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RE: June 1944 - 4/12/2017 9:28:49 PM   
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Chaing Mai is held by just a Base Force that is presently bugging out. The other units north of there are all broken down Thai Inf units that are about to be withdrawn.


Thought about these guys some more. Looks like you have a unit trying to come around the back side and snitch Pegu in Burma? It probably won't work, but it's worth the try to disrupt his rail down the Malay peninsula to Moulmein.

If you have two more of these withdrawing Thai units, keep one at Chang Mai to fend off a coup de main there and put one on the rail line 1 hex NE of the dot hex due east of Rahaeng. That'll be a month or more of jungle combat walking before he can get anyone there, even if he takes either of these hexes. The rail will be cut until you can be forcefully evicted. So you can deny any benefit (other than the airfield capture) to holding Chang Mai for the duration-and on the cheap.

Lastly, do you have a mobile reserve in the area? Something to respond quickly to a paradropped unit on an unoccupied base on the Gulf of Siam or in inland Thailand?

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RE: June 1944 - 4/12/2017 9:30:02 PM   
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RE: June 1944 - 4/12/2017 9:31:03 PM   
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Do you CHARGE for your services Mr. Chickenboy?


Will Banzai for beer.


My kind of man. What is your favorite beer?

I, personally, love both beer and wine. The wine side can be expensive but I like GOOD stuff.


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RE: June 1944 - 4/12/2017 9:38:21 PM   
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My kind of man. What is your favorite beer?

I enjoy beer, but given the choice I'd opt for a nice bourbon or Irish whiskey any day. Us 40+ fogies have to watch that sort of stuff, so I must content myself with the odd beer or glass of wine instead. Sigh...

For beer, I'm not too picky. As a group, I like most of the Mexican beers very much. Some of the Belgian ales are fun, with their 12% A/V. For 'premium craft beers' I would reach back to one of my favorites from Cali-Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. It ticks most of the boxes for me. I was drinking that stuff before drinking that stuff was cool. If we meet one day and you buy me a beer, I'll tell you a couple 'drinking cheap beer stories' from days of yore.

Yourself? Living in Colorado, are you the product of the "Banquet Beer" that is located there?

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RE: June 1944 - 4/12/2017 9:42:10 PM   
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This 50 year-old loves Nevada Pale Ale. Pretty much any Pale Ale is along my lines. As for wine I love the German dessert stuff--Spatese, Reisling, and Auslese. YUMMY!

Example: We're having BBQ T-Bones tonight and I have a good, strong red wine ready to go.

What do all our readers of this fine thread like for their boozilishishness fun?

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RE: June 1944 - 4/12/2017 9:46:37 PM   
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Example: We're having BBQ T-Bones tonight and I have a good, strong red wine ready to go.


Example: We're having handmade nopal, pepper and chicken enchiladas and steamed pork tomales. I'll wash those bad boys down with some Modelo Especial.

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RE: June 1944 - 4/12/2017 9:49:31 PM   
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You have expensive tastes Sir!


Not really. I drink Old Milwaukee, Stroh's, Lone Star, Coors and Budweiser with no real preference (what's on sale?) too. The Irish whiskeys and bourbons are the more expensive treat. At least I'm not a fan of Scotch...

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RE: June 1944 - 4/12/2017 10:48:06 PM   
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One could definitely state that I have a MASSED Reserve available here.




If this means you have plentiful troops in Thailand/Vietnam, I cannot begin to tell you how far you are out of position.

Your supply line back to Shanghai is one hex wide (south of Lang Son).

Case in Point (graphic): You are going to get pummeled from bases you gave away for next to nothing.




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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 12:55:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well...that is totally depressing.

The simple reality is I cannot defend EVERYWHERE and I must hold the door open as long as possible in Thailand and Indochina so we can move TKs back-and-forth to the Home Islands. We continue to haul troops back from the Outer Perimeter and will fill in those locations as we go. That said though, a single Brigade cannot do crap vs. whatever he brings. He'll move in the 1.0^6x10 with a badzillion Fighters and a quintellion Troops.

He'll be occupied in Luzon for another month THEN the hammer will fall in this direction.

Prior to that I wager he'll continue to work on Borneo or try to jump over to Indochina. My .02s..


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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 1:13:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		Kochi is easy. You can use restricted troops there but you have to march them there. Should be 2 divisions there now plus support troops.


You can also move an 9AV Eng unit to any of those islands and switch the island to General Reserve and fly in troops.

A brigade or regiment does force the Allies to prep and prepare and not just parachute troops in or fast transport troops in.

