Slitherine

quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Sorry guys...very little time and a turn to send...can i air bomb enemy units that landed at Tulagi with my 4Es from Ndani? I cannot sweep Tulagi, i know...but can i bomb them or the system won't allow me?...

thx

quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy
ONLY THE BRAVES!!!!!!!!!! HURRAH!!!!

quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy
ONLY THE BRAVES!!!!!!!!!! HURRAH!!!!

Baseball fans in Georgia join in this sentiment even while realizing what you actually meant...

quote:

ORIGINAL: House Stark

Rader doesn't seem to do half measures. If you can threaten somewhere else decently important and far away, maybe you can make him burn a lot more fuel as he ships hundreds of thousands of troops and entire fleets across the map, preferably over a line of you subs. He really can't have that much fuel in reserve, can he?

quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Am i able to Naval Bombard enemy units landed at Tulagi?

quote:

Or i can just send SCTFs to sweep the enemy transports?

quote:

ORIGINAL: House Stark

Greyjoy,
First of all, I'd like to say that this has been one of my favorite AARS so far. I'm an AE newb with eventual Allied PBEM ambitions, so I'm watching this closely to learn as much as possible. So I'm going to throw a couple thoughts out there, but that they might very well be horribly wrong.

1) For all that's gone horribly wrong, as people have said you have had two major successes: the holding of Karachi and excellent kill ratios against the Japanese air forces, and the preservation of you're carriers. Imagine what Rader might have done with his navy if you're carriers were out of the picture; or maybe you rather wouldn't.

2) The constant air combat is keeping your pools drained, but is probably keeping his experienced pilot pool drained as well. He has planes, and you have pilots. If you can maintain a good kill ratio until you get good planes, then he might start to be in trouble. Coupled with the fact that if you can retake some of the Indian industry he might begin to lose the ability to manufacture so many aircraft. At the very least, he surely will have less obsolete aircraft to turn into kamikazes later.

3) He clearly has the fuel to move entire armies and fleets across halfway across the map at will, but can he really have that much of a fuel reserve?


4) What's your situation in northern Australia? Do you know how his naval search/attack capabilities are in his resource routes? He clearly has powerful ASW, but could you take advantage of the 2 day turns to send in small destroyer TFs into the Java Sea, or Kuriles, or somewhere? Experienced posters seem to think his air force must be spread thin. If most of his planes outside of India/SWPAC are ASW/Search, could a small surface force maybe get through to hit a convoy, or at the very least force him to withdraw bombers to defend against such raids?

Keep up the good work, even if you're barely holding now, imagine how you'll be doing once you get more stuff to play with.

quote:

ORIGINAL: ADB123

quote:

ORIGINAL: House Stark

Rader doesn't seem to do half measures. If you can threaten somewhere else decently important and far away, maybe you can make him burn a lot more fuel as he ships hundreds of thousands of troops and entire fleets across the map, preferably over a line of you subs. He really can't have that much fuel in reserve, can he?

What would be "decently important"? It would be much more important for Radar to shoot over anywhere and wipe out more ill-prepared invasions.

Radar likely has more than enough fuel to wander around the Pacific several times over because he has conquered so much of Asia.

Right now, every ship, plane and LCU that Radar destroys means that a serious Allied counterattack is delayed even more. That's the huge risk in sending off Allied forces to isolated bases when the Japanese still have a major combat capability.

Look at the situation in PNG and the Eastern Solomons. What has it gained Greyjoy to have sent his troops there? He is in the process of losing incredibly valuable forces at almost no cost to Radar except for some fuel and supplies.

Radar will get excess Supplies out of China and India that he can send to the big DEI oil bases to repair the refineries and oil fields. This will give him even more fuel. And Greyjoy can't do anything about that.

Until Greyjoy can defeat the KB, every time he sends forces out to isolated bases he risks losing his forces to overwhelming Japanese counterattacks. And even if he hangs on, his forces are then trapped.

Allied players can't afford to waste their forces in 1942 and in early 1943, because that will push the Allied ability to field credible threats into 1944.

There are plenty of places and ways to plan out the Allied counterattack, but random invasions in the hopes of "scaring" an opponent are not the way to do it and essentially just don't work in AE.

quote:

ORIGINAL: witpqs

quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Am i able to Naval Bombard enemy units landed at Tulagi?

Yes.

quote:

Or i can just send SCTFs to sweep the enemy transports?

Yes to that, too.


Something else to keep in mind for other times. It is quite likely that you did not see when his troops actually started marching from Buna. FOW extends quite well to on-map icons and very often you do not see movement on icons that are, in fact, moving.

quote:

ORIGINAL: Saros

How far is he positioning the KB from the landing sites? Would it be possible to move your CV's into range to strike at the landings on day1 then retire day2 before the KB gets a shot at you?

quote:

As you remember, on the 1st Jan 1943 140k japanese marched out on Buna, taking the Owen Stanley route.
In 12 days of marching they reached PM in a very good shape, despite having suffered 2 days of bombings by 70 Allied bombers taking off from Cairns.
On the 13th 50k japanese delivered the first fist on the undersupplied and badly distrupted 2nd Aus Corp, composed by the 27th U.S. Division and the 87th NZ Bde, supported by 2 Artillery units. 3 level of fortifications crumbled down on the first assault.
On the 14th the fate of the PM defensors was already written. 13,000 allied are sent to POWs camp in Luzon and 3 Japanese armies were already able to march back towards Buna.

What really surprise me is the fact that Rader was been able to march on one of the possible worst terrain in the whole pacific with the equivalent of 7 Divisions in making 90 miles in less than 2 weeks!...