AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/28/42
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Day Air attack on Kungchang , at 46,26
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 48
Ki-49 Helen x 41
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
I-16c: 1 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 10
Runway hits 35
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet
hit rate at Kungchang is pretty bad again, two obsolete enemy fighters are destroyed on the ground...
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 59
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 42
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby , at 53,91
Japanese aircraft
C5M Babs x 1
Ki-49 Helen x 88
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
82 casualties reported
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 75
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Sub attack at 37,56
Japanese Ships
AK Nitiryu Maru
AK Penang Maru
PG Tosho Maru
PG Tatsumiya Maru
PG Taiko Maru
PG Shotoku Maru
PG Kongosan Maru
Allied Ships
SS Drum
North West of Borneo, SS Drum was directed to one of our convoys due to the daily spottings by the Hudsons... the 5 escorts were useless, we were lucky Drum missed with a full salvo of torps... Drum is one of only two enemy subs within the SRA at the moment...
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Ground combat at Kuala
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 4320 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 134
Defending force 1560 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 25
Japanese max assault: 127 - adjusted assault: 108
Allied max defense: 21 - adjusted defense: 5
Japanese assault odds: 21 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Kuala base !!!
Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Allied ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
one base left on Northern Sumatra, our next target...
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 23359 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 480
Defending force 5445 troops, 62 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 36
Japanese ground losses:
2 casualties reported
Allied ground losses:
196 casualties reported
Guns lost 9
wow! Suddenly our bombardments do damage. Reason for that is the fact that first the order of the enemy troops in the combat replay was: TK rgt, base force, inf div... now it is inf div, base force, TK rgt...
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7698 troops, 258 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2961
Defending force 47728 troops, 386 guns, 257 vehicles, Assault Value = 1054
Allied ground losses:
144 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/29/42
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 67
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 38
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 81
Ki-49 Helen x 26
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged
Allied ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 86
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
Koepang´s airfield should be closed and the invasion TF is on it´s way... spotted Allied subs there so I´m sure that fragments of the two units there have been evacuated...
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 104
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 52
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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ASW attack near Palmyra at 106,85
Japanese Ships
SS I-123, hits 1
Allied Ships
DD Griffin
DD Foxhound
DMS Lamberton
DMS Zane
DMS Southard
Unfortunately one of the last couple of patches has sub mine laying somewhat broken. Earlier it was like with night surface raids or bombardments, the TF moves in at night and places the mines and moves out again. Now it is that the sub moves in and stays there during the day. I-123 was attacked by a Coronade during the day (but missed) and now by the ASW TF... [8|]
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ASW attack near Palmyra at 106,85
Japanese Ships
SS I-123, hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
DD Griffin
DD Foxhound
DMS Lamberton
DMS Zane
DMS Southard
the ASW TF attacks again and this time I-123 is hit hard. Griffin is a British DD and the ship dropped A LOT of DCs. I-123 has only a 25% chance to make it...
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 18632 troops, 83 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 345
Defending force 5103 troops, 47 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 29
Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
the order of the Allied troops on Canton has changed again and now we don´t do any damage anymore but take damage while performing bombardment missions... [:(]
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7757 troops, 261 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2962
Defending force 47610 troops, 384 guns, 255 vehicles, Assault Value = 1041
Allied ground losses:
141 casualties reported
Guns lost 6
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 67
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 38
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 81
Ki-49 Helen x 26
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged
Allied ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 86
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
Koepang´s airfield should be closed and the invasion TF is on it´s way... spotted Allied subs there so I´m sure that fragments of the two units there have been evacuated...
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 104
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 52
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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ASW attack near Palmyra at 106,85
Japanese Ships
SS I-123, hits 1
Allied Ships
DD Griffin
DD Foxhound
DMS Lamberton
DMS Zane
DMS Southard
Unfortunately one of the last couple of patches has sub mine laying somewhat broken. Earlier it was like with night surface raids or bombardments, the TF moves in at night and places the mines and moves out again. Now it is that the sub moves in and stays there during the day. I-123 was attacked by a Coronade during the day (but missed) and now by the ASW TF... [8|]
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ASW attack near Palmyra at 106,85
Japanese Ships
SS I-123, hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
DD Griffin
DD Foxhound
DMS Lamberton
DMS Zane
DMS Southard
the ASW TF attacks again and this time I-123 is hit hard. Griffin is a British DD and the ship dropped A LOT of DCs. I-123 has only a 25% chance to make it...
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 18632 troops, 83 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 345
Defending force 5103 troops, 47 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 29
Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
the order of the Allied troops on Canton has changed again and now we don´t do any damage anymore but take damage while performing bombardment missions... [:(]
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7757 troops, 261 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2962
Defending force 47610 troops, 384 guns, 255 vehicles, Assault Value = 1041
Allied ground losses:
141 casualties reported
Guns lost 6
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/30/42
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TF 17 troops unloading over beach at Morotai, 43,68
Japanese ground losses:
17 casualties reported
we still have to mop up empty bases all around the map...
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Day Air attack on Lanchow , at 45,25
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 93
Ki-49 Helen x 89
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
IL-4c: 2 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 22
Runway hits 96
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet
for the destruction of 3 enemy bombers on the ground we lose 4 of our bombers. 2 to flak, 2 to ops...
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 107
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 135
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 2
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Morotai at 43,68
Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 8
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Yanagigawa, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK Mayachi Maru, Bomb hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet
my recon spotted 40+ bombers at Davao last turn and this is the result. 2x250lb bomb hits, no biggy but annoying. Have two bomber daitais at Jolo set to airfield attack but they didn´t launch against Davao. Have cleared Sumatra and the area around Java from Allied LBA but Mindanao has now become staging point for the enemy bombers and recons. This will change soon...
