Turnaround? Lowpe (J) vs Tiemanj (A) Stock

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

A stand is being developed for Changsha, but the Allies have so many tanks heading their way. So many tanks...

....so much supply sitting in San Fran and/or LA awaiting transport. Probably over 50 million worth.

Ah, Michael. Your cheery posts about the war capabilities of the Allied war machine always brings to my day a ray of sunshine!

There you succinctly found the silver lining...if only I could do something about hitting his supply line. I still have a few light cruisers left, but they are notoriously short legged beasts...but perhaps I can get them out into the Pacific somehow. They wouldn't have to sink many ships to earn their points back.

I have been thinking of doing that with the Katsuragi...but she would have to sink a lot to earn back her points.

[ny59giants]

Any major Allied base with less than 100k in supply is short of supply! [:D] Should have a yellow or red exclamation point.

[Andav]

Some more rainbows, puppies and unicorns from Micheal for you Lowpe ... [:D]

You just keep trying to scrape up 2k supplies in one base and your fellow Japanese players will applaud your success!

Wa

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Andav


Some more rainbows, puppies and unicorns from Micheal for you Lowpe ... [:D]

You just keep trying to scrape up 2k supplies in one base and your fellow Japanese players will applaud your success!

Wa

I actually have some bases with more than that Andav, but boy the red exclamation points are popping up fast. I won't release the supply from the relatively safe from bombing bases until I really need it.

I kind of like how they boosted my VP score over a thousand points. A nasty trick to pull off near the end game.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Any major Allied base with less than 100k in supply is short of supply! [:D] Should have a yellow or red exclamation point.

That comes as no surprise...I know how those shore bombardments eat up supply -- especially when every ship fires at a range of 1, day after blessed day.[X(]

[Lowpe]

I have to say this game, witp AE in general, is a lot more fun when there is only one of them going on.

I am enjoying the hiatus from my other game, about 60 turns left in this one. Less if the Allies follow Michael's advice, more if they keep slogging on the way they are slogging.

I suspect I will be in for a rude surprise when the next Allied Invasion lands.

And when I lose 300 cargo ships...2000+ VP there I bet.

And then Chungking falling...a double whammy as it removes VP from my denominator![X(]

[Lowpe]

As this game winds down, lots of AARs mention great units or big battles or the turning point.

I am not going to do that.

Instead, I am assessing reader participation and will hand out some awards to you, the dear reader.[;)]

Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone, and I am coming up with several different awards.

Everyone won't be getting an award. So don't get offended if you don't, but, hey, you can hand out your own awards too!

Feel free.[8D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

As this game winds down, lots of AARs mention great units or big battles or the turning point.

I am not going to do that.

Instead, I am assessing reader participation and will hand out some awards to you, the dear reader.[;)]

Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone, and I am coming up with several different awards.

Everyone won't be getting an award. So don't get offended if you don't, but, hey, you can hand out your own awards too!

Feel free.[8D]

No worries - we should all be grown up enough to cope with being left out of other people's award decisions and just reward ourselves!
Now I have to decide: beer, wine or Magnum Ice Cream bars! [:)]

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

As this game winds down, lots of AARs mention great units or big battles or the turning point.

I am not going to do that.

Instead, I am assessing reader participation and will hand out some awards to you, the dear reader.[;)]

Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone, and I am coming up with several different awards.

Everyone won't be getting an award. So don't get offended if you don't, but, hey, you can hand out your own awards too!

Feel free.[8D]

No worries - we should all be grown up enough to cope with being left out of other people's award decisions and just reward ourselves!
Now I have to decide: beer, wine or Magnum Ice Cream bars! [:)]

I not-so-humbly nominate myself for the "yellow cornflakes" award.

[panzer cat]

Everyone should get a participation award[:D]

[Lowpe]

Panzer Cat might be telegraphing his age, or pulling my leg.[:)] I guess the same logic applies to me, too.

I have the turn, it will be bloody!

[Lowpe]

Well, I thought my shipping on the river would get destroyed, but he doesn't pursue them.

I lose an AMc to 20 SBD, and flak takes a good toll over Kobe.

Normal bombing and bombardment damage.

[Lowpe]

They won't fire...unit has supply, but supply is also low in hex.

More concentrated DL in the area, the only thing I can think of.

[Lowpe]

Well, vp ratio climbed back up to 2.332 to 1.

Still below its high of 2.343 five days ago. The Allies picked up 600 points to land bases, while Japan lost 200 to supply issues.

I see the devastation that is Japan, and wonder how can I last any longer. But, even though I am a punching bag, the Allies have to be careful of overstepping. One big mistake on their part can prolong the game weeks.

Really, situation that isn't obvious at first glance.

[Lowpe]

Ha, ha, ha! Turn is away and I feel good! Goood!

Several traps up today. Maybe one will bear fruit.

Allied invasion force might be set to hit Honshu on the north side tomorrow. Well, 5 units are missing, so that would be a multiple Marine division landing...I have no hope of stopping them, barring some really great artillery work.

And considering the pounding the troops are taking by battleships, that is surely a long, long chance.

If the invasion doesn't come, I am still going to dispatch all artillery there, for it will surely happen on the following day.

I am getting pounded, but I feel good.[:)]

[Lowpe]

Oct 28, 1944

No invasion.

Wuchow falls.

We use the Irving-s in a very unconventional manner.

[Lowpe]

So, I put the game back on linux, and forgot how I did some of it last time, but now I am up and running.

Simply tweaking the switches now. Look what alt-Font does. I seem to remember this particular problem, too bad I didn't remember it before I typed it in.

Anyhow, here you can kind of sort of see that the Fuso will be ready to fight shortly.

All repairs being done by repair ship -- AR. No naval squads present.

I forgot, I have to rename the filename extension from .jpeg to .jpg.[;)]

[Lowpe]

In windowed mode with normal fonts...

How do I set the switches to increase the size of the windowed mode window? As I want to play in windowed mode so I can scroll across to the right monitor and also switch workspaces down to workspace 2, 3 or 4.

My monitor is 1920 by 1080 (16:9)

A little Honshu information...waiting for the shoe to fall. I think there are 5 divisions at sea looking to invade, but my naval search is pitiful.

[witpqs]

How do I set the switches to increase the size of the windowed mode window?

You just set the resolution. Here are my switches for my desktop, which has the same resolution. I deliberately use a size that leaves some space at the bottom so the Windows menu bar is accessible to quickly change between apps (Tracker, etc).

Bobcat Windowed, Windows 7:
"C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -altFont -cpu4 -dd_sw -archive -wd -pxf1920 -pyf1018 -noFire -skipVideo

[Lowpe]

Here is some China goodness, cropped full screen.

Allied fleets on the river...my DP guns and mines are silent. I lost a couple of AMcs this day.

I think perhaps there won't be an invasion of Honshu for a few days since there are so many fleet carriers off China, but the Allies may feel comfortable invading without them being present.

But in the past they have been present for each invasion.