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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/13/2013 7:28:20 AM

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October 1943

The allies, after the last carriers clash near Nauru Island, managed to assemble another CV fleet. We have 5 Fleet CVs, 3 CVLs and a plethora of CVEs. The Yorktown II managed to reach the west coast, even if badly damaged (will need 3 months of repairs), while the Saratoga is almost ready to go.
We managed to finally conquer Nauru Island (when the japs retreated to Truk to lick their wounds. The Allies then landed a full corp (1 reinforced division) against a garrison of 10,000 men with 5 forts...but without any heavy equipment and badly distrupted by the constant bombings. We easily took the place. Then, a para drop operation against Kusiae Island, which was ungarrisoned (

). 1 USMC Para Bn and 2 USMC raider regiments are now holding the island, along with 2 engineer units. Catalinas are already flying from there, giving us eyes over Truk!
The allies fleet is now at Tabiutea, ready to move forward. The Jap Combined Fleet is at Truk... the Titans are already eager to clash!
The strategy is to advance towards Ponape and then Truk!

Two more vectors are almost ready:
1) We conquered Lungaville (after Suva) and we're now ready to advance with Australian and NZ forces towards the Solomons (which are lightly guarded) Wanna push and make pressure on Rabaul.

2) At Sydney we're assembling 2 invasion corps. The idea is to land at Milne Bay and Tagula island and move towards New Britain bypassing PM and Horn Island, thus forcing Rabaul to face two different and strong vectors.

In Burma i'm trying to assemble a new army for December and a HUGE Air force in order to breakthrough the plains. This time i'll move on the coast Akyab->Ramree Is-> Pegu...let's see if I can manage to estabilish the air supremacy over Burma in 1944

Me and Mr.Kane have adopted the new Symon's air files... pretty curious to see how they work out!

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/19/2013 5:33:39 PM

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Second Half of November 1943

The Allied CVs (minus the Saratoga refitting at PH and the Yorktown II repairing at SF) and 6 CVEs are keeping busy the Combined Fleet at Kusiae Island. We conquered the Island with paras in late september and, since then, we've being fighting around it, both in the air and on the waves.
The Japs are trying to create a blockade, but the allies managed to unload there nearly 28,000 men and the AF has already been built up to 2, port 1 and 3 forts. CD guns and AA in place. No way he can counterinvade...
The Japs have also reinforced Ponape and all the bases around Rabaul and on the NG coast.

So the allied fleet is in the pacific, with all its carriers... The Saratoga is now repaired and is already moving to Nanoumea along with 2 more CVLs and 2 CVEs, bringing our carrier power up to 6 CVs, 4 CVLs and 10 CVEs....ready to face the KB once again.

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/19/2013 8:27:24 PM

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....and while the Allied CV Fleet keeps pinned the Whole Combined Fleet in front of Kusiae Island....

A combined force of US and AUS Army and Navy lands in the Southern DEI. 12 BBs, 6 Modern Cruisers and 50 DDs, along with 500 transport ships.

AKEs, AGPs, ADs, ARs, ARDs and every kind of support ship is present.

600 fighters are ready to be transfered from port Hedland. 400 bombers of various types too.

3 Full reinforced Divisions invaded Koepang, while several Brigades conquer Roti and some nearby bases.

Everything went smooth. Not a single japanese Aircraft has spotted our invasion fleet. Not a single one!!!!

I've never reconned the invaded area. Just intelligence report

Only the 5th Jap ID is defending the Whole Timor!!!!

Now Mr.Kane has to decide what to do. If he sends the KB and co. back to the DEI, i'm ready to invade Ponape, Eniwetok and Roi-Namur,supported by all my CV/CVEs with 5 Divisions. If he remains in the Pacific.

If he remains in CENTPAC, i'll be able to advance fast in the DEI and start a strat camapaign against his oilfields

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/19/2013 8:37:03 PM

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Me and Mr.Kane have adopted the new Symon's air files... pretty curious to see how they work out!

What do you think?

