rroberson
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Joined: 5/25/2004 From: Arizona Status: offline
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Damn. I guess this falls under the old, it's never as bad as it looks in the combat report. He has me snookered for sure. He has at least 3 carriers just off Noumea, two more south of Lunga, my guess he is using them to cover a big op. Unfortunetly, my main Noumea transport groups arrived in the area at the same time. I have a division of combat troops, two seperate aviation support units and several other support type troops all lambasting under his pounding...maybe. We are about to seriously test the game's AI. I scattered all the transports...into individual transports groups, something like 35 ships all going seperate directions. I also scattered my three damaged warships, the Louisville and Helana are haul ass in different directions, while the Minneapolis is going to ride this out at anchor as she is badly badly damaged. The remaining destroyers are going to make an attack run (he is well within range of them) at his carriers and then haul ass east. It will be a target rich envirnoment, but I am counting on the fact that his naval air is much less effective when attacking in twos and threes then as a group and there wont be a mass slaughter. It should be a very very entertaining turn. I also sent in a group of Hudsons to Noumea to attempt to harrass his carriers, but since there are no support troops on the ground there I doubt they will launch. South Pacific HQ (Nimitz) arrived just in time to watch his command sink into the deep blue ocean. I have ordered both Carrier Groups one and two to rendevous 2 days east of Wellington (CG 1 is in Wellington) at that point the will transit to Noumea, they are still two days apart, CG2 is low on fuel and the meeting point is at least 3 days out of Noumea. All these factors will combine to assure they dont get into range of his carriers fast enough unless he comes south chasing individual transport ships. If he does, I will attack his naval air, after three days of wave hopping after wayward transports, Im sure his offensive firepower will be low and maybe I can get a naval victory out of this disaster...at any rate any possibility of this is still almost a week away, the next few days will be spent watching this disaster play out. He also has a carrier group (no doubt his minis) headed southwest towards Timor, so he could finally be making his move here too. Hopefully my boys can give him a fight. In what will no doubt be a hell of a book when it is written Edsell continues to dodge his northern carrier force now trying to make for Efate.... Sorry for the haphazard nature of these, Im writting notes as I take them as oppose to my normal structured way, Ill return to that in our next episode.
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