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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/14/2015 5:24:09 PM)

I found an air group to send to Guadacanal to confront the Lexington fighter group at holy ghost. The Ominato air group is one of
the larger groups ( 33 planes ) and they have a proficiency of 100% which is almost as good as you can get I think. Also, they are
veterans and are probably one of the best squadrons I have so far. The problem is that the Lexington group is probably about 70
strong. I may need some more help yet. Let's give the code name Cactus to Guadacanal because I'm used to that.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/14/2015 5:32:40 PM)

I tried an aerial strike against Corregidor and lost a bunch of planes and didn't scratch the Allied paint. So I'm thinking I'm going to
have to bring in the battleships. That would put a hold on my expansionst plans in south Pacific unless I split up the fleet. Sounds
like a good idea. Some of those BB's could use a rest anyway.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/14/2015 5:37:45 PM)

Here's north China now. I'm not making much headway in this AO. I'm thinking I might need some arty to subdue these
savages. I'll take a look around and see what's available.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/14/2015 10:59:29 PM)

I got lucky this time. I drove my CA adjacent to an Allied hex that contained aircraft hoping that I could kill them before they killed
me. I lost a CL doing this so I was apprehensive to say the least. It turned out that the hex contained some PBY's and spotter
planes. This time. Next time it could be some SBD's and I'll lose my ship trying this against them.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/14/2015 11:05:50 PM)

I was curious and started looking around for some good targets and I happened to notice that the CD guns are missing from
Singapore. I'm guessing that it got into a duel w/ one or more of my ships and lost the duel. At any rate, now that they are
missing can bring in the ships and do some airfield attacks with impunity. Almost. The problem remains the British aircraft.
But I've got lots of air cover so maybe it won't be that much of a problem.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/14/2015 11:15:38 PM)

I was driving my ship from the Darwin area to the Port Moresby area and I got interdicted and my AS dudes were awake and
protected my ship. All the Allied attackers were shot down. Jap air power saved the day. I plan to drive back and forth with
this ship in this area a lot.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/14/2015 11:19:56 PM)

And I drove my ship one hex closer to PM and got intercepted again and again the Allied side lost a bunch.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/14/2015 11:26:14 PM)

One of my spotter planes volunteered to do an airfield strike on an Allied base. He's probably going to get shot down. I'll let you
know what happens.

EDIT: The Jake was included in the list of stuff that attacked but didn't even get it's paint scratched. He says he wants to do it again.
I'm thinking about it.

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Hyding -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/15/2015 2:52:43 AM)

Why did the Soviets become active? Were they accidently triggered again? It really seems like there needs to be an exclusion zone around Soviet territory to prevent this.

Surely they are not free to attack without being provoked?



larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/15/2015 3:16:20 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Narses

Why did the Soviets become active? Were they accidently triggered again? It really seems like there needs to be an exclusion zone around Soviet territory to prevent this.

Surely they are not free to attack without being provoked?

So um...what is it that makes you think they were triggered AGAIN Narses dude? Did I miss a memo? I agree about the
exclusion zone though. And yeah, Tom and I made some kind of house rule that the Soviet stuff just stands it's ground when
this happens.



larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/15/2015 3:20:01 AM)

Here's Vietnam now with me trying to put the kabosh on those partisans. They seem to be everywhere. The ones in the image
are only the visible ones.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/15/2015 3:23:58 AM)

I think maybe I've gotten all the holes stopped up in south China. I think a partisan could still get through in places. The front here
is stable so far. I'm going to need a lot more troops to get it moving north I think.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/15/2015 4:04:56 AM)

And then I attacked with my spotter plane and it didn't get a scratch but there was a tremendous fur ball going on in the sky. I shot
down 11 of the best Wildcats the Navy had. I think.

