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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 3/27/2020 8:18:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's an air unit in Java that has mixed types. It's got 20 Nates and has room for 50 of them but there's only 9 on hand so it's probably not going to get any more from the pools. It's got 10 type II Oscars but there's only 6 on hand and I don't start making more until T42 so it's probably not going to get any more of those for a long time. It's got 21 type I Oscars with room for 25 in the unit and there's 13 on hand and I'm making 12 per turn so this unit may get more type I Oscars. There's room for 25 Tojos but I don't start making those for a long time yet so overall I'm guessing that this unit will decline in strength over time and it might make more sense for this unit to be parked where it won't see much action. Like in China somewhere.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 3/27/2020 8:30:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've just found a bomber unit at Pieking that has room for only a single Sally. I'm wondering why include it in the unit at all if there's only 1. I'd like to know the scenario designer's reason for that.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 3/27/2020 12:01:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		The battle over the rails in southern China continues. Progress is slow because of the low supply situation.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 3/27/2020 7:19:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm still trying to clear out all the partisans on Mindano and I'm making slow progress. I didn't have enough troops last turn so I shipped in another division this turn to help out. I may have the entire island cleared out in another 10 turns or so.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 3/29/2020 5:32:53 PM   
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I've just found a bomber unit at Pieking that has room for only a single Sally. I'm wondering why include it in the unit at all if there's only 1. I'd like to know the scenario designer's reason for that.






That should have been deleted as no longer needed. It served the same purpose as the 1/1 replacement air equipment. This allows the air unit to be replaced when only a few types are available in the pool. Normally it requires 50 percent of the first unit listed in the unit to be available in the pool. This matters when new types are introduced and the first unit listed is obsolete and no longer in production.

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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 3/30/2020 4:18:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey there Thomas. Thanks for the quick answer. Are you going to update this scenario anytime soon? To fix things like this I mean? Also, there's the issue of the range of the B-29....I think I found it too short at some point in the past.

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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 3/30/2020 4:31:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've rounded up most of the engineers in the inventory and they have been busy repairing the rail leading from Bangkok to Singapore and they are getting close. There's a particularly troublesome broken rail at Kuala Lumpur but there's only a handful of places left to fix on the westside coastal rail. I'm going to get busy on the rail in the middle as well. Hopefully with the rail fixed the folks in the south can develop enough supply to attack properly. I need to rail some more arty down there to give the attacks more juice.



