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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 4:04:54 AM

princep01

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Ser Greyjoy. When you awake on the morrow, I ask you to think on this: Why hurry any attack on the enemy's greatest bastion (Honshu). Enjoy the soften up process. You should be all too familar with that and you have witnessed the effects of a nice, drawn out torment before the ultimate taking. Savor this moment and do not rush headlong, American style, to end the enemy's suffering. Think of all the pain and suffering they have inflicted on you...all the lamentations at home, all the industrial might consumed on building the sinews of war. The LYBs started the fracas, now hold them in a headlock and plummel them most throughly before the coup de grace.

Practice General Nemo's advice and rain fire and explosive from the sky on the homes of your enemies. Watch them melt to gray ash and charred timbers. No need to rush into another landing on what will be heavily defended shores. We are well aware that the bombing campaign has finite limits on how close it can bring you to final victory. However, you have just begun this rain of metal from an aluminum sky of Allied aircraft. Allow them to do their jobs. Let your ground pounders rest, refit and enjoy a few months of relative safety from the storm. Sink his navy, destroy his abilty to challenge you in the air and then bring forth the might of Allied ground /sea/air combat onto the heads of an already defeated foe.

Victory is ours, Ser Greyjoy. Carpe Diem and enjoy the ride through the forum with the laurel wreath upon your brow.

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 6:03:18 AM

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hi GJ,

wrt strat-bombing runs, ime there will always be a few 4E elements that don't ever form up w/ the main raid, they'll dribble in after & take some losses.
this is 'expected behavior', there's nothing you can do about it. but you can adjust your 4E sqn rest-%age to maximize bombers on ops while giving damaged airframes time to repair, while keeping fatigue low. in the face of hvy opposition, well-supplied 4E strat-bombers can only hope to maintain a 50/50 ops/rest rate at best.

& i see your sweeps coming in at various altitudes, ain't it better to try to combine them at equal altitudes? that is, fighters based at a given range from their target (+/- 1 hex) should be assigned to the same altitude.

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 11:15:00 AM

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Japan gets lots of ground reinforcements during the 1944 / 1945 time frame - plus waiting will allow Rader to not only dig in, but bring in additional forces from other areas of the map. Many Japanese LCUs are crap at this point, but still, put enough of them in bad terrain with forts and they will be tough to dislodge.

There is no reason GJ can't do a few things at once - continue to rain death and destruction from the skies, plus capture a few key areas of Honshu as well.

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 2:11:07 PM

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Paullus, I must respectfully disagree.

I would observe the following: First the LYBs have already fortified Honshu rather heavily. Second, there is already a substantial ground presence there. Third, the Allied juggernaut is not a static beast. It too will grow in power during 44-45. It will grow much faster both quantitatively and in quality Fourth: It is mid 44; while the LYBs will also grow, it will not be 1945 before Honshu is industrially a smoking ruin. The girl's basketball team will have little trouble bringing the nation down in 4 months...although they might invite a Marine to escort them thru the rubble. Fifth, why take much risk at all at this point. Rader must expose his CVs to battle within the next few months. The Allied navy only grows relatively more powerful every month. Soon, and probably within the next 3 months, Ser Greyjoy will seek out KB and put it to an end in an uneven battle.

My advise is to prep your invasion force well, sink or seriously attrite the KB, bomb the LYBs into the stone age and then send in the "girls".

"Cry havoc and unleash the dogs of war"

princep Bolton

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 3:55:26 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: princep01

Paullus, I must respectfully disagree.

I would observe the following: First the LYBs have already fortified Honshu rather heavily. Second, there is already a substantial ground presence there. Third, the Allied juggernaut is not a static beast. It too will grow in power during 44-45. It will grow much faster both quantitatively and in quality Fourth: It is mid 44; while the LYBs will also grow, it will not be 1945 before Honshu is industrially a smoking ruin. The girl's basketball team will have little trouble bringing the nation down in 4 months...although they might invite a Marine to escort them thru the rubble. Fifth, why take much risk at all at this point. Rader must expose his CVs to battle within the next few months. The Allied navy only grows relatively more powerful every month. Soon, and probably within the next 3 months, Ser Greyjoy will seek out KB and put it to an end in an uneven battle.

My advise is to prep your invasion force well, sink or seriously attrite the KB, bomb the LYBs into the stone age and then send in the "girls".

"Cry havoc and unleash the dogs of war"

princep Bolton

It is actually..."Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war"

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 4:03:32 PM

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I am pretty sure everywhere in Honshu is going to be crawling with LYB's. At least, if you land at Akita, make sure you take lots of doggie bones.

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 4:05:16 PM

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My best friend growing up had an Akita named Cuda...awesome dog.

