EA Damian(J) V Nemo(A) "Renaissance"

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12/12/42: Legaspi holds out despite attacks ... PT's maul offloading TT's

Legaspi, 3 troop laden transports are mauled by PT's (you know I hate those things) .. and they retreat offshore, but not before unloading valuable supplies and additional units...just in time defending worked out for me today ... 1 -2 more days and my troops at Legaspi would have been massacred and driven back into the sea.
Ok, the Philippines is going to be tougher than one thought ...

100-1 shock attack against that Fort near Vladivostok ... still not overrunning his positions[&:] [&:]

Manado is mine, all mine ... time to move in some planes and get to picking off some ships[:'(]

Lastly, troops come ashore at Mersing ... time to tighten some screws ....

[Nemo121]

Those forts are static units designed to DELAY any attacker. You need great odds to overcome them. That's how they would have worked in real life and that's how they work here. They won't maul your troops BUT they will take time to destroy as you need about 1,000 : 1 odds to defeat them. 4 or 5 days of attacks with air support is usually enough to do this, by which time you've lost the element of surprise and the enemy mobile reserves can rush to meet your thrust - precisely as designed/intended.

[n01487477]

13/12/42 ... Talk about target rich ... more to follow



Never seen such a grouping in a PBEM ... and FYI, I don't think that sub attacked anything, the Captain must have had such a swivel head --- he didn't know what to do, and sat down to drink some Sake and cry for his Mummy...

CV Yamato, having slipped her moorings 2 days ago, went North to cut her aircrews teeth on some easy pickings ... there is muted celebrating tonight, as 4 AK's sink ... they want some bigger fry.

Mines at Mersing did some superficial damage, I hope that my luck holds out for the next few days as I offload ...

[n01487477]

14/12/41 - A picture tells a thousand words

Mersing, it wasn't the mines I should have worried about but PT attacks. There were about 5 phases of night time combat, Michael must have timed them [&:], if this is possible. Most of the phases, My big guys just couldn't get a hold of the PT's and rattle them. Guess I've learnt an important lesson about having more DD's to escort important Capital ships. The loss of the Arashio is bad enough, without inflicting more than 1 casualty on the Allies, but to rub salt into the wound, the BB Haruna sustained some Flood Damage ...

[Nemo121]

As a general rule if following the 8 ship TF doctrine I find advisable I wouldn't ever exceed 4 Heavy ships. Often I just go for 2 Heavy Ships ( BBs, CAs or CLs depending on the mission ) and 6 DDs. BBs if facing enemy CAs, CAs if facing enemy light cruisers or bombarding and CLs if facing PTs only. If enemy BB are around then it simply never pays to go head to head ( unless defending a landing site ).

[n01487477]

Thanks Nemo,
Read John's thread ... fb.asp?m=1838200 wow ... never knew that, and I'm sure many players didn't know about TF numbers!
I also put in the Changes 1.3 thread information about ships having trouble offloading ... maybe in a few days when your game proceeds you can comment more ...

Also of note, Rabaul is now a Japanese base, my new hub of South Sea's raiding and general troublemaking.

CV Yamato, keeps hitting the wrong targets (merchants), I'm sure there are plenty of SS's around, so I don;t want to stay on station more than necessary, but mouse overs are saying there are CA's(I'm sure they're not, the Ruskies can't have them),so whatever they are - I'd like to get some of them.

Landing troops at Miri, was and is a bit of a debacle, running short of escorts in these early days is causing me to send light forces ... I was matched by mines and subs and some aircraft attacking from Tarakan.

[n01487477]

15/12/42 - Soviet and American forces combine to rein terror on the Home Islands.

Brokering a deal whereby Stalin will accept American LB assets on Soviet soil, in exchange for the recipe for Beef Stroganof ... American B-17 accompanied by Soviet SB2m's pounded Shikuka. Over 100 Oil Centres are damaged ... by what is a relatively small scale operation.

City attacks, don't you just love em, takes a 100 days to rebuild and 100,000 supplies ... where is the justice / balance in that ! [&:]

And with all my LB might, I doubt I could close that one airfield.[:@]

Not having enough aviation support in the Northern part of Japan from the get go, and the relatively small airbase capacity will really stretch my resources and ability to interdict ...

Time for the money shot ...

[Nemo121]

I think this might be my last post here but I'll say this to you: Ki-27s at high altitude ( over 31,000 feet ) can fly in over the YaK and I-16 CAP ( Only MiG-3s can intercept them ) and with 200 Ki-27s you can DEFINITELY close that airfield completely in a single day ( as what matters with airfield closure is the number of bombs more than the weight of bomb...

