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11Bravo -> They found me (5/31/2002 1:20:59 AM)
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For my third battle, I did the second scenerio, where you prevent the enemy from reinforcing Guadalcanal. Eastern Solomons.
I didn't like the opening setup, so I put all the carriers in one big TF, and culled out many CA and DD with good night experience into a separate surface combat TF. Also created a big cargo TF to run continuous supply into Lunga. A replenishment TF followed.
B17's ran supplies into Lunga while everything moved north. The enemy bombarded Lunga exactly once, then my surface combat TF went in at night. I lost 2 CA and 3 DD, he got 2 BB's and some DD's damaged. They didn't come back after that.
The next day their carriers found us and sent the kitchen sink. Our boys felt like CAP that day, and the enemy lost pretty much everything and hit nothing. It was scary watching the few survivors line up to attack the carriers, but the flak took care of them.
Our strikes found their hurt BB's and put one on the bottom.
Meanwhile our supplies arrived at Lunga, and a lot of LR CAP over Lunga and the supply TF ate Jap air as it arrived. Our carriers cautiously withdrew to the SE, just close enough to run LR CAP, and everyone replenished. I rested all the air on Lunga and transferred in some fresh units during the lull.
The rest of the scenerio found the Japs too scared to do anything. We harassed their ground troops with B-17's while waiting for them to do something. Our Lunga guys had a pile of supplies. And the pilots were very well rested as our carriers prepared to leave.
Minor victory for us.
Love this game. Too bad I have to go back to work now. :(
So far I have had good luck with my accidental strategy of avoiding carrier battles while using my air against their non-CV's and air units.
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