Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Bogo Mil

I overlooked the situation again. If you want to prevent an autovictory, you must do something in Noumea, imho.

Let me explain: In your last intel screen you had 19600:6300 victory points. You will lose Manila before 1943, that's 1200 Points less for you. Even if Karachi holds, your troops in Burma and Manila will give him at least 5000 points, so we are at 25000:5100.  Ok, you have to earn some 1200 points, this is not too much. But if Karachi falls, your gap becomes too big, I'm afraid.

Noumea is now at 600 VP. If he takes it (Japan received a lot of SNLF and NavGd units), we are at 25000:4500. This is a big gap, even if Karachi holds. Should it fall - no way to prevent an autovictory.
On the other hand, if you defend the place and max it out to 2100 VP, you are almost save. Even if you lose Karachi it should be possible to earn enough points for destroyed ships and aircraft. I think, this should really be your priority now. Try to release a brigade from NZ and send 100 fighters, some base forces and engineers. And a fleet, of course. If you really don't have the troops, you should even consider to strip one of your brand new Marshall islands.

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ORIGINAL: hades1001

I just told you if I was the IJ player, what would I do.

The Indian Campaign would not last long, and in 2 or 3 months, evil trollelite can gather all of his troops, around 8000-10000 AVs

supported by KB and the whole Combined fleet.

The best point to break through your defense is wake or some other isolated island.

Cut off your supply line, seige all your frontline bases. Starving them to death and you can do nothing.

You will loss thousands of US troops and may not able to recover until later 1943

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ORIGINAL: hades1001

I just told you if I was the IJ player, what would I do.

The Indian Campaign would not last long, and in 2 or 3 months, evil trollelite can gather all of his troops, around 8000-10000 AVs

supported by KB and the whole Combined fleet.

The best point to break through your defense is wake or some other isolated island.

Cut off your supply line, seige all your frontline bases. Starving them to death and you can do nothing.

You will loss thousands of US troops and may not able to recover until later 1943

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ORIGINAL: Gen.Hoepner

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ORIGINAL: Bogo Mil

I overlooked the situation again. If you want to prevent an autovictory, you must do something in Noumea, imho.

Let me explain: In your last intel screen you had 19600:6300 victory points. You will lose Manila before 1943, that's 1200 Points less for you. Even if Karachi holds, your troops in Burma and Manila will give him at least 5000 points, so we are at 25000:5100.  Ok, you have to earn some 1200 points, this is not too much. But if Karachi falls, your gap becomes too big, I'm afraid.

Noumea is now at 600 VP. If he takes it (Japan received a lot of SNLF and NavGd units), we are at 25000:4500. This is a big gap, even if Karachi holds. Should it fall - no way to prevent an autovictory.
On the other hand, if you defend the place and max it out to 2100 VP, you are almost save. Even if you lose Karachi it should be possible to earn enough points for destroyed ships and aircraft. I think, this should really be your priority now. Try to release a brigade from NZ and send 100 fighters, some base forces and engineers. And a fleet, of course. If you really don't have the troops, you should even consider to strip one of your brand new Marshall islands.

mmm...You've made up my mind. I'll try to move some eng units (base forces and seabees) plus maybe a RCT to Noumea...it will take some time however...let's see what i can master...In Oz there are enough fighters to be moved there...however Oz cannot be depleted that much...so i must stay on balance.

Thanks mate, good point

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Pure fantasy. After India, he needs to mop up the NEI and Manilla. After that, his troops will need weeks of rest and his ships will need some serious dock time. Without any combat damage, having your ships at sea for several months will lead to sys-damage above 10.

The danger is to northern Australia, but it seems our General has fortified it well.

"starve to death" LOL... have you actually played this game?

As swift as wind;
As calm as wood;
Invasion like flames;
Defense like rocks.

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ORIGINAL: castor troy
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be aware that Noumea is one of the biggest death traps in the game. You can´t defend all of New Caledonia and a smart Japanese player often waits until Noumea is well garrisoned, then he lands at La Foa or Koumac and then marches to Noumea.

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ORIGINAL: String

Have you turned off your repairs?

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ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund

General, have you used your DMs at Pearl to mine your frontline bases in the pacific?

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ORIGINAL: Feinder

The only thing I can think of for bombing Karachi...  Does he get strat points for bombing India?  I think I tried it already, I don't think I got anythign for my trouble.  I do know you score points for bombing Oz (watch that by the way).  But I'm not sure about India.

-F-

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ORIGINAL: Bogo Mil

You have a very big battlefleet. But you are low on CVs. If you want to be able to counter raids of the KB, you have to hide your few CVs until you know where the KB is - so they can not support any offensive operations of your BBs.

Thus you should look for a theatre where you can use your battlefleet covered by land based fighters. I would use it to defend Noumea, but if you really don't care about autovictory, there are probably other options. Maybe you can bombard Kwajalein heavily?

Your second advance vector from darwin is a very dangerous one, imho. There are no repair yards nearby, so demaged ships have to go a very long and predictable way to a save heaven. I would postpone any operations there until I could muster several strong ASW-groups to keep my retreat (and supply) lines open.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

As a diversion Amboina makes sense, but weakening Northern Oz could prove to be a problem. A real offensive front out of Northern Oz really will require the kind of land strength you will have available in '43. You've got a good front in the Mariannas for holding, for attrition, and for offensive when you are ready. Meanwhile, you've got to keep him from succeeding in other areas, like Northern Oz, Karachi, and China - or make it hurt really bad for him!

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As a diversion Amboina makes sense, but weakening Northern Oz could prove to be a problem.

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ORIGINAL: Bogo Mil

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As a diversion Amboina makes sense, but weakening Northern Oz could prove to be a problem.

I disagree. The the IJA is engaged in India. Karachi will hold for many weeks, if not forever. Any landing in Northern Oz would start a Guadalcanal-like battle and weaken him somwhere else. Both would be great for us. I don't think we need much defense there now. We should be able to repulse one or two NavGd units, that's it.

But I have a very bad feeling about going offensively into that beehive. Places like Ambroina are surounded by Japanese bases. We might capture a base or two, but it's a deathtrap. Within a few days there will be escorted Bettys everywhere. We can neither bring supplies nor disengage and evacuate.

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ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

I think Amboina is the way to go. Anything that draws ANY military assets out of the pacific is good since it accelerates the march on the Marianas. Get there fast enough, and Iwo probably won't even have forts on it yet.