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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/15/2018 5:15:54 AM

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Merauke - Check your moonlight levels. If its over 50% I would try a massive night bombing of AF to try to destroy some of those damaged HB.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/15/2018 9:20:59 AM

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I'll have to check the moonlight %. I seem to think it's kind of low. But that is a good idea. I got the turn back last night but it'll have to wait until I come home from work this afternoon.

This work stuff is eating into my WitP time. Priorities are all wrong.

Two more years...

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/15/2018 10:40:59 AM

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Six more years...

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 12:04:51 AM

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I'm always afraid that the ASW TF will leave the carrier behind.

It should slow to allow the following TF to keep up. At least that's what I've always thought.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 12:11:27 AM

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22 Oct 43

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Pretty boring turn, actually.

Aren't they the best kind. It means you didn't loose anything.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 12:14:43 AM

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This has been my workhorse for surface and ASW action throughout the war in the SE Fleet AO.

Do they carry the type 2 DC's? These are Japan's best. IIRC they don't.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 12:26:22 AM

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28 B-24s hit Boela�s oil field damaging 18 of the 25 oil fields.

Mike, Mike, this is what Rufe's and Nick's are for, backfield defense. You could maybe even have some Rex's and Randy's by now. Maybe some AAA. They may not stop everything, but could maybe throw off his aim and save something. At least exact your pound of flesh.

OK, maybe next game.

But for now think about what targets he's going to be upon next, and try to prepare them with some defenses. I think these will be more important to you. Think defense in depth.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 12:30:40 AM

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Zuikaku safely made Ulithi today.

How far is that port from Manus? At level 6 if he's in range and gets eyes on Ulithi and strikes the port kiss those carriers good-bye.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 12:38:39 AM

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Burning all that fuel to use 10 SSTs to drop 180 supply...

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The Allied 2E bombers took out the remnants of the Wewak garrison, the 4 South Seas Garrison and 58 JNAF AF Unit. They�ll be rebuilt.

IIRC some Japanese SST will carry at least 40 supply each. I think some of the latter ones will carry a bit more. I know still not much, but delay, delay, delay, is after all Japan's motto.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 12:41:51 AM

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Two more years...

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Six more years...

Done, and still can't seem to make enough time available to play.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 9:33:15 PM

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What is the longest running AE game you know of? In real time.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 9:56:19 PM

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What is the longest running AE game you know of? In real time.

I'm pretty certain there are longer, but last year Walter and I finished after 5 years and 2 months.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 10:14:43 PM

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Well this one here is approaching 7 years.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 10:17:15 PM

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Six more years...

Getting there, old man.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 10:19:13 PM

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(Fubuki class)

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This has been my workhorse for surface and ASW action throughout the war in the SE Fleet AO.

Do they carry the type 2 DC's? These are Japan's best. IIRC they don't.

Type 95 Mod 2 I'm pretty sure. Better than nothing. Just about all of my Type 95 ASW ships are patrolling shallow hexes. I really need more ASW. Can't have enough of it right now.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 10:29:57 PM

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28 B-24s hit Boela�s oil field damaging 18 of the 25 oil fields.

Mike, Mike, this is what Rufe's and Nick's are for, backfield defense. You could maybe even have some Rex's and Randy's by now. Maybe some AAA. They may not stop everything, but could maybe throw off his aim and save something. At least exact your pound of flesh. OK, maybe next game.

But for now think about what targets he's going to be upon next, and try to prepare them with some defenses. I think these will be more important to you. Think defense in depth.

Hmm, never thought of that. I'm in new territory here. Never got remotely this far along in the game. Spring 43 was the farthest before this game. I'll start moving fighters to other oil fields. AA is present at them already. I never bothered with those two little ones. I never expected them to last anywhere near this long.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 10:30:33 PM

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Zuikaku safely made Ulithi today.

How far is that port from Manus? At level 6 if he's in range and gets eyes on Ulithi and strikes the port kiss those carriers good-bye.

Ulithi is out of range fortunately. No recon there at all.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 10:34:34 PM

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What is the longest running AE game you know of? In real time.

Heh, no clue.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/16/2018 10:35:42 PM

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Turn just showed up. Later...

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/17/2018 4:24:53 PM

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What is the longest running AE game you know of? In real time.

I'm pretty certain there are longer, but last year Walter and I finished after 5 years and 2 months.

I'm currently at 4 years, 11 months in my Bullwinkle/Obvert game.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/17/2018 5:38:24 PM

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What is the longest running AE game you know of? In real time.

I'm pretty certain there are longer, but last year Walter and I finished after 5 years and 2 months.

I'm currently at 4 years, 11 months in my Bullwinkle/Obvert game.

Man, you guys are a bunch of slackers!

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/17/2018 6:11:41 PM

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25 Oct 43

Sub War

Rough day for Japanese subs south of Manus. Ted has at least 4 ASW TFs running around down there. I'm pulling out of that area. Too hot right now.

The I-184 was attacked by two different ASW TFs south of Manus, hit by both and sunk.

