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27 August - 6/21/2007 12:35:14 AM   
moses

 

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Nanomea Island: Typical!!!!! My massive battleship force takes its time and bombards the morning after my ground assault. You can guess the result. Jwilkersons gets a couple CV's to the area and the bright side of my day is when he attacks my BB's at range 5. Those pilots got a lot of hits but the 500 lb bombs just bounce off. My flak kills 10 planes.

So now I'm running away with everything and will try and see if I can evacuate my troops. By air at first and if the CV's decide to go elsewhere maybe by fast transport. But why wouldn't the CV's stick around for a while. It's not like I have any carriers.

Thus concludes probably the most botched operation in WITP history. Those who hoped that Jwilkerson would do some work on the AI can forget it. I'm making the AI look pretty smart.

Burma: I take heart in the performance of my P40E's which fight the Tonies over Akyab and kill 8 Tony's for 9 P40E's. A few more Tony's are killed on the groundd when my B17's hit but its pilots not planes that matter. Next turn my heavies will go in alone. I don't have enough P40's to send them in every day.

China: 7 Japanese units advance adjacent to Homan where I have only 6 Corps. (A bunch are in the countryside surrounding Ichang. I don't know if Japan is serious here or not, but to be safe I've got 7 corps adjacent to the Homan rail line at about 20 to 40 movement points. So I can reinforce if needed. Homan is at fort level 9 so it should hold for a while.

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RE: 27 August - 6/21/2007 3:57:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just to let you know in my PBEM, currently Feb 44, I made mistakes due to ignorance of the game system, lack of knowledge of my opponent,
and just bad judegement. This cost me almost 7 divisions, 9 BB/BC, and 2 CV's plus numerous others by 10/42 and he had conquered all of chinea except 4 bases, had been repulsed barly from India, and he controlled all the DEI, Noumea, Fiji, Pago, I had recaptured Baker and just barley held on after his counter invasion (barly holding on meant he shifted since I invaded noumea at the same time to defend noumea, thus destroying almost completly 5 division I had landed there). We also had PDU on, and since I never had played AI past 7/42 , nor a previous PBEM (I had game only 2 months exp with this game, but am experiance gamer of 35yrs) I was also surprised and depressed at the power of the tonies in burma, his dominance of land and sea. I turtled till 8/42 then launched my counteroffensive with corsairs, Hellcats and newly rebuilt CV's it takes a year to recover the divisions at least. Since that time I have recaptured many islands have fought the marianas turkey shoot, and now can sail around at will, with logistics of supply and transport my largest concerns at the moment.

My opponent is highly skilled and competant, What I am saying is if one doesn't keep throwing oneself at the Japanese, but instead build a big Hammer, in a year or less Wilkinson will be on the wrong side of the stick. I have much respect for both of your abilities and I have hats off to what he achieved, but the allied economics even with PDU on, outweighs the Japanese advantage, as long as you build up an unstoppable force,
then mount what I call a rolling invasion. I failed early, doing worse things then you, and have recovered, the strategy was boring yes, glamorous no, depressing yes, but it paid off and when my rebuilt forces finally meet his, it was the marianas turkey shoot almost
to a tee, just off the PI, and 9 Japanese CV's went under in a day, to no sinkings on my side.

So in the end, the game is not unbalanced and as many have stated the Japanese have to play a perfect game to the allies allowed many
bad judgement calls, My opponenent only has made 1 or 2 mistakes, but they where very costly, I have had many and have recovered.

Thus, take heart, your not the worst PBEM (I did worse but it wasn't an AAR game) and you will recover.

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31 August - 6/21/2007 6:36:10 PM   
moses

 

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Status: offline 		Tks Stldiver. Nice to know there's hope'

31 August: For the month I kil 259 A6M2 zero's, 32 A6M3, 61 Oscars, 45 Tony's and 5 Tojo's. A total of 402 fighters. I probably won't do as well next month as he has better aircraft now and my totals were helped by a carrier battle that I don't want to repeat.

Namonea: I am evacuating my NZ BDE by air as there is no chance of success while his carriers are sitting about. The entire eastern offensive is a failure but at least its winding down.



