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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

June 3, 1942

Another quiet day...scouring the roster for troops to buyout and assign prep to with an emphasis now on Marcus/Marianas to the Jimas.

Iboat sniffing around Christmas...which is built up now pretty well.

Long Island, CVE, arrived and I can see why I always sink it in 1942...very fragile ship. Figuring out what I want to do with it, now in transit to West Coast. Certainly it doesn't belong anywhere near the front lines...

Moving all troops that I will buy out to LA and that is my shipping hub...except those slated for the Aleutians. I can scroll thru the list and assign prep, check prep easily enough. Not sending anymore combat troops to India or Australia.

Liberty ships moving off map to Balboa and will do a run to New Zealand.

Put 5 two airplane Marine air units on it that won't disappear for awhile, leave them on board while training for 90+ days.

Why is an experienced player doing this? There is no chance to actually achieve something other than disabling his units even more. Wow, 21 destroyed Allied squads! Clark is a 3x defensive multiplier and he attacks with not even 2/3 of your av there. Not that it will really matter considering how trashed the IJA already is all over the map but that's a good way to trash it even more


IJ can take replacements and recover disablements where the Allies can't.

IJ can also easily resupply while the Allies will struggle.

It seems a pragmatic approach to wearing down a numerically superior defending force with an inferior attacking force.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it would seem even more pragmatic to use Bombardment attacks instead of Deliberate attacks. Note the Japanese edge in artillery and vehicles.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

June 3, 1942

Another quiet day...scouring the roster for troops to buyout and assign prep to with an emphasis now on Marcus/Marianas to the Jimas.

Iboat sniffing around Christmas...which is built up now pretty well.

Long Island, CVE, arrived and I can see why I always sink it in 1942...very fragile ship. Figuring out what I want to do with it, now in transit to West Coast. Certainly it doesn't belong anywhere near the front lines...

Moving all troops that I will buy out to LA and that is my shipping hub...except those slated for the Aleutians. I can scroll thru the list and assign prep, check prep easily enough. Not sending anymore combat troops to India or Australia.

Liberty ships moving off map to Balboa and will do a run to New Zealand.

Use Long Island as historically - as an aircraft ferry. Load it 2X capacity if you want to crane the planes off. Regular capacity if you want to fly them off early and turn L.I. around to return for more.

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Use Long Island as historically - as an aircraft ferry. Load it 2X capacity if you want to crane the planes off. Regular capacity if you want to fly them off early and turn L.I. around to return for more.

You are most likely correct![:)]

I am going thru and disbanding all my defensive PT boat squadrons to make them available for the upcoming offensives...

We will start the ball rolling with the invasion of Addu in a few days. Plentiful naval search should help to prevent all but a flank speed CV strike by Japan, and for that we will rely upon only being at Addu for one day unloading. If it goes bad, the shipping can exit to Mombasa, a port I am finding very useful.

Might perform some sweeps over the 150 IJ fighters at Colombo...before transitioning to the Baker Island/Tabit operation...all the while we are marching on Broome and starting the long march to Kalgoorlie and pushing into northern Burma.

Set up my first Cape Town to Port Stanley supply task force today. Cape Town is getting supplies from both the UK and Abadan (thru a strange route past Socotra and Mombasa).

I want to free up the Cristobal to Port Stanley cargo ships for the Central Pacific...





The danger with these dinky invasions is IJ ambush of course...and that is hard to prevent, but easy to plan for.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Set up my first Cape Town to Port Stanley supply task force today. Cape Town is getting supplies from both the UK and Abadan (thru a strange route past Socotra and Mombasa).

I want to free up the Cristobal to Port Stanley cargo ships for the Central Pacific...

Unless you are putting things at Port Stanley to stage them for further movement or whatever, Post Stanley will use very little supply. The monthly estimate on the screen should be pretty accurate if you are not building the base. A single xAK on CS Convoy from the US East Coast will take care of that.

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Unless you are putting things at Port Stanley to stage them for further movement or whatever,

Roger that. Those sheep farmers are very busy![:)]

I belong to the Mr. Roberts school of cargo shipping...one lone cargo ship plying the huge Pacific Ocean at a time.[:'(]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Unless you are putting things at Port Stanley to stage them for further movement or whatever,

Roger that. Those sheep farmers are very busy![:)]

I belong to the Mr. Roberts school of cargo shipping...one lone cargo ship plying the huge Pacific Ocean at a time.[:'(]

What you really need for that is fuel, as long as you don't unload the cargo ships. The port won't handle the fueling required in any reasonable amount of time, so have a large tanker disbanded in the port with another on the way to replace it when empty.

