Lambs to the slaughter (Lowpe (J) vs Jocke; BillBrown (A)) Finished

[Lowpe]

Production

No pools effectively of Naval or Merchant, so no worries there.

I might look at saving some HI, and Vehicles...we shall see what it looks like after a while of no huge replacement costs.

[Lowpe]

Upcoming Planes Feb of 44 or sooner (except for Sam):

Sen Baku...I will make this plane, as one squadron cannot go higher than the A6M5c. I will use it to train pilots strafing Chinese and anybody else I can get away with. I don't expect much, and if the squadron doesn't withdraw it might become a kamikaze squadron. Again, no expectations of success.

N1K2 George...yay. So few squadrons though.

Irving Sa...yay, but so few squadrons..like 1 for now.

D4Y3 Judy...okay...good plane. I want Grace.

Nick D NF....desperately needed.

Judy C recon...a good plane

Paul...one squadron. Will play with them. Flavorful.

Lorna...1-2 squadrons. ASW plane. Not upgrading and using Nells is the wise course, but I like Lorna.

Ki100 Tony. In a pdu off game about 4 squadrons. Ki100 II adds another 3-4 squadrons. In use for the rest of the game.

Sam...maybe June of 44. Need her sooner. Mistake not to put more into her at Dec 7, 1941.

[Lowpe]

Dec 4, 1943


Daily attacks and strafing have finally forced the 77th Long Range Patrol Battalion to surrender. Those ragged, starving, bearded men spent half three months in the jungle in a misguided attempt to rescue the 6th Australian and 32nd American Division.

Instead, their valor only sealed their doom! Now they are off to make a railroad bridge for Japan somewhere!

[GetAssista]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Instead, their valor only sealed their doom! Now they are off to make a railroad bridge for Japan somewhere!

In this game all those POWs and Koreans are damn slackers, not building a single new road ever =)

[Lokasenna]

6.5 Sentai of Frank? Half a sentai?

[Grfin Zeppelin]

Congrats on you victory at Midway.
I can only recomend the book Shattered Star. It deals in detail with some myths about that battle like that delayed float plane and such.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Sam...maybe June of 44. Need her sooner. Mistake not to put more into her at Dec 7, 1941.

I agree, hard to put too much into the A7M in terms of RnD. PDU on or OFF, almost all IJN fighter groups will upgrade to it and it is the best all around plane the IJN gets.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Pardon me for chiming in briefly, but I've had ASW TFs react many times to subs - they don't always do it, but often enough that I think it works and is probably mostly dependent on TF commander aggression rating and a role of the dice.

One time not too long ago, I had all my carriers set to follow an ASW TF that had an aggressive commander. The dang ASW TF reacted to enemy subs and all my other TFs followed merrily along! It was a crazy departure that could've gotten me into a lot of trouble.

Lots of people have, I am just having problem recreating it. Sigh. I am wondering if experience of the crew isn't a very important consideration.

I notice that this is hardly happening for me in my current campaign but it happened all the time in my last. Now I have to figure out what I am doing differently. Probably not doing enough night searching layered with day. Getting lazy.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

6.5 Sentai of Frank? Half a sentai?

Chutai...it will expand at some point.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

Congrats on you victory at Midway.
I can only recomend the book Shattered Star. It deals in detail with some myths about that battle like that delayed float plane and such.

Read it a while back, back thanks. Probably forgot everything I read in it.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: GetAssista

ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Instead, their valor only sealed their doom! Now they are off to make a railroad bridge for Japan somewhere!

In this game all those POWs and Koreans are damn slackers, not building a single new road ever =)

We get really close in the game, and then that lousy William Holden sabotage line comes up destroying the bridge on its maiden locomotive. So frustrating.[:D]

[Lowpe]

Chinese Corp sitting by its lonesome got bombed yesterday and now it is heading back to the North.

I think I probably should figure out how to destroy that 50K Chinese stack in the mountains.

I have pulled back a lot of the Armor and I am resting them at Rangoon, Pegu, and some other spots. The star is the isolated 32nd American and 6th Australian Divisions. They are on their last legs, thank goodness.

[Lowpe]

On the Burma/Magwe road in the jungle.

I am still vulnerable here, but I have some more forces arriving so I feel much better. When the Allies first arrived, I think if they had supplies they could really have taken the hex quite easily.

I have the makings of a nice defense. x2 terrain, AA present, heavy artillery, but poor infantry in that they are lacking 43 squads except for the SNLF unit.

[Grfin Zeppelin]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

Congrats on you victory at Midway.
I can only recomend the book Shattered Star. It deals in detail with some myths about that battle like that delayed float plane and such.

Read it a while back, back thanks. Probably forgot everything I read in it.

Shattered Sword or Shattered Star ? [:D]

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

Congrats on you victory at Midway.
I can only recomend the book Shattered Star. It deals in detail with some myths about that battle like that delayed float plane and such.

Read it a while back, back thanks. Probably forgot everything I read in it.

Shattered Sword or Shattered Star ? [:D]

I forget. [8|]

[Grfin Zeppelin]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

ORIGINAL: Lowpe




Read it a while back, back thanks. Probably forgot everything I read in it.

Shattered Sword or Shattered Star ? [:D]

I forget. [8|]

[:(]

[Lowpe]

I stripped Magwe of fighters yesterday, but today I sent them back in.

It is Dec of 1943 and this marks combat debut of the George. One squadron of 27 (which gets withdrawn later too[:(]) is now at Magwe.

My other sized 27 sentai of Georges is in Luzon. It actually expands to size 36 and will be around for the entire war.[:)]

About 3/4ths of my Frank squadrons are either upgrading to the Frank R or taking replacements getting some good R&R.

The Japanese Air Force is just extremely fragile in PDU off.

[Lowpe]

Situation...the Allies outnumber me 2-1 in Raw AV, but worse they have lots of tanks...the 254th & 255th Armored Brigades.

The 7th RTA Division has poor leadership (250+ PP to change[X(]), the 6th and 7th Heavy Artillery will be potent against the tanks, and then there is only the Seaasbo SNLF with IJA 43 squads...\

I would like to put the 7th RTA into Reserve (no pursuit) mode, however I can't trust their experience or leadership. So I will put the SNLF unit into reserve mode hoping to preserve their firepower for a final fight against tanks.

The 5th Division is now combined, and is a crackerjack unit, but sadly lacking the 43 squads.

I am not sure how critical it is to put units here in Reserve mode since the Allied force has only inherent artillery...I normally like to put close to 25% of my units into reserve mode against Allied attacks, but I normally do it after the 1st attack. Trying something new here.



As long as I don't give a destination to the Sesebo SNLF, they will retain their level 2 forts.[:)] But they won't work on improving their forts, to the best of my knowledge.[:(]

[Lowpe]

LangSon:

I like this base. Connected by rail to Saigon it is most importantly inland, and not in the malaria zone.

A size 3 runway allows a little over 30K supply without spoilage, and this will make for a great r&r runway for my fighters in Burma...less than 20 hex jump to the front there. I have aviation support arriving, and plan on building this base to max 9...which will make for a potent base to protect Hainan/Hanoi/Haiphong from.

I will also get an Army HQ here to help with ground unit recovery for when fighting advances into Vietnam.

[Lowpe]

Dec 5th, 1943

New Britain...Allies have amassed a major thrust here.