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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/1/2017 7:22:53 PM

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A lot of Allied ships were fleeing from Tarakan and my SCTF took care of them in three separate engagements that
sank a lot of them and damaged a lot more. Also there was an airstrike on Macao near Hong Kong, and it got some
good hits and sank some.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/2/2017 5:42:56 PM

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New moves from Brian: I've got a CA that got hit by a TT at Truk that won't go into the shipyard and won't
repair standing down. I get the red 'X' when I try that. Is the shipyard too small? Is the port too small?
I don't have any spare escorts for it so I thought I'd try expanding the port a little to see if it'll go into
the shipyard that way. Or maybe repair itself at the pier. Maybe I can find another AR somewhere. I think
there's one at Hiroshima that I can move down here to Truk.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/2/2017 5:50:39 PM

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I went to the list of all ships and filtered on Aux and I discovered that Truk already has two AR's parked there.
So that's not the problem why I can't fix a CA. I'm thinking that the shipyard is too small and I can fix that.
It's going to take a couple of weeks to grow a bigger shipyard and the CA will be out of service all that time.
It's either that or ship it to Hong Kong to get it fixed. And I re-iterate that I have no spare escorts for it.
D'oh. It's going to have to sit out a lot of this war.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/2/2017 5:52:26 PM

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Since the CAs tonnage is 14,743 and the shipyard will only accept 10,000, you have a size issue. You will need to either enlarge the repair shipyard or send the CA somewhere else with a larger repair shipyard.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/2/2017 6:00:21 PM

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Since the CAs tonnage is 14,743 and the shipyard will only accept 10,000, you have a size issue. You will need to either enlarge the repair shipyard or send the CA somewhere else with a larger repair shipyard.

Ah, Ha. So.....that's what's going on. So if I expand the shipyard to 15 then
the CA will fit and all's well. I can do that. Thanks. I'll get after it.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/2/2017 6:09:03 PM

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I've discovered that I have only about three shipyards that will accept CV's and BB's. And they are in the home
islands. That's inconvient. Maybe I should build a large one at Truk or somewhere. Then the ships wouldn't
have to go all the way back to the home islands to get fixed. Lemme mull it over some more.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/2/2017 7:18:30 PM

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Making decisions impulsively and not thinking things through will lead to major trouble.

Case in point is expansion of repair shipyards to 15 at Truk. By late '43 when the Allied counter offensive is really beginning to gather steam, you'll find Truk as a primary target just because of a large Repair Shipyard. The way you're thinking, it will be over size 40 and able to repair every Allied warship by then. Any other large Repair Shipyard you want to gift wrap for the Allies? Maybe put a bow on?

My advice, start thinking thinks through a little bite more before jumping off the next available cliff.

Rant off!!

EDIT: The Allies have to sent large warships to either Pearl or Cape Town above 20,000 tonnes. Second, why spend supplies for something you don't need?? Are your large Repair Shipyards in Japan overworked?

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/2/2017 7:26:49 PM

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Making decisions impulsively and not thinking things through will lead to major trouble. Case in point is expansion of repair shipyards to 15 at Truk. By late '43 when the Allied counter offensive is really beginning to gather steam, you'll find Truk as a primary target just because of a large Repair Shipyard. The way you're thinking, it will be over size 40 and able to repair every Allied warship by then. Any other large Repair Shipyard you want to gift wrap for the Allies? Maybe put a bow on?

My advice, start thinking thinks through a little bite more before jumping off the next available cliff.

Rant off!!

EDIT: The Allies have to sent large warships to either Pearl or Cape Town above 20,000 tonnes. Second, why spend supplies for something you don't need?? Are your large Repair Shipyards in Japan overworked?

Ah, I see your point. Good point. And besides, it's cheaper to just escort the CA to Yokohoma and get it fixed.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/3/2017 3:12:41 AM

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Here's a list of what got captured and when and I intend to keep this up to date and bookmark it in my
web browser just to see what's going on where. That, and I thought maybe somebody should document it.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/3/2017 5:45:16 AM

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A situation has developed at Karor ( Babeldoab ). I've got five ships that need shipyard time but I've got room
for only three. I'm going to need a bigger shipyard in the fighting that's ahead. On the other hand most of the
fighting will hopefully be far away from Karor. Closer to Truk and Saigon and Rabaul. Maybe I don't need all
that much of a shipyard after all. What's the opinion of the readers pray tell.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/3/2017 4:57:45 PM

