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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/2/2007 5:33:56 PM   
LittleJoe


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Status: offline 		Managed to keep that base he captured in escort range of Palembang closed for all of October, blowing up quite a few aircraft on the ground, losing a lot of mine though, but the pilots that are flying the missions are so inexpierienced anyway it doesnt really matter.

Buna has fallen, only a matter of time before Lae goes the same way, his LBA from PM mainly, and tokyo express style bombardments up the coast of New guinea is just too much for any garrison there. Once Lae falls his attention will turn towards Rabaul and the general N Soloman area now Guadacanal is subdued. Itll be 1944 before he does anyhing like that though i reckon, he might squeeze it in before the end of the year (its November) but regardless im doing well in comparision to historical.


No sign of a Wake invasion, Midway had hundereds of ships, with F6F's on cap so the fleet and invasion force was obviously holed up there, according to my intel its dissapeared snice, nothings hit Wake though, so maybe hes lost interest now that i know hes coming? I doubt it, i expect Wake to be hit soon still. Kido Butai is holed up at Kwajalien a nice eqidistant (sp) base imbeteewn Wake and the Solomans.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/2/2007 10:20:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Allied LBA is just too powerful, unless you have a big stack of ground units, like i did at Burma, their bombs can destroy entire combat units, its silly im feeling very streched.

He bombed Wewak today, dont think he can try a naval landing there yet, not until hes subdued Rabaul and the Solomons at least, maybe even Trukt too, and a cheeky para landing would fail, but still i just feel helpless as his LBA curtain moves closer and closer to the real objectives.




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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/3/2007 1:26:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		Don't get desperate Joe.

Just fight him with what you got! Allied don't have massive amounts of infantry units even in the later years. So, my advice to you is to fight him hard and do not retreat if it is not absolutely necessary.

This PBEM is about to get intresting!

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/3/2007 7:09:28 PM   
LittleJoe


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Status: offline 		Yeah, can console myself on how well im doing in some areas ahead of historical.

Gilberts are still mine (apart from Baker)

Guadacanal should hold until at least December 43, maybe even into the new year. Depends how much supply i can get into the place, gonna try some air supply/fast transport

Can Betties do supply missions?

Gonna start reinforcing my inner defence line, Marinas/Marshals etc. Lets have lots of level 9 forts waiting to meet him.

I get lots of reinforcements for the DEI soon, Java is criminally empty, but it gets a few good sized (200 assualt points) combat units and i still have mini KB floating around the area as i know rob would like to go for the neck of my empire and close down my oil/resource production.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/3/2007 10:04:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Betty commanders from Rabaul decide to go after LCT'S around Buna instead of the Battleship Arionza a few miles up the coast.

Wake falls, USN carriers are heading West to intercept the KB if i was stupid enough to turn up.

Gonna try and hit his ships outside Buna with KB, hit him where he aint, gonna test the waters first and see how many undestroyable Level bombers hes got on naval attack, they're devastating at 10,000 feet as we all know :)

Sending mini KB into the Indian Ocean incase hes still sending convoys/ warships to the Burma front.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/5/2007 6:10:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		If i where to send disposable Desroyers into Lunga for some fast transport, would they still drop off supplies even if they had to fight PT's on the way in, or would the 'retirement allowed' setting would mean they would retire after combat with the supply.

Or would they drop off th supply beforehand/after?

I can keep Lunga a pain for rob for a long time if i can get enough supplies in from the air and sea.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/5/2007 8:56:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Why was the Wake Island so "poorly" garrisoned? I would have assumed that it would have had level 9 fortifications and sizeable garrison. (That would have tied Rob up and thus you propably could have had a chance to cause havoc with Kido Budai)

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/6/2007 7:55:49 PM   
LittleJoe


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Status: offline 		The reformed USN Carrier force parked off of Marcus today, an invaison force as well? Possibly, the place is as 'poorly' defended as Wake so rob could take it if he wanted.

