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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 4:09:56 PM   
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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 4:45:26 PM   
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GJ:  For you, I can do it.  I'll post some maps this afternoon.  It's the autumn equinox in the game, anyway, so the winds of change are beginning to blow....

DEI:  The small transport TF carrying G/H Shoregun unit to Billiton encounters two hostile subs, but takes no damage (one set of torps malfunction, the other sub missed - that's a lucky Allied TF!).  A good part of G/H is ashore at Billiton.  The Allies are just about to ramp up the transfer of units - especially engineers and base forces - to Toboali and Billiton in to set the table for some offensive operations planned as the year draws to a close.  The fight continues in and around Padang, but this won't be a concern until Japan can bring alot more to the table.  Over in India, additional units are gathering at the "traditional port of embarkation for units bound to the DEI."  This includes newly arrived 25th Indian Division.  Some units are prepping for Sibolga (Sumatra) and others for Singkawang (Borneo).

Burma:  The Happy Stalemate at Magwe continues.

NoPac:  Nothing major from the enemy, yet.  I still expect a major counter-invasion before the end of October.  Just in case it doesn't happen, though, the Allies will be ready to drop more supply and engineering units at both bases to take advantage of the wintertime lull in activity.

CenPac:  Quiet.

SoPac:  Quiet.

SWPac:  Having unloaded, the second Milne Bay convoy will retire to Townsville.  Now the third and last - and smallest - will proceed to Milne.  No sign yet that the enemy is "aroused" by this activity.

Political Points:  The only thing preventing the Allies from going on the offensive in the DEI immediately is political points.  Big units are stacking up at Cochin, India, awaiting PP.  Right now, the Allies have 1,000.  I need 4,200 to buy the three divisions and one armored unit at (or bound for) Cochin.  Two divisions are prepping for Singkawang; the other, along with a motorized brigade, is prepping for Sibolga.  There's another motorized brigade, also prepping for Sibolga, inbound from Adento Colombo.  The Allies are aware that Japan may martial its forces and go on the offensive in the DEI, but if it does not, the Allies will be in a position to move forward in a big way in roughly four to eight weeks. 

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 5:34:21 PM   
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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 5:39:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		You will gradually isolate his Sumatra army and Singapore, then eventually bomb the oil in his possession into the pre-Cambrian Era. Yikes.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 5:43:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think we have a house rule preventing strat bombing in SEAC/DEI until 1944, so that won't be possible for fifteen months.  If Chez doesn't attend to things down here, however, Allied LBA will shut down Japanese shipping in the western DEI in early 1943.  Of course, Chez can't allow that to happen, so he'll do something....I think.  Won't he?

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 7:40:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's a puzzler.  During the past three months, Chez hasn't engaged in any combined arms (land, sea and air) operations anywhere.  The largest undertaking was landing two very small units on Ndeni.  Both of them were eliminated in short order.  Other than that there's been absolutely nothing - no counterinvasions in the Kuriles, around Tarawa, near Pago Pago, in New Guinea, or in the DEI.  Nothing.  I guess his last major effort was at Pago Pago back around May or June.

The KB has vanished from sight in recent weeks, with IJN carriers most recently seen operating around Lunga and between Wake and Marcus.

This suggests Chez is marshalling his forces for a big move.  My best guess is and has been NoPac, though the DEI would make more sense.  But three months without any Japanese offensive activity* is a heck of a long time in 1942.  He's got to break an offensive shortly.  He's just got to. 

*Except relatively minor land campaigns at Magwe and near Padang.


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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 7:48:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not so sure. He NEEDS to, but the discussion in Shattered Sword about capabilities and intentions works both ways. The IJN at Midway fell prey to planning based on perceived USN intentions instead of capabilities. Here, Chez may have capability (declining every day but he still has it) of going on an offensive, but my read is that he has no intention of doing so because of low player morale.

I hope I'm wrong as a make or break offensive would be more fun to watch.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 8:47:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		I find it hard to believe there are so many dutch bases still unconquered on Borneo. Sambas is a pretty short walk for an SNLF from Singkawang. It sure looks like the door is open to keep pushing farther here.

Even without strategic bombing, all you really have to do is close the fuel ports with 4Es and the economy will crash down pretty quickly. Without Palembang that really means just Miri and Balikpapan/Samarinda.

