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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/25/2017 5:47:20 PM)

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ORIGINAL: adarbrauner
Soviets actives, why?

The scenario is designed to have the Soviets active from the start, is what I was told. Brian and I are co-existing
right now. I don't shoot at him and he doesn't shoot at me and hopefully it's going to stay that way for a while yet.



larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 6:18:40 PM)

New moves from Brian. Here's the Jan. 15, '42 economic chart. Everything seems to be going well at the moment.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 9:31:11 PM)

So there I was, watching the combat replay and all of a sudden I get some TT hits on an Allied AK right outside
of Pearl Harbor. I like to loiter there because a lot of the SFO traffic goes through that area.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 9:43:32 PM)

When I went around the home islands turning off the expansion of anything I must have missed Yokohoma because it
just now completed it's 7th level on the airfield. I want a 10 level field there eventually but there's plenty
of time to grow the airport and right now I need the supply to go to Karor really badly. I just recently
captured Balikpapan and now it's needing supplies to get over the 10K limits for expansion.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 9:51:03 PM)

Here's the situation at Hong Kong. I don't have enough supply to expand anything so I'm still waiting for a
shipment of supply to arrive from Tokyo ( indirectly ) and it hasn't arrived yet. I'll look into it. Send 'em
an email.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 10:02:37 PM)

There's a situation at Kaifeng that's starting to be typical along the front
lines all over the map. There's places that have completed their second level
of sandbags and I'm wondering if I need to go to a third level or not and I've
decided that I don't plan on giving up any terrain anytime soon so it's not a
military need right now. I'll give it more thought as whe war goes on of
course.

But the special situation at Kaifend is that I have to run my boats past an
Allied port at Cheng Chow, which is right across the river from Kaifeng and
so to get the RES from Kaifeng to Shanghi ( on the coast at the other end
of this river ) coming and going I gotta pass that base so I thought it
prudent to just go capture Cheng Chow and make that problem go away. We're
in the serious negotiations stage right now. No clear winner yet. More
talks are needed. I think my daily bombings are encouragement for a settlement.
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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 10:33:26 PM)

TF 323 is a group of support ships from Hiroshima headed for Truk and they are
to be spread out among the major hubs and major ports, like Rabaul. I sent them
empty of supplies so that if one of them was lost on the transit at least the
supplies wouldn't be lost too. Besides the boats sit higher in the water and
sail a tiny bit faster when they are empty.

I'm going to think about where to send the AGP, for now just park it at Truk.
The six AKE's are to be loaded with supplies and distributed to Karor and
Rabaul and Manado and Balikpapan and Kwajalein and wherever the front lines
require one I guess. I'm making more for the west side of the Phillippines.
I need one at Hong Kong, Cam Ranh Bay, Saigon, Miri, and eventually Palembang
or Singkawang and at least one place on the southern coast of Borneo somewhere.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 10:45:42 PM)

Here's what's parked at Truk right now. I landed a CV group there to refuel
them and they will be leaving at dusk for the Rabaul area where I hope to find
four more CV's to split them up into two CV-groups for more efficiency. Plus,
I wanted to swap out the squadrons for those that were full of planes. And
had more experience. Better squadrons.

A lot of those support ships arrived in a previous trip from Osaka and some
of them arrived with minor damage. There's a couple of AS's in the mix and
I'm not sure I need both of them at Truk so I'm thinking of sending one to
Karor for the subs that will operate in the Celebes-Darwin area. I've
discovered that you have to consider whether or not to replace the leader
before you've built the sub TF. Otherwise the button to view his stats isn't
present and you find you have to disband it to get access to the button(s)
required. I've replaced about five sub leaders so far. It's too early to
tell whether or not it's making a difference.

I check out the leaders of the air squadrons too and replace weak leaders
with better ones.