IJA bombers are actually much better at closing airfields in this mod than in stock because they carry more, but smaller bombs so if you can escort them even level bombers ( Ki-32s etc ) will close this field for you.

[n01487477]

I think this might be my last post here but I'll say this to you:

...

Did I do something wrong ? Where you going Nemo ? ... I'm not complaining about this mod or asking for your assistance, I value your input, but don't feel like you have to give me any advice.Even if I haven't invested much time in learning this Mod, due to Tracker requirements ... [;)] ...

This is an open thread with ny59Giants at present, so I'm not revealing much ... and that which I do I want to inject with some humour ... OK so I was wrong about my capabilities, my apologies.

Hope you continue to read, even if I am a Novice ... Fair winds my friend!

War Department intercept: I always have my B-19's to have fun with (soon). I got to deal with Bettys carrying torpedoes out to 19 hexes, so I have little sympathy right now.
New Motto: make him pay, but live to fight another day.

This is WAR ... no sympathy ... feels kick ass ! Wish there were no need for HR's (in a perfect world of WITP) ... so this PBEM is making me live and breathe it. Gotta enjoy that rush!

[Nemo121]

Nothing about you... Just really disappointed that 1EyedJacks pulled the plug on my game with him. I hate people who want to renegotiate things mid-game but then when you give them what they want for them to pull the plug is really, really, really upsetting. I think I may take a few months away from WiTP and stop upgrading EA and just wait for AE. I spent half a week on my turn 1 and because he only gets 95% of what he wants he pulls the plug. It makes you question whether its all worth it.
 
So, nothing personal to you. Not at all. Just feeling despondent about things.

[Historiker]

What is it good for, to reassign a base to a new Region?

[n01487477]

Historiker: The base assignment can be used in 2 ways:-
All the economic data is dependant on assigning the bases to their correct region, so ...
1. To create a cluster for a new mod (there are already pre-made mod files in region-mappings folder).
2. If you want to break down the area's into smaller components to see the economic/resource data more specifically.

16/12/41: The war moves into the next phase.
BB's pound Suchan (Soviet) as my armada of TT's offload troops ... My hope is to present such overwhelming force in Vladivostok and further up the interior that I can quickly secure my ass. Especially now that LB is starting to pound my Oil centres.

Simultaneously, a small TT made a quick drop in Borneo, my forces secured Miri, but I need some Cap for further operations further West.

I like this little day attack on Singapore ... I'm sure he has plenty of fighters, but nice to have such an overwhelming air battle.
Day Air attack on Singapore [UK] , at 22,51

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zeke x 51
Ki-48-I Lily x 27
Ki-21-II Sally x 97

Allied aircraft
Buffalo/F2A x 19
Hurricane I x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-I Lily: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo/F2A: 19 destroyed
Hurricane I: 4 destroyed

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 92

Lastly my shock attack at Mersing succeeded, unfortunately I forgot to set them to pursuit... maybe I will be too late to block Singapore from all his units straggling down the Malayan penninsula.

[n01487477]

17-18/12/42 CL Kashima sunk near Tarakan.
Between the 16-18th incoming amphib landings at Tarakan were hit. Without close air support it has cost the Japanese Empire her first Light Cruiser.These Dutch torpedo bomber pilots, assisted at Jolo by those pesky Americans are getting accurate or lucky pretty quick. I'm stretching my airforce, but the Russian campaign is taking valuable assets away from protecting the navy guys.

A quick assault on Tarakan on the 18th, reduced the fortifications, and I'm hoping for their positions to be overrun on the 19th. It's the same story at Brunei.

Some of my troops have made it across the Malayan Peninsula to Johore Bahru, will it all be in vain? It's costing me some transports and damaging a lot of shipping. It seems there is less shipyard repair available than I remember in BB1.4 ... but I have a foggy mind and that was months ago.

Meanwhile my efforts to quell the Russian air force, is troubling ... many of my flights are not taking off, despite good leadership & adequate supplies ... need to get some more air HQ's on the scene & I also have to check the weather more often ...

[n01487477]

19/12/42 Kuala Lumpur and Suchan.
Despite credible intelligence that the Russians were about to strike, bad weather and a December Arctic chill kept them inside, warm and safe. I assume that the Allies would go after my fleet in the Sea of Japan ... Luckily, the 200th Inf Div came ashore safely, supported by engineers and took control of the mid-size base. Air assets have been flown in, but, it's a dice roll, whether they will be able to fly tomorrow.

