LargeSlowTarget
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Joined: 9/23/2000 From: Hessen, Germany - now living in France Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: GrauWolf80 I only mean to use it to further high lite what effect Force Z can have in the SRA with the KB forced to PH. Even the threat of the KB striking manila or singapore instead of PH could give extra caution to the allied player, but without this check it is possible for force Z to run rampant during much of December. The battleship fleet watching Malaya can't be everywhere. My point, with the attempt to create a historical japanese approach to early expansion, can be made moot by the free hand of Force Z. I am curious what a more aggressive allied player might accomplish with Force Z + the US/Dutch warships in the SRA before the main KB can return. My KB got there around 24-25 of December, so that's nearly 17-18 days for it to operate. Maybe additional battleships could be rushed in from Tokyo, probably shortening that by a few days. In a scenario already slowed down, a further week or two delays in troop landings could be huge. Who's to say, food for thought at this point in time. Well, even with Force Z NOT being sent to auto-demise in this scenario, you are doing quite well, being more or less on time or even well in advance of the historic timeline (game dates in blue) : December 10, 1941 - Japanese invade the Philippines and seize Guam > Tuguegarao December 9, 1941 - Aparri December 10, 1941 - Guam December 13, 1941 December 16, 1941 - Japanese invade British Borneo (Miri, Brunei) > Miri December 14, 1941, Brunei Bay-Seria December 27, 1941 December 22, 1941 - Japanese main landing on Luzon > Lingayen December 18, 1941 December 25, 1941 - British surrender at Hong Kong > December 13, 1941 January 3, 1942 - Japan captures Kuantan > December 11, 1941 January 11, 1942 - Japanese invade Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo (Tarakan, Menado) > Tarakan December 22, 1941 - Manado December 28, 1941 January 26, 1942 - Japan occupies Mersing > December 14, 1941 March 23, 1942 - Japanese invade the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal > December 27, 1941 Since slowing-down the ops tempo was the goal of this mod, having Force Z injecting some caution into Japanese expansion plans seems fine for me. I am actually surprises that Mundy did not use Force Z trying to prevent the landings at Mersing. Force Z could hide under air cover at Singers within reaction range of Mersing. In my ongoing DBB game against IdahoNYer, he saved Force Z as well and used it to harass me in the DEI (for example thrashing my air base at Jolo), but I eventually put it under and managed to capture the DEI more or less on schedule.
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