Pacific at War v.3.63 Jorge Allied Larry Japs

[larryfulkerson]

In northern China the rails are getting repaired and the longer they get the better the supply is and the higher the

supply level goes. I'm going to start moving some of these people down to the Bangkok area just to have a reserve

down there. And up here I'll push west to clear the map of enemy troops everywhere. I don't need any more partisans

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what's going on in South China just now. The Chinese are slowly being pushed back and destroyed and I'm

slowly making progress. As soon as I get to the river I'll plug up the crossing and try to find a way west into

India.

[larryfulkerson]

I just got a new set of moves from Jorge and he tells me in the DiploPouch that he put a dent in one of my carriers and I look at the losses display and sure enough there's some carriers lost. I'll have to review the battles and see what happened.

[larryfulkerson]

I've captured Henyang and the rail that passes through there. This is a sizeable chunk of rail that I need to make the trip from Pieking to Bangkok. It's looking like Malaya may be lost to the Allies. They are making progress in getting through the bottleneck and soon they will own Bangkok and all those Jap forces in Malaya will have to be evacuated through a port. Maybe not. We'll see.

[larryfulkerson]

The Americans staged a raid on one of my ports on New Georgia and I got one of them.

[larryfulkerson]

I finally cleared out Bataan. Now the entire PI is cleared and officially...what's the word? Subdued? Anyway, most of the units on the island need to be moved to some better place, somewhere they can be put to good use.

[larryfulkerson]

I've struck out for Kweiyang just to see how rough it might be to take the place. I don't especially need it for anything and so far it's not strategic for me. All I need from China is the railroad. My boys are slowly pushing the Chinese further NW toward Kunming.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the supply situation in northern Malaya and as you can see it's okay in spots and not okay in other spots. I've got engineers there working on it day and night and slowly the rail is getting repaired. I may be able to salvage the Singapore project yet.

[larryfulkerson]

I need a volunteer to act as courier to carry a message to the General Staff in Tokyo. Who wants to go?

[larryfulkerson]

I did a "close" and then a "save and close" thereby writing a SAL file
to my hard disk, then zipped it up and attached it here below. It's turn
20 and you can check out all the dialogs, reports, etc. take a look around
move some units if you want.

EDIT: You too Jorge.

[larryfulkerson]

So I've been moving units in OOB order and here's the attacks I've got scheduled so far. None of them take very long because they are airfield strikes and direct CS missions etc.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the situation in southern China right now. I've almost got the railroad separated from the Chinese but not quite and I'm repairing it as fast as those engineers can work. I anticipate having it carrying traffic in about a month game time. Maybe longer depending on resistance.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what's happening in Malaya now. I'm running into massive supply problems and the terrain is difficult to maneuvore around the targets, being jungle and so on. This take down of Malaya didn't work out the way I had anticipated but slowly progress is being made.

[larryfulkerson]

It's 04:34 local and I've just finished watching the combat replay. I want to see how long it takes me to do my moves.

[larryfulkerson]

Jorge said in the Diplo Pouch that he took a shot at my BB Haruna so I looked it up and sure enough it's sitting there with just 2% health. It's almost sunk. I've got to give it an escort and move her to the home islands to sit out the war I guess.

[larryfulkerson]

The Haruna took so much damage that she's able to make only 6 knots and that's going to mean several turns will have to pass with her sitting in the water for the Allies to practice their naval attacks on. I've stacked 6 DD's and 2 CA's in the stack with the BB for escorts to share their AA value with the BB's for the several attacks that will surely come. It's going to take a while to get her to the home islands, maybe I should put her in Cam Ranh Bay's shipyards. She can't fit in the Mekong River to make it to Saigon, too wide or the keel depth is too great or something. I learned that from WITP-AE. Saigon isn't directly on the coast as it's depicted here...it's actually inland and several miles of Mekong River lead to the South China Sea.

[larryfulkerson]

Mindano is having a terrible partisan problem. And the supply levels are uneven and poor in a lot of the island. More troops yet may help that situation somewhat. [/b]

[larryfulkerson]

Jorge has marched some troops around the Stanley Owens mountains from Port Moresby to Madang and is now attacking my engineers. I'm going to have to fall back to Wewak and defend from there. That red dot in the Stanley Owens is the "where am I" unit. One of three or four of them on the map. Jorge is flying aircraft up to the airfields he's captured and is marching his troops along the northern coast of New Guinea and will soon own the island. I might ought to interviene.

[larryfulkerson]

As further protection for the Haruna I've moved one of my better fighter squadrons to the southwest coast of IndoChina and I wish I could dedicate the entire squadron to the protection of that TF containing the Haruna. In WITP-AE there is a mission called LCAP, standing for Long Range CAP I guess, and you can designate a city or a unit or a TF and the squadron will fly CAP over it. We need something like that in TOAW. Also, night missions, we need that too.

[larryfulkerson]

Jorge has brought in a lot of fighters and naval bombers and I think I know what his target(s) are going to be and I need the Haruna to exist 100 turns from now so I've been bringing in fighters to protect her as much as I can. The Manila adventure is finished and all those planes and troops are moving to this AO because Singapore is my next big project to finish. I've done some tentative recon around Java and I anticipate having to fight the Americans as well as the Dutch for that island.