General Patton vs. larryfulkerson Focus Pacific #75

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown
Tracker would be more helpful if you would import a good region file.

Yeah, I noticed that too. I imported one right after that image was posted. I debated posting an image with the various regions but
I thought the values for the things I'm watching would be the same. It seemed like more work than necessary.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the situation in the Singapore area now. Johore Bauhru is out of supply and my troops are in no shape to do anything
offensive right now. They probably couldn't even defend themselves should Brian vault northward. I'm shipping supplies to Mersing
but they are still two days in transit and there's not much to do about it right now. I'm putting the pieces of divisions together while I
have them on 'rest' status thinking maybe they will use less supply that way. Or need less supply or something. My theory is that
if I pile on the supplies at Patani and Mersing and ports inbetween that SOME of those supplies will trickle down to Johore B. and
we'll be back on the road. This is costing me at least two weeks in my schedule. I hadn't planned on running out of supply in mid-
advance. This is embarassing to say the least. Maybe I should use some of those PP's to replace some of the big-wigs in charge
of logistics. Might make me feel better.

I've got about 25K troops and he's got at least 45K that I've spotted so far. That's not nearly enough to press forward. I'm going to
have to sail in here some more divisions yet. It's going to take at least a month to round up some divisions and get them here.

[larryfulkerson]

Clark Field finally fell and a lot of the Allied LCU's surrendered rather than retreat into Bataan. I was surprised. So now of the 122K
troops I have at Clark Field I can move some of them to Singapore to help bring down that base. I'm really in no hurry to reduce
the congregation at Bataan and it needs a lot of bombardment anyway. I wish there was some way to clear the mines from Bataan
and Manila so I could use the port already but Brian has some hefty CD guns and I don't relish tackling them with ships. I'm going to
try to reduce their effectiveness from the air first. I'm going on the assumption that Bataan is without supply sources and that what
they have will dwindle to 0 eventually and then they will be easy pick-en's.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the aircraft and engine pools now. I've stabilized the Ha-35's but the Ha-33's probably need to be boosted since I've used a lot
of them but there's none in the pool. And I need those engines for the Nell's I'm going to build. Another plane that needs boosting is
the G4M1 Betty. I don't have nearly enough of them. And I've got too many Nate's. Lots of changes needed. I've already shipped my
moves off to Brian so I'll have to wait until late afternoon ( it's 08:34 now ) before I can implement these changes. I may have
announced before that I'm aiming at 500+ engines for the more popular types and at least 100 of each aircraft type I'm building.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what is happening in the Port Moresby area now. I've sighted at least one Allied TF at Milne Bay and I just happened to have
some of my heavy guns in the area. I'm waiting for the fuel TF to arrive at Rabaul because my lack of foresight ran Rabaul out of fuel
and I was going to do a sweep down the east coast of Australia to see if I couldn't sink an AK or two and it appears that Brian was one
step ahead of me and brought in his heavy guns to prevent me from my tour. So I'm going to drive my offensive force toward Milne Bay
and see if I can't sink something.

[larryfulkerson]

Evidently I'm way behind schedule because I have only 9 more days to capture Singapore if I want my income-ing LCU's to arrive
on time. I'm guessing I won't get that LCU for Singapore unless and until I capture Singapore. Even more reason to have
possession of that hex. The ship yards there and the built-up port and airfield screams out for capture. I'm debating whether or not
to assault Palembang and Singapore simultaneously. Most of my big gun divisions are employed near Manila and that project is
winding down leaving just Bataan for a siege lasting for at least a couple of weeks. I'm trying to figure out some way to configure my
surface combat TF with enough DMS's that the mines don't decimate my TF. I'm guessing I'll need at least 6 of them for a large TF.

[larryfulkerson]

I got really lucky and got some good hits on the Allied TF at Milne Bay. I sailed some CV's in range and crossed my fingers. Several
ships got sunk and damaged and I'm ready to do that tour down the east coast of Australia now.

[larryfulkerson]

Anybody have a good idea why Keopang isn't in the list of bases? I've turned on the enemy bases too and it's just not there in the
list. I can't imagine why.

[larryfulkerson]

Serious negotiations are underway near Hankow. I've got a Jap group facing an Allied group 7 times bigger than my group and I'm
pounding it by air every day and so on but the size of the group isn't changing all that much as a result. I fear I'm going to lose the
contest and have to give ground. Brian may wonder down to Hankow and lay seige to the city. That wouldn't be a good thing. I've
stripped most of the big divisions out of the mainland for the situation at Bataan and Manila and it looks like I need some of them back
in China to stabilize the situation on the mainland. I'm worried that my front line will crumble and fold.

