Dai Toa Senzo - Pat vs Chuck - CHS mode - Jap size

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/16/42

DEI

6 B-17 bombed tonight Palembang but they caused no damaged.

SO PAC

My counter attack at Canton I. failed, and I suffered 521 casualties.
CV Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu and Soryu refueled today W of Nanumea and now they'll proceed towards Canton I. area.
Zuikaku and Shokaku remain in place between New Hebrides and New Caledonia, in case of an allied attack against my sea lanes.

PI

The 4. Inf Div is at 2 miles from Manila... please men, just another little effort... [&o]
The 38. Division is at Clark, marching south.

[Mistmatz]

ORIGINAL: George Patton

Rep of 2/16/42

DEI

6 B-17 bombed tonight Palembang but they caused no damaged.

SO PAC

My counter attack at Canton I. failed, and I suffered 521 casualties.
CV Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu and Soryu refueled today W of Nanumea and now they'll proceed towards Canton I. area.
Zuikaku and Shokaku remain in place between New Hebrides and New Caledonia, in case of an allied attack against my sea lanes.

PI

The 4. Inf Div is at 2 miles from Manila... please men, just another little effort... [&o]
The 38. Division is at Clark, marching south.

In my game against ctangus I learned that fatigue and disruption are crucial for land movement speed. I'm at a point were I let my troops rest before I enter a contested hex. First they arrive almost at the same time when they move rested and secondly they arrive more combat ready. Just a thought.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/16/42

SO PAC

SS I-4 is reported sunk E of Canton I. by the escort destroyer of the allied TF that invaded the island.

BURMA

34 Fortress attacked Tavoy resources: 11 hits. Not a big problem. I don't count on this resources.

BORNEO

Oil Plants in Miri also bombed by B-17 coming from Balikpapan: 3 hits

NORTH PAC

CL Kama and CL Kiso, with 9 DD bombarded Attu I. sinking one AVD and destroying 1 PBY.

[George Patton]

ORIGINAL: Mistmatz

In my game against ctangus I learned that fatigue and disruption are crucial for land movement speed. I'm at a point were I let my troops rest before I enter a contested hex. First they arrive almost at the same time when they move rested and secondly they arrive more combat ready. Just a thought.

Are you playing japs against Chuck?

[Mistmatz]

yep. Have an AAR also, although it needs some major update. I'm about half a month further with the game by now. Here's the link if you're interested:

tm.asp?m=1037583

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/17/42

SO PAC

SS I-4 sunk at Canton I., while another SS placed one torpedo on one AP.


CENT PAC

SS Cuttlefish hit by 3 DC at Kwajalein.


BURMA

Enemy planes attacked 55. Div marching towards Rahaeng. 18 casualties and 1 A-20 shot down.


PI

The first deliberate assault on Manila went well and bad.
The engineers reduced the fort to 0, but the odds were 0 to 1, so I didn't capture the capital.
I suffered 4830 casualties, the enemy 2083.

[George Patton]

After the conquer of the PI archipelago, (except Manila), I have numerous infantry unit free from duty.

They are not strong enough to occupy important position, but I don't want to let sleep the man under the sun of the PI.

I've then decided to launch Operation Door Closed, the invasion of Timor.
I don't know exactly what Chuck has there, but I will use a lot of units, just in case.
This is the plan:

KOEPANG

56. Inf Bde
Sasebo 8. SNLF
126. IJNAF B.F.
127. IJNAF B.F.
127. IJA B.F.

DILI

Kainan Guard SNLF
23. NLF
126 IJN BF

LAUTERN

21. NLF
125 IJN B.F.

In addition, two other landing operation will take place:

At Maumere (Flores I.), I will ladn the 3. NLF,
At Waingapu (Soenba) I will land the 32. NLF, plus the 127. IJN B.F.

I know that in Timor, weeks ago, there were PoW and Repulse. Just in case, I will send the TF Nagato (5 BB, 1 CA, 1 CL, 3 DD), that is now heading towards Aru Island, were the allied are building an airbase, to bombard.
Air cover will be assured by the mini-KB and by the planes base at Amboina.

