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

[larryfulkerson]

I've got 2 AKE's at Dili so that my CA can bounce between Dili and Koepang daily to keep up the bombardments. That ought to help
the ground troops a little bit.

[larryfulkerson]

I have no idea why O16 felt like he had to surface but that undoubtly was a bad idea. I think maybe this is the second sub I've sunk so
far in this war. I looked it up on the sunk ships display and there was an SS Daulphin that got sunk 7Dec41 so this is the second one.

[larryfulkerson]

I lost an xAK to the SS Perch off the coast of the home islands. I hate it when that happens. I'm going to have to escort all my AK's
I guess. At least until they get out into the open ocean.

[larryfulkerson]

There's a hot little sub / anti-sub war going on off the coast of Singkawang too. I've counted at least three Allied subs operating there.
I'm planning on having a lot of transport traffic go through there and I'm guessing Jim knows that and is trying to make it harder to do.
I can't pull resources and oil out of Palembang unless and until those subs go away. Unless I escort each and every TF that goes
through there.

[larryfulkerson]

Another of my AK's took some hits and a torpedo from the SS Pike. I've got a lot of AK's in danger in this picture. Here we have the
SS Pike surrounded by naked AK's. I've got a lot of re-routing to do and I'll probably lose some more ships to this sub before it's all
over.

[larryfulkerson]

There's an air war going on just north of Davao. I'm pretty sure Jim is going to hang on until the bitter end there and I'm not sure who's
winning right now. I definately need to move some more airfield troops into the airfield where the Zero's are parked because not all of
them are getting into the fray.

[larryfulkerson]

I don't have any airfield troops where the Nate's are parked and fewer and fewer of them are getting into the air and they are getting shot
down by the handfull. I'm definately going to have to stand them down to save them.

[larryfulkerson]

This is only one of several raids over Clark Field. Operation Beat-Down is proceeding but really, really, slowly. I'm moving some more
people into Clark Field and Manila to help out the process somewhat but It's still going to be a long drawn out affair.

[larryfulkerson]

I moved some Nate's to Hanoi to stop the untrammeled bombing thereof and only 1 Nate got airborne in this instance but still managed
to damage a plane twice ( or two planes once each ). Things may be looking up in Hanoi.

[larryfulkerson]

The air war is still going on in the skies over Buna. It's still too early to say who's winning yet. Jim will probably move a fresh squadron
into Port Moresby to contest my air mastery (LOL) and I'm stuck with what I have at hand there so far.

[larryfulkerson]

I got lucky on this carrier raid on Brisbane. I'm looking for a CVE that was reported in port but no luck so far. Maybe Jim has already evacuated it to the east. Or south.

[larryfulkerson]

I got lucky again and hit one of Jim's AK's coming out of SFO. Long periods of waiting and then a few minutes of war.

[larryfulkerson]

Lots of Allied ships congregating in Java. I'm going to have to rally all my subs and see if I can't herd them into a group or something.
I've got a carrier headed this way and I'm repairing some surface ships to head that way in a day or two.

[larryfulkerson]

The fight for Kuantan isn't over yet. There's still a lot of fight left in the Allied troops left there. I'm thinking of skipping the capture of the
abandoned airfields on the west coast for a follow up mission and just march all the way to Singers to try to cut off the Allied troops not in the Singers area yet.



EDIT: I have no idea what happened to the picture. It was there a minute ago.

[larryfulkerson]

The fight for Kuantan isn't over yet. There is still a lot of fight left in the Allied troops still in Kuantan. On the west coast there's some
abandoned airfields that need to be captured and I'm thinking I can leave that for some follow up mission and take the troops near the
west coast all the way to Singers to try to cut off the Allied troops not in the immediate Singers area.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what happened at Clark Field on the ground. I'm thinking of trying a DA just to see what the result might be.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm taking it easy at Manila because I'm still horribly outnumbered. I've got some troops headed to Manila even as we speak.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what happened at Bandy: I'm going to do a DA tomorrow.

[larryfulkerson]

This is what happened at Koepang. I think a DA is in order for tomorrow morning.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what happened on the ground at Paley. I think I should let the ground troops rest a bit and maybe do some ship-to-shore
bombardment several times to soften up the resistance.