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To the loyal readers...

I'm here to confess my sins, Tactics, Timing & Planning, have all been laid to waste by Larry. Furthermore I have put too many ships in for refit, clogging my shipyards and depleting my TF's of urgently needed escorts. Larry is running wild as expected, however my opponent has done better than any A.I opponent I've faced, he has taken over just about all of the important ports for Oil & Resource in the Pacific Rim by early January. Singapore and Palembang should last as least one more month, Rangoon doesn't seem high on his list to take right now.

Larry must keep alert for my Carrier TF's (Yorktown's going to be drydocked a while), The PH BB's are refitting (bad oversight/mistake there) and are still severely damaged, so I'm figuring they are out for most of the war. I'd scuttle them but don't want to give Larry all those VP's. What i'm getting from the East Coast is poor (little experience & equipment) right now but should improve in both quality and quantity over the next two years.

Larry and I were discussing IRL Allied tactics and the three main gambits North (Alaska) Central (Wake-Guam-Saipan) South (New Ginuea- Phillipines). I have a favorite against the A.I. - the Starvation Route! I make 2 bombardment TF's covered by CV TF, and go pound one of the Oil/Resource ports to rubble, but do not invade it. against the A.I. the A.I. would inevitably try to rebuild it. costing it twice as much and getting no production in the meantime. I found this cripples the Japanese economy and supply soon dries up to outer bases, making them easy pickings - it accelerates each time you do this and you dont lose nearly as many troops in fighting. Is this tactic workable against a real live opponent?

Thoughts or suggestions?

It's Wed. 23:18 pm and I've received Jim's moves and did the combat replay etc. And here's the combat results from 08Jan42:

I lost a sub to some determined Depth Charge attacks. This is the first sub I can remember loosing so far. There may be another but I'm not sure.

I got some lucky hits by a couple of DD's that were doing their job last night. Remind me to promote a couple of good ship captains.

One of my minesweepers found a mine at Palembang but there can't be very many because I have a sub parked there too. Maybe a couple of minesweepers can sweep Palembang and prepair it for landings soon.

Jim's got a lot of subs operating around Cam Rahn Bay right now. I guess he must suspect that something might be coming out of tlhere soon. Either that or he's got his subs operating in a quiet area and nothing is happening there. I'm not saying any more.

I intercepted a couple of AM's just before they got to Darwin. There's a couple more ships fleeing to the West maybe I can catch them too.

I found another Allied AM just before it got to Cairns. Now to move the fleet south toward Brisbane just to see what else we can find.

Finally........a raid on Clark Field that wasn't so terribly expensive. Not much damage though.

An unescorted gaggle of bombers does a raid on Port Moresby and gets shot up. I need some AF services at these airfields pretty badly to get my fighters to get into the air.

And some Nell's from somewhere ( I couldn't find them ) did a raid on Clark Field. I need to take them off "airfield" missions and put them on "ground" attacks.

Here's an example of a semi-escorted, semi-expensive raid on Singapore that managed to do some damage. I wish the escort was larger but I'll take the damage they did.

And I loose some more troops to lack of air cover. I've got an AA unit headed this way now. Maybe I can scrounge up a CVL or something to head this way.

I have no idea how the Zero's found the range to make it Oosthaven but there they were and saved the day.

The Air War over the Port Moresby area is starting to heat up.

And another attack from Port Moresby. Not much damage done though.

An unescorted carrier raid and it missed completely with losses.

Another good carrier raid on Singapore nets some hits on some of the smaller boats parked there.

Here's what happened on the ground at Ambon. Now that the fort level is 0 Jap casualties will be lower hopefully.

I need to move some more troops to Iloilo. My dudes are outnumbered there.

This is a small mop-up operation going on near Victoria Point.