- Dec 14, 1999
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So we're playing some co-op MP happily on Sunday afternoon, in the Southern Conquest scenario.. (Which is Japan from Pearl Harbour down until they conquer all they did historically about aug 42)..
JPD, Aldo & Darkrenown as the Japs.
Me+Zanza as the yanks. (with AUS+PHI in MilControl)
Grosshaus and Santa Klaus as the limeys. (with HOL in mcontrol.)
Put it this way.. us allies did not exactly put in a glorious effort. Sure we managed to hold Singapore, but....
A) The aussie fleet got sunk outside of Manila when attempting ship in some reinforcements. (Or sunk and sunk, we had a destroyer able to survive.)
B) Oops, did I forget my main Taskforce with USS Langley at PORT in Manila at the same time, and get it basically obliterated by a japanese portstrike?
Fine, philippenes fold, and we desperately pull back our remnants of air from PHI to Port Moresby.
Thank god for submarines protecting Guam
So now USA gets the fun reinforcements of Yorktown+Lexington and a bunch of cruisers. UK still got their mainfleet with Hermes and a bunch of BB/CA around, so we discuss to rendesvouz near Singapore and Batavia to attempt to take out one of the 2 reported jap CV taskforces.
Ehhmm.. I just realise their based out Samoa & rebasing to Brisbane or Port Moresby would not help my fleet, so I rebase them to Batavia instead. Which means they are rendered ineffective for quite a while.
Meanwhile the japanese mops up whats left of the Philippines and land on Borneo.
The UK guys takes this as an insult and scuttles their fleet to attempt to take out the invading fleet.
Of course their airforce is busy attempting to keep air-superioriity at the Burma front, so no aerial recon.
Needless to say, the Japanese and the most hated CV of all times Zonsho(?) intercepts them, and the UK fleet is rendered ineffective.
In early April, the Japs finally land on northen Java, and we glorious Americans decide to strike back... Intensive logistical bombings from our strat-bombers, and the proud dutch colonial stops the japanese advance on Batavia.
I send out Yorktown and Lexington to engage the medium japanese fleet my fighters have spotted.
Only to discover, 1 hour into battle, a certain japanese Taskforce...
End result.. 2 sunk american carriers...
And a game-programmer muttering.. "found some sort of bug.. need to stop and fix it.."
JPD, Aldo & Darkrenown as the Japs.
Me+Zanza as the yanks. (with AUS+PHI in MilControl)
Grosshaus and Santa Klaus as the limeys. (with HOL in mcontrol.)
Put it this way.. us allies did not exactly put in a glorious effort. Sure we managed to hold Singapore, but....
A) The aussie fleet got sunk outside of Manila when attempting ship in some reinforcements. (Or sunk and sunk, we had a destroyer able to survive.)
B) Oops, did I forget my main Taskforce with USS Langley at PORT in Manila at the same time, and get it basically obliterated by a japanese portstrike?
Fine, philippenes fold, and we desperately pull back our remnants of air from PHI to Port Moresby.
Thank god for submarines protecting Guam
So now USA gets the fun reinforcements of Yorktown+Lexington and a bunch of cruisers. UK still got their mainfleet with Hermes and a bunch of BB/CA around, so we discuss to rendesvouz near Singapore and Batavia to attempt to take out one of the 2 reported jap CV taskforces.
Ehhmm.. I just realise their based out Samoa & rebasing to Brisbane or Port Moresby would not help my fleet, so I rebase them to Batavia instead. Which means they are rendered ineffective for quite a while.
Meanwhile the japanese mops up whats left of the Philippines and land on Borneo.
The UK guys takes this as an insult and scuttles their fleet to attempt to take out the invading fleet.
Of course their airforce is busy attempting to keep air-superioriity at the Burma front, so no aerial recon.
Needless to say, the Japanese and the most hated CV of all times Zonsho(?) intercepts them, and the UK fleet is rendered ineffective.
In early April, the Japs finally land on northen Java, and we glorious Americans decide to strike back... Intensive logistical bombings from our strat-bombers, and the proud dutch colonial stops the japanese advance on Batavia.
I send out Yorktown and Lexington to engage the medium japanese fleet my fighters have spotted.
Only to discover, 1 hour into battle, a certain japanese Taskforce...
End result.. 2 sunk american carriers...
And a game-programmer muttering.. "found some sort of bug.. need to stop and fix it.."