The RO-104 was also hit in the same area, but her damage wasn't too bad: 15-34(22)-0-0. She's trying to make her way out.

5 Fleet
4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

The US carriers are sitting at Manus. I think he's still afraid of my carriers ambushing them. Does he know about my 3 Unryus? He hasn't spotted them or attacked them, but maybe he got some intel. *shrug* He may just be waiting for the rest of his thundering herd of carriers to arrive. Why do they sit at Manus? Maybe because he's afraid of my subs. So many questions...

Not much happened here today. Just the usual 2E bombing, this time of Rabaul and Talasea.

SRA

Well, my 2 BBs ran into that little TF at Darwin. It was composed of DDs Walke and Stuart, an xAK and an xAP and sank all 4 ships. The xAP was empty.

Then they bombarded Darwin causing light airfield damage and the following plane damage:
Catalina I: 1 dest, 3 damaged
Beaufort VIII: 2 dest, 15 damaged
SBD3: 2 dest, 8 damaged

On their way out, they found a small TF of 3x LCTs and sank them.

In retrospect, the TF should have gone to Merauke to try and kill some 4E bombers. That's much more important than sinking a ground unit.

I have 4 CAs heading back to Ambon from refit at Soerabaja. They're being diverted to Merauke. Unfortunately, it'll take a couple days to make it there.

I've noticed that the number of 4E bombers at Merauke has decreased to ~30. I suspect the undamaged planes have flown out leaving some juicy damaged bombers remaining.

I tried to send some bombers there for a night raid or two, but the moonlight is currently at 0%.

Figures.

Burma

A sweep of Cox's Bazaar netted 9 Allied fighters shot down (+4 op losses) to 2 Tojos shot down (+1 op loss). The number of fighters spotted at Akyab, Cox's Bazaar and Chittagong keeps decreasing. I figure as long as I can keep air superiority, I can hold off the inevitable offensive there a little longer. I know, I need to pull back and I will eventually. Right now I have 9 divisions in the line with a reserve of another division and the 2 Tank Divisions. All 10 divisions are at full strength.

I'm unable to sweep Ledo because of a lack of supply in the NE of Burma. That damn monsoon isn't over yet. Rangoon has plenty of supply, but it just isn't making its way that far.

China

The number of destroyed squads is beginning to creep up from the air bombardment. It still isn't much, but it's definitely on the rise. Today, 5 squads were destroyed with another 33 damaged.

There will be a deliberate assault in a few more days.

Other Stuff

The N1K5-J George R&D advanced to 5/45 (will become operational 5/44).

Confirmation on 3 more ships sunk earlier, an AM and xAK, and the SS Guardfish, sunk by Helens off Truk on 5/28/43. I'm counting 53 Allied subs sunk so far in the war. Some of them haven't sunk in reality, but the number is creeping up.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/17/2018 6:53:30 PM

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26 Oct 43

Sub War

The Billfish has been hanging around in the shallow hex to the NW of Jesselton for quite a while now, causing major problems. The convoys out of Singapore using the coastal route go through that hex. I've been avoiding that hex like the plague and had anything that carried a DC rack there hunting her. It finally paid off. The PB(!) Kyo Maru #13 hit her twice. There's no confirmation of her sinking but she's not in the hex any more.

5 Fleet
4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

Interesting day here today.

First the mundane...

Allied 2E bombers hit Talasea and Rabaul.

Apparently, Ted wanted to whittle down my fighters defending Truk and sent 2 squadrons of P-38G and 1 squadron of P-38H to sweep. They went in separately. It didn't go quite as expected:

1st attack:
24 P-38G vs. 176 Japanese fighters (George 2, Nick, Tojo, Frank and Tony)

9 Lightnings went home.

2nd attack:
21 P-38H (first time I've seen them) vs. 165 Japanese fighters
10 Lightnings went home.

3rd attack:
25 P-38G vs. 165 Japanese fighters
11 Lightnings went home. One Tojo was shot down and the pilot was WIA.

Overall, 40 of 70 Lightnings were shot down with another 5 op losses. My one Tojo was shot down with 3 more Tojos and a Nick as op losses. I can take these kinds of battles.

All this battle did was to give my pilots some nice experience.

I think he may give up on Truk after this fiasco. We'll see. If he attacks again in a week or so, maybe not. At some point I'll have to pull some of the fighters out to guard other locations, but not yet. He's upped the number of subs hanging out around Truk, but they are taking more damage than they're giving. That tells me he wants to put Truk out of business.

SRA

A DD showed up at Darwin. Interesting. The 4 CA bombardment force is 2 days out of Merauke. I see 27 bombers, probably the damaged bombers from the bombardment a couple of days ago.

Burma

The sweep of Akyab cost me more planes than Ted for a change. 4 Tojos to 3 Hurricanes shot down. Between Akyab and Chittagong, I see only 17 fighters, with none at Cox's Bazaar. I'll keep pushing until he pulls out. There are 30 fighters at Ledo. They're beyond my reach most of the time with the monsoon messing with my supply.

