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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/18/2012 3:15:26 PM

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Combat Report - 1/31/1942

- KB launches 3 attacks on Brisbane. We put up 111 P40s in defense and shot down a grand total of 3 Zeros, 2 Kates, and 2 Vals and lost 13 P40s. That is absurd. Not only that, but with so many bombers getting through, he easily sank all that had been left in port (most of it repairing) including a fleet sub and AR Castor. A small AS that I had left there to tend the subs already in port was also hit, though it can be repaired.

I'm very disappointed. I know that skill and experience are the problem but when you have 111 airplanes in the sky and walk away with less than 10 kills, that is just silly.

This has bad implications for Sydney. CA Houston is staying there no matter what because I don't have room for her anywhere else. PoW and Repulse could keep going SW toward Melbourne but it is unlikely that they would reach a port before the KB gets south enough to strike them. I'm not sure I could even sneak them around to Tazmania to hide them before they got down there.

Not the way I wanted to end an otherwise pleasant month (cf., The Battle of the Timor Sea).

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/18/2012 3:38:19 PM

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January 1942 in Review

Major Battles:
The Battle of the Coral Sea - Allied combat TFs with the assistance of USS Enterprise and USS Lexington attempt to stop the invasion of Port Moresby. BB Prince of Wales, BC Repulse, and CA Houston are all badly damaged and many others sunk when the KB appears out of nowhere. US CVs flee through the Torres Strait (Result: Allied Defeat)

The Battle of the Timor Sea - Fleeing US forces engage a Japanese carrier force SW of Timor. They savage the mini-KB (mKB) and moderately damage a heavy combat TF that was with it. However, CA Pensacola is lost in the defense of US CVs (Result: Allied Victory)

Yellow = Japanese full control (except Singapore, CF/Bataan, and Port Moresby)
Green = Allied full control (possible exception of Noumea)

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/18/2012 4:49:32 PM

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You may have got bad dice rolls at Brisbane. The pilots there would have got some experience that will help in the next battle. If KB keeps attacking along the coast their pilots will be tired. I bet if those P40s engage at Sydney you get better results. At any rate, the exchange was 7:13 in his favour, but he lost his pilots and you saved the ones not killed. At this stage in the war that isn't so bad an exchange.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/18/2012 5:06:49 PM

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You are going to hate me for this but I tried to warn you about the KB visiting your ports and your inability to stop them.

I agree that it is silly, but it is what it is. The designers chose to make the KB pilots way, way more invulnerable than they were historically. We AFBs just have to live with it.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/18/2012 6:00:01 PM

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True, HB, but not sure if it is ahistorical. The allied pilots took a little while to figure out that the Japanese aircraft could dish it out but not take it, and the thing to do when engaging was a diving bounce or a head on pass rather than a manoevering dogfight. Marbakka is only seven weeks into the war [game time] and allied pilot experience has not figured out the best approachs for dealing with their opposition. In other AARs it always seemed to me that it turned around to more equal footing around March-April 42 [P-40Es replacing the B model, and pilot experience gains].

Anyway, you are right about having to take it. I just don't think there is a need to despair as better days are coming this year.
You are also right about the Australian ports being vulnerable, but marbakka wanted to try being aggressive with his ships early on and it didn't work out. Can't fault a new commander for trying to take the initiative. He is learning fast though and it should be entertaining to watch the game progress.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/18/2012 8:31:10 PM

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True, HB, but not sure if it is ahistorical. The allied pilots took a little while to figure out that the Japanese aircraft could dish it out but not take it, and the thing to do when engaging was a diving bounce or a head on pass rather than a manoevering dogfight. Marbakka is only seven weeks into the war [game time] and allied pilot experience has not figured out the best approachs for dealing with their opposition. In other AARs it always seemed to me that it turned around to more equal footing around March-April 42 [P-40Es replacing the B model, and pilot experience gains].

Anyway, you are right about having to take it. I just don't think there is a need to despair as better days are coming this year.
You are also right about the Australian ports being vulnerable, but marbakka wanted to try being aggressive with his ships early on and it didn't work out. Can't fault a new commander for trying to take the initiative. He is learning fast though and it should be entertaining to watch the game progress.

Agreed it is still too early to expect decent results and that is why I tried to warn him. By early May, when the Battle of the Coral Sea happened, the Japanese took considerable aircrew losses so you are pretty dead on with your March-April assessment and I agree regarding the P40E being a superior plane in game terms.