Had to turn back my numerous troop/supply transports for the place, if he turns home theyll flood in and get Marcus built up.

Rob will and can place 200 level bombers on Wake and flatten Marcus soon enough so i better get as much as possible for him to blow up before Wake goes level 4, before the supermassive black cloud of 4 engined death reigns down bombs on everything in range.

A brave PG pictured below is gonna sick the USN carriers though so its OK




Robs sub continue to sink everything left right and center, i wouldnt mind but, my ASW cant even sink the lone sub literally beached off of all my major ports meaning any docking action by my valuable taskforces will run the risk of being hit by a sub, go Japan!

1944 is gonna be a brilliant year, i've a feeling all these annoying niggly problems bothering me will dissapear and not get worse in anyway.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/8/2007 12:34:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ground units near streching point, i dont think many Japanese players have to defend as many vital bases on such a wide front as i have.From Marcus, to Einetwok, to Tarawa, to Lunga, to Lae, to Rabaul, to Kai island, to Koepang, to Sumatra, to Malaya and of course the mess in Burma.

Ground units are definately precious, i expect Lae/Fischafen and maybe a few bases on Rabaul island whatever its called, hes started bombing Tulagi and has left his calling card of a sub outside the base, he always wants to kill Lunga so it would make sense.

One thing about Rob is apart from the landings around Gilli Gilli etc he is very obvious where hes going to land...soooo

The Kido Butai is steaming south into the Solomans, whilst the bulk of his carrier force is in the central pacific, i will see if my prediction on a landing at Tulagi was correct, and hopefully kill some transports/escorts!

Mini KB lead by the severly unlucky Taiho (im sure you know all about its meetings with several torpedos shortly after its maiden voyage) Will do the same off of Lae, i will sit a few hexes back from the 'striking' hexes, then charge in to hit the invasion taskfroces when they arrive.

Hopefully he'll arrive soon, as Kido Butai is nearly low on fuel, and i have to take a detour to Kwajalien if i wanna refuel (Turk is dry, Rabaul is nogo for flatops)

The great flood of troops into Marcus is continuing, ive worked out i can have around 1300-1500 assault points there (pretty much all my reserves on the map) on the island within a month, hopefully the appearance of Carrier forces in the Southwest Pacific will make his nasty carriers go away from the central pacific, and give me this time to make Marcus into a fortress.

I feel like, as hitler put it that '"All you have to do is kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will crumble to the ground."

One big push by Rob in the next two months, and i feel i could be overwhelmed. Glancing at the ground reinforcement screen doesnt comfortort me, we get one new division in the next two months, really could do with a recruitment push in the homelands, perhaps lower (and highten) the conscription ages, maybe allow the Women to show thier bushido spirit?

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/9/2007 11:54:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hello joe

I`ve been talking to Rob and sadly he has got bad computer probs and cant log on. This no doubt explains the lack of return game saves. I`ll let you know how things progress.

I`m avidly following your game with Rob,keep at it as it is good fun and will remain so.

I`ve not read your posts as I don`t want it to colour what I say to Rob.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/10/2007 2:06:13 AM   
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Cheers, I guessed as much but thanks for confirming it. Thank you for not reading my posts as well, I don't like the kind of people that read both AAR's then give advice to one player, as no matter how hard you try its always gonna infulence your advice to that player!

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/13/2007 10:46:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Blew a chance to sink or damage some CVE'S and at least one Battleship, shouldnt have split my forces to hurt the Rennel and Lae invasions. Three bomb hits on three seperate CVE'S from my mini mini KB taskforce, if KB had been there with its 300 odd attack aircraft, it surely would have been 3 sunk CVE'S and a Battleship?

KB is still lurking north of Rennel, but im retiring it to Kwajalien, the USN navy is still hovering around Wake, i think Marcus is gonna be hit next, and that cannot be allowed to happen. I have around 320 assault points at Marcus and convoys are bringing in a further 60-100, level 2 forts there at the moment but it should rise rapidly as most of the forces there are base forces.

