RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please

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Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 10:01:25 AM)
April 30th 1943 Air Losses: 5 Japanese, 2 Allied, 2 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: The quiet continues. Subs Quiet Marshalls 4 liberators bomb each of Mili and Wotje. Solomons, etc. Quiet Burma area Quiet When does the monsoon start? China Finished off the Chinese near Lanchow. Only two stacks left to go. Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Keto-Jima airfield to 1. Chumphon to 6; I aim to expand this to 8 to provide a base on the Gulf of Siam side that can cover the Andaman Sea. R&D P1Y2 to 9/44 A6M5b and A6M5c enter production and A6M5 factories will start producing the A6M5c at 110 per month. J2M2 enters production, may produce some of these just to see what they are like. Ki-45 KAIc enters production, can't see the point of it. Ki-49-II KAI this will be the IJA transport for the rest of the war so will start producing these at a rate of 30 a month. Reinforcements Quiet KB Have finished getting radar fitted and are back lurking. Current ready aircraft: 281 A6M5 73 B6N2 90 D4Y4 39 D4Y1 85 D3A1. Still need to replace those D3A1 and start upgrading the A6M5. Will take 3 months or so to get all the aircraft done. Except that by then I'll have the Taiho, Unryu and Amagi and their planes will need upgrade as well.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 10:11:51 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery I'll only need the Ki-84r until the Ki-83 comes online, in September 1944 with luck. Reinforcements Kure 7th SNLF, containing 24 DP guns - where to send it? Some base he is going to invade would be best. How does the use of a 2e fighter, as your mainstay, effect HI drain and engine stockpiles, and supply consumption? Remains to be seen, if it gets that far. For HI I am not expecting that to be a limiting factor. As the plane is twice as good as the Ki-94-II I hope to take 70% of the losses and that will compensate for the extra supply cost of taking replacements. With fewer losses I'll lose fewer pilots so get better pilots with even more savings. quote: Put the Kure on Umboi? With some mines. Why Umboi, he doesn't need to attack it? Your guns will shoot at any passing allied ship.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 10:12:07 AM)
April Overview A quiet month. No bases changed hands. First month the Allies gained more VP than I did. Mostly because of a bad naval strike I launched at Buin. Japan Allies Overall: +543 +611 Land: +251 +19 Air: +215 +355 Base: +60 +141 Sea: +17 +94 [image]local://upfiles/43194/E273A91F79A04874AE4F1A99803B37F0.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 10:14:48 AM)
April Losses Allied subs picked off a couple of TK and an AO. I also lost some small value xAK (not shown) to low-flying B-24 at Buin. My subs sunk an AO and an SC and I sunk 4 AMc at Buin. I think that is all. [image]local://upfiles/43194/FA75EF2BA367432FA27ED729C23DCB83.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 10:23:11 AM)
April Industry Poor growth in supplies because I expanded some air and engine factories. However, fuel stocks continue to grow nicely as do Vehicles, Armaments and HI stocks. Oil: -91,070 Fuel: +107,225 Supply: +36,181 HI: +88,960 Arms: +8,230 Vehicles: +3,881 [image]local://upfiles/43194/FBA751E11158468AA2E929D7C23F3E84.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 10:28:01 AM)
Engine Status May be overdoing the Ha-35 but I hope to be able to use them for the Ki-115b. [image]local://upfiles/43194/11F6E2E51EC34E54B472B45209B8EC3D.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 10:29:42 AM)
Monsoon: May to October I believe.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 10:30:31 AM)
R&D Status [image]local://upfiles/43194/7C1B64B8FCB845F9B6FC3EC64ADB36F1.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 11:25:25 AM)
May 1st 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 4 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: The quiet continues. Subs Quiet Marshalls 4 liberators bomb each of Mili, Maleolap and Wotje. Solomons, etc. Quiet Burma area Bombardment at Warazup trades 7 Japanese for 8 Allied devices destroyed but most of the artillery is low in supply now. China Quiet Australia & DEI Quiet Engineering Allies expand Torokina airfield to 4 and still find some Soviet bases to expand as Irkutsk reaches 8. R&D Quiet Reinforcements Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 1:50:03 PM)
May 2nd 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 0 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: The quiet continues. Subs I have been following a tanker task force all the way from San Francisco, every turn I guessed where it would be and had a sub in place, just one day from Pearl Harbour I get the first attack and I-20 sinks the TK Mobilstation: looks like she may have been worth 30VP or so[:)]. Everywhere Quiet Engineering Allies expand Tamsag airfield to 8; anybody know where Tamsag is without looking it up? R&D Quiet Reinforcements SC CHa-21, SC CHa-26 I had this correspondence with Tom: Me> I wonder if May will be as quiet as April? Him> it is possible, I do not have tools to challenge you in air. And without Air supremacy I cannot move forward :( Interesting view, and it is only going to get worse with the Ki-84a coming out soon. However, I look around and see places he could make a move without me putting any air threat up: the rest of the Marshalls, Wake, Kusaie, Rossel, Shortlands, etc.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 2:36:00 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery Me> I wonder if May will be as quiet as April? Him> it is possible, I do not have tools to challenge you in air. And without Air supremacy I cannot move forward :( This situation is what got Greyjoy's goat in their game together. [:D] Japan's dominance in the air. Overall, it really isn't true as you correctly point out, as you can advance without air supremacy -- especially as the Allies with all their wonderful AA guns and Japan's lack of heavy bombers. Just pick your targets carefully...plus at sea the balance is tipping solidly to the Allies.