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/19/2013 8:40:06 PM

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Me and Mr.Kane have adopted the new Symon's air files... pretty curious to see how they work out!

What do you think?

They seem to work just fine, even if we didn't have any real furball since.
We abolished every HR regarding altitudes.

The only battle was fought over Kusiae, when 54 Hellcats at 100% CAP (range 0) at 32700 feet, fought against a sweep of 45 N1K2s arriving at 30,000. We traded 10 planes on each side and the Hellcats, despite 30 mhp slower, did pretty well a those altitudes.

So far everything seems smooth

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/19/2013 8:44:09 PM

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This is what has landed, just during the afternoon phase, at Koepang on Nov 29, 1943

Ground combat at Koepang (68,116)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4622 troops, 41 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 157

Defending force 43237 troops, 765 guns, 805 vehicles, Assault Value = 1286

Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
5th/A Division

Defending units:
151st Cmbt Engr Bn /1
4th Marine Division
50th Cmbt Engr Rgt /6
3rd USMC Tank Bn /1
4th USMC Tank Bn /1
4th Armoured Bde /7
131st Cmbt Engr Rgt /6
3rd Australian Division
Q Alexandra's (Mtd) Rgt /1
181st FA Bn /1
205th Coast AA Regiment
197th Cst AA Rgt /1
1st Pioneer Battalion
13th Field Rgt /1
3/542nd Boat&Shore Engineer Battalion
II Australian
93rd Cst AA Rgt /1
3/543rd Boat&Shore Engineer Battalion
63rd Cst AA Rgt /2
148th FA Bn /1
1/532nd Boat&Shore Engineer Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
2nd RAAF Base Force
147th Field Artillery Battalion
57th Cst Art Rgt /2
1st USMC FA Bn /1
9 Group RAAF
7th USMC FA Bn /1
4th AmphTrac Engineer Battalion
1st RAA Jungle Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
1st Medium Rgt /1
19th RAAF Base Force /1
V Amphib Corps /1

Timor is basically empty.

As i've learnt the hard way playing Japan, the Japs simply can't be strong everywhere.
They have 300k men in Burma? 200,000 in the Pacific? Fine, they must be short of men, engineers and air HQs somewhere else. The allied player just needs to find that weak spot

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/19/2013 9:20:03 PM

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

This is what has landed, just during the afternoon phase, at Koepang on Nov 29, 1944

Timor is basically empty.

As i've learnt the hard way playing Japan, the Japs simply can't be strong everywhere.
They have 300k men in Burma? 200,000 in the Pacific? Fine, they must be short of men, engineers and air HQs somewhere else. The allied player just needs to find that weak spot

Did you warp into the future or is that a typo?!

Assuming this is 43 your landing should throw a wrench in his defenses. Interesting to see the other side of it, eh? You definitely know this territory well right now. Which way do you hope to go here, to Java or the PI?

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/19/2013 9:25:36 PM

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

This is what has landed, just during the afternoon phase, at Koepang on Nov 29, 1944

Timor is basically empty.

As i've learnt the hard way playing Japan, the Japs simply can't be strong everywhere.
They have 300k men in Burma? 200,000 in the Pacific? Fine, they must be short of men, engineers and air HQs somewhere else. The allied player just needs to find that weak spot

Did you warp into the future or is that a typo?!

Assuming this is 43 your landing should throw a wrench in his defenses. Interesting to see the there side of it, eh? You definitely know this territory well right now. Which way do you hope to go here, to Java or the PI?

ehheeh, it's just a typo obviously. We're in nov 1943

The idea is to push North, towards Makassar and Borneo, cutting out all his defences in the central front.