He might not be acting offensively in order to conseve fuel at this point.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 9:58:36 PM   
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He's got to break an offensive shortly. He's just got to.


Why? He may actually have just done precisely what I and others suggested he needed to do about 6 months ago and you, by not pushing the offensive opportunities granted you by your position, have gifted him the time he needed to transition strategically and operationally onto a defensive footing with a strong MLR some distance from the current front line.

Whether he's done that or not is a different matter but, certainly, by not pushing the enemy hard you've given him ample opportunity to garrison and echelon in depth. I doubt he'll have taken full advantage of this huge pause to create a cohesive defence but the belief that he must attack simply isn't warranted. His best play is to garrison, echelon and use the time you're giving him to coalesce.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 10:32:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		He doesn't have the luxury of going on the defensive when the Allies are right in the midst of his oil and resources.  I mean, if he wants to fight a defensive war from mid 1943 onward without being able to extract those things, he can try, but that will be an odd, wimpering way for the war to wind down.

The Allies have achieved the position needed to win the war early.  It's now up to Japan to dislodge the Allies, though I don't think Japan can do so.  My strategic objective is to force Japan to attack and to break its back when it does so.  Should Japan not bite, the game ends soon anyway.  Japan can't win if the Allies have big airfields in eastern Sumatra and southern Borneo in early 1943. 

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 10:46:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually, at some point in time ( I believe I mentioned it near the start of this AAR ) I did the math that if he captured everything except Palembang he would capture enough to run his HI at full blast indefinitely.

If there are disastrous levels of damage elsewhere in oilfields he takes that might change obviously but, basically, the normal stuff he can take ( minus north China ) feeds his normal economy. Palembang gives his room to expand.

I don't say this is what your opponent planned but I'm sure he has done the math since and realised that, actually, he can run his HI at pretty much full bore unless you begin killing his oilfields in Burma, Malaysia and the DEI.


As to Japan not winning... Japan can't win anyway. On the other hand it DOES have the option, at this stage, of cutting its cloth to measure and fighting a strong defensive war. I don't think that your opponent has done that but if you were facing a top class player now I'm sure they would have rationalised their production ( stopping the CVs due in '44 in order to build up strong HI reserves ) and focused on IJA and airframe production with a view to being able to survive well into 1945.

In Downfall the Japanese total HI production is just some 6,100 HI per day. I am utilising that HI to re-equip the IJA and build just under 2,500 planes per month. Without any HI expansion your opponent has 12,000 HI per day to play with. If he goes purely defensive you'd be amazed at how much of a reserve he can build up whilst still maintaining a very strong air force, army and surface raiding component ( albeit he'd have to sacrifice building subs and anything heavier than a DD ).

Personally I think it is more likely he is just confused and inactive than following such a path BUT it is possible and a top tier player would, I think, be optimising his economy for the long game in just that way.... so I think it behoves you to be aware of the possibility.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 10:51:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		That's the crux of Steve's problem - nearly all his oil fields are or will soon be within range of Allied 4EB.  The Allies can't strategic bomb until 1944, but can prohibit enemy shipping from using ports like Balikpan, Brunei and Medan.  Steve can't permit that to happen.  He has to stop the ongoing Allied expansion in the Java Sea (and eventually into south Borneo).

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 10:55:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Agreed. If he were a top tier player those 3 months would have allowed him a proper pause to put a plan in place to do so. As it is you'll infiltrate around the ad hoc solutions he has in place.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/8/2011 11:35:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		I bet he has fortified the Kuriles & Hokkaido.

Now might be the time to emulate GJ and scrutinise every japanese held base and look for the weak spot, you might not be in a position to use it at the moment  but better to know it now than in 12 mths when you feel ready for a big push.

You mention a HR about no strat bombing, probably a reasonable rule at 7/12/41 but now with you occupying 50%?? of his Oil hamstrings what would be a reasonable tactic.

With far from complete knowledge of the situation, I have an inkling for a push across Borneo to the southern Phillipines linking with a push from PM & Darwin to open your routes into the Home Islands. I believe a South China Seas approach runs into a funnel with Formosa as a stopper.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/10/2011 8:26:10 PM   
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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/13/2011 2:24:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey, gents.  I'm in the midst of one of those things that we all face from time to time.  My wife's mother was fatally injured in a car accident late Friday afternoon (I got the news just as I was sitting down to run a turn).  She passed away early Saturday morning.  The funeral is Thursday.  Despite the sadness of the situation, the family is doing very well, in large part becuase of their strong faith and the outpouring of love from a big family and close-knit community.

