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(she doesn't understand nor like games...especially THIS game...)

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I hope GreyJoy's girlfriend realizes she has interrupted this fascinating AAR about Japan rampaging across half the world and possibly preparing to cross the LOD.  He better get back home and resume the game soon. 

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ORIGINAL: Nemo121

You should take the redo. This misunderstanding on the first two days of the offensive has allowed him to break your back. It'll still happen but you are very foolish if you don't force a redo.

I think it strange this happened at the start of a large aerial offensive. Planes don't set themselves to 25,000 feet.

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ORIGINAL: dekwik

Don't forget, he still has to conquer Karachi and you have a lot of AV there. Once he crosses the LOD you add the Waziristan Div for another 300AV.

Supplies at Karachi may be the biggest problem long term. Have you drawn everything there already?

Do you have any activity planned in the South Pac that Rader will care about? I doubt it. And even if you do he gets to use the Netty defence.

So how about bringing the cavalry to take back Diego Garcia? It's quite a hike, but 30-40 days or so from now (?)an amphib convoy lands there from the worm hole, with the CV's one hex behind. If you bring the kitchen sink you'll quickly have a great airbase, minefields etc.60,000 troops, 5 Port and 6 airbase potential. Now Rader has to cover two mice with his KB cat. If you can combine a timely relief convoy for Karachi it makes his blockade much more difficult.

It's time for your Winston Churchill speech to India. Great AAR by the way.

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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

I agree plus you get a lot of force when he crosses the line - an Armoured Div, 5 Inf Divs, Corps HQ, Corps Engr Regt and a special convoy with a full Div set of replacement arty, and equivalent to 4 Bdes worth of Infantry replacements (if it was post the data patch) you also get 72 Hurricanes, 72 Spitfires, 36 Vengeance, 72 Wellingtons and 24 Catalinas.

The Spits are Spit VIII's not Vc's so just make sure you somehow get them in the air with decent pilots and watch his losses increase....

Do not underestimate the CP cost if he donest garrison his LOC in India a lot of the bases he has captured will need a full Div to garrison e.g. Calcutta and Madras both need a Div more or less thats a lot of firepower to tie down in th erear areas

To take Karachi with 500k supply lvl 8 forts and 6,000 AV will require a force of 25+ Divs he simple cannot afford that committment just think it through a single Japanese Div needs about 1,500 supply per month in combat double it so say 3,000 now assume wastage to get to the front and an allowance to repair damaged devices lets say 5,000 supply per month per Div has to arrive that means he needs 100,000 to 150,000 supply per month before taking account of the air force or thefuel he will need and it wont be a quick battle.

So what you need to be doing is sending subs into the bay of bengal to harass his convoys, mining the malacca strait heavily every chance you get, using the RN operating out its secure bases in small TF's of 2 - 3 ships to make him supply from the south coast you need to stretch his logistics tot he limit and keep on hitting it - India is a quagmire for the Japanese in AE hamsting him keep him low on supply and when the timer is reight use those 5+ Divs to land somewhere behind him.

If 6,000 AV cannot hold its not likely 8,000 will so dont commit the forces you are about to get hold them back for your Inchon landing after you have bled him.

Think big how does he get that army back in position if in a years time after he has beld white besieging Karachi you land XXI Indian Corps and I Australian Corps into Sumarte and Georgetown closing the malacca strait at thqat point he is screwed.

He need to finish karacvhi quickly or he is so overextended its game over and he loses

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

GreyJoy, your morale swings are totally consistent with what we'd expect for a fairly new player under great pressure.  But you don't need to be down on yourself nearly as much as you are:

1)  Your air losses have actually be very good for an Allied player in mid 1942 in Scenario Two.  There are experienced Allied players that have been looking at your ratios - even those you've bemoaned over the past six days - and said, "Wow, I wish i could get close to 1:1 against Japan!"  You've bled rader badly through the air.

2)  Rader made a humongous mistake letting you have two months to build and supply at Karachi.  I don't know where the KB at the time, but as we've said before, he should have come for Karachi immediately. 

3)  As a relatively new player, you're probably not seeing the big picture very well.  That's really going to hamper you in any operation in the Bonins, Marshals, etc.  Even if you succeed in such an operation, you may not know how to make use of it effectively, so that rader just isolates your lodgements and comes back to deal with them later when his ships are available.  Taking Iwo Jima and other islands doesn't mean anything if you don't know how to make use of them, your enemy ignores it, and then comes later with overwhelming force to reclaim them.

4)  Before you commit to any operation in the Pacific, you need to ask yourself questions about India.  Must you have your carriers there to thwart rader from imposing an airtight blockade?  It may be too late to be asking yourself this question, but I'd be looking at it from all angles.