On the Positive side he did do well in his first CV battle against the mini-KB.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/18/2012 10:15:19 PM

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Combat Report - 2/1/1942

- The Japanese crossed the causeway into Singapore today with the following results:

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Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 44507 troops, 472 guns, 167 vehicles, Assault Value = 1502

Defending force 57106 troops, 572 guns, 560 vehicles, Assault Value = 1363

Japanese adjusted assault: 413

Allied adjusted defense: 2497

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 6 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
10147 casualties reported
Squads: 89 destroyed, 1030 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 96 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 75 disabled
Guns lost 65 (5 destroyed, 60 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2284 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 202 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 72 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 29 disabled
Guns lost 50 (2 destroyed, 48 disabled)

Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division
55th Infantry Regiment
5th Division
12th Engineer Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
56th Infantry Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind. Engineer Regiment
23rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
25th Army
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion

I should note that I chose not to evacuate any of the Australian or Indian troops out of Singapore, opting instead to have them stall him for as long as possible here and allow my troops to be built up elsewhere.
- The KB tried to be sneaky and launched FIVE fighter sweeps over Brisbane and no port attacks. The sudden absence of fighters may tip him off that the ships he is looking for are in Sydney/Melbourne and that he should keep going south (He did move slightly to the south during the day). For the record, I left Houston and Prince of Wales at Sydney and kept going with Boise and Repulse. Sydney is Houston's final destination (the Melbourne yard is full), and PoW was slowing down the fleeing TF by half its speed. Hopefully the fighter CAP can do a better job here than they did in Brisbane, but even if they don't, I'm only losing two ships that are already severely damaged anyway - albeit two ships I'd love to continue using.

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As for all this "I told you so" business, lets not be silly. It doesn't take a genius or experienced player to know that the coast of Australia has to be evacuated if the KB rolls into town and you have only a handful of fighters on the whole continent. I sent the vast majority of my shipping fleeing to NZ and Suva as soon as the KB was seen to be coming back into the Coral Sea after chasing my CVs. The ships sunk at Brisbane are ships that I chose to risk losing in an effort to get those submarines back into service in time to take a shot at the KB. The only exception was AR Castor which I must have missed when putting together my TFs to flee. The fleeing TFs themselves aren't out of the woods yet and 1 group in particular must have left without refueling because it has run out and will have to disband at Lord Howe Island until the danger passes. I'm still very new at this game and definitely need help on some things (and I'm not afraid to admit when I make newb mistakes), but this was just common sense and doesn't seem worthy of all this back-patting going on.

Which I suppose is my nice way of saying "Advise

but don't patronize

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/18/2012 10:36:05 PM

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Stalling him--I believe--is the correct approach. We'll see how long you can hold.

Concur with your "advise and don't patronize" comment. Always a great rule of thumb to operate from.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/18/2012 10:59:25 PM

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Let me clarify a bit lest anyone (else) misunderstand my tone or meaning. I appreciate the advice I've been given on this AAR (and the AARs associated with our false starts). I read each post and often implement the suggestions, but I don't often say anything in response because a) I simply don't see the need to say "yeah I think I'll do that" all the time, and b) because keeping up to date on the turns themselves is time consuming enough for me without getting into details about all that I've implemented in the game each turn. I am also sensitive to danger of letting the game move from being about my choices and risks and victories and defeats to being about punching whatever buttons I'm told to push. Canoerebel expressed similar concerns only last week in his own AAR and he is an experienced player!

I had no intention of sounding harsh - especially not toward any one particular person. If anyone read it that way, then you missed my tone entirely, as often happens in text-based communication.

In my defense, I DID put a winky and a smiley before I put the...err...naughty(?), so I at least tried.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/19/2012 11:59:44 PM

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Combat Report - 2/2/1942

- He has landed some more troops at Port Moresby. Evidently, he doesn't feel like he has enough there to do the job
- CL Sumatra, which was repairing during the general evacuation of the Java Sea, joined a ragtag group trying to flee Soerabaja. 4 LBA attacks during the day managed to sink CM Krakatau but left the cruiser unscratched. They are on their way to Colombo to help support British operations in the IO.
- The KB moved within range of Sydney, but their admiral got wind of the large convoy of shipping that disbanded at Lord Howe Island (they were out of fuel and couldn't go further; no idea why they didn't weren't fully fueled before they left). There were no attacks on Sydney but struck at the island twice sinking 11 xAPs (medium range, the long ones are on the WC), 2 AGPs, and an AS. I'm annoyed that these guys weren't able to make it to NZ, but honestly I'm not feeling hurt too bad. I have tons of stuff to move troops in for now and these were empty.

