ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
[:D] Good one!ORIGINAL: DivePac88
... I had planned to build a small presents on Christmas Is, as I fallback for Canton.
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There goes my spelling/grammar again.
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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
[:D] Good one!ORIGINAL: DivePac88
... I had planned to build a small presents on Christmas Is, as I fallback for Canton.
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Ach, I know. Heard that it was greener over there. No worries. We'll hoist a few schooners at the end and bring you back over for your next game!ORIGINAL: DivePac88
ORIGINAL: PaxMondo
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Checking In. Sorry to see that you have gone over to the "dark side". [;)] Even so, I will be in the corner kibitzing. [8D]
Hi there Pax, good to hear you mate, and excellent to have you're experience on-board. I'm sorry to have deserted the empire, but I needed to feel the grass on the other side. [;)]
Speaking of Penryn Island, it gets a USN Port Service company as a reinforcement around Jan. 2/42. This is very helpful for unloading supply/troops/equipment. Since you have to either rescue them from the supply-less island or bring them supply, it is just as easy to send air support as to evacuate the island.ORIGINAL: ny59giants
You can use the Dutch Do-214s for naval attacks and the PBYs for naval search missions. The Do-214s carry 300kg bombs which are nice "when" they hit. [:D]
I go for the Marine fighters for survivability. You have Buffalos and the earlier models of the F4F before the F4F-4s come out in numbers. Until the re-sizing in July you need the number to survive, IMO. By early Jan '42, you should have 4 American CVs that have a capacity of 90 planes each, but I overstack to close to 100 (stay below the 115% threshold). I like having 180 fighters to go into harms way. I like to send a small BF and construction engineer to Penryhn (between Christmas Island and Pago Pago to allow planes to ferry from Line Islands to South Pacific, if Canton Island falls.
Once you get the F4F-4 and then the TBF-Avenger that allows you to get in a sword fight vs a knife fight with the 4 hex torpedo range of the old TBs. During a brief time in May to July you can have 5 American heavy, plus Wasp. Add in the 3 Brit CVs. That will put you over 550 carrier planes. Sweet!! [:D]
I must have missed the description of that in your 10,000 post AAR. Can you narrow it down a bit? Which Bali Hai club was it at? Or was it Kandy House?[;)]ORIGINAL: sprior
The thing with scenario 2 is that the Japanese players get cocky so you have to keep an eye on when you can strike back. Have alook at mine and the Cap's AAR for when we got lucky.
ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
I must have missed the description of that in your 10,000 post AAR. Can you narrow it down a bit? Which Bali Hai club was it at? Or was it Kandy House?[;)]ORIGINAL: sprior
The thing with scenario 2 is that the Japanese players get cocky so you have to keep an eye on when you can strike back. Have alook at mine and the Cap's AAR for when we got lucky.
ORIGINAL: DivePac88
Here is a Screenshot of the situation off Luzon, and what a think is the positions of his Carriers-
With CVs on both sides searching eagerly for victims among the maze of islands, this is the time to send some of your surviving ships to the north of Luzon. I know of a couple of posters who have managed to sneak some ships out this way. There is not much to detect them in the Bonins or at Marcus at game start. If they do bump into his convoys and he send Kaga et al after them, that leaves some chance for others to try the island route to the SE.ORIGINAL: DivePac88
Here is a Screenshot of the situation off Luzon, and what a think is the positions of his Carriers-