RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 12:13 pm
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
It is Shikoku!
What an odd route.
What an odd route.
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What an odd route.
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 12:19 pm
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Aftermath...
Allies will take the island, and get a land bridge to two clear hexes on Honshu neither of which has good forts (one has a size 0 fort)...so those Allied tanks will be moving forward.
Good play.[&o]
I guess he wants to cut Honshu in half and prevent supplies from flowing south, and resources from flowing north. The latter isn't important anymore because you're on pools for life support anyway. The former... I guess it would hamper you a bit, but I'm not sure it matters either. Just to be sure, I would turn the supply draw for Hiroshima, Sasebo, Kagoshima, etc. up a lot of clicks to prepare. If you have the supply to spare at Tokyo.
Maybe he'll make a grab for the islands in the Sea of Japan soon? And then Korea from the east?
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 2:47 pm
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
It is Shikoku!
What an odd route.
Misdirection.
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:13 pm
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
It is Shikoku!
What an odd route.
Misdirection.
At great risk, unless he was supremely confident that you wouldn't be able to effectively respond at this point. And honestly, that may be the case. But... so many days in a row sailing right through major airbase strike ranges. If, for example, you'd gotten a lucky sub attack on a capital ship...enough for it to break off into an escort TF, it would have been out in the cold with no protection as the rest of his forces continued "misdirecting".
I think you got rather unlucky on your strike coordination. Another line up or down in the RNG seed table and you might've smashed up close to 1000 VPs.
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:34 pm
...or woman driver. [:'(]ORIGINAL: Lowpe
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
It is Shikoku!
What an odd route.
Misdirection.
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:10 pm
ORIGINAL: ivaldi
I'm reading now again your AAR for the first time, nice AAR
Welcome aboard.
It is good reading; how not to play Japan! [:D]
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:12 pm
ORIGINAL: witpqs
...or woman driver. [:'(]ORIGINAL: Lowpe
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
What an odd route.
Misdirection.
Road trip with my wife a few weeks ago, multi-state trip. Five times she wanted to go the wrong way...taking the turnpike to states in the wrong direction, etc.
It must be a skill.
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:33 am
ORIGINAL: Lowpe
ORIGINAL: witpqs
...or woman driver. [:'(]ORIGINAL: Lowpe
Misdirection.
Road trip with my wife a few weeks ago, multi-state trip. Five times she wanted to go the wrong way...taking the turnpike to states in the wrong direction, etc.
It must be a skill.
I think it's just similar to people no longer knowing certain information because they know they can just google it. But applied to maps.
Taken together with people who couldn't really read maps beforehand, so don't have a good mental picture of where they are and what directions to a place look like in real life... and you get a lot of people getting lost.
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:56 pm
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
I think it's just similar to people no longer knowing certain information because they know they can just google it. But applied to maps.
Taken together with people who couldn't really read maps beforehand, so don't have a good mental picture of where they are and what directions to a place look like in real life... and you get a lot of people getting lost.
A former SAS soldier once said that reading a map wasn´t a skill but rather an art. Some people just can´t translate the information on a map to a real world environment. [:)]
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:43 pm
ORIGINAL: JocMeister
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
I think it's just similar to people no longer knowing certain information because they know they can just google it. But applied to maps.
Taken together with people who couldn't really read maps beforehand, so don't have a good mental picture of where they are and what directions to a place look like in real life... and you get a lot of people getting lost.
A former SAS soldier once said that reading a map wasn´t a skill but rather an art. Some people just can´t translate the information on a map to a real world environment. [:)]
Not everybody has spatial intelligence. I see it all the time. I'm one of those people whose mind works that way.
My father, for example, can't picture things in his head at all. It's just not how his brain is wired. The last (and I do mean last) time I had him help me build something from scratch, it was a makeshift wall/wardrobe to plug one of those walk-through dining room/living room doorways that are too big for actual doors. To turn the dining room into a bedroom. When I was making the plans for it, I had forgotten about the very bottom edge of the molding in the room, and so I had to adjust the sides (which I had already cut at a different location) upwards 1/2". So they would no longer be flush with the top of the unit. I needed him to help me by holding the plywood in place while I screwed it together... it went fine on the first side because I told him to just hold it at the 1/2" mark, so that 1/2" was protruding, but he didn't understand why we were doing it in the first place and I didn't want to take the whole unit inside the house to show him why, and then back out to the garage again.
