Slitherine

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Night Naval bombardment of Cebu at 80,86 (11th)

Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso
DD Isonami
DD Shirakumo
DD Usugumo
DD Fubuki

Allied ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled

Manpower hits 4
Light Industry hits 1
Fires 4188
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 8
Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 6
Port supply hits 1

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Ground combat at Cebu (80,86)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12995 troops, 121 guns, 36 vehicles, Assault Value = 395

Defending force 6516 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 189

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 173

Allied adjusted defense: 129

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
255 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
439 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 55 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Assaulting units:
48th Division

Defending units:
81st PA Infantry Division
Cebu Constabulary
1st Port Maint Engineer Battalion
8th PAAC Avn Sup

Supplies are almost gone, so I'll not last long.

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Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4705 troops, 39 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 150

Defending force 2556 troops, 36 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 27

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 134

Allied adjusted defense: 40

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Tarakan !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)

Japanese ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
868 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 36 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 14 (14 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 4

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
5th/C Division

Defending units:
VII KNIL Battalion
HQ TC Borneo
Tarakan Defenses
Tarakan MLD Base Force

It took a long time to fall, but all industry was intact for Cribtop.

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Ground combat at Cebu (80,86)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12864 troops, 120 guns, 36 vehicles, Assault Value = 383

Defending force 6073 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 133

Japanese adjusted assault: 329

Allied adjusted defense: 61

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Cebu !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), morale(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)

Japanese ground losses:
180 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
4737 casualties reported
Squads: 292 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 330 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 22 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 21 (21 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 4

Assaulting units:
48th Division

Defending units:
81st PA Infantry Division
Cebu Constabulary
1st Port Maint Engineer Battalion
8th PAAC Avn Sup

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I had though both of Cribtop's BTS games had ended early.

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ASW attack near Kendari at 70,106

Japanese Ships
DMS W-11
AO Shiriya
AO Kazahaya
AO Iro
TK Matsumoto Maru
DD Kazegumo

Allied Ships
SS KIX

SS KIX launches 2 torpedoes at DMS W-11

Leave the damn DMS alone and go after the AOs!!

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Sub attack near Kendari at 70,106 (16th)

Japanese Ships
xAK Taizin Maru
PB Shonan Maru #17
PB Shonan Maru #1
PB Kyo Maru #13
SC Ch 15
CM Aotaka
xAK Kinryu Maru
xAK Hakusika Maru
xAK Konan Maru
xAK Kosei Maru #4
TB Kamo
TB Tomozuru
E Shirataka
PC PB-72

Allied Ships
SS KIX

SS KIX launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Taizin Maru

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Samarinda at 65,96, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Asakaze
DD Harukaze
DD Yukaze
DD Hokaze
PB Tatsumiya Maru
PB Nako Maru #2
xAK Asakasan Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Iburi Maru, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAK Kokai Maru, Torpedo hits 1
xAP Hakone Maru, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Hakozaki Maru
xAP Hakusan Maru, Shell hits 6

Allied Ships
PT-33
MTB 8
MTB 9
MTB 10
MTB 11, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
MTB 27

Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 45 (26 destroyed, 19 disabled)

Reduced sighting due to 3% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions and 3% moonlight: 1,000 yards

Nice to see the PT Boats gets some licks in with 8 TT hits on transports.

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Michael,

Spent the last two days looking over my position and it’s a mess. Much of the cause is the rushed play I mentioned in my e-mail to you and John (lots of ships stashed in places they don’t belong, lack of focus on the economy and the stuff I’ll need for my next moves, etc). Of course, a lot of it is just poor play by me and good play by you. In any case, while my strategy is to R&D the good airframes in the mod and try to hold a compact initial perimeter as long as possible, I can see it’s really too late for this to come off as I am now well behind even the very generous timetable I set for myself. I think the smartest thing for me to do is to concede this game, get past this rough patch at work, and then look honestly at whether I have the time to play AE at all (I fear the answer, at least in the short to medium term, is that I don’t except for scenarios). My experiment of trying to take on two games in an effort to force myself to increase turn flow was nothing short of disastrous, and I sincerely apologize. I know I let you and John down and it really bums me out to have done that.

Well played, I wave the white flag.

Dwain

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

I got this unexpected message in my inbox this morning.