I suppose I'll eventually have to go through all the HQ units and check out
all the leaders for the LCU's as well.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 11:17:12 PM)

Here's a view from CRB to almost Darwin. The CRB waters including some of the Celebese Sea traffic.
I've been planting mines on the important points and so far I've damaged a ship using them. I
can't plant enough mines.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 11:33:47 PM)

Here's what's happening around Rabaul. I still haven't flown some planes
to Rabaul and the hold up is there's none within range. It's going to have
to be a staged project getting some planes here. I'm using the carriers for
top cover and it's working so far. I'm planning on taking the carriers
further to the NW closer to Port Moresby to do an airfield raid to get an
idea what is present there in the hex. Plus, do some damage to the airfield
if possible. I'm wondering if I can leave a SCTF sitting at Port Moresby to
keep any pesky TF's from delievering supplies to PM. I really need a Betty
group at Rabaul to keep the sea lanes dangerous for the Allies.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 11:41:57 PM)

Here's the waters of the home islands and the search patterns that I'm using right now. There's three subs lurking
and I'm after them with spotter planes and ASW TF's and whether I can sink him or make him go aeay, either is okay
with me.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 11:47:02 PM)

I've got a lot of subs parked in "ambush spots" like in the hex with the base. Just in case some Allied TF comes
nosing around. I damaged an AM doing this. Maybe it'll pay off later in the game when the traffic is heavier.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 11:50:40 PM)

Here's the pattern I'm using around the Pearl area. Traffic coming from SFO and traffic headed SW will pass
near these groups and I'm hoping to get a lot of hit from traffic coming and going. The area closer to Pearl is
too hot to patrol there. Lots of spotter planes and ASW patrols and what not.

EDIT: Each yellow circled spot is a single Jap sub.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/26/2017 11:56:45 PM)

I've got three subs plying the waters off the coast of SFO and I've placed them in the probable path of ships
going to Pearl, which I'm guessing is most of the traffic leaving the coast. I should move one of them down
to LAX to monitor traffic out of there and San Diego. I'm not getting a lot of hits so far. Maybe it's too
early yet, or I've picked the wrong spots for interdiction.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/27/2017 12:08:40 AM)

I loitered too long in the same spot and a sub got a lucky hit on one of my
CVE's. This happened at an inconvient time. I was going to use him to stroll
along the northern coast of Java and see what pops out. Now I've got at least
one CVE that needs some tender loving care and a new coat of paint. This is
one of the first attacks in the combat replay. I'm watching it still because
I just got some new moves from Brian and I wanted to get the news out soonest.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/27/2017 12:25:57 AM)

My carrier flyboys thought they would launch a strike on the airfield at Port Moresby and ran into an ambush and
got mauled. Some of the better P-40 pilots I would say. I'll have to do a naval bombardment of the base to get
even.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/27/2017 2:53:55 AM)

That CVE that got hit by a torpedo....I flew the planes off to Balikpapan as I recall and the entire TF is headed
back to Karor for refueling and refit. I've got to start using better escorts.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/27/2017 1:28:41 PM)

I've circled the hot spots in yellow, those places where a fight is taking place or recently took place. I don't
have a master plan, I'm just trying to grab those places that have lots of RES or oil or fuel. So far so good.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/27/2017 1:42:01 PM)

Here's the economic trend in the home islands. All the categories are slightly down except for supplies. The war
can go on is what this says. I've got RES and supply for another 50 days or so. So we're still a go for liftoff.

EDIT: I had another look at the regional areas and the oil is good for 220 days but the RES is good for only 24
days. I'm going to have to redouble my moving of RES to the home islands. Pretty quickly now.

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Yaab -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/27/2017 3:01:21 PM)

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/27/2017 3:18:34 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Yaab
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You can say that again. Thanks for the post.



Yaab -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/27/2017 4:29:04 PM)


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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

My carrier flyboys thought they would launch a strike on the airfield at Port Moresby and ran into an ambush and
got mauled. Some of the better P-40 pilots I would say. I'll have to do a naval bombardment of the base to get
even.

[image]local://upfiles/16287/8A44CB8D15C24EAD96D40D9C2FBAE6CF.jpg[/image]


Poor Wirraways. In RHS they are fighter-bombers - in either role they are toast.



larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/27/2017 4:38:14 PM)

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Poor Wirraways. In RHS they are fighter-bombers - in either role they are toast.