If possible, don't even reply to this.  All of us face these things on occasion, and we seldom share them in the forums, and perhaps I shouldn't have.  But I just wanted to let you guys know.  I'll be back up and running late this week. During occasional intervals, I have visited the forums, primarily to check in on GJ's game.  One thing he said (which will be taken up by the Kangaroo Court in due time) made me laugh out loud. 

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/13/2011 8:52:42 PM   
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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/17/2011 4:48:03 AM   
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NoPac:  IJ combat (or fast transport) TF heading to Amchitka.  The CA Chester TF will oppose, but it may get whipped.  No moves on Paramushiro yet.  BBs Hiei, Nagato and Kongo bombarded on the 22nd, ineffectively, and follow up IJ airstrikes got treated badly by Alied CAP.

SWPac:  Milne Bay airfield and port go to level one on the 23rd.  The final TF carrying troops will unload tonight.  No signs of detection or reaction.

DEI:  All ships that brought troops to Billiton finished unloading and are retiring to Oosthaven.  Enemy troops outside Padang withstand attack by Aussie brigade.  BB Royal Sovereign at Colombo is almost ready for duty.  The Allies are about ready to buy an Indian division (prepping for Singkawang) and then transport it from Cochin, India, to Oosthaven.  Everything looks "peaceful" here at the moment.

Burma:  The Happy Stalemate at Magwe continues.

SigInt:  Reports that 52nd and Imperial Guards divisions are on marus bound for Manila.  This could be cleverly craft deception.  If it's true - if Steve is attending to his inner perimeter in September 1942 - he's lost his mojo.  Were I that desperate, I think I would just develop the craftiest, most ridiculous "pull and inside straight" plan possible and then, when it failed, surrender honorably.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/17/2011 7:23:23 PM   
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NoPac:  CA Chester TF tangled with CL Oi TF near Amchitka, with Chester eating a torp and taking very heavy damage.  She might not make it back to Adak.

CenPac:  No major enemy operations apparent.

SoPac:  No major enemy operations apparent.

SWPac:  Allied AV at Milne Bay up to 385.  The final transport TF will finish unloading tomorrow and then depart.  Milne is now a signficiant speed bump.

DEI:  A squadron of SCs fresh from the USA are nearing Oosthaven.  On the way in, they tangled with and damaged an IJ sub.  II Fighter HQ has arrived at Praebemolith, midway between Oost and Palembang.  I'm hoping this will strengthen Allied air operations for the eventual battle of Sumatra, should that actually take place in this game.

Burma:  The Happy Stalemate at Magwe continues.

China:  Two 50-expierience Chinese units mauled Japan's 61st Brigade north of Sinyang.  As a result of the prolonged campaigning in China since April, many Chinese units now have experience in the 50s, which means they are a different animal in battle. 

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/18/2011 2:11:30 AM   
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NoPac:  Chester might make Adak after all.  Still awaiting an IJ counterinvasion before winter sets in.

CenPac:  No sign of IJ moves under way.

SoPac:  No sign of IJ moves under way.

SWPac:  The last of the transports are weighing anchor at Milne Bay to retire to Oz.

DEI:  A handful of SCs are about to arrive at Oost.  They will be used to try to evacuate several badly damaged capital ships including a BB and two CA.  I'll try to shepherd these ships to Cocos and then on to Colombo or Capetown.

Burma:  The Happy Stalemate at Magwe continues.  Allied forces are still moving to try to isolate this base.  More Allied troops are crossing the jungle from India to join the campaign around Magwe.

Score:  Japan 20k.  Allies 17.5k.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/18/2011 2:30:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		CR, I am glad to see you posting again and that things have settled down enough to allow time for it after the tragedy.

I do wonder what the LYBs are up too. It is very quiet around the map here in late September. One has to think that time is running short for the LYBs to launch a meaningful offensive outside the Kuriles. He may be planning some desparate measure. Keep the "sniffers" at 100% and double them up where you can. To quote, "I'm getting a bad feeling about this".

