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Nice shot!

Where is that TF now on your map, and how is your reinforcement going?

Our raid on Cap Nicobar works like clockwork.

Allies sweep Hanoi and bleeding cap gets caught. 6 P38 Lightnings downed for about 20 Oscars, Tonies and Zekes.

Bonins!

The Musashi, destroyers and fast Es are converging on Torishima undetected. They will disband in port, get some last minute R&R, have their fuel tanks topped off and stand ready.

The KB is almost at Ominato, and will steam south to try and get behind these Allied task forces. Allied search in this areas has been weak.



That is an 11 hex move from yesterday's sigint location. So there is probably much more to this force than what I have spotted so far.

The weak sister is getting stronger.

Supplies are trucked into Chungking; and this brings the Japanese victory point total back up to a Minor Victory.

Yeah, this is way more interesting than IPA! [:D]

Looking good! Keep it up. Those tanks should do you proud there. Be nice if you had level 6, but if there was a last ditch effort to go level 5 that would still be pretty good.

Nice work! Now make him fail an invasion for the first time!

Everybody ready to battlestation!

Turn is away.

The Tavoy defensive force is digging in, as strong as my other blocks in that area, except it is in x2 terrain. I have more troops on the way, plus heavy artillery.

50K supply just unloaded at Singers.

Sweeping Moulmein with Georges today.

More troop transport into Haha Jimi. Trying to run some last minute supplies in via ship. Iboats and Rboats converging. Didn't activate any midgets or MTBs yet.

Ships assembling. Planes assembling. Have to watch out for bombardment task forces starting tomorrow probably.

Things to look forward to:

Toko Rockets start production in March/April timeframe.

Ha43 engines start a little sooner. The N1K5-J should start production Aug/Sept of 44 followed in three months by the Sam J if my factories stay intact.

The Irving-Sa will probably meet Mr. B24 tomorrow night over Babeldaob. Runways are in good shape...

I am hoping with three cannons she will be able to make more passes against the bombers, the 2 gun version runs out of ammunition very quickly.

On the downside the slow Irving is even slower as the Sa version. A stately 309 mph.[X(]

Tracom pilots. Decent air leader. Good inventory of planes. Full plane reserve.

Still experimenting with settings....flying right at or 1K below the expected bomber run. There should be several waves of bombers...

I usually fly the NF at 60-70% CAP. It seems like they don't tire out as quickly as day pilots, but also the biggest wave of bombers will be the first.

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Lowpe




You have an IPA and don't need no stinking buttons.[:D]

I disagree. I think that's precisely why he needs a button like that one.

You and your IPA hating. You will come around eventually...they all do! [;)]

Sure won't [;)]. I drink the occasional IPA. I actually like the ones that have a grapefruity bitterness but I still don't seek them out. But the craze about it is a bunch of hooey to me. I hate fads and bandwagons. There are better beers for me to spend my money on, like Skullsplitter from Orkney.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I side with Obvert here., can't stand IPA.

I like to brew my own, a smoked scotch ale. Mmmm, good. Problem is I drink them faster than I can brew them.

Now then, I have a turn in my mailbox. Invasion Bonins?

Send me the recipe? I've got an all-grain Scotch ale recipe that I need to do again. I brewed it once and left the leaf hops in the primary fermenter and loved how it tasted. The next batch got infected, I think because the vodka in the air lock evaporated such that there was no longer a "lock"... but am curious about your recipe. Mine doesn't have a smoked flavor to it.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Bonins!

The Musashi, destroyers and fast Es are converging on Torishima undetected. They will disband in port, get some last minute R&R, have their fuel tanks topped off and stand ready.

The KB is almost at Ominato, and will steam south to try and get behind these Allied task forces. Allied search in this areas has been weak.



That is an 11 hex move from yesterday's sigint location. So there is probably much more to this force than what I have spotted so far.

OK, this leads me to believe he actually is coming for Chichi. Probably because of SIGINT?

Watched turn, multiple heavy large fleets 22 hexes due east of CHichi

Traveling & cant do better right now. Nothing else happened of big import.

Chichi plus 50AV.

Time to create some havoc and confusion!

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Watched turn, multiple heavy large fleets 22 hexes due east of CHichi

Traveling & cant do better right now. Nothing else happened of big import.

Chichi plus 50AV.

Yours, or his?

Mine, silly. No invasion yet, within range for a kb strike i think.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Mine, silly. No invasion yet, within range for a kb strike i think.

Wouldn't be my style to do it next turn, but to each his own [:'(]

Whither the task force? Could he be aiming at Hokkaido?

Okay, turn is away.

The last turn, which got short shrift because of my travel schedule, was fairly quiet, with the Allied forces moving back to the east and a little north to meet up with more ships. Could they be going for Hokkiado area? Oooh, pretty scary.

Notice the lack of carriers, I suspect the Deathstar is waiting to pounce.

I have put the Hokkaido area on alert, luckily I have not neglected this area, and the two nice islands close to Hokkaido have forts and at least a brigade and base forces. I am landing some AT units there. I have troops at Ominato that can airlift into Hokkaido, just haven't started it yet, but now seems like a good time. Even better is a size 27 Theresa Sentai that can only make short hops (normally a trainer). Troops all over Japan are getting ready to rail to the east, just in case.

Some supplies will land on Iwo today, and 15K are almost past Agoshima, so I have hopes for them as well. Starting to airlift another mixed brigade in to the weak sister, along with the 28 cm howitzers. I have AT guns that can be flown in fairly quickly along with a mortar unit or two depending on where the fleet seems to be going.

I thought about dashing out for a KB raid, but instead settled for three Emily squadrons on low altitude torpedo runs. We shall see what kind of air defense he has.

I am still moving troops to Indochina, and supplies, they have an incredible thirst.