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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/7/2018 12:04:46 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		Had a winter storm and lost power till yesterday. Currently expecting another 6-12 inches today, and the snow is coming down. A wet heavy snow sticking to the trees and power lines.

May 28, 1942

A quiet day, but did manage to get a battleship that suffered three torpedo strikes out of Sinkawang and headed from Brunei without getting hit by anymore subs. Allies continue heavy night bombing...during the day they rested their bombers.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/8/2018 7:42:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		We recently moved to NY State (Catskills) and got hammered the last couple of days. Parts of the county was without power. We were fortunate but also have a backup generator.

Good luck.


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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/8/2018 9:59:09 PM   
Lowpe


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May 29, 1942

The A6M3 flies.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/8/2018 10:00:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Good results...heavy night bombing in Manchuko again, like every night.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/9/2018 2:48:34 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		Spoke to soon, lost power after the storm...but it is back on now and turn is away. So close to the Tojo IIa joining the fray.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/9/2018 3:04:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looking at the news, round 3 is out in the Atlantic. Keep your snow shovel handy, and hunker down

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/9/2018 11:11:25 PM   
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Night bombing in Manchuko, Allied bombers quiet elsewhere.

Managed to buy out only the 2nd division this game...headed for the SRA.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/9/2018 11:15:31 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		Managed to get the stricken Mutsu away from the front lines and back to Brunei....level 3 port with some repair ships. Now, most of the subs are west and north, but there are a few enemy subs on the route back to Honshu.

So many enemy subs this game.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/10/2018 4:47:23 PM   
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Last day of May goes out pretty quiet....some of my warships didn't do as they were told, and there was an interesting surface engagement between an RO boat and and an xakl....the sub took one penetrating hit from a .303 mg and called off the attack after inflicting 8 hits on the small cargo ship.

June 1st tomorrow and the Tojo IIa.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/11/2018 1:06:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Another storm headed here....will be in western VA today and back in Philadelphia for following round. Or perhaps I will be simply travel with the storm.

It is interesting watching all the forecasters, who have gotten burned badly on the first storm, did better on the 2nd storm and are very nervous about predicting this one with lots of caveats. Rain, snow, and mixed precip...they are calling for it all!

Ringing in the new month with some targeted attacks.


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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/11/2018 1:58:30 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Another storm headed here....will be in western VA today and back in Philadelphia for following round. Or perhaps I will be simply travel with the storm.

It is interesting watching all the forecasters, who have gotten burned badly on the first storm, did better on the 2nd storm and are very nervous about predicting this one with lots of caveats. Rain, snow, and mixed precip...they are calling for it all!



Play this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu2pVPWGYMQ

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/12/2018 2:03:19 AM   
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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/12/2018 2:14:13 PM   
adarbrauner

 

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ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Kill the ground hog, kill the ground hog, kill the ground hog!

huh?

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/12/2018 2:27:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's a reference to Groundhog Day, February 2, and a supposed "prediction" of the end of winter in 6 weeks. In other words, kill the messenger. It's an admittedly silly American tradition.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/12/2018 9:49:41 PM   
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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/13/2018 12:42:10 AM   
Bif1961


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Status: offline 		Since the ground hog predicted 6 more weeks of winter, now into the 6th week since and New England is about to have their 3rd Nor'Easter since.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/13/2018 1:31:47 AM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		Waiting on a turn...June 1st brings in much strength:

Tojo IIa starts production at a healthy 100 plane per month build, will up that to 120.

Type 1 Medium Tanks arrive...and later in the month the 1st and 2nd Tank Divisions will be able to form up.


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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/13/2018 3:23:05 PM   
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Last day of May, and there is a small action at Ambon. That ship fought off a surface sub action in the prior days...but sinks today.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/13/2018 3:26:08 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		Up in the Aleutians...a little disappointed here, as the light cruisers were supposed to hit the Allied ships, and Allied I mean with Soviet, American and New Zealand ships all in one task force, several days ago. That they didn't go in led me to believe that a strong air threat was present.

I had to use a waypoint, 0 reaction, direct, absolute to get them to move in with the destination and based port right next door.





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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/13/2018 3:35:14 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		The expected aerial counter attack.

I used really odd settings, because I was concerned that the task force might not make port. I splintered the sentai into thirds. I flew layered altitude, and two splinters had a 40% CAP, 40% LRCAP, and 0 range setting, while the lowest altitude splinter had a 30% CAP, 40% LRCAP, 10% rest setting. Altitudes were 2,000 feet, 12,000 feet, and 16,000 feet.

I was worried about 1,000 foot attacks, a tactic the Allies use a lot, and worried that the ships would divert somewhere unexpected.

I would have been arguably better off with 80% CAP, 0 Range, which probably meant 24 planes would have intercepted, but in this fight for whatever reason the Zeroes simply flew thru the escorting P40's very quickly and downed quite a few of the SBDs.






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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/13/2018 3:49:20 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		Reported sunk ships...interesting that Soviet ships can task force with all other Allied ships.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/13/2018 3:53:21 PM   
Lowpe


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Absolutely no Allied night bombing this day. A few Kates sortie at night but they never hit any ships.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/13/2018 5:34:16 PM   
Lowpe


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Soviet subs are literally everywhere.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/14/2018 2:39:36 PM   
Lowpe


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No night bombing.

I boat surge around Singers....

A lone destroyer finds another lone cargo trawler in the SRA.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/14/2018 2:40:47 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		IJN strikes ships by their lonesome....there is a ton of Allied mines around...




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/14/2018 2:42:45 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		We miss the xakl Oklahoman, hit the xakl Katong destroying two guns, and damage this big girl.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/14/2018 2:49:40 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		Sallies strike a small runway above Singers, escorted by some Oscars...catch a few Australians on the ground.

8 P38s sweep looking for bleeding cap, but there is none.

I foolishly left a glen on search near Singers.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/14/2018 2:53:06 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		First full day of new production and upgrades for Japan. June is such a good month with new radars and the Type 1 Medium Tank. A partial list of the upgrades.




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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/14/2018 3:03:07 PM   
Lowpe


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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 3/14/2018 4:47:55 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		So, I have never really had success in using the miniKb, so what I am doing in this game is using them at port size 3 or larger bases, having them docked, and using them to bolster either the CAP or ASW search from such bases. When I have the fighters, I will form them back up to use offensively, but not there yet.

I have been doing the ASW portion for a while, and I am just now starting to use them to bolster the CAP.

I am not sure how the planes launch and land without the carrier moving...I am going to conclude they do it from within the port safe behind the submarine nets. I am not even sure the CAP will fly...but the ASW does seem to fly -- for example Kates are flying from a CVE docked, in an escort task force at Cam Ranh Bay, and a Kate detected radio transmissions in the operations report...no other Kates are flying in the area.

There were 5 Allied sub encounters first thing on this day...but four out of five where clashes with ASW groups, and the 5th the escort was attacked. So I am doing somewhat better at countering Allied subs...just can't sink or damage them yet-- although Tracker tells me I have destroyed 18 (only 2 IJN subs lost so far although 8 midgets gone). Most days there will around a dozen Allied sub encounters per day...






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