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

[Methuen]

Problem with bombardment of Palembang is that you'll end up damaging the oil facilities there [:(], you need that 900 oil and 1000 refinery in tact! You're stretched very thinly in the DEI and you're trying to take Malaya and PI at the same time. See if you can round up a few troops at some of the secured bases and ship them to Paley. Historically you are quite a bit ahead as far as invasions are concerned. Also try not to use any engineers when taking a base that has facilities in it - they tend to blow sh!t up unnecessarily [:)] If you have good odds against your opponent use just a deliberate attack, using a shock attach also runs the risk of doing damage to facilities (oil, refinery, resources, etc). I can see a number of enemy TF's at Bataan!! Nooo! you've got to make sure he cant get supply to his troops in Manila or Bataan, He'll end up being able to hold out for months if he can get supplies through, worse - he'll be able to build fortifications. Blockage Bataan and keep bombing the port and/or airfields in Manila and Bataan - this has the effect of preventing him from building forts. The game engine works such that if port or airfields are damaged then engineers will repair them first before switching to building forts.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: brotherbaldrick
Problem with bombardment of Palembang is that you'll end up damaging the oil facilities there [:(], you need that 900 oil and 1000 refinery in tact! You're stretched very thinly in the DEI and you're trying to take Malaya and PI at the same time. See if you can round up a few troops at some of the secured bases and ship them to Paley.

Oh yeah, I totally was forgetting about that. Good catch. No more ship bombardments, gotcha. I've got some troops enroute to Pally even as we speak. They should be there within about a week or so.

ORIGINAL: brotherbaldrick
Historically you are quite a bit ahead as far as invasions are concerned.

I didn't know that. I'm guessing that's a good thing.

ORIGINAL: brotherbaldrick
Also try not to use any engineers when taking a base that has facilities in it - they tend to blow sh!t up unnecessarily [:)] If you have good odds against your opponent use just a deliberate attack, using a shock attach also runs the risk of doing damage to facilities (oil, refinery, resources, etc).

Thanks for the heads up.......I didn't know that.

ORIGINAL: brotherbaldrick
I can see a number of enemy TF's at Bataan!! Nooo! you've got to make sure he cant get supply to his troops in Manila or Bataan, He'll end up being able to hold out for months if he can get supplies through, worse - he'll be able to build fortifications.

I've got the harbour blockaded and his ships aren't moving anywhere but from Bataan to Manila and back. Every once in a while he'll try running my blockade and we'll end up having some ships get hit. I've got mines in the blockade hexes so that helps.

ORIGINAL: brotherbaldrick
Blockage Bataan and keep bombing the port and/or airfields in Manila and Bataan - this has the effect of preventing him from building forts. The game engine works such that if port or airfields are damaged then engineers will repair them first before switching to building forts.

Bomb the ports and airfields to keep the engineers working on them instead of the forts.......good idea. I like that. Thanks. All this advice is greatly appreciated and I'm hoping there is something we can tell Jim about his situation also. Fair is as fair does I guess.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the troops I have headed for Manila. It's the 53rd/C Div and it's about 4,000 men strong. I'm hoping it'll make a difference
when it finally arrives at Manila because I'm sort of in a hurry to grab the city. I figure that if I can grab Manila Jim's PI troops will
be out of supply and will steadily weaken from my bombing and so on. The 53rd/A and 53rd/B are still on the home island and I'm
saving up the PP's to convert them to the 14th Army to be able to load them on transports so as to eventually bring the entire
division to the PI. I figure it'll be needed there to do the final reduction of Bataan.

[moore4807]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 16, 42
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Nice job clearing Paley... Dropped over 600 mines at the start of the war there...

TF 740 encounters mine field at Palembang (48,91)
Japanese Ships
DMS W-13
DMS W-12
DMS W-4
DMS W-3
DMS W-2

71 mines cleared

Luvin my Dutch subs, Minelayers as well as shooters!