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/18/2011 2:46:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would love to see Chaz do some kind of "Hail Mary" offensive - though at this point, anything in the DEI is going to be into the teeth of your prepared defenses. Australia is not really an option based on your positions at Port Moresby & Milne Bay. If he does try for Hawaii, it will commit a significant amount of resources in exactly the wrong direction.

I would expect that he's bunkered down & preparing defenses - with maybe operations to take back a couple of key bases from you.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/19/2011 2:42:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		It would be fun if Steve pulled a truly clever operation, and I've expected one all along, but the odds are decreasing as the calendar progresses.

At this point in the game, there is only one game-changing option available to him: Invade India. That's not going to happen. He would need to control the sea and he doesn't and can't. And, at this point, the Allies have had too much time to build forts and airfields. India is no longer available.

The most realistic way for him to hurt the Allies is to suck it up and invade Sumatra. I don't think he can succeed at this late date, but if he did, and if he destroyed the Allied army there, it would certainly be a blow.

The next best option for him would be Oz. This continent is wide open - defended only by Aussie troops - but Steve doesn't know that. The fact that Americans are now in strength at Milne Bay would help deceive him about the presence of Americans in Oz, should he find out. A massive invasion into the Brisbane area would succeed, but it's a long shot. A massive invasion in the Perth region is less liekly since Steve knows I have the Allied carriers not too far away. But a massive invasion of Oz really isn't a threat to the Allies at this point.

No other invasion would be a concern to the Allies, even if successful. New Zealand and Hawaii, for instance, just pale in comparison to Sumatra and Borneo. If Steve commits in force somewhere distant, the Allies would simply expedite expansion into the Java Sea region.


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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/19/2011 9:15:53 PM   
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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/19/2011 9:30:57 PM   
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Zuluhour: You may be right. Were I the Japanese player; were I to get off to a very halting start; were I to be mired down; well, I think at that point I would prefer an honorable banzai! charge over a slow, lingering death. But I have not been able to get inside Steve's head in this game. I don't know what he's thinking.

NoPac: CA Chester should make Adak Island tomorrow.

CenPac: Nothing going on - just USN subs moving in and out of Pearl and Midway.

SoPac: The Big Quiet has settled in here, too.

SWPac: All ships except a lone xAK have retired from Milne.

DEI: Six SCs have arrived at Oosthaven, where they led skirmishes with at least three IJ subs. Oost forts at 8.92. Palembang forts at 8.89. They'll both hit 9 in a few days, at which time the Allies will begina big repositioning of the stack of engineering units at both bases. Moving engineeers north to Toboali and Billtion will expedite the building of airfields. As those airfields become larger they will enable the Allies to then occupy and build Ketapang and Pontianak. BB South Dakota is enroute from Capetown to Cocos Island. Damaged BB North Carolina is in the yards at Capetown for six months worth of repairs, but I'm very relieved she made it.

Burma: The Happy Stalemate at Magwe continues.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/19/2011 10:59:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Steve likes to expand to a defensive perimeter and then hang on tooth and nail. In your game he never got the defensive perimeter that he likes, but I am assuming that he has gone into that mindset already.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/20/2011 8:46:40 PM   
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NoPac: Allied fighers, mainly P-39s, are consistently giving better than they take in the skies of Paramushiro. No sign yet of an imminent enemy move.

CenPac and SoPac: The Big Quiets continue.

SwPac: The Allies would like to buy some restricted Aussie unit and ship them to Port Moresby, but the build up in Sumatra and the Java Sea is higher priority.

DEI: The Allies are about to begin evacuating damaged capital ships from Oosthaven. The first to depart is lightly damaged CA Dorsetshire. The Allies are ready to buy an Indian division at Cochin. Transports are in place to bring it to this theater. At this point, I am leaning strongly to forgetting a move on Sibolga (the lightly held enemy base west of Padang, Sumatra) in favor of sending troops to the critical Java Sea bases like Ketapang, Pontianak, and Billiton Island. Those bases are where the hottest fighting should take place in coming weeks and months, unless my opponent is truly willing to concede essentially all oil. I'm hoping that Steve might commit a major force, including carriers, in NoPac in October, giving the Allies some weeks or a month of freedom to reinforce these Java Sea bases. Given that amount of time, those bases will become essentially impregnable - strongly held by ground troops and within the air umbrella of eastern Sumatra and Billiton Island, which will reach level two tomorrow.