Beginning to load up two full sized divisions one from Inchon and one from Sendai so whether they can arrive before the Carriers seal the place off remains to be seen, if rob doesnt arrive in the next couple of weeks i can have over 1,000 assault points.

Robs finally made a mistake with a landing, i think the Allied forces are using the Dutch as recon in force, probably the Dutch ground forces first involvement in the war snice the fall of Timor/Java perhaps thier first step to recaliming a bit of soverign soil for the Dutch royal family?

But no! Even with British help they've only arrived with 100 assault points, thanks to my fast transport missions that have obviously gone unoticed and rob probably found the fragment of the...46th division a suprise. Sending in the Musashi group to clear out the supporting ships, along with Zeke's on naval attack, sending the Hiyo carrier group south too, its all a bit of a rag tag operation as the bulk of my offensive forces are in the S pacific obviously, but robs invasion force is similarlly rag tab, hopefully we can kill some more Dutch or at least rob to perform a embrassing dunkirk style evacuation, with would be bad PR for the allied war effort, maybe even forcing them to seek peace with us?

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/14/2007 10:31:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		More frustrations, the fatigue of battle is starting to show on my air crews as they throw themselves against the Allied cap once again with little sucess.

One torp into the Oklahoma, no fires, no heavy damage, so its probably superficial. Often with my attacks i can get a half dozen of Betties through but Rob's flak is just devastating compared to my betty attacks in early/mid 42 around the DEI upgraded Allied flak is really starting to show.

He landed at Tulagi, suprised me though he would just land at Rennel and Lae for now, so obviously the KB is once again where the action is not, it was only last turn that the KB would have been in striking distance of Tulagi, rob 'only' had 30 P-38s on cap so a breakthrough would have been only for light losses, but the KB is half way to Kwaljalien, another chance at punishing the Allied fleet wasted..Ill turn around the KB full speed if fuel/op points allows it.

Two IJN attacks off of Wake, two dead IJN subs off of Wake, ASW still seems massively in the favour of the Allies to me. Although there is some kind of taskforce a couple of hexes NW of Wake, The death star or a invasion taskforce? I didnt move in the two turns, so im guessing a Carrier group, eiether way it means ive got to get all these transports in full speed to Marcus...

Rob still has no cap over his new base in hammering distance of Palembang, i took advantage of this to get some free training and to hopefully prevent the engineers from building up the airfield for a while..

Time to withdraw some of my aircrews from Solomons to regain thier morale and expierience, its just pointless as it is..

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/14/2007 10:44:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Full speed merchants! The American's are coming!




On board is the 42nd Div if this can get there in time, i'd even be happy to 'beach' these merchants to get some parts of the Division on the island, Marcus cannot fall!

That division would give me 800 assault points which would be a more than robust garrison to hold on long enough for the American cv's to have to retire and give me another window to chuck more troops in?

I hope so.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/17/2007 9:30:23 PM   
LittleJoe


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Status: offline 		Things go from bad to worse, the door has truly been kicked in. Ive got nothing in reserve to defend the Marinas or Iwo jima now hes destroyed my troops at Marcus.

Hell now use the Marcus atoll as a springboard for a huge invasion of Iwo or Marinas sometime in Early 44 or somthing, im ****ed, ive got nothing.

He managed to destroy the entire Malaya airforce with 50 P-38s too, its only a matter of time before he flattens Palembang, and now hes taken Kai hell soon close down my training facilities in the DEI.

He sunk about 50+ transports this turn as well, some with B-24s from 11,000 ft.

Rant over, i might just send the whole IJN in full steam on his next invasion just to get this over and done with.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/17/2007 9:37:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		did you lose Marcus?....what fort levels do you have?....atoll invasions are very costly, if you have level 9 forts with 800 AV, he will need about 10-12 Divisions worth of troops to take it. If not you can bog down an entire Army of troops on that island. Fly in an Army HQ, that will further boost your position

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/17/2007 9:39:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Don't do anything hasty.

