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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 12/31/2014 2:29:26 AM

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I'm also looking hard at Ellis Island as a goal for the short term. Gaining Ellis Island would help push my perimeter further to the east
and increase the range of my patrol aircraft. I've got to move fast though because Marcin is going to ship some more troops this
direction sometime soon. I can feel it in my bones.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 12/31/2014 2:40:33 AM

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Here's the results of an airstrike on that stack of Allied ships. The BB survived so another airstrike is indicated.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 12/31/2014 2:46:48 AM

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Here's the result of some 3 BB's near Wake Island bombard a group of Allied DD's. Got only half of them so I guess another
bombardment is in order or maybe I can clobber them with my DD's and CA's now.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 12/31/2014 2:54:37 AM

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Here's the results of an assault near Bangkok. It went nowhere. I'm going to need more people in this AO. Some to go to Malaya
and some to go to Burma.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 12/31/2014 3:01:42 AM

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I moved some units in the Bangkok area and it looks like this now. I've surrounded some Indian units in the mountains. I'm going to
need some more people than I have to root them out of there. My dudes are already down to 50% and need refit. Some more
people are needed.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 12/31/2014 3:05:08 AM

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Here's Manila now. I'm in a big hurry so I'm going to go for combat round two to see if I can gain Manila the city. If so it would be a
good thing because that's where the Allied supply is. Getting Manila would make the eventual take down easier.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 12/31/2014 3:12:09 AM

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Here's the results of the assault on Manila:

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/1/2015 12:28:04 AM

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By all means get all the islands you can, now; because you won't be able to do it later.

And, you might run a scouting ship along the coast of OZ, to see what kind of garrisons are there. It is just possible that
the allies have left a port with only a weak garrison, that you can grab up in one turn.
Also, see how strongly/weakly the western Australian port are held--Darwin and points south. You may not be able to do much until
you have major air cover from the Dutch East Indies; but stabs at Australia will force the allies to react. They won't (hopefully) be busy elsewhere, if they have to concentrate around New Zealand and Australia.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/1/2015 12:58:29 AM

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By all means get all the islands you can, now; because you won't be able to do it later.

And, you might run a scouting ship along the coast of OZ, to see what kind of garrisons are there. It is just possible that
the allies have left a port with only a weak garrison, that you can grab up in one turn.
Also, see how strongly/weakly the western Australian port are held--Darwin and points south. You may not be able to do much until
you have major air cover from the Dutch East Indies; but stabs at Australia will force the allies to react. They won't (hopefully) be busy elsewhere, if they have to concentrate around New Zealand and Australia.

Sounds like you've thought about it a lot Chattez dude. Sounds good. I'll let you know what I find on the coasts of OZ.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/1/2015 3:47:59 PM

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The CA appearing near Pearl Harbor is a replaced CA after it was hit. The computer decides where to place a replaced ship. The appearance point is in Japan on land so the ship does not get replaced there. Usually replaced ships appear on the far right or left of the map. I think the allies get replaced at the lower left of the map at sea. The Japanese on the far right. Since the Japanese move first you can get the replaced ships to safety before any problem. You will need to check on expected reinforcements to see when ships come in and on recent reinforcements.

Same for the allies.

The strike against the British fleet without air cover shows what the Betty and the Nell can do. At wake when ships are surrounded you can also hit them with air power to save on ship losses. I look forward to surface action by Japanese destroyers and cruisers with their torpedo firepower. It is good you fired from a distance with the BB. That is the way to use them.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/1/2015 4:22:02 PM

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If you want to move a stack of ships or troops at sea click on the stack as if they were ground units and click on group move. If you want to go even faster, after clicking on the group move, click on the space bar which removes all units on the map. Then click on your destination and the computer moves much faster than if the units moving are visible. Then click the space bar again and the units reappear.

Ground units on a rail line can do this fast method as well. Aircraft moving must go one at a time but can move fast with hitting the space bar.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 12:49:30 AM

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Happy new year everybody. I've received some moves from Marcin and I watched the playback and everything and now I'm
looking at the new turn and I'm seeing that the game engine is registering that I took down Manila last turn.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 12:57:30 AM

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Here's an overview of the situation before I've moved anybody. I haven't run any recon ships up and down the coast of OZ yet
so I don't know where the Allied ships are. Speaking of picket ships, I guess I had my picket ships too close to OZ and Marcin
picket off a couple of them. D'oh. I'll have to be more careful in the future.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 1:08:37 AM

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Here's a closeup of the Bangkok area now. I'm going to ship in some more divisions to help break out of the pass area and some
divisions to head for Burma to give the Indians something to do. I've gotten a land combat unit into the hex with the paratroopers
so I'm pretty sure I've saved them. I'm going to get them to Bangkok and let them rest and refit and use them somewhere in New
Guinea grabbing airfields or something. Maybe Oz.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 1:21:05 AM

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Here's the Manila area now. Now that Manila has fallen and the Allied supply point has been captured the Phillippine Army should
fold pretty quickly. I'm in the mop-up stages and no more troops are needed there I'm guessing.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 1:44:01 AM

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I had to move a garrison unit off Bikini to Kwajalene because it was desperately low on supply. I have reason to believe that
Bikini doesn't have any supply on it.

