I have a number of P26's at Clark. It's dec 10th and Clark is still shut down, will probably be shut down for quite a while. I'm probably going to make my stand in Manila, not Bataan.
Indo-China is a firm Japanese possession. No french to be seen anywhere! The game starts on December 7th, 41.
This game spans more than half the globe. The oft forgotten (to westerners) China-Burma-India theater is fully represented.
Here's the map area... from East to West, you start at the US West cost (San Deigo, LA, San Fran)... travel west all the way to karachi. All of India is represented. From north to South, it goes from the artic circle to below Australia.
They made it a flat map though, so it looks kinda weird. Here's the strategic map showing all the area covered.
http://www.matrixgames.com/games/screenshot.asp?gid=294&sid=14Judging by my forces in the DEI, they are nothing more than a speed bump to the Jap expansion.
In Malaya, I'm trying to setup a fighting withdrawal to get my brits to Singapore, but my boys are running to easily. Hopefully, I can delay the Jap advance a little bit so I can upgrade my fortifications at Singapore a level before the nip lays siege.
In the DEI, I have nothing of note to prevent the Japs from doing what they want, so I'm playing run-away and trying to get all my combat troops to Australia before they get surrounded.
I've assembled my combat naval forces in the DEI at a base in the southern end of Sumatra. They are going to slowly (to avoid detection) creep up close to singapore, and hopefully strike at any other invasion fleets that come close. I hope I can get them into battle at night, and escape from Betty/Nell range by daybreak.
My boys at wake Island, however, are putting up a hell of a fight. 3 days of combat against the Japs, and I still hold the island. I'm rushing some infantry troops asap to Wake to help out. Maybe I can kick them out before their next assault. What's good is that my 2 CV's (incl the buff laden CV) are 1 day away, and I've got a massive strike planned against the Jap SNLF.
In the Phillipines, again I'm withdrawing for Fortress Manila, and will fight it out from there. these guys are going to be lost, eventually, but the longer I can tie up Jap forces in the PI, the longer it takes them to fight elsewhere. I have no plans to try and rescue Dugout Doug. He can fight and die or go to pow camp with the rest of his soldiers.
In the pacific, the US is still in shock. Can't move anything out of PH yet. Got all my air and ground forces on the West Coast training (cuz they are low low low exp). Decided to do a few shakedown cruises by for ships on the West Coast to build up a little exp. Loaded up a few engineer regiments to get them to PH to help repair the destruction. Moved some forces forward in Aleutians to get my scout planes closer to the action.
In Australia, loaded up a bunch of supply ships and started moving war-making material to my forward bases.
In the SWPAC, can't do anything yet. only a few base forces (which build stuff like airfields, ports, forts) there, so I'm sending some ships to pick up these stranded base forces. I'll relocate them to a few points that i'm going to designate as either fuel-depots, air bases, jump off points, what have you.