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Nemo121 -> RE: 26th October - The POW Camps Swell (1/3/2012 10:44:17 PM)
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Captain Cruft,
Moodle has its own upload limit of 16 Mb. Going by the Moodle.org forums this can be over-ridden by either apache, php.ini or .htaccess. I don't have access to apache settings or php.ini settings as it is a shared host so, my understanding ( which I'm sure is VERY imperfect ) is that my only option is to try to overr-ride the global settings locally using .htaccess..... but that doesn't seem to be working and, obviously, the moodle guys say it is a server problem and the server guys say you can set it from within moodle ( which I haven't found to actually work ).
So, a bit stumped right now and the IT guys are, helpfully, stating that actually getting an elearning site up and working isn't anything to do with them ;-).
As to the game. Damian's leaped forward and strick Amoy and Swatow. I had abandoned both of those bases as part of my "abandon almost everything in China and pull it back to Korea and Japan proper to make a strong inner ring" so, at present, the Japanese have less than 3,000 AV throughout all of China having withdrawn over 6,000 AV over the past two months. The resources etc in China are destroyed, I've pulled out literally every last drop of fuel and oil and supplies are in the red or yellow in every base as I've removed them also. China is only rich in RESOURCES and even there I have about 150,000 tons of shipping dedicated to pulling that out - it should be gone by month's end - along with another 1500 AV.
Basically I'm going to consider leaving some 1500 AV to contest Shanghai but may even pull that out. My plan always was to let the Allies land easily in China and divert them for several months in a nice, long, slow march through the Chinese hinterland slowed by lack of supplies and terrain, but not by the IJA. To this end I've evacuated Hainan Island ( which began this game with about 40,000 troops ) of all but a single static base which cannot be evacuated ( I pulled the last of them out 2 days ago and got my APD TF past the invading Allied fleet on a high-speed night dash just 1 day before they invaded ).
Damian seems pretty pleased with his invasion but I'm even happier with the fact that by landing at Amoy and Swatow he has committed himself to ferrying in more troops and supplies and will give me the opportunity, if I plan it right, to hit him with anti-naval strikes.
I had some 600 kamis in the region and 400 launched. Aerial CAP was weak but still downed some 200 of the kamis including ever single high-flying kami. Only the ones flying below radar stood any chance of getting through. Unfortunately of the 200 or so which got through not a single one managed to hit an enemy ship despite finding an entire BB TF of 7 BBs with only 40 or so fighters flying CAP. Ah well, c'est la guerre. Okinawa is too far from the front lines for a proper fight in any case. I'll have to wait for him to get a bit closer - once he does my investment in G9Ms should pay off - I have increased production and over the next 45 days expect to build about 200 of them, more than doubling my committable force. When he comes for the Home Islands my plan is to hit him with a hammer blow of every single G9M en masse, blow through his CAP and sink multiple CVs, giving my twin and single-engined attack groups an opening to get at the BBs and amphib TFs.
Until I get that opening though there's very little point in me showing my capabilities and so, apart from minor strikes with Ki-43s and Ohkas to make it look like I'm serious about resisting him I won't be doing much resisting....
Another plus of this invasion is that his B29s etc will be tied down in airfield suppression missions covering future resupply runs and every day of that buys me about 30 modern fighters. Already many of my best squadrons are flying Ki-94 IIs ( 2 x 30mm cannon ) or J7W2s ( 4 x 30mm cannon ) or are re-equipping to fly twin-engined Ki-45s ( 2 x 30mm cannon in the nose ). I'm becoming more and more confident of my ability to really hurt his B-29s if they come back to bomb crucial bases in the Home Islands. Another month of upgrading fighter squadrons should, I believe, see the Home Islands almost immune from significant B-29 attack---- what I mean by this is not that B-29s can't attack but that IF they attack they will be so disrupted and have taken such losses that their bombing will be inaccurate and that they won't be able to maintain a multi-week tempo of attacks. In short the Allied ability to end this war by the end of the year ( which they most certainly have ) is rather rapidly slipping away.
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