Mike Solli
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Joined: 10/18/2000 From: the flight deck of the Zuikaku Status: offline
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Cribtop, can you imagine being around a bunch of people like us? 3 May 42 Quiet turn overall. Not a lot happened that was positive, but things are in the works that should happen in the next day or two. Australia Ted dropped off some mines by sub at Wyndham the other day. I sent 2 of my few remaining DMS to clear them out. One of them decided to remove that last mine.........with it's hull! A while ago, I had sent the I-122 to Karachi to lay 42 eggs. She did so successfully and Ted removed them the next turn. I doubt that I do that again. I do better in the smaller ports. Anyway, she's on her way home. Today she found one of Ted's elusive TKs and put a torpedo into her, just NW of Ceylon. The TK was unescorted. I really need to get KB up there for a visit. That's a long way from the Central Pacific though. I doubt the TK sinks. Home Islands Ted's subs are still harassing me around the Home Islands. One of his fleet subs got lucky and put a good torpedo into an xAK. Down she went. She was either carrying resources or empty heading back for resources. Burma There was a nice free for all over Magwe again today. For the loss of 4 Zeros and an Oscar, I shot down 14 Hurricanes and a Blenheim. Unfortunately, all five pilots were either killed or wounded. So far, I've only gotten back 1 wounded airman. Does anyone keep track of wounded? He hit the oil again. I'm down to 99 remaining out of 300.... SE Fleet Ted admitted in an email that he was trying to sneak into Ndeni, but KB ruined that. I suspect there are engineers along with the Marine Regiment (8 Marines I think?). When I sank that cargo ship, vehicles allegedly went down. I figure they're engineer vehicles. He said that he knew he was putting a certain organ on the chopping block. The invasion fleet (4x Naval Guards and 1 SNLF) are a couple hexes north of Ndeni and holding. The cruiser TF (4 CA, 1 CL, ~8-10 DD) will arrive tomorrow and KB will arrive the next day. Tomorrow I will give them the green light to invade. They'll have cruiser support and air cover. Ted has no recon coverage in that area, so he doesn't know what's coming. No subs either that I've seen. Oh yeah, I've got 3 subs patrolling to the east and one sitting in the hex. My one downfall is that I haven't put any air support in Guadalcanal/Tulagi. I'm sending some down there and will put some floatplanes/Mavis there to keep an eye on things. I have an AV in the Shortlands that's not needed there anymore. I'll send them south until I can build up an airfield. Other Stuff KB made a pit stop in Rabaul to refuel/replenish and replace pilots and planes. Now, each daitai has a full load of planes/pilots with 3 spare planes and 3 extra pilots. A little extra staying power. The only daitai that don't have that are the Val daitai from Shokaku and Zuikaku. They took so many losses in the stupid attack on Brisbane that they could only get 12 replacement planes each. They're both at around 20 planes. I've modified my pilot training once again. Initially, I would check the training units every few days and pull out pilots that met my criteria (50+ exp & 70+ relevant stat). I ended up getting a bunch of 50/70 pilots. Then I decided to cull twice a month (1st and 15th of the month). I culled on the 1 May and decided to change it again. Now I will only do it on the last day of the month. I'm hoping to increase the average culled pilot by a few points. What do you guys do?
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