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7724 troops, 264 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2959
Defending force 47345 troops, 373 guns, 256 vehicles, Assault Value = 1025
Allied ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 1
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 17952 troops, 90 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 349
Defending force 5162 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 32
Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 33381 troops, 363 guns, 237 vehicles, Assault Value = 1019
Defending force 148012 troops, 1912 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 2959
Japanese ground losses:
81 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
my troops at Myitkyina are still starving, no chance to bring supply to the front it seems. I have now even set the Burma HQ to move to the front...[8|]
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TF 17 troops unloading over beach at Morotai, 43,68
Japanese ground losses:
17 casualties reported
we still have to mop up empty bases all around the map...
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Day Air attack on Lanchow , at 45,25
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 93
Ki-49 Helen x 89
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
IL-4c: 2 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 22
Runway hits 96
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet
for the destruction of 3 enemy bombers on the ground we lose 4 of our bombers. 2 to flak, 2 to ops...
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 107
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 135
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 2
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Morotai at 43,68
Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 8
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Yanagigawa, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK Mayachi Maru, Bomb hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet
my recon spotted 40+ bombers at Davao last turn and this is the result. 2x250lb bomb hits, no biggy but annoying. Have two bomber daitais at Jolo set to airfield attack but they didn´t launch against Davao. Have cleared Sumatra and the area around Java from Allied LBA but Mindanao has now become staging point for the enemy bombers and recons. This will change soon...
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7724 troops, 264 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2959
Defending force 47345 troops, 373 guns, 256 vehicles, Assault Value = 1025
Allied ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 1
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 17952 troops, 90 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 349
Defending force 5162 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 32
Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 33381 troops, 363 guns, 237 vehicles, Assault Value = 1019
Defending force 148012 troops, 1912 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 2959
Japanese ground losses:
81 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
my troops at Myitkyina are still starving, no chance to bring supply to the front it seems. I have now even set the Burma HQ to move to the front...[8|]
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/01/42
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TF 1034 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)
Allied Ships
DMS Lamberton
DMS Zane
DMS Southard
my sub laid mines won´t last long I guess. Miller (unfortunately) removed the DDs that were part of this TF...
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TF 1044 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)
Allied Ships
DMS Elliot
DMS Wasmuth
DMS Chandler
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ASW attack at 107,78
Japanese Ships
SS I-17, hits 1
Allied Ships
DD Kane
DD Hatfield
DD Lawrence
DD King
DD Sands
Allied convoys are returning from Palmyra to Pearl Harbour, have placed there subs on the shipping lane... I-17 is the first one to meet the convoys and takes one near miss from the escorts...
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 43
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 25
Ki-49 Helen x 26
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 2 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 3 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 27
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
Guess there were still Hudsons on nav attack and not all on nav search, otherwise the base would have been empty. Still pretty tough flak fire over the base which is quite amazing to me as this base has not got any supplies in the last 5 months. We destroy 5 Hudsons on the ground for two of our bombers lost. I guess Miller will soon move his bombers out as he doesn´t like those losses. At least I hope so, I don´t want to keep this base closed as there is a bgd and four eng units there and they probably haves some 100 eng to repair damage and constantly bombing it would just cause attrition to my bomber daitais.
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 53
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 122
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 2 damaged
Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Sub attack at 107,78
Japanese Ships
SS I-17
Allied Ships
AK West Ivis, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Willimoto
AK Sawokla
AK West Planter
MSW Turkey
following the other convoy with 5 flush deck DDs as escorts another TF is moving towards Pearl. I-17 attacks with 6 torps and hits with 2 torps an empty big AK. Guess the ship is doomed nearly 1000 miles from Hawai...
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7812 troops, 269 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2958
Defending force 47218 troops, 371 guns, 256 vehicles, Assault Value = 1022
Allied ground losses:
147 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 18192 troops, 102 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 358
Defending force 5154 troops, 41 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 37
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Morotai
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 581 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 18 - adjusted assault: 18
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 18 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Morotai base !!!
emtpy Morotai is Japanese now...
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TF 1034 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)
Allied Ships
DMS Lamberton
DMS Zane
DMS Southard
my sub laid mines won´t last long I guess. Miller (unfortunately) removed the DDs that were part of this TF...
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TF 1044 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)
Allied Ships
DMS Elliot
DMS Wasmuth
DMS Chandler
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ASW attack at 107,78
Japanese Ships
SS I-17, hits 1
Allied Ships
DD Kane
DD Hatfield
DD Lawrence
DD King
DD Sands
Allied convoys are returning from Palmyra to Pearl Harbour, have placed there subs on the shipping lane... I-17 is the first one to meet the convoys and takes one near miss from the escorts...
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 43
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 25
Ki-49 Helen x 26
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 2 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 3 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 27
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
Guess there were still Hudsons on nav attack and not all on nav search, otherwise the base would have been empty. Still pretty tough flak fire over the base which is quite amazing to me as this base has not got any supplies in the last 5 months. We destroy 5 Hudsons on the ground for two of our bombers lost. I guess Miller will soon move his bombers out as he doesn´t like those losses. At least I hope so, I don´t want to keep this base closed as there is a bgd and four eng units there and they probably haves some 100 eng to repair damage and constantly bombing it would just cause attrition to my bomber daitais.
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 53
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 122
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 2 damaged
Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Sub attack at 107,78
Japanese Ships
SS I-17
Allied Ships
AK West Ivis, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Willimoto
AK Sawokla
AK West Planter
MSW Turkey
following the other convoy with 5 flush deck DDs as escorts another TF is moving towards Pearl. I-17 attacks with 6 torps and hits with 2 torps an empty big AK. Guess the ship is doomed nearly 1000 miles from Hawai...
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7812 troops, 269 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2958
Defending force 47218 troops, 371 guns, 256 vehicles, Assault Value = 1022
Allied ground losses:
147 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 18192 troops, 102 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 358
Defending force 5154 troops, 41 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 37
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Morotai
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 581 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 18 - adjusted assault: 18
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 18 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Morotai base !!!
emtpy Morotai is Japanese now...