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Michael,

Spent the last two days looking over my position and it’s a mess. Much of the cause is the rushed play I mentioned in my e-mail to you and John (lots of ships stashed in places they don’t belong, lack of focus on the economy and the stuff I’ll need for my next moves, etc). Of course, a lot of it is just poor play by me and good play by you. In any case, while my strategy is to R&D the good airframes in the mod and try to hold a compact initial perimeter as long as possible, I can see it’s really too late for this to come off as I am now well behind even the very generous timetable I set for myself. I think the smartest thing for me to do is to concede this game, get past this rough patch at work, and then look honestly at whether I have the time to play AE at all (I fear the answer, at least in the short to medium term, is that I don’t except for scenarios). My experiment of trying to take on two games in an effort to force myself to increase turn flow was nothing short of disastrous, and I sincerely apologize. I know I let you and John down and it really bums me out to have done that.

Well played, I wave the white flag.

Dwain

I have just posted in "Opponent Wanted" section for a replacement player. I don't want to start another game from Dec 7th if I can help it.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Glad to see the game will continue. Very annoying when you invest a year or more of playing time only to have RL cause gaming interruptus!

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

1EyedJack has time to start an AAR, but not enough to send me my first turn.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

1EyedJack has time to start an AAR, but not enough to send me my first turn.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

I think it would be nice to see a PBEM game pick up a second player for a side sometime about late 42 to early 43 with each playing the same opponent. I would want to see how two different players take their current position to conclusion without knowing what that other player was doing. In your game Lowpe, you had another Japanese player start when you did vs same Allied player and see what happened.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

I think it would be nice to see a PBEM game pick up a second player for a side sometime about late 42 to early 43 with each playing the same opponent. I would want to see how two different players take their current position to conclusion without knowing what that other player was doing. In your game Lowpe, you had another Japanese player start when you did vs same Allied player and see what happened.

You mean like "splitting" a game? Say 2 players start and play up to say 1/43 and then a second pair of players take up the same save and both pairs play from the same game but parallel of each other?

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

I think it would be nice to see a PBEM game pick up a second player for a side sometime about late 42 to early 43 with each playing the same opponent. I would want to see how two different players take their current position to conclusion without knowing what that other player was doing. In your game Lowpe, you had another Japanese player start when you did vs same Allied player and see what happened.

You mean like "splitting" a game? Say 2 players start and play up to say 1/43 and then a second pair of players take up the same save and both pairs play from the same game but parallel of each other?

Not quite Jocke. I would like to see a third player come in when you mentioned. So one side would have two separate players taking on another player. Just want to see how players would do things differently, especially for us in the cheap seats watching the game in multiple AARs. It would be hard for those posting in the AARs not to mention things going on in the other AAR, but I would love to watch it happen.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Exactly!! Rather than be an "Armchair Admiral" somebody jumps in and sees if their execution of the war is better than the original player from say 1 Jan 43.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

I hope it was only a one time thing, but when loading the replay and then turn, i got this message which I've never seen before - "Link/Zone Data Differs - Continue." If not, I'll seek clarification in Tech Support section.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

I hope it was only a one time thing, but when loading the replay and then turn, i got this message which I've never seen before - "Link/Zone Data Differs - Continue." If not, I'll seek clarification in Tech Support section.

My guess is that it's telling you that something in your data set is different from the data set of the person who last saved the game (your opponent). I've seen similar messages for pwhex data (now a set of three files), but it said something like "pwhex data". You guys can check by doing this:
- Open a Command Prompt window (basically that's like the DOS prompt).
- Using the "cd" (i.e. change directory) command, navigate to the main AE folder for the installation you are using (some people have multiple installations to cover different PBMs).
- Type "dir > playername.txt", substituting whatever you want for 'playername'.

That will make a plain text file called playername.txt with the directory listing. You can all do this and email them to each other, and check for differences. If there was a message about scenario data then you could do the same thing after navigating to the SCEN sub-folder (sub-directory).

BTW I just tested those instructions to make sure they work.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

I hope it was only a one time thing, but when loading the replay and then turn, i got this message which I've never seen before - "Link/Zone Data Differs - Continue." If not, I'll seek clarification in Tech Support section.

My guess is that it's telling you that something in your data set is different from the data set of the person who last saved the game (your opponent). I've seen similar messages for pwhex data (now a set of three files), but it said something like "pwhex data". You guys can check by doing this:
- Open a Command Prompt window (basically that's like the DOS prompt).
- Using the "cd" (i.e. change directory) command, navigate to the main AE folder for the installation you are using (some people have multiple installations to cover different PBMs).
- Type "dir > playername.txt", substituting whatever you want for 'playername'.

That will make a plain text file called playername.txt with the directory listing. You can all do this and email them to each other, and check for differences. If there was a message about scenario data then you could do the same thing after navigating to the SCEN sub-folder (sub-directory).

BTW I just tested those instructions to make sure they work.

Woohoo! Someone who knows how to navigate in DOS! You are dating yourself (and me)!
Can this not be done using Windows Explorer to navigate to the game directory, and then opening up a "notebook" text editor window?