I can guarantee that allies cannot be everywhere. Rob will have hard time conducting offensives 1944's and 1945's if you just keep clobbering him. Also he will have tough time gathering transport ships (every AK/AP you sink is bad for Rob).

Keep on fighting him it is not as easy for allies as it sometimes feels!

Oh, and Rob has agreed to be the Japanese using Big B's mod so that ought to fun... unless I will blunder the whole campaign againts him!

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/17/2007 9:43:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh.. and as KDonovan said atoll invasions can be costly... very costly. (Believe me I know this)

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/17/2007 9:55:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: KDonovan

did you lose Marcus?....what fort levels do you have?....atoll invasions are very costly, if you have level 9 forts with 800 AV, he will need about 10-12 Divisions worth of troops to take it. If not you can bog down an entire Army of troops on that island. Fly in an Army HQ, that will further boost your position


Marcus fell on the second day, 500 assault points destroyed without a fight. Im seriously out of reserves for ground units, my blunders in Burma and China have cost me, Northern new guinea is empty bar Wewak which is just a air bridge for my air force to transfer to and from the now all but fallen Solomons and the DEI.

I had two full 450 assualt point divisions on the way to Marcus, only level 2 forts however, as like with Wake i presumed that tiny atolls where not the way to threaten the Japanese Home islands and the Marinias, and in real life they're not, but hey this is Witp throw in enough engineers and itll be a huge airfield.

If i had got those two divisons into Marcus Rob would have been in trouble, but he loaded up his army from Wake and just hopped over and blew everything up, like i said ill send a Division to Iwo and a Division to the Bonin's and continue looking for ground units to scrape together a defence from somewhere, i might abandon the Gilberts to shorten my defensive line.

Lunga is the only base ive successfully defended against Allied attack so far, thats holding well and im still getting supplies in by fast transport, but its irrevalent hes gonna complete a huge encirclement if he takes the Marinas or Iwo.

Allied LBA is just so devastating as well, rob once remarked he happily swap his B-17s for my Bettys, but thats obviously not true, a B-17/B-24 whatever can sink any shipping from 11,000 plus feet, with ridiculous accuracy (its what took down the Yamato for gods sake) and of course as demonstrated at Lae, and Buna it can destroy entire armies.

The betty is just a joke at this stage in the war.

Havent done orders yet, im going out now, ill be thinking about what i can do, dont think he has any offensive bombers at Wake, a transport convoy nearly wondered into the battlefield at Marcus, about 7-8 hexes West of Wake, and nothing happened to it, so he obviously doesnt have any LBA here, might go in with surface forces and rough up the place, they might get caught by his carrier forces..but meh.

Things are unravelling quicker than i imagined wasnt expecting to be defending the Marinas/Iwo in early 44.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/18/2007 6:39:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		I really didnt think that tiny atolls such as Wake and Marcus would be the route for an Allied assualt on the Marinas.

Gonna have to do another troops rush into Iwo and Bonin, how embrassing to be defending such a place in late 43, not much i can really do to stop rob taking somewhere in the Marinas/Iwo/Bonin, not unless he gives me some time..maybe a month or two, which is unlikey, hell just load up a small army from the considerable port facilites of Marcus island and hop over..

Ive got no enthusiasm to give my orders at the moment, now hes taken Marcus, as soon as January 1st comes around im gonna send every Zeke squadron ive got on high altitude kamikaize attacks, if hes gonna use tiny atolls to launch huge invasions, i might as well take advantage of the games dodgyness.

Maybe not.. Maybe ill have fresh ideas when ive had a sleep.



The new allied transport hub for operations against Iwo Jima, considerable facilities as you can see..

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/21/2007 12:11:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		My airforce is a complete mess, i've still got plenty of A6M3/A6m3a squadrons but my factories arent building replacements anymore as all production has been switched over to the Zeke, so im stuck with squadrons of A6M3's waiting to be upgraded, slowly being whittled down without replacement.

