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Idiot Luskan - 7/31/2004 4:51:45 PM

Raverdave

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As if I would move my CVs into an area blind !

When I use my CVs it is at a place of my choosing and at a time of my choosing. Stupid Luskan is like a cat waiting at a mouse hole, but just because he saw a mouse go in.....does not mean that the mouse will come out of the same hole !

The loss of life in the sinking of the ship at Darwin really hurt, as they wee all base personel from the RAAF. I am really hamstrung atm by my lack of base units and to loose one at this point was a real blow.
I might have to now look at pulling some Dutch base units south to make up for the short fall.

Akyab has had the breathing space that it needed and I have managed to ship some 20,000 supply points in ! I don't know where the jap airfarce is but it sure is NOT in Burma.....more luck for me!
If Luskan was ever going to do anything about Burma he has now well and truely lost his chance. If he was to come north now it would take an operation nearly as big as that as was launched in the PI, and with all the other things he now has on his plate, I really don't see that happening soon.

All I have to do is to hold on till '43....only 9 more months to go !

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RE: Idiot Luskan - 7/31/2004 5:07:05 PM

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20000 supply points wont last you. especially once my offensives start.

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RE: Idiot Luskan - 7/31/2004 5:44:20 PM

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Another good turn as I smack a transport under the waves at akyab (that place has been a real graveyard for allied shipping, and take Jambi, Palembang, tacloban and Kuching (culling a good 1500 of allied troops at the latter).

All that remains for my troops in the PI is Cebu island and they've begun their assault there this turn. After cebu falls, all of the northern islands are mine! There are a few bases on Sulawesi, namably macassar that I haven't taken yet, and many more in the chain between menado down to my southernmost possession in the SRA - Ambiona. I'll be mopping all of these up very soon - just as I'm cleaning up Sumatra with little units. The big units are all at 100%, but they're building up much needed preparation points for the planned invasions of Java.

Raver talks the sensible talk but you watch. 50 fat transports of mine appear near Java that his martins can't smack and he'll come running. I hope.

Enjoy the pic of Palembang - I'm sure even the newbies amongst you will spot Raver's mistake (he should have put some eng into the place before it fell to torch the stockpiles!).

I don't need that oil and resource yet - but having it there makes me far more confident now about my planned economic expansion, and as a result i've bumbed up lots of heavy industry and repair ports this turn. The Hyuga, Yamashiro and Ise all reached 0 sys damage this week, and I'm proud to announce that they've been pencilled in to receive the first BB AA upgrades this year (the longer serving bbs, kongo, haruna, Nagato Kirishima hiei and Mutsu will all cycle through after these 3 as they all have 5-10 accumulated sys damage).

The Junyo has joined my fleet and has been dispatched to even up my third CV division (was a little smaller than the other 2). In the meantime I've cornered some last stragglers on borneo and malaya and plan to put an end to them soon.

As the allied player there isn't a whole lot to be done about those stragglers, it is just that as the allies I avoid this sort of thing as much as possible because I don't want to loose the points. When I'm the allies I spend every pp point I can evacuating as many small units from the SRA as possible, even though the USAAFE base forces and dutch base forces aren't going to be that effective in my next line of defence, the loosing of an extra 20000 troops in 50 little helpless battles really tells on the points table. Enjoy the pic.

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Idiot Raver - 8/1/2004 7:29:24 AM

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4 RN bbs in the bay of bengal eh? Where are they? I sank your ship at akyab and then waited for you to show. nope. Then my admirals got bored and started lobbing shells at your little airfield there. Blew up some tanks, 1000 of your troops, a few guns and 2 dozen of the AVG (did you divide it??).

Landings at Iliolo. Now just need to take Oclaban or Tawi Tawi (whatever) and the entire northern PI is an agreeable red and white colour.

