The weather in the Alaska area makes air campaigns very difficult to execute.

You should send a small surface task force to raid the Kuril islands. With the bombing he may assume you may be invading. Several destroyers and maybe a light cruiser or two. He may take the bait and transfer forces there and away from places important to you.

Regarding the bombers and damage. You know what damage you have received. However, there could be fog of war at play. You could be doing more damage than what the computer is showing you.

No sounds for the discussion so skipped it. Good of your opponent to keep fighting despite things going rapidly downhill. It's fun to see the Allies start driving back and it will be good practice for you if you fight a skilled Japanese player in the future, and just give you experience with the island hopping dynamic. Also your opponent has to practice too, and can see how far he can get before defeat. It will be fun to see where he makes his stand because his pilot pool must be completely shot by now.

same here

No sound with the Feb 28 turn and analysis

The CLAAs are very valuable for task forces subject to air attack. They can also do good damage fighting smaller ships.

Like Jochen and others said long ago, the Japanese player is not really playing. I am always free to offer you a new real match.

I'm in utter shock and awe and how badly the Japanese player has whiffed this campaign. 😀

There are some surviving bases and dot bases in the eastern DEI. Can you load up some small ships or APD's and get a base working deep in enemy territory. If you get it up to level 1-2 you can get fighters in from Darwin and threaten that whole area. Also it may force him to act with carriers.

Kusaie is possibly within range of Truk. I doubt he has Kusaie undefended. That may trigger KB to sortie.

I guess you will always lose light landing craft to landings but there was also a Fortress unit defending it with bigger guns. I think the invasion was the perfect number of troops and the landing craft helped them all participate in the shock attack.

The video is set to the lowest quantity and I can't turn it up, so I can't tell much apart

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Subs could be doing a mine laying mission if directly on a port.

I think you should give the robin / victorious to the Brits cuz they rlly need it. If it is rlly necessary to put it in the Pacific best not to unit it to the American taskforce but rather unite it to the Aussies with the last remaining rn ships, cuz her speed is not compatible with the American carriers though shes tougher than her American counterpart but she can slowdown the whole taskforce if she's present

Regarding *Victorious*, she was historically temporarily re-flagged as the USS Robbin and deployed to SOPAC on loan while the Essex class began to come off the slipways. Honestly would just concentrate it with the other CVs and use all that strength for a big raid on Truk depending on how degraded his Solomons/NG bases are.

Resistance doesn't seem to be that significant in the islands you plan to take in the Marshalls? What is it showing for defenders for the islands there?

DB are really better for ship hunting and not ground strikes. The choice is yours.

You are better off without Rangoon.

The zigxag position form Prome to Toungoo seems like a good defensive position in Burma. That 1400AV can probably stand up to the Japanese in that hex even with the Rangoon force added to it, and his airforce is infrior to your own.

Meh, night bombing of ships is a complete waste of supply. The strafing attack with fighters was the only successful ship attack you've made, but why not try and port strike Tavoy? I guess it really doesn't matter now that Rangoon is taken.

It really doesnt matter if he is producing airframes... the Japanese airforce simply cannot take the losses they've taken. More than 800 Tojos destroyed. The Japanese pilot quality is crashing rapidly and your planes and pilots are improving.

In no way should you withdraw even a hex (except cede Rangoon of course). Even if he gets Rangoon he can't go anywhere. He has no bombardment target anymore, Rangoon is destroyed, and you have total air superiority. He cannot dislodge your troops from any hex besides Rangoon, especially if you have units consolidate. If you retreat you make the loss of all the troops, planes, and British ships 100% worthless. The Japanese are losing the attrition war in Burma.

I don't think you should give up Prome. You hold command of the air over everywhere except Rangoon and can thus hold the clear terrain ahead of Prome or the hex itself. Prome is a lynchpin which connects Burma to India, and losing it means you lose access to reinforcements from the Raj overland (at least as easily as anything marching overland from the Raj can be). The new defensive line is probably sensible for the north, but you can't just give up Prome like that, not after forcing him to bleed over Rangoon. He won't have the shore bombardment, he has more than lost the air war and will continue to do so, you will only gain more troops in India who can be brought to bear in Burma, and your strength in bombers will only grow, allowing you to dominate clear terrain and slow his advance. Ceding Prome surrenders these advantages and puts you on the back foot in a way that is not desirable. With the forces presently available trying to relieve Rangoon, you could easily hold Prome while keeping the armor in reserve, reconstituting the forces from Rangoon, and shoring up the rest of the defensive line, all the while receiving a steady stream of supplies and troops from India.

Nice intro, the beginning to be a Pro.

hello, what mods are you using please ?