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I've just discovered that I have a CA at Balikpapan that's got major engine damage and there's no supply yard at
Balikpapan and the port's too small to repair the CA and there's no escorts to sail it to a larger port. So it's
probably going to sit there a while until I can find some suitable escorts. Words fail to explain how hard that's
going to be.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/3/2017 5:16:56 PM

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CA with 16 torpedo tubes? Japs know how to overdo things.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/3/2017 5:31:33 PM

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Target was having a sale on Torpedoe tubes one weekend and there was money in the
budget for it and they had to spend it or next year's budget would be that much
smaller so it was a no-brainer.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/4/2017 4:56:55 AM

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I thought I'd do a little light naval bombardment of Port Moresby and I had to tangle with Allied PT boats twice
going into the harbor, I sank 4 of his PT boats, and then pounded the beach and started some fires. Cool. I'll
have to do this again because I evidently missed the aircraft completely.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/4/2017 5:09:44 AM

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I have no idea what they were doing there or where they are going but I found some Allied ships near Hong Kong
and sank one or more of them.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/4/2017 5:31:41 AM

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Out of all the flights scheduled only one launched and it went in unescorted, again. Good thing Brian isn't fielding
any CAP at all. I think he's holding back saving some fighters for a valiant last stand when I get to Manila. I need
more recon of Manila.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/4/2017 5:48:35 AM

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I've got a situation on the north coast of Borneo, or Sarawak, or whatever it's called. At Miri I had an airborne
unit that I thought maybe I should fly to Kushing to help out in the fight there. But I didn't use enough TR's to
move the unit and it started arriving in fragments. And everytime a fragment arrived there was an obligatory
shock attack and I was loosing people so I shipped some people in instead and now the airborne unit is split between
places. I'm flying in some TR's to move the unit first from Miri to Kushing to get them back together and then
to Singkawang to get ready for the jump into Palembang. Or somewhere.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/4/2017 6:13:23 AM

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Nice to see you have gotten the major Oil Centers on Borneo.

However, the NW corner has part of Malaya and I see Singapore and some other bases still in Allied hands. What units do you have in Malaya? Is everyone of them prepping for Singapore? Are you bombing the AF there daily to prevent fort building?

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/4/2017 8:24:28 AM

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Nice to see you have gotten the major Oil Centers on Borneo.

However, the NW corner has part of Malaya and I see Singapore and some other bases still in Allied hands.

Of course Singapore is still in Allied hands. This is still in January and
my boys aren't even close to getting there yet. They can traverse the terrain
only as fast as human feet can walk. I expect Singapore to fall sometime in
April of this coming spring.

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What units do you have in Malaya?

I'll make a special post showing all of them.

quote:

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Is everyone of them prepping for Singapore?

Not at all. I'm using their planning target to tell me where they are right
now and they are all prepping for Kuala Lumpur and so on BUT I DO have the
HQ prepping for Sigapore. The Southern Expeditionary Army HQ unit.

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Are you bombing the AF there daily to prevent fort building?

I had four strikes scheduled yesterday but only one of them launched. More
bad weather? I don't need to escort them any longer but the flak is
terrific and is shooting my planes down at least one each strike. I'm
running out of planes. But yes, I have strikes scheduled for Singapore and
Manila and Bataan and Clark airfield with the goal of causing such damage
that fort building is forgone.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/4/2017 9:10:19 AM

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Here's where everybody is in Malaya. It was good for me to have done this because I have a much better idea
where everybody is and what everybody is doing.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/4/2017 10:11:09 AM

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Here's some of the numbers for aircraft engines and airframes. I've turned off some of the production of the
Ha-5/1000 and I've still got too many. I need to turn off some more yet I guess.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/4/2017 1:06:51 PM

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Good news: Michael has volunteered to play the Jap part with me watching over his shoulder OR as the Allies and tutor me on what to do next, etc.
So in the long run we'll have a better game, a better gamer, and it's a win-win. Stay tuned for news.

EDIT: So the short version is that I'm sending my work-in-progress file to Michael so he can take a look around and
judge what I've done and make suggestions which I will make in my copy of the file just before I send the moves file
to Brian. I learn how to play better, Brian gets a good game, Michael get's paid 100,000.00 a year in virtual money
and so it's a win win.

