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I moved an Emily group to Bangkok and his recon capability extends out past Ceylon and the major naval base there.

I'm going to try to repair the railroad from Peiking to Rangoon if that's possible and make it so I can switch troops
from one end of the continent to the other in just a couple of turns. I'm going to need that to defend China and Burma
and so on.

EDIT: Oh, and I meant to say that attacks are pending on Hong Kong. I'm thinking it's going to take several attacks
before they will give up. I've got planes bombarding them and pretty soon now I'm going to find some BB's to come
bombard as well so it shouldn't take too long.

The Chinese and I are fighting over the railroad. I need that railroad to be able to move men and equipment back and
forth from Korea to Rangoon. It's needed for the supply boost it would bring to that area.

There were landings on Guam and I have some troops headed for Wake. These troops came from the home islands and they
are almost out of MP's so it might be next week before I gain the rest of the island.

There were landings on the east coast of Malaya as far south as Mersing. I'm trying to trap the Allied troops before
they can retreat to Singapore. The less troops at Singapore the better. I dropped some paratroops just outside of
Singapore to keep the defenders from escaping north.

There were landings at Brunie and nearby Miri on the north coast of Sarawak.

There were landings on Mindanao.

There were landing in the Phillippines at various places. The idea is to take the island down as quickly as possible
so the troops can be used at Singapore or Rangoon.

I dropped some paratroops on the first of two bridges over the river to Rangoon from Bangkok. Next turn I have another
bridge I want to drop. The idea is to prevent the Allies from moving on Bangkok before I get a chance to put some
troops into the area where the paratroops are now. Plus I'll need some engineers to rebuild the bridge.

Um.....I moved everybody so it's time to pull the trigger and execute the combats. Here's the results of the Pearl
Strike. All the BB's in the hex were sunk. That's what I'm talking about. Now to get the carriers out of the area.

Here's the results of the first attack at Hong Kong. I lost more than I thought I would but the Allies are down by half.
It's an encouraging result.

I had my BB's attack the Allied Force Z and sank the Prince of Wales. Another strike might just sink the other BB
as well.

Hong Kong fell with the execution of the second attack. Now to repair the facilities there and move the troops to
Manila.

I drove the Pearl Strike carriers over to Wake to provide some CS for the attack and now that I think about it I forgot
to set the bombers on CS and they are still on 'T' ( sea int ). But the attack was successful and Wake fell.

And that's the end of turn one. I closed out the game and I
expect that Thomas will receive an email and he'll do his
moves and then I'll get an email and we're on our way.

Here' what greeted me at the beginning of turn 2. Evidently the Allies are going to get some of their BB's back. I
sank them but they are getting them back. Okie dokie. I guess we'll carry on like we know what we're doing.

I succeeded in getting some supply to the Jap troops in Malaya and it's a fairly good stream of supplies too. Really
adequate supply is getting through.

And this is what the Phillippines look like now in T2:

In turn one I had some aircraft units that had only a single aircraft so to keep it from flying ( and getting killed )
I gave it a range of zero. So now in T2, that unit has enough planes to defend itself and I need to give the units
a decent range. There's only a few.

I seem to have trapped an Indian HQ unit and that means there's the probability of more units nearby maybe?
I'll just have to expedite his capture so that I can prevent the destruction of the intel it might have.
They've probably got maps and overlays and lists and all the numbers we need to prosecute this war.