Burma: The Happy Stalemate at Magwe continues. The Allies continue to work on flanking movements.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/20/2011 9:54:56 PM   
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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/21/2011 7:08:55 PM   
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The pace of the gradual Allied transition from the defensive to the offensive in the DEI is about to pick up, so I'm looking forward to seeing how things go in the coming days and weeks.

Padang, Sumatra: Aussie infantry and tanks, joined by USMC tanks, won a small but important battle two hexes west of this base, throwing back a Japanese infantry regiment and two battalions. The combat report showed that the enemy units were low on supply, which is what I wanted to see. I am hoping - in fact I am counting on - the fact that Steve will find it difficult and perhaps impossible to supply an army large enough to threaten Fortress Sumatra via overland campaign from the west.

Oosthaven and Palembang: Oost forts go to level nine tomorrow, with Palembang to follow in two or three days. This will complete construction activity at both bases, freeing up ten engineer units for new duty. Four of these units, two at each base, will remain in place to handle any future damage inflicted during air raids. Two more unit will report to Lahat and Benkolen to help with construction efforts there. The rest will be divided between Muntok, Toboali, and Billiton Island, expediting base-building activity at those important sites in the Java Sea. They are important because, once each airfield is built large, the Allies can move in force on southern Borneo ports.

Damaged Ship Evacuation: CA Dorsetshire made it away from Oosthaven in good order. CA Pensacola will follow tonight. She is also in good shape, so I'm not worried about her. But soon will come the turn of the more heavily damaged ships, including CA Salt Lake City and BB Revenge. Japanese subs continue to visit Oost, probably on mining missions, with Allied ASW getting in some good licks.

Burma: The Allies won another small land battle on the flank of Magwe, where a UK Brigade pushed back 55th Cav. Regiment. The Japanese position at Magwe is threatened by flankers to the rear, both north and south. Steve will have to bring more units to bear to protect his rear, or he'll have to retire from Magwe.

NoPac: Hiei, Nagato and Kongo bombard Paramushiro once again...and again ineffectively. Good to see them up here, as it suggest Japan will move on Para and Onne before winter (why I think that's good is set forth in my preceeding post).

CenPac: The Big Quiet continues.

SoPac: Small enemy carrier-plane raid with Kates and Zeros sinks AKL Vichy, on picket duty south of Noumea.

SWPac: Quiet at Milne Bay.

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RE: Das darf nicht var sein! - 12/22/2011 6:44:20 PM   
Canoerebel


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September is sliding away. Can it be October? Can it be that the Allies have a firm grip on eastern Sumatra? A weird, weird game it is.

Oosthaven Campaign: Forts reach level nine. The Oosthaven Campaign began as a key game of chicken in which the Allies prevailed. Both sides committed major combat ships in a two or three month battle to achieve supremacy here. Japan probably could have won, but Steve tired of the damage done to his cruisers and battleships and eventually backed down. This has given the Allies three or four months of uncontested use of this key port - use to build land reinforcements, to embark troops bound for the bases to the north, and a port in which damaged ships have pumped out water. Dorsetshire and Pensacola are safely away. BB Revenge departs tonight. Soon, the Allies will change the guard - pulling out many of the capital ships (and DDs that need upgrading) and replacing them with new ships - a change just meant to keep Steve from getting to comfortable in his knowledge about what he faces. BBs Washington, South Dakota, and Ramillies are on the way to theater, with BB Royal Sovereiign at Colombo, 16 days from being ready for duty.

Allied Carriers: The Allied carriers (escept Wasp, which is currently at Kodiak Island) have been on patrol duty south of Sumatra more or less for months now (with occasional detachments to Colombo to upgrade). I have considered, from time to time, sending them elsewhere, but always I end up concluding that the DEI is where the war is being decided, so they are better used there. October upgrades are due, so I will likely send the carriers to Colombo, one or two at a time.

Burma: The Happy Stalemate at Magwe continues.

NoPac: I am assuming Steve is getting ready to pull the trigger ona Para/Onne counterinvasion. If he fails to do so, the Allies have the assets in place to reinforce and resupply those bases when winter conditions set in. The plan is to use the winter to reinforce strongly.

Rest of the Pacific: The Big Quiet continues.

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