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 7:10:42 PM

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Guys, i understand your concerns about a landing right in front of the Emperor's palace door....believe me: i fully feel the same concerns.

At the same time i know i don't wanna simply sit back and bomb. Not only because i think i cannot win this war simply by strat bombing, but also because my opponent, this AAR and you all contributors deserve a game that thrills and suprises untill the very end.
We will roll the dice again very soon.

It's a game after all and we all wanna have fun.

So we're gonna land at Honshu. i'm not saying we're landing tomorrow but not even in 1945. Somewhere in the next few months we'll be able to do so.

Jun 6, 7 1944

We tried a 50 B24Js night raid at Maebashi targetting the a/c factories there (100% moonlight).
The raid was a failure. Despite the good weather the night CAP was stiff and we didn't achieve a single hit...losing 6 bombers.

In SOPAC we sunk some 3 more PBs that were trying to save the Russell Garisson...really don't understand this behaviour of Rader...

In one week we'll start to load the 3 reinforced divisions that will be invading Paramushiro and Onnekotan Jiima.

Tomorrow we'll strat bomb again his Frank Production near Tokyo, while our 2Es will attack Aikia AF, while some minor naval raids will be made at Sadogashima.

Enemy subs spotted near Addak, Seattle and Uruppu....

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 7:13:16 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: jmalter

hi GJ,

wrt strat-bombing runs, ime there will always be a few 4E elements that don't ever form up w/ the main raid, they'll dribble in after & take some losses.
this is 'expected behavior', there's nothing you can do about it. but you can adjust your 4E sqn rest-%age to maximize bombers on ops while giving damaged airframes time to repair, while keeping fatigue low. in the face of hvy opposition, well-supplied 4E strat-bombers can only hope to maintain a 50/50 ops/rest rate at best.

& i see your sweeps coming in at various altitudes, ain't it better to try to combine them at equal altitudes? that is, fighters based at a given range from their target (+/- 1 hex) should be assigned to the same altitude.

hi mate.

All my P-47s are at 36k feet, while P-38s and Corsairs are at 31k...this is due to our HRs that fix the max altitude for fighters at their second best mnvr band.
So i would expect to see a decent mass of P-47s togheder, followed by a mass of Corsairs and P-38s...unfortunately it's not going to happen

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 8:03:04 PM

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GJ, this is totally shooting from the hip rather than anything I've thought out, but would there be value to using Paramushiro Jima as a logistics hub? Dump supplies and fuel there for distribution in theater and thus minimize danger to your SLoC and convoys?

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RE: HOkkaido conquered - 12/14/2011 8:08:46 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Anyway...i keep on having HEAVY synch problems...my replay is always waayyy out... can't find a way to solve this problem...

Hi GreyJoy,

Saw your comment about your synch problems. I'm involved in a PBEM in WitP and it after a turn with synch problems we synchronized our music/sound settings. After I changed one of mine and reran the Combat replay (I'm Allied too) we were in synch again.

Since AE might depend on the same mechanism as WitP it might be worth trying if you haven't already.

Regards
BPRE

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 8:27:50 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

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In SOPAC we sunk some 3 more PBs that were trying to save the Russell Garisson...really don't understand this behaviour of Rader...

He forgot the Emperor's portrait and has to go back and fetch it....

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 8:43:40 PM

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Regarding his actions in the SoPac

Could he be trying to marsikova, or whatever, you by drawing your attention away from the main show?

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 9:04:25 PM

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Regarding his actions in the SoPac

Could he be trying to marsikova, or whatever, you by drawing your attention away from the main show?

I'm with crsutton ... somebody forgot the special autographed version with the registered seal of authenticity from the Franklin mint ..

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 9:10:12 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

It's a game after all and we all wanna have fun.

So we're gonna land at Honshu. i'm not saying we're landing tomorrow but not even in 1945. Somewhere in the next few months we'll be able to do so.

Just wanted to congratulate you on the decision to keep the game exciting.

I would like to recommend an alternate history novel I read many years ago as a primer to your invasion. Can't remember much detail or even if it was a good or bad book, but it IS appropriate to the subject matter at hand:

http://www.amazon.com/Burning-Mountain-Novel-Invasion-Japan/dp/015114978X

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/14/2011 9:33:17 PM

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quote:

In SOPAC we sunk some 3 more PBs that were trying to save the Russell Garisson...really don't understand this behaviour of Rader.

The fragment with the most Support squads is the parent unit. If the parent unit is still on the island, then he cannot rebuild the fragment until he gets enough Support within that unit. Fragment are not allow any rebuilding. So, he is trying to get enough of the Support squads from the unit on Russell to allow the fragment to change over to the parent unit when he recombines the fragments that he has already pulled out.

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 1:25:43 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: pat.casey

quote:

ORIGINAL: cwDeici

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

As a counter to Nemo's push for an out and out offensive against aircraft factories.