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RE: Idiot Raver - 8/1/2004 7:30:02 AM

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/16/42

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Coastal Guns at Iloilo, 42,56, firing at TF 46
TF 46 troops unloading over beach at Iloilo, 42,56

Japanese ground losses:
21 casualties reported

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Naval bombardment of Akyab, at 30,29

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Tomahawk: 8 destroyed, 26 damaged
Buffalo I: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Amatsukaze
DD Shigure
DD Nenohi
DD Yugure
DD Ariake
CL Oi
CL Kiso
CL Tama
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya
CA Chokai
BB Kongo

Allied ground losses:
619 casualties reported
Guns lost 22
Vehicles lost 2

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 24

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Naval bombardment of Akyab, at 30,29

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Tomahawk: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Haruna
BB Nagato
CA Takao
CA Atago
CL Natori
CL Tenryu
CL Tatsuta
CL Yubari
DD Mutsuki
DD Natsushio
DD Hayashio
DD Sagiri
DD Yugiri

Allied ground losses:
500 casualties reported
Guns lost 17
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 28

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Day Air attack on Rangoon , at 29,34

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9

Allied aircraft
Blenheim I x 9
Blenheim IV x 24
P-40B Tomahawk x 14

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 3 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 1 damaged

Oil hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
6 x Blenheim I bombing at 6000 feet
7 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Blenheim I bombing at 6000 feet
5 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
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Sub attack at 27,35

Japanese Ships
DD Fumizuki
DD Numakaze
DD Okikaze
DD Satsuki
DD Arashio
DD Yugumo
DD Kikuzuki
DD Kisaragi

Allied Ships
SS Sealion, hits 3

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Ground combat at Khota Bharu

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4787 troops, 28 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 3655 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1

Japanese ground losses:
48 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
76 casualties reported

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Ground combat at Iloilo

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2826 troops, 41 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 1452 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles

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RE: Idiot Raver - 8/1/2004 9:38:45 AM

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That Idiot Bananana walks and talks as if he has already one the war! Heck we are only in March'42 and to read the AAR you'd think that it is a lay down misere.

Lets just look at some facts shall we?

1/ All of my USN CVs are still at large with NO combat damage.

2/ Banana has not (with the exception of China and I will talk about that as well) taken any territory above and beyond what was historical.

3/ Burma has NOT fallen, and nor is it likely too.

4/ Regardless of the in-roads made into China, the Chinese armies are still intact and as such will ensure that Luskan has to keep a large force there.

6/ Singapore held on till Feb the 15th, and the PI put up a credible fight well into Feb.

Luskan can rabbit on about how he is building this up and building that up and how his production is something that even Henry Ford would have a wet dream over, but the fact is that he has not even SEEN the tip of the Allied spear.....heck it has not even been forged yet!

When it comes time to peal this bananana, I am going to do it slowly!

The mighty supreme allied commander has spoken!

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RE: Idiot Raver - 8/1/2004 2:07:05 PM

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This turn I had my little cv group in the bay get some action. Unfortunately, I had swapped off all the experienced kate squadrons and given them a rest, replacing them with home defence force kate squadrons that had average experience of 68 or so. The results were . . . poor.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/18/42

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TF 25 troops unloading over beach at Guiuan, 45,58

Japanese ground losses:
20 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Macassar, 30,69, firing at TF 84
TF 84 troops unloading over beach at Macassar, 30,69

45 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Shirashika Maru

Japanese ground losses:
189 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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ASW attack at 48,46

Japanese Ships
PG Kozan Maru
PG Kogyoku Maru
PG Kongosan Maru
PG Kyo Maru #8
PG Kyo Maru #10
PG Shoei Maru
PG Yoshida Maru
PG Shotoku Maru
PG Shinko Maru #3
PG Shinko Maru #2
PG Nikkai Maru
PG Nishho Maru
PG Seikai Maru
PG Shinko Maru #1
PG Shinko Maru #5
PG Shosei Maru
PG Tosho Maru
PG Unkai Maru #1
PC Ch 20
PG Hong Kong Maru
PG Hirotama Maru
PG Heijo Maru
PG Hayakafuku Maru
PG Choko Maru #2
PG Choan Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Gato

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Naval bombardment of Johnston Island, at 102,74

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 6 destroyed, 16 damaged

Japanese Ships
CL Abukuma
DD Hamakaze
DD Kagero
DD Urakaze
DD Akigumo
BB Hiei
CA Chikuma
CA Tone
BB Kirishima

Allied ground losses:
164 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 42

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Day Air attack on Rangoon , at 29,34

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12

Allied aircraft
Blenheim I x 8
Blenheim IV x 20
P-40B Tomahawk x 17

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim I: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
Blenheim IV: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 4 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
2 x Blenheim I bombing at 6000 feet
10 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
5 x Blenheim I bombing at 6000 feet
4 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 41st Division, at 45,25