EDIT: The same situation was found at Makin.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 1:45:37 AM

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Manila fell on January 2 1942 while the scenario it is January 4, 1942. Based on one week turns, the fall of Manila is right on time. Since the bulk of the allied supply was in Manila which was not removed to Bataan, the scenario reflects this. The scenario is right on schedule.

Well done.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 1:59:57 AM

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quote:

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Manila fell on January 2 1942 while the scenario it is January 4, 1942. Based on one week turns, the fall of Manila is right on time. Since the bulk of the allied supply was in Manila which was not removed to Bataan, the scenario reflects this. The scenario is right on schedule.

Well done.

Cool.

I must have some patrol planes within bombardment range because Allied stuff in New Zealand is showing up plainly. Here's NZ now.
It's been turned into a fortress by Marcin. He probably knew I was coming. I'm not sure this place can be taken now. At least not
easily.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 2:11:53 AM

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Here's what's at Midway. I'm thinking that this island could be taken down but not easily. It would probably take a full division to do
it though.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 3:08:07 AM

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And another thing. Those Chinese units that get killed seem to be re-spawning at Pearl and I'm wondering if that can't be moved to
somewhere closer to China. Someplace in India or something?

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 12:08:05 PM

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So um.......Marcin has a real life commitment that was going to limit his availability so Thomas Harvey volunteered to
play the Japs against me and so we thought we'd start w/ the newest version incorporating all the changes needed
so far.

This is the PI now. Tom has gotten a foothold on the main island and has landed at Leyte. I'm going to see if I can't
evacuate MacArthur to Australia before it starts getting hairy. Also, I've been thinking of flying the aircraft to China
and making my way to Burma with the planes to help the Singapore operation somewhat. But I feel the need to get
some use out of them for a while near Manila before I do that.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 12:14:45 PM

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There were some strikes on the Prince of Wales and so that TF is down to a couple of DD's now. I'm planning on parking this group
near Ceylon to rest and refit.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 12:32:03 PM

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Okie dokie......I've done some moving near Manila and this is what I've decided upon for the configuration I need to defend
Manila and environs. I just happened to notice that the proficiency of Phillippine army stuff is 1%. Holy Moly. I wouldn't dare
attack with those guys. They would get slaughtered. I left the Marines at Bataan and moved the PBY's to Cebu and I'm
thinking I ought to do something else with those ships. I'm not sure what just yet. I could move them to Singapore or better yet
to Australia.

Edit: I just happened to notice just now that I've left MacArthur at Manila. I'm going to move him to Australia via boat just like
in real life.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 12:38:09 PM

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I moved MacArthur to Townsville so he can act as HQ for supply purposes for the three airfields there. I plan on parking some
heavy bombers at Townsville so he'll come in handy for that. If it starts to get hairy at T-ville I'll move him to Perth or somewhere.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 12:46:09 PM

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Here's what it looks like just north of the Celebes. I'm planning on moving some low-rent fighters to these islands eventually to
provide what air power they can. Not yet though, the Japs aren't moving through there yet. I need the fighters in PI and near
Singapore and in Burma. And west China.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 12:58:24 PM

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This is SW China before I've started moving anybody so you can see what the situation is to deal with on turn one.
I'm planning on trying to keep the Japs from using the railroad through here to keep the number of men turning up
in Malaya and India to a minimum. Also, I'm thinking of using my partisans to damage the railroad too.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 1:13:45 PM

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Here's what Northern China looks like. I'm leaving this sector exclusively to the Communist Chinese and their mission is to deny
the Japs the use of the railroad and to blow the bridges between here and the south and just generally be a nussance.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 1:24:44 PM

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Here's the expected reinforcements for T2. Some troops and some planes. I'll put 'em to good use.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 1:34:14 PM

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Here's the situation near Bangkok. The Japs have landed on the west coast of Malaya and upset all my defensive plans. D'oh.
I'm going to need to see how hard it is to ship some Australians into Singapore to help out with the defense.

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RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 - 1/2/2015 1:53:59 PM

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Tom landed a bunch of troops on the north coast of New Guinea and now they aren't visible. D'oh. I'll get some spotter planes
on the island to see if we can't expose them.

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