Feinder -> Game over? (5/6/2003 11:52:23 PM)
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Some of you had been following the progress of Knavey's and my PBEM game on the AAR board. Knavey is about to resign, because it appears that he's not going to be able to recover the initiative any time soon, and things will get dramatically worse quite quickly. He's also been working gawd-awful hours of late (and had less time to play), that also serves to disrupt one's ability to maintain continuity with stratagy. The actual losses on both sides have NOT been that dramatic, but considering the overall stratigic situation, I'd have to agree that he's about to get clobbered. It doesn't bother me that he has asked to resign, this not meant to be a finger-pointing situation. But since this is our first PBEM game, we're wondering where the appropriate "resignation point is" (I've seen some cases where IJN will resign if within 500pts. Again, I don't care about the resignation, I'll just tally one in the win column, and we'll start a new game. Do you continue the following game or not? Scen #19. Knavey IJN Feinder USN Both commitment levels to 120% Sub doctrine "on" Date : late Nov 1942 (AF/Port) What I know of Knavey's situation : Solomons : Controls all bases in solomons, but only substantional AFs are at Lunga(4/2) and Shortland (4/5). Also Lunga and Tulagi are just big bomb craters. Their AFs and Ports are utterly worthless. New Britian : Rabaul and Gasmata and friends are fully intact. New Guinea : Lae (4/?) - Fully operational Buna (2/?) - One big bomb crater. Gili-Gili(4/4) - One very deep bomb crater (port and AF are completely demolished). He's got about 5 regiments "trapped" at each of Gili-Gili and Lunga. He can't get them off,because I've whacked the AFs and Ports, so he can't load them onto transports, and his AF can't provide cover for any sort of retreat. His -ONLY- servicable AF for level bombers is Rabaul (and maybe Lae). But I haven't seen his Bettys out in force for about 3 weeks. I don't know his overall land-based air strength, but he seems to complain about it alot, so I'm guessing it's been heavily mauled. He has "only" lost the Shok and Soryu, however, I -know- his CV air squadrons have been decimated, and several other his of CVs (Akagi, Kaga, Zhikaku and Hiryu) have been pretty well banged , and will likely be sent to the yards indefinately, or held at Truk for dire emergencies. Dunno about the status of Junyo and those other carriers. No BB losses. A few CA's damaged, but none sunk. About 15 DDs sunk, plus sundy PCs etc. Loss of about 1/3 of all his freighters, including about 1/2 of his total transport capacity I believe he's got about 3 CVs of Junyo size, and about 6 BBs. Leads by 2000 points. Me on the other hand... Feinder controls Austrailia, all cities (9/9) Hebrides: Luganville and Noumea (9/9) All other bases, including Neva at (4/0) Solomons: Base on San Christobal (the island w/in range of Lunga) at (4/1) New Guinea : Port Moroesby(7/5) PM is heavily fortified and well supplied. Contains about 150 P-40s, and 150 level bombers (including 60+ B-17s). I can suppress any base in New Guinea at will. Sand Cristobal has about 40 'cats, 30 P38s, 40 P-39s (anti-shipping), and 60 SBDs (anti-whatever), and 20 light-bombers. It is fully capable of supporting an invasion of Lunga or Tulagi (I can swap out the bombers for more fighters if necessary). Neva has about 100 B-26s, which can "suppress" Lunga and Tulagi daily. Essentially, I can dominate all of the slot up to (not including Shortland). And PM is now able to dominate anything around her. I have not lost any carriers. I have none presently, but have York and Hornet on the way (arrive < 10 days), with full airgroups. The other 5 (Sara, Wasp, Lex, Essex, Enterprise) are due within 2 months with full AAA upgrades. I have 3 BBs, and a large collection of CA. Again, no major fleet units sunk. Several shot-up, but nothing problematic. Loss of about 15 DDs, plus additional smaller vessals. Loss of about 1/5 of freighters, and 1/5 total shipping capacity. Ground forces are in position and ready to retake bases in the Solomons. I'm thinking of skipping Lunga because it has so many troops there, but there's nothing stopping me (except his sizable surface forces) from beginning to retake the solomons. I can keep Lunga isolated and pummelled well enough while conducting ops around the solomons. I'm hesitant to conduct an amphib operation at GG, because he's got ALOT of guys there also. I'd skip it too, and go for Buna, but my TF would be exposed to enemy air as it rounded the horn. Would be safer to go overland to Buna, but I'm not sure I want to commit the troops to do that (transports are mostly marshalled in the Hebrides anyways for the counter-offensive in the Solomons, and moving 2 Divs to PM would cause a shortage). I'm thinking to just keep NG "suppressed" until I have more troops. Also (after about 3 game-weeks of prep), sent a massive strike (about 80 B-17s + 20 Hudsons) vs. Rabaul, and caught a major surface fleet in port (no carriers). Don't know the damage (no combat.txt file yet), but he reports about 30 hits on various vessals. My whole stratagy thus far has been to HURT his ships. Most of his major fleet units (CL, CA, BB, CV, CVL) are -damaged- and either unservable or unadavisable to risk in a stand-up confrontation with my (largly intact) Navy. Franky, I think I'm going to clobber him in the next 2 months (and he does too evidently), despite his large point lead. This has been a learning experience for both of us. So with this situation, is it worth continuing? or should we start over? -F-
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