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6 Sept - 6/22/2007 8:31:51 PM   
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This is my last entry for a while as I am headed on a cruise to Alaska. The game will go on break till 7 July.

We are now in what looks like a long period of static attrition. Japan has shown no indications that they intend to invade anywhere and with my carrier force consisting of 2 damaged carriers at San Fransico and two small British carriers in the Indian Ocean, I don't think I'll be launching any major offensives in the Pacific.

China: We are having quite an active period with lots of fighting around Ichang. The Japanese forces are surrounded for the moment but probably not that worried. To break my blockade of Ichang Japan will have to send some more divisions into the countryside. He probably doesn't want to do this because once you get troops off road they have a tendancy to get stuck in place. moving 5 miles per day with the possibility of your movement getting halted any time I send a division into their hex.

So if he sends 5 or 6 divisions off road this opens things up for say my 10 Corps sitting at Homan or my 20 Corps still sitting on the rail in the Changsa area. Right now he has a large force sitting opposite Homan (on the rail) and significant forces holding Wuhan and Nanchang. As long as he maintains this deployment he is safe from most disasters but Ichange will remain cut off.

Burma: My goal now is just to kill pilots. The Tony's don't look invincible. My P40E's seem to get a 1 to 1 kill ratio and when I send my heavy bombers they also kill some pilots in the air before killing a bunch of planes on the ground. I'm not winning but I am stressing his pilot training program in preparation for my P38's which arrive in about 24 days. I did pull off a nice ambush in china with my I15/16 killing about 20 Nates in air-to-air combat. To me thats a Tony group that just had its training program set back over a month.

Carriers: In 4 months I will have a token carrier force. I will recieve one Essex class carrier and 5 CVE/CVL's by that time. Plus my two carriers at San Fransisco should be repaired by then. Until then KB doesn't even have to mass it forces. It can do pretty much whatever it pleases. Thats a long time to be nearly defenceless.


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18 Sept - 7/11/2007 8:56:13 PM   
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I'm back from Alaska and have let the game run for a while but I guess I should update.

But not a lot to say. Continuous low-level fighting continues in China but nothing decisive appears imminant.

Burma: I work on his Tony's and Tojo's. They are not invincible. My P40's fall a little short of 1-1 kill ratio's in the air but then I hit quite a few fighters on the ground. So I think at least I'm keeping his pilots from training up too much. I moved a 4E bomber unit here from Austrailia and it will be ready for its first mission over Burma in 2 to 4 days. I plan to fly my first Mass raid on Akyab. I'll have 3-4E groups and 4 big groups of B25/26. My main problem continues to be a shortage of long range fighters. But P38's start arriving in 12 days.

Alaska: I sight 6 CV's in the area. Not sure what he's up to. Maybe he will try and take Adak Island.

General: Currently I have no significant carrier force so offensive ops are pretty much out of the question. Japan has the capability to attack but has so far shown no inclination. So for the moment we just spar.

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RE: 18 Sept - 7/11/2007 10:23:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the update, Moses. I'm pretty new to WitP and when I signed on I began following just a few AAR's - those for your game; those for the game between John and Cap Mandrake, and those for the game between Speedy and Admiral Dadman. All three went quiet at the same time and for several weeks, leaving me with little to read! I'm glad you're back from vacation.

By the way, in Uncommon Valor I frequently experienced catastrophic losses of my American CVs (including a couple of games against John 3rd). I discovered that in UV the Americans forces become so powerful that carrier anhiliation didn't prevent victory. Have you played WitP enough to know if the same holds true? (Probably so). Good luck on the long road to victory.

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RE: 18 Sept - 7/11/2007 10:51:38 PM   
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My vacation stoped us for a while and since my carriers are gone there is not as much day-to-day info to write about so I decided not to bore everyone with the details of slow attrition warfare.

I have recovered from the depression that results from losing carriers en mass. I am beginning to look at resuming offensive operations in Burma fairly soon. My production of good long range fighters triples in 12 days. Currently I get 50 P40's per month. But on Oct 1 I add 100 P38's per month. I bringing over another 72 plane P40 group from Austrailia which should help. With 3 4E bomber groups and tons of other bombers I should be in full control by Dec.

I won't have a significant carrier force for some time. This makes things difficult in the Pacific. But I do start getting my B24D groups very soon which might make him think twice about getting too aggressive.