Allied aircraft
I-16c x 17
SB-2c x 6

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x SB-2c bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 16th Mixed Brigade, at 46,26

Allied aircraft
SB-2c x 6

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x SB-2c bombing at 6000 feet
3 x SB-2c bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Jambi at 20,53

Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 9
Martin 139 x 9

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Ryuosan Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tamashima Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Shirakumo

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Palembang at 20,55

Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 3

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Choko Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 23,26

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
B5N Kate x 36
F1M2 Pete x 16
E13A1 Jake x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 7 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Norman, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Pakenham
DD Van Ghent

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x E13A1 Jake bombing at 2000 feet
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
1 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
8 x E13A1 Jake bombing at 2000 feet
8 x F1M2 Pete bombing at 2000 feet
8 x E13A1 Jake bombing at 2000 feet
8 x F1M2 Pete bombing at 2000 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 23,26

Japanese aircraft
F1M2 Pete x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD Pakenham

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x F1M2 Pete bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 23,26

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
B5N Kate x 25
F1M2 Pete x 22
E13A1 Jake x 22

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 4 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Norman, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Van Ghent
DD Pakenham

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x E13A1 Jake bombing at 2000 feet
6 x F1M2 Pete bombing at 2000 feet
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
1 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
8 x E13A1 Jake bombing at 2000 feet
8 x F1M2 Pete bombing at 2000 feet
8 x E13A1 Jake bombing at 2000 feet
8 x F1M2 Pete bombing at 2000 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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ASW attack at 49,45

Japanese Ships
MSW W.12
MSW W.18
MSW W.17
PC Ch 2
PC Ch 13
PC Ch 16
PC Ch 17
PC Ch 15
PC Ch 12
MSW Choun Maru #21
PC Ch 1
PC Ch 4
PC Ch 6
PC Ch 10
PC Ch 5
PC Ch 3
PG Kure Maru #5
MSW W.19
PC Shonan Maru #17
PC Kyo Maru #11
PC Takunan Maru #5
PC Shonan Maru #2
PG Akitsu Maru
MSW Choun Maru #18
MSW W.15

Allied Ships
SS Grayback

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Sub attack at 32,55

Japanese Ships
AP Izumo Maru
APD APD-33
AP Hokutatsu Maru
APD APD-35
APD APD-34
APD APD-37

Allied Ships
SS Snapper, hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

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Ground combat at Macassar

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 13145 troops, 136 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 3175 troops, 16 guns, 2 vehicles

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Macassar base !!!

Japanese ground losses:
133 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Allied ground losses:
102 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

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Ground combat at Khota Bharu

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4577 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 3396 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1

Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
83 casualties reported

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Ground combat at Iloilo

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2423 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 3688 troops, 42 guns, 1 vehicles

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Japanese ground losses:
85 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Allied ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

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Ground combat at Guiuan

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 991 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 54 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Guiuan base !!!

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Ground combat at Iloilo

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2680 troops, 35 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 2271 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles

Allied assault odds: 0 to 1

Japanese ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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RE: Idiot Raver - 8/1/2004 4:15:20 PM

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I wonder if I'm the first jap player in the PBEM to get this far?

Iliolo falls and the last 5500 of Ravers troops in the PI surrender. A few other places also fell, macassar, and there are some surrounded, starving stragglers in malaya and borneo and sulawesi, but they'll die off of their own accord.

Raver continues to hammer at Rangoon, and my zeros continue to exact a price before the avg and the level bombers get through. Fortunately, when they do get through and try to bomb the oil production facilities, they hit nothing.

Operations continue aronud the globe - especially in china, although hopefully Raver won't see that coming. 2 of his cut off, starving units have trekked as far as mongolia to try and steal a base and some supplies. unfortunately I've been reconning them all the way and know what a pathetic state they are in, and I have 6 mongol cav divisions meeting them next turn ;)

My sally's prove that what they learnt bombing Bataan and clark was put to good use (all sally squadrons above 80 exp). Going to have to train up some of the more pathetic pilots in my empire. Last turn's debacle just won't do. Another showing like that and Raver will be invading tokyo in a few weeks.

Enjoy the pic - it is just nice and complete to see the entire of the PI MINE and MINE and MINE alone. Tawi tawi is empty but I have yet to take it, and there are lots of empty bases between Rabaul and kendari I need to steal.