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/02/42
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ASW attack at 108,75
Japanese Ships
SS I-17
Allied Ships
AK West Nilus
AK West Cactus
AK Panaman
MSW Turkey
I-17 shadowed the convoy that the sub succesfully attacked yesterday. Tonight, the lonely MSW was able to drive the sub off before it could attack... no DCs dropped...
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 38
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 32
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 [X(]
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 21
Martin 139 x 9
Hudson I x 70
B-25C Mitchell x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 7 damaged
Hudson I: 2 destroyed, 15 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
193 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 49
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 5000 feet
4 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
3 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet
god damn, what a timing! Normally we have some 50 fighters on Cap over Lautern (out of 100 stationed there, seems not possible to see more than 50-60% in the air as the Japanese) but today we have ordered a strike out of the base. We only left a chutai of Oscars at the base because it was moved in yesterday and had high fatigue. This chutai loses 3 Oscars and 2!!! pilots - once again I´m curious how other people can see only 1/3 of the pilots lost A2A over own territory and nearly no losses of pilots on the ground when I´m constantly taking high losses of pilots due to aircraft destroyed on the ground, not to even talk about my pilot losses A2A over own territory. Well, must be my special WITP edition I guess... [;)]
Would have liked to see my fighters over the base to meet the incoming strike, I would estimate the losses to the enemy being something like 15 fighters and 15 bombers A2A and another 5-10 bombers lost to flak and ops. Well, perhaps it´s better for me that way as I would have surely lost 20 fighters on the ground, if not even more... I was somewhat disappointed about my flak fire, there´s a big base force and a special base force at the base, a lot of flak guns but flak fire really was pathetic. Even if the enemy goes in at 5000 ft, there´s no flak gap in Nikmod IIRC.
It seems Miller is serious about fighting in this area and at the moment he has more material here than me. Will take some time to build up Timor into a fortress but Lautern is a level 4 airfield already and I can stage bombers there to bomb Darwin but recon tells me about 17!!! units at Darwin, so I guess there´s a lot of flak. But there are also over 100 aircraft at the level 5 airfield so Miller will soon see my bombers darkening the sky over Darwin...
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 106
G4M1 Betty x 53
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 166
Port hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 24
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 14
P-40E Warhawk x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 13 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 14 destroyed
this is the reason why we had no Cap over Lautern! We ordered a big sweep to Darwin as we have spotted a dozen Warhawks on Cap yesterday, luckily today there were even more and also Australian Hurricanes joined the party. The A2A losses are totally exagerated, 27:1 is pretty much off in this case. Exp levels of the defenders must have been awful while my daitais are in the high 70 - low 80s, veterans of the fights over the Philipines and Malaya. Still, 27:1 is too much...
The total losses of Allied figthers is worrying me a bit! They are not high enough as Miller is too smart to take on the figth if he isn´t really forced to. I wonder if he will keep fighting over Darwin, I would say he won´t. With only 87 Warhawks lost in 5 months this means he has now 120+ more than at the start as he gets 40 of them per month. The Warhawk is the top notch fighter of the Allied at the moment, even if it performed awfully over Darwin today. Second most important fighter(bomber) is the Hurricane which equips most of the British and Australian fighter squadrons. There should be also more than enough Hurricanes in the pool for Miller. We´re in May now, I guess the first Spitfires also should show up soon in low numbers.
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Sub attack at 108,76
Japanese Ships
SS I-23
Allied Ships
AK West Ivis, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
The big AK that was hit by two torps yesterday takes another two torps and sinks. Total waste of torpedoes...
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TF 14 troops unloading over beach at Koepang, 28,77
Japanese ground losses:
690 casualties reported
98% of our invasion troops unloaded, the rest and more supply will follow tomorrow, the deliberate attack will be ordered in two days. Expect to take the base on the first attack, there are surely only two understrenght Dutch units.
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7839 troops, 270 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2961
Defending force 47053 troops, 369 guns, 255 vehicles, Assault Value = 1008
Allied ground losses:
178 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 18402 troops, 105 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 367
Defending force 5148 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 37
Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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ASW attack at 108,75
Japanese Ships
SS I-17
Allied Ships
AK West Nilus
AK West Cactus
AK Panaman
MSW Turkey
I-17 shadowed the convoy that the sub succesfully attacked yesterday. Tonight, the lonely MSW was able to drive the sub off before it could attack... no DCs dropped...
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 38
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 32
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 [X(]
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 21
Martin 139 x 9
Hudson I x 70
B-25C Mitchell x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 7 damaged
Hudson I: 2 destroyed, 15 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
193 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 49
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 5000 feet
4 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
3 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet
god damn, what a timing! Normally we have some 50 fighters on Cap over Lautern (out of 100 stationed there, seems not possible to see more than 50-60% in the air as the Japanese) but today we have ordered a strike out of the base. We only left a chutai of Oscars at the base because it was moved in yesterday and had high fatigue. This chutai loses 3 Oscars and 2!!! pilots - once again I´m curious how other people can see only 1/3 of the pilots lost A2A over own territory and nearly no losses of pilots on the ground when I´m constantly taking high losses of pilots due to aircraft destroyed on the ground, not to even talk about my pilot losses A2A over own territory. Well, must be my special WITP edition I guess... [;)]
Would have liked to see my fighters over the base to meet the incoming strike, I would estimate the losses to the enemy being something like 15 fighters and 15 bombers A2A and another 5-10 bombers lost to flak and ops. Well, perhaps it´s better for me that way as I would have surely lost 20 fighters on the ground, if not even more... I was somewhat disappointed about my flak fire, there´s a big base force and a special base force at the base, a lot of flak guns but flak fire really was pathetic. Even if the enemy goes in at 5000 ft, there´s no flak gap in Nikmod IIRC.
It seems Miller is serious about fighting in this area and at the moment he has more material here than me. Will take some time to build up Timor into a fortress but Lautern is a level 4 airfield already and I can stage bombers there to bomb Darwin but recon tells me about 17!!! units at Darwin, so I guess there´s a lot of flak. But there are also over 100 aircraft at the level 5 airfield so Miller will soon see my bombers darkening the sky over Darwin...