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22 Sept - 7/12/2007 5:11:34 PM   
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Burma:A big day at Akyab at over 200 bombers hit the airbase there supported by about 100 fighters. 73 Tony's/Tojo's die and 2 of my 4E bombers don't even attack. A lot of those losses were on the ground but 22 were air-to-air losses vs. 15 of my P40's. (I also lost some lessor fighters like my Brewsters) But I'm killing pilots at a good rate. Akyab is closed but he will probably still be flying LRC over it and so it will be pounded again next turn.

Alaska: One of his VVE's gets a little cute and moves to within 4 hexes my forward base there. 3 SBD's (yeah just three attack) They meet and fly right through about 20 zero's. They actually get a shot at the carrier......and miss. The SBD's are trying to earn their keep. A week back they hit the BB Mutsu with 3 1000 lb bombs. Not a single one penetrated. I just need some luck here!!

P38's in 8 days.

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30 Sept - 7/14/2007 7:41:46 PM   
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Made it through a difficult month and I think I have weathered the challange of the Tony/Tojo combo pretty well. The last turn was a big day for me as I took out 23 fighters in air-to-air for a cost of 10 of my P40's. For the month I killed 345 Japanese fighters which is 3 more then the previous month. On the downside a larger proportion of these were destroyed on the groun which kills few pilots.

Next month should see improvement. I have another big P40 group coming to Burma and my P38's are available next turn. October should be a transition month in the air war. By November I hope to be in complete control and will resume my land offensive.

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RE: 30 Sept - 7/14/2007 7:51:23 PM   
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RE: 30 Sept - 7/15/2007 11:31:00 AM   
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Re your post of 11 July, just letting you know that I too read your AAR.

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RE: 30 Sept - 7/15/2007 11:31:54 AM   
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Re your post of 11 July, just letting you know that I too read your AAR.

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6 Oct: - 7/15/2007 5:42:00 PM   
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I sight Jwilkerson sending a bunch of surface ships to Akyab. So this turn I set all my heavies for naval attack. Over 150 heavy bombers hit his ships which are protected by a pitance of CAP (9 Tony's). 6 DD's get hit with one going down immediately.

Latly I've actually been damaging his ships a little as I've hit a few CL's up in the area of Alaska. My LBA is starting to ramp up.

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8 Oct - 7/15/2007 7:27:20 PM   
moses

 

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Status: offline 		8 Oct: I formed my first 24 plane P38 group today!!

In addition It looks like I may be able to do some upgrades of low quality fighters and thereby gain 72+ P36 Mohawks which can then swap out with one of the P40B groups in the south Pacific. Bottom line is that I will shortly have 72 replacements for the 2 big P40B groups in Burma.

Also it seems my P40E's from Austrailia will arrive at Columbo India in 5 or 6 days without incident. This will give me 2 big 72 plane groups.

So bottom line is that in under two weeks I should have 4 big 72 plane P40 groups and two small P38 groups ready for action in Burma. In combination with my massive bomber force and some lessor fighters I plan to put some serious hurt on his air force before the month is out.

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16 Oct: - 7/18/2007 7:07:54 PM   
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Air War: I'm ready to go at it in Burma. 72 P40E's, 120 P40B's and 24 P38G's will escort over 200 4E bombers and about the same number of 2E bombers against Akyab. Japan has probably 100 fighters there. He flys them at about 50% CAP so that my recon has been finding 50 fighters over the area each day.

I have another 72 plane group getting ready at Columbo which will join the fight in about 4 to 6 days. I also have about 25 P40E's and over 30 P38G's in the pool.

This will be an all out attempt to break his Burma air force. I will hit Akyab for as long as he defends it. Then I will shift to Pagan and Mandelay. I don't think he will be able to handle 300 first line fighters supporting heavy bombers.

On the ground I have sent two good indian divisions from Ledo toward Mytnkia(sp). Small Chines forces have been moving from China toward Mytnkia for about two weeks and intend to slowkly infiltrate through the wooded terrain in order to maintain pressure on the area.

