TOS V3.05 PBEM "Cartwheel"

[aksully]

TOS Ver 3.06 NLTurn 1
Dutch sink 4 Jap Capital ships.....Naaw wishful thinking. Just built up the NL forces wherever possible...We'll be waiting!

Sully

 

[eric_A]

But won't have time to play my turn until tonight.

 

[aksully]

Np Eric..Sorry it took so long..my dad who lives with us had several medical appts he needed help with. I'll move it along a little quicker from now on.
Sully

 

[eric_A]

There is a chapter in one of Churchill's books describing the events
of late 1941 entitled "The Cataract of Disaster", that would be
a good description for what happened to the Commonwealth this turn.
The US, Dutch and China got off easy.

Week 50, 1941
Captured:
Airbase at Puerto Princess
Davao
Boela
Rangoon
Kudat
Sibu
Nanning
Kuala Lumpur
Rabaul

In a surface battle East of Kudat the Mogami and the DD Akishima
defeated the USS Houston and a DD, both of our ships were redlined.
If there are any subs around those ships are sitting ducks.

MIsfit: Did you give these guys my usual lecture about moving your
ships out of harm's way?

Also sank:
US DD Baker, near Manokwari
Dutch DD van Ghent, near Menado
Unidentified sub east of Kuala Lumpur, accidentally.
CW DD east of Kuala Lumpur (with captured arty!)

Killed:
2 CW inf north of Rangoon, another 2 N of K. L.. 1 in Rabual
2 US inf, 1 flak in Manila
1 Chinese Guerilla near Kaifeng, 1 inf N of Nanning
1 rifleman S of Kunming
CW fighter in K. L., bomber in Sibu

Bombed Hilo, killed 2 citizens

I did discover that Guerillas are no good for capturing artilley, I
sent my Burma Guerillas to capture the 2 artillery NE of Rangoon, but
they insisted on destroying one of them!

Here is a screen shot of Kuala Lumpur, after my army killed the
infantry on the rubber tile, another infantry which started on the
hill with the grapes marched through the jungle into Kuala Lumpur
which had no defence units:

 

[eric_A]

Here are my notes from the last game:

 

[aksully]

OK..NIce turn Eric..so arty still has lethal sea bombardment?
Sully

 

[El_Tigre]

There is a chapter in one of Churchill's books describing the events
of late 1941 entitled "The Cataract of Disaster", that would be
a good description for what happened to the Commonwealth this turn.

It's the price I have to pay for cutting those rubber tiles. Only the loss of
Kuala Lumpur this turn was unexpected: I forgot that your NI could use the
rubber tile (I had to cut that one, too), to reach and invade the city.
Apologies to my Allies!

I did discover that Guerillas are no good for capturing artilley, I
sent my Burma Guerillas to capture the 2 artillery NE of Rangoon, but
they insisted on destroying one of them!

They can earn promotions by killing workers and artillery, though.

 

[Misfit_travel]

US strikes back.

Redlined Jap CA and DD sunk E of Kudat. Guam Garrison defeats 1 Jap Infantry (and gets promoted no less). Jap sub sunk E of Tarawa.

Amazingly no units losses.....

We'll lose Manilla and Guam next turn unless Eric_A is extremely unlucky.

Turn to El_Tigre.

Misfit

 

[El_Tigre]

-destroyed all roads from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore
-pillaged the oil tile near Mandalay
-Japanese Transport next to Rabaul sunk

 

[aksully]

China
NI N of Taiyuan - KIA
Jap MGB NE of T- KIA
2 NI 2 sq NW of Nanking - KIA
Elite NI N of Nanning - KIA

NL
IJN DD SW of Saigon Sunk

Turn sent to Eric

Sully

 

[eric_A]

Week 52, 1941

China:
Killed 1 inf near Taiyuan, 1 inf near Nanking.
Killed 1 rifleman N of Nanning
Killed 1 inf, 1 guerilla N of Canton
Captured Foochow, destroying 1 inf and 1 rifleman.
Bombed and damaged roads and 2 guerillas
We lost 1 infantry in attacks