The operation will begin in 10 days, scheduled for March 1. or 2.

Meanwhile, I have a couple of other small operation taking place.

A small invasion force is sailing towards Tomini.
Another one, bigger, is heading towards Attu I. US are building a base there. I want to capture the island before the base is operational.
5 small NLF and 1 B.F are loading in Japan. Escort will be assured by a surface TF, with CL Kama and CL Kiso, with 9 DD, leaded by the Yamato, just entered in service.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/18/42

CENT PAC

One of my sub sunk one AK at Canton I. I don't know if she had still supply onboard, but it's a good result anyway.

DEI

My APDs landed a small forces in Tomini.

SW PAC

Noumea afld is a 4size base. With Lunga operational, now I can transfer my bombers and my fighters there and withdraw Zuikaku and Shukaku. They will join the other 4 CVs. They were heading to Canton I. but I decided to stop them. I want to reform the big KB. I don't like the idea to meet US CVs in the area. I don't know how much they are. Possible three of four CV. I think it's not enough 4 vs 3. I prefer the whole KB. When she will be formed again I'll send it again to East.
Anyway I have fuel problem with both the TF. I'm now sending a lot of fuel to Kwajalein. I want to create a big base there to stop the US carriers with my KB. I will leave there my CVs at the moment. I have New Caledonia and Tarawa that are 4size aflds and can operate with LBA. So I place my CV in Kwajalein ready to intervene if necessary.

PI

Tomorrow I'll try another assault to Manila. I hope this will be the good day.

BURMA

My troops are still marching back towards Rahaneg and Pisanuloke. When they arrive I'll send a couple of units north, towards Burma Roads.

CHINA

I repulsed an attack at Ichang, inflicting 2073 casualties to the chinese (237 on my side).

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/20/42

PI

My troops attacked again and reduced the fort, again, to 0. Now they can rest for three-four days. After that they will shock attack and conquer the capital.

PACIFIC OCEAN

Today all quiet. The two parts of KB are sailing towards Tarawa. They will rejoin themselves and refuel. I have to wait a bit for the tanker, but Zuikaku and Shokaku are anyway far away.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/21/42

CENT PAC

My subs sunk 1 AK and damged other 2 near Canton I.

JAPAN

Allied SS responded damaging one AK of Sasebo.

MALAYA

Wow! Chuck sent his B-17 over Singapore, destroying 2 Oscar and 2 Topsy. This is a really good move.

DEI

SS I-165 sunk with 1 torpedo one AK in the Macassar Strait.
The small inf unit landed two days ago, occupied Tomini.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/22/42

CENT PAC

One allied AP, damaged days ago at Canton I., sunk today.

MALAYA

Air raid today, against Singapore afld.
4 Sally and 2 Helen lost and little damage to the runway.

PI

I tried a shock attack against Manila but it failed. My impatience cost me 3496 casualties (1923 for the allied).
Now my troops will rest for at least one week.

DEI

In preparation of Operation Door Closed, I'm reinforcing Amboina with a new Base Force. This will allow the air group to grow.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/23/42

THAILAND

B-17 attacked today Kompong Som. No damage.

MALAYA

Also Georgetown has been attacked by B-17. 1 Oscar and 1 Sally destroyed. 11 B-17 damaged.
I responded on Singapore, loosing 3 Sally and 2 Helen. Few damages.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/24/42

MALAYA

Air raid against Singapore. I lost 6 Sally. No enemy a/c destroyed and the afld is lightly damaged.

For the rest, a really quiet game. My KB is heading north to Kwajalein to refuel and he's for now out of action.
SSD is heading to Efate, to occupy the base.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/25/42

SINGAPORE

Big air battle over the city. The AVG finally came.
The damage to the afld are minimal.

