Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'!

[SqzMyLemon]

Enjoy your trip!

[Erkki]

Thx all! I'll post some photos once I'll get back, too. [;)] 10 hours before the flight departs, and looks like we were able to play another turn after all!


July 26

CENPAC: We've had information on Pearl Harbor's status for 2 consecutive days now. Both days had Pearl reported to have over 130 ships in the bay (but slightly different numbers) with multiple battleships and destroyers. No CVs. Today the aircraft numbers almost doubled from yesterday(and 4x compared to 2 weeks ago) but no CVs.

The Allies might be or might not be up to something. I believe that the USN CV fleet is off or nearby Pearl. It is also still very possible that it is still sitting there, just no CVs happened to be sighted. Considering that the CV fleet did arrive there 2 weeks ago already, I believe that it is a very real possibility that the CVs have left today or yesterday and are heading somewhere - to raid CENPAC or near Japan, to Australia or SOPAC, perhaps even to support an offensive?


Australia: all quiet so far.

[Erkki]

Hello everyone, I'm back!

However it looks like this game will be on hold (by my opponent) at least until 1st of August.

Photos from Bavaria and Austria will follow in a day or two!

[Erkki]

Hello again everyone. I have recently had trouble logging in on the forums and am now writing from another computer and via a different ISP.

As you must have read in Joseph's AAR, our opponent Smeulders has decided to stop both of his PBEM games. Unfortunately he makes the second PBEM opponent of mine who quits in summer 1942.

Main reasons were his dissatisfaction to his own performance in the game as well as how little there was happening in the game. As this scenario was DaBabes where Japan is IMHO in even worse position than it is in Scenario 1, I believe that the lack of action was at least partly his "fault". I did not want to risk too many operations just for the sake of action - many forumites know that Allies can take literally 90%+ losses and still win, while losing even a handful of ships can be catastrophic to Japan and cannot be afforded. I cannot help thinking that losing a carrier (or in the case of the first game, 4 carriers) early in the game contributed to the decisions of my opponents to end the games early. However, I cannot know what everything was in the background and will have to live with this.

Personally I would have been ready to continue the game even at rather low rate of turns we had been having before the summer. I am now considering finding another opponent for this game, hoping to find another "history player" rather than a "player of a game" player, who agrees to the same House Rules we had been using in the game.

I hope you have enjoyed the AAR. Was anyone still interested to see the pictures I took in Bavaria and Austria? [;)]

[SqzMyLemon]

Sorry to see this one end as well Erkki, but it is what it is. Without being too critical, I agree, it takes two people to make the game interesting, so it's probably for the best that you can now look for another game. Jocke had already expressed an interest for a game against me otherwise I'd offer myself as an opponent, but three games would see me kicked out of the house. Good luck finding an opponent and I hope you are able to complete the next game.

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ORIGINAL: Erkki

Hello again everyone. I have recently had trouble logging in on the forums and am now writing from another computer and via a different ISP.

As you must have read in Joseph's AAR, our opponent Smeulders has decided to stop both of his PBEM games. Unfortunately he makes the second PBEM opponent of mine who quits in summer 1942.

Main reasons were his dissatisfaction to his own performance in the game as well as how little there was happening in the game. As this scenario was DaBabes where Japan is IMHO in even worse position than it is in Scenario 1, I believe that the lack of action was at least partly his "fault". I did not want to risk too many operations just for the sake of action - many forumites know that Allies can take literally 90%+ losses and still win, while losing even a handful of ships can be catastrophic to Japan and cannot be afforded. I cannot help thinking that losing a carrier (or in the case of the first game, 4 carriers) early in the game contributed to the decisions of my opponents to end the games early. However, I cannot know what everything was in the background and will have to live with this.

Personally I would have been ready to continue the game even at rather low rate of turns we had been having before the summer. I am now considering finding another opponent for this game, hoping to find another "history player" rather than a "player of a game" player, who agrees to the same House Rules we had been using in the game.

I hope you have enjoyed the AAR. Was anyone still interested to see the pictures I took in Bavaria and Austria? [;)]

Another IJ AAR grinding to a halt, and another of my favorites. Sorry for you to go this far and then have it just stop. I would also offer a game but that would put me at three and also might involve considerable upset at HQ. I hope you find a suitable opponent and choose to do an AAR in your next game.

Definitely post some pics. [:)]

[SqzMyLemon]

ORIGINAL: Erkki

As this scenario was DaBabes where Japan is IMHO in even worse position than it is in Scenario 1

Hi Erkki,

Can you explain this to me a little. I'm about to possibly play a Da Babes 'B' Light and am curious why you think Da Babes is worse than Scenario 1. Shackled with PDU off last game I certainly don't want to embark on another game if it's too weighted against Japan being competitive and makes for an un-entertaining game. What are your thoughts? Thanks.

Joseph