I expect that the KB will strike at Sydney tomorrow and probably sink PoW and Houston who could not flee any further. What the KB does next will be pretty important. Unless he withdraws to the north, I expect I'll be losing a lot more. If he goes around to Melbourne, then I have surface units there in the yard that can't really flee. If he goes toward NZ, then he will catch the rest of the stuff that fled from Australia, and if he goes east toward Suva, he may well catch a lot more. How much longer can he do this without going back to restock? He has to have flown a LOT of sorties. I'm most worried about a transport fleet that is loaded and ready to go to Luganville. They could go directly there right now, but if he moves east then they will be caught red handed. For now, I'm ordering them to the NE of Suva where they can wait to see if they will get an opening.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/20/2012 12:44:01 AM

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I think you are right about the number of sorties limitation. If he attacks Sydney he should not have any left to go further. If he goes east or south instead of attacking Sydney [to foil your move of P40s there] he could do one round of attacks. I can't remember if he knows where your CVs are, but if he doesn't have a firm position he needs to keep one day's worth of strikes/CAP in reserve while he transits back to a base.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/20/2012 7:33:32 PM

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Combat Report - 2/3/1942

- Several fighter sweeps over Sydney had the same stupid results as up in Brisbane. 13 Zeros vs 90 P40Es resulted in 1 zero down and 9 P40s. A second sweep was 15 Zeros vs 55 P40Es and resulted in 1 Zero down and 10 P40s. Dumb.
- Following the sweeps, the KB launched a port attack against Lord Howe Island (nothing is left above water there anyway) and Sydney. The attack on Sydney resulted in 4 bombs hitting Prince of Wales. They were not big bombs (800lb at most and probably 250lb), but they did bring PoW's SYS damage up to 73. The only FLT and ENG damage that she has are the major damage that she suffered from the Battle of the Coral Sea. I don't think I came off bad in the port attack at all, but the KB moved closer to shore, so I expect a second day of attacks now that he has finally found something substantive to attack
- Another bombardment attack in Port Moresby. I'm puzzled as to why he is not attacking in earnest. He has the AV there to get the job done, I think and landing more troops hurts from the shore batteries.
- In Changsha, he has been conducting fighter sweeps for two days in what appears to be an attempt to meet the next AVG ambush. Thing is, the AVG is in Calcutta and Ledo waiting for reinforcements before returning to China (it will be a while). I'm enjoying having him guess where they are. Maybe he'll get it in his head that his daily bombings in Singapore are about to get ambushed. Anything to tie up his resources.
- Saratoga and Yorktown will arrive in the Bering Sea tomorrow. I'm looking forward to causing trouble for him there. After a few days of fun and training, they will return to San Francisco to escort a major troop shipment to Fiji and join up with Lexington and Enterprise (who are south of Fiji and headed for Pearl Harbor).

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/21/2012 2:47:23 AM

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Only guess I can make on the Port Moresby situation is that he is drawing out the attack in the hopes you will try to intervene with your carriers or some valuable cruisers???

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/21/2012 6:43:33 AM

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Combat Report - 2/4/1942

- Once again, I lose a ton of fighters over Sydney. The CAP is now down to less than 5 usable aircraft in each squadron, so I am relocating all of them to Brisbane to repair and restock
- In addition to the sweeps, the KB launched 2 port attacks against Sydney putting a total of 11 bombs into Prince of Wales and 5 into Houston. CA Houston, which was already pretty bad off, sunk. BB Prince of Wales is close behind her with 92/54/26/0 damage. I suppose it is possible that she could survive if a) the KB leaves (out of sorties?) and b) magic happens. On a more positive note, BC Repulse is halfway to Perth and their emergency repairs appear to be holding. They will refuel and then go straight to Cape Town.

