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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 7/12/2016 11:13:58 PM   
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Turns clicking by quickly now. Not so much to do.

Ironman took another whack at Midway but it was hardly a crushing blow. A CVL I didn't know of, some CLs & DDs and a small fast amphib force. I had eight CA's there plus the now-formidable island. I sank his CVL and two cans in a night action. Honshu? Must be an Ironman special. Then my CAs got some of his transports. Everything else lomped away to the NW and SW.

Ironman invaded Attu, but I'm dug in pretty good at Adak. Even have a squadron of USMC dive bombers.

South Pacific was quiet. I was gonna let the 1st USMC raiders have a go at Funafuti but air recon found three units there, so I'll defer that. My S-class boats sank a couple freighters in the Solomons. Otherwise the South Pacific is better defended than San Francisco.

Just a few land-based air attacks in northeast Oz. I was able to send the (half-strength) 8th PG to Perth.

I have his Geraldton invasion force surrounded in two pockets. I'm moving up the 32nd US infantry plus nine regiments of artillery to reduce one pocket. Ironman is launching a small CV air raid on Carnarvon. Darwin is virtually isolated, and I've stood everything down to conserve supply. Ironman seems to be more active of Horn Island. Took him long enough.

Gone completely defensive in India. I have a strong position in front of Gox's bazaar, but he has a 30,000 man force at Akyab. I've stashed most of my shipping at Aden and Capetown. Just a few tankers sailing between Abadan and Cape Town trying to build up fuel stocks there.

I sent a mega-convoy of otherwise useless ships to blighty. Result: I've strip-mines Blighty of fuel and supply.

CV Wasp finally showed up. My CVs are about 40% converted to Avengers. Still way short of good fighters.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 7/17/2016 6:48:41 PM   
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Ironman is making a big move for Midway. For CVs, Six CVLs, BBs and CAs galore.

He chased off my CA covering force and sank some of the auxiliaries in the port, but the airfield is still in business. For how long is hard to day.

But his landings have been a fiasco. My land defenses (Two USMC defense battalions and an Army coastal defense regiment are slaughtering his assault troops like sheep. Between sinking a couple of transports and mowing them down in the landing to repelling their shock attack, I think I've killed at least 4,000 soldiers.

BTW fort level at Midway is 4 and he has not reduced it at all.

My CVs are still at San Diego. I might have beat this force up but half my torpedo planes are still DEvastators.

Other news. Ironman took Attu but lost eight transports doing it. A TF of Omaha-class CLs cleaned up the anchorage. He is attacking Kiska, but I'm relatively strong at Adak.

Ironman keeps banging his head on Perth. I have a big garrison at that city and with the Australian I Corps and the US 32nd ID, ten regiments of 105mm artillery and a battalion of Stuarts, I've bottled up the force from Geraldton and I'm using the 32nd to reduce them.

I've noticed some IJN sub activity west of Columbo, mostly around Bombay. I'm moving some short-legged ASW assets into that area.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 7/21/2016 5:38:45 PM   
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Ironman's IJN sailed off to the Northwest leaving behind somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 troops and about 5,000 dead soldiers. They don't seem to be in very good supply.

My airfield is beat up but not entirely out of action. I have plenty of supply and not only the base force but a real engineer unit as well, so I should be able to get the base back up and running soon.
My fortifications are untouched.

The parade of damaged ships has flushed the WeeVee out of the PH shipyards. One more game day and I'll chance sending her to Alameda. Flt damage = 48.

My CVs remain at San Diego. I am about half upgraded to TBFs. I have the USS Washington, three CLAAs and a raft of long-range DDs to support the CVs. I will get more aggressive with them soon. I could have used this force to whack the carrier force Ironman sent to Midway and it would have been a good fight, but for now he can stand the casualties more than I can.