China

149x 2E sorties against Chungking. 13 squads destroyed and 60 squads disabled.

Other Stuff

Reinforcements:

Zuiho-2 rebuilt, 9 Jills and will be assigned to Nisshin.
xAK Ekisan Maru, converting to a TK.

I got confirmation on another sub sunk, the S-42 by Helens off Adak.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/17/2018 8:19:57 PM

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25 Oct 43

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Rough day for Japanese subs south of Manus. Ted has at least 4 ASW TFs running around down there. I'm pulling out of that area. Too hot right now.

The I-184 was attacked by two different ASW TFs south of Manus, hit by both and sunk.

The RO-104 was also hit in the same area, but her damage wasn't too bad: 15-34(22)-0-0. She's trying to make her way out.

Isn't this about where the USS England sank 6 Jap subs in 12 days?

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/17/2018 11:11:55 PM

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Never heard about the USS England. Gotta look that up.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/17/2018 11:24:31 PM

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27 Oct 43

Sub War

Things were a little more even today.

The Scorpion ate a DC off Truk.

The RO-39 ate 2 DCs a couple hexes NE of Wewak. She's joining the string of subs limping toward Truk: 38-64(31)-5(1)-0.

5 Fleet
4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

Talasea and Rabaul were the recipients of the 2E bomber visits.

Kaga is fully repaired at Truk! She picked up an escort and is leaving Truk for Saipan. Her Judies are flying ASW and the Jills are providing naval search, both out 1 hex. The Zeros are flying CAP in the TF hex only. She should make Saipan in 2 days. Fingers crossed.

Now, Akagi is bumped up to critical. She should repair in 26 days: 35-7(7)-8-0.

SRA

I have some 45 Nells and Betties trying to hit Merauke's airfield at night. Exactly 5 flew and damaged 1 B-24. Really?

I goofed and left the 4 CAs on retirement so they're headed back to Ambon.

They'll get in position tomorrow and bombard Merauke the day after.

Burma

Nothing flew today.

China

73 sorties flew killing 1 squad and disabling 28.

Other Stuff

Reinforcements:

TK Hidaka Maru, Type-1 TL, 11.6k capacity
DD Asashimo, Yugumo class, will join KB.
3 Area Army HQ, Kwantung Army

The Ki-67-Ia R&D advanced to 3/44 (will become operational 2/44).

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/18/2018 7:15:40 PM

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Zuikaku safely made Ulithi today.

How far is that port from Manus? At level 6 if he's in range and gets eyes on Ulithi and strikes the port kiss those carriers good-bye.

Ulithi is out of range fortunately. No recon there at all.

Yeah, I checked, but that base is still pretty exposed to a naval strike if he gets wind that you've CV's based at that locale. Makes me nervous and they're not my CV's.

Don't know what his intel tells him, but even if he notices AR's and Navel HQ's heading to the place it could be a clue. It could just be me though, losing carriers on the Japanese side makes me cringe.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/18/2018 7:26:26 PM

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Apparently, Ted wanted to whittle down my fighters defending Truk and sent 2 squadrons of P-38G and 1 squadron of P-38H to sweep. They went in separately. It didn't go quite as expected:

1st attack:
24 P-38G vs. 176 Japanese fighters (George 2, Nick, Tojo, Frank and Tony)

9 Lightnings went home.

2nd attack:
21 P-38H (first time I've seen them) vs. 165 Japanese fighters
10 Lightnings went home.

3rd attack:
25 P-38G vs. 165 Japanese fighters
11 Lightnings went home. One Tojo was shot down and the pilot was WIA.

Overall, 40 of 70 Lightnings were shot down with another 5 op losses. My one Tojo was shot down with 3 more Tojos and a Nick as op losses. I can take these kinds of battles. All this battle did was to give my pilots some nice experience.

I think he may give up on Truk after this fiasco.

Yeah, Truk requires a different approach IMHO. IRL the Allies had Truk in a different position than in your game. More needs to be done to isolate it than an attack from Manus. It seems to me that Manus would just better serve as flank protection for his advance up NG. Once his carriers are fully back in action it seems he would be best served by moving through the Gilbert's and Marshall's once more. Thereby putting more pressure on your resources. But his failed efforts are your gains. I would've thought he realized this when he saw the number of A/C that intercepted his HB's.

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/18/2018 8:56:07 PM

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Yeah, I checked, but that base is still pretty exposed to a navel strike if he gets wind that you've CV's based at that locale. Makes me nervous and they're not my CV's.

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Isn't that when you get into a tickle contest with your kids?

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RE: Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 8/20/2018 6:21:08 PM

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Yeah, I checked, but that base is still pretty exposed to a navel strike if he gets wind that you've CV's based at that locale. Makes me nervous and they're not my CV's.

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Isn't that when you get into a tickle contest with your kids?

Oops. OK, OK. I fixed it.

P. S. The tickle contests are now with the grand-kids.

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