Parry and Spar, or is it... Reluctant Admiral 4.2 Fulkerson(J) vs Moore (A)

[moore4807]

Jan 8 1942. . . .The Yorktown has slipped beneath the waves... After a valiant two day struggle the intense, raging and out of control fires have claimed the Yorktown. She was unable to make port after taking a torpedo hit just outside of San Fransisco. Crew casualties were reported to be heavy and the four air groups aboard were unable to evacuate the ship before she perished. [:(] [:(] [:(]

[larryfulkerson]

Okie dokie........it's Thursday pm and I've received Jim's moves and here's the combat stuff from 09Jan42:

Here's some Tracker alerts.

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Supplies and Fuel are still decreasing but I'm starting to import more oil into the Home Islands so it's on the way up. Slowly.

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Jim has at least one sub operating near Truk. I have a PB that found one and chased it.

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The Cuttlefish attacked on the surface and got a hit on one of my AK's and the ship display now shows no damage at all so I guess the damage control party fixed the damage almost immediately. I've got a PB headed to the spot where the sub last was so I'll take a look around and see if I can't find him.

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There was an early day-time surface contact where some of the smaller Allied boats got hit.

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Here's another Allied sub attack near Truk. I've got some PB's headed that way even as we speak.

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Another unescorted attack on Port Moresby that had great losses and didn't accomplish much.

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This is the first of several Clark Field raids none of which seemed to accomplish much. Maybe the Allied units are being disrupted or something.

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Here's a replay of the last couple of turns where there's an unescorted bomber raid on Singapore and suffers fairly high damage but accomplishes very little.

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Here's a raid on Ambon that actually accomplishes something. Things may be looking up.

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The Dutch sank one of my little boats near Timor. I'm going to miss that boat.

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B-17 attacks are hard to deter. B-17's are seemingly easy to damage and hard to shoot down.

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The air war over Buna is still going on. So far so good.

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I lost a Nell on an unescorted raid on Java. I gotta move a CV down there for some air cover.

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Here's something you don't see all the time. A raid on Manado by some Catalina wanna-be's.

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And then there was an afternoon air raid over Buna, this time with an Allied loss.

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A carrier raid on Batavia's port got good results:

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And the Cuttlefish strikes again, this time with four dud torps. He's got more torps though so I still need to chase him down.

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My troops at Ambon had high fatigue levels ( 33% ) so I'm going to drop back to bombardment instead and let them rest up a bit.