The Aussies have butchered his amphibious attacks of Perth and the 32nd ID and their supporting artillery and armor have been reducing a 14,000 man pocket. But I have zero ships in western OZ and precious little air power. Much work to be done.

Ironman took Kiska but I ambushed his transports with Omaha-class cruisers and sunk 'em all. So he holds Kiska but that's all he can say. The IJN still has some residual tactical edge on the USN in surface actions. Yeah, I sank a bunch of transports at Attu and Kiska but now two of my Omahas are headed to Bremerton for repairs. With the enemy having a tactical edge, I am all the more leery of committing my CVs unless I know I have a huge advantage.

I have got my convoy system working pretty well, but keeping fuel in Sydney is not easy. Darwin is semi-isolated, and in hibernation to conserve supply.

Ironman seems to have given up on Canton for now but he did invade Luganville. Crace and his cruisers wrecked the transports before they could completely unload. A have two regiments of US Army plus specialists and plenty of supply, so he's going nowhere there even if he does come with a force as big as what he had at Midway.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 7/21/2016 6:39:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Why not rebase your fleet to i.e Rockhampton and set fuel there to stockpile? Then you ship fuel directly to Rockhampton by tankers. This will cut off Rockhampton fuel from fuel-sucking effect of Australia's Heavy Industry.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 7/26/2016 4:01:54 PM   
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I have begun implementing your suggestion.

So far only two tankers have unloaded. (Ironman's Oz Tourist Fleet is out and about)

Sent two engineer regiments to Rockhampton to improve the port. Covered it with a couple USAAF BF, a flak battalion and 20-40 P-39s.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 7/26/2016 4:22:24 PM   
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In general, I have Ironman stopped. He presses at Canton, Perth, and the North Pacific with insufficient forces.

After beating the place up Ironman sailed away leaving a 6,000 man lodgement of Midway, but I still hold the level 4 fort and the base.

After being tormented at Attu and Kiska by a TF of Omaha-class cruisers, Ironman finally sent some surface forces (2 CL, 5 DD) and kicked my Ohamas' butts. One sunk two more badly damaged. Months in Bremerton if i can get them there. I'll have to find other assets for that area.

Western Oz has become a killing ground for the IJA. I killed off his overland effort at Perth and have three divisions marching to Geraldton. I'll let the 32nd ID do the heavy work as I don't want to deplete the Australian 7th. The 32nd need more experience. the 32nd will be supported by two (soon to be three) arored battalions and beaucoup artillery (most of it 105s).

I've been rotating my P-39s and P-40Es around and rotating pilots within them. Trying to not get my aces killed and bring up the experience of the "average" pilots. At this time I have more good pilots than planes. My fighter squadrons usually have 5-8 more pilots than available planes.

Indian front has gone quiet. Ironman has 60,000 men at Akyab but doesn't do anything with them.

Overall logistics situation is fairly good, but not ready to support a counter-offensive yet.

I'm thinking that by mid-July (soon as I finish converting torpedo bombers) I'll move my Death Star (3 TF aggregating 6 CV, a BB, 3 CLAA, and almost all of my long range destroyers. (Fletchers have not yet begun arriving.) I'll have to be careful with my carriers as I don't have any more in the pipeline til the first of the year.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/9/2016 5:15:09 PM   
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Stalemate.

Ironman is going nowhere but I'm not ready to oust him just yet. Ironman (I know the script) seems to have given up on Canton Island, and Midway. Also the 100th Indian brigade booted him off Diego Garcia. Land battle in western Australia have stopped. I have all of the Australian I Corp, plus the Australian III Corps (2 home divisions, plus 2 home brigades and some menchaized battalions. I even found a use for the US towed AT unit. The US I Corps (the 32nd ID, nine artillery units and 3 armored battalions) resting at Geraldton. All but 2 FG of the of the USAAF V AF is at Perth. I'm still defensive in Northeastern Australia but the Rockhampton fuel buildup is coming along. I'm developing offensive bases in Townsville, Cairns, and Cooktown but they still need more supply.