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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 3/30/2020 4:44:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		My next target will be the island of Vana Levu since I have all the other islands around it and it's all that's left to grab this far west. I have plans for New Zealand.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 3/30/2020 5:06:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Bataan finally fell. Now I have the PI to myself. The troops need a little rest and then they are off to Java and Sumatra.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/1/2020 7:36:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's March 8, 1942 and this is the state of supply for the Japs near Singapore. Still single digits. More work to be done on the rails yet. Some of the units on the west coastal road are green now and can be moved closer to Singapore. I'm trying to keep them all green as they move south. I'm thinking of beefing up the heavy guns ships to give more support to the ground troops. Several of my BB's are scheduled for softening up Vita Levu prior to any Jap amphibious assaults. I need Vita Levu to be able to project force further to the east. After I capture that I'm going to give some study to maybe moving into New Zealand.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/1/2020 8:07:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the situation right now in the South Pacific. I need to capture Vanua Levu yet to have control of the center of the action. There's an Allied subchaser near Sydney but I'm too lazy to chase it. Besides Karl's LBA might be more than I bargined for. So far the only thing visible in New Zealand is some fighters near Auckland. I'm guessing that there's some land troops there too they just aren't visible. Plus any ships that may be parked there that I can't see. I'll have to send a DD group down there to do some recon and gauge the LBA protecting Auckland.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/1/2020 8:37:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's what's going on near Ceylon right now. The Allies have some small ships parked near Colombo and up north near what would be Jaffna. You probably already know this but in 1972 Ceylon named itself the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. But I'm going to use the war-time names. I've done an exaustive study of the LBA within range of any potential targets and I've decided that the number of bomber units Karl has flown in to protect those ships is more than my mini-KB TF can handle. I have three CVE's and CVL's but they are the small types and can't carry a lot. I'd need at least three fighter units to shield all my ships from Allied bomber attacks. I just now checked out my carriers and three of them are seriously damaged and need to be parked for a while so any strikes on Ceylon will have to be delayed at least a month, maybe two.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/1/2020 8:52:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		The CV Akagi has been operating in the South Pacific and took part in the campaign to capture Ellis Island but was intercepted by Allied aircraft from the small islands near Ellis Island and the strike damaged both parts of the carrier units. Badly. So the unit needs to be parked in the home islands for about a year or so. That's just a top-of-my-head guess and it may turn out to be longer than that, I have no clue. It depends on how fast it mends I figure. I'm thinking of sailing directly north to get out of range of any Allied LBA and then shed the planes off the carrier to Truk. No need to remove the aircraft units from the theater as well as the carrier. I notice that the Akagi unit is down to it's last DD escort. And according to the Inventory dialog I'm not making either of the two types needed. This CV unit is somewhat handicapped for the rest of the game. It'll need a suplimental DD unit to escort it from now on. At least one.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/1/2020 9:09:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		It turns out that CVL Zuiho is damaged rather badly as well. I started the trip from Guadalcanal to Yokohoma but made it only as far as Saipan as the northernmost port I can reach with this TF. I need to fly a fighter to Saipan to act as top cover to protect the ships. Not that Karl has anything that can attack Saipan at this stage of the war. Just good practice. Just in case.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/1/2020 9:15:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I had no idea that the CV Zuikaku was so badly damaged. This bad boy might just sit out the rest of the war. I'm wondering if it will make it to the home islands. I'm going to try to park it at Yokohoma since there's more room there than at Tokyo.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/1/2020 9:23:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		I decided that Yokohoma was already too congested for more units so I parked it at Hiroshima instead. There's plenty of room there and I can move a fighter aircraft unit that is resting to that hex for top cover.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/1/2020 9:30:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Good thing I decided to check all the carriers because I found another one with damage. CVE Hosho needs to clock some shipyard time. I'll have to run some DD's down there to escort it before I try to move it to the home islands.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/2/2020 12:58:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		So here's the story with my carriers. I have three good ones left and the rest are in shipyards. So I'll have to get the three good ones together to protect each other and hope for the best. Karl is going to get lots of new boats and troops and aircraft units and the war is going to heat up. A lot.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/2/2020 1:24:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the situation on the mainland. Not much has changed since last turn. The battle at Singapore is ongoing. I'm in the process of moving the rested troops near Manila to Java and some spots in the Celebes. There are still partisans on Mandano that need suppression. Karl is moving troops from India to Thailand by rail. I expect him to use some engineers to jump the river and move into Burma. I'm going to build a wall around Singapore and I'm going to make the Chinese pay for it.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/2/2020 7:58:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		I thought I'd run some DD's down to Cook Island and see what's there and I discovered an Allied TF that has a CV in it. So I need to get my 3 good carriers together to see if I can't put an airstrike on it. My DD's got hit by an Allied airstrike getting into the position they are in right now and I lost several DD's to the Allied bombers. But at least I know where one of his carriers is now.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/3/2020 2:32:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		Karl moved his carrier TF to near Brisbane closer to his LBA to increase his chances to save his CV from damage or worse. I was moving my mini-KB from the Singapore area toward Ellis Island and it made it to the Guadalcanal area before running out of MP's. So my carrier strike on Karl's CV will have to be postponed until next turn at the earliest. I have some long-range patrol aircraft units within range of his CV but I'm not sure they would do anything productive if I tried to bomb his CV with them.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/4/2020 1:46:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm almost finished clearing out Mindano of partisans. I've cornered them and soon I will have destroyed them and the troops can be used somewhere else.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/5/2020 4:22:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's the 5th of April 1942 and I'm still chasing partisans near Hanoi and on the island of Mindano and I'm clearing Java of the Allied units there; Sumatra is about 80% clear and I've got two separate hot spots on Borneo where I need to clear out some Dutch troops. The rail from Bangkok to Singapore is about 90% done. I've got four carriers in the shipyards and the other three are operating in the South Pacific. Karl is mostly just staying out of my way. He's waiting for more boats before he tries something I guess. He's still shipping troops to Australia. I see them moving on the south edge of the map where I can't quite reach with my patrol aircraft. I see the Allied ships have disappeared from the Pearl area. Either they are there but invisible or they aren't there now. I sank the BB New Mexico with Bettys and Nells from Wake and so he probably felt he had to move them. I have no idea where most of his ships are. There's one Allied CV near Brisbane that I'm thinking about attacking just to see if I can damage it and make him move it south.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/5/2020 4:35:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		There's that Allied TF near Brisbane that has a carrier in it. And what looks like 1 carrier borne fighter unit. I'm resting my planes prior to attacking that carrier. I'm going to fly some more fighters into the area for whatever good they may do. I've got some Bettys and Nells that are within range of that TF so I'll use them too.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/5/2020 8:10:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just discovered quite by accident that I'm not making any Marys, Claudes, or Nates. And I'm almost out of them in the on-hand column. I'm not going to miss the Nates or Claudes so much but I've been getting some utility out of the Marys. This changes things. I've got some aircraft units that have only Nates in them. I'll have to park those units in the home islands to make them last longer. And I'm not making nearly enough Kates. And I've lost a lot of Kates. The squadrons that fly those planes are losing strength slowly.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/5/2020 10:38:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		I decided to use the Bettys and Nells at New Caledonia and was fortunate to sink one of Karl's carriers. Then I drove my carriers closer to bring them into range and did another strike and sank another different carrier. And some CA's and at least one DD.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/6/2020 4:54:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		Good job on being bold with your carriers and getting two of his. How many carriers do you figure he has left afloat?

