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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/8/2018 10:47:00 PM

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Very calculating of you Hans, remind me not play drinking games with you. Looking at the history at Iwo it could be just a squad
that finally overcomes a particular hard point and moves the ball down the field a couple of yards. Bloody business. I'm trying to
follow up with the math as far as supply is concerned but that should not be as issue at this date.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/8/2018 11:28:28 PM

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Ketoi: Inbound bombardment TF tangles with an enemy sub.

At the moment, Erik has low or no detection on Allied TFs, due either to weather or to him conserving his search planes (Death Star CAP downs alot). But my search planes have decent detection on his subs. Advantage: ASW.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/8/2018 11:31:25 PM

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Ketoi: First bombardment has modest results.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/8/2018 11:35:51 PM

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Ketoi: BB bombardment effective.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/8/2018 11:38:54 PM

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Ketoi: Erik vectoring subs. I have a bunch of ASW in the vicinity but my bombardment TFs have been doing the ASW work the past two turns.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 12:24:22 AM

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Burma Sweeps: General sweeps of the big Japanese airfield at Chang Mai meets heavy resistance (yesterday, weather kept what was to be the opening day to just a few squadrons of Allied fighters).

Today's action is long and violent. Early sweeps go Japan's way. Later sweeps are decisively in favor of the Allies. I won't post further sweep screens, but I'll post overall air losses later.

This is good terrain to fight. I think Japan is using first team fighters while I'm using mostly second team.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 12:30:02 AM

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Ketoi: Weather clears over Ketoi, too, allowing 4EB to hit ground troops. The strikes have an effect but aren't overpowering. Cumulatively, will a series of bombardments and bombings affect Japanese ground troops?

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 12:32:31 AM

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Ketoi: Amidst a number of other bomber strikes, the Venturas again fly cohesively and seem to perform well.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 12:40:46 AM

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Marcus: KB making a grand tour of the Pacific.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 12:50:41 AM

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Ketoi: Deliberate attack limited to Allied armor and combat engineer unit doesn't touch forts, but damage inflicted is decent. Enemy malus for disruption is encouraging.

This graphic shows the units at the start of the attack, so IJ AV probably dropped a bit.

Erik will take more aggressive action if he feels like the Allies attacks are gaining ground or otherwise feels his position is precarious. With KB away, the biggest threats are subs and LBA.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 1:12:01 AM

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Burma: 2nd Team Allies vs. 1st Team (I think) Japanese yields pretty good results. In the past, a turn like this one would prompt Erik to withdraw his fighters from the front lines for a week or more. I'm anxious to see what he does this time.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 1:14:43 AM

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Empties and Cripples: The egress of the empties went pretty well, despite the enemy carrier ambush south of the Aleutians. Hundreds of empty transports are en route to West Coast ports to load supplies. The egress included all the moderately damaged subs that had been forced into action at Shikuka during the desperate hours of the siege. The first two reached Prince Rupert today to begin repairs.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 7:32:12 AM

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Great post Hans. Sounds like a very well thought out plan. Immediately bookmarked.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 3:20:40 PM

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I noticed Lexington only had system damage but was in the yard. Sometime just being on pier side will speed things up a bit depending on naval support available so worth switching between the two to check. Also if Lex is in mainland US then no reason not to bump up the priority as this may also speed up repairs as the only downside is usually using more supply although if there are other ships being repaired this can adversely effect them.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 3:56:13 PM

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I had checked all the various possibilities and none resulted in faster completion of repairs.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 5:17:40 PM

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I had checked all the various possibilities and none resulted in faster completion of repairs.

It doesn't matter now with so few days left, but you could have done better. Not in Alameda most likely, but in a bigger port like SF or Seattle. In Shipyard mode the yard is the only source of repair points, so fixing System damage alone in that mode is worse than in Pierside. In Pierside, you get points from the naval support, any unused ARs in the port, ship's company, and the Port itself. Four potential sources versus one.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2990845&mpage=1&key=ship%2Crepair

Always worth a review.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 5:45:39 PM

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I had a handful of carriers all spread out - Bremerton, San Fran, Alameda. I tried Pierside but the time was the same (or roughly so), in part because the ship was also due an upgrade.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 5:54:58 PM

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Off Topic

A co-ed working a summer fast food job asked about a good book to read. I suggested To Kill a Mockingbird, when I learned that she hadn't read it before.

In return, she made me promise to read Copper Sun, her favorite book. I'm about one-third of the way through. It deals with a young African women taken captive and sold into slavery in South Carolina in the 1700s. I'm finding the writing gratingly simplistic, but the book does a fine job of making the reader think about what it would be like to be a young female slave.

Another book along those lines is Jubilee, which I re-read last summer. The first part of that book is compelling, though I didn't think the second-half nearly as good. The only issue with it was that the writer was particularly ill-informed about nature, geography and history. She had Georgia seceding through act of the legislature and made serious blunders with regard to how long it might take to get from A to B and what route one would take in doing so. But it still made me think. And there's value in that.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/9/2018 6:15:44 PM

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If you wish to further explore the topic in beautifully written prose look no further than The Underground Railroad. It tells a ripping story good story. Difficult at times, but the subject matter makes it necessary. Did I mention it won the Pulitzer prize?

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/10/2018 1:46:16 AM

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Thanks, John. I might've read that in high school, but I only have a vague memory. I'll git it a try on your recommend. After all, it's been about five years since I first read With the Old Breed (and since then, I've re-read it).

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/10/2018 1:49:02 AM

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Ketoi: As this turn unfolds, I am going to discover something annoying - two big bombardment TFs are set to come in, this being their second day from Shikuka�.but they aren't going to come in for reasons unknown. You know the weird bombardment routine. I may tinker with this now, manually setting up bombardments rather than letting the computer do so. The unfortunate thing is that the infantry is attacking, so I was hoping the bombardment would have a beneficial pre-attack impact.

Things will be mostly quiet at Ketoi during the opening and middle parts of the turn, apart from this little skirmish and some decent bombing runs by 4EB out of Shikuka.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/10/2018 2:13:02 AM

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Ketoi: Allied unit AV is dropping rapidly, some IJ units likewise, and forts drop by one to 3. Before the next attack, some reinforcements are scheduled to come ashore and a number of bombardments should come off.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/10/2018 1:04:41 PM

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I'm currently reading Barbara Tuchman outstanding Guns of August, about the outbreak and first month of WWI. I believe much of our current world is shaped by the events in this book. Clear, concise ,beautifully written history book. It's like a car crash on ice. you are standing on the brakes, knowing whats is happening, and powerless to change things no matter how hard you try. If any of the major players had done a single thing differently our would today would be entirely different. So may chances for events to turn out differently. The world changed that month.....and a master story teller explains how it happened. Mrs. Tuchman has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, including for this book. She can tell a story. A big book and a great summer read.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/10/2018 3:45:08 PM

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I didn't know that. Is there some practical reason for that or just a peculiarity of game mechanics?

A peculiarity of game mechanics. I don't know the details and didn't want to learn them, but it has something to do with the attack routines. It's not that the 4th ship is detrimental, just that it's wasted. For some reason, only 3 ships ever get the chance to attack the sub (or something like that).

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/10/2018 4:29:47 PM

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10/23/44

Ketoi: ASW battles every turn.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 6/10/2018 4:33:14 PM

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Nagano: First B-29 strat raid in a long time - I chose a fairly obscure target but Erik was waiting. No letting down of the guard. No hits scored on the night.