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TF 130 is bringing some much needed supplies to Kwajalein. And this is how badly I've been running my ship loads: Kwaj is completely
out of everything. Fuel and Supplies are 0 even as we speak. D'oh.

Here's the latest Tracker economic chart. The NavY and MerchY figures are the ones I've been watching closely and so far so good.

Hi Larry,

I have been reading your AAR for the good details on running the Japanese as I hope to get another game going soon. Thanx for the effort put into documenting your trials and tribulations.

Cheers,
Guy

ORIGINAL: guytipton41
Hi Larry,

HI there guy dude. Thanks for taking the time to peruse this document. It's for guys like you that I've been doing this.

ORIGINAL: guytipton41
I have been reading your AAR for the good details on running the Japanese as I hope to get another game going soon. Thanx for the effort put into documenting your trials and tribulations.

You're welcome. Jim Moore and I are each doing separate AAR's so I can put all kinds of secret stuff in this one and he can put his
secret stuff in his and I don't read his. I'm trusting him not to read mine. But I don't enforce it 'cause I'm not playing a cut-throat game
and Jim isn't either. It's more a beer and pretzels kind of game but I'm trying to be a good compeditor for him and we're keeping the
action level pretty high and the wear and tear on the ships is mounting. We're already on turn 277 and we're managing three turns
per day on some days. Jim has been really patient w/ me as I try this and I try that and he reports that he's past the most frustrating
part of the Allied side and now his ship-count is starting to climb and I've already noticed that he has started to probe here and there
and I'm thinking this is a good game.

EDIT: You can find Jim Moore's AAR here: tm.asp?m=3109795

ORIGINAL: guytipton41
Cheers,
Guy

Thanks Guy, for keeping up w/ our progress. I'm going to put all kinds of details into this AAR for you.

TF 35 finally arrived at Okayama and is unloading at least as many supplies as it takes to put Okayama over 10K and then we're
moving on to Hiroshima to do the same to that city. The HI industry in these two cities is in danger of running out of supplies and
they are two of my biggest HI contributors so it just wouldn't do for the HI in those two cities to fail. I've already used up all the slack I had
in the NavY and MerchY pools. So it's tricky sailing from here on out.

TF 165 was a surface combat group and they didn't have anything to do for a while, seemingly, so I decided to disband them and get
some repair work done while it was still possible. Jaluit still has some supplies but it's out of fuel. D'oh. I've got some AK's at Truk that
are loading up w/ supplies for this part of the world even as we speak. They should be here in about a week.

Here's the situation at Mili: Jim has had a submarine lay some mines in the harbour at Mili even while there was an AP there unloading
some troops. TF 624 wants to deliver some supplies to Mili because there's only about 500 supplies there now and so I'm guessing I'll
need to divert TF 624 to some other needy port and get the DMS to sweep Mili. Sounds like it'll take about a week to get the DMS here
and then another couple of days after that before I can use the Mili port. I wish Jim wouldn't do that.

I was just now checking out Truk and I seem to have let Truk fuel ships until there's no more fuel at Truk. But I look up the convoys
moving to Truk and I find about 60K of fuel moving to Truk and will be there within about a week. Good enough.

I thought that while I was checking out hubs I might as well check out BubbleDrop. There's all kinds of goodies flowing toward BD except
for supplies. I'm going to have to ship some supplies to BD as well so that they don't run low on supplies. BD has enough for about a
week I'm guessing so there's no hurry on the supply shipment.

Here's the latest resources history display from Tracker. The Resources column is alarming. I'm down to, like, 9 days worth of
resources in the home islands. Doh.

I'm running low on resources and I already have some industry failing in at least two cities. D'oh.

I found some of Jim's carriers. Now to mount an attack. I've forgotten how close my carriers are to this spot. I'm thinking they are in
Ocean Island's port and are real handy. Now if only I had some fuel.

I found my carriers.......they are up by Wake and they are low on gas. And they aren't doing any good where they are.

I've got 4 carriers being repaired at Yokohama and they will be there for quite a while.

Here's all the convoys headed for Bubble Drop. Lot's of fuel and resources. I'm going to see if I can't divert a lot of those resources
toward Tokyo instead of unloading them at BD and transfering the resources to a different convoy. Save about a week in time I'm
guessing.

Here's the fuel, oil, supplies, etc., levels at six of my hub ports. Lots of fuel and oil at Cam Rahn Bay to go to the home islands. I forgot to
get Palembang on this picture and I'm thinking there's lots of oil and fuel at Paley ready to go to the home islands but not much in the
way of resources. I've still got lots of convoys going between Truk and Ocean Island and Nauru for resources. I'm going to have to look
into maybe retreiving some resources from Christmas Island IO on the west side of Java, it's got over 100+ K of resources. So far.

Here's the industries that failed today:

Here's the condition of the active subs......I've got the SYS damage sorted in descending order so the most damaged ones tend to
migrate to the top of the list.

Here's the condition of the subs being repaired at yards. It appears that there's three subs at Shortlands that are going to have to
migrate to Truk to be repaired by the repair ship there.

Here's the latest Tracker resources history. I didn't have any industry fail today for lack of resources. That's a good sign.