With Jambi and Palembang secure and full of troops, I'm now going to speed up stage one of the DEI banana campaign and steal a bit more of sulawesi a bit faster. I have rotated some garrison troops and have found that 3 of my early used brigades are back to 100%, while the 1st Home Guards unit is at 77% (forgot about them, left them in a malaria zone after a fight). I have 12 new garrison type troops (mostly naval guards) bound for all the baes in the PI - most of them will disembark next turn.

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Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/2/2004 12:37:59 PM

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Well well well.............Luskan has at last taken full control of the PI, enjoy it while you can ratbrain, your lease is due to expire in '44

Looks like Luskan has become interested in the Bay of Bengal again with some 5 BBs now known to be operating as well as 1 CV and 2 CVLs. Now I KNOW that my USN CVs can handle three crappy nip cvs.....time to put some points on the board!

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/2/2004 12:45:25 PM

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This should be fun to watch what happens next.....

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/2/2004 2:43:37 PM

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I've actually spotted enemy BBs and CAs in the bay, but I don't think Raver would have kept his cvs there. My little cv group retired long ago due to crappy pilots aboard in order to swap them back, so no fears there, and Raver's intel is incorrect as far as my bbs goes. However my present concern is with the massive numbers of enemy subs in the bay. I've got many many betties and zeros on the bay to deal with Raver's cvs should they appear - but I've only got so many destroyers and they just aren't cutting it at present.

Raver has seen me go on the offensive invasion wise enough times in UV to know how I go about it. If he's clever, he knows exactly what I'm doing and is ready for it. Another base north of jambi falls on Sumatra, and IJA troops land at sorong (PNG mainland!) and take it too.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/2/2004 3:19:34 PM

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Yep that Betty/Zero combination on naval attack is a hard combination to beat.Especially when it comes to interdicting the sea lanes to Upper Burma and the coast of eastern India.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/2/2004 4:19:49 PM

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Things get more complicated again!

Just as well, but 2 of the very few remaining subs in the fleet were psoted in the barrier reef off Cairns. Last turn, i 160 spotted the enemy CA chester leaving cairns, and got blown to hell for her troubles (i 160, chester was fine).

Then this turn, Pensacola is also spotted in company with a bunch of transports, which one of my subs torps and discovers that they are packed with troops . . . . an invasion force, with surface combatants in the transport tf as well as a seperate screening tf leaving cairns today, traveling at a slow transport's full speed . . . (here are the relevant cr report bits). I took bankha from the allies without much of a fight today, and look forward to moving further north on sumatra to Medan. Suddenly I'm concerned. I ahve all my cvs, big and small in the one big group, where I expect Rav'ers cvs to show. What if they don't show where I expect? Well for example, what if I'm waiting for them in the Bay (Raver does lie now and then) and close to java, and he shows up leading an invasion of . . . Well an invasion force out of Cairns headed north east 2 turns in a row is going to a: reinforce PM or b: have a go at Rabaul. If he's reinforcing pm, he'll be doing it without cvs, and my guess of where they'll be is more likely to be correct. If I'm wrong, then I'm going to need to cancel a lot of auto convoys in a hurry.

6 allied cvs can't stand up against my elite pilots (Kb + all my little ones + Junyo). And in the bay/java area I have just about every squadron of betties and zeros on hand.

My sweep in towards akyab with a few bbs was spotted, and my brilliant "trick" which I was trying to show Raver backfired miserably. The trick is this - very simple: you send your bombardment group after a nearby enemy target - but not the one you want to hit. They get within a days sailing of that target, but are also within a days sailing of the target you ACTUALLY want to git and get spotted so Raver (or whoever your opponent is) thinks "due north?? they're headed for diamond harbour! better move all my transports out of the harbour to chandpur, or just onto the ocean etc.". Then in that last turn, you COULD reach diamond harbour (as I could) but you really wanted to catch enemy shipping at akyab (and more importantly, the avg sitting on the ground there) and do a 90degree right had turn and hit the palce that night before he can do anything about it.

of course, this turn stage 1 really begins with my troops storming ashore at bali, basically unopposed. Bad weather has protected this little invasion group, but they weren't reconned by any dauntlesses, so there aren't any cvs around, although some CA's were spotted 2 hexes to the southwest if they were Raver's cvs a: I'd know about it, and b: they'd have blown this little invasion to hell. As it is, I've got all the troops and supplies ashore in one night (timed my arrival very well) and have lost 0 ships and about 500 casualties in the landing. See if I can't take Bali tomorrow.

