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larryfulkerson -> PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/9/2020 5:45:52 PM)

My challenge for a War in the Pacific was accepted by Sarsfield_slith and we've got liftoff. I don't recognize the name of my opponent and he may be better at wargamming than I am. This is my first PBEM in quite a while. I tend to play a better game with I'm doing a PBEM game probably because I'm documenting it as I play it.

I found some smaller carriers just south of Tokyo that weren't doing anything and thought I'd move them down to the PI area to attack any ships I might find in Manila's harbor. In my CVTF I have the Hosho, Shoho, and Juyjo with their air groups set to sea int and moving them south didn't trigger the appearance of any Allied ships so I guess I'm not close enough yet to expose them.

I have plans to keep my Chinese area troops near the coast since the supply levels in the interior are poor. But I do want to capture the railroad so I can move troops and materials from Saigon to Peiking and vice versa. Also, I want to see if I can't capture Guam and Wake, and make some landings on the PI in this first turn.
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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/9/2020 6:05:15 PM)

A really strange thing just happened. I did a save of my game just in case I have some kind of problem and then closed out TOAW. Then I started up TOAW, went online, and tried to load my saved game and got an error message that this version of TOAW couldn't load this file. So I thought I'd create the challenge again, starting over as it were, and succeeded in creating another challenge and just for $hits and grins I tried to load the saved game and it loaded successfully. I have no idea why it didn't work the first time and I'm going to do another save of the game and see if I can't get it to work again.



larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/9/2020 6:16:03 PM)

I found some more carriers just east of Wake and moved them into range for the strike on Pearl and the BB's there. I have the Akagi, Soryu, and Zuikaku for the strike(s). I plan on making some three-dot attacks on the Allied ships and that will turn my air groups orange or at least yellow and I'll have to rest them before I can use them again. So there's probably going to be only one strike attempt.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/9/2020 6:24:19 PM)

This is the Hanoi area at start and I plan to move the troops north to protect my facilities and to the northeast to start grabbing the railroad. There's a hex near the bottom of the image that may or may not have a partisan in it. I'll have to go check it out at the very least. Before I start moving troops though I need to deploy the aircraft to cover the movement of the troops just in case the Allies have any INT missions scheduled.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/9/2020 6:34:57 PM)

As I'm going through the aircraft getting them ready for action, I've come upon one of those composite bomber units and reduced the range of the unit to the range of the Mary's since there's more of them than anything else. I'm going to keep my eye on the number of Sally's since they have a longer range and I'd rather use the Sally instead of the Mary. I don't know a lot about the Jap airplanes but I'm guessing that the Sally is a better performer than the Mary. I'll look that up and make sure. There's usually a lot of Chicom and regular Chinese troops in this area so I'll need the CS missions to help my boys push toward the west.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/9/2020 6:40:26 PM)

Good thing I looked them up. I stand corrected. The Mary is a marginally better aircraft when going after tanks but the Sally is marginally better when going after troops. Also, the Sally has some anti-ship capability and the Mary does not. I'll have to keep that in mind.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/9/2020 10:35:11 PM)

Here's the results of the Pearl strike. I lost a handful of aircraft and he lost four BB's and a few bombers.


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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/10/2020 2:09:02 PM)

I managed to capture Rabaul and I have started to fortify it with the presence of ships and planes. I plan on using Rabaul to stage attacks further south and Port Moresby is on the list. I've flown in some sea int patrol aircraft and have already sunk a couple of Allied floaters attempting to move into the area. I plan on trying to isolate Australia from the West Coast of the US.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/10/2020 3:30:30 PM)

I moved several additional divisions to the PI to help take it down faster. There are at least two partisans in the north end of the PI that I'm having to deal with. I don't yet have an estimate about when the campaign to clear the PI will be finished but it won't be an easy pushover. I'm going to have to involve the ships for some offshore arty support. The Allies have lots of AA to cover their troops so I hesitate to use my aircraft in the CS role.

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rhinobones -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/10/2020 5:05:25 PM)

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Here's the results of the Pearl strike. I lost a handful of aircraft and he lost four BB's and a few bombers.


Larry, looks like the Allies lost all 8 BB's . . . 2 of each class. Am I reading the table correctly?

Regards



larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/10/2020 5:09:44 PM)

Yeah, I think there were 2 BB equipment's in each of the BB units. So yeah, I think he lost 8 of those bad boys. I thought about sticking around for another strike in the next turn but not all of my planes were healed yet from the first strike. I want to use the red-green-yellow rule in this game. Green units can fire and move, yellow units can move but not fire, and red units cannot fire or move with the single exception that it can move in the direction of a better supply hex. I think it makes for a more realistic game. I got this rule from Steve Sill. He's a gold mine.



MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/11/2020 12:44:35 PM)

Nice AAR Larry! Just keep on going.
And I personally thank you for everything that you have done for TOAW!



larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/11/2020 12:51:17 PM)

Thank you for your kind words. I'm not a very good player, I just like to post a lot. PAW is one of my favorite scenarios and I'm trying to give my opponent a good game. I'm adding to the AAR while I play the game so you guys are finding out what happens as it happens. We're in the early war years when the Japs are making all their progress but in mid-'42 I expect the Allied side to start getting a lot of equipment....ships, planes, troops, etc. So the character of the war will change and I may have to go on the defensive. But so far so good.



MonkeysBrain2 -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/11/2020 12:58:20 PM)


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ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

Thank you for your kind words. I'm not a very good player, I just like to post a lot. PAW is one of my favorite scenarios and I'm trying to give my opponent a good game. I'm adding to the AAR while I play the game so you guys are finding out what happens as it happens. We're in the early war years when the Japs are making all their progress but in mid-'42 I expect the Allied side to start getting a lot of equipment....ships, planes, troops, etc. So the character of the war will change and I may have to go on the defensive. But so far so good.



Larry,

You are THE MAN. And toast to you!

I remember you from the past and I am glad that your hunger for TOAW is still alive. Mine also. Because TOAW is really one of those magical games that anyone can return into.

I have made many AAR's on Gamesquad. Even you have praised me :)

With permission I can dig links to my old AAR's and post it somewhere. If I cannot I will not do.

Please make AAR on Piero Falotti 1992 scenario. Play NATO side. Even in this state it was magnificent game.

I destroyed ALL Iraq forces, held Western Europe against Russian horde, captured Balkans and Bulgaria and Romania almost. Started to advance into Caucaus. My glorious NATO forces seemed invinsible. In Norway Russians only took few cities.

This was aganst PO Warsaw Pact.

Later I must see my attorney!


Mario



larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/11/2020 5:20:43 PM)

This is what it looks like in northern China. I'm fighting the Communist Chinese for the railroads in this area. I need to be able to use the rail to move troops and equipment from Peking to Singapore and only about 1/3 of the rail is mine so far. I've got a short segment from Hanoi to Bangkok and a fragment near Hong Kong and that's it. I need to grab the rest of it away from the Allies. And then repair it as fast as I can. There are at least two partisans making a nuscience of themselves and I've shipped in an entire divisiion to see if I can't round them up.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/11/2020 5:32:13 PM)

Here's what it looks like just north of Hong Kong right now. The supply levels in this area are really low and so it's a slow motion job clearing out the Allies. It looks like I have a partisan or two behind my lines. I'd best send somebody over there to check it out. I've got some engineers busy repairing the rail almost as fast as I grab it. I've got one unit way out ahead of everybody else and he's terribly exposed and vulnerable. So far resistance has been minimal.

BB Kongo tangled with the Allied CD guns on Corregidor and got some damage so I drove it to Hong Kong to get a quick tune up. New coat of paint and top off the tanks and we're back in the fight.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/11/2020 5:41:16 PM)

This is the Hanoi area right now. I don't need to press north here very far....just enough to make the rail safe from Chinese interference. So far no partisans to deal with, knock on wood. I would have expected a couple of them in this area.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/11/2020 5:54:24 PM)

I'm clearing the north end of the PI of partisans while moving on Manila. I've got some ships that are yellow and in need of rest parked at Laoag. I'm repairing the rail from Lingayen to Manila. I've got some ships bombarding Corregidor to silence the CD guns so I can enter the harbor and bombard Manila to help take it down. I'm thinking of maybe landing some troops at Legaspi at the southern tip of the island. I found an open port at Batangas and landed a division there to start clearing the south of partisans.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/11/2020 6:04:11 PM)

This is what Malaya looks like now. I've landed some paratroops just north of Singapore and I'm worried about them. What if the Allies counterattack them? I've got a BB parked just offshore to help protect them. There's also lots of CS in range of them. I've landed a division just to the NE of them that's making it's way down to the city proper. Supply levels are seriously low.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/11/2020 6:12:33 PM)

I've captured Rabaul and several ports and airfields in the area including some on the north coast of New Guinea. I've got plans for Port Moresby in the near future.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/13/2020 7:04:57 PM)

I ran some troops up to the Alaskan island chain and captured Attu and Kiska. I have no idea what I'm going to do with them but maybe I can stage an attack on some of the Alaskan cities from there. I'm thinking of sending some aircraft up there for a CAP and to defend from Allied counterattacks.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/13/2020 7:13:06 PM)

I saw some Allied ships down in New Zealand and thought I'd run a CV down there to maybe attack them and Allied LBA intercepted me and sank half of my Zuikaku CV unit so I flew the planes to safety in case there are more attacks and he sinks the other half and sinks it too. Then I'd lose all my planes entirely. I gave up on thinking about sailing down to NZ to attack a couple of Allied ships. I'm going to need more than just one CV to fiend off all the Allied air strikes just to get down there.