You are absolutely correct that you can't defend everywhere, but you can delay.

Look at the islands, and build up those that have the biggest potential runways first. Buildup I mean get some troops there. Anything, even a snlf can stop a paratroop.

Since none of them have troops, I am guessing they don't have runways either limiting your ability to fly in reinforcements, plus they probably don't have any fort levels either.

You should have a ton of construction engineers and aviation engineers to get something on those islands. I think if you look around you will be amazed at the amount of units available between China/Manchuko/Korea/HI.









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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 1:22:50 AM   
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No, you can't defend everywhere especially with static defenses. But you still have some throw weight with what's left of KB and the SCTFs. Combine those with massed kamikazes and a fast reaction amphib TF to counter punch where he lands and you just might get lucky. Or if nothing else, you will finally have your decisive battle. Good luck John.

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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 1:25:40 AM   
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He'll be occupied in Luzon for another month THEN the hammer will fall in this direction.

Prior to that I wager he'll continue to work on Borneo or try to jump over to Indochina. My .02s..



You know your opponent, and Japan can move mountains in a day, and if you have a month, well then you aren't in bad shape at all.

I think I was able to fly almost 500 AV a day with transports around this stage of the game.

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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 7:02:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		You asked about beer. I was pleasantly surprised to discover Sierra Nevada Pale Ale when I moved to California in 1987. I've been brewing my own beer since 1986 and happy to say there are some very civilized choices now available here (U.S., UK and even good Korean crafts) that I don't need to brew my own out of necessity, more as a hobby. Also, the local British Embassy pub has a great scotch collection for reasonable prices. That and the occasional Class 6-bought Bulleit Rye from a buddy and I'm in clover.

I read both AARs, so no strategic advice, but I would like to say you two gentlemen have the best set of AARs going. Thanks for the fantastic entertainment and keep up the good work!

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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 7:36:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		Brilliant to watch a 45 battle covered in such detail, thank you

As for beer and similar important matters, this is one of the pleasures of living in the garden of England where local beer is still made with local hops (although the hop fields are not nearly on the scale they once were)

Harvey's Sussex Best, Old Dairy Red Top and Green Top, Rother Valley ale are favourites and I will always happily have a pint of Spitfire 'downed all over Kent, like the Luftwaffe' as the advertising goes

As for whisky, strong and peaty. Talisker, ardbeg, Tobermory, islay all regular frequenters of the Jellicoe drinks cabinet.
For moments of decadence a bottle of Calvados never hurts (until the next morning that is)

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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 3:18:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		I concur with Jellicoe, this is a superb AAR. I have been an avid follower for weeks, many thanks!

Being about 3 x the drinking age, some of my old fave imbibes have lamentably fallen by ye ole wayside...

Spirits now feature vodka; gin is a framed memory on the wall.

On non-wine days, 2 bottles of Bear Republic's Racer 5 grove the evening for polite sense of well-being, a good night's sleep and zero effects manana. That stuff is de bom.

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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 3:46:40 PM   
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I concur with Jellicoe, this is a superb AAR. I have been an avid follower for weeks, many thanks!

Being about 3 x the drinking age, some of my old fave imbibes have lamentably fallen by ye ole wayside...

Spirits now feature vodka; gin is a framed memory on the wall.

On non-wine days, 2 bottles of Bear Republic's Racer 5 grove the evening for polite sense of well-being, a good night's sleep and zero effects manana. That stuff is de bom.


Good to have you on board CaptHaggard!

I, too, have noticed my tastes changing as I get older. Some stuff that I liked when in my 20s/30s now tastes like CRAPOLA!


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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 3:50:13 PM   
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One could definitely state that I have a MASSED Reserve available here.




If this means you have plentiful troops in Thailand/Vietnam, I cannot begin to tell you how far you are out of position.

Your supply line back to Shanghai is one hex wide (south of Lang Son).

Case in Point (graphic): You are going to get pummeled from bases you gave away for next to nothing.





Some things are relatively easy to fix:
1. There is now an Engineer Rgt headed to the base NW of Ishitaki. A Brigade will begin loading tomorrow in Tokyo.

2. The base NW of Naha has two Construction units heading for it RIGHT NOW. Had a major reinforcement convoy (23,000 men) unloading there so moving a few of them over 40 miles is no big deal. Okinawa is fully built-up on each side with its AFs. Am thinking of working on this one too. Have two Air HQ neading assignment and placing them here would allow for full usage by all three AFs.

EDIT: I am presently extracting an Air Fleet in the Kendari area. If I can swing it up there then it can make nearly EVERY AF in that region TT capable.

