September 8, 200718 yr Author Trust me, this is the calm before the storm. Both sides are moving units all over the place. I think there's at least 3 points Dewayne is working on as forward offensive launch pads. As for me, I'm not saying just yet . Security ya know.... Sincerely Kelly-san
September 20, 200718 yr Author Hi all, Okay here's a update with pics no less. Sorry about the slowness lately but my boss hasn't returned and it looks like he's not going too (He's out of the hospital now which is good but the stress level just is too much for his ticker). The game turn is 10/25/42 Okat let's start in the northern Pacific: Dewayne's air force seems to be slowing down operations up around the Home Islands, he's suffered pretty heavy operational losses due to weather. In the central Pacific: Dewayne has reinforced Eniwetok Island and launching air raids against Kwajalein atoll: The situation in this area is grim and I'm trying to strip out my forces while leaving behind something to make him think twice about invading here. I don't think he will. He's pretty obsessed with the Home Islands. Here's the damage to Pagan Island to date, this island is too far away for Dewayne to support properly from his other airfields in the central Pacific which is good news for me, at least for now anyways: China: Not much has changed here other then I've managed to push Dewayne down into Siam and own the road to the north where both our forces seem to be on an even footing. This will change as I bring my air forces to bear. Burma area: Dewayne continues to build up at Kaula and there's not much I can do right now except continue to chip away at him. Java region: Dewayne continues to hold here though probably not for much longer unless he can force a turning of the tides as my forces are outnumbering his and I've got plenty of supply flowing in. And finally the scoreboard: All in all I think Japan will not survive to see 1944. I think Dewayne is merely waiting for more forces while repairing the damage I already inflicted upon him up to this point. Now's it nothing more then a waiting game for the other shoe to drop (along with acouple of atomic bombs). I however, don't plan on letting this happen without a fight. He wants the Home Islands, that's fine. He's going to have to pay a price in blood for them first.
October 6, 200718 yr Author Well things are getting slowly sorted out at work, so hopefully I can get some more playing time in. As far as the game goes we haven't done many turns but nothing really has changed much. I did manage to drop a fort in the northern chinese city of Kungchang but the following day I ran into a wall of chinese soldiers so it's time to rebuild my forces and then try again. The rest of the areas have seem mostly air activity but nothing really to note.
November 8, 200718 yr Author Time for another update since it's been awhile. I'll do a full one with pics on saturday if all goes well, my schedule has changed now so things are a little weird for me as I adjust. There hasn't been much change overall, with the exception of Java, where I hammered his airfields there but couldn't maintain the bombardments and eventually he repaired the damage. Java is a main weakness right now. A lot of firepower is stuck there trying to crush the built up allied forces. I did manage to take the port to the southwest of Soerabaja only to have Dewayne launch an invasion with another division to route my forces. In China things have been going well, I've reduced some of his forts at Kungchang and he's trying to send forces up from Siam but not getting there as I have a blocking force that required him to make a river crossing (which is a auto shock attack) He managed to dislodge some of my roadblock but not all of them and I think I can hold now until I force out his units at Kungchang. No major battles to report on the high seas, just the usual back and forth for now. More on saturday. Emperor Kelly-san
November 14, 200718 yr Author Oops forgot the update on Saturday, too busy messing around that day. Anyway here we go. The overall naval situation hasn't changed much, no one is launching any carrier raids and Dewayne seems currently content with pounding me into dust from the air. Here's a pic from the northern HI area with the damage to the probably entry point for the Allies to the Home Islands. Dewayne isn't holding anything back and there isn't much I can do to fight him off at this point. In the central Pacific it's pretty much the same situation for Kwajalein Island with the daily airraids from nearby allied controlled Ent. Island. Pagan Island on the otherhand, continues to get bashed by me on a daily basis (only seems fair). In the Indian Ocean region things are the same here as well execpt that Dewayne has resupplied and replenished his decimated airgroups at Java. Just north of there the Allied activity continues around their base at Kaula. Nothing