So Jwilkerson will soon have a choice:

He can fight in the air over Burma. I don't know how he will do as he losses experienced pilots. If he fights I expect to kill over 500 planes in the next 14 days. Maybe 250 in the air. Can he sustain that.
Or he can pull his fighters back to the Rangoon area at some point. Then my bombers will pound his ground troops without mercy. In the meantime my fighters will have an excellent training area which I will use to the fullest.

We will see what happens tomorrow.

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RE: 16 Oct: - 7/18/2007 7:50:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		he will probably do what jap players have to do... Bend and retreat, an try a trap once in a while... so as to force you to keep your fighters on escort duty, etc.. If he accepts frontal attritional battle, it would be a big mistake...

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RE: 16 Oct: - 7/18/2007 8:11:31 PM   
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Once I get control though I will be in good shape. I will be able to do ground attack missions with mass bombers. This causes great casualties to the ground troops. Plus my fighters can gain experience with safe missions.

The last thing he wants is my P38's training up to level 80/90 by escorting ground attacks.

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RE: 16 Oct: - 7/18/2007 8:14:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		IIRC they don't get experience by escorting ground attacks past 60 or something, it is either fighting or ground attacking that gains experience...

As a jap what you have to do is let the Allies get into a rythm, become less vigilant, strike, and then go away, rinse repeat.. it will work sometimes..

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RE: 16 Oct: - 7/18/2007 8:54:52 PM   
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ORIGINAL: moses

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Air War: I'm ready to go at it in Burma. 72 P40E's, 120 P40B's and 24 P38G's will escort over 200 4E bombers and about the same number of 2E bombers against Akyab. Japan has probably 100 fighters there. He flys them at about 50% CAP so that my recon has been finding 50 fighters over the area each day.



I would bet he´s flying his fighters at 90% cap, he just doesn´t get more into the air. If you have recon about 100 fighters and see 90 in the air then it must be an Allied base with radar. Perhaps you can ask your opponent how the cap setting really was after the attack. I have yet to see 90% of the fighters in the air as a Japanese player in many years.

In my games I have 300 fighters at Rangoon (which is unrealistic enough) and then mostly see around 100 in the air.


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RE: 16 Oct: - 7/18/2007 9:27:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		We're both playing with tactics.

If you put 90% CAP then it works well if defending agaianst a single strike. But say my first strike is some BS sweep by the 16 Brewsters that I will be sending in. Then all you're aircraft take off and cream those 16 Brewsters. The problem is you're fighters are then tired for the next FOUR strikes that I send in with good fighters.

So my first group of P40's hits and gets 1-1 kills in the air. But now you're guys are really tired. They have flown 2 missions now and lost some on the ground probably. The next three missions of mine go in and get very good kill ratio's due to the fact that the defending fighters are exhausted.

The idea of 50 % CAP is that you're aircraft remain more rested. Is it better???? I don't know. It's one of those tactical issues that none of us can really get a fix on.

But I'm seeing about twice as many planes with my recon as I see in the air. (When I move my curser over the airfield I'll see 100 fighters, but when my recon aircraft do their thing in the combat phase I'll see 50 fighters.) So I'm guessing that he's putting about 50% CAP. My recon might be crap of course. But thats what I am seeing.

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18 Oct - 7/19/2007 2:17:59 AM   
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Burma: He loses 56 Tony's and 20 zero's. (19 and 11 in air-to-air respectively) The rest on the ground. I lose 45 front line fighters. Not too bad.

He appears to have withdrawn form Akyab. I will hit it again next turn. He may still be covering it with LRCAP and if not it will be a nice training mission.

China: A long battle around Ichang appears to have resolved itself. I had encircled his forces at Ichange in order to try and gain some type of advantage. This became a dangerous strategy when I discovered that I didn't have enough supply to support my troops out in the countryside.

Jwilkerson had an opportunity to really hurt me as a bunch of my Corps had no supply at all!!!! I've now managed to pull these guys all back to Homan where I now have a very large force. Some of these units still have zero supply but I'm expecting they will get a shipment soon. (I have 43,000 sp at Chungking--so something should ship eventually).

Jwilkerson has some armored units near Homan which may try to encircle me there. If he moves fast he may be able to accomplish something while I'm still recovering supply. But I'd doubt he will move. He doesn't know about the difficulties I'm having and he is probably having similar difficulties of his own.

