Matrix Games Forums

SC CH-4# is in the same hex as an Allied sub unescorted and she's got no ASW and I'm leaving it in the hex because I'm hoping that the
sub expends torps on the SC rather than a more expensive ship, of which there are many in the hex. I'm using the SC as bait so that she
can use her outstanding manuevering ability to make a torp miss her and even though the surface fight might not be equal CH-4 could
easily damage a sub and a damaged sub is good news right now. So I'll leave her there for now.

Tokyo is getting low on fuel. And there's an awful lot of traffic that is going to continue to pass through there for the next 30 days and I'll
need fuel for all that........I'm going to put a temporary moratorium on the export of fuel from Tokyo. I'll still send supplies out of course
and the goal is to have about 500K of fuel in Tokyo again as the "working level" for this hub in the pipeline. I'm guessing that Tokyo will
have 500K of fuel in about 2.5 weeks or so. There's a huge refinery in Tokyo: 265(45) so far w/ repair turned on so maybe we'll see
more yet out of Tokyo......anyway, there's fuel coming into Tokyo fast enough to gimme that 500K figure again soon.

I probably shouldn't be doing this but I stripped off the BB from the Air Combat TF and some of the carriers escorts and made an ad hoc
Surface TF to charge back into the Kwajalein hex and see if I can't cause some carnage. Manufacture some mayheim.

This is a list of all the TK's I own. Last time I took a picture like this the overwhelming majority of the ships were empty and this time I'm
seeing a lot more TK's carrying fuel and oil. And there's not a lot of damage that needs to be fixed either. Both are good signs. And to
top it off, all the TK's are in a task force and moving somewhere not parked at a port somewhere.

I'm working on finding some more Allied ships on the East Coast of Oz and I'm working my way south and it looks like it's time to move the
CV group south a little more and doing that is probably going to run the CV's low on gas so I'm going to run this AO closer in to the action
and more into a position to support the CV's. It looks like this little operation is going to take a lot more gas until it's finished, I'd best run
some fuel down here from Truk or bubble drop or somewhere because it's going to get thursty around here.

I've got a CV group working on the Allied ships at Brisbane and I just now noticed that there are some Allied ships at Sydney as well. So
I'm sending an AO south to help support. The CV may not have enough sorties left to take care of all these ships and I may have to
make trips trusting Jim not to move his ships in the meantime. Not a good working hypothesis. Maybe I could strip off a CV from another
group somewhere and send it here to take care of the ships left over. Yeah, that could work. I'll look around.......see what's available.

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: Puhis
Air operations of carriers at base/dot hex are significantly reduced, did you know that? This rule applies to CVs and CVLs. Only CVEs can operate planes at base hex without penalty. So it's better to keep carriers out of base hex if you want to use their planes...

I did not know that Puhis dude. Thanks for saying something because I DO indeed have the CV's in a base hex. D'oh. Well, now I know.
I was kinda wondering where the rest of the carriers planes were.

IIRC I raised that issue once - and was corrected in that it used to be that way in WITP but no longer in AE. My memory on the matter might be imperfect so it's best to put the query out there in the main AE forum.

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: Puhis
Air operations of carriers at base/dot hex are significantly reduced, did you know that? This rule applies to CVs and CVLs. Only CVEs can operate planes at base hex without penalty. So it's better to keep carriers out of base hex if you want to use their planes...

I did not know that Puhis dude. Thanks for saying something because I DO indeed have the CV's in a base hex. D'oh. Well, now I know.
I was kinda wondering where the rest of the carriers planes were.

IIRC I raised that issue once - and was corrected in that it used to be that way in WITP but no longer in AE. My memory on the matter might be imperfect so it's best to put the query out there in the main AE forum.

No need for a query really. I will believe just about anything you tell me. So if air ops are reduced at dot/base hexes according to you
then I believe it. It is correlated with the significantly lower number of planes in the last carrier raid(s) I did near Kwajalien lately.

So Jim and I exchanged moves and here's some fresh combat results: First of all there was this night-time surface conflict that got
everything started:

And then there was this collision. Jim sinks the AO too later.

He might have gotten more hits if he had had more ammo

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I did not know that Puhis dude. Thanks for saying something because I DO indeed have the CV's in a base hex. D'oh. Well, now I know.
I was kinda wondering where the rest of the carriers planes were.

IIRC I raised that issue once - and was corrected in that it used to be that way in WITP but no longer in AE. My memory on the matter might be imperfect so it's best to put the query out there in the main AE forum.

No need for a query really. I will believe just about anything you tell me. So if air ops are reduced at dot/base hexes according to you
then I believe it. It is correlated with the significantly lower number of planes in the last carrier raid(s) I did near Kwajalien lately.

Oh, but I might not be remembering this one fully. A query would be a good idea!

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

ORIGINAL: witpqs

IIRC I raised that issue once - and was corrected in that it used to be that way in WITP but no longer in AE. My memory on the matter might be imperfect so it's best to put the query out there in the main AE forum.

No need for a query really. I will believe just about anything you tell me. So if air ops are reduced at dot/base hexes according to you
then I believe it. It is correlated with the significantly lower number of planes in the last carrier raid(s) I did near Kwajalien lately.

Oh, but I might not be remembering this one fully. A query would be a good idea!

Okie dokie........query posted.

Ah HA. So........Jim has another surface group about 400 miles to the west of Kwaj. I'll have to decide who to chase the crippled ships
left over from the Kwaj. fights or this new surface group that's killing my AO's. I think the invisible AO killers are more important if I can
just find them.

That new surface group of Jim's is after another of my AO's. He'll probably get it eventually.

One of my subs finally arrived at his working station and is staying busy.

And then the Allies attack me at Port Moresby:

And then the Jap bombers showed up over Manila:

It's starting to appear that the USS Idaho is unbreakable or something. Other ships would have gone down by now.

And then my boys visited Georgetown again: