Admiral DadMan -> (4/5/2003 1:00:29 AM)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by madflava13 [B]I think as the Allies it is vital to fight as hard as possible to hold the PI and Malay Barrier --- Every week it is still in Allied hands is a week that Japanese oil shipments are threatened. [/B][/QUOTE] That's absolutely on the money - both historically and practically. As the Allied Player, you've got to be willing to invest time, resources, and manpower to slow Japan's advance, even though you know you'll likely lose. You're not just trading space for time, you're trading all those other things as well. [QUOTE]Originally posted by madflava13 Even if Japan rushes past and seizes Borneo and Palembang, the Allied player can still rotate bomber groups in to nail convoys... Even if that's only done once every week or so, the Japanese player can't afford the tanker losses...[/B][/QUOTE] But that's just it - Allied bomber groups were so ineffective that due to inexperience, infereior equipment, and command/communication breakdown, they were constantly on the defensive. The first 5 months of the war were rumblin' stumblin' bumblin', and plain ol lack of numbers. [QUOTE]Originally posted by madflava13 I don't think its worth risking the carriers, because their loss wouldn't be replaced until early 1943... [/B][/QUOTE] That's right on target. Until the Battle Line was wrecked in the Pearl Harbor Attack, US doctrine was still to use CV's as a scouting force operating in support of the Battle Line, with no idea to use them as the spearhead of the main striking force in Plan Orange. After the attack, the carriers would only be put in harm's way for the CenPac/SoPac/SWPac area. They were too weak and unwieldly at this point of the war to face the IJN straight up. [QUOTE]Originally posted by madflava13 ...but surface forces and air forces should be rushed to the region...[/B][/QUOTE]With nothing bigger than about a dozen CA's available, the US would have been foolish to send them to the Phillipines like lambs to the slaughter. Of the 8 Battleships assigned to CinCPac, only 3 were operational on 8 Dec 41. Only one Fast BB ([I]Washington[/I]) was in commission and battle ready, but she was in the Atlantic.
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