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

[Airborne Rifles]

Thanks for the update. Really enjoying this dual AAR.

[undercovergeek]

youre welcome - ill add the other bits later today otherwise its 'wall o'text'

[JasonPratt]

Seeing a bunch of Japanese flags on Australia tickles my every heartstring.

1.) Yeah, the bombing results are definitely weird -- not so much for casualties (which if I recall are a few dozen every day, which for small bombers in relatively small numbers like this isn't too unreal) -- but for lack of disruption and exhaustion. I might even buy lack of disruption depending on how large and how well dug in your troops are. But lack of exhaustion? Did your troops dig out a dwarven kingdom to live in while waiting to make the final assault?? Granted, this is the Japanese, but still...

2.) My guess about the running out of fuel, is that maybe you ran into storms or had the fleet maneuvers set to zigzag or some combination of things like that. I'd have to be less lazy and actually look at the rulebook to see if that sort of thing is accounted for, but that's my guess. It's also possible that some level of error is built into such estimations, which perhaps varies based on other organizational factors.

[Airborne Rifles]

Geek, what are the implications for the force you are putting ashore on SW OZ if the transports bringing them there are running out of fuel. Will you be able to sustain them? Or are your resupply freighters going to run out of fuel as well?

[undercovergeek]

Geek, what are the implications for the force you are putting ashore on SW OZ if the transports bringing them there are running out of fuel. Will you be able to sustain them? Or are your resupply freighters going to run out of fuel as well?

theyve landed with a s*** ton of supplies - im guessing theres a lot of concern about supply chains to Oz - i dont need it - Oz has its own industry, once i own Perth, Brisbane and Sydney im making my own supplies - theres no need for masses of supplies from Japan or Dutch East Indies

[Airborne Rifles]

What if the fight for those locales is more drawn out than you expect, say due his his reserves being triggered or whatnot? Have you landed enough supplies for an extended campaign?

[undercovergeek]

To Java -



Theres not much going on here but the daily sinking of transport ships by the Fuso group - i dont know where theyre going, where theyve been or what theyre supplying but they stop floating around Christmas Island. Theres daily oil and fuel TFs leaving Balikpapan and Palembang heading to the home islands or Truk and then on elsewhere.

Sumatra -



A picture for my pain. After the last botched attack off Ceylon this is/was the mini KB that made it back to Singapore and was fully restored and patched up - 39 days of hammering and banging, 2 days out of dock and we meet the Brit CVs heading south. To be fair i knew they were there and i headed for them i just didnt expect the outcome - i think i sunk the Formidable but the 2 remaining decks were much bigger than my light carriers and it was pretty much a wash, rinse, repeat of the Ceylon encounter - we took down the CAP but the bombers just came straight on. The Zuiho was here too, she sank last turn, first flat top blood to KyzBP, although i imagine his intel from Ceylon was that these 3 were already sunk - i remember my days as a confused intel reading Allied commander. I dont think the others will make it either - they were headed for Singers but ill put them in at Sabang and see what we can recover - all planes have been distributed across Sumatra and getting ready to try and strike back at the CV TF seen just west of Siberoet

China



The land KB is on its way to Paoshan then British Lashio. In the middle at Kwaiyang, i think Chungking has marched south and taken back some territories. I see the strategy, cut me off from my supplies and weaken the land KB - as long as i take bases as i march with ease the army will get its supplies from each victory, and then ultimately at Rangoon we have the head of all Allied supplies in the region - then its KyzBPs turn to be cut off. We have equal amounts of assault points just south of the retaken base just south of Kwaiyang so i can block him there. Way to the east at Hankow we just destroyed 42000 troops by surrounding the Chinese army - theres 2500 assault points heading west from there to Changsha and then to retake Kwaiyang where all they have to do is stand in the road and stop the Chinese counter attack

Lastly, Japan



Ive had some success off Hokkaido with a destroyer raider force and have sunk a few ships. Last turn we met the CV group at night and managed to put 5 holes in Saratoga i think - it wont be catastrophic but i hope it screams 'BACK THE FK OFF MY ISLANDS' to KyzBP. The BB TF raiders have just arrived and they will be set to bombard Uruppu-Jima, i have 100 capable fighters based at Ominato who can provide CAP on their journey home and i have reasonable confidence in their abilities.

I wasted a huge amount of bombers here by forgetting to stop them from bombing - their escorts are the above mentioned awesome CAP experts and they continued for 3 days without this and died in droves, my fault. The plan then is just to harass him here as much as possible and make him go home

[undercovergeek]

What if the fight for those locales is more drawn out than you expect, say due his his reserves being triggered or whatnot? Have you landed enough supplies for an extended campaign?

i have and theres more on the way - the only real disaster is if he takes Albany back with 100k of supplies all stacked neatly on the beach

[MetalDog]

Thanks for the update.  I should bitch more often ;)   >:D

[bob48]

...there are only 24 hours in a day.....

[MetalDog]

Prioritize then, I say!

[Rayfer]

Glad I found this AAR....excellent. What is the game date for the latest screenshots?

[jomni]

Prioritize then, I say!

Around April 1942

[Excroat3]

I wonder, is there anyone who has read this thread but not KyzBP's thread?

[Sir Slash]

Hey Geek. Sorry to hear your calling it quits on the AAR but I understand very well about life's priorities. You played one hell of a campaign though-- much better than I ever thought the Japanese could in this monster game. You got nothing to be feeling bad about for sure. I think I hear Tokyo calling for you to come be the new Defense Minister.