ORIGINAL: princep01
Ser Greyjoy, for shame. Forget the game for a bit. Charm the Queen with your wit and wisdom and enjoy what appears to be a very pleasant trip. The game will not evaporate in your absence, nor will your estwhile friends on the AAR. We do, however, perhaps suffer from a bit of envy.
Mandrake does make a salient point regarding the relationship of marriage and our alternative universe lives. Now a wife/children; that is truly a dose of brutal reality. But, mercifully, you are not there yet. Enjoy the moment and let those electronic soldiers idle away their time. Spend your days in the warm sun and cobalt blue and nights in the bed chamber of the Queen.
Let us hear no more of war until you have returned from R & R.
I keep her happy Master, don't worry. I've decided that i do only a turn per day and only early in the morning when she's still asleep....this should save our relationship and keep the game with Q-Ball going on at decent rates...
10th of March 1942
So the KB adventure in Indian Ocean is already over. The surprise is gone. KB came across a TK convoy and got detected, while my Darwin invasion TF got seen by ducth subs near Kendari....i think he now knows i'm coming for Darwin.... oh well, nothing much i can do at the moment... The KB will move southwards towards Cocos and then will join the operations in southern DEI.
Now i know the positions of allied CVs. 2 of them are operating near Attu island (aleutinas), clearly to prevent me from reinforcing the area, while 2 more are supporting landings at Ndeni (where a pretty big convoy has been spotted).
In Burma our 25th Army took Akyab which is now being fortified with the arrival of base forces and AA guns. Soon we'll have a decent air cover over there. The mini KB is covering the whole operation. No sign of the RN yet in the Bay of Bengal (i guess showing him the KB had been enough to force him not to come and play here).
We entered in Mandalay which is defended by 18k men.... soon we'll get the base.
In China we have conquered Changteh, and now the whole Changsha basin is secured. At Sian we have 1500 AVs into the city, facing 2100 of his AVs...but it seems he's abbandoning the town, so i'll wait a little bit more before attacking anyway.
In Luzon, he ambushed our Sallies with a sneaky move...he probably transfered a P-40 squadron from Java to Balikapan (still in his dirty hands) and from there to Luzon... lost 13 Sallies and 11 Pilots over Manila....
Out of the 90 factories researching the Helen Ia, i have switched 30 to Helen Ib, so i'll keep 60 Helens Ia in production...i'd like to stockpile this plane a bit cause it will form my main air ASW weapon for the whole war (it has the MAD!).
The Rufe factory has been shifted to the A6M5 (30(0)!) as planned.
For what concerns res/oil we discovered a major problem...only 17 days left of resources stocks in Japan!!! I'm short of 79k resources daily!!! i have more than 70k resources shipping from Hokkaido, China and Korea, but it's not enough... i've dispatched 15 Aden calss xAKs...hopefully the production won't be stopped
Anyway...a part from China, Burma and Northern Oz, we're everywhere transitioning from the offensive to the defensive posture... hopefully my offensive campaigns (a part from China) will be over by the end of April 42...
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