KL, was taken, but at this rate I cannot catch the fleeing Allied troops and fear they will get back to Singapore before I cut the bridge. Day air attacks and roving subs have been taking their toll. Luckily not too much actually sunk, but damage that will take months and years to repair.(and some ships that will go under on their way back to safe havens)

Launched para drop on Jolo, and I hope in the next day or two, Brunei, Jolo and Tarakan will be neutralised.

Screen shot: Although ny59Giants is allowed in this forum area ... I think he has this intel.(and I moved some things a little [:D])

[n01487477]

Quick Economics ... just to back track to the attack on Shikuka (Sakhalin) a few days ago ... which incurred 119 damage to capacity.

119 damage = reduction of 714 Oil / turn. I've now sent assets to all my major OIL & HI centres until the Russian threat is neutralised. I just can't afford to repair these or others, apart from taking 120 + days, 120,000 supplies is needed for other things at present ... such as repairing the 195 HI centres and 72 Veh factories.

The attack here probably did more damage to my economy than I realised ... I wonder why the Allies aren't doing more to kill me off early? This is where the real war can be won quickly. Guess Advanced weather doesn't help their cause any ...

[n01487477]

21/12/41 - Canton Is, Tarakan and Borneo captured, Sinyang [Cent China] under siege


(major assets hidden from view)

[n01487477]

22/12/42: Vladivostok Captured

Brave Imperial Japanese troops, win through to take the valuable port city of Vladivostok, they find the city devastated, but captured a large amount of supplies!

Look below for the damage report.

[n01487477]

23~24/12/41 - CVE Hosho taking on water after Torpedo Attack

Kuching besieged by numerically superior troops, awaited the final onslaught, meanwhile out in the harbour
three wave of attacks brought near tragedy to the crew of the CVE Hosho.

LB out of Saigon, attacked Singkawang in a morning raid, however, this was not enough to stop 3 Brewster's, 4 Martin's & 3 T-IVa's launching and seamlessly brushing aside the 11 planes on CAP. 2 Torpedo's launched on CVE Hosho hit their mark.

The second raid by 6 Martin's could not add any further damage ...

And the last large final wave of 30+ aircraft from Palembang, must be smarting from the fact that they caused no additional damage ...

Finally SS016, put 2 torps into AK Taiko Maru, one wonders why that Cpt never thought to put another in Hosho ... she would have certainly been doomed.

It's an early Christmas present, that CVE Hosho never sank, was not hit again after the initial attack and maybe will live to see another day... IF I can get her to a friendly port in short order.

By the close of the day Kuching succumbed to the overwhelming show of aggression ... but now with the British and Dutch pilots becoming more accurate and ballsy, I will have to plan the conquest of Sumatra and Java with more care to detail ...



Meanwhile out in the Central Pacific, the Line Islands must have been put on full alert as Japanese transports and KB has been pinpointed. Without closing Palmyra and other Line Islands, I won't be able to move freely around the CentPac & Michael has promised some heavy Russian sub action in this area...

[ny59giants]

Meanwhile out in the Central Pacific, the Line Islands must have been put on full alert as Japanese transports and KB has been pinpointed. Without closing Palmyra and other Line Islands, I won't be able to move freely around the CentPac & Michael has promised some heavy Russian sub action in this area...

Heavy?? You remember that James Bond movie in which he ends up in the middle of the small swamp with alligators all around him?? He got them to move so he could walk across their backs and escape. That's how heavy it will be in short order. [;)]

[n01487477]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Meanwhile out in the Central Pacific, the Line Islands must have been put on full alert as Japanese transports and KB has been pinpointed. Without closing Palmyra and other Line Islands, I won't be able to move freely around the CentPac & Michael has promised some heavy Russian sub action in this area...

Heavy?? You remember that James Bond movie in which he ends up in the middle of the small swamp with alligators all around him?? He got them to move so he could walk across their backs and escape. That's how heavy it will be in short order. [;)]

No probs mate ... I may not be the Croc... err Alligator Hunter ... but I'd say I have about 2-3 weeks to make my move & then get outta dodge. I can only envy Nemo that those HR gave him the right to cripple the Russian & US sub fleet at the beginning of the war.

I can see myself in serious trouble conducting invasions in 2-3 months already [:(]
I've sunk 13 SS's probably damaged 20+ ...and I figure you have about 100+ at your immediate disposal. You were right to say, this will be a master class in ASW!