And to make things worse some of these A6M3 squadrons only upgrade to George's and A6M8's so what am i ment to do with them in the meantime?

Anyway, theyll all soon be Kamikiaze fodder soon enough.

Got 500 plus Assault points on Bonin along with level 4 forts, Iwo Jima is considerabably less well defended at the moment, with 30 assault points and no forts, but the 30th Division is a few days out, thats pretty much all i got headed to the area for the next few days, itll be weeks before i can bloster the defences here.

The Mariana's are empty, Sapian has 150 assault points and level 7 forts. Tinian and Guam are empty...im working on it, but if rob wants to load up his army from the transport hub of Marcus island and hop over here theres not much i can do...Oh yea and im mining the Bonins and Iwo Jima, its a convienient distance from Tokyo to lay mines.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/22/2007 12:56:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Iwo now has around 500 assualt points as a Division lands there, flying in 28th Army HQ and a base force from Tokyo on emily boats, slowly but surely. got a few troops incoming still mainly ija base forces, and a few huge supply convoys to help the troops thier hold out under seige.

Not much in the way of assault points coming, im loading up a freshly arrived ind. Brigade/regiment (cant remember)in Saigon to go to Tinian which is empty apart from a IJA base force, and im loading up a couple of engineer regiments from china to head to Iwo to build up some forts, ill send them to the Marinias also. Sending another engie regiment from the front in Burma towards Saigon and then Toeketongoeungre (that base in southern Sumatra) to build up some forts on the hole area, starting there, then Palembang then Jambi. Only a matter of time before rob comes hunting for the Palembang oil fields.

And in a effort to buy more time at Iwo/Bonins (where i really expect him to land over the Marinias) and prevent another Marcus style quick hop over the 'channel' im sending a mini CV taskforce currently a few hexes NW of Palu headed by the Taiho (a CV which has been attacked and hit by three seperate subs inside a couple of months) Will head towards Pearl Harbour and be sighted around Johnston, rob will hopefully think the KB is gonna raid around the central pacific and pull his CV's back from the front near Marcus and buy me some more time.

KB itself is headed back to Japan for some repairs...

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/24/2007 2:24:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Robs Carriers turn up outside Iwo and Bonins, my merchants scatter, leaving the Bonins and Iwo very low on supplies, but i cant afford to have my convoys sit there and get battered im too low on merchants as it is. Hope the invasion convoys arent incoming, or they will fall....meh.

Sent out some patrol gunboats that where escorting the now fleeing merchants out into the seas SE of the Bonins/Iwo to try and get a cheeky intercept.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/24/2007 7:11:12 PM   
LittleJoe


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Status: offline 		Anyone know how I turn off the hex's on the map? I want to post a few maps, but the hexs make reading text annoying?

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/24/2007 8:50:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		The second anniversary of the Pacific War looks set to be a big one. Rob's overextended himself at Toekenberg, and is a LONG way from port, i will send every brave samurai i can muster to destory the Royal Navy trapped in the narrow straights it will be a slaghter not seen snice December the 7th intself if i get my own way!



My surface fleet at Soerbaja will steam in full speed on Toeketberg to engage eiether his Carrier taskforces if im lucky, his suface groups or his transports, perhaps all three. Im willing to charge into the unknown and perhaps his naval bombers as im right on the doorstep of a level 6 port and he is a long long way from Sabang.

My carriers will also engage, once again i think robs carriers is probably a little stronger than mine, perhaps a lot, but he will have to sink my carriers outright on the day to sink them, one bomb, one torp could sink one of his in theory.

Unfortunately i've only one airfield in the area, Palembang, i will place every aircraft i can on it to try and add to the pressure, ill try and get some aviation support into Batavia too to protect my damaged ships that will go there.
Its a risky battle, but its one i have to fight and one that i can actually win unlike the one in Iwo/Bonins.....

The Hiyo is still around Kendari, so it can join the battle soon if its not over by then.

I put a torp into the (new) Yorktown too! But like most of my successes its minimal, no fire or heavy damage messages, so its not enough to make it retire, not bad though i guess.