I've also seen some Allied ships near Ceylon and I'm wondering if I should go engage them as well. He's probably got loads of LBA on the island to protect them. They are just 2 Allied light naval units instead of the big guns or a CV so it may not be worth the losses to get close enough to strike them. I'll put this on the back burner for now.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/13/2020 7:25:06 PM)

When I lost half of the Zuikaku the planes on her deck were lost but it seems as though I'm going to get those planes back on T7. It's too bad that I can't get the other half of the Zuikaku back as well.

I'm not even close to attacking any cities on the island of Java but according to the expected reinforcements as soon as I get around to capturing Batavia the following turn I'll get some CD guns there to guard the harbor. Some incentive to capture Batavia.

In T10 I'm eligible to get some Indian National Army troops at Imphal in India. I have to capture the place first but that's a good inducement to try to capture it soon.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/13/2020 10:09:58 PM)

I'm railing a lot of unemployed Engineering units to Malaya to expedite the repair of the rails leading to Singapore. My LCU's fighting in south Malaya need some supply badly so it's important to accellerate the repair process. I'm going to see if I can't use some of the Corps HQ units to repair rail too. That will help a lot.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/13/2020 10:31:05 PM)

I've succeeded in repairing the rail from Lingayen to Manila and I'm starting work on the rails in the southern PI area. As you can see I'm going to attempt a probing attack on the northern Allied group to see if I can't start the squeeze this early. I haven't started bombarding them with the ships yet and he's got so much AAA in his stacks that I hesitate to stike him from the air. The bombardment of Corregidor continues. I get a couple of guns with each stike but he's got a LOT of guns there.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/14/2020 12:28:49 AM)

I'm in the slow process of clearing all the islands I've captured so far. I'll be done soon. I'm planning on trying to capture all the islands down to Guadalcanal and garrison all the ports with a piece of a division and maybe some arty for insurance. I've invested Wake but I see that Midway is already a fortress so I'll put that on the back burner for now. I'd like to capture all the smaller islands down to Tahiti to help isolate Australia from Pearl and the West Coast. That will make the take down of Australia a LOT easier.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/14/2020 1:14:36 AM)

There's a terrific battle going on in Malaya. I'm trying to clear the rail lines as fast as I can so I railed in a couple more divisions to expedite the process. The project to capture and repair the rail lines from Bangkok to Singapore is called Operation "Black Water Lilly". It's difficult to predict how long it will take but I'm guessing off the top of my head maybe 20 turns or so. Which is about 5 months game time so we'll see. I've found at least 4 more engineer units that I can recruit yet. They are found out in the Pacific for the most part. Rather than defend a small island port I'd rather use them to repair the rails so I need to replace them as a garrison so I can move them here. That might get tricky because of all the Allied sea INT that has formed over the last few turns. Around Java, Port Moresby, and Davao I have to provide escorts to any LCU's being transported via the sea or else they evaporate before they arrive at their destination. I had an AA unit attempting to move from Truk to Rabaul and it evaporated as a result of an Allied sea INT strike. I've learned to provide more AA support for my floaters. DD's are good for that.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/14/2020 1:40:08 AM)

There's a lot going on in the Rabaul area. I'm attempting amphibious assaults at several of the smaller islands east of Guadalcanal. Not all of them are likely to succeed. I've annotated the image to give you an idea about what's happening in this area. I've moved a division from the home islands to Rabaul because that's as far as they could sail in one turn. I'm going to use it to grab Port Moresby. I have some DD's bombarding it right now for all the good they might do. Not much I'm afraid. I'm using them to try to prevent any reinforcements from reaching Port Moresby.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/15/2020 1:50:59 AM)

Here's what the DEI looks like now. I've captured a port on the south side of Sumatra so now I need to float somebody into that hex to garrison it. Otherwise the Allies might float somebody in there and take it away from me. I'm still in the process of clearing the PI and Mandano and there's a terrific fight going on in Malaya. The Allies tried to float some of the isolated remnants off the PI to somewhere else but my sea INT sank both of them. My troops at Balikpapan are in reorg so that will delay the takedown. I'm fighting partisans to the NNW of Saigon in the jungle. The fighting in southern China is still going on. The low supply levels slows down any progress that might be made.

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larryfulkerson -> RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs (3/15/2020 6:24:34 AM)

Here's what Malaya looks like now. I'm only just getting started repairing rail evidently. I've managed to surround a small group of Allied units and that's a good thing. I'm in a small hurry to clear the rail lines down to Singapore to give those folks some supply. My bombarding group turned yellow so I had to sail them into a friendly port to refuel and rest a tiny bit. It's going to be a long time before Singapore falls. I'm going to need another 20 turns or so to make that happen.

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