TF 42 encounters mine field at Bandjermasin (60,99)
Japanese Ships
PB Bisan Maru #3
PB Busho Maru, Mine hits 1, heavy damage

1 mine cleared

Previously damaged sub got forced to surface... not pretty

Submarine attack near Singkawang at 55,87
Japanese Ships
DD Satsuki
DD Yuzuki

Allied Ships
SS O16, hits 19, and is sunk


Another example of "High and from the sun" attacks...Note: Larry is splitting his fighters altitudes too.


Morning Air attack on Rahaeng , at 58,56
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 8

Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27b Nate: 3 destroyed

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x H81-A3 sweeping at 25000 feet

CAP engaged:
1st Sentai with Ki-27b Nate (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes
77th Sentai with Ki-27b Nate (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000.
Raid is overhead


Gaining experience for the bombers, it's taking forever to move Chinese fighters into range to escort em!

Morning Air attack on Hankow , at 85,50
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 15

Allied aircraft
I-15-III x 3

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

CAP engaged:
54th Sentai with Ki-27b Nate (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 10000.
Raid is overhead
66th I.F.Chutai with Ki-27b Nate (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes

Morning Air attack on 21st Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 68,56 (Hanoi)
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 1

Allied aircraft
SB-III x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SB-III: 2 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x SB-III bombing from 15000 feet *
Ground Attack: 3 x 100 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
77th Sentai Det B with Ki-27b Nate (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead


Again Larry is simply overwhelming my ASW forces on the West Coast...

Submarine attack near San Francisco at 216,72
Japanese Ships
SS I-4

Allied Ships
xAK Alabaman, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Hopefully Phillipine Is. will be a slow attrition war- I REFUSE to be sucked into an attack because Larry keeps referring himself as being outmanned and outgunned in Manila!
I keep thinking back to what Michael said about RA defenses and stacking there , I now know what he means about the penalties, Too Late to do anything about it now!
I am ALWAYS willing to take advice in this game, Larry seems to be getting the bulk of it so far... must be his avatar pix, LOL!

[larryfulkerson]

What does it mean when the HQ unit is listed in RED? Anybody know?

[larryfulkerson]

I had to finish working on Rob's moves before I could get to Jim's moves but I'm on it now and here's the combat results from 17Jan42:

Here's the resource history for Japan so far:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's me bumping up the oil refinery at Tokyo by 100 to get more fuel output.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's aircraft production. According to Tracker I'm losing more Zero's than I'm building so I need to bump up the production of Zero's.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the losses for 17Jan42:

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the strategic map so far:

[larryfulkerson]

It appears that Jim may be moving some people to the Fiji area. RO-60 fired 2 torpedoes and missed with both. D'oh.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has at least three subs operating near the Japanese Home Islands. They are making pests of themselves.

[larryfulkerson]

There's a fourth sub near Hokkaido. It's a PITA.

[larryfulkerson]

Allied sub KIX is inside the harbour at Makassar. What an insult. I need some more mines there asap.

[larryfulkerson]

I am aware of the excellent advice above about bombardment of Palembang and I would have turned off this bombardment attack on Palembang except that I had already sent my moves to Jim.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's another good ship-to-shore floating arty strike on Koepang. It's just a matter of time before Koepang falls.

[larryfulkerson]

All my capital ships are busy elsewhere or I would have included some in this delivery of troops to Cebu. Jim's CD guns are making it
all the more expensive.

[larryfulkerson]

It appears that I may have gotten some hits on the SS KIX at Makassar. Maybe he'll go away now.

[larryfulkerson]

Earlier the RO-60 skipper missed with two torpedoes and I was thinking of replacing him next time he docked but now he's connecting
with two torps so I'm thinking I'll keep him after all.

[larryfulkerson]

Jim has some P-40's near Davao that still have some bite left. I really need to get some airfield troops into Davao to help get more
Zero's airborne on these raids.