Clash of Arms in the Pacific PAW warspite1 Japs me Allies

[larryfulkerson]

Rob is the Japs and I'm the Allies and I've received Rob's first turn moves and I've got a lot to post about his moves and conquests so far. This is a view of Rob taking Hong Kong at the very end of the playback. There were 9898 events in the playback.

[warspite1]

Whoops - sorry Larry I absent-mindedly clicked on this - fortunately nothing secret exposed [;)]

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: warspite1
Whoops - sorry Larry I absent-mindedly clicked on this - fortunately nothing secret exposed [;)]

No problemo my friend. Thanks for playing me by the way.

According to the OOB the first thing I need to move is the Phillippine Army units. These boys don't reconstitute when they are killed, neither do the Indians, but the Chinese do because of the need to simulate a lot of them I guess. I've got over 500+ units in the game so far. I'm going to have to do an inventory of the ships left and see what I can do to get organized.

I've got to save the aircraft in the PI if I can. As I recall there's a chance to get them out of the PI if it's done early in the game. Soon after the Japs start landing in the Celebes the airfields to use to escape the PI start to disappear. Also, I need to see if I can't get the MacArthur unit safely out of the PI; see if I can't escape him to Australia.

I'm thinking that Rob has left his carriers near Pearl and that I have to be circumspect about sailing any of my units west from Pearl. I'm going to need to use the subchasers for escorts when I float some LCU's because of the sea INT that Rob may have layed on already. I don't know if he has any aircraft that will reach this far east yet and I'd like to sail a lot of my LCU's to the empty islands in the Pacific while I still can; before Rob gets there with his forces. Like Fiji and Samoa and Pago Pago.

[larryfulkerson]

I just now sent an email to Rob that he needs to visit my AAR one more time to see my reply to his post.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's a cut and paste of the Allied Naval units in the game and as you can see I still have two BB's left from the Pearl strike so all hope is not lost. I've got some striking power and can take back some of the smaller islands when Rob isn't looking. My task is to be where he's not and I need to snipe and probe and to try not to get caught in the open without any backup. I've got to keep my ships under CAP at all times ( well, when possible ) and try to have LBA around the ships when it can be arranged. Having a lot of CAP to counteract the enemy Sea INT that Rob may have layed on. I'm not the kind of guy that is satisfied with letting my ships swing at anchor in a friendly port. I want to be out there doing things. Making a difference.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the PI right now. I've evacuated the west coast, pulled everybody back to Manila to make a bigger stack. So far there's been no bombardment by ships. Maybe he doesn't know he can defeat Corregidor and sail into the harbor. It's going to be interesting to see what he does next. More invasions or just use what he's got on the island already.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's what I'm going to do in China. Back up into Burma, to the supply source and sit out the war until it's safer to be there. The supply levels are too low to fight a war in the jungle so I'll vacate the premises and play it by ear. I want to give him China for most of the war and take it back in '43-'44 sometime.

[larryfulkerson]

Rob didn't have anybody in Bangkok so I drove some Indian units up there and captured the whole city and port and everything. He's going to have to take it away from me now. I'd like to hand onto it as long as I can because it'll delay the take down of Singapore.

[larryfulkerson]

New Zealand is relatively safe being near the arctic circle but New Caledonia needed to be beefed up a little bit I thought so I've been flying in planes and sailing in troops and it's fairly safe now. Most of the ports are covered and as soon as I find some more troops I'll fill in the defenses more. I've got all kinds of people at Pearl that need to be moved yet. i'll concentrate on the smaller islands between Pearl and Australia to make sure I've got a way to get aircraft back and forth. I'd like a CAP umbrella all the way from Pearl to Australia if possible. Two plane units per island minimum, one bombers or patrol aircraft and maybe some fighters in case of airfield strikes. New Caledonia seems ideal for B-24 strikes on the Gilberts.

When the Chinese back up toward Burma they are going to be giving up a lot of good strategic airfields. I could put some bombers near the east coast of northern China and hit the Japanese home islands. B-29's could reach almost the entire empire from there. The problem might be the supply levels. I'd have to repair the rail from a source, probably Pieking, to get some supply to the east coast to operate the bombers, keep 'em in the green. If I started repairing rail in late '42 I could probably have a fixed rail to the northeast coast of China by late '43 or early '44 and that's about the time the B-29's arrive all spanking brand new from the factories near Burbank. Getting the B-29's from Pearl where they spawn, to Australia thence to India thence to China might have a gap somewhere probably from Australia to India, that's a tall drink of water. Fortunately I don't have to deploy the Superfortress yet so I'm going to play it by ear. It might turn out to be easier to go the MacArthur route: New Guinea to the Celebes to the PI and use the bases on the PI to bomb the home islands with the B-29's. If Formosa is available perhaps the B-24's could reach the southern coast of the Jap home islands. I'll have to do some measurements of what the B-24 range looks like compared to the strike path.

[larryfulkerson]

I was going through the OOB moving all the units in order and I came to the 12th Armored thingie and without thinking I used the right-click-pop-up menu to choose what I thought was "train" and moved it from Melborne, I think it was, to just north of Brisbane by sea movement. There was no longer any menu option to embark it of course but I'm SURE that train was one of the options and I guess boats was too since that's what I got.

According to the scenario briefing there's mention of an Armored Division in Australia that shouldn't be able to move via the rails or sea and here I just now did it. There may need to be a tiny tweak of the scenario perhaps.

[Szilard]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson


According to the scenario briefing there's mention of an Armored Division in Australia that shouldn't be able to move via the rails or sea and here I just now did it. There may need to be a tiny tweak of the scenario perhaps.

I took that to be a house rule, not something the scenario enforces, though I guess the "is prevented" language might suggest differently. But I don't see any good way of designing a unit which can't use rail or boats?

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Szilard

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
According to the scenario briefing there's mention of an Armored Division in Australia that shouldn't be able to move via the rails or sea and here I just now did it. There may need to be a tiny tweak of the scenario perhaps.

I took that to be a house rule, not something the scenario enforces, though I guess the "is prevented" language might suggest differently. But I don't see any good way of designing a unit which can't use rail or boats?

Hey that's an idea.....maybe it IS supposed to be only a house rule. And how to prevent it from embarking on a train or a boat....maybe there's some EQP or NQP tweak that can be done to make that happen somehow or maybe it's got a secondary icon of some kind that can't embark, although I can't imagine what unit would be prevented from embarking. It's probably just a house rule.

[MikeJ19]

Larry,

As I said to Rob, it is going to be interesting to see both of you playing the other side...

Good luck,

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: MikeJ19
Larry,

As I said to Rob, it is going to be interesting to see both of you playing the other side...

Good luck,

It IS going to be interesting. Rob didn't invade nearly as much as he could have so maybe he's going easy on me because of my age. I mean it IS father's day today.

I'm trying NOT to do what he's doing in his game. Where I'm the Allies I'm doing okie dokie but in my game as the Japs I feel like a bully because of the ease I'm taking over places on the map. It's not always going to be that way I realize but it's got to be slightly depressing to be on the losing side for a lot of the early game as the Allies. I'm trying to make my Allies game offensive as much as I can be. I've already taken over New Caledonia and it's only T1 so far. In my game as the Japs I'm on T6 I believe. I'm having a blast and I'm hoping Rob is having a fun too.