Some of those airfields with " a 1000 fighters" look ripe for an attack, maybe an occasional diversion to smash an airbase might find it easier to smash fighters on the ground which may allow your bombers an easier run next day which in turn might see factories hit harder.

At a minimum it keeps rader wondering, there might be some well stocked airbases in a base without/very little industry which he hasnt covered properly.

Is this realistic? Did the US prosecute the war poorly, for it to have ended in 45?

Also, if Rader wants to make silly moves with his navy it should at least be to risk them in a strike against allied carriers (which I'm sure are very well protected and a bad idea to attack). It's -EV too, but a series of naval miracles are probably the most likely shot at survival.

Its Scenario 2, so its not supposed to be realistic, its a ++Japanese scenario.
Additionally, they're playing with PDU on and Japanese production on, both of which let a human player use hindsight to produce only the most effective Japanese airframes in high volume, concentrate research on only the "good stuff" and shift industrial production around to optimize the airforce.

The US, on the other hand, gets the historica in-theatre aircraft arrivals regardless of the situation on the map.

Thanks, I didn't know the specifics of why Scenario 2 was easier for Japan.
Actually though, what I meant was that I was wondering why it took America until 1945 to win with scenario 1, when many Japanese players find difficulty even with Scenario 2.

quote:

At the same time i know i don't wanna simply sit back and bomb. Not only because i think i cannot win this war simply by strat bombing...

I think everything I've heard a lot of people say strongly suggests you can win the game by strat bombing, but hell, I'm ALL for sieging Tokyo! RAWR!

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 1:53:34 AM

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Another tiring partyin night....sorry my friends but i cannot update tonight...just to let you know that We wiped out 2 more Franks factories and we've start to load the first Eastern Kuriles invasion fleet...

Sorry...can't write more tonight...but hell was a funny night!!!

See u on the morrow

Night

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 2:26:22 AM

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Another tiring partyin night....sorry my friends but i cannot update tonight...just to let you know that We wiped out 2 more Franks factories and we've start to load the first Eastern Kuriles invasion fleet...

Sorry...can't write more tonight...but hell was a funny night!!!

See u on the morrow

Night

Ha! Long live shubbery!

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 4:13:48 AM

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Another tiring partyin night....sorry my friends but i cannot update tonight...just to let you know that We wiped out 2 more Franks factories and we've start to load the first Eastern Kuriles invasion fleet...

Sorry...can't write more tonight...but hell was a funny night!!!

See u on the morrow

Night

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Have fun.

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 5:44:37 AM

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Greyjoy knows the movie rights to this AAR won't be worth more than a bad Tom Clancy novel without an invasion of Honshu and ultimately a siege of Tokyo. No way he'd get Cameron to direct, Alec Baldwin to play Rader or Rick Moranis to play himself if he sat back and lobbed 4Es from Hokkaido. Let the games begin!

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 7:03:47 AM

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A quick update before leaving for office.

June 8,9, 10, 11 1944

As said we have finished our job at Utsonimya, taking off what was left of Rader's KI84r production. A bloody run, with nearly 40 4Es lost and some 30 P-47s...but it feels good to have wiped out more than 200 Franks monthly

At the same time our 2Es keep on plastering Aikita.

Now in the 4 bases in northern Honshu there are more than 500k japs massed there...damn it's going to be bloody as hell!!

We're ready to invade Shashukotan. This should be the less defended base in the Kuriles...let's see how it gets.

For the rest nothing much more to be reported...

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Morning Air attack on Akita , at 117,55

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Mosquito FB.VI x 6
Wellington GR.XIII x 14
B-25C Mitchell x 15
B-25D1 Mitchell x 11
B-25G Mitchell x 29
B-25H Mitchell x 21
B-29-1 Superfort x 48
P-40N5 Warhawk x 16
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 12
PBJ-1D Mitchell x 42

Japanese aircraft losses
J1N1-C Irving: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-25G Mitchell: 1 damaged
PBJ-1D Mitchell: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 36
Airbase supply hits 14
Runway hits 103

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Morning Air attack on Utsonomiya , at 115,60

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 27 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 62
N1K1-J George x 147
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 73
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 20
Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 16
Ki-84a Frank x 75
Ki-100-I Tony x 14

Allied aircraft
Liberator B.VI x 44
B-24D1 Liberator x 56
B-24J Liberator x 247
F4U-1 Corsair x 56
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 44

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 1 damaged
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 2 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged
B-24J Liberator: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged
F4U-1 Corsair: 6 destroyed

Ki-84r Frank factory hits 40
Ki-84r Frank factory hits 38

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Morning Air attack on Utsonomiya , at 115,60

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 79 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 56
N1K1-J George x 116
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 56
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 15
Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 8
Ki-84a Frank x 60
Ki-100-I Tony x 9

Allied aircraft
P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 240 FINALLY!!!!