So on the second side, he held it flush instead of 1/2" up, and I had one side that was warped because it was 86.5" of plywood crammed into 86" of lateral space.
" = shorthand for inches
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 2:25 pm
Not really that bad of a strategy. His Marine divisions plus Allied armor at this point in time is almost unstoppable in clear terrain even if you have forts. He can then get a few divisions into some of your urban bases nearby and stop production without having to risk his aircraft. The island is then cut in half and bring all his bombers into play.
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:47 pm
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: JocMeister
ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
I think it's just similar to people no longer knowing certain information because they know they can just google it. But applied to maps.
Taken together with people who couldn't really read maps beforehand, so don't have a good mental picture of where they are and what directions to a place look like in real life... and you get a lot of people getting lost.
A former SAS soldier once said that reading a map wasn´t a skill but rather an art. Some people just can´t translate the information on a map to a real world environment. [:)]
Not everybody has spatial intelligence. I see it all the time. I'm one of those people whose mind works that way.
My father, for example, can't picture things in his head at all. It's just not how his brain is wired. The last (and I do mean last) time I had him help me build something from scratch, it was a makeshift wall/wardrobe to plug one of those walk-through dining room/living room doorways that are too big for actual doors. To turn the dining room into a bedroom. When I was making the plans for it, I had forgotten about the very bottom edge of the molding in the room, and so I had to adjust the sides (which I had already cut at a different location) upwards 1/2". So they would no longer be flush with the top of the unit. I needed him to help me by holding the plywood in place while I screwed it together... it went fine on the first side because I told him to just hold it at the 1/2" mark, so that 1/2" was protruding, but he didn't understand why we were doing it in the first place and I didn't want to take the whole unit inside the house to show him why, and then back out to the garage again.
So on the second side, he held it flush instead of 1/2" up, and I had one side that was warped because it was 86.5" of plywood crammed into 86" of lateral space.
" = shorthand for inches
Plywood usually doesn´t fit very well into places smaller then its size. [:D]
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:17 pm
Oh it fits, just not in one piece!
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:07 pm
ORIGINAL: JocMeister
Plywood usually doesn´t fit very well into places smaller then its size. [:D]
It just made my otherwise decently-constructed make-my-big-doorway-a-closet thing not sit correctly on the floor. It kind of twisted at a weird angle. I didn't live there for very long, at least, so there's that. The wardrobe, as I called it, is actually still put together in the storage house at my parents' place. I keep telling them they can take it apart for spare lumber anytime.
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:47 pm
Buy them a fire pit for Christmas ...ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
ORIGINAL: JocMeister
Plywood usually doesn´t fit very well into places smaller then its size. [:D]
It just made my otherwise decently-constructed make-my-big-doorway-a-closet thing not sit correctly on the floor. It kind of twisted at a weird angle. I didn't live there for very long, at least, so there's that. The wardrobe, as I called it, is actually still put together in the storage house at my parents' place. I keep telling them they can take it apart for spare lumber anytime.
RE: Invasion Shikoku
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:56 pm
Turn is away...striking back again this turn.
Five fleet carriers turn into the wind...boosted by a CS and a strange battleship carrier hybrid. Some of the squadrons are kamikazes...
Moving forces to defend Honshu.
Singers, having undergone 4 fights will probably fall today.
Desperate fighting in Thailand/Vietnam...Allied tanks versus Japanese tanks and artillery. I need another month to get the good Japanese tanks! But, as always, it is the air power that decimates my defensive positions. 4E beasts flying low are just incredible disruptors.
Five fleet carriers turn into the wind...boosted by a CS and a strange battleship carrier hybrid. Some of the squadrons are kamikazes...
Moving forces to defend Honshu.
Singers, having undergone 4 fights will probably fall today.
Desperate fighting in Thailand/Vietnam...Allied tanks versus Japanese tanks and artillery. I need another month to get the good Japanese tanks! But, as always, it is the air power that decimates my defensive positions. 4E beasts flying low are just incredible disruptors.