[larryfulkerson]

Slowly the Victory Point ratio is changing. What value do *I* need for a Jap auto-victory anyway?

[larryfulkerson]

Here's my settings for ship production right now. I'm building more Nav-type ships than I have points for because I'm trying to bring
the pool level down to about 1K. The Merch-ships are cooking right along and I've got enough points in the pool that I can turn on
the building of another ship yet. I need AK's so I'll turn on one of those.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the line-up about the troops at Clark Field that I have moving toward Bataan. I count 13 full-fledged divisions and lots of
assorted other LCU's. I'm thinking about taking all the non-division units and move them to Singapore as well as some of the
Arty and Engineers. I've got an LCU at Davao that needs to go to Singapore. I wish now that I had planned better before I started
farming out LCU's to the various places that need to be captured. Now, in phase two, I'm having to round up the pieces of divisions
all over the map. Very inefficient. Some divisions may not be able to be put back together given the configuration the pieces are in.
I'll have to find units to replace other units and some water-taxi-AK's for moving the LCU's. Fortunately most of the pieces can be
moved by rather small TF's.

[Bif1961]

Because it starts with a Ko not Ke?

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Bif1961
Because it starts with a Ko not Ke?

That's what the problem was exactly. Good eyes. I must be dyslexic lately.

[larryfulkerson]

I think I may have found a tiny problem. The 17th KuT-1 squadron seems to have two representations. There's two squadrons
with that name. They fly different types of aircraft so it's not exactly duplicated. I haven't had a problem so far except that
Tracker won't tell me where it entered the game just now, just says "unknown base". That's how I found it.

[larryfulkerson]

For a while there Brian and I were doing about 3 turns per day and lately it's slipped to more like 2.5 or so because I've had to
micro-manage the path of my TF's around the Jap home islands because of the Allied subs. I'm using waypoints to stear around
the subs but they move every once in a while so my pathing has to change to compensate. I'm trying not to get the TF adjacent
to the sub because that's the reaction range of a sub. So far so good.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the condition of the Jap troops in the Bataan hex. They used to be in the DIS category but I gave them a day of rest and the
DIS is now relatively low. The problem is the FAT level. My boys are tired. But their morale is good. I'm going to give them another
day of rest to try to get the FAT level down and then start up the deliberate attacks again. The TOE percent is holding up pretty
well, but that's because I've sorted out those depleted units and sent them to Appari to rest and refit. I'm debating moving them to
Davao to help out the battles on that island. Another consideration is Palembang. I'm finding it less than easy to find the proper
troops for that invasion. I need full divisions for that project and there aren't many unemployed divisions left. Also, in trying to get
the pieces of divisions together, I've found a decided lack of transports. Most of the AK's are moving goodies to the home islands
and aren't available for something else. I've finally got the logistics chain working relatively well and now I need to disturb that process
to adapt some of the AK's to moving troops. I've got the AP's fully employed moving troops but I don't have enough of those to go
around everywhere so the AK's are taking up the slack. So far so good.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the condition of the Jap troops at Johore Bauhru and you can see that they are out of supply. I've got supply transports flying
supply into the hex but it's not enough. I've divided the troops and sent half of them to Malaca to get some supply again. Once they
fill up I'll move them to JB and move the low supply crowd to Malaca for their turn. In TOAW IV when you get into a low supply
condition in the LCU's they suffer dissertion effects and the TOE decreases slowly. That doesn't happen in WITP-AE and I'm
wondering if it should or not. Or maybe it does take place. But they call it malaria or something else. Attrition or something.

[ny59giants]

Tracker - Go into "File" and look in "Regions" to find somebodies regions broken down. Import it!!

Under "Industry" pull up "Overview" and screenshot what the daily HI is. Going back a page, you have a huge surplus of supply, so you may need to expand your Naval Shipyards. Your fellow economics ministers need data to be able to help as you cannot halt all those warships like you are doing now. That tells me something major is wrong. [X(]

[larryfulkerson]

Something major is wrong? You can't halt the building of your warships? I was running out of HI so I had to turn down the shipbuilding
I thought. I'll take a look at the NAV and MERCH shipyards and see what's going on there. Here's the daily HI figures.