USA
Captured Guam, killing 1 inf
Sank 1 DD in Manila

CW
Sank Cruiser S of Bhuket
Killed 1 inf S of KL and 1 on VP location near Sibu
One Betty bomber was shot down by Cruiser

Dutch:
Captured Menado, killing 2 inf, captured 1 arty.
Dutch Fighter shot down one of my dive bombers near Ketapang

Also:
Captured VP location on Bougainville
Sank 1 sub near Kudat, 1 near Saigon, 1 near Cebu
We lost 1 BB 1 DD and 1 sub attacking subs

 

[Misfit_travel]

Sank 1 transport near Guadalcanal. (Nice search pattern Eric_A, but as you can see you missed me).

Sank 1 transport and 1 DD W of Tarawa. Unfortunately the Japanese did manage to make a landing.

No air or naval losses.

Wake Island is patiently waiting for the inevitable assault.

Turn to El_Tigre.

Misfit

 

[El_Tigre]

I just loaded the game and wanted to move my units in Burma when I noticed
that the oil tile near Mandalay is gone! Because of the black screen at the
beginning I didn't see the exhaustion pop-up though. I haven't done anything so
far, do you want me to re-load the game? Maybe it won't disappear again.

Edit: I checked the map for new oil resources and there seems to be a new one
on New Guinea, in the marshes next to the southern airbase. Is this a new
resource?

 

[eric_A]

I think it's as you said, that oil source was exhausted and a new
one popped up. It's never happened before with an oil source but
I have seen it with coal and iron so it was just a matter of time.
I think we just continue with the new oil source.

 

[El_Tigre]

I have played my turn and noted the sequence of my moves so that I could
re-play with the same results anytime. However, after finishing my turn I
re-loaded Misfit's save and the oil wasn't there either. It must have disappeared
after turn 1, which ends after Sully saves the game as the Netherlands. Maybe
Eric wants to check his save for the resource.

Anyway, here's my turn report:

- lost a Bomber to a Fighter while bombing roads in Malaysia. A second Bomber succeeded in destroying some railroads
- no Japanese troops near Mandalay or Singapore
- SS-Tireless sunk an I-Boat in the straights south of Bougainville

Edit: I just saw your post, Eric. OK, lets go on. Too bad for all the resources I poured into Mandalay...

 

[eric_A]

This game just gets more and more interesting all the time!

First the oil dissappears from Mandalay, I checked the start of my last
turn, it's gone and the new oil is in New Guinea.

Next, Misfit sinks my Guadalcanal assault force.

Now I get confidential Allied information due to an email mistake!
So the Dutch only have one sub left, that's good to know, but what
are these air assets?
BTW, Menado was taken by two marines from Davao, after a naval
bombardment.

 

[aksully]

First...it appears our plan of misinformation is working!!! Onto the game.
China Week 52 Results
-NI NE of Taiyuan KIA
-Injured MGB and NI SE of Taiyuan
-NI SE of Kuming KIA
-MGB N of Nanning KIA
-NI N of Canton KIA
-1st Tank Regiment N of Canton KIA
-Roads destroyed near Nanking
-Road between Jap held Foochow and Hankow Cut

Sully
Turn passed along to NL (me)

 

[El_Tigre]

I should have mentioned that Eric received the email as well.

 

[eric_A]

Week 2, 1942

USA
Captured:
Cebu
Sank 1 Transport 5 Tiles E of Hilo, I was suprised that the
fleet was all in 1 stack, with no ASW screen. Ignoring all
those carriers was hard to do!
Destroyed 1 DD and 3 bombers in Manila, damaged 1 other bomber.
Were those the "air assets" Sully mentioned?

Dutch
Captured Dongala
Sank 1 DD N of Ketapang
Killed 1 inf south of Sibu

CW
Shot down Fighter near Darwin

China
Killed 2 inf N of Canton
Killed 1 inf N of Nanning
Killed 2 Guerillas near Nanking
Killed 1 rifleman near Taiyuan
Bombed roads

Sank 1 unknown Sub near Saigon

 

[aksully]

Late post for NL Action before Eric's move above.

-Sank transport S of Saigon
-Elite Marine on oil tile N of Ketapang KIA

Sully