I'm rock solid in the South Pacific except for air power. Two Marine division plus the Americal at Noumea. Two brigades on Fiji, and two regiments on Pago Pago. but little air assets beyond long range patrol and recon. NE Australia and the South Pacific are still full of B-17Ds which I used strictly for search and recon. I do have a squadron of B-24D on Pago Pago and will move them to Luganville as the base develops. First Marine Division is prepping for Lunga, but it might be a while. I need a corps HQ on Noumea.

I finally sent my unified carrier force (in two TF - 3 CV, 1 or 2 CLAA,and the Showboat) to Pearl. CVE Long island is at Pearl and I will use them to send 6 F$Fs of VMF-211 to Midway.


My short term plan is to nab Lunga (recon says its empty but what do airdales know?) then begin a comeback in New Guinea.

The shoestring effort in the Aleutians is going OK despite a very light commitment of resources. Adak is solid and I've been using Omaha-class CLs and a red-hot Marine dive bomber squadron to waste his lightly escorted transports. but I'm still a long way from going on the offensive.

I have him stopped in Pakistan. I have Cox's Bazaar fortified and become moreso daily. I have five full Indian divisions (variable quality on triple-defense terrain alog his likely axis of advance and two more in reserve. I now have 150 US P-40Es at Chittgong and have moved six British Hurricane squadrons to Calcutta.

With the attenuation of activity at Canton, I've straightened out my supply convoy routes. Where I used to turn west at Tahiti, I now turn at tau.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/9/2016 11:47:35 PM   
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Taxcutter: 6 F$Fs


Sounds like an expensive investment. Don't send them if you can't afford to lose them!

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/10/2016 2:54:19 PM   
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I have him stopped in Pakistan.


??!! Ironman seriously got that far?

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/11/2016 4:57:28 PM   
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Ironman holds one hex of what later became known as East Pakistan.

My F4F-3s got to Midway without a hitch. VMF-211 is now at full strength with 76 avg EXP.
Next project for Midway is replace the USAAF fighter squadron (60% strength, P-40B, EXP 72) for a Marine squadron. P-40Bs are becoming a problem with no replacements.

My carrier TFs are now at Pearl. I'm looking for Ironman's script to send another half-baked attack on Midway. If so maybe I can punch out a small CV or at least a CVL.

I gotta get some more experienced pilots into TRACOM. So far I've sent three but more eligible pilots are becoming apparent. I sure hate to send Pappy boyington to TRACOM, but the P-40E squadron he is in (based at Chittagong) has a lot of experience and he really isn't needed. Speaking of Chittagong, two full USAAF fighter groups (about 140 P-40Es) has discouraged Ironman from daylight operations there.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/11/2016 8:44:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		In my past games I was weary of setting a major naval base at Rockhampton. If Ironman KB does the southern blitz down the Ozzie east coast there's little buffer and no warning to escape. Rockhampton could be a trap...

If need be, Brisbane/Sydney is better situated to flee southeast.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/17/2016 2:04:14 PM   
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Finally a carrier battle.

Ironman (the script, I know) had been running small invasions forces backed by 2-3 CVs out to Midway. So far my ground forces have held him off. This time I brought my CV Death star (6 CV with aircrews trained up to at least 70 experience, 4 CLAA, 1 BB, 16 modern DD) and lurked for him northeast of Midway. In the past he has approached from the SW (Kwaj?).

This time he crossed me up and came in from the NW. He played it perfectly standing off 8 hexes using the superior range of the Zero to escort his strike planes in while i could only play defense. My 135 Wildcats inflicted some losses but mostly disrupted his attacks. But some got through and the Yorktown took some damage (20 FLT, 9 ENG and a fouled deck) I had sortied with less than full hangars so the Yorktown planes that were up got recovered and are still in action.

