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ORIGINAL: fabertong

A bold move my Q-ball and bad luck on your part.........so far in AE......in my experience.......the days of the one sided carrier battle were over......this indicates that may not be true.......

What is the 'Evil Plan' now?........How long do you think can hold out? ........When will I stop asking questions?


btw.....Yours and Q-balls AARs are first class reading.......looking forward to what would appear to be the endgame.

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ORIGINAL: Swenslim

Cutterfish, did you have all your CV's in a single TF ? If yes , you did a very big mistake, because I see a very small number of your planes in first attack. I think more than half of your dive and torpedo bombers simply didnt flew.

Penalty for more than 200 carrier planes works and you should made atleat 2 separate TF.

P.S. If you had separate TF 's in this battle than it very bad luck for you, cause than I dont understand why so few planes attacked.

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ORIGINAL: Miller

Hard luck Cuttlefish, the accuracy of his DB in the first attack is not far off a 50% hit rate.

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My gut feeling after watching the replay was that a big factor affecting the relative accuracy of the opposing forces may have been the heavier and more accurate Allied flak.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Wow, Cuttlefish, what a fight!  Your guys did very well - though missing that one golden opportunity against the Wasp/Essex TF is certainly a hair-puller-outer.  I'll bet Q-Ball was "having kittens" (as John III likes to say in these circumstances).  This should force him to move more carefully in the future, which will help you.

In my game with John III I had a combat like this up around the Kuriles.  I guessed right and had an Allied BB/CA TF meet a weakly escorted (only a handful of DDs) IJN carrier force in combat, but the damage inflicted was very slight to my utter dismay.

Nevertheless, having one's carriers undergo surface combat with enemy battleships and cruisers is a tremendously unnerving experience.

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ORIGINAL: John 3rd

CF--Terrible luck in that CV fight. I cannot bring myself to keep more then 3-4 Cvs in a CTF. If a massed raid comes in I only want to lose that many and HOPE to get away with the rest.

Must have been awful to watch!

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ORIGINAL: LoBaron


A few comments:
Is it possible for you to reduce naval ops to a level that you can strech your fuel supplies to the maximum without depending on DEI oil for
at least some time?

Yes indeed. All absolutely non-essential shipping has already been halted. And there's even an upside - Allied sub attacks against Japanese shipping have almost stopped.

Are you already starting to assign specific squads to future kamikaze action? Don´t forget Q-ball could still trigger it early inadvertedly.

Yes, I am training squadrons for intended Kamikaze use. The conditions have already been met for kamikaze activation - Jesselton is exactly 15 sea hexes from Saigon. But kamakizes will not activate before Jan. 1, 1944 regardless.

Any new fighters coming of the production line to at least keep parity in the air against 2nd generation US models? Having Luzon is great for defense, but
only as long as you have something better to stack it with than flying coffins.

This month I get the fabulous Rex! I actually had to look this beast up. It seems to be the floatplane version of the George. I start getting the A6M5 next month and in only two months I begin to receive both the George and the Jack, so better planes are on the way soon. In the meanwhile the A6M2, Tojo IIa, and Oscar IIa will continue to hold the line.

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ORIGINAL: princep01
All the new airframes in the kingdom are of no use without fuel to fly them. However, I just have no idea how long Admiral Cuttlefish can draw things out on reserves and a little domestic and Chinese production.

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ORIGINAL: Menser

Sorry for that massacre of CV's CF. That must have been a tough turn to watch. What LBA assets did you have and how were they dispositioned, and do you think they could have made a difference? (I believe there is a 20% cap limit over CV TF's themselves). I imagine that this helps him choke the south china sea, so I was wondering along with Princep what measures are you going to take to preserve that preciouse HI and feul remaining. I imagine you're need for Merchant ships at this point will be quite low and can turn alot of it off.

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ORIGINAL: cap_and_gown

It is admirable to see you fight on, although it is beginning to resemble the Black Knight. I guess going to the bitter end can teach some lessons about the later parts of the war, although not too late since this is not going to last into 45.

My question would be: what have you learned that you would apply in your next game? What would you do differently?

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ORIGINAL: Miller

I think once the Allies get a toe-hold in the DEI they become almost impossible to dislodge. Therefore I would seriously consider taking all of Northern Austraila as a buffer early as possible in any future game.

There are just too many small bases north of Darwin that can built up into major bases in a matter of weeks, and the Japs dont have enough troops to garrison them all.

Another tip is do not overbuild airbases. It is better to have four or five level 4 sized mutually supporting airfileds than two or three level 6 or 7. Regardless of size, once the Allied 4Es show up it only takes one big raid to close an airbase followed by smaller strikes every other day to keep it closed, I know this from bitter experience!

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ORIGINAL: Panther Bait

Cuttlefish,

Now that the oil/fuel is mostly cut off from the DEI, have you decided on where and how much to defend the South China Sea/Gulf of Siam? I would think Singapore, for example, serves little to no purpose once you can't get oil out of Palembang.

Mike