Canoerebel -> RE: And Then There Were Two (3/6/2008 4:42:20 PM)
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12/28/42 John and I missed a few days of gaming due to mutual colds and work schedules. I think both of us have staggered to our respective homes from our jobs, crawled under the covers, and slept long hours. I'm still under the weather and quite woozy...maybe that'll improve my play. Allied CVs: NYGiants, to answer your question, here's the Allied CV situation. Saratoga, Yorktown, Long Island, and Nasau are currently at Pearl. Sngamon, Chenango, and Suwanee are at Panama City and will be joined tomorrow by Essex. The next arrivals: CVEs Altamaha and Copahee (15 days), CVLs Independence (46), Princeton (76), Belleau Wood (107), Cowpens (137), and Monterey (168). CV Enterprise arrives in 157 days. If the Allies can stave off a Jap auto-victory, and if the Allies resist the temptation to feed carriers into the meat grinder piecemeal, the Allies will have a stout force in five months. Those carriers loaded with Hellcats would be quite powerful. No Brit CVs have been damaged or sunk. Australia: John's troops haven't moved into the Melbourne and Sydney hexes yet. The final Allied AVs at these two cities is 2200 and 2400 respectively. Mel has 59k supplies and Sydney 51k. All troops at Melbourne are fully prepped and about half of those at Sydney are (the rest were the Brisbane defenders that are now prepping for Sydney). I am still puzzled at the lack of Jap bombing. Perhaps John is awaiting more supply convoys? Neither is he bombarding by sea - I think the bulk of his fleet is up around Wotje. The sitauation in Australia is pretty intriguing. I think it will take a full commitment of men, aircraft and ships for John to reduce and then take those last two cities, but even with full commitments it will take time. In the meantime, a huge part of the Jap army is tied up here. Right now, that's fine since I can't really push John elsewhere; but how long will it be fine? A month? Three? Five? If John succeeds, he wins; but what if it drags out for months until a point where the Allies are able to take the initiative? How big a drain would it be logistically to try to extract his troops from the continent? NZ: To answer your question, Mismatz, I just sent about 30k supplies from Auckland to Sydney (to my surprise, every one of the transports made it), so NZ is running low right now. Auckland is a level 9 port, so she can support minelaying activities, but the few ML and DM I have left are at Pearl now. I've lost quite a few - some at Sydney to surface combat clashes many months ago, some at Wotje in the recent past. The few that are left are precious and couldn't be risked in NZ, where John's combat ships an raid at will. But I don't think there's a real threat to NZ any longer (unless John lost his mind and pulled his troops out of Oz and shifted them to NZ). The North Island cities are strongly garrisoned, so it would take a huge commitment by the Japs, but they are fully occupied in OZ for the foreseeable future. Burma: I've ordered a delib attack in the hex south of Lashio for tomorrow. I want to overcome the two Jap divisions there so that I can move some of these Chinese units down to Meiktila. John has reinforcements arriving at Rangoon, so it's going to get tougher to prevail in this battle. I outnumber him 3 to 1, so I'm surprised I haven't made more headway there to date. Wotje: I'm very worried about the long-term health of this Allied outpost. It's drawing alot of Jap attention, which is nice for Australia, but the garrison needs to hold for a long time to come. Score: Japs 37,059; Allies 10,988
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