HansBolter -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 3:11:18 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery Me> I wonder if May will be as quiet as April? Him> it is possible, I do not have tools to challenge you in air. And without Air supremacy I cannot move forward :( This situation is what got Greyjoy's goat in their game together. [:D] Japan's dominance in the air. Overall, it really isn't true as you correctly point out, as you can advance without air supremacy -- especially as the Allies with all their wonderful AA guns and Japan's lack of heavy bombers. Just pick your targets carefully...plus at sea the balance is tipping solidly to the Allies. Mr. Kane has also demonstrated he has a masterful control of the Japanese side in his game against Jocke. I imagine he knows fully well where he does and does not have potential to advance.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 3:17:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: HansBolter Mr. Kane has also demonstrated he has a masterful control of the Japanese side in his game against Jocke. I imagine he knows fully well where he does and does not have potential to advance. I wans't going to be as blunt, but Psyops.[:)]

FeurerKrieg -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 5:47:43 PM)
When you post your oil/fuel/supply change numbers are those empire wide or just the Home Islands?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 6:43:16 PM)
May 3rd-4th 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 0 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Everywhere Quiet Engineering Myitkyina airfield to 3. Boela airfield to 4. Ketoi-Jima airfield to 1. Davao forts to 4. Aitape forts to 1 (creating a base on the North New Guinea coast). Sibolga forts to 3. R&D Ki-84a to 6/43 Reinforcements SC CHa-16, SC CHa-19, SS I-180, DD Shimakaze,

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 6:49:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg When you post your oil/fuel/supply change numbers are those empire wide or just the Home Islands? They are the difference of the values from the Tracker picture. This is empire wide but I'm not sure exactly what it counts in terms of supply in units, fuel in ships, and cargo in transit. However, it is consistent for tracing purposes. Fuel/Oil flow to the Home Islands is good with no surplus other than as waits for tankers. I have an excess of tanker capacity at the moment and the less efficient tankers are idle or used to send fuel to Rabaul, Truk etc. I am tending to spend a few turns loading and send typical tanker task force of about 10 tankers and 8 escorts at a time. See below for Japan not including Hokkaido: [image]local://upfiles/43194/72AD474CB0C840449EC16D3B6CEB430F.jpg[/image]

FeurerKrieg -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/22/2014 7:30:49 PM)
Okay, thanks. I tend to look at the Home Islands only for supply/fuel/resource/oil stockpiles. I think of that stockpile as being the only part I can truly count on, although the empire wide numbers do matter too. It looks like you are in nice shape in the Home Islands so far. Fuel is climbing nicely for sure!

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/23/2014 7:05:16 PM)
May 5th 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 1 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs I-21 sinks xAK Dagfred near Karachi (6VP ?) No confirmed sightings of Allied subs anywhere. Everywhere The last oil well at Urumchi is fixed (could have done this earlier if I had understood how to get supply there). Movement arrows at Ledo, some heading into the Jungle some heading out along the rail line. Recce shows Chinese colours at Dimapur, so he has something available to use all those Chinese replacements. Engineering Quiet R&D QUiet Reinforcements Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/23/2014 7:06:59 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg Okay, thanks. I tend to look at the Home Islands only for supply/fuel/resource/oil stockpiles. I think of that stockpile as being the only part I can truly count on, although the empire wide numbers do matter too. It looks like you are in nice shape in the Home Islands so far. Fuel is climbing nicely for sure! I hope the nearly 500,000 supply that has accumulated at Port Arthur will be useful when the Soviets attack [:D].

