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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 2:32:05 PM)

4/13/44 and 4/14/44

Celebes: The 13th is a quiet turn. The Allies continue picking up vacant dot hexes between Koepang and Soerabaja and double efforts to get aviation support and engineers moving from anywhere they can be found. At the end of the turn it's decision time. The Allies have accomplished what they can from the safety of the Koepang vicinity. There's no sign of KB. Should DS wait for the reinforcing CVE TF to come up or should it move forward?

I chose to move forward. DS ordered to a point near Kendari to cover reinforcing landings at Watampone (that will take place beginning on the 15th). There is the great unknown. Dave still has strong carrier and combat TFs; he has major airfields; surely the fall of Watampone will worry him. Against that is the opportunity to keep moving forward; to keep applying pressure.

At the beginning of the turn for the 14th, a big IJN CA/DD TF moves to Watampone, sinks the now-empty APD, and on retiring bumps into good Allied forces. Meeting engagement.



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jwolf -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 4:52:20 PM)

Well, you did finally get Aoba in the end. [:)]



Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 4:53:55 PM)

Yup. I think all the shooting was done by those engineers who took liberty in Darwin. You warned me.



Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 7:33:59 PM)

4/15/44

Celebes: Enemy carriers may be sneaking up, from the west. If Dave doesn't commit them soon, there'll be an Allied army at Watampone, and Makassar is barely garrisoned. Dave has big problems on his hands, but there's a chance he could "tag me" tomorrow, so that "I'm it." These are scary turns, working out in Indian country without a decisive advantage in carriers. Two more days and I may have that advantage.

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jwolf -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 7:50:26 PM)

If Dave loses Makassar then yes, pretty much the whole DEI becomes unusable for him. So he has to react, as you said. I'm just wondering why he hasn't already done so. Maybe his major ships took more of a beating than you thought, or something else bad happened to them.



Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 7:56:58 PM)

Dave has alot of combat ships disbanded at Soerabaja.

Musashi and Yamato haven't yet made an appearance in the game.

Jaws music.



Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 8:04:54 PM)

4/16/44

Celebes: Posting an unannotated map, to give readers a clear look at the situation.

After the Timor Sea Sub-Shoot, Dave pulled his subs away. Now he's sent them back, an indication he's committed to fighting.

Here, the ASW interaction with two subs is on the line of retreat of damaged CA Chicago.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 8:08:02 PM)

4/16/44

Celebes: Here comes trouble (but not from the direction I had anticipated, after the high detection on my subs near Denpasar yesterday).

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 8:10:46 PM)

4/16/44

Celebes: Hey, his guys miss too!

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 8:13:38 PM)

4/16/44

Celebes: Allied ASW vs. Japanese subs has been a war within the war the past five months. The Allies did well around Milne Bay and again around Rabaul and then near Timor. It looks like Dave is "all in" again. Damaging his subs helps, because then they become more visible, easier to shoot at and easier to avoid.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 8:22:18 PM)

4/16/44

Celebes: PBYs from Watampone find enemy carriers up north.



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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 8:26:17 PM)

4/16/44

Celebes: A lot more enemy fighters swept - from Balikpapan, Ambon, Kendari, Manado, and Soerabaja. They worked through the Allied CAP, and then a strike came from Soerabaja. Two good ships take damage...but that's the only strike that sortied.

Dave had his carriers set for 8-hex strike (or, they're eight hexes away, anyhow) but perhaps weather foiled his plan.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 8:30:33 PM)

4/16/44

Celebes: Oh, there was a second strike. It targeted four YMS doing minesweeping duty. I assume Dave had hoped for a full-on assault. If so, he only got dribs and drabs, but he did get the only two decent ships there. I wonder if he knows the rest of The Herd took cover with DS? (I'm glad I cancelled the orders given to transport TF carrying 77th Div. to the base.)

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 8:39:38 PM)

4/16/44

That was it for the day around Celebes. I think Dave had hoped for much more.

The number of sweeps that his guys flew vs. Watampone was staggering. I'd hate to see DS run up against that kind of LBA + KB.

So I'll change things up a bit. Dave is probably expecting an all-out for Watampone now, now, now! I've got enough ashore to hold the base for awhile. So DS & The Herd will consolidate with the incoming carrier reinforcements. As with the period leading to the Timor Sea engagements, I'll focus on a possible carrier battle and working to attrition enemy subs. If the Allies can win this little battle, even while building up the islands north of Timor, the Japanese position in the eastern half of the DEI will be critically undermined.