Mr.Kane has strongly defended the area between Ambon, Kei-Enlanden, Horn Island, Long Island, Rabaul with several INF units, Air HQs and lots of interconnected bases, while the central DEI seems to be almost empty. At the same time, once the KB Leaves the pacific, i'll push in CENTPAC, cutting out the Whole Solomons and moving straight towards Truk

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/20/2013 7:27:36 AM

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Nov 30-Dec 1, 1943

The landings at Koepang and Roti went smoothly.
The V Amphib Corp invested the regiment defending Koepang, conquering easily the key base.
At the same time, on the 30th nov, 10 BBs bombed at night Dili and Lautem, closing temporarly the two fields, already crowded with attack planes (Kates, Georges, Mavis etc).
On Nov 30, day, not less than 5 attacks were made against my ships at Koepang by more than 120 unescorted Betties, apparently from Saumlaki.
We had 21 Corsairs and 21 Hellcats on LRCAP from the nearby CVEs.
We downed 70 Betties, but the last two runs were moderately succesfull, placing a total of 7 torps on some already empty transports. Not a bid deal.

Landings continued on dec 1st and, as soon as the bases were conquered, we immediately sent the precious APA/AKAs back to Oz.

Broome fell the same day, thanks to a NZ expeditionary force. Derby is in sight now.

On the night of dec, while our BBs destroyed 70 more planes on the ground at Dili and Lautem, 4 CLs and 8 enemy DDs arried at Sawoe-eilanden (another base conquered by my brave men, sinking 25 transports and 4 DMSs. Luckly these ships were already empty and about to move back.
No air attacks during the day of Dec 1.
From port Hedland a force of 200 fighters (P-47s, Spit V and VIIIs, Kittihawks) arrived at Koepang, while the APA/AKAs are already out of the area.
SDBs and torpedo bombers are re-based at Koepang too.

The KB disappeared from Kusiae Island area... it might be coming back to the DEI... good!

A total of 300k supplies are in place in the 3 conquered bases (Koepang, Roti and Sawoe), with enough heavy flak to be able to down the whole IJAAF

. CD guns are in place and mines are arriving too.

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/20/2013 7:49:44 AM

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You're sitting pretty there for sure. I bet you could grab a few dot bases to the NW with either paras or raider battalions before the real battles start. The more you already have the better and you can even fly in the engineers and air support.

Any thoughts about exploiting something in the North Pacific while he's scrambling South?

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/20/2013 8:28:31 AM

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You're sitting pretty there for sure. I bet you could grab a few dot bases to the NW with either paras or raider battalions before the real battles start. The more you already have the better and you can even fly in the engineers and air support.

Any thoughts about exploiting something in the North Pacific while he's scrambling South?

He reinforced HEAVILY the NOPAC. Hokkaido is a fortress, with several divisions and HQs. The Kuriles are fortified too.
No, NOPAC is too obvious right now.

I have my plan. As soon as the KB is confirmed to have left the CENTPAC, i'll attack Ponape and Roi-Namur.

In Burma i'll keep the pressure up. I wanna grab Ramree, but first I need to get the air space control, which won't be easy.

Already started the advance in the Solomons.

Next weeks will be interesting

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/20/2013 6:51:21 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

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ORIGINAL: khyberbill

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Me and Mr.Kane have adopted the new Symon's air files... pretty curious to see how they work out!

What do you think?

They seem to work just fine, even if we didn't have any real furball since.
We abolished every HR regarding altitudes.

The only battle was fought over Kusiae, when 54 Hellcats at 100% CAP (range 0) at 32700 feet, fought against a sweep of 45 N1K2s arriving at 30,000. We traded 10 planes on each side and the Hellcats, despite 30 mhp slower, did pretty well a those altitudes.

So far everything seems smooth

Ooohh, I like to hear that.

If you guys have any issues, concerns, blivets, or penne that�s too al dente, please, please, please, oh please, pm me. Only way I can be sure the mod works for everybody is to get input from the users.

Btw, I got a serious chicken parmesan recipe made with JWE�s own ultimate marinara sauce over penne, with a balsamic vinaigrette over fall salad greens. And of course, a plate of olive oil and balsamic vinegar for chunks off a Tuscan boule. You might like it.

[ed] Wish I knew where Mr Kane was from. Seems a bit unfair to send you recipes and not him.