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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 4:09:45 PM   
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A fairly hot-and-heavy round of combat today.

Luzon
As expected the deployment of the Sams causes a major ruckus. There are seven Allied Fighters Sweeps (Spitfire, P-38, P-47, P-47, P-47, Spitfire, and P-51 for a total of 109 Fighters. They encounter 124 Japanese. As normal the first few Sweeps are pounded by my Fighters but the next four are much more even. A final wave of 34 B-29 (Did you know they CAN BE USED against AIRFIELDS? WOW! ). No action for the afternoon phase. When the dust and burning crashed planes are counted it is not a bad day whatsoever. Losses are even and nearly 50 Fighters were still airborne when the big bombers came in.

Japan loses 40 Fighters (28 Sams and just 6 pilots) for and equal number of Allied plus a few B-29. More then half of the B-29s took damage in their raid. When they leave, the AF is only 21% damaged. We're good for another day.

Rotate my Naval Fighters to Appari where they get assigned ambush work over Cabantuan and Mauban. Two full strength, rested Frank Sentai and a full strength George Daitai come in to San Ferndando as a convoy of nearly 25 AP/AK arrive to lift some units out of Luzon to live to fight another day.

A GADZILLION 4EB, 2EB, and more fighters hit Clark and the troops there.

Miri
Have watched as several TFs arrive at Miri. Order the Musashi and Nagato in. For two days they get into position from Singapore and are only spotted today when they strike tomorrow. We'll see. To be safe there are four Fighter units flying from Kuching and Singkawang providing direct CAP.

Thailand
No major action. He is moving on Pisanloke (which is hit by about 80 bombers). We'll see how long that takes.

Luganville
As promised action does occur here. It is the one-sided GOOD NEWS of the day. A STF of BB Pennsylvania, a CA, a CL, and 4 DD ineffectually bombard the base as a Convoy moves in. To the east sits what appear to be three CVE. From Ndeni a strike of 33 Franks and 24 Judy comes in. They encounter and brush aside 7 F4F (5 Shot down) and then pushover into their dives. Bombs rein on the TF before it can begin unloading. An LST, 2 AP, an AK, and a KV are sunk while troops are on-board. A second strike by five Jills flying at extreme range from Lunga sink another LST.

This should sting the Allies a bit and, I hope, he comes right back in. The real action can begin there in two days.

Economics
We cross the 800,000 stored HI threshold. My goal is to get to 1,000,000 before the economic wheels fall off. Each month is netting me 100,000 presently. As long as we can get 1-2 more TK TF home then I guarantee full production to the start of 1945.





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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 5:43:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds like a very good turn indeed! Impressed with Sam performance -- want to share your defensive settings?

You are one of the few JFB to get Sam this early!


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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 8:34:12 PM   
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Luganville
As promised action does occur here. It is the one-sided GOOD NEWS of the day. A STF of BB Pennsylvania, a CA, a CL, and 4 DD ineffectually bombard the base as a Convoy moves in. To the east sits what appear to be three CVE. From Ndeni a strike of 33 Franks and 24 Judy comes in. They encounter and brush aside 7 F4F (5 Shot down) and then pushover into their dives. Bombs rein on the TF before it can begin unloading. An LST, 2 AP, an AK, and a KV are sunk while troops are on-board. A second strike by five Jills flying at extreme range from Lunga sink another LST.

This should sting the Allies a bit and, I hope, he comes right back in. The real action can begin there in two days.


Nice. Sinking laden transports is probably my second favorite thing to do in the game.

What was the combat report butcher's bill for this failed landing?

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RE: June 1944 - 4/13/2017 11:45:22 PM   
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RE: June 1944 - 4/14/2017 3:52:46 AM   
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Sounds like a very good turn indeed! Impressed with Sam performance -- want to share your defensive settings?

You are one of the few JFB to get Sam this early!



I deployed three Daitai of 27 each and one of A6M8. Wanted to send all eight available but could not bring myself to strip my CVs, at sea, of all their fighters. Two were set of 31K and the 3rd was at 26K. Range set to 0. I had them on 70% CAP.

These were complemented by Franks flying at roughly the same altitude.

They chewed up the Spitfires and held their own against the P-47. Don't know what they might have done versus the P-51 as they had been beaten down pretty good by the time this 7th squadron came in.

Everyone flying got the diving bonus against those B-29. Didn't shoot down very many but really damaged a bunch.


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RE: June 1944 - 4/14/2017 4:31:36 AM   
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Everyone flying got the diving bonus against those B-29. Didn't shoot down very many but really damaged a bunch.





