Jim D Burns -> RE: 1-5-42 (12/7/2004 12:09:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: rroberson Australia Well my ships managed to miss out on his big task groups. I see him either dividing his groups into surface action groups or retreating back from my surface fleet and pounding them with airpower. Either way, I will take another swipe at him (hoping for a night action) then turn west for Perth. He can follow me and pound away as my ships flee the area if he likes. This is better then him shooting up all my aux ships at broome and though I will lose 8 or 9 ships in this. Id rather lose them underway and fighing then sitting in port afraid. I'd create a mass of single ship task forces and flee half west and half east. That way at least you'd save half or more of the fleet as he can only go east or west unless he further splits his task force, leaving it vulnerable to land based air attack. The single ship task forces will also waist a lot of bomb loads diluting the carrier’s available airstrikes while limiting your ship losses. If he failed to bring any kind of resupply he'll be forced to withdraw when his CV runs out of bombs for the planes. A full strike waists all its bombs even if there is only a single ship in the target task force, at least I THINK this is the case. Multi-ship task forces in a case like this simply allows him to destroy your ships faster, make him squash a zillion ants, he'll get tired and lazy after a while and I bet you can save a lot more ships than you think you can. Also have all available subs vector to the area and try to sink his replenishment fleet, a lucky hit can swing things dramatically in your favor. Jim P.S. Don't forget to flee at full speed. With any luck you'll be 10-12 hexes away before he tries to chase you. AK's and other slow ships are probably doomed, but the battlewagons can get a good jump at full speed.
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