Ciao. JWE

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/21/2013 3:37:14 AM

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Time to unleash your super weapons in the DEI....SC TF made up of only Fletcher DDs. At Full Speed they can reach 11 hexes and still get almost back to home port. Make Mr Kane pay for trying to get transports that close.

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/21/2013 2:06:42 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Symon

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

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ORIGINAL: khyberbill

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Me and Mr.Kane have adopted the new Symon's air files... pretty curious to see how they work out!

What do you think?

They seem to work just fine, even if we didn't have any real furball since.
We abolished every HR regarding altitudes.

The only battle was fought over Kusiae, when 54 Hellcats at 100% CAP (range 0) at 32700 feet, fought against a sweep of 45 N1K2s arriving at 30,000. We traded 10 planes on each side and the Hellcats, despite 30 mhp slower, did pretty well a those altitudes.

So far everything seems smooth

Ooohh, I like to hear that.

If you guys have any issues, concerns, blivets, or penne that�s too al dente, please, please, please, oh please, pm me. Only way I can be sure the mod works for everybody is to get input from the users.

Btw, I got a serious chicken parmesan recipe made with JWE�s own ultimate marinara sauce over penne, with a balsamic vinaigrette over fall salad greens. And of course, a plate of olive oil and balsamic vinegar for chunks off a Tuscan boule. You might like it.

[ed] Wish I knew where Mr Kane was from. Seems a bit unfair to send you recipes and not him.

Ciao. JWE

For sure we will! So far everything seems to work perfectly and I haven't noticed any flaw or problem with the new a/c files. But I think we're gonna test them soon enough in the DEI carnage that will soon happen :-)

mmm... John, with all due respect, that recipe doesn't seem exactly "Italian"

...I mean, Penne and Marinara sauce sounds fine (I guess a "marinara" sauce is a tomato sauce with seafood, right?), but penne doesn't match with salad or vinegar...not on the same dish!
While, if you simply had Penna with sauce and then, as a second course, a salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar...that's perfectly Italian

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Basically the real "Italian" way to eat pasta is with tomato sauce. But it's the conception of "tomato sauce" the thing that it's the most difficult to export abroad.
You cannot simply put a tomato sauce as it comes out of the box.
I tell you "my" recipe:

1/2 garlic clove (cut it only one time!)
1/2 red onion
red pepper
a bit of salt
olive oil

Make it cook 1 minute on a paddle, until the garlic becomes golden (not more)

Then add a bit of white wine. Say a quarter of a glass
let the wine evaporate

Then put inside the tomato sauce. Not the "sauce" as they say, but tomato "pulped"

Let it cook for some 15/20 min, until all the water inside the pulped tomato is dried and evaporated.

Then turn it off. Add some fresh basil...and voil�! That's a tomato sauce

Mr.Kane (Tom) is from Poland

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/21/2013 2:07:52 PM

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Time to unleash your super weapons in the DEI....SC TF made up of only Fletcher DDs. At Full Speed they can reach 11 hexes and still get almost back to home port. Make Mr Kane pay for trying to get transports that close.

mmm..i haven't been very lucky with DDs in my game. Both with the allies and with Japan. I tend to lose tons of them for very little gain...

Surely the DEI seems the right place to use them

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/21/2013 2:44:29 PM

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I mean, Penne and Marinara sauce sounds fine (I guess a "marinara" sauce is a tomato sauce with seafood, right?), but penne doesn't match with salad or vinegar...not on the same dish!

A 'marinara' outside of Italy is exactly the sauce you describe; just a hearty, garlicy cooked tomato sauce. For pasta or pizza.

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/21/2013 4:55:33 PM

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Cold penne works perfectly in a salad! Add some feta, grilled chicken, grilled bell peppers, black olives, sundried tomatoes (in oil) and some nice olive oil together with your salad of choice. Perfect for a day on the beach!

PS. Don�t forget to bring the beer...

