GreyJoy
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel As the British army surgeon keeps saying in Bridge on the River Kwai, "Madness...madness!" Failure to impose an airtight blockade on Karachi is pure folly (sorry, rader, if you ever read this; but attacking while letting the Allies readily move in supplies and reinforcements over many months is NUTS!). You have the RN carriers in theater, right? So now you can shut down enemy combat ship movement in the Arabian Sea? You can also at least toy with the idea of a counterinvasion using some of your Aden reinforcements. You have to be alert to LBA, but he can't have alot covering his rear areas with so much pestering Karachi (or so I think). You might use bad weather to good advantage here. Mainly, though, you need to be doing some offensive thinking and planning now. Rader doesn't realize it; you may not believe it, but the Battle of Karachi is already decided. Hi CR! Had to send the CVs back to UK in order to start gaining PPs back again......those two CVs were costing me 130 PP every day! So i kept them just untill i had escorted the 2 Indian Divisions of reinforcements from Aden to Karachi and the first 140k supplies...then i sent them back His Netties are in Diego, Scoodra and Bombay...really hard to think about a counterinvasion without any CV cover. However i really like the idea of knowing where the KB is... 1943 is not that far away and Aden Channell will be open in 7 months...i'm thinking about a plan... Karachi, i'm sure of that, won't fall untill the end of next summer, no matter what. 9000 AVs are simply too much. He'll need lot of time to reduce it. If during the next months i manage to advance in the solomons (let's say untill Bouganville) and to take PM...so consolidate my perimeter... I think i'll be ready to send by the end of march 1943 a HUGE Convoy to Aden, with 200/300k supplies, 2/3 divisions, planes and stuff...along with my 6 CVs...counterinvading at Surat...with 3 Indian Divisions, 3 U.S. Divisions...tanks...oh lord...that would be magnificent! Anyway i know need to focus on my defences. As long as i keep Karachi Air Force alive he won't be going anywhere. I'll let his KB draining his fuel tanks sinking empty transports (i have numbers of them to spare). These raids won't change the fact that the allies are advancing in SOPAC and without some LCUs to defend the islands he won't be able to stop us just using the KB...
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