Parry and Spar, or is it... Reluctant Admiral 4.2 Fulkerson(J) vs Moore (A)

[moore4807]

Just got Larry's turn back out the door... I'll post some more tomorrow. Bad Storms in the area from all the heat today.

[larryfulkerson]

it's 02;00 Sunday morning and I'm in possession of Jim's moves and there was a lot of action this turn. I'll post the highlights of this the 02Jan42 combat results:

Here's some Tracker alerts: What's it telling me about Bombay's airport for? lapse of FOW?

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the economic chart. I have since turned up the output of the NavY and MerY. So the pool for both of those should grow slower or slowly decline. I'm keeping an eye on the oil refinery output and the pile-up of oil at Miri and Brunei.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's me boosting the output of Zero's by 92 and the engine for it by 100. So maybe sometime in the future we'll see more Zero's out in the field. Tracker says I'm building about 3 per month and that's not nearly enough.

[larryfulkerson]

I lost a sub to a minefield near Singers. I-153 ended up sinking so at least I know there's a minefield there now. I'm posting this here to remind me there's a minefield there because there is no minefield dot on the map..

[larryfulkerson]

I got a hit on an AP near Singers.

[larryfulkerson]

At Clark Field I got a couple of hits on the runway........big deal.

[larryfulkerson]

I had a so-so strike happen at Kuantan:

[larryfulkerson]

The carrier(s) near the BB provided some CAP and the BB escaped injury this time.

[larryfulkerson]

A couple of Catalina's got a hit on one of my transpports. It's still on fire even as we speak.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim did one of his B-17 raids on Salamaua and this time nobody got hurt on either side.

[larryfulkerson]

My Carrier Group is the red TF in the middle of the map segment shown below. The white polygons depict where there was an airstrike and overlaying all that is the verbage that describes the mayhiem that occured. Lots of drama going on. Cool.

EDIT: Jim obviously has splintered the group of ships that were used to make one TF. It has now turned into small groups, some one-ship only..

Jim and I don't have a house rule that says single-ship TF's are prohibited, and besides if it was *MY* TF being attacked like in this
case I'm pretty sure that I'd do exactly the same thing. This kind of move on Jim's part shows how realisticlly he desires to play this
game and I'm all for that.

Keep it up Jimbo. Good move. No complaints from me. I feel like I'm doing pretty well, not to brag or anything. I'm just saying it could be a lot worse for me. I don't remember any of the time line of this war from all the military history I've read so I don't know if I'm on schedule or falling behind or ....???? Just playing it by ear and trying to listen to my intuition and do what "feels" right. That combined with a lot of just experience playing wargames over these last 15 years or so (started playing TOAW first of all ). Not that WWI would lend light to an amphibious war. It's like a game where you are the Air Traffic Controller. Deciding where to move the TF's depending on what you can remember about where everything is at this point in time and what condition it's in. Monumental task. That's why you have to just digest everything you can, understanding it or not as the case may be. And let your subconsciious tell you how to "feel" what the right thing is to do. Your subconscious can understand perhaps more than 100+ what you can remember so it makes sense to rely on your subconscious. Unless you can think of a reasonable, demonstratable, reason not to. Based on the ambient evidence available at this point in time. Just do what you think is right. Don't stew about it....it's just a game.

But it's a magnificant game isn't it? I feel like I've been waiting my whole life to play this one game. I'm obviously going crazy for WITP-AE. Great game so far Jim and thanks for the superior moves return. I mean how quickly your moves hit my email after I email you MY moves. Rob did one in less than an hour one time. Come to think of it......I seem to remember Jim getting his moves back that quickly too. I'm doing WITP-AE about 18 hours a day now. It's pretty cool actually. I'm doing a contest with Rob and Jim at the same time and when I'm not working on one I'm usually working on the other, almost all day, everyday. I'm liking it mighty fine. Hey you guys , I hope you get a chance to retire soon so you can experience a WWII in the Pacific continuously all day. It's a trip.

[larryfulkerson]

Another expensive raid on Singers. I'm not sure these daily raids are worth it. I'm thinking I might ought to try some sweeps first before I try bombing again. On the other hand I've been told that a daily bombing can prevent building up forts. And the less forts that are built the more men I will have who will live longer than they might.

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Not even a couple of Zero's from Namlea could prevent Jim's Catalilna's getting a hit. Maybe I need to move an airfield group into Namlea to persuade more than 2 planes to fly. I'll look into that.

EDIT: Yeah, just as I thought.......there's nothing but INF on Namlea right now. I gotta move some AF dudes into there in order to get
better performance of that squadron. It's not their fault it's mine for lack of proper planning. I should have antisippated the need for the AF group and provided a team of them or something. Mea Culpa. I'm just human. Lemme try to fix that before I do anything else.

[larryfulkerson]

Here we have TF 595 loading some AF dudes to move down to Namlea probably arriving at Namlea in a few days. Maybe four.So I won't have high performing Zero's for probably just short of a week. D'oh. Maybe I should look around some more for a different team already embarked or something.

[larryfulkerson]

I moved a Bab's unit closer to Singers and gave it the recon target: Singapore so as to boost the detection level a little bit. I'm guessing the DL has some effect on combat results and the higher the better for the attacker. I don't remember reading that in the manual but it's the sort of thing that could be programmed into this game. Plus it's more realistic.

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Here's the results of another good carrier strike:

[larryfulkerson]

It's looking like this ground bombardment process is going to take a lot longer than the week or so that I predicted above.
Now I'm gessing that it'll take about a month and that month doesn't start counting until Manila is in Jap hands because
of the flow of supply from there. D'oh. It might be 1943 before I have the PI all in Jap hands.

[larryfulkerson]

There was some good news from Iloilo. 23 of his combat squads were disabled. I need to keep up the heat on this.

[larryfulkerson]

That's an awful large discount of my Assault Value so I'm going to rest the troops a bit and try it again later.