Battle of Lautuem: The enemy surrenders on the first attack. The Marines weren't even prepping for the base. They're looking ahead.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 8:54:09 PM)

4/16/44


Celebes: Another vortex developing. The last one turned out well. But Dave's LBA network looks formidable.

Last post for awhile. I gotta go run up Lavender Mountain in the heat, to sweat some and let the mind mull over whatever needs mulling over.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/6/2019 9:08:45 PM)

The two damaged AKAs will disband at Watampone. One has light-moderate damage; the other is surely a goner. But supply at the base went from 1k to 3.5k, so their sacrifice meant something.



BBfanboy -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 3:11:36 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: jwolf

If Dave loses Makassar then yes, pretty much the whole DEI becomes unusable for him. So he has to react, as you said. I'm just wondering why he hasn't already done so. Maybe his major ships took more of a beating than you thought, or something else bad happened to them.

He may also be hurting for carrier aircraft. CR had a lot of carrier-capable aircraft on bases in the area to replace his losses. I doubt the Japanese have that luxury.



BBfanboy -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 3:19:28 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

4/16/44

Celebes: PBYs from Watampone find enemy carriers up north.



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The Frances was a land-based 2E bomber: http://worldwar2headquarters.com/HTML/aircraft/japaneseAircraft/yokosukaP1Y.html

A lot of IJ players use them for ASW work.



Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 10:46:10 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes: A new turn is just beginning. There are two main objectives (jobs): (1) merge the two carrier forces (DS moving east, near Kendari; the reinforcements moving NE, from Koepang; and (2) deal with the sub threat. If these things go well, today, then beginning tomorrow the Allies can begin working on the third "job" - looking at new offensive opportunities.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 10:50:02 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes: The wolves have the scent. Dave is really vectoring in his subs.

As mentioned yesterday, Dave has done this before: committed big concentrations of subs that have largely gotten chewed up. The most recent was just a couple of weeks ago, in the Timor Sea. When that threat was dealt with, there suddenly weren't any subs around. Now the place is crawling with them. Perhaps he withdrew a large contingent from the group that was guarding the approaches to Sumatra, Port Blair, Malaya.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 10:52:46 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes: I'm only about 30 seconds into the turn (I'm taking screenies and pausing to post, so you know as much as I do, as each post is made). The interactions between enemy subs and Allied TFs are non-stop. Gulp. Thus far, no shots fired by either side.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 10:56:09 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes: Opening skirmish of the day.

As the turn begins, I'm wondering if Dave is committing more combat ships and/or his carriers. So far it looks like enemy TF icons are closing towards southern Celebes.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 10:58:27 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes: I-154 finished off.

Thus far, it appears that DS & The Herd are properly steaming east, to the point SE of Kendari.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 11:03:33 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes: A previous port strike mission indicated a damaged sub was here.

(A few days ago, a night strike at Kendari sank another sub damaged during the Timor Sea campaign.)

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 11:05:47 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 11:09:04 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes: This is where Tambor fired six TTs at CV Ikoma yesterday, and missed. Tambor took modest damage and then started to the yards at Perth. Peto had been patrolling near Balikpapan but was drawing heavy detection. So I moved her down here.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 11:13:25 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes: That must've been Tarpon missing Ikoma yesterday, because here's Tambor.

Dave and I are both using our subs but differently. He knows the location and general mission of DS & The Herd. So he's vectoring his guys in on really juicy targets. I have less information about the location and mission of KB, so my subs are more dispersed, with the bulk of them in the Banda and Java seas.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 11:22:08 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes: The happy audio of an enemy sub hitting a mine, so I paused the turn to check the Combat Report, which confirmed it. The field was sowed by Ariadne, about three turns back.

Then a less happy sight and sound. DS & The Herd have arrived at the point of destination. Yesterday, you may recall, I mentioned my desire to pick a course and destination that Dave might not foresee. Either he did foresee or there's just so many subs out there that he simply covered all possibilities.

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Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 11:23:51 AM)

Chenango got hit hard by torps awhile back. I can't remember if it was off Port Headland, by enemy sub, or near the Gilbert, by aircraft. If the former, she went to Capetown for repairs. If the latter, she holed up at a dot hex in the middle of nowhere for more than a year, an ARD provided assistance, and then repairs were finished at Pearl.



Canoerebel -> RE: Intellectus Ex Nihilo (Wal-Mart on Ice) (9/7/2019 11:25:57 AM)

4/16/44

Celebes



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