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 106
G4M1 Betty x 53
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
61 casualties reported
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 166
Port hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 24
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 14
P-40E Warhawk x 16
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 13 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 14 destroyed
this is the reason why we had no Cap over Lautern! We ordered a big sweep to Darwin as we have spotted a dozen Warhawks on Cap yesterday, luckily today there were even more and also Australian Hurricanes joined the party. The A2A losses are totally exagerated, 27:1 is pretty much off in this case. Exp levels of the defenders must have been awful while my daitais are in the high 70 - low 80s, veterans of the fights over the Philipines and Malaya. Still, 27:1 is too much...
The total losses of Allied figthers is worrying me a bit! They are not high enough as Miller is too smart to take on the figth if he isn´t really forced to. I wonder if he will keep fighting over Darwin, I would say he won´t. With only 87 Warhawks lost in 5 months this means he has now 120+ more than at the start as he gets 40 of them per month. The Warhawk is the top notch fighter of the Allied at the moment, even if it performed awfully over Darwin today. Second most important fighter(bomber) is the Hurricane which equips most of the British and Australian fighter squadrons. There should be also more than enough Hurricanes in the pool for Miller. We´re in May now, I guess the first Spitfires also should show up soon in low numbers.
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Sub attack at 108,76
Japanese Ships
SS I-23
Allied Ships
AK West Ivis, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
The big AK that was hit by two torps yesterday takes another two torps and sinks. Total waste of torpedoes...
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TF 14 troops unloading over beach at Koepang, 28,77
Japanese ground losses:
690 casualties reported
98% of our invasion troops unloaded, the rest and more supply will follow tomorrow, the deliberate attack will be ordered in two days. Expect to take the base on the first attack, there are surely only two understrenght Dutch units.
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7839 troops, 270 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2961
Defending force 47053 troops, 369 guns, 255 vehicles, Assault Value = 1008
Allied ground losses:
178 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 18402 troops, 105 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 367
Defending force 5148 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 37
Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/03/42
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TF 14 troops unloading over beach at Koepang, 28,77
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 38
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 27
Ki-49 Helen x 25
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
134 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 28
Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet
will take a while until the base is closed, if that will happen at all with the 10.000+ Allied troops there. Amazing that Miller still has aircraft there as I expected him to move out all his bombers.
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 53
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
65 casualties reported
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 118
Port hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 54th Chinese Corps, at 48,30
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 79
Ki-49 Helen x 66
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
128 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
this is the hex South East of Sian, there are 5 Chinese units sitting. I have a huge Army set to march from Homan into this hex and they will arrive tomorrow. Some 5000 assault points are prepping for Sian, which is my next target. When I kick this stack of 5 Chinese units back to Sian, I expect to meet there some 2000 assault points max with level 9 forts of course. Probably not with a lot of supplies but who knows, the North of China is producing a nice amount of supplies each turn. Seeing Miller taking position out of Sian with half of his Army in this area is good news, this will wreck the units outside of Sian and will cost him some 5000 supplies as those units will lose all of their supply if they have to retreat. I guess Sian will be an easier nut to crack than Changsha, Hengchow and the other base in the South.
Miller wondered where all my divisions went to after figuring out that they didn´t march on Kweiyang where I have an Army with some 2500 assault points. He even asked if I will throw them into an offensive against India. [;)] As those troops show up near Sian I wonder if this is somewhat a surprise for him. The long march on the rail from the South to Homan took long enough to see my divisions getting nearly to full combat strenght with nearly no disabled squads. A state in which those troops never have been since 12/7/41...
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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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ASW attack near Koepang at 28,77
Japanese Ships
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Fubuki
DD Uranami
DD Shinonome
DD Shikinami
CA Kumano
Allied Ships
SS Porpoise
not surprisin to see an Allied sub at the invasion hex... the DDs did their job...
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 19780 troops, 116 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 375
Defending force 5148 troops, 40 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 40
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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TF 14 troops unloading over beach at Koepang, 28,77
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 38
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 27
Ki-49 Helen x 25
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
134 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 28
Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet
will take a while until the base is closed, if that will happen at all with the 10.000+ Allied troops there. Amazing that Miller still has aircraft there as I expected him to move out all his bombers.
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 53
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
65 casualties reported
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 118
Port hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 54th Chinese Corps, at 48,30
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 79
Ki-49 Helen x 66
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
128 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
this is the hex South East of Sian, there are 5 Chinese units sitting. I have a huge Army set to march from Homan into this hex and they will arrive tomorrow. Some 5000 assault points are prepping for Sian, which is my next target. When I kick this stack of 5 Chinese units back to Sian, I expect to meet there some 2000 assault points max with level 9 forts of course. Probably not with a lot of supplies but who knows, the North of China is producing a nice amount of supplies each turn. Seeing Miller taking position out of Sian with half of his Army in this area is good news, this will wreck the units outside of Sian and will cost him some 5000 supplies as those units will lose all of their supply if they have to retreat. I guess Sian will be an easier nut to crack than Changsha, Hengchow and the other base in the South.
Miller wondered where all my divisions went to after figuring out that they didn´t march on Kweiyang where I have an Army with some 2500 assault points. He even asked if I will throw them into an offensive against India. [;)] As those troops show up near Sian I wonder if this is somewhat a surprise for him. The long march on the rail from the South to Homan took long enough to see my divisions getting nearly to full combat strenght with nearly no disabled squads. A state in which those troops never have been since 12/7/41...
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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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ASW attack near Koepang at 28,77
Japanese Ships
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Fubuki
DD Uranami
DD Shinonome
DD Shikinami
CA Kumano
Allied Ships
SS Porpoise
not surprisin to see an Allied sub at the invasion hex... the DDs did their job...