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22 Oct - 7/19/2007 7:58:43 PM   
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Over the last two turns (4 days) Japan has lost 90 more front line fighters. So I count 166 fighters in the last 6 days. His numbers in the air over Burma droped in the last day allowing me to get better then 1-1 fighter kill ratio's. Most of these kills have come in the air which means lots of dead pilots.

My recon detected his fighters back at Akyab. This surprises as the airfield still shows 76 pts of damage. But no matter. Akyab is my easiest target and if he is willing to fight me there I will take the safe kills. I still have a P40 group in reserve so I can keep this up for at least another 6 days before I have to rest my P40's.

Long term I intend to upgrade the AVG to P38's and send them to China. Currently I only have one 24 plane P38 group fighting in Burma. But I have 50+ P38's in the pool so the AVG upgrade is not far off.

He is still flying Nates in China. 72 P38's should be able to wreak havoc with these guys. His pilot training program will take quite a hit if I can pull off a couple turkey shoots over China.

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26 Oct - 7/22/2007 6:28:23 PM   
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The war of attrition continues. So far this month I've killed 298 front line fighters. Not quite as much as I'd hoped but it looks like I will exceed last months 345. More important a higher percentage of kills have been in the air which I'm pretty sure kills more pilots.

Jwilkerson has pulled most of his Tony's back except for a group at Mandalay which I will hit next turn. So for the last four days I've been fighting zero's and the weather.

China: My troops at Homan finally draw supply which is a big relief. Japan has assembled a huge armor force which is sitting in the countryside SW of Homan. (one hex off the rail). We're talking an armored division and 5 armored regiments. My recon shows over 1300 AFV!!!

I'm still a little worried that this force will try and cut in behind Homan. Now that my Homan force is supplied I think that I can deal with this but I'm not certain. If he tries to bypass Homan and go straight for Sien he could just possibly take the city by storm. Or he could end up with his entire armored force cut off and surrounded. So I'm sitting tight for now and will react to whatever he does.


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30 Oct - 7/24/2007 12:11:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		30 Oct: I continue what must be by now the most boring AAR on record. But what can I do. With only one good carrier, (remember the Saratoga--it was damaged early in the war near Rabaul but is now finally repaired) what can I do. I certainly am not going up agianst his half million CV's!!!

In the air I killed 383 front line fighters-up from 345 last month. Plus a much greater percentage of these were air-to-air kills. So I just have to be hurting him. But it is strange to me that even at this stage he is grossly outproducing me in good fighters.

For the next month I have some pidling offensives planed in Alaska and along the Pacific perimeter. These may or may not go off depending on where his carriers pop up. In the meantime I will try shoot for 400 front line fighters next month while sending some P38's to China to try and kill abunch of those pilots flying the Nates.

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RE: 30 Oct - 7/24/2007 12:17:22 PM   
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The aim of the exercise is to win the war, not produce an exciting AAR and in the process allow the forces of darkness to triumph.

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RE: 30 Oct - 7/24/2007 4:12:07 PM   
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RE: 30 Oct - 7/24/2007 6:51:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well eventually I will prevail. But it will be slow going for a while.

On the naval side I will have a token force (3 CV's and 3 or 4CVL/CVE) in about two months. Against the current Japanese carrier force this fleet will still have no hope. But maybe by using it in areas where I have heavy LBA I might be able to run a few safe missions with my carriers.

I could invade some islands without carriers. It's easily possible to load 20 DD's with fast transport and start taking some of the islands around the perimeter. The problem is how to hold them. Japan can just let me take the island and then KB will arrive with ample infantry to destroy the forces that I have delivered up on a plate.

In fact I'm lucky that Jwilkerson has apparently decided not to launch further attacks. Were I playing John III I can guarantee he would be systematically taking all my remaining pacific islands.

So whats left???

In the south pacific I plan to launch some attacks on his advanced recon bases. These are defended with only SNLF's and should be able to be taken quickly. Possibly They can be taken and I can evacuate my forces before KB arrives.

In Alaska he has left one undefended Island. (Starts with an 'O') that I plan to take soon. My transports are already loaded and I have quite a bit of LBA which can hopefully fend off his small carrier force in the area. Then I dig in and wait to see what he does. To retake it he will have to fight a lot of LBA and my BB's might find some play there.