EDIT: I mean since they were from the Lexington Fighter Group.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/15/2015 4:13:35 AM)

And another follow up airstrike by the spotter plane. This is what I'm talking about. 2 losses for a bunch.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/15/2015 3:07:47 PM)

Here's Port Moresby now. I came across the mountains and now I'm in position to lay siege sort of. I'm going to need a lot more
people I suspect. Depending on how powerful my air power can get.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/15/2015 3:59:22 PM)

I thought maybe I should apply the naval part of the siege and maybe do a bombardment while I was at it. But first an airfield attack
in conjunction with a timely air strike on the airfield as well all combined to give some good results.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/16/2015 2:18:35 AM)

It's early in my turn and I'm still moving units and I've run across a CA that's bailing water over it's scuttles. It's as sunk as it can get
without dissappearing from the surface. And it's either never had any AA guns or it's so damaged that it lost them. D'oh.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/16/2015 5:40:21 PM)

Okay, new turn new moves. This is what Malaya looks like now. I'm not moving and the Allies are getting stronger. I'm going to need
some more people to get this advance advancing again. I'm trying to scratch together some more troops for Burma but they are still
being used in north China. This is the first time I've run into not enough troops to go around. There's still a division in Manila that's
resting and will be ready soon. That's something.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/16/2015 9:19:50 PM)

I drove a TF of 5 BB's and 1 DD to the mouth of the Manila harbor to bombard the island of Corregidor and I did one of those
group assignments to do the attack. Then looking through the stack later I found the spotter plane assigned to the attack as
well as the ships. I can't prove it but I think the spotter plane got included in the attack group assignment.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/16/2015 9:41:54 PM)

And a second attack kills another DD but still not even a scratch on the paint on the Allied units. D'oh.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/17/2015 12:08:02 AM)

New moves from Thomas, new turn. I've been studying Corregidor to see if I can find a way to reduce it. I've been pounding it by air
and bombarding it by sea ( BB's ) and still they don't have a scratch. And they have an organic supply source in that hex. So I may
have to just bypass this bad boy and carry on somewhere else.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/17/2015 12:28:47 AM)

Here's some of my aerial losses so far. I've been studying this list and I'm finding that I've got a lot of Zeros and the rate of
production for the Zeros is pretty substantial. That's the good news. I'm seeing a limited production run for the Val type and
I'm wondering what replaces it. I guess we'll see. I'm thinking that my losses are what could be expected given the operational
tempo so far. In other words, my losses don't seem too high to me. So far. I'm wondering what the Allied losses are so far.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/17/2015 10:26:58 PM)

I've found a fighter unit that is almost out of Nates and I took a look into the problem and found that we're not making Nates any
more and we're going to stop making the Model I Oscar in turn 42 when we go to the Model II Oscar. And the Tojo isn't until T57
or so and that's a rather large deficit in aircraft from T42 until T57. I'll just have to make do with what I have. Some of these units
that have a large population of Nates aren't going to be good for much after they lose all their planes. I'll have to assign them to
some quiet area in China or something.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/17/2015 10:51:58 PM)

Here's the results of another airfield attack. Bombarding w/ the ships and bombing w/ planes simultaneously seems to work okie dokie.


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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/17/2015 10:58:01 PM)

I FINALLY got some hits from a strike at Corregidor. Bombing w/ planes and bombarding w/ BB's seems to be the ticket.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/18/2015 1:29:52 AM)

So um.....this is south China now. I've been attacking and so on but not making any progress. I'm having to attack several times
to soften up the defender(s) enough to make them finally capitulate eventually. But such a process tends to take a long time and
wears down my units. Plus I've seen some Allied movement near the river in Burma and I'm wondering if I should deploy at least
a light screen to prevent invasions. There's nobody there now and that's dangerous.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/18/2015 9:56:21 AM)

I tried to invade one of the smaller islands in the Celebes and the Allies stopped me on the beaches. D'oh. That's what I get for
trying to take an island without preparing it first. Some air strikes or bombardment or both.

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thomasharvey -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/18/2015 1:54:37 PM)

The Allies have launched an offensive into Burma to link up with the valiant troops in Malaya. SBDs from Australia also hit the blockade ships around Port Moresby to open up the port for more troops.

The Japanese will have to send more troops to Burma and Malaya to stop the allies. The Marines will receive the second Marine Division soon and they may get some action.




larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/18/2015 2:01:54 PM)

Another example of why I'm losing this war. I felt like I had to move two of my units by the river because they were out of supply and
were in danger of being isolated. So I moved them, but I neglected to blow the bridge before leaving the hex. D'oh. Now I need to try
to get back into the hex to blow it. The Allies will own it by this time next turn so that looks unlikely.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (2/18/2015 7:17:31 PM)

New moves from Thomas, new turn. I received the carrier Junyo as reinforcements this turn. Now I have four carriers. The Junyo
carries only a single air unit so I'm thinking of carrying some fighters at first and maybe some bombers later. I need to reduce the
air threat first.

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