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/21/2013 5:46:47 PM

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For sure we will! So far everything seems to work perfectly and I haven't noticed any flaw or problem with the new a/c files. But I think we're gonna test them soon enough in the DEI carnage that will soon happen :-)

mmm... John, with all due respect, that recipe doesn't seem exactly "Italian"...I mean, Penne and Marinara sauce sounds fine (I guess a "marinara" sauce is a tomato sauce with seafood, right?), but penne doesn't match with salad or vinegar...not on the same dish!
While, if you simply had Penna with sauce and then, as a second course, a salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar...that's perfectly Italian .
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Mr.Kane (Tom) is from Poland

Cool ! Any info on planes will be greatly appreciated.

I make my marinara just like you, olive oil, onion, fresh garlic , red wine, and tomatoes. Nothing out of a can. Americans sequence things different from you Euro folks. Americans serve salad first, sometimes, but mostly with the main dish. I much prefer ya�lls way, but when in Rome ..

. Oh, well � at least some of us know what fork to use

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Ok, enough trampling on your AAR. I�ll go visit Tom and tell kielbasa and sauerkraut jokes

. Keep things a bit even.

Ciao. JWE

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/21/2013 6:20:21 PM

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Cold penne works perfectly in a salad! Add some feta, grilled chicken, grilled bell peppers, black olives, sundried tomatoes (in oil) and some nice olive oil together with your salad of choice. Perfect for a day on the beach!

PS. Don�t forget to bring the beer...

And you're Swedish?!

Feta is what the Greeks meant by ambrosia, I swear. Olive oil was probably nectar.

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/22/2013 1:09:54 PM

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And you're Swedish?!

Feta is what the Greeks meant by ambrosia, I swear. Olive oil was probably nectar.

We eat a lot of foreign food here. "Friday Tacos" is pretty much an institution here in sweden. But I guess any Mexican seeing what we call tacos would be pretty upset!

Lots of Greek and Italian foods here. Not much from the French kitchen though. Sushi is also a big thing here. Swedish traditional food has been out of fashion for a long time but slowly coming back.

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/22/2013 3:15:13 PM

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Dec 2- 12, 1943

The allies have estabilished a solid foothold on southern DEI.

Koepang is well garrisoned, mined and is building up nicely.
Roti and Sawo-Elanden too.
Allied troops are also delivered to Wakamoe (sp?!) and Menaboro.

The Japanese reaction has been fast.
The 43rd Division has been moved from Palembang and sent to Sosarbaja.
Several convoys are spotted moving to Kendari, Ambon and the Mollucces in general.

After the first days, where we gained the control of the airspace of Timor thanks to a series of bombardment runs to Dili and LAutem, the japs managed to exploit the window we gave them (needed to refuel/rearm at Port Hedland) and moved a strong air corp to Lautem, along with several CA/CLs.

They even dared to try to intercept my shippings to/from Timor, but failed. Our air force failed too, however, to inflict any damage to the bandits... all my TB missed because of the weather

The KB is nowhere to be seen. I bet she's hiding at Bab... Kusiae/Ponape sector has been left on itself. Without the KB guarding its approaches, we managed to send a strong reinforcement convoy to Kusiae, which is now strongly garrisoned (25,000 men), mined and supplied. 120 fighters and 70 SDBs are present. Soon Ponape will be threatened.

The allied CV fleet remains in the CENTPAC and will cover the next operations against the Japanese bastions.

As soon as Koepang will become a AF lvl 9, things will become problematic for the Japs. Several bomber groups are waiting in Oz.

The whole operation went smooth. The waited Japanese reaction isn't over, obviously, but their flank is now open and we cannot be pushed back from where we stand.

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/22/2013 5:24:03 PM

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Owning Koepang is like driving a rusty nail into his knee!

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/23/2013 8:23:47 AM

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Owning Koepang is like driving a rusty nail into his knee!

hopefully...

Dec 13, 14 and 15, 1943

The Japs are moving the Whole combined fleet to the Southern DEI. The Mutsu was shot by the SS Sargo near Menado...Hit but no explosion

Kendari now has 65k men

...till 4 days ago there were just 12k... he's clearly creating a perimeter from Kai-Enlanden-Ambon-Kendari and Makassar... good.

