Islands of Destiny: RA 5.0 Japanese Side

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd
This TF takes it to over 450,000 Fuel and Oil delivered--without opposition--in the last 10 days of time. GREAT!

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: John 3rd
This TF takes it to over 450,000 Fuel and Oil delivered--without opposition--in the last 10 days of time. GREAT!

Thank You.

I am now running the Tankers back-and-forth as fast as possible. There are now 6-8 smaller TK TFs moving between Japan and the DEI. No opposition? FINE! We'll grab and haul as much as possible.

One thing is certain, I now have enough fuel/oil to go to the end of 1944. Anything now getting through builds on 1945. Pretty crazy to say 1945...

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: Lovejoy

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

October 27, 1944

DD Satterlee takes 2 B,

I hope Henry Fonda survived!

Did he serve on the Satterlee?

[Lovejoy]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

ORIGINAL: Lovejoy

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

October 27, 1944

DD Satterlee takes 2 B,

I hope Henry Fonda survived!

Did he serve on the Satterlee?

Yup! He was a Quartermaster 3rd Class.

[John 3rd]

October 28, 1944

Well..we got action in China. Not the kind I wanted. A strike of 43 Fighters escorting 56 TB run into a CAP of 191 Allied Fighters over Ningpo. You can imagine. Two TB survive to drop TTs at an APA but miss.

Oh, well...

[John 3rd]

October 28, 1944

The Fleet is concentrating at Soerabaja and doing some serious upkeep.

We are going to try two things:

1. The remaining Battle Fleet (3 BB and 4 BC and 12 DD) shall return to the Home Islands for attempted use against the Allied Forces.

2. Have an idea with the Carriers. Dan has methodically moved his transport TFs through every two months. His last one was a month ago. It came from the Marshalls and then went to the Philippines. OK. Am going to count on that. The entire Carrier Force will move to Saipan or Pagan and wait for an opportunity to strike with their full strength. I have AOs full with nearly 100,000 Fuel. Should be enough to allow for some maneuvering...

[Lowpe]

Are you doing any sweeps?

How could you think that there would be a small CAP...in fact over a major forward base 200 plane CAP by the Allies is light and something you need to figure out how to penetrate.

[John 3rd]

I set three Sentai (49 Plane Franks) to Sweep and then the Strike go in during the afternoon. No Sweeps and, of course, the strike went in...

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

I set three Sentai (49 Plane Franks) to Sweep and then the Strike go in during the afternoon. No Sweeps and, of course, the strike went in...

Seems to happen a fair bit that the sweepers don't fly, especially true when flying from different bases in poor weather areas. Also, if I transfer a squadron to a base and then try for a mission the day of the transfer it often doesn't fly depending upon who knows what...plane stacking, runway size, HQa, leadership, morale or supply needs.

Can make hit and run raids hard.

[John 3rd]

You speak good GOSPEL there! Have experienced the same thing many times.

On the bright side, I heard two more sinking sounds during the turn. My smacking of that DD and APDs at least yielded some decent sinkings.

[Bif1961]

You are making my case that the US was very isolationist in Congress and in the populace in general. After the Greer incident 4 September, 1941 FDR issues the shoot first policy and after that in October 2 US Destroyers were attacked, the Kearny damaged and Rueben James sunk. Yet the Congress did not consider declaring war on Germany nor did FDR publically ask for them to do so. The scenario I suggested is buttressed by the very action or better put lack of actions of the US Congress in light of these attack even after the "shoot on sight order." So that if Japan avoided attacking any US territory or units the US would not declare war on it based on the prior lack of actions taken against Germany even in the face of attack against or escorting vessels. So you can negotiate at what level 500 points of damage or less and reduced every month by 100 points before enough becomes enough and the US finally declares war of Japan once that point threshold is crossed. Remember Germany declared war of the US and we just said thank you for helping us avoid the political hot potato, even after Japan had attacked us and we had declared war on Japan.

[1275psi]

Hi john
I don't comment often, just enjoying following your game

Heres my comment for this game, maybe for your next one.
All that effort getting oil and fuel to the HI?
All that is about to go down the gurgler as you won't soon have any factories to use
it in, he's going to flatten every single one.