I shifted my Midway search to cover him and basically charged right at him. Ironman appears to have 3 CV in this task force. Charging him worked. I got (non-fatal) hits on Zuikaku and Hiryu and caught a oiler and sank it. (My oilers are six hexes SE of the battle area)

I must be doing some damage to his air groups because the next strike had considerably fewer planes. All the same his Zeros are still very superior to my Wildcats and 70 EXP pilots. I haven't lost many but my hangar decks are full of shot-up fighters. Even with fewer planes he managed a hit on the Saratoga. (6 FLT, 2 ENG, and the deck is not fouled) She is keeping up and still in the fight.

Next day we both got lost in cloudy weather. He is retiring to the north. He is halfway to Attu.

I think now is the time to break off. His transports bugged out to the NW and I still have 8 CAs covering Midway. With 2 damaged CV and no oiler support (I know Soryu and Hiryu are short-legged) Ironman looks to be trying to break off as well. More than anything I need to conserve my air wings. I've lost few pilots but airframe replacements are still slow.

Not a victory but not a defeat.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/17/2016 2:27:33 PM   
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Ironman continues to try to reinforce Kiska with unescorted transports and my Omahas continue to wear the transports out. I'm dug in deep at Adak but have very few air assets in the area.

He has completely backed away from Canton. I am getting some strike planes into that place now.

I continue to build up in the south Pacific (Noumea/Luganville, Pago Pago, and Suva) Plenty of LCU but air assets are thin.

I also continue to build up in Australia. I have three full fighter groups in northeastern Australia beating on unescorted Betties and racking up kills and gaining beaucoup experience. But I still have oly two squadrons of P-40Es there. when i start modernizing those P-39D squadrons those other squadrons should be formidable.

Building up fuel at Rockhampton has worked so far. Sydney isn't stealing fuel and I have two squadrons of P-39s and three flak units there to kill curious Betties.

Burma/India is at a halt. neither of us has an edge and I can't just grind at him because air replacements are very slow. So I'll stay on the defensive and continue building up supply and fuel. Abadan is a bottomless source of fuel. I have Capetown, Bombay, and Colombo well established as logistical bases.

Both of our submarine wars are going slowly. I've sunk a number of his I-boats with my heavy regional convoy escort groups. Every now and then his Lutzow and a AMC pick off a xAK but I don't have the surface assets (yet) to cover the gaps. His attacks on Midway have disrupted my strategic submarine campaign, but I'm finally back up to tn subs in Japanese waters. The bag has been steady but not spectacular.

I am planning invasions of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and the Ellice Islands.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/17/2016 7:50:18 PM   
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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/18/2016 3:35:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looking at my carrier air wings, most were only slightly attrited. This was more than offset by the big EXP bump from real combat.

The only exception was the torpedo bomber squadron of the Wasp. This was the last squadron using Devastators and they lost two thirds of their planes.

When I get the Wasp back to Pearl, I'll swap that squadron out for a Marine dive bomber squadron I carrier trained while my carriers were hiding out in San Diego. I'll be light on torpedo bombers but given the poor IJN damage control dive bombers can be good ship-killers, especially if you wan to kill CVs.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/19/2016 12:27:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		Good plan. I get frustrated not only with the lack of hits from the TBs, but the lack of explosions on the few that do hit. DBs are good against everything but BBs and even those can be killed by fires with enough bomb hits (30+ in one day)

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/19/2016 3:47:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Really enjoying your AAR Taxcutter, thanks for posting. I don't think I've ever seen an AAR featuring Ironman, so it will be interesting to see how it compares to the with the vanilla Japanese AI, especially in defense.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/19/2016 5:20:52 PM   
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Ironman might be a script but he is a good one.

The CV group I found was actually the second of (at least two) sent north and east of Hawaii to interdict my convoys from the west coast. I found the other one the hard way.