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 19780 troops, 116 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 375
Defending force 5148 troops, 40 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 40
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/04/42
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ASW attack at 107,77 [X(]
Japanese Ships
SS I-6
Allied Ships
DD Blue
DD Stuart
DD Nestor
DD Pakenham
DD Nizam
DD Grayson
this was somewhat shocking while not surprising as I have just forgot about those three subs in the shipping lane from Palmyra to Hawai. The subs attacked a couple of turns ago so Miller knew where they were. I just forgot to move them. Shocking because we face high ASW value British DDs in an ASW TF, so this could have been the end of I-6 already...
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ASW attack at 26,53
Japanese Ships
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
DD Tachikaze
DD Hokaze
DD Yukaze
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Drum, hits 6
while we attack Drum South East of Singapore. Sub was spotted yesterday probably moving to India and we sent out two DD ASW TFs. One right into the path of the sub. Couple of DDs attacked, using up 18% of their DCs while scoring 6 near misses... The two ASW TFs will try to hunt down the sub the next couple of days... we also have a Sally sentai on nav search at Singapore, but IIRC I haven´t had more than two or three hits on subs by medium bombers since the outbreak of the war... not much, but I don´t want to use this tactic of massing hundreds of IJA bombers for ASW duty in the SRA. This way it´s for me a better game and somewhat more realistic.
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ASW attack at 108,75
Japanese Ships
SS I-17
Allied Ships
DD Blue
DD Stuart
DD Nestor
DD Pakenham
DD Nizam
DD Grayson
after I-6 was target of this TF earlier today already, now I-17 was engaged but the sub was able to evade all attacks... my three subs in this area are ordered to move to Kwajalein...
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 29
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
68 casualties reported
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 154
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
1 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby , at 53,91
Japanese aircraft
C5M Babs x 1
Ki-49 Helen x 85
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 73
Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
lots of milkruns...
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TF 38 troops unloading over beach at Sabang, 19,41
Japanese ground losses:
401 casualties reported
should have flown recon over Sabang, then I would have found out that the base is empty and that there´s no need to land 125 assault points... invasion bonus for the Japanese is over so we take more losses during the invasions now... though I don´t really plan to do major opposed landings anymore anyway... [:D]
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 20097 troops, 124 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 384
Defending force 5156 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 42
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
enemy troop numbers on Canton are going up, my bombardments are rather pathetic... no wonder, my troops only have 81mm mortars...
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Ground combat at Koepang
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5322 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 168
Defending force 1239 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 20
Japanese max assault: 149 - adjusted assault: 268
Allied max defense: 17 - adjusted defense: 11
Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Koepang base !!!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Do 24K-2: 3 destroyed
Japanese ground losses:
63 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Allied ground losses:
1099 casualties reported
easy conquer of Timor is finished now. Two understrenght Dutch units surrender to the two nav guard units. One of my units will be brought out again to get back to full strenght to help mopping up all those Dutch occupied bases that are left in the SRA... the two Dutch units surrendered, we scored 68 victory points for ground losses today...
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Ground combat at 48,30
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 14358 troops, 466 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5024
Defending force 45143 troops, 279 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1320
Allied ground losses:
1454 casualties reported
Guns lost 37
this is the hex South East of Sian. Allied losses due to my bombardment are enormous, this is due to the fact that a HQ is in the lead and really suffers. We have spotted four Chinese corps holding position. Am pretty sure that they will be kicked back to Sian tomorrow!
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ASW attack at 107,77 [X(]
Japanese Ships
SS I-6
Allied Ships
DD Blue
DD Stuart
DD Nestor
DD Pakenham
DD Nizam
DD Grayson
this was somewhat shocking while not surprising as I have just forgot about those three subs in the shipping lane from Palmyra to Hawai. The subs attacked a couple of turns ago so Miller knew where they were. I just forgot to move them. Shocking because we face high ASW value British DDs in an ASW TF, so this could have been the end of I-6 already...
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ASW attack at 26,53
Japanese Ships
DD Namikaze
DD Nokaze
DD Tachikaze
DD Hokaze
DD Yukaze
DD Yakaze
Allied Ships
SS Drum, hits 6
while we attack Drum South East of Singapore. Sub was spotted yesterday probably moving to India and we sent out two DD ASW TFs. One right into the path of the sub. Couple of DDs attacked, using up 18% of their DCs while scoring 6 near misses... The two ASW TFs will try to hunt down the sub the next couple of days... we also have a Sally sentai on nav search at Singapore, but IIRC I haven´t had more than two or three hits on subs by medium bombers since the outbreak of the war... not much, but I don´t want to use this tactic of massing hundreds of IJA bombers for ASW duty in the SRA. This way it´s for me a better game and somewhat more realistic.
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ASW attack at 108,75
Japanese Ships
SS I-17
Allied Ships
DD Blue
DD Stuart
DD Nestor
DD Pakenham
DD Nizam
DD Grayson
after I-6 was target of this TF earlier today already, now I-17 was engaged but the sub was able to evade all attacks... my three subs in this area are ordered to move to Kwajalein...
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 29
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
68 casualties reported
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 154
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 24
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
1 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Port Moresby , at 53,91
Japanese aircraft
C5M Babs x 1
Ki-49 Helen x 85
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 73
Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
lots of milkruns...
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TF 38 troops unloading over beach at Sabang, 19,41
Japanese ground losses:
401 casualties reported
should have flown recon over Sabang, then I would have found out that the base is empty and that there´s no need to land 125 assault points... invasion bonus for the Japanese is over so we take more losses during the invasions now... though I don´t really plan to do major opposed landings anymore anyway... [:D]
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 20097 troops, 124 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 384
Defending force 5156 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 42
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
enemy troop numbers on Canton are going up, my bombardments are rather pathetic... no wonder, my troops only have 81mm mortars...
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Ground combat at Koepang
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5322 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 168
Defending force 1239 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 20
Japanese max assault: 149 - adjusted assault: 268
Allied max defense: 17 - adjusted defense: 11
Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Koepang base !!!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Do 24K-2: 3 destroyed
Japanese ground losses:
63 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Allied ground losses:
1099 casualties reported
easy conquer of Timor is finished now. Two understrenght Dutch units surrender to the two nav guard units. One of my units will be brought out again to get back to full strenght to help mopping up all those Dutch occupied bases that are left in the SRA... the two Dutch units surrendered, we scored 68 victory points for ground losses today...