Yeah, I started to say, in the inner ressesses of my mind I seem to remember that plane as a
light level bomber best suited for ASW or recon or supply transport or something like that.
I was surprised to see them in an air combat role being used as a fighter. They were cannon
fodder, bait for the better fighters to use to lure in the Japs.



Yaab -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/29/2017 9:18:17 AM)

Though Wirraway is now FB, I bet those Wirraway pilots are trained in Gnd and Strafing skill, and your opponent didn't notice this. Easy points for you. Would be fun to see what pilots with high Air skill could achieve in Wirraways. Live another day, perhaps?



ny59giants -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/29/2017 1:28:53 PM)

Port Moresby: Brian likes to hold that base!! I had waited until after the invasion bonus was over to land with troops fully prepped from the 14th Army (Luzon). It is now Apr 43 and he still holds it. [:(] He got 29 LCUs in there. He will sneak in troops and supplies by flying PBY/C-47s from Cairns. Land and develop Milne Bay and Horn island to cut off reinforcements by sea.

Where are all your Air HQs? They should be covering your advances. One in Malaya, Singkawang/Palembang, Denpasar, Koepang, Horn Island, Rabaul/Milne Bay. I would make these bases a priority to capture and develop enough to base Ms Betty and Ms Nell to keep the Allied Navy out. You can then back fill after this perimeter is done.



larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/29/2017 3:59:11 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Yaab
Though Wirraway is now FB, I bet those Wirraway pilots are trained in Gnd and Strafing skill, and your opponent didn't notice this. Easy points for you. Would be fun to see what pilots with high Air skill could achieve in Wirraways. Live another day, perhaps?

I dare say that even the pilots with the higher skills are just putting
lipstick on a pig by flying the lower performing models. The rule of
thumb I've heard is putting your best pilots in the best planes wins
usually. That's what I try to do.

quote:

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Port Moresby: Brian likes to hold that base!! I had waited until after the invasion bonus was over to land with troops fully prepped from the 14th Army (Luzon). It is now Apr 43 and he still holds it. [:(] He got 29 LCUs in there. He will sneak in troops and supplies by flying PBY/C-47s from Cairns. Land and develop Milne Bay and Horn island to cut off reinforcements by sea.


Can you not do naval bombardment with CV's providing top cover? Or is the
environment toxic to ships of any kind now? I expect him to build up the
area so it's got interlocking zones of support land and air. That's what
he usually does to me.

Edit: I read it again and then decifered your message to me. Thanks for the advice.


quote:

ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Where are all your Air HQs? They should be covering your advances. One in Malaya, Singkawang/Palembang, Denpasar, Koepang, Horn Island, Rabaul/Milne Bay. I would make these bases a priority to capture and develop enough to base Ms Betty and Ms Nell to keep the Allied Navy out. You can then back fill after this perimeter is done.

I've got one at Miri and one's on a boat to Singkawang for when we capture
that base. I'm working on it now. I need another HQ at Rabaul for the
bombers to get TT's from. I'm thinking of taking an HQ of some kind for
the invasion I'm going to do of Port Moresby just so if I get the base it'll
have support from day one.



ny59giants -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/29/2017 4:59:11 PM)

Air HQ at Miri - how does that project power? Move it Balikpapan.



larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/29/2017 7:21:20 PM)

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Air HQ at Miri - how does that project power? Move it Balikpapan.

I'm using it for the air support guys, the AF dudes. It's providing all the air support so far. I'll replace it with
some dedicated AF guys and move it to Balikpapan soonest.



larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/31/2017 2:59:35 PM)

Brian is back from his trip and he says they didn't take very many pictures
so it couldn't have been much of a trip. Anyway, I received some now moves
from Brian and there was a night naval contest at Port Moresby. I have
some carriers nearby and yesterday there was a huge furball over the base
and I thought I'd do a naval bombardment of the base and drove up into the
harbor and found some PT's there to oppose me.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me (10/31/2017 3:04:24 PM)

Here's the night naval bombardment results. I was hoping for a bit more but I'll take it. Actually, I was
hoping to find some Allied ships in the harbor and was mildly disappointed when there weren't any but killing
planes on the ground is almost as good.

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