From scripture.....

1-"Also, damaged planes will be less likely to return successfully to their base if they have to fly a long return trip."
2-"However, damaged big bombers are lost more often on landing than in air-to-air combat."


Are you seeing only dogfighting shot down Allied planes or shot down overall? If only dogfighting then some bombers may not make it back or will crash on landing.




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RE: June 1944 - 4/14/2017 9:40:22 AM   
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Off Miri

The Japanese Surface contingent in the DEI has known many problems over the last few months but they have also occasionally scored some victories. This day appears to be one of the latter.

BB Musashi, CL Isuzu, and 2 DDs do a sweep in preparation of BB Nagato's bombardment of the base. In coming in the battleship and her escorts assume positions for surface encounter. They certainly get that as they fight two separate TFs of 3 Fletcher DDs each.

While word is that these modern American DDs are quite dangerous, this day and night does nothing to prove that. There is nothing a DD can do when a 46CM shell smacks it. Of the six American DDs that enter the fight this day Bradford, Hoel, Spence, Claxton, and Conyngham find themselves issuing distress calls as they sink. For this fine haul of DDs, the Japanese lose DD Yamakaze see moderate damage to DD Mochizuki and Isuzu and Musashi takes a TT that does no damage.

The sun rises as Claxton and Conyngham are sunk. A protective CAP fills the skies over the two TFs. Two strikes by 14 and 11 American SBDs come in. The CAP shoots down roughly half of each strike. Nagato takes 2 bombs and Musashi gets hit once.

The Musashi reforms with Nagato and they preapre for more trouble before heading home to Singapore.

Damage:
Musashi SYS 18, FLOT 8, ENG 2
Nagato SYS 14, FLOT 9, ENG 1

FIVE Fletchers isn't much in the big picture but it was nice to see them sink after just one or two 46CM hits!





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RE: June 1944 - 4/14/2017 9:53:20 AM   
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RE: June 1944 - 4/14/2017 9:56:17 AM   
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Over San Fernando

For the last week or so Japanese AKs/APs have been lifting shattered troops off at San Fernando, Luzon. The pilots defending this port have faced numerous Fighters and, yesterday, the fearsome B-29. This day they patrol waiting for the inevitable Allied Fighters Sweeps. NONE come. Down below 20 AKs work to load an Air Fleet and Air Flotilla HQ, two Engineering units, and a Base Force. Morning gives way to the afternoon when radar picks up a formation of aircraft approaching. Bracing for the B-29 or B-24 or, perhaps, a squadron of P-47s, the Japanese are shocked to see over 30 un-escorted SBD DB.

BANZAI!

Over 100 Fighters tear into them. There are no survivors...

(Aircraft losses for June 27th)





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RE: June 1944 - 4/14/2017 9:57:19 AM   
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Why are you UP posting at 3:50am your time??


Couldn't sleep. Woke up at 2am and decided to run the turn. Headed back to beddy-bye now.


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RE: June 1944 - 4/14/2017 9:59:43 AM   
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Tulagi, SOLOMONS

For the Allies, the last few weeks have seen several sharp reverses and losses for them in this region.

Little do they know the profound danger that they are now in.

Unknown to the Allies a Japanese Task Force arrives at Tulagi and drains the last drops of fuel left at the Port...


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RE: June 1944 - 4/14/2017 12:26:42 PM   
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June 27, 1944
Over San Fernando

For the last week or so Japanese AKs/APs have been lifting shattered troops off at San Fernando, Luzon. The pilots defending this port have faced numerous Fighters and, yesterday, the fearsome B-29. This day they patrol waiting for the inevitable Allied Fighters Sweeps. NONE come. Down below 20 AKs work to load an Air Fleet and Air Flotilla HQ, two Engineering units, and a Base Force. Morning gives way to the afternoon when radar picks up a formation of aircraft approaching. Bracing for the B-29 or B-24 or, perhaps, a squadron of P-47s, the Japanese are shocked to see over 30 un-escorted SBD DB.

BANZAI!

Over 100 Fighters tear into them. There are no survivors...

(Aircraft losses for June 27th)







Very nicely done, John!

Butchering unescorted DBs or TBs en masse is my third favorite thing to do in this game!

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RE: June 1944 - 4/14/2017 12:35:29 PM   
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Unknown to the Allies a Japanese Task Force arrives at Tulagi and drains the last drops of fuel left at the Port...


I assume this is part of the Kaigun? I'm hoping that the falling cherry blossoms debut soon.

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