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Ground combat at 48,30
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 14358 troops, 466 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5024
Defending force 45143 troops, 279 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1320
Allied ground losses:
1454 casualties reported
Guns lost 37
this is the hex South East of Sian. Allied losses due to my bombardment are enormous, this is due to the fact that a HQ is in the lead and really suffers. We have spotted four Chinese corps holding position. Am pretty sure that they will be kicked back to Sian tomorrow!
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/05/42
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TF 38 troops unloading over beach at Sabang, 19,41
Japanese ground losses:
162 casualties reported
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TF 38 troops unloading over beach at Sabang, 19,41
Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 47
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 27
Ki-49 Helen x 26
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 2 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
69 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Vehicles lost 2
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 35
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet
as soon as the airbase damage reaches 80+ all those Hudsons flying nav search there will become damaged and will be destroyed by my air attacks if not flown out. With the four Allied units at Davao I would have to bring in at least a bgd and some support units to take Mindanao, but I´m not in the mood to do this right now... I´ve got time anyway... [;)]
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 115
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 126
Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 20th Chinese Corps, at 48,30
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 99
Ki-49 Helen x 73
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
69 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
got some 200 bombers at Homan but I only get an attack on one unit of this stack... would love to see my bombers dispersing their attacks on more units as 40 bombers are easily enough to cause a lot of disruption on an enemy unit. Disruption is the only thing that makes those attacks worth it, the losses for the bombers are always higher than the damage they do to the enemy troops... 2 bombers lost today, flying an attack at 1 hex range...
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 18
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Americal USA Division, at 98,99
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
G4M1 Betty x 18
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
one Betty daitai is ordered to fly ground attacks on Canton now. I guess I won´t have to fear to see the enemy popping up next to the base anytime soon and I´m sure that I would spot him early enough to switch all bombers back to nav attack then...
I don´t think that Miller has the possibility to mount an invasion in the Pacific within the next 10 months. If he does, that´s fine with me, gives me the chance to do some damage. I really wonder if his British ships will stay at Hawai... and what has he got in India to defend that place??? [X(]
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 20520 troops, 127 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 398
Defending force 5136 troops, 37 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 41
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
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Ground combat at 48,30
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 231570 troops, 3041 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 5023
Defending force 42621 troops, 215 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1210
Japanese max assault: 4769 - adjusted assault: 6470
Allied max defense: 883 - adjusted defense: 201
Japanese assault odds: 32 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
604 casualties reported
Guns lost 25
Vehicles lost 2
Allied ground losses:
4085 casualties reported
Guns lost 51
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
here comes the deliberate attack at the outskirts of Sian! Our fully supplied and combat ready divisions have no problem breaking through the front of those four Chinese corps and the Chinese are forced to retreat to Sian. 4000 assault points will now move to siege the town. 1000 assault points will move back to Homan to act as a reserve, so I can rotate units in an out when the attacks on Sian begin to roll. I hope to take the town after four or five deliberate attacks - if Miller decides to hold, I can´t see much of an option though as the bases further North surely haven´t all level 9 forts and if they would, he couldn´t defend them I guess... we will see...
what´s a real surprise for me is the fact that he didn´t move a lot of his troops out of Chungking to bolster the defense in the North, he must know that even 1000 assault points there would be enough to hold the town against my 2000 besieging the city (with no intention to attack anyway). The units which he lost due to surrender must have partially come back already, those understrenght units would be sufficient to hold the position at Chungking, he could move at least 2.000-3.000 assault points North to meet my offensive there. Fortunately for me, Miller is no fan of a moving ground war, but preferes to just hold position. This way I can move in, attack and rotate my troops at will, without acting against a counter attack or an offensive in other parts of China. I do have enough force behind high fort levels at every front in China to withstand a more or less limited Allied offensive anyway. IMO it´s too late for the Chinese now, supply must be critical, South and Central China are blocked due to my blocking positions at Kweiyang and Chungking, so the only place left would be an offensive out of Yenen, but there are only some 40.000 enemy troops that won´t achieve anything.
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7882 troops, 270 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2957
Defending force 46742 troops, 377 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 999
Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
firts time that my troop at the Myitkyina front received supplies... what is interesting is the fact that the enemy seems to lose troops every turn, I wonder if they are starving here. Last bombardment four days ago showed 23 assault points more while only 500 troops more... in every case, the enemy troops at Myitkyina are no threat for our positions in Burma...
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TF 38 troops unloading over beach at Sabang, 19,41
Japanese ground losses:
162 casualties reported
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TF 38 troops unloading over beach at Sabang, 19,41
Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 47
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 27
Ki-49 Helen x 26
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 2 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 1 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
69 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Vehicles lost 2
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 35
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet
as soon as the airbase damage reaches 80+ all those Hudsons flying nav search there will become damaged and will be destroyed by my air attacks if not flown out. With the four Allied units at Davao I would have to bring in at least a bgd and some support units to take Mindanao, but I´m not in the mood to do this right now... I´ve got time anyway... [;)]
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 115
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 126
Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 20th Chinese Corps, at 48,30
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 99
Ki-49 Helen x 73
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
69 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
got some 200 bombers at Homan but I only get an attack on one unit of this stack... would love to see my bombers dispersing their attacks on more units as 40 bombers are easily enough to cause a lot of disruption on an enemy unit. Disruption is the only thing that makes those attacks worth it, the losses for the bombers are always higher than the damage they do to the enemy troops... 2 bombers lost today, flying an attack at 1 hex range...
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 18
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Americal USA Division, at 98,99
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
G4M1 Betty x 18
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
one Betty daitai is ordered to fly ground attacks on Canton now. I guess I won´t have to fear to see the enemy popping up next to the base anytime soon and I´m sure that I would spot him early enough to switch all bombers back to nav attack then...
