Nathan Madien - Fortunately the USN made a large mistake towards the end of March. They lost half of their Carriers around the New Hebreides before Operation Mystery was anywhere close to being underway.
intruder alert - I may or may not fortify the islands. Probably not as if I do capture them there is little chance of the Americans taking them back for some time. I have had problems with coastal forts in the past where they didn't actually work during an invasion so I am a little less inclined to use them now.
elbasto - Thanks. It was a decent option before the USN lost half its Carriers, it became a certainty once that had happened.
robou - Hopefully so. It is rather tiresome to have to continually reinvade islands all over the Pacific and this should give the Americans a single purpose in life.
cjwet - I have to capture it yet which is by no means certain.
stnylan - I try not to be too logical all the time but this was a chance I could not afford to risk.
Middelkerke - We shall see
Leumatiello - If I capture Hawaii I probably won't clean the entire Pacific just yet but I might. Middle East would open another front with the Soviets which I do not wish to do right now.
Lascars - Hirohito never got involved until june 1944 so he could have been this good all along Only Pearl Harbour has an airbase with all of the other islands not even having a port.
zdlugasz - Uh huh.
alan_le_cowboy - The biggest give away was the amount of force I used for the Marshalls. I did not need anywhere near that size a force to take and hold those islands but it was used prior to Operation Mystery as the forces assembled.
A little aside that gave me a laugh at the time. When my bombers attacked two destroyers north of Midway several people asked me to attack Midway. As you will see it was already well in hand.
Update to follow ...
intruder alert - I may or may not fortify the islands. Probably not as if I do capture them there is little chance of the Americans taking them back for some time. I have had problems with coastal forts in the past where they didn't actually work during an invasion so I am a little less inclined to use them now.
elbasto - Thanks. It was a decent option before the USN lost half its Carriers, it became a certainty once that had happened.
robou - Hopefully so. It is rather tiresome to have to continually reinvade islands all over the Pacific and this should give the Americans a single purpose in life.
cjwet - I have to capture it yet which is by no means certain.
stnylan - I try not to be too logical all the time but this was a chance I could not afford to risk.
Middelkerke - We shall see
Leumatiello - If I capture Hawaii I probably won't clean the entire Pacific just yet but I might. Middle East would open another front with the Soviets which I do not wish to do right now.
Lascars - Hirohito never got involved until june 1944 so he could have been this good all along Only Pearl Harbour has an airbase with all of the other islands not even having a port.
zdlugasz - Uh huh.
alan_le_cowboy - The biggest give away was the amount of force I used for the Marshalls. I did not need anywhere near that size a force to take and hold those islands but it was used prior to Operation Mystery as the forces assembled.
A little aside that gave me a laugh at the time. When my bombers attacked two destroyers north of Midway several people asked me to attack Midway. As you will see it was already well in hand.
Update to follow ...