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Canoerebel -> RE: The Good The Bad & The Indifferent (5/5/2017 9:49:35 PM)
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It is next to impossible to gain a fight if the enemy wishes to avoid one. There's no way John wants to chance Mini KB against Death Star, so the only way a carrier battle happens is if he makes a colossal blunder. That's unlikely - he's too aware of what's going on and what the possibilities are. I bet he's counting hexes too.
However, I have refueled all my combat ships...on the off-chance that Mini KB keeps coming.
I think my carriers are pristine because nearly all movement has been two hexes or three or five at a time. Very seldom did the carriers move more than six hexes in a turn. That has to be the reason for the negligible wear and tear.
Right now, my BBs, CLs, and DDs are topped off with fuel. My carriers and CAs are probably at about 75%. So they're good to go. I have 120k fuel remaining on tankers and oilers in the PI. I have 105k in the DEI. I have 55k at Miri, increasing at about 2k per day. Peep Show will involve well over a thousand ships. It won't be going far, so the fuel stores are probably sufficient into the medium term.
At the far end of a 5,000-mile LOC, I can't afford to expend fuel on an iffy mission that John will do everything he can to avoid...unless I feel strongly about the possibilities.
He probably wants all his carriers to launch a full KB attack combined with massed LBA in the Formosa region. He'll get what he wants, but probably not until the Allied air force has worked over Formosa's airfields, possibly with an assist from bombardment TFs that can replenish at Manila. This is going to be a mighty battle.
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