estaban
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Yep, time to dig in if you have lost 5 CVs. Get as many of your damaged CVs (30%+ sys damage) back to Japan while keeping the air wings on the map. With some luck, you might get the Hiyo and one or two CVEs so you have a reasonable CV force to keep the allied player honest. Then start digging in on Lunga, Gili, and PM. Also, develop the airbase at Dobadura as rapidly as possible. Place a LOT of base forces there, so you get at least 250 air support squads there. Move an air fleet HQ and a couple flak units there. Dobadura is the key to holding New Guinea. With the ability to launch 400 aircraft from the base in one shot, it makes any allied attempt at a landing in New Guinea painful to contemplate. He can't use long range air cover for his invasion TFs really, because of the distance. So he has to commit his carriers to escort the transports. Even then, 200+ fighters flying escort from Dobudura for 200+ bombers of various kinds is going to probably make him think that risking his carriers is not worth it, so he will call off the whole invasion of New Guinea. Also, use Dobadura to bomb/fighter sweep Dobadura and Townsville occasionally, to keep his bombing of New Guinea down and to force him to commit resupply convoys to those bases, which you can also attack from Dobadura. Then you have to worry about Lunga and Irau, which is the way he will probably choose to come at you with New Guinea closed down. With luck (which you will need at this point since your carriers are so badly attrited) you will be able to slow the allied advance to the point that you can win the game on points on New Year's Eve, 1943. Good Luck!!
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