CHS - Treespider (IJ) vs Spence (Allies)

[treespider]

Industry Summary -

[jwilkerson]

What's your key aircraft production looking like at this point?

I think I'm up to 160 Zeros and 120 Oscars by end of Dec 41 ... though my Nakajima engine production probably is about a hundred behind yours ... just barely keeping pace with requirements ... also my supply in general around the empire is pretty low ... not too many place I can load much more than 4x7k AKs worth of supply ...

[Grunt]

What have you spent PPs on? From the looks of the Manchukuo Garrison strength, you haven't been moving LCs out of there.

ORIGINAL: treespider

More screenies to come...

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

What's your key aircraft production looking like at this point?

I think I'm up to 160 Zeros and 120 Oscars by end of Dec 41 ... though my Nakajima engine production probably is about a hundred behind yours ... just barely keeping pace with requirements ... also my supply in general around the empire is pretty low ... not too many place I can load much more than 4x7k AKs worth of supply ...

Here is my active aircraft production...

[treespider]

Top Supply bases

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: Grunt

What have you spent PPs on? From the looks of the Manchukuo Garrison strength, you haven't been moving LCs out of there.

Korean slaves and comfort women...

[ctangus]

ORIGINAL: treespider

ORIGINAL: Grunt

What have you spent PPs on? From the looks of the Manchukuo Garrison strength, you haven't been moving LCs out of there.

Korean slaves and comfort women...

It's good to hear you have your priorities straight. [:D]

How large a force did you bring to take Luzon?

[treespider]

ORIGINAL: ctangus


How large a force did you bring to take Luzon?

I guess it was relatively historical...

16th and 48th Divisions
65th Brigade
4th and 7th Tank Regiments

21st Division later

2-3 Engineer regiments

Artillery support from 8th Hvy Brigade and 8th Hvy Regt, 1st Hvy Regt, 15th Mortar

And I think a Naval Gd Unit and a SNLF

After Hong Kong fell I brought in the 38th Division.

The real bugger was Mindanao and Cagayan...I mistakenly did not try to take cagayan real early and ended up having to use two brigades, a naval gaurd, a nlf and an engineer regt to reduce the place. In CHS Cagayan is mountains.

[ctangus]

Thanks.

ORIGINAL: treespider

The real bugger was Mindanao and Cagayan...I mistakenly did not try to take cagayan real earlier and ended up having to use two brigades, a naval gaurd, a nlf and an engineer regt to reduce the place. In CHS Cagayan is mountains.

I noticed that earlier in your AAR. It's helped me form my plans in 2 CHS games I recently started as Japan.

[treespider]

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[jwilkerson]

... A lot of effort has be devoted to clearing out this area ...

I wonder if anyone other than you could've done it!
[:D]

[treespider]

Spence has returned...
 
Not much to report on the game -
 
IJN subs put three fish into two transports coming into Dutch Harbor. For the cost of one of their own...
 
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/23/42

Sub attack at 104,37
 
Japanese Ships
SS I-27, hits 8,  on fire
 
Allied Ships
AP Wharton, Torpedo hits 1,  on fire
DM Pruitt
DD Dent
DD Case
 
Allied ground losses:
19 casualties reported
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Sub attack at 103,37
 
Japanese Ships
SS I-175, hits 4
 
Allied Ships
AP President Monroe, Torpedo hits 2,  on fire,  heavy damage
DD Dent
DD Case
 
 
Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
 
 

[treespider]

4/24/42 was quiet as well...

[spence]

Another generally quiet day on 4/25.  Of note, a Chinese attack eliminated a Japanese bridgehead over the Yellow River SE of Sian. 

[spence]

1 May 1942 - another IJN submarine, I-169, sank today NW of the Somoan Islands, several days after taking a terrible pounding from USCGC Haida SW of Pago Pago.  I-168 was set upon in the same area just yesterday and sunk by USCGC Onandaga.  All in all the ASW war has not gone well for the IJN.

8 IJN subs have been sunk versus only 1 Allied sub.

[treespider]

B-17's arrive in the Aleutians. Umnak Isl. is now a level 6 airfield and IHQ suspects it is growing. IHQ is contemplating how to respond to the threat...

