 torp hits in the battle along with 51 shell hits!. Not sure which did the most damage as we have turned off combat animations for quicker play. Either way, when the smoke cleared the Boise was only 2 hex's away from Rabual, with 94 flt damage and fires ablazing. Surprising, no superstructure damage was done, as not one AA gun was destroyed. Scuttling was the only option as there was no way she was making it out.

Surprising the CL Perth also took 2 torp hits and should easily survive.

saturday i'll be posting maps of recent battles including the final demise of PI, the debacle in Malaya, Japanese advance into eastern DEI, the 2nd navel battle of Rabual, and the Burma theatre....so stay tuned

Born and raised in East Brunswick, NJ!! Gotta love the Giants, Mets, Devils!!

gotta like the mets chances this year, even though the lost the series to Atlanta

ORIGINAL: SGT Swanson

Born and raised in East Brunswick, NJ!! Gotta love the Giants, Mets, Devils!!

Down with the Yankees, Jets, Islanders, Eagles!!!

When did you move to NC? I have been in East Brunswick since '93.

at Bataan 36,000 allied troops are up against 120,000 japanese troops....looks like i'm screwed. Give bataan about a week. Tom's dismantling of PI worked perfectly as 5 PA inf Div's, 7 USAAF BF's were unable to retreat back to the Manila/Clark/Bataan defense line.

with the fall of Minidano within the 1st week, the 56th Bde was free to march down eastern DEI. In support of two CA TF's and later a BB TF, this force is all but unstoppable. Where's Z-force, you might ask?? Don't worry the Brits are on a top secret mission that can not be mentioned here for fear of Japanese spy's [:D]






sorry for the "busy-ness" of this map, i'll try to be more concise in the future

Like the style of this a lot, apart from the references to that obscure sports stuff. Where are you finding the maps?

Cheers

Roger

Just so you know, the finally tally isn't in on the battle, as Tom has stated he expects several more ships to sink over the next few days.

Here is the deposition of forces

Japan - 4 CL's, 10 DD's
USA - 2 CA's, 3 CL's, 1 DD

thank you Roger. I got the pictures online from various website's using google images search. Usually the maps had a lot of crap on them like names of cities/oceans/roads/mountains ect. So what i would do was trace the outline of the coast, then just fill in the ocean with 1 color, and fill in the land with another color, and wham! i had myself a blank map to work with. The rest is elementry

Bataan fell on 12-27 so my claim that I could take the PI in less than a month has been proven to be true.

Air drop on Kendari took out the defenders there.

The KB wandered a little too close to Seorabaja and discovered that it was a hornet's nest of 4E bombers. My cap did not fly as ordered (only 28 went up) and 3 DDs and a CL got beaten up pretty bad.

I am figuring that he is short of AV support and supplies so I don't think Fortress Java will be able to remain a threat for long.

So far Kenny is showing himself to be extremly good at using surface TFs to slow my advance. My LBA has yet to be a factor having only sunk about 10 AKs and a DD.

As my units run out of fuel and supplies my offensive is beginning to slow down. Now is when my Quartermaster skills will decide victoty or defeat.

looks like i'll do a poorer job in mayala than done historically. You would think it would be easy just to retreat to Signapore, but not my troops. 1st they go to Georgetown to get trapped, this allows the rapid movement of jap forces down the west coast, thereby cutting off the east coast forces before they can reach the rail line. What a debacle. Now i got 1/3 less the forces to defend signapore.

what the KB has been up too (at least part of it [;)])

But where has the KB gone to now...........?[&:]

Heads up. Kenny smacked me bad this turn. I am sure he will post it soon. [:(]

Good to hear the "Evil Empire" may have gotten spanked!! [:D][:D]

I am trying to slow down those nasty Japs in my two games in about the same time (end of 12/41). One doing pretty good and the other not as well. [:(]

I took Kuching and put 100 Zeros and 100 Nells there to bomb his B-17s at Seorobaja.

The problem was that I put them on Naval attack/airfield attack. He put his B-17s on Airfield attack so they flew first and destroyed close to 80 planes on the ground. Ouch![:@]

On the plus side I trapped and destroyed 2 Burma Rifle Brigades last turn.

Burma Brigades....bleh!!...useless IMO [:D]. Taking Marcus Is last turn was the real prize

Send me your turn. You may not have it anymore[:'(]