Elrod
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Good morning everyone. I'm running one of the later scens, it's the long one where the IJ starts off with everything except Australia, New Caledonia and the small string of islands to the North.
Here's the scen to date. I made a mad dash with heavy transport fleets supported by 2 Air combat groups and a large surface combat force and within 2 weeks I had control of all three bases North of New Caledonia. I then shuttled 40+ Betties and 20+ Nells along with half of my Zero force into Luganville, Efte and the third base in that chain. My Carrier forces were positioned behind the Island chain with my Long Cap zeros providing a defensive screen, while I used my Betties to bang away at Allied Shipping.
During the third week I used AP's to take control of all of the Coast watchers camps around my islands and I brough troops into the base on the opposite end of New Caledonia from Noumau.
The 4th week is when things got really hairy. It was time to stop being sneaky and meet the Allies on the blue water and se what happened. On the second day I found out. A Mavis operating out of Luganville picked up 2 US CV groups poking North out of Noumau heading in close proximity to where I had sent my 2 Air Combat fleets. The resulting 30 minutes had me chewing my nails, pulling my hair and rocking in my chair in the fetal position.
When the smoke had cleared there had been 2 waves of attacks from each side that included every acft type the IJ has and everything but Mitchells from the US. In the malestrom 7 CV's, 3 BB, and numerous DD's went to the bottom. 260+ aircraft were destroyed and I was a nervous wreck. I deffinatley came out on teh best end of the engagement as I lost 2 carriers, 1 CVE and the Kaga, the Shoho and the Akagi was damaged but still operating. The US lost Yorktown, Hornet, Wasp, Saratoga and the Lexington (3 sank on day 1 and 2 the following night phase.).
I transfered my few remaining zeros to the land bases for Betty escort duty and sent my banged up Air Combat group North to Truk for refit and a well deserved rest.
Well another 2 weeks has passed and I have only received 1 group of Vals from the homeland so my carriers are sitting in Truk harbor with their decks bare hoping for new birds. The battle down South has become a cat and mouse game between my Betties and Zeros and teh US B-17s and Wildcats. I have sent numerous AP and AK vessles to the bottom. and he has sent several night bombardment strieks against Efte but for the most part things have gotten very quiet.
The biggest challenge now is the constant stream of supply vessles I am running from Truk to the Southern Bases, Port Moresby and Gili Gili.
So with all of that being said does it always take so long to get new birds from the homeland for CV replacement? and has anyone else had such luck on a massive CV battle as I did. The dauntlesses and Vals were falling like rain.
What a rush hehehe.
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