Mike Solli
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Joined: 10/18/2000 From: the flight deck of the Zuikaku Status: offline
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17 Feb 42 Sub War The Ro-64 is heading back to the barn and her flooding damage is decreasing. She should make it to Rabaul as long as she doesn't run into an enemy sub. The I-164, tooling around Umnak Island, found the other TF hanging out there. It wasn't the AVD as I suspected, but an AP. Not an xAP, but a real AP. Two torpedo hits later, down she went. She was a good sized one too at 10k tons. Unfortunately she was empty but I'll take it anyway. 5 Fleet Nothing else to report other than the little incident above. 4 Fleet Currently, Wake has 2x naval construction battalions and it's almost at it's troop limit. I'm sending some cargo ships from Kwajalein to pick one up. I'm planning on sending it to Eniwetok but that may change. Wake is working on it's 5th fort. I'm concerned that when it receives it's CD unit, it may go over the limit. SE Fleet Interesting day in this area. My daily sweep of Pt. Moresby netted no results. Ted didn't come up to play again. There are several 1-2 ship TFs in the area. I thought they all were ASW TFs. I was wrong. My Betties flew a Naval Attack mission for the first time. They caught a small TF in Pt. Moresby and sank an xAKL and DD. I'll take it. Madang fell. That gives me the entire northern coast of New Guinea from Hollandia east. Cape Glouchester is the only other Allied controlled base in the area. That next. China That surrounded Chinese Corps was hit again netting 743(84) Chinese. My intel shows ~20k troops. Big corps. Burma The AVG flew over Meiktila, Tongoo and Taung Gyi and found Oscars at all three places. Overall, I lost one Oscar while shooting down 2x H81-A3s and another reportedly crashed on the way home. I finally caught up with the Burma Division from Rangoon. I'll attack tomorrow. Malaya Nothing new to report. The next attack is still a couple of days away. SRA On Java, I took Tjepoe unopposed. It's the oil/refinery center in the center of the island. The infrastructure was intact at Oil 35(0) and Refinery 30(0). I'm building 5 more refineries so I don't have to mess with oil there. MKB was 4 hexes north of Darwin yesterday, along the edge of the shallow water. I wanted to try to hit the Marblehead again today, but I was concerned about subs, so I moved the TF one hex to the east along the shallow water. Good thing I did. The Marblehead and That Damn Boise popped up where MKB was yesterday! MKB has 23 Kates (the N1 model) and 20 of them went after the two CLs. The Marblehead took 3 torpedoes and went down and the Boise took 2 torpedoes and limped away heavily damaged. Ted told me this morning that he expects her to go down. I moved MKB 3 hexes north so it's still 7 hexes from Darwin. If Boise doesn't go down, I want MKB to be able to assist her tomorrow. Should Boise make Darwin, there is still that sub laid minefield there to greet her. Banzai! The next turn awaits!
< Message edited by Mike Solli -- 4/7/2012 1:56:11 PM >
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