Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi
Sub attack near Carnarvon at 48,132

Japanese Ships
SS I-158

Allied Ships
AO TAN 2, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Abraham Crijnssen
i'm really hoping this was part of the refueling tf for the CVs north of Australia. Might make thing a little tougher for them.

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi
Sub attack near Carnarvon at 48,132

Japanese Ships
SS I-158

Allied Ships
AO TAN 2, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Abraham Crijnssen
i'm really hoping this was part of the refueling tf for the CVs north of Australia. Might make thing a little tougher for them.

Those AO TANs are Dutch pitiful tankers, which begin war around Java. Probably just evacuating fuel from DEI. They have like 1000 capacity.

Problem with strafing is that every MG will fire against you, so any attack on large group of LCUs is suicide, and there is hardly any reason to strafe small groups. 4Es are good at this, but as Japan you only lose planes.
Use your NICKs against B-17. They have good guns, but are bad against fighters.

Also, planes can advance during month, so you will get RUFE production, but don't try to use them against enemy fighters.

Your submarines near enemy ports will be hunted by enemy (but in return you can hunt those small TFs with your ships). Use them to finish damaged enemy ships, and for detect enemy movement. Also, loaded enemy transports are good targets, especially full of planes, or fuel. Drop some mines in smaller ports, larger probably have dedicate mine sweepers. You probably already know that, but Midget Submarines are useless, but you can put them in your own ports, where they can even hit something and survive.

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

It's February 26th and my Rufe research is 78%. any chance 1942 is a leap year????????????

i'd like some for my little spy bases and CSs.

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ORIGINAL: jdsrae

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

It's February 26th and my Rufe research is 78%. any chance 1942 is a leap year????????????

i'd like some for my little spy bases and CSs.

Looks like you’ll be able to start building Rufes within a week then.
How many are you planning to build per month?

Letting 1x30 factory produce them should be more than enough as not many groups can upgrade to them, but that means it will take you a few weeks of production before you have enough to equip the first air group.

Have you thought about what you will do with the other Rufe factories?
You’ll need to check those factories every day for the next few days so they don’t do something you don’t want them to, like lock you into building # x 30 Rufes/month!
I recommend that you save your game just before changing something on them in case it doesn’t do what you expect.

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ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi
Ground combat at Sabang (44,70)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4304 troops, 44 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 144

Defending force 2790 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 119

Japanese adjusted assault: 104

Allied adjusted defense: 58

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
204 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled

Allied ground losses:
283 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 26 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
15th Guards Regiment

Defending units:
Sabang Garrison Battalion
Korps Marechausee Battalion
2nd Garrison Battalion
Sabang Base Force
i better wait for some more troops

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ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Track his loses pf large TKs and AOs, when he starts his counter attack and drives further away from his centers of supplies he will need these to feed his fleet. Sink many of them early will hamper his ability to move quickly and deeply because of lack of fuel supplies forward.

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

KB starts with 80exp pilots, so no change here :)

You should work now on your pilots training. The most important goal is to secure Burma, so supply don't flow into China.
Generally you have to prepare counterattack, to strike Allies, when they try to make some initial landing, when you still have advantage. Aleutians are frequent first target, but you have Fiji, so that is also possible. You should try to destroy large LCUs, especially non Chinese, and non US, as that other have low replacement rate.

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ORIGINAL: inqistor

KB starts with 80exp pilots, so no change here :)

You should work now on your pilots training. The most important goal is to secure Burma, so supply don't flow into China.
Generally you have to prepare counterattack, to strike Allies, when they try to make some initial landing, when you still have advantage. Aleutians are frequent first target, but you have Fiji, so that is also possible. You should try to destroy large LCUs, especially non Chinese, and non US, as that other have low replacement rate.

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ORIGINAL: Bif1961

The ability of TK and AO convoy hunting is helped by your float plane carrying subs along his suspected convoy routes to NZ-OZ. Once you have figured out where those routes are then you can send in a portion of the KB to raid those lines of supply and sink his tankers at sea.