Koepang is growing strong. Port 4 and AF 6 and building fast with 450 Engineers

We're also reinforcing Weingapoe and Memboro. The Japs are countering trying to reinforce Bima... poor choice imho. too many islands there to defend for him.

Kusiase is now almost ready. As soon as it reaches AF lvl 6 we'll start the air and naval campaign to reduce to silence Ponape.

The KB should still be at Bab, while the allies now have 7 CVs, 5 CVLs and 10 CVEs in the pacific. Enough to face the KB once again. The Yorktown II is the only CV that still needs repair time... 75 more days to go

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 11/28/2013 1:34:17 PM

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Nic - I partially blame you for Mr Kane's preparations to invade both coast of Australia.

Your landings on Timor have shown him the need to secure at least western Australia from this happening to him in our game. When AE came out, it was quickly realized that it was important to secure northern Australia from Horn Island down to Tennant Creek and over to Exmouth as Japan. IMO, the whole of western Australia should be added to list after major bases in DEI/SRA are secure by a Japanese player.

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 1/13/2014 2:11:14 PM

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It's been a while since I updated this thread.
The game has rushed during the Christmas holidays.

We're now in July 1944!

The allies have seized the SW DEI, conquering Koepang, Roti, Dili, and all the islands up until Bima. Makassar has been closed several times by naval and air bombings. In this process we've lost 1 modern BB (The Washington), 1 CL (The Cleveland), 2 CLs damaged and 10 DDs lost. There's a Japanese army left at Lautem but should not pose any real problem.
Sosarbaja is now in sight...

In the north, we've landed at Sebang (Sumatra), advancing with a 100,000 men army down till Medan. 2 Japs divisions defended Medan for one month, but have then been pushed back south. The allies moved over and cross the channel (with paradrops), conquering Alor Star, GeorgeTown and Taiping. Here the japs sent not less than 6 divisions to stop my advance (and they managed to stop us!).
During these operations, several naval and air battles have occurred.
The KB moved first to attack my Sebang landings, but 4 allied CVs and 15 CVEs stopped them (only suffering minor damage). The KB moved back to shades.
Then in a series of battles, we've exchanged 1 BB, 1 BC, 3 CA, 2 CLs and more than 20 DDs for 1 BB, 2 CA, at least 2 CLs and several DDs (I think at least 20).

We kept pushing on and we reached Padang, where we've been stopped by another huge Jap army (4 Divisions!).
So we've landed 60k men at Bankeloen (sp!?), but found a reinforced division behind 6 forts.... The KB arrived again but this time I had all my CVs with me... another draw... bad weather prevented me to inflict any real damage but at least we've downed in 2 days all the striking KB's planes, suffering only minor damage on a couple of CVs.
The landings at Bankoleng forced the Padang Army to abandon its places and now we are again marching south!

The SAM is online at 6/44

...which is bad...

Now all his air army is concentrated at Singapore... 1000 fighters.... 400 more at Palembang.... our navy is just 6 clicks away... the base south of Medan...ready to strike...
The Yamato and Musashi are defending Singa...while the KB, after its moving back after the last battle, is nowehere in sight.

My CVs are supporting another massive landing at Padang and another operation at Benkoleng...

Northern Burma has been abandoned and reoccupied by the allies. Now the path to China is open! This forced the japs to abandon the campaign in northern China in order to send all those troops back to Malaya in order to stop the allied threat...

A really thrilling game is u ask me

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 1/13/2014 2:25:01 PM

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With Sams online you will need Corsairs on your CVs...

Any maps coming up?

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 1/13/2014 5:01:48 PM

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Yes, maps!

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 1/17/2014 4:12:11 PM

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Sorry for the delay guys...

Here are some maps:

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 1/17/2014 4:12:36 PM

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RE: India again??...why always me?!!? - 1/17/2014 4:12:57 PM

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