I think your play is good for the Allies except the British navy. Your play elsewhere is fine, even if it's more cautious. I do think your one turn of naval strafing was devastating and you hit a bunch of his ships. You can probably get the DD's and CL's if he operates from Moulmein. I think if he operates from Tavoy he is going to have fuel issues because he will have to operate at full speed constantly to cover the 5-6 hexes to Rangoon. I think it ends up being moot since Rangoon will fall eventually but hopefully you can defeat the Imperial Guards in the next couple turns and stabilize the front.

cool intro

Great job by your son on the intro

I forgot to mention that I appreciate the work you and your opponent have done to provide us with interesting battles. Please keep sharing your campaign.

It is good to remember that all losses are sunk costs (in this case literally sunk). Don't risk losses just to redeem past losses. In the future, deploy your naval attack forces where you can use your ground air superiority.

That CLAA was a good escort ship... not sure why your threw it away when you knew Japanese CA's were present in the area (bombardments). The Japanese probably had the CA force on maximum react and they reacted when you drove your fleet into the Rangoon hex, so the CL's retreated while the big boys stepped up. It may have been a great time for a carrier strike given how weak the mini-KB seems to be in the area, and the air superiority you have over Pegu and Moulmein.

Are you serious getting the British navy slaughtered again. You are playing the navy game excellent in the Pacific, but you hate the British navy apparently. Also, please stop attacking Wuchan or else your 2000 AV advantage will evaporate. You can't take a city with level 5 forts and 4 Japanese divisions with Chinese troops. You should just keep that 3500AV in place beseiging the city for months. You already accomplished your mission with the Chinese offensive and now you are just giving him free ground points.

Okay this is getting ridiculous its like were handing him free kills at this point.

I agree with the other poster that you stopped pressuring him on the map. At least before he was paranoid about the Marshalls and Rabaul and now there are no invasions. He can almost focus 100% on the Indian Ocean in the last 2 weeks which is an advantage for him to get local superiority at least on land but also move KB to the Indian Ocean if he wants to.

I got caught up finally. The anticipation of the carriers was kind of a debby downer. Maybe it's the old Indian Ocean curse but the moment Allied ships enter the Indian Ocean you somehow find a way for Japanese torpedoes to hit you

That is your game so feel free to do whatever is in your mind. I only have the feeling it is far too slow and inactive. You could build up more pressure and use your carriers and ships. Calling back all carriers because 1 is damaged is a little strange.

The APDs are very useful ships for small invasions and resupply in risky waters. You are also accumulating AK and tanker sinkings that will hinder Japan in the future. It has been a long time since Japanese subs sank one of your merchant ships. The PT boats not only force expenditure of ammunition but time. If the bombardment group spends enough time fighting with small naval craft, they might not make it back to base during the night. Then they would be vulnerable to air attack.

Not sure but isn't sweeping an opponents base the same as flying cap over your own base?

Later in the war the US have a purpose built night fighter (P61). In addition, the USN had specially trained hellcat squadrons with radar.

Good recovery from the 17th setback. This game is a test of character as well as skill

Dumb question alert. You didn't show the sweep squadron pages but you did give them a destination, right? 2nd question. Why not use 1-2 of those squadrons to escort the bombers? F4U-1 Corsairs are NOT carrier capable so there isn't a decision to be made. More for the Marines baby!

Good game

The group admin number (10) is the number of squadrons with missions but modified slightly. Any number of training squadrons count as 1 and i think search squadrons are counted the same way. There is also some modification when you have the HQ squadrons early war. The plane number is a simple addition of the engines of all planes located on base, I think. The limit comes from multiplying the airbase size x50.

Animations are fun for fighter/ship engagements and bombings of ships, not so much for air bombardments or ASW. Feel free to pick and choose when to use them but don't turn them off. The fast forward is fine.

Amazing how you can kick the crap out of him in Pegu/Moulmein yet he still manages to get poorly or unopposed naval strikes at your Royal Navy ships. It's almost like we are roleplaying a IJN/IJA rivalry where the RAF won't help out their naval brethren. I can't see how you couldn't just slaughter those naval bombers by running them under CAP from Prome or Rangoon set at 100% where you have dozens of planes and it would be easy to break up or destroy the Betty/Nell formations. Instead you get the RN slaughtered for like the 3rd or 4th time in the game to the SAME Japanese bombers you know are there.

Where are your British carriers? I saw Illustrious in the list and Hermes in port. Don't you have Formidible or was it withdrawn already?

Doesn't seem like KB is strong enough to resist a CV counterattack. I guess we shall see. You lost a decent number of ships (the CVE's sucked to lose) but you also hurt his strike aircraft.

That little base in the rear of Rangoon contatnly flips to the Japanese despite you having more forces adjacent. If you keep something there you could trickle supply into Rangoon. No clue why you are leaving that base unoccupied as it keeps Rangoon surrounded.