else in this area besides the daily bombings by allied bombers against Tavoy and my Tank corps. Now on to the highlight of today: Northern China. I finally managed to take Kungchang, driving no less then 18 units 'across' the river and 1 unit to the south on the road to Siam. Dewayne has a major problem now because most of his units are in terrain that will take 'forever' to get to a main road. He has a total of 3 units in Siam, 8 units just to the north, 1 more retreating south from Kungchang with which to hold Siam. I sense victory here. Once Siam falls to my mighty Empieral stormtroopers I'll be in a great position with several different options and directions in which to make Dewayne's life a real pain. I think it's safe to say we both have plans and are just waiting for the right moment to unlease hell on each other. See you again in a few days with another update. Sincerely Emperor supreme Kelly-san
November 15, 200718 yr Author Yeah it's pretty much a slugfest in china and around the map at certain areas, Java being another. Dewayne can afford these, I cannot but that's life as the Japanese Emperor. We're currently at the tail end of November now (I think the 29th now). So the coming year should be interesting for everyone though I am in it deep. ciao Kelly
November 18, 200718 yr Well the game has been going for a year now as it is now Dec 7, 1942. Rain has been falling on the Japanese home island for a few month. Metal rain that is, just a sprinkle as of now but there are large storm clouds moving in. The same rain has fallen on 6-8 Jap battleships in recent days. They managed some minor damage with some bombardments bufore running away to lick their wounds. Kellys carriers have been relegated to trying to hunt transports and hiding. My own carrier battlegroups are sitting back taking a breather waiting for an opportune time to strike. I have been striking Kellys supply ships and slowly working on tightening my grip on the Pacific. My Air Forces are up to full strength now and are just a couple of months away from receiving more advanced aircraft to finish claiming total control of the skies. There was a minor setback in China but my second line of defense is prepared and will hold against further incursions in this area. In Soerbaja the pile of Japanese bodies grow with every failed attack they make. the last attack netted me a 10-1 kill ratio. Thats correct 10,000 dead Japanese for no gain. The bells of freedom are wringing loud and clear. Of course to the enemy they are now the bells of freedom but the ringing of a terrible defeat.
November 19, 200718 yr Author Hmm, seems Dewayne's ego is again run amoke. Dewayne still refuses to escort his convoys and I netted another 5 or 6 ships from my mobile strike group. I doubt Dewayne is ever going to make any friends in the navy or merchant marines. As for China, Dewayne is scrambling to get forces to Sian before my huge stack of ground forces kicks in the front door. I don't think he can hold with what he has there, plus I'm starting to pound on Sian from the air. Java however, is really not going well for me. Dewayne has dug up every spare unit and shoved them there to defend the last two cities and I can't seem to punch a hole thru his defenses. Plans are however, underway to correct this little annoyance. Sincerely Kelly-san
November 24, 200718 yr Author Operations are underway to retake the Island of Pagan which contains an unsupplied American division and an aviation regiment. Dewayne has brought in his surface fleets (including several Battleships) and started hurling his air force at me from the Bonin Island group. He managed to reinforce with another unit onto the island but we've had several pretty impressive surface battles (BB vrs BB) and as far as I can tell, I have come out ontop. In order to save his units on Pagan, Dewayne will probably need to bring in the remaining CVs but I could be wrong (it has happened before, just not often ). I'll post up the action here shortly. Sincerely Kelly
November 24, 200718 yr Author AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/12/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Pagan at 64,62 Japanese Ships BB Nagato, Shell hits 10 BB Mutsu, Shell hits 9 BB Ise, Shell hits 2 BB Hyuga, Shell hits 7 DD Teruzuki, Shell hits 6, on fire DD Kazegumo DD Naganami, Shell hits 5, on fire DD Asashio, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire DD Oshio Allied Ships BB Maryland, Shell hits 13, on fire, heavy damage BB Pennsylvania, Shell hits 7 BB North Carolina, Shell hits 2 BB Indiana, Shell hits 1 CLAA Juneau, Shell hits 1 CLAA San Diego, Shell hits 3 DD Fletcher DD Chevalier, Shell hits 1 DD DeHaven DD Nicholas DD Meredith DD Gwin DD Monssen DD Aaron Ward DD Buchanan DD Duncan DD Lardner DD Farenholt DD Barton DD Welles DD Meade DD Edwards DD Anderson DD O'Brien DD Blue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Pagan