In the air I continue to attrit him. I am now shifting forces to China. 3 or 4 groups of Hurricane/Spitfires are en-route and my big P38AVG group will be ready soon. Then I will try and destroy his training program. He flys 3 or 4 hundred Nates daily on training runs against my troops in China. I assume he then rotates them with his Tony groups. Either that or by now he has the best trained Nate pilots in the world.

Since I have been destroying quite a few Tony groups each turn I assume that quite a bit of rotation is now occuring. In fact I've noticed a slight downturn in China attacks as I assume his units are upgrading to Tony's and moving to Burma. At the same time Tony units from Burma are downgrading to Nates and moving to China for training. (There are no Tony's/zero's/Tojo's in China at all.)

So I will keep pounding in Burma for as long as I can. I'm running out of P40's but I want to keep him churning his fighter force. Then my China air offensive will kick in. (I suspect around 10-15 Nov. Hundreds of Nate pilots will die and perhaps this will disrupt his training efforts.




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1 Nov - 7/27/2007 6:36:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		1 Nov: There has been a short pause in the game as Jwilkerson had a bussiness trip to attend to.

Burma: A massive furball over Akyab. 56 Tony's go down-48 in air to air. I lose about the same number of P40's. Basically I lost a month of P40 production in 2 days. As he is probably producing 200+ Tony's per month I cannot suustain this much longer. Akyab looks to be out of action for the next turn so perhaps I can rest my fighters a little.

China: His huge Armor force (1 Armor Division and 7 regiments!!!!) Advances all the way to Sien!!! Japan has blown a couple of my Corps away in the open terrain and has used the pursue option to gain ground. At the moment his armor force seems to be a bit dispersed. Recon shows only one element in Sien and 2 on the rail between Sien and Homan. The rest are still out in the countryside.

I have to wonder at his supply situation as well. I have a couple small units cutting his most direct supply routes. So he has to draw supply overland through Ichang and then west across country. I'll try and shock attack that unit out of Sien this turn and I will send some troops north from Homan to secure the rail.

It's possible that I can do some real damage to his armor. But I am also worried that my force in Homan might get cut off. That would be very bad.

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Air War: Over 4 days another 52 zero's and 11 Tony's go down against 12 P40's. Of course I lose a bunch of lessor fighters so I'm not getting 6-1 kill ratio's. I don't worry about bomber losess or F4F's. (I have lots of these in the pool--506 F4F's for example). Same with Kittyhawks, dutch aircraft, and pretty much anything other then P40's. Overall though we are losing aircraft at about a 1-1 ratio.

I've switched AVG to P38's and it is in Chungking now repairing. 3 Hurricane and 2 Spitfire groups are also now in China. These short range fighters have sat idle all war. I never have any targets within their range and Jwilkerson never bombs the bases that these fighters defend. So to get some use out of these I will try China.

So once AVG is ready I will use all these along with my Chinese fighters to try and execute 100 or so Nate pilots.

China: The situation has clarified as I clear the road to Homan of the 3 tank regiments that were in my way. Japan decided it had better clear up its rear area and sent the bulk of its armor to the rear and retreated the small units that I had disruptin his supply. One highlight is that my in my attack to clear Sien I set one of my units to pursue. The Japanese regiment was retreated on the first day and it went across the river. On the second day my pursuing unit crossed the river and automaticlly shock attacked and won easily. The Japanese unit was retreated 120 miles across a river in two days!!!

Alaska: My offensive here is set to go with all troops loaded on ships in Ankorage. Unfortunately he has a bunch of carriers and a large surface force camped out at Kiska. I could go in anyway I suppose and try to cover the attack with LBA. I have about 100 good fighters up there and it might not be so bad. But I'm going to wait a bit and see if they clear out.

Further south I have bombardment missions against Baker island and against his advanced recon base between Luganville and Lunga. Maybe this will attract the interest of his carriers and he will leave Alaska for a while.


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RE: 5 Nov - 7/28/2007 9:46:48 PM   
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ORIGINAL: moses
The Japanese unit was retreated 120 miles across a river in two days!!!


I can't even run that fast!

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