Forgot to mention:
- He finally made a serious attempt at PM with generally good results for him. I'm sure he'll take it in the next couple days.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/21/2012 9:30:21 AM

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Good luck. I've had mulltiple KB fragments fully circumnavigate Oz in the Ironman scenario so I feel your pain. I have a hunch the AI cheats a bit on the fuel and maybe sortie capacity, so I doubt your esteemed opponent could pull off the same stunt. Looks like the POW will be out of the war for a while even if she remains floating. On the bright side, her crew will be having some pretty good long-term I&I as the yardies fix her.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/21/2012 5:13:37 PM

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Combat Report - 2/5/1942

- No attacks from the KB today. They appear to be moving off to the north. "Radio chatter" says they are out of sorties, though I'm not sure I believe it. One of the 2 carrier groups seems to be lagging behind a bit.
- Prince of Wales got neither better nor worse during the day. With the KB moving away, I'm going to put her up against the pier and see if we can get that SYS damage down. Once it is down, then I can maybe move her to Cape Town to rejoin Repulse.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/21/2012 7:33:11 PM

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Combat Report - 2/6/1942

Almost nothing happened today other than bombings in the usual places

- Fighter sweeps from Batavia have widdled the CAP at Soerabaja down to nothing. His march down Java continues.
- The KB continues to move north-northeast away from Sydney. I've lost sight of the faster moving, larger half, so I'm a little concerned as to whether they may shoot toward Noumea or Luganville - the latter of which is my main concern since I have the 8th Marines about 10 hexes east ready to land.
- Prince of Wales still has 92 SYS damage, but her FLT damage seems to have come down slightly.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/21/2012 7:33:58 PM

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/22/2012 3:25:40 AM

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Combat Report - 2/7/1942

- The KB has met up with a TF just east of Brisbane. I'm assuming it is a support task force that is servicing his carriers. It's a true shame that I don't have an air force in this arena.
- My two CVs in the Bering Sea got a bit too close to Attu Island and used it for some practice drops. Some hits on his supplies seems too little in exchange for verifying my CVs' location for him. I'll port attack whatever it is he has in Adak and then send them back to the WC to escort my big convoy to SOPAC. By that time, they should be able to link up with Enterprise and Lexington out of PH.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/22/2012 4:18:38 PM

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Combat Report - 2/8/1942

Lots of submarine action today

- Sank a TK that was with his CVs close to Brisbane. I'm a bit puzzled as to his use of the TKs, but he has 1 less to use regardless
- I put two torpedoes into AO Hayamoto in the Celebes sea. I'm pretty sure she's sunk.
- An enemy sub tried to attack my little AOs returning from refueling Darwin. An especially effective DD commander hurt it pretty bad
- I have 2 ASW fleets that have a fix on a sub west of SF. They hammered it today but got no hits. I'd like that thing dead before my major troop movement.
- 1 of his CV TFs is reportedly headed "east" toward Noumea/Suva. I've sent Noumea's ships running and if he does go that way, I'm going to have to scurry a lot out of Suva (again). I wish he'd just go home already!

Question: Brisbane's repair yard apparently got hit during his KB raid and I can't figure out how I'm supposed to repair it. The port damage is all gone, but the repair yard is still unavailable. On the industry screen for the repair yard it says that repair is "On." What am I doing wrong?

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/22/2012 4:33:22 PM

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Question: Brisbane's repair yard apparently got hit during his KB raid and I can't figure out how I'm supposed to repair it. The port damage is all gone, but the repair yard is still unavailable. On the industry screen for the repair yard it says that repair is "On." What am I doing wrong?

You need to have at least 10k+ supplies in base. Each point of damage will cost you 1000 supplies and will repair one point per day as long you have 10k+ supplies in base

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/22/2012 10:19:27 PM

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Combat Report - 2/9/1942

Nothing but bombings all day with another attempt at taking PM. He'll take it within a couple days, I think.

- The KB has definitely been inching eastward. Not good. To my great annoyance, I'm evacuating Suva (again) and Luganville. I unloaded something like 170AV at Luganville during the day, but there is a good bit of supplies and equipment still on the ships. I've cancelled unloading and sent them eastward in flight. Hopefully, the KB will clear out in good time and I can get back to unloading at that small port. The troops that already landed are unpacking and will then begin to work on the port, but they have virtually no supplies to work with, so for the time being the 8th Marines are eating their support squads to survive. KB needs to go home.
- At Noumea, I'm going to have to evacuate the B17s that I -just- stationed there. Back to Melbourne they go until I can be sure that 150 enemy planes won't show up over the airfield at any moment.
- Yorktown and Saratoga are withdrawing from the Bering Sea area without much to show for it, but I did confirm my suspicion that he is using Adak as a submarine base (an AS is all that was left there according to recon). I think that will probably be the extent of his operations in NOPAC. I'm not sure if I should plan to retake this in the summer or the fall. My priority is going to have to be SOPAC/Australia until I get some stability down there.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/23/2012 4:20:34 AM

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Combat Report - 2/10/1942

Usual bombings (I wish he would just stop escorting his Changsha bombers, but he is playing it cautious. My second AVG squadron is on its way back from vacation in India)

KB disappeared. He could have dipped south around Noumea to head to Suva, but I think it is move likely that he moved up into a pocket of no coverage to the north/northeast which would mean that he is withdrawing them. If he IS headed for Suva, then I should see them next turn. My ships will continue to behave as though he is coming for them even though it is going to cost me a pretty penny in fuel.