Day Air attack on Adak Island , at 97,38
Allied aircraft
B-26B Marauder x 30
B-17E Fortress x 12

Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
57 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 7

[treespider]

In the last week of April, 1942 Nanyang and Kan-hsien fell to the Japanese. In the extreme south IJA units have advanced across the Indochina border.

[treespider]

Emperor Hirohito: With Umnak Island having such a well developed airfield are the Americans intending on threatening the Home Islands through the north???
 
PM Tojo: Here are the latest reports from Northern Area Command...
 
05/03/42
TF 17 encounters mine field at Adak Island (97,38)
Japanese Ships
DD Akigumo, Mine hits 1,  on fire
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05/03/42
Day Air attack on Adak Island , at 97,38
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
B-26B Marauder x 26
B-17E Fortress x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 2 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
74 casualties reported
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 11
Aircraft Attacking:
 4 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 8000 feet
 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 8000 feet
 6 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 5000 feet
 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 8000 feet
 3 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 8000 feet
 5 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 5000 feet
 2 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 5000 feet
 4 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 8000 feet
 2 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 8000 feet
 2 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 8000 feet

[treespider]

Updates coming...
 
 - Allied Supply convoy sunk south of Kodiak.
 
 - BB Yamato debutes with bombardment of Umnak Island.
 
 - Myitkyina falls in Burma.
 
 

[spence]

Operations in general have been proceeding at a slower pace but heavy fighting has raged on a number of fronts. As of 26 May:

CHINA

The Japanese have made slow progress. Japanese forces captured Wenchow on or about the 22nd of the month. Wenchow was the last coastal enclave of the Nationalist Government in North/Central China and had been under seige for several months.

Japanese forces moved forward into the outskirts of Wuchow. An initial assault was repulsed with heavy losses and the Japanese have contented themselves with bombing and shelling the city for the last week. Meanwhile artillery duels near Changsha and Honan have been nearly constant. Japanese aircraft have joined in bombing Chinese positions and economic targets.

ALEUTIANS

A Japanese carrier division struck a small Allied supply convoy Southwest of Kodiak sinking several freighters and small escorts. The enemy ships then retired to Japan.
Meanwhile the battleship Yamato bombarded the American base at Unmak Island causing moderate damage. A number of B-17s were destroyed on the field. Elsewhere in the Aleutians a Japanese destroyer struck a mine and was heavily damaged. The Japanese completed the occupation of the Western Aleutians and presently hold all of these barren rocks West of Unmak Island. USS Dent caught and sank a small transport after it had discharged a landing party West of Unmak.

BURMA

Heavy air and ground fighting has been raging in Burma for most of the month. Japanese forces captured Myitkina after a prolonged and costly assault. Most of the weak Allied garrison withdrew in good order to Ledo and is presently refitting. The Japanese 2nd Tank Regiment advanced to the outskirts of Imphal but then suffered heavy bombing and was thrown back by the 2nd British Division. Numerous air battles have raged over Mandalay, Magwe, and Akyab. Allied fighters initially inflicted severe losses on their Japanese counterparts including a unit of the new A6M3 Zero but heavy Japanese reinforcements have restored parity and losses on both sides are heavy as the month wanes. An Allied effort to better supply the forces at Akyab suffered severely at the hands of Japanese bombers. The heavy cruiser Frobisher was heavily damaged by bombs and several freighters and small escorts were sunk. A Japanese minesweeper was also sunk in the vicinity of Rangoon by B-17s.

AUSTRALIA

In a bold move the Japanese launched an airborne invasion of Western Australia at Derby on the 22nd of May. Supported by several naval task forces which included heavy cruisers the paratroopers assaulted the Allied aerodrome but were beaten back. The next day further paratroopers landed but a subsequent attack was also beaten off. Attrition amongst the transport aircraft appears to be heavy with many wrecks littering the landing grounds. Although supported by naval bombardments one further attack on the 26th was beaten off with heavy losses to the attackers in both men and planes. Meanwhile a Japanese naval force attacked a small Allied convoy at nearby Broome sinking the small escort and a tanker but failing to prevent the majority of the supplies from landing.

A Japanese naval force which may have intended to support the paratroopers was intercepted by the American submarine S-36 just South of the Badoeng Strait near Java.
The battleship Haruna was struck by two torpedos and heavily damaged. It appears that the battleship successfully avoided further contact with the submarine and made port at Surabaya.