His lead group slipped by me and sank three fast freighters and a DMS about twelve hexes NE of Hilo. Past my seaplanes out of Hawaii and east of my CV force. By the number of planes encountered I'm looking for two CVs. In a way just what I'm looking for. A chance to defeat him in detail.

My CVs were headed for Pearl. Saratoga has taken a hit and can only make 22 knots but her deck is not foul and her air wing is practically intact. I'm taking the risk and dragging her along. If I can catch these rascals, I need the strike planes, but another tangle with Kates could be a problem.

Yorktown made Pearl. Repair time: 55 days. I got part of her remaining planes off but some are stuck on-board.

Once the situation quiets down I will probably pull Yorktown out of the yard at Pearl and send her to San Diego. I like to keep Pearl's yards as clear as I can for emergency repairs. If Ironman's raiders get around me and get away (entirely possible with my group being tied to a 22 knot ship) I'll send Saratoga straight to the west coast. Probably Bremerton. It still has three PH victim BB in it but Pennsylvania and Nevada are almost ready for sea.

I'll bring the rest of my CVs to Pearl. As with everyone else, my CV air strikes are poorly coordinated. I'm thinking this is because I used two task force centered onn three carriers each. Maybe If I got to two-CV groups I can get more efficient co-ordination. I'll have to go to 2 CV task forces anyway as two CV will be in the yards for a couple or three months.

Ironman had to resort to using CVs as commerce raiders because I've pretty much beaten his subs and his Lutzow CB and his AMCs don't get contacts very often.

Aside from daylight air sparring around Akyab, Calcutta, and Imphal, the rest of the theater is quiescent.


Whether I can catch this commerce raider CV force and reslts of the battle may change my mind, but once I sink/chase him off, I plan to put my CVs (however they are organized) into Pearl and cut down the SF/PH and LA/PH convoys a bit. With things firming up at Midway I can also bring in Spruance's 9xCA task force for some refit. My amphib assaults against Lunga, Tulagi, and the Ellice islands are still in preparation and will be so for at least 50 days. Maybe when Saratoga and Yorktown are back in the game my Marines will be ready to go.

I've closed up the VP differential so time is on my side.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/23/2016 4:04:10 PM   
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Rats! Ironman gave me the slip. He faked south (right into my convoy lanes) then doubled back to the north and I lost him. A little later a PBY out of Adak spotted him far to the north and heading west.
2 CV, 3CA. I would have liked to have gotten him.

At any rate I broke off, sending Saratoga to San Diego with 27 flotation damage. The rest of my carriers is in Pearl. Yorktown was not damaged as bad as I feared and Enterprise's damage was mostly superficial. They'll be fully repaired in 17 days. Other than that chewed up Devastator squadron my air wings are in good shape. that squadron has ditched the devastators for Avengers but an infusion of newbie pilots has greened the squadron down to 52 experience. I'll leave them in Pearl to train and use the Marine SBDs (exp 59).

I am beginning to be able to use my older battleships. Nevada is now a guardship at Adak. Within a week I should have all my old BB except California, Maryland, and West Virginia. Maryland is about three weeks from completion and then I'll move her and the Colorado to Mare Island to await completion of West Virginia. That way I have a formidible Colorado class squadron. Aggregating my 14" BB plus Warspite I have a fine squadron to cover my invasion at Guadalcanal. Problem is these things are unmitigated fuel hogs. I'm setting up a chain of slow oilers to get them to Noumea and not suck it dry.

My air forces in India seem to be wearing Ironman down. I've been rotating Hurricane squadrons but the P-40E squadrons are dwindling due to lack of replacements.

The 35th FG finally got some P-38Fs. I'm accumulating B-i7s at Brisbane and soon I'll be pounding him from Cairns.

Building up fuel and supply at Rockhampton, Brisbane, Noumea, and Perth.

My Chinese amoeba is about to surround two large forces. As they are on good terrain, it may take a while to reduce them, but my Chinese hordes don't have anything better to do. In a few months I could ahve complete control of south China unless Ironman diverts some troops from elsewhere.