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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/6/2020 5:39:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		Here's the situation with the Allied carriers. I've sunk Yorktown, Enterprise, and Lexington, and I believe I may have damaged the Hermes but he's got two more carriers: CV Formidible and CV Illustrious which I believe are parked somewhere west of India, probably the westmost port available. The Japs have just three operational carriers left so you can see that around T37 or so the tide may turn. I've just listed the carriers and the list doesn't include all the BB's, CA's, CL's, CLAA's, DD's and DE's that he's going to receive. I just now went through the Allied expected reinforcements list and I estimate that he receives close to 100 ships of various types. I will soon be outgunned and will have to go to a defensive stance. I'll have to trust my LBA to hold the Allied ships back. I need to look up the turn when I start to get Kamikazies.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/8/2020 4:26:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was moving units in the OOB order and came to some paratroops. According to the expected reinforcements dialog I'm due to get a lot of troops at Imphal so I flew the paratroops there and if I can hold onto the hex during the Allied turn I'll get a lot of troops behind enemy lines. I might be able to do some damage with a division or two behind enemy lines. This might make the game a lot more interesting. I'd like to take those troops and cut the supply to China from India by taking over the Burma road and the Ledo road. Also, I'm going to have to find a way to supply them somehow. That might not be possible which will make for a shorter rampage.




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RE: PAW with Sarsfield as Allies, Larry as Japs - 4/9/2020 8:27:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		During his turn Karl made his move on Johnson Island and he brought everything including the kitchen sink. Lots of BB's and DD's and everything inbetween and at least 9 LCU's to do the assault. Johnson Island is at the far east end of my perimeter and if I set sail immediately I would probably get about 2/3 the way there with my carrier group which is based at Guadalcanal if I remember correctly. So there's no way I can influence the battle until next turn. MY heavy guns are busy at Singapore with the exception of 2 that are at Saigon getting fixed and one at Cam Rahn Bay which also needs a tune-up and a new coat of paint. So I wouldn't have any heavy guns on station at Johnson Island for at least three turns and the island may have already fallen by then. Plus, Johnson Island is way out there without any LBA to cover it except for whatever is still based there and survived the bombardment. It's probably in reorg and can't fly to safety....I'll have to take a look when the turn starts. Actually, I'm not surprised that he's doing this while most of my fleet is out of position to respond. It's a good move.




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