Fulkerson (J) vs Moore (A) ( no Moore )

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And then Bear Claw saw some action:

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And then I did a bombardment attack that did nothing at Port Moresby:

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And then there was this ground assault near Zamboanga

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And then the Allies did their bombardment attack at Port Moresby and I lost some people again.

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And here's the combat report in its entirety for those of you who want to see it.

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I wanted to get some idea how much supply it takes to re-arm each particular kind of ship after it's been bombarding some place so I
need a "before" picture of the supply levels in the AKE's that are going to do the rearming. This is that picture. I've got some ships
lined up ready to recover at the base(s) and next turn we'll get the straight skinny on how much supply it takes.

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Here's where his task forces are: Allied subs around the home islands, PT boats near Java and surface elements near Pearl.

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I wanted to get a good idea about the flow rates at the big three producers so I did this cut and paste for the "before" and I'll do another
one of these tomorrow and we can compare the levels to get some idea of the flow. I'll even animate it to make it easier to see what I
mean.

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Here's the situation at Palembang: (1) there's about 6 TF's parked at Palley and they are loading up with fuel, oil, and resources. And
(2) there's about 8 TF's inbound to Palley bearing much needed supplies. We should be good for a while at Palley.

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Here's the ship traffic at Saigon:

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Here's the 4th Division. It's divided into three parts and I'm planning on moving all three parts to Java and making the full division to
take part in the Java campaign. I'm pretty sure it would go faster with a full division fighting instead of the three parts spread out in
different parts of the world. I want to eventually get ALL the divisions back together somewhere and for the same reason(s).

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I was tinkering w/ TF 11's axis of advance when I got curious about Nauru. There's substantial traffic in and out so Nauru might need a
convoy of fuel to feed the population of ships that come through the port there. I'll see if anybody in Truk is handy for this mission.

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Here's where his task forces are: Allied subs around the home islands, PT boats near Java and surface elements near Pearl.

This is very cool!

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Some of my smaller boats have gotten some damage accumulated and I thought I'd put them into their own TF and send them to
Oosthaven to see if they can't repair some of that. Also included are those DD's that don't have any ASW of their own for one
reason or another. I have a vague memory of a surface battle here at Christmas Island IO and some Allied ships got sunk or a ship
or something. I have too many games going on at the same time to try to keep track of everything in every game you've got
going on. You'd almost have to make written records to do that and written records aren't much fun to produce and keep up to date.
This is so far just a fun game, with almost no desire at all to go for the sudden win automatic victory conditions etc. This game is
just some good fun between two fellow wargamers who enjoy doing things like this. I hope Jim is having at least half as much fun as
I'm having.

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I was going through the list of all TF's moving them one at a time, or at least checking to see if I needed to interviene in the course the
ship is already on. Sometimes I make a change, to dock or undock a ship, etc. but at least 50% of the time there's no need for me to
have to have looked at that TF and I'm wondering how to go about making some of those computer-controlled TF's and then setting a
filter to only look for the human-controlled ones, or something. Should make this game move along a little faster maybe. I'm always
on the look out for a good tip or trick to this game. I'll share those I can come up with with you guys free of charge.

EDIT: here we have a tanker that has gotten into a cargo TF somehow and now has 600 tons of suppositories loaded on her. So I
need to download all those and see if she can carry oil instead. This is one of the long-range TK's and she can carry a lot in one trip.
She's one of my favorites. No, really I don't have any favorites. I just said that.

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And here's a TF that has a lot of the more long-range kind of AK that I'm using to move fuel and supplies out of Tokyo. Tokyo is turning
into a bottle-neck because of the fact that the overwhelming greatest majority of the fuel and supplies are at Tokyo. So that's where the
traffic is going and there's some Allied subs sneaking around that area. There's going to be some disorganization and losses until I get
the wheels of industry humming right along. I'm seeing no Tracker signs of an immanent collapse so maybe the economy will run w/o
me for a few turns w/o my having to remember to change anything important.

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I like big pictures. I hope you do too. Here's a TF making a trip from Hong Kong to deliver some supplies to Palembang. The whole
trip. In one picture. Not too many more of these I guess. Wouldn't want to overload the server's hard disk.

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And there's this task force, TF 48, which has just one PB as escort and I'm asking them to move through sub infested waters to get to
Tokyo soonest. I'm setting some waypoints that I'm hoping will miss most of the sub clusters. I may have to send this TF some more
escorts before too long.

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And while we're speaking of Tokyo, here's the TF's already there and the 15 or so TF's that are enroute inbound. A lot of those
inbound TF's are bringing resources for the home islands. All the outbound TF's will be carrying supplies and fuel for the bases
in the "field". And there are a lot of them hungry and thursty.

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This image below is the list all TF's button screen and down at the bottom there's the filter(s) to what shows on the screen and two of
them are for "computer" and "Computer CS" and I'm wondering what the difference is and what Computer CS is anyway? Any of you
experts out there want to say? Anybody know?