Canoerebel
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10/27/42 NoPac: Four days until winter with no sign of enemy moves on Onne or Para. I am keeping my fingers crossed. I have a train of small supply TFs waiting for bad weather, back up by a DD TF, Wasp TF, a CVE TF, and a two-CVE TF (the latter about three days from the scene). If winter arrives before Japan does, the Allies will seriously bump the garrisons at these two islands over the winter. This will become a fairly high political point priority until the bases are deemed secure. By spring, I want six or more forts at each base, maximum supply, and probably 1500 AV at Para and 500 at Onne (right now they have 600 and 150, respectively). DEI: The Kirishima TF retired to reload, opening a window for transports to venture forth, but I held them back. I wanted to see if Steve had more combat ships or carriers to commit. In other words, I want to get a measure of the new paradigm before I take any calculated risks. So, it will be a little while before I send troops forward to Borneo. In the meantime, though, I can attend to Billiton, Toboali and Muntok - mainly getting additional engineer forces there to expedite airfield building. Those three airfields will control the Java Sea once they each reach about level six and higher. That, in turn, will make it possible for the Allies to then attend to Pontianak, Ketapang and Singakwang, because it will be most difficult and expensive for Japan to stick its nose into the newly established hornet's nest. Then, once those Borneo bases have large airfields, the Allies can begin systematically pounding the port facilities at the bases with lots of oil. That's the plan. Burma: With 350 AV at Toungoo facing less than 50 behind three forts and in jungle terrain, the Allies should be able to take this base. A deliberate attack tomorrow.
< Message edited by Canoerebel -- 1/27/2012 6:09:07 PM >
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