As Raver has no doubt already predicted (not like we haven't seen each other's invasion tactics before) I like to take a little forward base, pack it with supplies and fuel and a small (can't be big - and you don't want a big one) bunch of expendable fighters for CAP so that they can disrupt enemy bombers (don't have to shoot them down, just reduce their effectiveness) and then park your surface fleet at that little base.

Firstly I'd win any resulting surface battle atm, and secondly I'd be within instand bombardment range of all of his bases, could use paratroops from my ltitle base, and most importantly - I can use Bali to prevent the escape of any allied troops after I crush the place. This is most important.

ASW attack at 49,106

Japanese Ships
SS I-154, hits 4, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Bulmer
DD Balch
DD Porter
DD Drayton
DD Mahan
DD Fanning
DD Dunlap
CL Concord
CA Chester

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TF 84 troops unloading over beach at Bali, 24,68

Japanese ground losses:
504 casualties reported

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Sub attack at 49,104

Japanese Ships
SS I-121

Allied Ships
AP Republic, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AP Manunda
CL Achilles
CA Pensacola

Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/2/2004 4:41:11 PM

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What's the count on slaughtered IJN subs, Luskan? For that matter, how many Allied are lost as well, Raver? What is the date?

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/3/2004 2:03:19 AM

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its gotta be about april 42, and I've lost . . . well rather than count them all, I've lost about 60 ships in my campaign so far. 2 cls, 8dds, 4 aks, 3 tks, 3 aps, 1 msw, a pc or two and the rest are subs, so about 30 or a few more than 30 subs, I've got about 6 or 8 operational (undamaged).

I've sunk 3 confirmed, and damaged another 3 of Rver's which I hope will sink at some stage. Not holding my breath however. I'd also like to point out that both cls and 6 or the 8 dds were lost to CD units during bombardments (where my dds should have stayed out of range!).

The problem with having contiguous sub picket lines is when the allies find a sub in the line, they can easily chomp their way through the whole thing - even if you move it a few hexes.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/3/2004 1:16:32 PM

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I have also just this turn formed all of my CVs into a single TF. Now unlike Luskan, I don't mind doing this as I can choose when and where to hit him, where as Luskan has so much going on at the moment that he is generally forced to have smaller CV TFs and also he has a large area to cover.

One of Luskan's blooby subs put a torp into a troop ship carrying men of the 7th Div, I tell ya, my heart skipped a beat watching that one! Lucky there were only 30 injuries mostly the ship's crew members, but Sgt Whitlam and Ptves Nole and Archer suffered slight wounds. Sadly 4 sailors were killed.
In point of fact the troops were bound for Townsville as part of the "Defense in Depth" strategy for Australia.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/3/2004 2:03:07 PM

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They why were they spotted heading east??

if I've planned this correctly, we should have our CV battle under my LBA aircover where the difference will count.

My betties and kate and val pilots (the naval ones - the army boys I just kicked off my little cvls were ****e) are all still about 87 average exp per squadron. Unfortunately my army zeros are all only about 70 now, and my naval boys are all above 80 except 1 squadron of naval zeros that seems to be FAR below everyone else at 68exp. Needless to say they're going to get the **** trained out of them in the near future. Tawi Tawi and Sorong fall this turn.

Will Raver throw the dice this early with his CVs? Very unlike him. Every time he did that in UV I wasted him. Especially when he came in early in fact. Whereas the games he won were the ones where he sat back (usually as the allies) and literally waited for 6/44 before landing at PM and Irau with everything in his arsenal. His cvs were unchallenged - fortunately there were so many mines in those two ports that he got all hampered, his cvs didn't enter the hex and although i sacrificed all my nells and betties to do so, I ended up sinking over 500 allied ships. The downside was that although I crippled him, I also crippled me and was forced to surrender.

I think Raver is going to try for one quick swipe and then a run for it. Perhaps he's thinking up north, and admittedly I've been lax at the top of the map. I'll spend some time up there shortly. In the meantime I've got a new plan for china, a surprise for Burma, a bigger, better surprise in store for Java, a continued takeover of Sumatra and a rather large island chain to steal. If I had any subs left, they'd be attacking allied shipping off the aussie coast.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/3/2004 2:21:29 PM

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They why were they spotted heading east??

