EUBanana
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Joined: 9/30/2003 From: Little England Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Raverdave I have to dissagree with holding Rangoon...........suck out all the oil and supplies and build up Akyab and Mandalay..........these are you two key bases to holding Burma. In Malaya fight him with what you have got but try and mass your forces so that they are not gobbled up in dribs and drabs. Clark is the base in the PI that you really want to hold. Mass your supplies there as soon as possible. Park your CVs on the west coast and leave them there until they have passed their first upgrades (Mid '42 iirc). China.......simply fall back....don't fight, just fall back. Only a rookie, but I have to agree with Rangoon. The AI handed Rangoon its ass, without any problems at all, and despite me reinforcing Burma. It was over too quick for the reinforcements to matter. But Mandalay seems eminently defensible. I got three Chinese divisions there in my game now, big airbase with plenty of Hurricanes and Blenheims, lots of those dinky little Burma Rifles units and a few other Commonwealth units I could scrape up, two Indian tank brigades in reserve (planning to go for supply lines with those should the AI nose forward) and the Japs so far seem to have just one division committed. It's also got plenty of bases behind it which you can put bombers in to hammer any ground units that attempt to siege the place, even if the Japs close Mandalay's airbase you can still focus your air power there. So based on the AI (ok, bad maybe) I'd draw the line for southeast asia at Mandalay. The Phillippines, I dont see how you can hold it, the Japs got too many ground forces... next time I play I'm starting the evacuation as soon as PPs permit. My first game I only got a tiny fragment of USAFFE HQ out with subs as Jap CVLs had the place locked down tight... I didnt know what to do with the Chinese, so they sat on their ass for a month or two. The Japs seemed to sit on their ass as well, so now I'm massing about ten divisions to take Hanoi. Not sure if its a good idea or not, but theres plenty more Chinese where they came from, so might as well use em, eh? Saratoga and Lexington are parked off Rabaul in Feb 42 and slaughtering the Japs there while the KB is in the DEI. The South Pacific is a Jap disaster story, its about the only place the Allies have had any real success in my game. Got a released NZ division, the Australian division, the USMC division and the Americal division headed for the South Pacific, if I can get them there before the KB leaves the DEI I think the war is gonna go much better for the Allies in that theatre then history had it go... So yeah, I'd wait till you are sure the KB isnt about and then park the US CVs in Auckland or something, and while the KB is away, the Saratoga can play.
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