Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna


There is a really good blues bar here (well, it's also the dive-iest dive) that has half off Rolling Rock all day every day for natural redheads.

I'm not sure, were I a natural redhead, that the "verification" would be worth the free beer.

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ORIGINAL: richlove

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
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There is a really good blues bar here (well, it's also the dive-iest dive) that has half off Rolling Rock all day every day for natural redheads.

Madam's Organ?

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna


There is a really good blues bar here (well, it's also the dive-iest dive) that has half off Rolling Rock all day every day for natural redheads.

I'm not sure, were I a natural redhead, that the "verification" would be worth the free beer.

Get your mind out of...low places! All you have to do is look at the roots. Or presumably, your driver's license photo.

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ORIGINAL: richlove

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
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There is a really good blues bar here (well, it's also the dive-iest dive) that has half off Rolling Rock all day every day for natural redheads.

Madam's Organ?

That's the place. Haven't been in a long while, but will probably go soon as I have a gift card for the nice whiskey/BBQ place a few doors up the street. I try to figure out what the weird animal heads are when I go. There's some kind of African animal that's related to an antelope or goat or something that we can't figure out. It has weird horns.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Still no turn from Nick. Been 5 days now...withdrawal symptoms have begun. Twitching, yelling random obscenities, confusion and a lot of crying!

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Ground combat at Pearl Harbor (180,107)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 75717 troops, 681 guns, 485 vehicles, Assault Value = 2231

Defending force 51805 troops, 772 guns, 520 vehicles, Assault Value = 445

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 3526

Allied adjusted defense: 695

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Pearl Harbor !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1221 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 102 disabled
Non Combat: 25 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 26 destroyed, 20 disabled
Guns lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (9 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
29459 casualties reported
Squads: 518 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2356 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 292 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1049 (1049 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 530 (530 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 25

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

OK, its 272 Rifle Squads for division and 91 for each Rgt or about 450 squads. The USA Rifle Squads go from 60 to 80 per month in 7/42 when the '42 version comes out. So my math seems to be different than yours. For me, I'll do the two Rgt first and wait until 7/42 squads before I start with the division rebuild.

Its near the end of April for me and believe it or not, even at 1200 per month for "Support" squads and I'm still not building up a surplus yet.

I bought back all but the big 14th Naval District HQ (300PP) and Pacific Ocean HQ (90PP). They will come later in 42 or early 43.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Where are you getting the 550 number from?? I'm talking just the number of infantry.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

OK, you had said it was the division plus two rgt. So you got the rgt that starts in San Fran to Pearl before it was lost? That is where the other 100 comes from.

So it will take about 5 months to rebuild a division now and 4 months after 7/42. Not 14 to 18 months (must be that Scandinavian math).

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Both of us will have two full divisions (24 & 25) come 1/43 that cost very little in PP. Meanwhile, John & Nick will have to leave troops behind in Hawaii for garrison duty to counter a potential invasion that may never come. Thank you MichaelM for the beta patch fix many, many months ago that allows players to buy out and rebuild destroyed troops.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Both of us will have two full divisions (24 & 25) come 1/43 that cost very little in PP. Meanwhile, John & Nick will have to leave troops behind in Hawaii for garrison duty to counter a potential invasion that may never come. Thank you MichaelM for the beta patch fix many, many months ago that allows players to buy out and rebuild destroyed troops.

Indeed!

Have to be really careful to not lose another US ID though...that would wreck the pools...

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Both of us will have two full divisions (24 & 25) come 1/43 that cost very little in PP. Meanwhile, John & Nick will have to leave troops behind in Hawaii for garrison duty to counter a potential invasion that may never come. Thank you MichaelM for the beta patch fix many, many months ago that allows players to buy out and rebuild destroyed troops.

Indeed!

Have to be really careful to not lose another US ID though...that would wreck the pools...

Just another reason to use the Marines.

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Ground combat at Batavia (49,98)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 49016 troops, 487 guns, 272 vehicles, Assault Value = 1411

Defending force 20965 troops, 181 guns, 74 vehicles, Assault Value = 315

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 1038

Allied adjusted defense: 341

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Batavia !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1120 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 44 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 48 disabled

Allied ground losses:
21148 casualties reported
Squads: 212 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 850 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 50 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 197 (197 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 103 (103 destroyed, 0 disabled)

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister
as I have both naval search over the SCS + a very good sub base in the middle of the Japanese SLOC.

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Can you spot any convoys heading back to Hong Kong/Honshu?

Would it be possible to sneak a pair of destroyers back in to Luzon somehow?

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Have you put any effort into resupplying Luzon?

The lack of high Nav High Aggrssion sub commanders early leads me to put all with crappy commanders on transport duty.

If you prioritize the good commanders into the low cargo capacity subs you can concentrate the crappy commanders in the high cargo capacity subs, add the Argonaut, Nautilus and Narwal and set up a pretty decent sized transport TF capable of delivering 500-1000 supply per mission.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Have you put any effort into resupplying Luzon?

The lack of high Nav High Aggrssion sub commanders early leads me to put all with crappy commanders on transport duty.

If you prioritize the good commanders into the low cargo capacity subs you can concentrate the crappy commanders in the high cargo capacity subs, add the Argonaut, Nautilus and Narwal and set up a pretty decent sized transport TF capable of delivering 500-1000 supply per mission.

Pretty ashamed to admit it..but no.

I´ll follow your advice though! Should have been doing that from day 1.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

Scenario 1 has PH garrison at 356 for Japan. DBB might be different, but stock is directional. Essentially a division.

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ORIGINAL: Yakface

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Have you put any effort into resupplying Luzon?

The lack of high Nav High Aggrssion sub commanders early leads me to put all with crappy commanders on transport duty.

If you prioritize the good commanders into the low cargo capacity subs you can concentrate the crappy commanders in the high cargo capacity subs, add the Argonaut, Nautilus and Narwal and set up a pretty decent sized transport TF capable of delivering 500-1000 supply per mission.

Pretty ashamed to admit it..but no.

I´ll follow your advice though! Should have been doing that from day 1.

Hans' advice is sound - IMO it's by far and away the best use of all those Yankee subs with dodgy torpedoes. They can deliver 36 or 48t each (and later 60 for Gatos and over 100 for the Argonaut, Nautilus and Narwal conversions). Quantities delivered per month depend upon the distance to the supply source, but early in the game I pull all the extra supplies from Cayagan and the small Philippine islands dotted around, then places like Tarakan/Balikpapan, Makassar etc then from northern/Eastern Oz. In an earlier game, by Mid April I was delivering around 2000t each drop around 3 drops/2 months. Went a long way to extending the PI resistance.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

It's still early yet for Burma. I didn't even start on Burma until February in my game. There's nothing you can do to stop him, so why rush?

I know gospel is to wait to capture Luzon until later, but he has to start sometime... he should probably start soon.

With Batavia down, I would look out near Diego Garcia or Perth/SW Aus.