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Here's finally some significant combat to report. I've sunk some Allied ships but I've damaged several of mine. I can't disband them at
Mersing because of the port damage and so I'm going to have to use the port of Saigon or Singkawang for damage repair and the use
of some AKE's.

I've been experimenting w/ CS convoys lately and these are the CS convoys I have set up so far. They seem to be working just fine and
I even get news strings about what they are individually doing. I need to do some more.

Here's some of the traffic at some of the major hubs around the globe: I really had to squeeze this picture to get it to fit.

Okay, new day new Tracker chart: Yokohoma is failing for resources again. HI and LI this time both failing.

I've formed a sort of TF w/ all the damaged ships from the recent raids on Mersing and I'm sailing them to Saigon to get fixed. Some of
them may not make the trip. I wouldn't sail AK's into Mersing except that they need the supplies very badly.

I just found out just now that Truk is down to it's last 13K supplies. I have a convoy that was going to carry some supplies for Kwajaliene
and I hesitate to draw them from Truk. I'm going to have to go to BubbleDrop for some more supplies. I have a convoy of supplies
already leaving Tokyo this morning for Truk and it's going to take about 8 days for it to arrive at Truk. Maybe I've averted a crisis in the
bud.

I've got a TF at Fusan that needs loading and I was thinking of making another CS convoy for resources but I've noticed that Fusan is
particularly low on resources so I'm going to divert this TF to the Hakkido run instead.

I have two AO's at Tokyo that are empty and need to be filled w/ fuel but their total capacity is about 22K and there's only about 57K at
Tokyo and I'm going to need that for fueling the traffic in and out of Tokyo so it looks like there is another fuel crisis just about to rear
it's ugly head.

This is me turning up the refineries at Tokyo to 20 more so now it's 410(20) and the fuel output should go up slightly.

I just now discovered that Port Arthur is running out of Oil. It's got a refinery but no oil center there and so tomorrow I expect Port
Arthur to fail for lack of oil.

Sorry to ask, Larry, but how much of your supply woes are due to

[*]the challenges that Japan would "normally" face at this point of the war?
[*]your inexperience with playing the Japanese side?
[*]your inexperience with playing the game, either side?
[*]possible recent inattentiveness, maybe due to returning focus on TOAW? (Playing WITP:AE well demands near total focus, no?)

Please don't be offended, and please take these questions in the proper spirit. I am no WITP:AE expert, and certainly no expert on playing the Japanese side. Not at all suggesting that I could do any better. I'm just curious to know for when and if I ever choose to play Japan.

ORIGINAL: berto
Sorry to ask, Larry, but how much of your supply woes are due to

[*]the challenges that Japan would "normally" face at this point of the war?
[*]your inexperience with playing the Japanese side?
[*]your inexperience with playing the game, either side?
[*]possible recent inattentiveness, maybe due to returning focus on TOAW? (Playing WITP:AE well demands near total focus, no?)

Please don't be offended, and please take these questions in the proper spirit. I am no WITP:AE expert, and certainly no expert on playing the Japanese side. Not at all suggesting that I could do any better. I'm just curious to know for when and if I ever choose to play Japan.

Hey I just learned how to put a bullet on your list.......thanks for that. So um......how much of my woes are due to _______ ( insert your
reason in the blank ). Um....I'm pretty sure that all the reasons you have listed are part of the problem. And I'm pretty sure I'm a victum
of all of them. I'm not sure what kind of challenges Japan would "normally" face at this point in the war because I've never played
this game before, especially this far into it. I think the main problem is that this scenario is RA 4.2 and it's supposed to be hard.
I'm not offended by your question(s) and I'm documenting this thing, each problem as I find it, so that guys like you can know what I
ran into while playing this thing. Like a scientific experiment or something. I'm beginning to think that maybe this is a comedy of
errors and I'm a stooge. I wasn't expecting the game to be this hard. Maybe I should start taking notes.