18th Dec
What a strange turn.
Firstly, my first bunch of Oscars have arrived at Rabaul. I've been looking forward to them very much and plan to use them quite heavily over the next week or two.
Second, CCIP is running a big operation at Moresby. Carriers, cruisers and destroyers all seem to be running around and being annoying without seeming to do anything very much. There don't even seem to be any supply transports but, seeing as my recon totally missed them, I can't be sure about that.
Oh yeah, they did one thing: Dive bombers sunk an AVP of mine that has just arrived at Milne to provide support for a float plane squad I was going to move in. This irritated me no end.
The other thing that has annoyed me is the fact that he seems to have completely repaired the damage to the airfield at Moresby. It was 100% damaged about 4 days ago and now it's brand new. The one useful thing I can get out of this is that he must have a power of engineers there to repair that quickly, and that sort of intel is worth it's weight in gold.
The Yamato raid from a couple of weeks ago seems to have really shaken him up. He had no idea it was happening until those bus sized shells started raining down on him and I think it's informing his tactics here, and probably quite heavily too considering this is virtually the same place I creamed his carrier fleet all those months ago. To take the same risk suggests he has got his recon working better now, and he's up to something big....
On the plus side Tassagforonga has finally got itself enough supplies. Fort building has resumed and I hope the base to hit 7 forts long before his exhausted marines arrive.
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