KB Strikes!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 8:17 am
May 8th, 1944
Hiroshima is night bombed by B29s targeting the runways...planes are packed into the base, for a large planned strike with the dawn.
Nicks and Irvings harry the bombers. Flak units target them. But they still get thru...about 70 planes are wrecked on the ground. For one B29 shot down.
But, near Singers, the relentless Allied advance is guarded by 3 known battleships and at least 2 carriers plus their support ships. The KB has been at Miri refueling when the decision was made, a lightning run, turn into the wind and attempt to catch the Allied Navy by surprise.
The night run is successful, a night time meeting with the remnants of the Western Navy, and with dawn the scouting reports are in and the ships turn into the wind and launch.
The planes, a motley group of obsolete fighters and torpedo planes, but mostly good divebombers takes to the air. Some pilots have embraced the Divine Wind...enemy carriers and battleships are sighted, some close, too close.
Into the horizon the strike group flies, fragmenting some due to weather, while Rex's and Rufes, and old Zeroes, and more modern Zekes, and some Tonies from the Army circle what is left of the pride of the Japanese fleet.
Now the waiting begins...
Hiroshima is night bombed by B29s targeting the runways...planes are packed into the base, for a large planned strike with the dawn.
Nicks and Irvings harry the bombers. Flak units target them. But they still get thru...about 70 planes are wrecked on the ground. For one B29 shot down.
But, near Singers, the relentless Allied advance is guarded by 3 known battleships and at least 2 carriers plus their support ships. The KB has been at Miri refueling when the decision was made, a lightning run, turn into the wind and attempt to catch the Allied Navy by surprise.
The night run is successful, a night time meeting with the remnants of the Western Navy, and with dawn the scouting reports are in and the ships turn into the wind and launch.
The planes, a motley group of obsolete fighters and torpedo planes, but mostly good divebombers takes to the air. Some pilots have embraced the Divine Wind...enemy carriers and battleships are sighted, some close, too close.
Into the horizon the strike group flies, fragmenting some due to weather, while Rex's and Rufes, and old Zeroes, and more modern Zekes, and some Tonies from the Army circle what is left of the pride of the Japanese fleet.
Now the waiting begins...
RE: KB Strikes!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 8:24 am
The night reports are in of the naval skirmishing off Shikoku. A destroyer lost here, perhaps an American lost, the running fights expend a lot of ammunition but for little effect overall.
The MTBs get three shots on fleet carriers, but they all dodge. American fleet carriers are very good at dodging torpedoes...
It will be up to the planes to strike at the Allied armada again today...
The MTBs get three shots on fleet carriers, but they all dodge. American fleet carriers are very good at dodging torpedoes...
It will be up to the planes to strike at the Allied armada again today...
RE: KB Strikes!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 8:30 am
Looks like a fair bit of systems damage there at least.
RE: KB Strikes!
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 9:01 am
Just tons of nail biting excitement here.
The retreat from Battambang and the Allied thrust are on two different road systems and the Allied tanks pull forward...
The Allied tank thrust is stymied in the jungles SW of Vinh where dug in artillery knock out 60 tanks, but Japanese lose 600. The bombing here is really fierce and AA only just now setting up.
Further north the defenders of the Rahaeng triangle are attempting to return to friendly lines in a slow cross jungle march.
The 1st Tank Division has made Pakse, and is even now relocating further north to threaten the Allied tanks, while the 2nd Tank is rushing south from Vientiane.
Drama, glory, deafeat...it is all here!
The retreat from Battambang and the Allied thrust are on two different road systems and the Allied tanks pull forward...
The Allied tank thrust is stymied in the jungles SW of Vinh where dug in artillery knock out 60 tanks, but Japanese lose 600. The bombing here is really fierce and AA only just now setting up.
Further north the defenders of the Rahaeng triangle are attempting to return to friendly lines in a slow cross jungle march.
The 1st Tank Division has made Pakse, and is even now relocating further north to threaten the Allied tanks, while the 2nd Tank is rushing south from Vientiane.
Drama, glory, deafeat...it is all here!