Rob killed my PG's that where fleeing instead of intercepting, i must have forgotten my orders or somthing..better to lose the pg's than merchants though.

He bombed the bonins too destorying about 2,700 supply points in the process, about 300-600 left here now, nothing much to defend against a invasion, some troops dissapeared off of Marcus before the fighting had even finished there and theres transports, so hes invading. Would it be reasonable to complain? I just think its a bit ridiculous, yea hes caught me off guard, but using tiny atolls to launch invasions life this seems a bit gamey..

Hes overstacking his carriers too, i will ask him to stop that as we agreeded not too..25 days till Kamikaizes.....

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/24/2007 8:55:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nice opportunity at DEI to finish RN once and for all.

It seems that he really has gone a bit too far and that is good news for you. Those carriers should be in range next turn?

As for CenPac... you are in trouble unless you can get more reinforcements in soon by the sound of it.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/24/2007 9:14:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		If i had reinforcements to get in i would gladly sacrifice plenty of merchants, there was bad weather over Iwo and Bonin for most of the turn, so i could have unloaded thousands more supplies protected if i had know...

I don't know if its justifiable to waste so many merchants to get supplies in..troops maybe...but its not gonna be a long protracted battle if rob lands 1,000-2,000 assualt points at eiether of these bases, so a big supply stockpile isnt important...

Im starting to clear the Gilberts and to a extent the Marshalls, but it wont arrive quick enough, robs advance through the central pacific has been to quick, i feel its a bit gamey using atolls to launch major invasions, but i wont complain its not like i can stop him playing the game how he wants, i think it was a reasonable to leave Iwo/Bonins with only a base force defending it in late 1943, i really didnt forsee Wake/Marcus being a valid route to these islands, id dont think ive overcommitted myself to the Solomons/Marshalls its just common sense in my eyes.

Losing Iwo/Bonins will be a blow, but not a mortal one it doesnt cut off my troops/navy from Japan like Rob probably thinks it will, taking the Marinias however will probably finish me off, just dont have enough ground forces to defend all this land, the speed of his advance and my poor showing in China nd Burma just leaves me with my hands tied. This war wont last long in 1945 im afraid, unless rob monumentally messes up.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/24/2007 9:29:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Atolls are a mess in this game, I do agree. But looking at it from the other side these places are a complete disaster if defender put 2 division in those place ---> Shock assaults ---> %#%#%   ...I know this first hand, unfortunately. These tiny bases become immune to assaults and even if you do capture the lossess are horrible.

Maybe you could do a quick fix in CenPac by bringing in troops from Philippines??? Not that far away and could make all the diffrence in Iwo Jima/Bonin's??? Just a though than you could transfer some of those troops back there from South Pacific? Kind of an swap so to speak since I don't see Rob hopping into Luzon near future. Taking into account that he is about to get clobbered at DEI big time!

Oh... and Rob get too ambitious some times.. He has messed a lot of things in our game already by being too aggressive.

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/24/2007 9:38:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yes i know, its how he lost his carriers at Canton and he nearly mucked up his PM landing.

But that same trait can make his advances very quick and devastating.

What troops in the Philippines? Luzon is empty apart from some base forces at Lingayen. Getting reinforcements in would be very hard anyway with his carriers. I've got no ground unit reserve, like i said im slowly evacuating the gilberts but they're all headed to the Marinias as unless his carriers appearing is just a raid Iwo and Bonin will fall by next week.

Its been what, a month snice he assualted wake? Even if i did have huge ground unit reverses, Marcus and Iwo would have still have fallen, i cant be expected to have 500-1000 assualt points at Iwo Jima in late 1943 can i?

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RE: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1943-19... - 3/24/2007 9:42:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Another thing, there was no cap at Marcus, where his transports are presumably loading, i had a long range betty strike from Tokyo, unfortunately KB is now West off Iwo and i cant charge in to prevent invasion.

Things arent going my way.

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