Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

Michael is right, I would leave enough troops behind in the Phillipines to prevent a breakout, and move everyone else out. There is no reason to commit valuable time and resources to reduce the Phillipines by force, when starvation will do the job for you, over time.

The 65th Bde and supporting units are enough; the same terrain bonus that makes Clark or Manila a tough nut also makes breakouts very tough. And failed attacks by the USAAFFE command are disatrous, because they burn valuable supplies.

You know all this, but for everyone's benefit: There is no reason not to bypass the Phillipines. You don't need Manila in the short run. The only risk is that the Allied player might use Clark and/or Manila for "pop-up" attacks using SB2Us or something like that. While potentially irritating, it's not a game-changer, and you can mitigate that by constant bombing of the 2 airstrips, which is a must. Even here, any old bombers will do, allowing you to use Sallys for front-line work.

Singapore, on the other hand, can only be reduced by force; and it is critical to take before moving into the Bay of Bengal. Singapore can't be starved, as even if you can get in the hex and stop LI production, it starts with over 80K supplies, enough to last awhile.

Too many IJN players, IMO, expend resources on reducing Luzon by force. It's a waste of time. You need to use that force elsewhere, like Malaya.

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This could be and--quite possibly is--a lure to bring me North. I accept that. His concentration here so early bespeaks his perennial fixation with the North. If this is where he wants to play some then I accept ON MY TERMS. I have three major reinforcement Convoys carrying a Brigade and two Regiments (bought out from China) that will land troops at Unmak, Amchitka, and Adak. These units--dug-in--will make it quite costly to take any of these bases without at least a pair of ID. Additionally I am deploying one Air Flotilla and its large base Force from the 9th Air Fleet to provide my AF's Bombers some teeth as well as serious support. He can mess with Unmak while I build the other bases up behind there.

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I expect Dan to bugout before I get there. This is why I shall do a DEEP STRIKE, have 7 fully loaded fast AOs moving East presently, into the Gulf of Alaska and the Northern West Coast. Since he--evidently--wants to fight up here, then I shall welcome this development for a chance to attrit his airpower.

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I figure you already know this but I have not seen you post it in your plans, so could you point out to this rookie what I'm missing vs. a live player by doing this?

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Don't forget the newer beta patches change back the code to allow supply generation from Light Industry. So, Singapore gets some, but not enough supply here.

Member: Treaty, Reluctant Admiral and Between the Storms Mod Team.

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Dan and I keep a running commentary up with our emails and when we played our WitP Campaign he hated it when I would telegraph a turn by declaring "Banzai!" in the message. Drove him NUTS and I didn't clearly realize it at the time. We spoke about it later and we have kept the patter somewhat light throughout this game to this point. I blew that slightly a few days ago when I sprung this ambush. Not much has gone right in this campaign and so I felt elated for a positive to occur. Dan commented to this in his gentlemanly manner and I apologized.

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Stated my opinions of having low morale due to the Ground Situation and how I have thrown the entire PLAN OF WAR out the window due to the adverse affects of Singapore and Clark. Don't think he quite understands that being in mid-March and having 75% of your major combat forces tied down where they should have LEFT 6 weeks earlier is a TERRIBLE thing for the Japanese player. Add to that 4 mangled Japanese Infantry Divisions and any JFB knows that ambitious operations are severely limited at this stage.