The Good The Bad & The Indifferent

[Capt. Harlock]

The Book of Proverbs, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, and Winston Churchill.

Benjamin Franklin rather than Abraham Lincoln? Well, I suppose he's not as popular in Georgia . . .[;)]

[Canoerebel]

I think Lincoln is almost universally revered in Georgia. Sherman is still looked down about by a decent percentage of the population, but not by all (I'm a Sherman fan, and he was a quote machine too).

[Canoerebel]

6/29/44

Allied troops pouring into northern Luzon and northern Thailand; Death Star to return to port (low ammo); KB may be moving west; John has worked himself into a frenzy to attack and will experienced threat interruptus tomorrow, when he finds that DS is pulling back temporarily.

[BillBrown]

disregard

[bobsteele]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: witpqs
So you're sayin' that bug was Bullwinkle's fault? [:'(]

Fault? I prefer to think of it as service services to the community. [:)]

Nah, you're a moose. Probably bugs [:)]

[bobsteele]

ORIGINAL: BillBrown

disregard

(opens hatch to rabbit hole, peers in, and hears giant sucking sound)[:'(]

[Encircled]

disregard

Consider it done!

On a lot more serious note, this operation has gone off like clockwork CB

[CaptBeefheart]

There was a bit of comment, which I think has died down, on the other AAR that the herd (i.e. "1*10^6" ships) is too big for one hex. I haven't commented over there on this, but my handy dandy google skills tell me a hexagon with 40 nm between sides is 1386 square nautical miles in area. Here's a calculator, where h=40. That's heckuva lot of space in which to put a big fleet.

Cheers,
CC

[Canoerebel]

John and I briefly had that discussion awhile back, when he used that scientific notation in an email.

Speaking of which, John wrote this when he sent the most recent turn on Saturday: "Cannot wait for 7/1/44!"

I haven't asked him about it, but any speculation as to what it might mean? I assume its a new aircraft model or maybe even a device upgrade?

It seems to me from very dim memory that the Japanese were to get some pretty meaningful ground troop reinforcements in the Philippines sometime in the summer of '44. I don't recall the exact dates, but here's hoping Fun House cancelled some of those.

[T Rav]

I had to use the net to get the numbers right. 6,939 vessels involved with D-Day. More than DS and the herd.

Besides, there is Kido Butai, implies that grouping ships together is ok.

Go DS!

[Canoerebel]

List of a few IJA reinforcements scrubbed, I think, due to fall of Manila.

[Canoerebel]

John gets a couple of divisions early in July.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

List of a few IJA reinforcements scrubbed, I think, due to fall of Manila.

Keep dreaming, bub![:D] They will now show up on Tokyo after a little delay. Not the end of the world but an added benefit of taking PI early.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

John gets a couple of divisions early in July.

Could be a TOE upgrade too.

Any intelligence on your part about what Japan is r&d'ing on the HI?

June is a big month for device upgrades, radar, tanks, off the top of my head.

[Canoerebel]

I don't have any ideas about IJ R+D. My guess was that his comment most likely referred to an aircraft model or TOE upgrade, given the definitive date he specified.

[Canoerebel]

Musashi took a torp in the Naval Battle of Miri a week ago, probably suffering light damage. Where does she go to repair? Singers is within 4EB range of Miri (assuming Singer's yard is big enough to handle the ship). To get her to the Home Islands, she can run the "blockade" of Allied airfields in the DEI or, more likely, up the coast of Indochina and China. But he'll have to do it pretty soon since that "gap" will narrow further as the Allies sweep across Luzon, establishing new airfields, with the prospect of new invasions further west and north.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Musashi took a torp in the Naval Battle of Miri a week ago, probably suffering light damage. Where does she go to repair? Singers is within 4EB range of Miri (assuming Singer's yard is big enough to handle the ship). To get her to the Home Islands, she can run the "blockade" of Allied airfields in the DEI or, more likely, up the coast of Indochina and China. But he'll have to do it pretty soon since that "gap" will narrow further as the Allies sweep across Luzon, establishing new airfields, with the prospect of new invasions further west and north.

Musashi can be difficult to rearm too. But in this mod I am not certain.

[mind_messing]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I don't have any ideas about IJ R+D. My guess was that his comment most likely referred to an aircraft model or TOE upgrade, given the definitive date he specified.

I think it's the Japanese AF units TOE upgrade. The small units get additional light flak, and the bigger units get 72 aviation support instead of 48.

On the small scale it's not much to write home about, but on the wider picture it makes it a little more dangerous to fly low-level bombing missions for the Allies.

[Canoerebel]

In the early months of the Battle of Burma in 1944, lack of AA really hurt John's army. He worked hard to shift AA forward (too little, too late as it turned out), apparently stripping other areas. He also decided to concentrate his AA in defending strategic targets, perceiving that Allied 4EB would become a serious threat in early 44. My decision to forego strategic bombing while focusing on operational warfare has thus caught John's AA out of position to help in the Luzon campaign. He only a had a couple of AA units present.

It's too early to know whether delaying strategic bombing was the right call, but you can see the various impacts of our decision-making in this regard. To this point, Japanese AA has been a non-factor in the second half of 1943 and first half of 1944.

[mind_messing]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

To this point, Japanese AA has been a non-factor in the second half of 1943 and first half of 1944.

It will pretty much remain so for the rest of the war. The only way for Japanese AA to make any sort of serious impact is for massive concentrations of it, and even then, it's remarkably anaemic compared to Allied AA. Japan really suffers from lacking an widespread intermediate gun between the light AA (20/25mm guns) and the less common 8cm and 12cm guns.

If the Japanese version of the 40mm Bofors came earlier than late-1945, I suspect that flak might be at least a marginal factor.