I received a question from Michael a minute ago and he wanted me to pick out my three next objectives, etc. Here's
what I said:

Hey Michael:
[goal] (1) The area,
(2) why this area, and
(3) what issues are you having for three areas in order of importance.
[/goal]

First of all I want to secure Manila, Singapore, and Palembang for the reasons
listed as the following: I need Manila for the strategic importance it is
as an unsinkable carrier dominating China's southern coast. The Allies will
probably not make much of a contest in Chinese waters while I have LBA at
Manila. The island is a good place to put an airfield and port. I need it.
And as for Singapore it's got to be denied to the Allies as it's got a good
port and a good airfield and it's got goodies ( RES,etc. ) And As for
Palembang: I want it's oil. I've got Miri, Brunei, Trakan, and Balikpapan
but that's not enough yet. I want more. The issues I'm having is getting the
supply to flow from the east coast of Malaya to the interior parts of the peninsula.
Low supply, that's the hangup. I've tried cranking up the supplies required and
even turning stockpilling on and it's a slow process I guess.

Second, I want to subdue Sumatra and Java for their goodies and to put a
southern border on my territory in case of invasion attempts from Ceylon
or Australia. The ports and airfields are a bonus after the goodies I'm
after. I found a lot of peple in China and Mongolia and moved 'em to Fusan
and I've already shipped out about 2/3 of them. I'm buying out three or four
at a time, as many as I can get to load on a ship docked at the pier. I'm
swimming in PP's so that's not a throttle. Issues I'm having: There's a
finite number of people to move and I'm running low on available people.
I'll have to start using the same people again and again I guess. The
battles for Manila and Singapore are going to last longer than I can find
people to move so I'll need to scour the countryside again looking for
available bodies.

Third, I want to expand from Rabaul to the SE and establish some bases as
far south as maybe Fiji to try to isolate the continent of OZ from Pearl
and the West Coast. Bunin, Effate, Guadalcanal, etc. I haven't planned this
part of the plan out very much yet. I can't find the people for the project yet.
Issues I'm having: I need to do a lot of the bases at the same time in this
AO for the self-supporting network they would make for each other in terms
of overlap in the CAP umbrella's and maybe just one SCTF could guard all
of them equally as well.

I'm thinking this is about it for now.
friends,
larry

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/5/2017 3:36:26 AM

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New Moves from Brian: I'm watching the combat replay and one of the first things to come up is this airstrike on
the Allied ships at Hong Kong and I got a few good hits.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/5/2017 4:00:38 AM

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Okie dokie, I'm through watching the combat replay, it was a rerun of last turn. And now I'm perusing the Tracker
data. Here's my new alerts. Those sunk Enemy ships were due to three airstrikes on the Allied TF near Hong Kong.
They appear on one turn and then they are gone the next. I need some naval search assets in that AO right now.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/5/2017 4:05:53 AM

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Here's the ship production and you can see that I'm running both Nav and Merch in a tiny deficit mode and I'm
aware of it and I'm watching it. It's good for right now. I like to aim for about 1K points in the Pool for
emergencies.

EDIT: I decided after all to change one of the Merch AK's from accellerated to normal bring the HI cost down.
A little bit.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/5/2017 4:29:10 AM

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Here's the production of the Ha-5/1000 so far. There's too many in the pool so I turned down production about 30
last turn and the number in the pool is decreasing slowly. That's a good thing. I'm aiming for about 510 or so.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/5/2017 4:34:43 AM

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Here's me boosting the output of Nate airframes by a tiny bit. So the number of Nates in the pool doesn't go
down any longer.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/5/2017 6:16:33 AM

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New Moves from Brian: I'm watching the combat replay and one of the first things to come up is this airstrike on
the Allied ships at Hong Kong and I got a few good hits.

Strafing from low level? Is Ki-32 Mary a dive-bomber or attack bomber or both? Can you post a screen of her from Tracker?

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/5/2017 7:32:23 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
New Moves from Brian: I'm watching the combat replay and one of the first things to come up is this airstrike on
the Allied ships at Hong Kong and I got a few good hits.

Strafing from low level? Is Ki-32 Mary a dive-bomber or attack bomber or both? Can you post a screen of her from Tracker?

Here you go. I think maybe it's a dive bomber.

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RE: RHS II scen 129 GP and me - 11/5/2017 7:53:54 AM

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Day 1 of class was focused on Luzon, Malaya, and prepping for Palembang. Biggest thing is to get Larry to recombine components into full divisions. Hopefully, he is moving those components towards the rest. A few are going to take weeks to find the rest of their division. I think his almost 5M in supply is at too many bases that don't need it. He should be taking them off Stockpiling and the request buttons down to none.

Day 2 will be economics. This will take some turns to complete. My first few attempts to get Tracker to load failed, but I think I have found the problems.

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