Speaking of which, he put a torpedo in one of my TKs that would have been emptying in Suva if it wasn't running from the KB threat.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/23/2012 5:02:47 AM

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You left an AS in Adak? I thought your carriers went there to sink whatever was in port?
Those things are valuable and without them he cannot replenish his subs torps at the small ports up there.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/23/2012 5:04:55 AM

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You left an AS in Adak? I thought your carriers went there to sink whatever was in port?
Those things are valuable and without them he cannot replenish his subs torps at the small ports up there.

Thunderstorms, dead of winter, and my CVs are needed elsewhere. I'll come back for him. Maybe that will be Hornet's maiden voyage

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/23/2012 2:06:09 PM

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Always wondered how you could get thunderstorms in the dead of winter but this game does it! I think they are following you around ...

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/23/2012 6:23:51 PM

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Combat Report - 2/11/1942

The KB has moved north of New Caledonia. This is positive, I suppose, but he is still headed more east than north which leads me to believe that at the very least he wants to take a look at Luganville and possibly even cover a landing near there.

Patrol aircraft out of Ndeni (?) spotted my fleeing Luganville transports and bombed them. They badly damaged an AKL that will likely go down, but the real damage is that he has intel on these guys with the KB only a day or so away. The ship that was hit didn't carry any troops according to info tab, but the combat report showed several squads damaged which tips him off that it wasn't just a cargo ship.

EDIT: The 27th Infantry Division arrived in Cape Town today. Yipee!! Now...err...I suppose they'll just sit there and wait until I know whether to send them to Australia or India.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/23/2012 7:11:06 PM

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Orders Summary - 2/12/1942

Lots of troops loading this turn, so I figured I'd update you on my deployments.

- I have decided to send the II Fighter Command with its 4-5 squadrons of fighters to Australia for now. They are loading at Cape Town and unloading at Perth. Their command unit will travel with them. I figure they are needed more there even if he does move on India because I will need protection for my bombers covering my offensive campaign in the Solomon's when that time comes.
- For now, the V Bomber Command (which together with the II Fighter Command make up the Fifth USAAF) will remain in Cape Town for the time being. Mostly because my airfields in both India and Australia are not quite ready for them, but also because I'd like to reserve the ability to send them to India if needed.
- At San Fransisco, I'm loading three fleets. The first is loading a couple of tank units who will go to Pearl Harbor to await the offensive in the Marshals (they are planning for Kwajalein Island for now). That TF is piggy backing BB New Mexico and some DDs out to Pearl as well. The second TF is loading a bunch of units for Luganville. The third TF is loading almost as many for Noumea. When dock space opens up, a fourth TF will load some of the unrestricted fighter units that will make the trip as well. All the SOPAC TFs will be following an ASW fleet and my CVs. Saratoga and Yorktown will be with them from the moment they leave the west coast. Lexington and Enterprise will join them after they refuel and refit in Pearl Harbor.
- After delivering the troops to SOPAC, my carriers will return to the West Coast for their march upgrades.

Am I putting all my eggs in one basket? Sure. But it is a basket covered by 4 carriers, so...yeah.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/23/2012 10:23:24 PM

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Combat Report - 2/12/1942

- The KB has vanished again. I'm about 75% sure he went north toward Rabaul/Truk. CORRECTION: He moved so far north I didn't even see him when I looked the first time. They are just short of Rabaul. A sigh of relief! Now to get my ships back into port and get the supply train going again.
- I noticed that the bombing of Changsha was messed up today. The 26 Oscars that are normally with the main group of bombers got stuck with the 6 stragglers. I'm still several days from having my second AVG squadron back in town, but here's hoping that it screws up like that when I ambush him next.

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RE: Buried in the Sunset (Marbakka [A] vs. Texas_D [J])... - 5/24/2012 3:59:45 AM

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Combat Report - 2/13/1942

Nothing to report

KB is at Rabaul

Epic Troop Convoy is almost ready to leave SF. Just waiting for the first 2 CVs to arrive.

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