brian800000
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I'm trying to upload a picture of the VP screen, but it says the picture is too large (never tried this before). Essentially, my plan was to try to hold Java and Palembang. No reinforcements would go to Singapore or the PI, but I wouldn't try to evac those bases either (they could be a buffer while I fortified Java and Palembang). I kept two AS's in Manila as long as possible to keep cycle times on subs short, as well as AMs to keep Manila harbor clear (this was very farsighted). Singapore would also be a major sub base, with very short cycle times for subs to attempt to intercept troops to Malaya. These took a terrible toll on unescorted AI convoys. When I discovered that the AI was using lightly escorted convoys, I started using destroyers off of Borneo (iniitially I was going to hold my fleet back until carriers arrived for the massive battle for Java/Palembang), which ended up costing me some DDs but also picked off a few invasion groups. The Vildebeasts at Singapore as well as 2 PT squadrons I moved there took a horrible toll on the invasion forces (subs did damage too). For a while it looked like Singapore might fall. But the AI move all its troops into Singapore, and so some of the wrecked remnants I had outside of Singapore were able to march into Jahore Bahru and cut the AI off. Eventually they got pushed out, but the AI forces in Singapore lost supply for a while. I then loaded Palembang with as many Dutch bombers as it can hold without overstacking and have been hammering the ground units in Singapore ever sense. The AI seems to want to set up an airfield at Jahore Bahru, but I'm preventing that with most of my B17s stationed at Batavia keeping that airfield closed. I have total air superiority over Singapore. In other regions, the AI took Luganville briefly (and very early on--this may have been the AI strategic focus), but got murdered doing so. Through a odd bit of timing, their invasion went off when I had 4 US carriers in the area (some were in transit to Batavia as it hadn't occured to me to use the CT route). My carrier forces slaughtered the invasion forces, followed up by a strong SC TF. I probably sank 50-60 AKs and AKLs in the fight--many loaded with troops. They took the base, but I struck back landing 2 aussie divisions against a very outmanned Japanese base force. The AI also landed 2 times on Canton Is. with significant carrier support--but I have a regiment at the base and the AI seems incapable of dealing with that, so both attacks failed. They also tried a VERY ill advised attack on Pearl Harbor in April, and I think I sent 2 CVLs and a couple of CAs down without so much as an airstrike against PH launching. Finally, the AI in April tried to attack Java. I have about 2500 AV on the island, and it is now protected by 4 carriers (3 british including the Hermes, 1 American), 2 BBs and a number of cruisers and destroyers. They did launch carrier attacks on Batavia, but my air forces shredded the attacks. Their actual invasion force was completely uncovered, and was a predictable massacre (over 50k casualties). In Burma, I decided not to try to defend it after the initial reinforcement convoy got hit by LBA. I sent most of my units to Rangoon for a last stand and a minimal garrison force to Mandalay. Enemy troops showed up in January in Pegu, and I'm sure they could have taken Rangoon (and maybe still could), but they just sat there. 1 Japanese division moved North and took much of Burma, and entered Mandalay. They could have wiped me out--I had well under 100 AV there--but instead they just sat there. I put a bunch of bombers in Chittagong to bomb it daily, and eventually it was destroyed. No ground combat ever occurred.
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