Thinz2 vs Zuluhour

[zuluhour]

ORIGINAL: DOCUP

Yea ground bombing is a killer.  I keep telling myself that my time will come. 

my time will come

+1

He advanced up the tracks to Toungoo with three units today. Its only held by a Bn moving north in combat mode. I am trying to organize a TF to get some of the Rangoon defenders to Calcutta. I will try a small Wellington raid on Toungoo. Mandalay has three fighter squadrons with my best pilots covering some units in the open on the retreat.

The guys at Bataan, out of supply, and holding out get hammered by air alomost daily and bombarded during the day but rarely suffer many losses where as the Dutch appear to trying to shag bombs like outfielders.

Not much else. RL arbeit has become all consuming. I need a fr%^king vacation.

[zuluhour]

Air raids continue at Palembang almost 200 sorties a day kill many Dutch and Allied troops. Heavy sweeps at Port Morseby by Zeros. I have rotated in my best reserve P40 squadron and rotated out the very tired and depleted Wildcats. I will miss their high cap while they recover. Triple A units are embarking for Port Morseby now. Oil woes continue and I am beginning the process of restructuring these sea lanes and reorganizing the tanker assignments. This is one tough game to learn on the fly. I have received new Regiments on the east coast along with some more triple A. Man I love triple A. Lex and York remain at Suva as I have convoy after convoy arriving there.

[zuluhour]

any comments?

[Mike Solli]

When the Tenn was put in the shipyard, was the WeeVee there? I suspect not. When the WeeVee was put in the shipyard, then the shipyard assets were split between the two BBs increasing the time for the Tenn.

[zuluhour]

They arrived together.

[Mike Solli]

Hmm, interesting. No clue then.

[Alfred]

Was the Tennessee due for an upgrade whilst she was in the shipyard and you had left the toggle on Yes? The upgrade time is added to the repair time.

The other possibility is you changed the repair priority down to "normal".

Alfred

[zuluhour]

May 26th 1942:
Palembang falls. The defenders had a retreat path however as the IJA opened the west hexside. curious.

I do have the ships as upgrade/refit but I don't recall changing anything, just watching the days go up on a daily basis. Is there a way I can look at the screen above on days leading up to now?

[DOCUP]

Tenn can upgrade on 6/42 with around 16 days in the yard.  What is the date.  Look at you OP report it will tell you if she went into refit.
 

[zuluhour]

thought I would post todays version of the shipyard

[Alfred]

Did you back the Tennessee into drydock stern first. Her scheduled layoff time has gone backwards from 71 to 73 days.[:)]

Alfred

[Alfred]

Here is a long shot idea born out of your severe drop in repair points between the two days.

1. Back out fully out of the ship repair screen.

2. Then go into the ships anchored in port (= ships disbanded in port) screen.

3. Check that you have switched the filter at the top of the screen to display all ship classes disbanded at the port.

4. Then press the "Manage Ships" button.

Do you still have only the 2 battleships in the shipyard?

Alfred

[zuluhour]

I did as you suggested:



Perhaps I did not fill out the work order in triplicate as I was busy disregarding a girl who is apparently 200 years old[:D]

[zuluhour]

May 30th 1942
LA west coast USA

[Mike Solli]

This is really strange. Did you post this in Tech support?

Edit: It is interesting that damage is being repaired.

[zuluhour]

In other news:
Bataan still holds
Batavia still holds
43 B17s raid LAE for little gain: 1 airfield hit and six casulties but they fly en masse. 12M alt. They do kill some Zeros for the loss of one flying fort. As I can now (revised HR) fly low with the HBs I shall wait a little and hit them hard when the weather clears. (It was cloudy and only half the crews trained.

triple A moving into Imphal, Daca, Calcutta and Akyab penisula (can't remember the cute little place)
triple A also moving to Port Morseby (second one)

Engineers should arrive Pago Pago shortly (way behind on this, I did not realize it was good spot for the oil pipeline)
Suva is almost completely built and Noumea not far behind.
The Marine Reg at Luganville (is it a U or an O) is behind level 4 forts. level three on Ndeni.

Large amounts of oil at Columbo as I get the eastern theater pipeline together. I have to build Coco Isl. at first opportunity.

80 P40s should arrive Karachi in five days to train hard for India.

[zuluhour]

no I hav'ent posted there as work has been KICKING MY ARSE! [:D] You think I should? The only thing I have not noticed, not sure if it matters, at SD the shipyard was overfilled, could they have borrowed labor? On my May31st turn out I just sent I put Tenn at the pierside and tomorrow I will move her back. I have saved every game turn so I think it could be reviewed.

[Mike Solli]

I would. There may be an explanation for it, but it could be a glitch that no one else has caught.

[Alfred]

The overworked shipyard at San Diego would not have borrowed any labour from the Los Angeles shipyard. Labour is not exported from one base to another base.

Alfred

[zuluhour]

May 31st 1942
IJN forces extend down the Solomons chain, just north of Tulagi. Ndeni gets her base force.

The battle for Port Morseby may begin in earnest in June. IJA AF units are now deployed at LAE and will be the subject of a raid (we hope) today. We go in at 22M with B17s this time and target the AF. The groups are not well trained yet so its an experience run as much as anything and I expect his CAP to be much lower as previous raids have been at 7000M and 12000M.

IJA scouts are now flying over Townsville and Cairnes. Two triple A units reach PM.

No sign of the KB

Batavia and Bataan still hold. Will they make June?

China appears stable.

The retreat from Burma continues, mediums sortie against lead IJA elements still on the jungle roads. The camera equiped recon ac report IJA air power build up at Pegu and Rabaul.

I tried to take the Tennesse to ready yesterday but a mouse over says she has 7 days of refit. She is now at 76 days.