I don´t think that Miller has the possibility to mount an invasion in the Pacific within the next 10 months. If he does, that´s fine with me, gives me the chance to do some damage. I really wonder if his British ships will stay at Hawai... and what has he got in India to defend that place??? [X(]
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 20520 troops, 127 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 398
Defending force 5136 troops, 37 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 41
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
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Ground combat at 48,30
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 231570 troops, 3041 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 5023
Defending force 42621 troops, 215 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1210
Japanese max assault: 4769 - adjusted assault: 6470
Allied max defense: 883 - adjusted defense: 201
Japanese assault odds: 32 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
604 casualties reported
Guns lost 25
Vehicles lost 2
Allied ground losses:
4085 casualties reported
Guns lost 51
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
here comes the deliberate attack at the outskirts of Sian! Our fully supplied and combat ready divisions have no problem breaking through the front of those four Chinese corps and the Chinese are forced to retreat to Sian. 4000 assault points will now move to siege the town. 1000 assault points will move back to Homan to act as a reserve, so I can rotate units in an out when the attacks on Sian begin to roll. I hope to take the town after four or five deliberate attacks - if Miller decides to hold, I can´t see much of an option though as the bases further North surely haven´t all level 9 forts and if they would, he couldn´t defend them I guess... we will see...
what´s a real surprise for me is the fact that he didn´t move a lot of his troops out of Chungking to bolster the defense in the North, he must know that even 1000 assault points there would be enough to hold the town against my 2000 besieging the city (with no intention to attack anyway). The units which he lost due to surrender must have partially come back already, those understrenght units would be sufficient to hold the position at Chungking, he could move at least 2.000-3.000 assault points North to meet my offensive there. Fortunately for me, Miller is no fan of a moving ground war, but preferes to just hold position. This way I can move in, attack and rotate my troops at will, without acting against a counter attack or an offensive in other parts of China. I do have enough force behind high fort levels at every front in China to withstand a more or less limited Allied offensive anyway. IMO it´s too late for the Chinese now, supply must be critical, South and Central China are blocked due to my blocking positions at Kweiyang and Chungking, so the only place left would be an offensive out of Yenen, but there are only some 40.000 enemy troops that won´t achieve anything.
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7882 troops, 270 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2957
Defending force 46742 troops, 377 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 999
Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
firts time that my troop at the Myitkyina front received supplies... what is interesting is the fact that the enemy seems to lose troops every turn, I wonder if they are starving here. Last bombardment four days ago showed 23 assault points more while only 500 troops more... in every case, the enemy troops at Myitkyina are no threat for our positions in Burma...
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/06/42
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 33
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 73rd Chinese Corps, at 47,29
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3
Ki-21 Sally x 29
Ki-49 Helen x 23
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 16000 feet
we´re flying air to ground attacks against troops at Sian already. Note that there is no flak fire, we will decrease our attack alt to 6.000 ft for future attacks...
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Day Air attack on 53rd Chinese Corps, at 47,29
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 32
Ki-21 Sally x 62
Ki-49 Helen x 50
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
52 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 18
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Ground combat at Sabang
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 855 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 96
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 24 - adjusted assault: 26
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 26 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Sabang base !!!
empty Sabang is captured, this base will be used to station a couple of search aircraft there to spot subs coming down from India...
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 20791 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 404
Defending force 5135 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 44
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7868 troops, 270 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2963
Defending force 46409 troops, 377 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 986
Allied ground losses:
79 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
enemy assault value went down by 13!!!! points again, the enemy troops there must be starving. If they don´t have enough supplies there, I really wonder why Miller isn´t pulling those troops back to India...
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 33
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 73rd Chinese Corps, at 47,29
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3
Ki-21 Sally x 29
Ki-49 Helen x 23
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 16000 feet
we´re flying air to ground attacks against troops at Sian already. Note that there is no flak fire, we will decrease our attack alt to 6.000 ft for future attacks...
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Day Air attack on 53rd Chinese Corps, at 47,29
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 32
Ki-21 Sally x 62
Ki-49 Helen x 50
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
52 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st DAF Base Force, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 18
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Ground combat at Sabang
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 855 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 96
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 24 - adjusted assault: 26
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 26 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Sabang base !!!
empty Sabang is captured, this base will be used to station a couple of search aircraft there to spot subs coming down from India...
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 20791 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 404
Defending force 5135 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 44
Allied ground losses:
17 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7868 troops, 270 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2963
Defending force 46409 troops, 377 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 986
Allied ground losses:
79 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
enemy assault value went down by 13!!!! points again, the enemy troops there must be starving. If they don´t have enough supplies there, I really wonder why Miller isn´t pulling those troops back to India...
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/07/42
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 61
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 112
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 18
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Americal USA Division, at 98,99
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
G4M1 Betty x 28
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
our air attacks are worth nothing...
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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 18
Ki-49 Helen x 27
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 1 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 2
Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 23
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 21062 troops, 138 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 412
Defending force 5075 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 42
Allied ground losses:
19 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7861 troops, 268 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2966
Defending force 46296 troops, 373 guns, 255 vehicles, Assault Value = 984
Allied ground losses:
151 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 1
WE HAVE BEEN SPOTTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have been flying recon with Emilies over India the last two turns and I guess this alerted Miller, which wouldn´t be surprising. Today, our invasion TF(s) were spotted. Miller´s patrols identified two TFs, KB wasn´t spotted but I´m sure Miller is aware that KB must be around also.
We are half a year into the war and the Japanese forces have yet to take a major defeat (we are ignoring the loss of Midway! [;)]), while the Allied, especially the US Navy, took serious losses in their last offensive attempts, losing two American fleet carriers with another one heavily damaged. With our ships and ground troops fully combat ready, there was no doubt that we would field another major operation. Well, compared to the conquest of the SRA and major parts of the Pacific this is a real major operation as it involves nearly all the IJN combat ships, nearly all available troop transports and hundreds of thousands troops. The fact that Nikmod has a greatly reduced cargo capacity of merchants this makes it harder but also more interesting.