Day Air attack on Singapore , at 22,51

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 25
Ki-21-II Sally x 16

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 29

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 3 destroyed
Ki-21-II Sally: 4 destroyed, 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 5 destroyed, 9 damaged


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 9

PI

One AK sunk with 2 torpedo SW of Luzon by my planes. Still allied merchant ships sailing aroung... [:)]

My troops attacked at Manila without order. [&:][&:] They were on defensive deployement. I don't undestand. This cost me a lot of troops.

Ground combat at Manila

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 134535 troops, 802 guns, 164 vehicles

Defending force 51103 troops, 340 guns, 102 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0)


Japanese ground losses:
1834 casualties reported
Guns lost 35
Vehicles lost 3

Allied ground losses:
1665 casualties reported
Guns lost 31
Vehicles lost 3

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/26/42

DEI

B-17 attacked Palembang afld, destroying 6 Zero and 2 Sally. [:@]

PI

I bombed Manila afld, causing 636 casualties.

SW

SSD are unloading at Efate

Nothing other much happened. TF partecipating in Operation Door Closed are assembling S of Palau.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/27/42

PI

One MSW sunk by an allied SS at Lingayen.
I'm doing heavy air raid against Manila every day, since a week. Today 557 casualties among the defenders.

CENT PAC

SS I-153 sunk one AK S of Iwo Jima. [&:] What was an AK doing there?

DEI

Damned!! Today I've lost 11 Zero and 3 Sally in Palembang, during an air raid of 36 B-17.
The bombers were escorted by 20 AVG's P-40. 5 P-40 and 1 B-17 shot down. 48 hits on the runway.
Chuck is doing heavy air raid everywhere. This is a dejà-vue. Last time, after an extensive air campaign of a week or so, he sent dozens of ships to Singapore. We'll see if he wants to do the same.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/28/42

SOUTH PAC

Allied subs are operating well. One AK torpedoed at Truk and one AP at Efate. My ASW TFs are maybe watching TV. [:@]
At least SS Cuttlefish, damaged days ago, sunk today.

SW PAC

I captured Efate today, destroying 1 Singapore and 5 PBY.
The 30. AUS Bde crossed over Owen Stanley mountains, from Port Moresby, and arrived at Buna today. They shock attacked but they were repulsed. They will die surely for starvation, if they don't surrender.

CHINA

My troops liberated Kiukiang, previously evacuated by chinese troops.


DEI

I spotted an allied TF SE of Palembang, heading NW. The recon says they are 4 CA. Maybe is the PoW TF that is finally coming back. Better so. Timor area will be free of them.
Anyway I have to dispatch some Nell in Palembang to attack those ships.
About Timor and operation Door Closed.
My invasion flee of Timor is assembling in Ceram Sea. BB Yamato is 8 hexes away from Palau. Seh will refuel and will join the other ships to lead the invasion.

[George Patton]

Rep of 2/29/42

CENT PAC

Another AK damaged by one of my sub E of Canton I.

DEI

Disaster at Palembang. One british TF bombarded the airbase. The TF was composed by BB Revenge and BB Royal Sovereign. So TF of PoW is still around Timor maybe. It will be a tough operation.
Anyway, Chuck organized very very well the day.
Night naval bombardement and, during the day, four air raids, from Java and Sumatra.
Result:

27 Zero destroyed
18 Nell destroyed
7 Sally destroyed
2 Sonia destroyed
65 guns destroyed
1819 casualties

The airport is completely destroyed. Airfield service and runway over 80 damage. [:@]

[George Patton]

Rep of 3/2/42

NORTH PAC

The operation against Attu I. begun tonight with a naval bombardement, followed by the landing of the first troops.

PI

The delib attack against Manila, with 1800 AP, 135000 men vs 48000 men failed again. [:@]
At least I burn out some of his supplies.

DEI

Palembang has been hit again and I lost 6 Zero. While checking my squadron, I saw that I've lost a lot of planes but my pilots are stile alive. At least.

[George Patton]

Rep of 3/3/42

NORTH PAC

I captured Attu I. I want to install there one important base asap.

No other important things happened today.