Otherwise, things are quiet.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/23/2016 7:17:43 PM   
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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/24/2016 1:55:10 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Taxcutter
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Yorktown made Pearl. Repair time: 55 days. I got part of her remaining planes off but some are stuck on-board.

Instead of "Manage ships under repair", tag the "Show Ships under repair" button. Tag Yorktown on the subsequent "Ships Under Repair" screen, & her embarked airgroups will be accessible. If she can't conduct flight ops, your only option under "Transfer to base" will be the range=0 airfield at Pearl Harbor. All the offloaded planes will transfer as damaged, but they'll likely repair quickly.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/24/2016 5:13:28 PM   
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Have the Allies formulated a strategy yet for the reconquest of New Guinea?



Taxcutter says:
Nothing set in concrete yet, but my general plan is to eat it form the most exposed bases up. Take Guadalcanal/Tulagi first. Follow up with Munda.

Once I have LBA on those bases I intend to start with Milne Bay. Ironman chased me out of Moresby but if I can hold Milne, Moresby is effectively isolated.

I am accumulating aircraft to start bombing the stuffings out of New Guinea. I've chopped two B-17E bomb groups to the Fifth Air Force and P-38Fs are beginning to appear. I have F-4 photorecon planes in operation.

I'm moving my American SWP forces from Geraldton (where they polished off an invasion) to Brisbane and am organizing them into US I Corps plus army group assets. I've moved 1 regiment of the 24th ID to Brisbane and the other two are en route. Those plus the 32nd ID will form the core of the I Corps.

For now I've left the powerful Australian I Corps in perth in case Ironman is still frisky in that area.

Ironman's IJN is so strong I don't really dare venture too far out from under LBA support for now.

Ironman still seems to have some tactical advantages in surface warfare and so far my carriers can only hold their own and little more.

All the same, New Guinea has to be on the agenda. I recently played a game where I ignored it. Problem is that I needed more points of contact to wear the Japanese down and I had some hellacious battles in the Marshalls because the Japanese still had a lot of planes.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/24/2016 5:15:10 PM   
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nstead of "Manage ships under repair", tag the "Show Ships under repair" button. Tag Yorktown on the subsequent "Ships Under Repair" screen, & her embarked airgroups will be accessible. If she can't conduct flight ops, your only option under "Transfer to base" will be the range=0 airfield at Pearl Harbor. All the offloaded planes will transfer as damaged, but they'll likely repair quickly.



Thanks mucho.

I've been playing this game since Nimitz was a middie and still pick up nuances all the time.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/24/2016 9:54:01 PM   
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In a few months I could have 9 shattered Chinese Infantry Corps & a crippling supply deficit.

Fixed!

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/24/2016 10:36:32 PM   
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Have the Allies formulated a strategy yet for the reconquest of New Guinea?



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Nothing set in concrete yet, but my general plan is to eat it form the most exposed bases up. Take Guadalcanal/Tulagi first. Follow up with Munda.

Once I have LBA on those bases I intend to start with Milne Bay. Ironman chased me out of Moresby but if I can hold Milne, Moresby is effectively isolated.

I am accumulating aircraft to start bombing the stuffings out of New Guinea. I've chopped two B-17E bomb groups to the Fifth Air Force and P-38Fs are beginning to appear. I have F-4 photorecon planes in operation.

I'm moving my American SWP forces from Geraldton (where they polished off an invasion) to Brisbane and am organizing them into US I Corps plus army group assets. I've moved 1 regiment of the 24th ID to Brisbane and the other two are en route. Those plus the 32nd ID will form the core of the I Corps.

For now I've left the powerful Australian I Corps in perth in case Ironman is still frisky in that area.

Ironman's IJN is so strong I don't really dare venture too far out from under LBA support for now.

