The Sun against the Eagle - WitP AE AAR - UCG v KyzBP

[undercovergeek]

fat fingers have led to a slight problem in Brisbane - we bombarded the city to get a look at the defensive value of the troops, on completion of another Manilla like f*** up of a bombardment i cancelled the bombardment and went for a defensive stance to wait for reinforcements - what I in fact pressed was deliberate attack, knowing it was a losing battle i had to watch 3000 IJA soldiers die to about 500 Ozzie ones - our assault points are now actually lower than the defenders so were in trouble - for the last couple of turns weve been desperately trying to pull back to Maryborough but naval and air bombardments are slowing our progress, Maryborough also just fell to a KyzBP counter attack - Oz needs a bit of regrouping and sorting out - the reinforcement TF just left Tokyo

[JasonPratt]

The unholy gibberish of the enemy encryptions cleared briefly, long enough to decode the following phrase: "Total War Australia, better than Rome, too."

It's hard to tell whether this signals an escalation, or an acknowledgment of Imperial domination despite the loss at Brisbane, or perhaps simply propaganda about the one victory there.

[undercovergeek]

there arent that many units in the Oz army - i can only assume KyzBP has stripped everything south of Brisbane thinking i fear landing there - which will come as a surprise soon

[undercovergeek]

one of the things i love about PC games, especially PBEM wargames is the opportunity they give the player to sit over a drink of tea and scratch their chin about a certain strategy - and that has been the majority of todays down time activity

why is there a battle in the south pacific?

because KyzBP is trying to make an uninterupted line from West coast USA to east coast Australia - to move men and supplies from that end of the map to this end of the map but cannot in one hop therefore he needs a secure middle area to refuel - then thats fine KyzBP can have his islands to refuel - i will take the destination, the end of the line - I will be launching operation sheila in approx 8 days - the might of the IJA, victors at Manilla will be headed to Sydney where we will take the entire Southern section of Australia, isolate Brisbane, and then set off for Perth and the west coast, then Ceylon, the end of the campaign should coincide with the arrival of the largest army on the map on the outskirts of India

well, its that or Pearl Harbour and the west coast of the USA  :o :o

[BanzaiCat]

Guess I didn't think about that last bit. You can really land on the West Coast of the U.S.?

[Airborne Rifles]

Ominous. Do you think you have enough strength to secure all of southeast/west Australia and still continue on towards Ceylon?

(triple checking to make sure I'm posting in the right thread!)

[undercovergeek]

you may laugh, i nearly posted that in KyzBPs thread!!

I have approx 7500 assault value to spend on any expedition - Australia has approx 2000 to oppose me and 1000 of that is in Brisbane, Ceylon unless its been used as a mass reinforcement farm has nothing more than 750 - there is enough strength at Manilla to take Pearl but it doesnt get me the benefit of Oz or India apart from shock value, that or i can work my way back across the Kuriles and into Canada but i like the idea of owning Oz and marching on India at the same time

[Airborne Rifles]

you may laugh, i nearly posted that in KyzBPs thread!!

That would have been quite the intelligence coup!  ;D

[JasonPratt]

Yes, the game phase has now been decisively shifting from "Spread Out Like A Virus While The US Is Kinda Weak" to "March Superstacks Around Punching Things While The US Is Kinda Weak".

I think back to a few weeks ago, when Geek in all sincerity thought he was playing a careful, conservative game, and I laugh and laugh and laugh. 

But, that's the way to win this game. The Empire has to hit hard while the hitting is good, and harder than the Empire historically managed to hit. Taking Australia and India == hitting harder. Doesn't strictly matter if the US takes some points back if Geek is still racking up points faster than Kyz can take them back.

(Well, so long as Kyz doesn't figure out a way to cripple the superstacks logistically.)

[jomni]

fat fingers have led to a slight problem in Brisbane - we bombarded the city to get a look at the defensive value of the troops, on completion of another Manilla like f*** up of a bombardment i cancelled the bombardment and went for a defensive stance to wait for reinforcements - what I in fact pressed was deliberate attack, knowing it was a losing battle i had to watch 3000 IJA soldiers die to about 500 Ozzie ones - our assault points are now actually lower than the defenders so were in trouble - for the last couple of turns weve been desperately trying to pull back to Maryborough but naval and air bombardments are slowing our progress, Maryborough also just fell to a KyzBP counter attack - Oz needs a bit of regrouping and sorting out - the reinforcement TF just left Tokyo

Blame it on an overzealous subordinate.

[Toonces]

Heh.  I just clicked on this thread, having missed the last 14 pages.

Two things:

1.  Man, that map looks fantastic!  Gotta find that mod!

2.  If the Japanese are in control of Rockhampton, the Allies have done something very, very wrong.   

[JasonPratt]

Or the Imperial Forces have done some things very right.

(Or Australia' northeast/east coast was accidentally designed as a lot easier to take than would have been expected in real life.)

[undercovergeek]

[JasonPratt]

An arousing plan.


...ROUSING! I meant a rousing plan.  O0 8)

[Martok]

I think the first way you said it was more correct.  ^-^