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed
N1K1-J George: 7 destroyed
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 9 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 2 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 4 destroyed
Ki-100-I Tony: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-47D25 Thunderbolt: 2 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on Utsonomiya , at 115,60

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 27 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 32
J2M3 Jack x 11
N1K1-J George x 136
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 83
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 12
Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 18
Ki-84a Frank x 56
Ki-100-I Tony x 8

Allied aircraft
Liberator B.VI x 28
B-24D1 Liberator x 49
B-24J Liberator x 206
F4U-1 Corsair x 31
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 45

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged
B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed
PB4Y-1 Liberator: 2 damaged

Ki-84r Frank factory hits 3
Ki-84r Frank factory hits 7

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 7:04:12 AM

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 7:04:40 AM

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 7:53:26 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Cribtop

GJ, this is totally shooting from the hip rather than anything I've thought out, but would there be value to using Paramushiro Jima as a logistics hub? Dump supplies and fuel there for distribution in theater and thus minimize danger to your SLoC and convoys?

Yes mate. That's a good idea. Actually i'm already using Shimushiri Jiima for exactly the same reason, being the most distant base from enemy's big AFs.
As soon as we have Para or Onnekotan we'll be able to move eastwards our main supply/fuel HUB.

Now at Shikuka we have a lvl 9 port with 3 ARs and 1 ARD and a naval HQ...should be enough to grant a good repair yard close to the front line

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RE: HOkkaido conquered - 12/15/2011 7:54:06 AM

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ORIGINAL: BPRE

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Anyway...i keep on having HEAVY synch problems...my replay is always waayyy out... can't find a way to solve this problem...

Hi GreyJoy,

Saw your comment about your synch problems. I'm involved in a PBEM in WitP and it after a turn with synch problems we synchronized our music/sound settings. After I changed one of mine and reran the Combat replay (I'm Allied too) we were in synch again.

Since AE might depend on the same mechanism as WitP it might be worth trying if you haven't already.

Regards
BPRE

Thanks BPRE! Need to try that! I'll talk with Rader asap and see how his preferences and options look like!

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 7:56:26 AM

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ORIGINAL: soticrandy

Regarding his actions in the SoPac

Could he be trying to marsikova, or whatever, you by drawing your attention away from the main show?

Rader has stated that he wanted to kill my Cruisers there and, at the same time, relieve his isolated garrisons...for sure for the reason NY59 has pointed out!
But i really do think that it was a waste of precious resources...3 CAs down and 4 DDs, along with another CA and 1 CL damaged is really too much for the potential gain of some 3/4 Allied old CLs....

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 8:18:07 AM

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

It's a game after all and we all wanna have fun.

So we're gonna land at Honshu. i'm not saying we're landing tomorrow but not even in 1945. Somewhere in the next few months we'll be able to do so.

Just wanted to congratulate you on the decision to keep the game exciting.

I would like to recommend an alternate history novel I read many years ago as a primer to your invasion. Can't remember much detail or even if it was a good or bad book, but it IS appropriate to the subject matter at hand:

http://www.amazon.com/Burning-Mountain-Novel-Invasion-Japan/dp/015114978X

Cool! I love the alternative history novels! I have loved so much when i was younger Harry Turtledove's books of alternative history/SC-FI (those about the Civil war are awesome...Guns of The South being my favourite!)

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 8:48:49 AM

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Another tiring partyin night....sorry my friends but i cannot update tonight...just to let you know that We wiped out 2 more Franks factories and we've start to load the first Eastern Kuriles invasion fleet...

Sorry...can't write more tonight...but hell was a funny night!!!

See u on the morrow

Night

Never apologise for having a real life.

Most of the old farts here will have forgotten what is was like to be young, thats the effect of drugs and booze from the 70's

Have fun.

Too much fun.... i was a bit "high" having drunk too much wine mixed with GreyGoose Vodka...and i had the mobile in my hands....happened that i mismatched the number of my GF with another girl and i made a mess...

....and here comes the storm of the day after

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RE: Blood in the skies - 12/15/2011 11:18:48 AM

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Unfortunately Turtledove peaked with "Guns of the South" - IMHO the rest of his stuff has been great conceptually, but horrible in actual practice (overblown, too many characters, not enough action, etc, etc, etc).

GJ - great job with the KI84's - that's definitely going to hurt him both in the fighters he lost defending the place, plus the monthly production you just killed. Attrition is going to be high over the next few weeks, but keep it up - as long as you can set up a "Red Ball Express" of squadrons and replacements for your groups, you'll be doing well.

Great job once again.

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