Ironman still seems to have some tactical advantages in surface warfare and so far my carriers can only hold their own and little more.

All the same, New Guinea has to be on the agenda. I recently played a game where I ignored it. Problem is that I needed more points of contact to wear the Japanese down and I had some hellacious battles in the Marshalls because the Japanese still had a lot of planes.

Most excellent. It is here, I believe, that lies the key to offensive momentum in late 1942. Coordinating Sopac and Swpac divided by a strong Rabaul and entrenched at PM and Milne is challenging. In past campaigns I made use of Terapo and Deboyne as advanced bases to the mainland. A successful air campaign here and the return to New Guinea will leave you with air supremacy by the end of the year.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/25/2016 3:11:57 PM   
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In a few months I could have 9 shattered Chinese Infantry Corps & a crippling supply deficit.


Fixed!



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Always a possibility, but Ironman (like most AI) is careless of his flanks, and he'll have to shatter my Chinese corps with isolated units. I'm about to snap the trap shut on 46,000 men near Kweilin and another 20,000 near Kukong.

Until the Burma Road is opened (and sometimes after), supply is always an issue for the Chinese. You gotta get used to it.

I won't try to attack these stacks until I have them completely surrounded.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/25/2016 3:20:06 PM   
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Most excellent. It is here, I believe, that lies the key to offensive momentum in late 1942. Coordinating Sopac and Swpac divided by a strong Rabaul and entrenched at PM and Milne is challenging. In past campaigns I made use of Terapo and Deboyne as advanced bases to the mainland. A successful air campaign here and the return to New Guinea will leave you with air supremacy by the end of the year.



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Air supremacy is necessary but not sufficient. I'm wearing down his air assets (evidenced by smaller and smaller raids on my bases) but my low airframe replacement rate leaves me with squadrons operating at 30-50% strength despite having adequate veteran aircrew.

After a little more training I have several USMC air squadrons to move to SoPac and SWPac areas. I need something with some good anti-shipping punch to offset Ironman's "IJN on steroids." USMC Dauntlesses and Avengers fill the bill.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/26/2016 3:45:03 PM   
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nstead of "Manage ships under repair", tag the "Show Ships under repair" button. Tag Yorktown on the subsequent "Ships Under Repair" screen, & her embarked airgroups will be accessible. If she can't conduct flight ops, your only option under "Transfer to base" will be the range=0 airfield at Pearl Harbor. All the offloaded planes will transfer as damaged, but they'll likely repair quickly.

Thanks mucho.
I've been playing this game since Nimitz was a middie and still pick up nuances all the time.

No worries, mate. I learned that trick awhile ago from a post to this forum, & am happy to pass it along to you.

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/26/2016 4:10:49 PM   
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Most excellent. It is here, I believe, that lies the key to offensive momentum in late 1942. Coordinating Sopac and Swpac divided by a strong Rabaul and entrenched at PM and Milne is challenging. In past campaigns I made use of Terapo and Deboyne as advanced bases to the mainland. A successful air campaign here and the return to New Guinea will leave you with air supremacy by the end of the year.



Taxcutter says:
Air supremacy is necessary but not sufficient. I'm wearing down his air assets (evidenced by smaller and smaller raids on my bases) but my low airframe replacement rate leaves me with squadrons operating at 30-50% strength despite having adequate veteran aircrew.

After a little more training I have several USMC air squadrons to move to SoPac and SWPac areas. I need something with some good anti-shipping punch to offset Ironman's "IJN on steroids." USMC Dauntlesses and Avengers fill the bill.

You'll most likely need your CV's to do so, and that should give you the air edge with land based fighters in north oz covering the CV's As long as the KB is absent and the invasion is quick this should be successful

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RE: Into The Unknown Taxcutter vs. Ironman - 8/26/2016 4:15:13 PM   
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I can move her to yards north of there and reduce the time to 97 days.

Rest of the CV force will be A-OK in three game weeks.

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