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

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the economy chart for the most recent turn. I notice that my NavY and MercY points are both low and I'm producing less of each than I'm using of each. I'll have to bump up the NavY output or turn something NAV off. I'll wait until the MercY points are in the teens and then turn back on some MercY production that I've turned off to fix the MercY problem.

[moore4807]

Thanks for the help Larry, I'm gonna crash [>:][>:][>:] and will be on tomorrow AM... I see some missing items between your file and mine - so I'll probably just re download the tracker program and start over. Again I'll do it in the morning gnite all!!!

The wife has her own computer - she just likes playing the puzzle/find the missing piece games and thinks she is getting over on them when they do those one hour free trials...so she comes onto my computer when I'm not using it to play them twice...sigh

[larryfulkerson]

Here's Jim's properties file you guys. I've censored out the password line to preserve OPSEC. I'm thinking the Dir= line has a problem in that there's no directory slash. Anyone concur?

Dir=[C:Reluctant Admiral]
GameType=[1]
Side=[0]
Password=[censored]
SaveFile=[wpae011.pws]
SaveMode=[0]

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: moore4807
Thanks for the help Larry....

You're quite welcome. Help is my middle name.

ORIGINAL: moore4807
I'm gonna crash and will be on tomorrow AM...

Good idea. Bad idea is to work on something when you're tired and or frustrated.

ORIGINAL: moore4807
I see some missing items between your file and mine -

Our passwords are different. Your Dir=[C:Reluctant Admiral] line looks suspect to me.

ORIGINAL: moore4807
...so I'll probably just re download the tracker program and start over. Again I'll do it in the morning gnite all!!!

I don't think this will help anything. All you have to do is find what's wrong in the properties file and fix it.

ORIGINAL: moore4807
The wife has her own computer - she just likes playing the puzzle/find the missing piece games and thinks she is getting over on them when they do those one hour free trials...so she comes onto my computer when I'm not using it to play them twice...sigh

I really don't think she has done anything to screw up your Tracker program. Unless she downloaded a virus or something.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's where I've bumped up my NavY points by 319 or so. The Tracker economy chart said I was producing almost 300 points less than I was using and only had 7 points in the pool so I thought I'd bump up the NavY production by 300+ to take up the slack and maybe gain some points. When I get a comfortable cushion in the pool I'll turn off some of the NavY points.

[larryfulkerson]

I thought that since I bumped up the NavY points by 319 that I ought to bump up the HI output by at least that amount to not only maintain the HI pool but maybe gain some points too. So I bumped up the HI output by 600+

There's enough OilR in repair to take up the slack on the fuel that bigger HI production is going to use so I'll keep an eye on it and adjust as necessary.

[larryfulkerson]

I didn't remember bumping up the engine output when I bumped up the production of Betty's so I bumped up the output of Mitsubishi HA-32's by 30.

[larryfulkerson]

This is just the first of several night surface encounters near Hong Kong. I can imagine the losses should be low because there's all these ships miles apart going full speed dodging and weaving launching torps and the Japs are launching star shells and using search lights trying to find them. I'm not sure how long each of these encounters lasts but I'm guessing less than an hour or so.

[larryfulkerson]

Although the losses were low on both sides, at least the Japs managed to chase the PT boats back into the Bataan minefield. I gotta lay some mines around that entrance to stop these Allied adventures.

[larryfulkerson]

The bombardment of Guam went pretty well seen from the Jap perspective. Now maybe a DA is in order next.

[larryfulkerson]

I almost forgot to post the losses of 13Dec41:

[moore4807]

Larry posted the sinkings from Dec13th... I never absorbed a beating like that in one day, The TF routing for my aforementioned Eastbound AK TF somehow ended back into the Celebes Sea... directly in the path of TWO CA/DD Surface TF's!!!

All I can post on my side of the ledger is two possible hits on SS's hanging around Pearl Harbor... I snuck my CV's into Pearl & NW America to change some escorts and minor repairs etc. Now keeping them safe yet not TOO far out of the fight...

[larryfulkerson]

It's Sunday 27May2012 and Jim did a super quick turn around on his moves and I received them and loaded the file and watched the combat replay and loaded the file into Tracker and here's some of the alerts:

[larryfulkerson]

Jim ran a suicide mission for a minelayer to Miri where it layed a minefield before it was sunk and the fact that it was a minelayer should have given me a clue as to it's mission but NOOoooo. And one of my ships wandered into it and was heavily damaged. I've got some minesweepers on the way there now.

[geofflambert]

Well, I don't think that your flak defense at Miri will be tested for a year or two or three.  I don't think I would have risked a major minelayer there.  Mines are usually in short supply anyway.  Getting hits on CAs is worth a lot though.  Lay them where you expect the CAs to come in and bombard.  You won't sink them but you can put them up in drydock for a month or two.  In this area combine your mine laying with patrols by those very good Dutch subs and you may sink something valuable. 

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert
Well, I don't think that your flak defense at Miri will be tested for a year or two or three.

Actually, I was planning on moving the INF at Miri to Singkawang and was just unloading the AA unit to get them off the ship(s). They, the AA unit, will eventually make their way via ship to Singkawang too probably. I plan on moving some AA units to Rabaul and that area as well.

ORIGINAL: geofflambert
I don't think I would have risked a major minelayer there.  Mines are usually in short supply anyway.  Getting hits on CAs is worth a lot though.  Lay them where you expect the CAs to come in and bombard.  You won't sink them but you can put them up in drydock for a month or two.  In this area combine your mine laying with patrols by those very good Dutch subs and you may sink something valuable. 

This is good advice Jimbo. Are Jap mines in short supply too? I could use them to prevent the incursion of Allied ships sortie-ing out of Singapore I'm guessing. There's a boat-load of bombers and fighters at Singapore right now and laying any mines within their range would be a suicide mission right now but maybe after I've attritted the aircraft a lot maybe it'd be worth trying to lay some mines around Singapore?

[larryfulkerson]

Someone, I forget who now, suggested I do some sweeps of Clark Field before I do any further bombing and that sounded like really good advice to me........so I ordered up some Zero's in addition to the Oscars and Nates, to do some sweeps. This is just the first of many raids on Clark Field.

[moore4807]

Gorn,

Funny you should mention CA's....

The CM was sent from around Singers - there was NO TF's there when I sent it...It was coming BACK when the preinvasion at Miri occurred - it actually was attacked/sank around Kuching IIRC.

I'm waiting with Air Assets around Singers for an invasion & bombardment TF, Larry's too smart for that - He'll just come in overland...buying me an extra week for Singers...

[larryfulkerson]

I thought some sweeping was in order at Wake as well. There's a situation developing here at Wake as there is an Allied sub headed for Wake and I'm predicting that Jim will park it at Wake to help prevent any further bombarding of the island and or any Jap reinforcement of the land forces there. I guess we're about to see if the KB can conduct ASW operations as well as sweeps.

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I thought some sweeping was in order at Wake as well. There's a situation developing here at Wake as there is an Allied sub headed for Wake and I'm predicting that Jim will park it at Wake to help prevent any further bombarding of the island and or any Jap reinforcement of the land forces there. I guess we're about to see if the KB can conduct ASW operations as well as sweeps.

Now would I do something like that????? [:D][:D][:D]