scenario #77 BTS-L Brian Allies Larry Japs

[larryfulkerson]

There was a strike on Hong Kong but again no hits were registered. I'm chalking that up to the severe weather that covered the base. There was no Allied CAP but there was some flak this time.

[larryfulkerson]

Twenty five Sallys hit Georgetown unescorted and three Allied Buffalos rose to contest the intrusion but none of my planes were hit which means that the Allied pilots were probably inexperienced. The results of the strike wasn't remarkable but it didn't suck.

[larryfulkerson]

Kota Bharu got some love from my boys at Kompong Trach. Escorted this time. The results of the raid were so slight that this raid was largely a waste of aviation gasoline. But it did give some experience to several of my pilots. I inspected the crews of all the planes when I was setting up for turn one and I thought I put the most experienced pilots I had in the planes going in harm's way but I may have missed this bomber group.

[larryfulkerson]

A strike by some Lilys escorted by 16 Oscars hit Kuantan and did better than I was expecting. I tend to discount the performance of the Lily as too light for bombing and use it largely as a trainer. As soon as a little more progress is made in Malaya I'll ship the Lilys near Saigon to the home islands and use them as a trainer. Either that or light duty in China.

[larryfulkerson]

I sent a flight of Sonias to Kwangchowan just to see what's there since my recon level is so low and I found out that there's nothing there worth striking. I'm going to move the Sonias to a place where I can reach Hong Kong with them.

[larryfulkerson]

The Allied defenders at Kota Bharu decided to bombard my valiant troops and didn't get any hits on me but did suffer some counterbattery fire.

[larryfulkerson]

Tracker didn't give me a slew of error messages this time, just this one. And look at the alerts for the current turn. There's only two so I'm guessing that there's some problem in the scenario database or something.

[larryfulkerson]

I've got about a dozen cities that I need to send a garrison to. I don't know if this was an oversight or it's supposed to be this way.

[larryfulkerson]

According to Tracker there's four bases that have troops that I need to move because there's too many there. They are all in the Marshall Island chain so I'm going to send some AP's there to fix the overage.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the economic chart and the fact that Armament, Vehicles, NavYard, and MerchYard all have zero points so far. I need to look into that and fix the hangup.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a look at the ship production panel and I need to make adjustments to the Navy category. You can see where I have turned off the production of any ships due in 1946. I don't believe the war will last that long so that I'll never get those ships. I'm debating turning off all the 1945 ships as well.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a Tracker chart showing the HI cost for the ships being produced. I'm not sure just how to use this information. Now that I know this what do I do?

[larryfulkerson]

Tracker doesn't like my turn 3 data. And I have no idea how to fix the situation. Can I trust the numbers?

[larryfulkerson]

The LCU group that I sent to Hong Kong arrived already so I've set them for bombardment and we'll get this show on the road. I'm not in a big hurry, it's not a crisis, but I would like to finish this up in less than a month.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a list of some LCU's that I'll eventually have to withdraw. Or rather, deal with their withdrawl. There's plenty of time yet but I'd like to replace them before they go home.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a list of the bases that are having a spoilage problem. I need to look into this and see if I can't reduce the wasteage.

[larryfulkerson]

I've found another small problem with Tracker. I can't get the Global tab to open.

[larryfulkerson]

Brian sent me his moves and here's some of the combat replay. A Dutch sub got lucky and got a hit on one of my transports and some of the embarked troops took a hit too. It's close to CRB so I'll just do a pit stop with this ship.

[larryfulkerson]

I-124 is operating in the waters near Bataan and he was successful attacking on the surface and put two torpedoes into xAKL Anakan and successfully got away.

[larryfulkerson]

Landings have started on the north coast of the PI at Aparri and so far my losses are light. It was unopposed so my boys just wadded ashore and took over the base and airfield. They have already started painting rocks white to line the road to the command post.