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Feinder -> RE: How to play (9/22/2006 11:38:51 PM)
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Has anyone actually read thru that AAR?
I’ve read up to 01-01-43.
It’s actually fairly interesting. I was also a little surprised how much it mirrors a WitP PBEM game. Short version :
a. Usual raid on Pearl Harbor. However, the Enterprise is also in port, and severely damaged (Japan thinks she is sunk).
b. Japan takes Port Moresby early with 3 Rgts. They land at Buna and march across Owen Stanley. Allies had time to reinforce, but did not by choice or did not have troops whatever. PM is bombed daily by anything in range, and isn’t allowed to be turned into any kind of base.
c. Fall of PI, SRA, and Burma, as usual. Japan continues to push to Ledo and Imphal.
d. Actually lines/possession of Myt-Ledo-Imphal are very back-n-forth all year.
e. Chinese also lend support in Burma, and push at Hanoi, but are pushed back. Chinese open offensives in China with fall of Myt and Ledo, China is cut off, so China offensive stalls. Japan captures a few Chinese cities, and then things settle down.
f. A CV-CV battle near Tarawa as I recall, about April. Allies get the short end. Hornet is sunk. No appreciable damage to KB.
g. Raid on PH by KB in Summer, sinks (probably) the slightly repaired Enterprise.
h. Another CV-CV battle near (?), in late May. 2 more Allied CVs sunk. Another Allied CV damaged. No appreciable damage to KB.
i. A raid by Allied CV near Aleutions in Sept(?) sinks Hosho, but Ranger is crippled. Don’t know if she get back to safety (AAR is Japan perspective).
j. Japan actually captures Darwin for a brief time. But is chased out by Oz Divs (evac covered by KB).
k. The weight of Allied LBA begins to be felt in Summer of 42 (Japan holding her own, at cost). But by November, attrition on is taking it’s toll.
Fortunately, many of the map locations are the same, so even in the absence of maps, you can still get a good feel of what is going on.
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