As a Jap player who has gone deep into 45, my opinion is this.
Any warship left floating in 45 has been wasted.
I would have Used KB as massive CAP cover for the battle wagons, sacrificed them,
and smashed last invasion.
You might have one chance left

Just my 2 cents
Pleased you are fighting on

[John 3rd]

GREATLY appreciate the thoughts and good to see you comment on the Thread.

I dwell on your topics a lot. A LOT!





Long-*ssed day here. Day started with going to bed at 1am and a phone call/crisis at one of the stores at 6am. Short night of useless sleep. Been on the run ever since. If anyone is local, you will know that LaSalle/Evans/Greeley got nailed by a microburst yesterday afternoon. We got 2" of rain in 15 minutes, about 3" of Hail (pea-sized) at the same time, and add in 80 MPH wind. It was...GREAT! Not...

Had a next door neighbors tree come down within feet of the house. Got very lucky there. Our town park is acrost the street from us and it looked like a bomb went off. When I got home from the stores at 4pm, I went right into damage control.

To add to the general level of zaniness, we have an intimate gathering of 30 tomorrow afternoon. WE're hosting the Colorado Model RR Museum volunteer staff for a summer thank you and party. They are a great group of people. If you have not been, you should look up Colorado Model Railroad Museum--Greeley, CO. FANTASTIC experience.

Anyway...that is the last 24 hours and next 12-14...

[John 3rd]

October 29, 1944

The enemy knocks at the door of Shaoshing and gets a 1-8 result for the effort. Forts still drop by 1 but the line holds. Three more IDs are approaching with the first one getting to the hex in 2 days. SHOULD hold.

[John 3rd]

After much internal debate, I decide to advance the A7M3 line to bring in A7M3-J. Five factories (Total 110 Research) move forward. The airframe is due February 1945 and I figure we can move it to December 1944. I really LIKE the six cannon it carries! This change will drop my Sam production from 595/month down to 485. With a pool of nearly 700 presently, I think this is a fairly safe decision...

[John 3rd]

The four old sisters pass Balikpapan as they head for Babeldoap and then home. The Kongo-Class Battlecruisers have been the pride of the Japanese Fleet for the war. They shall be sent into Harm's Way. Escorting them are 8 DDs with some guy named Tanaka in charge...

[JohnDillworth]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

After much internal debate, I decide to advance the A7M3 line to bring in A7M3-J. Five factories (Total 110 Research) move forward. The airframe is due February 1945 and I figure we can move it to December 1944. I really LIKE the six cannon it carries! This change will drop my Sam production from 595/month down to 485. With a pool of nearly 700 presently, I think this is a fairly safe decision...

6 canons sounds like a bomber killer. The Allies are bombing the Home Islands now so this will be a nice plane to have. Good CAP for your open terrain troops stacks to as it looks like this China dustup may go on a bit

[CaptHaggard]

Hey John,

I just want to say again—from a scrub and an Allied scrub at that—that I very much enjoy this AAR. I check in every few days, always great fun. You have a gift for describing situations and operations that evokes vivid scenes and constant tension.

Thanks for your efforts,

Hag

[John 3rd]

Thank You Captain.

This match started over five years ago and has had TWO stops placed on it. Never say NEVER. Here we are about to enter 1945.

CRAZY!

[John 3rd]

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

After much internal debate, I decide to advance the A7M3 line to bring in A7M3-J. Five factories (Total 110 Research) move forward. The airframe is due February 1945 and I figure we can move it to December 1944. I really LIKE the six cannon it carries! This change will drop my Sam production from 595/month down to 485. With a pool of nearly 700 presently, I think this is a fairly safe decision...

6 canons sounds like a bomber killer. The Allies are bombing the Home Islands now so this will be a nice plane to have. Good CAP for your open terrain troops stacks to as it looks like this China dustup may go on a bit

I think is has 4x20mm and 2x30mm. SHOULD do some serious DAMAGE.