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Late July 1944

MrKane is setting up defenses in a line from molumein northeast. It appears he intends to hold this area. I am hesitant to get into a large ground war here but we will see. Moving 2 divisions from Ceylon to Java to help accelerate that campaign.

Managed to take Port Blair with a paradrop on some weak troops I did not find by scouting.

Rangoon is building up and adding troops. Finally got a port to put supply into.

Java

The Java campaign is going well. Havent seen any sweeps or bombings from the island since the invasion. I think he is probably low on supplies or fears he will be. There are 3 divisions holed up at Malang. He has another division northeast of Balikpapan and 2 more on Davao. Not sure if I want to kill these troops or just push them off of base and let them rot so he cannot rebuild them on the HI.

Cotabato and Kudat have been conquered and are advancing to lvl 9 airfields. This will give me the ability to cover my assault on Luzon.

He is in serious danger to losing access to almost all his oil producing areas. If you csn cut him off he might not be able to last 6 months after that economically.

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

He is in serious danger to losing access to almost all his oil producing areas. If you csn cut him off he might not be able to last 6 months after that economically.

Miri is bombed to 20 oil per day and he isnt moving anything near there. I own Balikpapan so the only significant souce of oil is Palembang. Will be moving onto Sumatra shortly.

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

He is in serious danger to losing access to almost all his oil producing areas. If you csn cut him off he might not be able to last 6 months after that economically.

Miri is bombed to 20 oil per day and he isnt moving anything near there. I own Balikpapan so the only significant souce of oil is Palembang. Will be moving onto Sumatra shortly.

Scenario 2 style game...so I suspect he can last more than 6 months without SRA oil and fuel.

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

Molumein is building up and adding troops. Finally got a port to put supply into.

This is confusing as he still holds Moulmein/'Molumein'. [:D]
Did you perhaps mean Rangoon?

Late August 1944

First major invasion group attempts to offload at Legaspi today. We will see what happens.

Molumein did not hold very long as only a division was left there. Troops are pouring into Thailand.

There are 5 Japanese divisions isolated on Java. 1 each on the mountain hexes that cannot be bombarded and 3 more in the south end of the island.

yep

Score

MrKane is right on track for losing about 1000 planes a month, only about 500 ahead of schedule right now. I have noticed his sorties have dropped from 9000+ to between 6000 - 8000 per turn.

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

He is in serious danger to losing access to almost all his oil producing areas. If you csn cut him off he might not be able to last 6 months after that economically.

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I plan to lose the DEI 6/44. Every day after that is bonus to the economy .... If I am planning for '46. If I am planning for AV, then I already lost the game 7 months ago .... [;)]

Several good days for the allies. Because I crept forward MrKane was out of sync with my attacks and missed hitting any transports with his surface fleets. I managed to get in a combat of 8 destroyers against his 5 and he took some significant damage to that destroyer group although none sunk.

Landed over 1100AV at Legasapi which is already moving north. MrKane has over 120,000 troops in Manila so it will be the next POW camp.

To further our good fortunes the Japanese were maintaining a 200 fighter CAP over Cagayan which is controlled by the beaten up 2nd division His AV was around 220-240 at the beginning of the turn. I used my 2 battleship fleets plus a cruiser fleet against the base and then piled on with a daylight airfield attack. I think I managed to kill the whole air wing nearly 200 planes dead on the ground.

The bombardment at the end of the turn revealed a strength of approximately 80AV which will be subject to direct attack by 2 divisions and 2 tank regiments this coming turn along with a full air bombardment.

Not everyone plans ahead and especially if they pushed hard early in the war, time will tell.

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Not everyone plans ahead and especially if they pushed hard early in the war, time will tell.

Sorry, his opponent is Mr. Kane. VERY capable. His planning is meticulous. I cannot tell from this perspective if he went for AV and missed.

If you doubt, go back and read other AAR's with Mr Kane. There are quite a few. He is a very good player.

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Not everyone plans ahead and especially if they pushed hard early in the war, time will tell.

Sorry, his opponent is Mr. Kane. VERY capable. His planning is meticulous. I cannot tell from this perspective if he went for AV and missed.

If you doubt, go back and read other AAR's with Mr Kane. There are quite a few. He is a very good player.

MrKane got an AV in 1942 and again when I almost quit due to the P47 not making a difference. We agreed from the start of the game that AV would not end it.

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Not everyone plans ahead and especially if they pushed hard early in the war, time will tell.

Sorry, his opponent is Mr. Kane. VERY capable. His planning is meticulous. I cannot tell from this perspective if he went for AV and missed.

If you doubt, go back and read other AAR's with Mr Kane. There are quite a few. He is a very good player.

MrKane got an AV in 1942 and again when I almost quit due to the P47 not making a difference. We agreed from the start of the game that AV would not end it.

That also goes to show how well you're playing to come back to this point now. It's tough to move that quickly, even with a CV advantage. Nice work!

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Not everyone plans ahead and especially if they pushed hard early in the war, time will tell.

Sorry, his opponent is Mr. Kane. VERY capable. His planning is meticulous. I cannot tell from this perspective if he went for AV and missed.

If you doubt, go back and read other AAR's with Mr Kane. There are quite a few. He is a very good player.

MrKane got an AV in 1942 and again when I almost quit due to the P47 not making a difference. We agreed from the start of the game that AV would not end it.

Ah, so then you should assume he is ready to lose the DEI at this point. His economy should stand ... at least from a fuel/oil standpoint.