I sent a whole slew of little oilers...

What are you sending through Port Stanley, troops or just supply and fuel?

Just supplies for the Tahiti to Rapa area...then on to NZ and Australia, although in truth much hasn't gotten past NZ yet. I think there is only one xk transporting from NZ to Australia so far. There are Iboats floating around NZ....

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Use Long Island as historically - as an aircraft ferry. Load it 2X capacity if you want to crane the planes off. Regular capacity if you want to fly them off early and turn L.I. around to return for more.

You are most likely correct![:)]

It's good as a decoy as well. You can have it run with your fleet carriers going one direction w/ sbd nav search on full, light up some subs, then have the fleet carriers split off and go dark in the other direction while the LI continues on. It usually has a short life expectancy, let it have some fun.

June 4th, 1942

A knockout fight in the Pacific...plenty of ASW and NavS planes helped the destroyer, who just joined the small merchant fleet to shepherd them into port, fight off the sub...but then the sub turns the table and starts hitting the merchants hard!

Submarine attack near Christmas Island at 174,141

Japanese Ships
SS I-4, hits 11, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Buchanan
xAK Am. Manufacturer, Shell hits 1
xAK West Shipper, Shell hits 3, on fire
xAK Hollywood, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

SS I-4 is sighted by escort
I-4 bottoming out ....
DD Buchanan fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Buchanan attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-4 forced to surface!
DD Buchanan firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Am. Manufacturer firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK West Shipper firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Hollywood firing on surfaced sub ....
DD Buchanan firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Am. Manufacturer firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK West Shipper firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Hollywood firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Am. Manufacturer firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK West Shipper firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Hollywood firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Am. Manufacturer firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK West Shipper firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Hollywood firing on surfaced sub ....
DD Buchanan firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Am. Manufacturer firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK West Shipper firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Hollywood firing on surfaced sub ....
DD Buchanan firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Am. Manufacturer firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK West Shipper firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Hollywood firing on surfaced sub ....
DD Buchanan firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Am. Manufacturer firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK West Shipper firing on surfaced sub ....
xAK Hollywood firing on surfaced sub ....
Sub slips beneath the waves

That Iboat managed to destroy a fair bit of supplies! But the ships are docked behind the sub nets now...and should be safe if they can put out the fires. With Japan it would be a definite risk getting the fires under control with supplies onboard.

Plus we still spot an Iboat...another?, Japan does like to run them in pairs it seems, or is it the heavily damaged I-4?

A one to one attack here....hopefully these guys fail to retreat and can hold the IJA tanks for a bit here.







Check out the 2 IJA units moving west below the "CHINA" tag...

June 5th, 1942

Quiet day...the torpedoed cargo ship goes down at the dock in the Line Islands, Japan loses 5 planes, Allies 0.

Hold another day...we are hoping for a no retreat hold here.

What to do?

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

What to do?

Convert all possible ships to AE. You don't know how many that you may lose. Other ships can haul cargo or be converted to troop transports.

Starting in 1945, those AEs can replenish all of your AA on your ships while underway.

I am not so sure that is needed...initially. My convoy routes currently are very long and as long as I don't lose the ships, they can provide better utility currently hauling supplies off map. As more and more cargo ships arrive they can be converted over to ammo ships.

Thru 1942 our offensive ability is limited...but our demand for supplies is not.

Hog Island
Harriman
Regulus
Capella
C2 Lassen

All these classes can go either AE or AKE. I currently have 16 AKE and 7 AE and only 5 AD. I would prefer to have more ADs.

12 days for Wasp, 16 days for North Carolina. Destroyers trickling in very consistently. Simply amazing strength.[:)]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I am not so sure that is needed...initially. My convoy routes currently are very long and as long as I don't lose the ships, they can provide better utility currently hauling supplies off map. As more and more cargo ships arrive they can be converted over to ammo ships.

Thru 1942 our offensive ability is limited...but our demand for supplies is not.

Hog Island
Harriman
Regulus
Capella
C2 Lassen

All these classes can go either AE or AKE. I currently have 16 AKE and 7 AE and only 5 AD. I would prefer to have more ADs.

12 days for Wasp, 16 days for North Carolina. Destroyers trickling in very consistently. Simply amazing strength.[:)]

Take a look at the cargo capacity after the change - it should be 5400 tons with no liquid storage.