Wanker ! Did you think that you are the only one who knows how to spoof air recon?

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/3/2004 2:25:22 PM

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I have said it once and I'll say it again.............I will commit my CVs at a place and time of MY choosing.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/3/2004 4:42:37 PM

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They why were they spotted heading east??

Wanker ! Did you think that you are the only one who knows how to spoof air recon?

Hrm . . by heading in the EXACT opposite direction of townsville???!? had me fooled!

However, I would have much preferred my sub connected with a few more torps, that way the shipwould have sunk and my industrious captain could have pulled some corpses from the ocean and id'ed their badges as the 7th division.

I spent most of this turn replacing less than premium assault and HQ type commanders in various important units throughout the globe. I should ahve done this much much earlier as there really are some first rate admirals and generals out there that I wasn't using. But then, I finally have a surplus of political points for the first time in the game.

You should gain/loose political points for holding out longer/abandoning your bases before a certain date prehaps?

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/4/2004 12:48:29 AM

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But did you remember to send the turn? I sat up till 1 am waiting and got nothing................I hate rejection

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/4/2004 1:31:32 AM

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He wants you waiting up and losing sleep, so you get tired and make a mistake. Watch out for the banana.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/4/2004 5:06:40 AM

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Yeah......nasty bananananananana......................I dream of turning him into a banana split.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/4/2004 1:30:03 PM

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I sent the turn, however all internet services with IPRIMUS are down - could be me, could be them, but when you ring their technical support they are hanging up on me saying they have too many calls.

Pissed about it. No turns until my net is back up (borrowed pc here).

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/5/2004 12:33:41 PM

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Hey bananana boy...still not up?

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/6/2004 6:58:26 AM

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I'm back and pissed at my ISP. What a bunch of useless pig-****ers. 5 literally identical calls to 5 different equally clueless tech support people (I swear one of them was computer illiterate!) and escalated to other tech support people 5 times. I kept TELLING them what the problem was (power was cut off on wed, $300 surge protector on my pc and modem, but the suddeness of it all going off created a "ghost" session, so as far as the ISP was concerned, I was logged on that whole time and got authentication errors every time I tried to log on (because I was "already" logged on). All they had to do was go and find my particular connection and pull the plug at their end and it took 3 days for perhaps 50 seconds work for a capable sys tech.

Now I'm several builds behind everyone else in WITP testing, haven't played in three adys and have many many turns waiting for me.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/6/2004 8:48:28 AM

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I'm back and pissed at my ISP. What a bunch of useless pig-****ers. 5 literally identical

Hey you can't say pig-****ers in front of Jesus !!!!! [South Park]

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PS Neat.. When I hit quote I get to see exactly what Luskan typed... only when its posted does the profanity filter come into play

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/6/2004 9:51:44 AM

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Glad to see someone else quote South Park on the forum.

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RE: Three cheers for ratbrain - 8/6/2004 10:49:32 AM

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Ok, slightly less angry as I've funally got to run a few turns.

The turns against Raver have been getting emptier and emptier and the reason is obvious - both players are really starting to focus on just one or two of their interests.

My troops took Bali, and killed off another 2000 of Raver's troops there. He is going to loose a lot of troops in my conquest of the DEI I feel. There will be no escape.

In the next week stage one of my operations will be complete.

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Liar liar pants on bloody fire. - 8/6/2004 4:33:33 PM

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They why were they spotted heading east??

Wanker ! Did you think that you are the only one who knows how to spoof air recon?

This is just to point out what a liar this bastard is. headed towards townseville my ass - my sub pickets spotted transports headed northwest just south of pm, and those combat ships headed north east past the GG gap - doesn't take a degree in astrophysics to figure out where they're going!

Will Raver press ahead knowing I've now spotted him twice in three turns?? Raver's bombers out of java starting to pound on my supply ships withdrawing from Bali. Going to have to do something about that, but if I send any dds near those CD batteries in java it ain't going to be pretty.

I had a big surprise planne din china but screwed up on the infrastructure required to pull such a plan off. Going to take a lot longer than I thought - and as a result may render the entire operation as pointless from the beginning (had to be a quick strike and it isn't gonig to be). Trail movement is really, really slow.

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