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/23/2014 7:14:16 PM)
Strange message flashed up during the replay. It was during the upgrade aircraft stage and was something about a CVE being overloaded. I suspect it was meant for the Allied player and was caused by him upgrading planes on a CVE from something carrier capable to something not carrier capable. I suppose it is a minor buglet that I saw this.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/23/2014 10:27:40 PM)
Ok, how did you get supply to flow to Urumchi? How can you get resources, fuel to flow out? How much are you paying attention to the Soviet border?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/24/2014 7:24:04 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Ok, how did you get supply to flow to Urumchi? How can you get resources, fuel to flow out? How much are you paying attention to the Soviet border? Oil flows out fine. Resources who cares, there are enough anyway. Fuel I can't get to flow more than a little. To get supply there I increased supply demand at Lanchow by 2000, set Urumchi to stockpile, set Urumchi to a demand of 5000 or so. Then I monitored the turns and on the turn before supply does a long flow I removed the supply demand at Lanchow. I could tell these turns easily by looking at the resource flows from Urumchi in tracker and seeing the pattern. Most times enough supply would flow to Urumchi to repair one oil well. All the divisions that are making up the Manchuko garrison have formed a defensive line in the woods behind rivers and have split into thirds. They are digging in. I hope that by 1945 they will have forts 5 or 6. I've started supplementing them with some artillery digging in as well. Also am developing key bases. [image]local://upfiles/43194/3736B087130A4B17BD04D92BF953949E.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/24/2014 8:18:06 AM)
May 6th 1943 Air Losses: 6 Japanese, 0 Allied, 2 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Everywhere I try sweeps over Kalemyo. No defense rises to meet my planes and I take 5 ops losses for no gain. I bomb the Chinese force to see what it is, something called "X" Force. BB Mutsu finishes repairs after the sub-launched torpedo she took in March. However, will stay in the Home Isles as gets a radar fitted next month. Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet Reinforcements Two 8150 capacity tankers, SC CHa-14.

MrBlizzard -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/24/2014 9:23:24 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Ok, how did you get supply to flow to Urumchi? How can you get resources, fuel to flow out? When I increased a little the rafineries in Lanchow, they drained successfully oil from Urumchi! The fuel produced then went to the coast!

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/24/2014 10:32:10 AM)
May 7th 1943 Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 1 Allied, 4 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Everywhere Quiet Engineering Quiet R&D N1K2-J to 7/44 Reinforcements Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/24/2014 10:33:26 AM)
quote: something called "X" Force Seems this is only an HQ that arrives at Delhi. So it still looks like no Chinese infantry units have escaped from China.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/24/2014 10:41:34 AM)
I have put recce over all the Allied bases in the Solomons. It looks like there are no bombers at any of them. Just fighters at the forward three and some auxiliaries and fighters at Munda. I may try and see if I can bombard Buin and get some Corsairs and Lightnings on the ground. Worried by the risk of Allied mines. However, with no bombers around any damaged ships will have a good chance of making it back to Rabaul. If I do this I think the plan would be (in task force number order): 1. Send a minesweeping force of 2 DMS to Torokina to try and sweep any mines there, only 6 guns reported so little risk from CD guns. 2. Send 2 CA SCTF to Buin to try and clear PT boats and surface forces 3. Send 3 BB bombardment task forces to hit Buin

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/24/2014 12:13:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery quote: something called "X" Force Seems this is only an HQ that arrives at Delhi. So it still looks like no Chinese infantry units have escaped from China. I seem to recall that being the American trained and equipped force...

FeurerKrieg -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/24/2014 4:10:53 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery I have put recce over all the Allied bases in the Solomons. It looks like there are no bombers at any of them. Just fighters at the forward three and some auxiliaries and fighters at Munda. I may try and see if I can bombard Buin and get some Corsairs and Lightnings on the ground. Worried by the risk of Allied mines. However, with no bombers around any damaged ships will have a good chance of making it back to Rabaul. If I do this I think the plan would be (in task force number order): 1. Send a minesweeping force of 2 DMS to Torokina to try and sweep any mines there, only 6 guns reported so little risk from CD guns. 2. Send 2 CA SCTF to Buin to try and clear PT boats and surface forces 3. Send 3 BB bombardment task forces to hit Buin With no bombers around you might want to do a daylight run for max effect.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (8/24/2014 6:20:44 PM)
May 8th 1943 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 2 Allied, 2 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Everywhere Quiet Engineering Pagan forts reach 6, don't have the supplies in place to continue but I reckon it will be worth going for forts 7. R&D Quiet Reinforcements SC CHa-9. CV Kasagi about to start building, do most players build the last three carriers? Accelerate them? [sm=00000106.gif]May be a few sparks next day, hope my orders aren't messed up.

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