at 64,62 Japanese Ships DD Akigumo, Shell hits 25, on fire, heavy damage DD Arashi, Shell hits 22, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk DD Shiratsuyu, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk APD APD-46 Allied Ships BB Maryland, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage BB Pennsylvania, Shell hits 2 BB North Carolina, Torpedo hits 1, on fire BB Indiana CLAA Juneau CLAA San Diego DD Fletcher DD Chevalier DD DeHaven DD Nicholas DD Meredith DD Gwin DD Monssen DD Aaron Ward DD Buchanan DD Duncan DD Lardner DD Farenholt DD Barton DD Welles DD Meade DD Edwards DD Anderson DD O'Brien DD Blue -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Pagan at 64,62 Japanese Ships DD Mutsuki, Shell hits 1 DD Kisaragi, Shell hits 19, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships BB Maryland, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage BB Pennsylvania, Shell hits 3 BB North Carolina, on fire BB Indiana, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CLAA Juneau CLAA San Diego DD Fletcher DD Chevalier DD DeHaven DD Nicholas DD Meredith DD Gwin DD Monssen DD Aaron Ward DD Buchanan DD Duncan DD Lardner DD Farenholt DD Barton DD Welles DD Meade DD Edwards DD Anderson DD O'Brien DD Blue Day Air attack on TF at 64,59 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied Ships BB Pennsylvania, Torpedo hits 1 Day Air attack on TF at 67,62 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 9 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 4 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied Ships DD Bailey BB Oklahoma, Torpedo hits 2, on fire BB Washington Day Air attack on TF at 64,59 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 12 G4M1 Betty x 7 Japanese aircraft losses D3A Val: 8 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied Ships BB South Dakota, Torpedo hits 3, heavy damage BB Washington, Bomb hits 2 AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/15/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Pagan at 64,62 Japanese Ships BB Nagato, Shell hits 14 BB Mutsu, Shell hits 3 BB Ise, Shell hits 2 BB Hyuga, Shell hits 18, on fire, heavy damage DD Kazegumo, Shell hits 4, on fire DD Oshio, Shell hits 1 Allied Ships BB Washington, Shell hits 10, on fire, heavy damage DD O'Bannon, Shell hits 2, on fire DD Laffey DD Lansdowne, Shell hits 16, and is sunk DD Woodworth, Shell hits 1 DD Bailey DD Caldwell, Shell hits 8, and is sunk DD Lang DD Stack DD Conyngham, Shell hits 1 DD Cushing DD Preston, Shell hits 8, on fire, heavy damage DD Reid DD Tucker Day Air attack on TF at 64,60 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 3 G4M1 Betty x 3 Japanese aircraft losses D3A Val: 3 damaged G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied Ships BB Washington, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage These battles have been raging for about a week now and as you can see I've beaten up pretty good on his surface forces pretty good. Mine are in good shape still so unless he sorties his CVs to provide support I feel I can continue to pound his men and material at Pagan into a POW camp. Time will tell Kelly-san
November 24, 200718 yr Author Seeing how the kids are at gramma's house and the woman is at work, the mice will play. Another turn and afew surprises. As I predicted the Wasp makes an appearance off Pagan Island, puts a hurt on my BBs but they don't sink anything. I on the otherhand, got to see a nice surprise message scroll by. USS Maryland sinks.... Followed by a wonderful airstrike on one of Dewayne's retreating surface groups... Day Air attack on TF at 64,58 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 6 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged Allied Ships BB Washington, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Dewayne still hasn't figured out the air support thingie yet and it's costing him capitol ships. The Washington is a goner and once that happens I'll have put down a total of 11 Battleships and 1 Battlecruiser throughout the whole war (to date, maybe I'll get some more before it's over. If there are any left). Another glorious day for the empire...now to drive off the Wasp (or send her to the bottom). Sincerely Kelly-san
November 24, 200718 yr Now that's my kind of battle (before Wasp got there anyway)! Nice shooting Kelly, if only you had the production to make good the exchange
November 25, 200718 yr Author That's true, however Dewayne is going to need to conduct his amphibious shipping without all those Battleships to provide naval gunfire support. His men are going to charge across beaches and into murderous (and rightious) Japanese defenders battling to save their empire...errr Homeland. I have a feeling Dewayne will resort to invading under heavy air support and that's one area were he'll make constant headway against me. Kelly
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