ORIGINAL: The Gnome
ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
Be very careful about triggering kamis before you can handle them.
Also, I would be leery of trying the Marianas before you're rich with APAs, AKAs, LSTs, and have extra Marine divisions. And the CD units there are (were?) massive.
Good advice, I tend to be strategically bi-polar, I spent all of '42 cranking the spring back, now I'm want to let loose. I may have to temper my strategic objects a bit, or at least keep the pace cooler.
What is the best way to determine what is on a base? I see that I can get the relative numbers of troops, the numbers of guns, but is there any way to get anything a little more detailed? Recon in force the only way to go?
For me recon gives you basically troop strength but only an entry on the Intel rpt along w/ either a bombard TF or ground attack by air would give you types of troops you'd be facing. So really my main recon is through the bombardments which tell me what units are there so I can plan my troop strength.
I think Wake has a strong CD unit so I'll probably do a CV raid to bomb it to verify what troops are there even though I'm running a PB4Y recon from Midway then follow that w/ a BB TF to see how bad it got hit to see what my troops might go through in landing. I don't think that's the case at Tarawa/Makin but that'd be the case at the bases closer to Kwajalein for me. I have thought of maybe gunning for Wake then make the jump to Marcus Is (is that it?) then to Iwo using Marcus but I think the Kami's really come into play on that move & I just don't think I'd have the horses to match the pts losses they'd cause as jumping off pts are too far apart for land based air to help cover. So I'll probably end up coming north from the Solomans to the Mariannas in late 43.
