Canoerebel
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Joined: 12/14/2002 From: Northwestern Georgia, USA Status: offline
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3/21/42 It's the first day of spring and there's alot going on. Western DEI: (1) A Japanese CL/DD TF penetrated all the way to Palembang to sink two empty xAK. Steve is feeling frisky! (2) A small IJ force has arrived at Tjaedoenbaili (spelling aint close) at the eastern end of the rail line that runs west to Sabang. After bombarding, the Japanese force thinks it slightly outnumbers the Allies, but tonight the Aliles will air transport reinforcements from Padang (part of an Indian brigade). I want to hold this base until the Allies invade Sabang. (3) The enemy hasn't reinforced Singapore, yet, but I"m awaiting the imminent arrival of at least the IJA 52nd Division. China: That massive Japanese stack moved to Changsha. The Chinese have 2700 AV there, so the hex can be reinforced as long as the Japanese army doesn't equal or exceed 8,100 AV. I'm hoping the Japanese will attack and impale themselves on the urban terrain and the 100% prep of the entire 2700-AV garrison, but I will send about 600 AV from Siangtan to reinforce. Another 1400 AV from Siangtan will move south to reinforce 4,000 Chinese AV at Hengyang. THe combined forces will then attack across the river against what I believe is a single IJA division. Alot could happen here over the next week or so to change what has been a static front with mounting tensions. NoPac: D-Day perhaps 9 days away, while it seems like it's taking BBs Maryland and Idaho forever to get in position. This operaiton has an interesting give-and-take to it - the Allies will be giving Japan 2,500 AV in reinforcements (due to the invasion of Japan's home soil). After thinking long and hard about that, I"ve concluded that it's worth it. This is the first of several operations meant to throw the enemy off balance and halt the momentum that Japan has slowly gathered in the quiet of the past few weeks. Allied Carriers: Enterprise and Yorktown will steam out of Colombo tonight to take station in the Bay of Bengal. Meanwhile, Saratoga and Lex were 18 days from finishing upgrades. Sara suddenly reset to 36 days. I don't know why. I've seen this happen in previous games, so I took care to set "Do Not Upgrade" after the initial upgrade went into effect, but this didn't work. So I upped priority and managed to get the repair time down to 22 days. Enemy Carriers: No sign of them in a long time. If Steve is outthinking me or is lucky, they could be in NoPac, though that seems very unlikely. If they are, and if my NoPac invasion force thus gets a bloody nose, my counter will be to get more aggressive with reinforcement and offensive activity in the DEI.
< Message edited by Canoerebel -- 5/20/2011 9:11:32 PM >
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