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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 2:18:57 PM

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A look at Tsitsiahr defenders...when the Soviets activated Obvert allowed Chinese troops to cross into Manchuko. I further refined that by only allowing IJA troops...not Manchuko or Chinese troops to cross borders. I recently pulled 2 armored, 1 division, 1 AA out of China to help counter this attack on Tsitsihar. Perhaps they can go back once the Kotou pocket defenders are out and about.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 4:01:42 PM

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Turn is finished, and I am sending many small task forces into the lions den, what is obviously a trap, but we will rely upon small multiple task forces, destroyers, and elan to carry the day. Hope for nasty weather and some good torpedo hits.

I suspect a bloody, bloody day.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 4:06:59 PM

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It has been awhile since I put torpedoes into the remaining Yankee CVs, so I suspect they could easily be at Sydney now...heading to join up with the British Carriers in the all out attack on Palembang.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 6:50:50 PM

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Turn is finished, and I am sending many small task forces into the lions den, what is obviously a trap, but we will rely upon small multiple task forces, destroyers, and elan to carry the day. Hope for nasty weather and some good torpedo hits.

I suspect a bloody, bloody day.

Can you describe your tactics in a little more detail ? A CL and a couple DD's per small TF ? DD's only ? Or some other configuration ?

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 10:08:33 PM

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You will probably see lots of fights in the upcoming turn...but I broke 1 CA, half dozen CL, a dozen or more destroyers into task forces no larger than 4 and no smaller than 2. Agile destroyers in first, surface threat set to low...launch them long lances and retreat. Last TF in should be the cruiser.

It is a skirmish mode of fighting...designed for night hit and run engagements of short duration. Usually the skippers are solid naval skill, and middling aggression in the under 60 range.

Really want bad weather and low moonlight and close engagements.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 11:48:57 PM

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The first fight...at Palembang

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 11:50:46 PM

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The second fight...

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 11:52:32 PM

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The third fight...it seems all the ships above Palembang have left the area...leaving my main thrust missing.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 11:53:46 PM

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And yet another fight...they still haven't bombarded yet.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 11:55:56 PM

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And another clash...

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/7/2017 11:59:29 PM

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Daylight comes and the third destroyer at Palembang is sunk by the Astoria...a clash a little further north.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 12:02:54 AM

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I didn't really want to fight during the day...and I simply cannot get a torpedo hit to save the Empire.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 12:06:01 AM

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Figures.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 12:10:28 AM

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Soviet attack...the escapees of the Kotou pocket.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 12:13:04 AM

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Swamps and forts can't protect me from great allied bombardments.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 12:16:27 AM

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British CV show up...and nail a CL one hex short of CAP.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 12:17:41 AM

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No joy in Hiroshima today.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 12:18:43 AM

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Butcher Bill in the air...

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 12:19:53 AM

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Palembang's defenders

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 12:25:44 AM

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Manchuko

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 1:11:37 AM

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Another threat looming...

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 2:32:52 AM

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Damn - how many DDs have you lost so far?

I have to give you mad props for fighting this crazy war...those of us who've been long-time members of the peanut gallery never get to see games like this play out.....

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 2:41:13 AM

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Damn - how many DDs have you lost so far?

I have to give you mad props for fighting this crazy war...those of us who've been long-time members of the peanut gallery never get to see games like this play out.....

I don't want to look.

This is one of the primary reasons I went in...and I got nothing but good weather and then daytime fights. Sigh.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 9:29:16 AM

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IJN - death by 1001 paper cuts!!

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 1:00:09 PM

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A thousand million cuts!

The Palembang reinforcement convoy is close and assembling...but so are the Allies pouring troops into Palembang.

More blood in the water coming up.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 1:27:36 PM

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It makes excellent theater for your audience. And you're doing a particularly good job of posting comprehensive information - the good, the bad, the ugly. That can be hard to do. Like you said, it's hard sometimes to open a screen and see just how many destroyers (or whatever) have vanished from the OOB.

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RE: Soviets Activated.... - 11/8/2017 1:37:16 PM

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Can't begin to tell you how stretched Japan is for land troops...everywhere I look I am hanging on by a thread.

These reinforcements are so desperately needed, and those lousy Germans need to force Stalin to recall some divisions.

So, pretty much everything in this game I have done wrong for the position I am in now, and it will only get worse over the next six weeks before it gets better and better is not really the correct word.

I keep expecting the Allies to show up at Wake...but in a few days at least there will be some CD guns present to bolster the defense. Japan has only 4 units with DP guns capable of movement at this early date. Not nearly enough.