In fact, we had two options: attacking Northern Australia (easier option but not war deciding) and attacking India. Initially I was planning to attack Northern Australia as this is a more or less easy conquest but then we spotted a UK division at Myitkina with several other units brought in from India as well as an Indian division at Akyab. This made me really think about invading the sub continent and we ordered our staff to plan for an invasion. And then, out of a sudden, British CVs and BBs show up in the South East Pacific supporting the failed American attempt to retake Canton Island! This was the time when I ordered all available forces to prepare for an attack on India within the next couple of weeks.
Heck, what is Miller thinking when he sends his troops to Burma and nearly the whole Royal Navy into the Pacific? This just asks for an invasion! Of course this doesn´t mean that we will have success, but the chances for us couldn´t be better I guess. I have invaded India twice in PBEM, both times in mid to late 42 and I both times succeeded. One game was stock, the other one an earlier Nikmod version where it was harder to do. From the experience so far (and from Miller´s emails) I know that he´s not the best commander for ground combat, so we will see how this operation will go. I expect a lot of action the next couple of weeks an I guess the first four weeks will be the most important. If we are succesful the first weeks then it´s surely doable to conquer the subcontinent.
Miller won´t have much of a problem to figure out that this operation includes most of the IJN, but without the full strenght of the American carriers, I´m pretty confident that he won´t try another offensive against my positions in the Pacific anytime soon as this is the place where my Betties and Nells are.
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 61
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 108
G4M1 Betty x 52
Ki-27 Nate x 117
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 112
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 18
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Americal USA Division, at 98,99
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
G4M1 Betty x 28
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
our air attacks are worth nothing...
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Day Air attack on Davao , at 41,61
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 18
Ki-49 Helen x 27
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 1 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 damaged
Allied ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 2
Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 23
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 21062 troops, 138 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 412
Defending force 5075 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 42
Allied ground losses:
19 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7861 troops, 268 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2966
Defending force 46296 troops, 373 guns, 255 vehicles, Assault Value = 984
Allied ground losses:
151 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 1
WE HAVE BEEN SPOTTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have been flying recon with Emilies over India the last two turns and I guess this alerted Miller, which wouldn´t be surprising. Today, our invasion TF(s) were spotted. Miller´s patrols identified two TFs, KB wasn´t spotted but I´m sure Miller is aware that KB must be around also.
We are half a year into the war and the Japanese forces have yet to take a major defeat (we are ignoring the loss of Midway! [;)]), while the Allied, especially the US Navy, took serious losses in their last offensive attempts, losing two American fleet carriers with another one heavily damaged. With our ships and ground troops fully combat ready, there was no doubt that we would field another major operation. Well, compared to the conquest of the SRA and major parts of the Pacific this is a real major operation as it involves nearly all the IJN combat ships, nearly all available troop transports and hundreds of thousands troops. The fact that Nikmod has a greatly reduced cargo capacity of merchants this makes it harder but also more interesting.
In fact, we had two options: attacking Northern Australia (easier option but not war deciding) and attacking India. Initially I was planning to attack Northern Australia as this is a more or less easy conquest but then we spotted a UK division at Myitkina with several other units brought in from India as well as an Indian division at Akyab. This made me really think about invading the sub continent and we ordered our staff to plan for an invasion. And then, out of a sudden, British CVs and BBs show up in the South East Pacific supporting the failed American attempt to retake Canton Island! This was the time when I ordered all available forces to prepare for an attack on India within the next couple of weeks.
Heck, what is Miller thinking when he sends his troops to Burma and nearly the whole Royal Navy into the Pacific? This just asks for an invasion! Of course this doesn´t mean that we will have success, but the chances for us couldn´t be better I guess. I have invaded India twice in PBEM, both times in mid to late 42 and I both times succeeded. One game was stock, the other one an earlier Nikmod version where it was harder to do. From the experience so far (and from Miller´s emails) I know that he´s not the best commander for ground combat, so we will see how this operation will go. I expect a lot of action the next couple of weeks an I guess the first four weeks will be the most important. If we are succesful the first weeks then it´s surely doable to conquer the subcontinent.
Miller won´t have much of a problem to figure out that this operation includes most of the IJN, but without the full strenght of the American carriers, I´m pretty confident that he won´t try another offensive against my positions in the Pacific anytime soon as this is the place where my Betties and Nells are.
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RE: it goes on...
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/08/42
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Naval bombardment of Madras, at 18,21
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 1 destroyed
Hudson I: 2 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 1 destroyed
Dakota I: 3 destroyed
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed
Japanese Ships
CA Atago
CA Takao
CA Chikuma
CA Tone
Allied ground losses:
189 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 26
KB and it´s supporting TFs ended up six hexes off Madras yesterday and I formed a bombardment TF out of KB´s heavy cruisers and a full 6 DD ASW TF to attack the enemy´s airfields at Madras. No nuke but we did some damage to the grounded enemy aircraft just waiting to attack our ships with the first light in the morning. As you could see in the last screenshot, we won´t be landing somewhere around Calcutta, but in the Madras area. There was the option to land directly at Madras (would be a bad choice as it´s an urban hex and there are some 10.000 troops spotted), or at Trimcomale (South West of Madras) which is too close to the airfields on Ceylon, or at Yanam, the little base East of Madras. We decided to land at Yanam! It´s empty and we have ordered a para regiment to take the base tomorrow to enable us to land our troops unopposed. This means that Madras´ airfields will be our major threat, it´s four hexes away from Yanam. We have to take out Madras´ airfields (level 4) at all cost, followed by the airfields at Hyderabad North of Madras, which are only level 3 at the moment. I guess there aren´t a lot of air support troops either. Yanam is a port 0 airfield 1 base, so unloading there will take an eternity, but it´s still better than to land directly into the guns of a dug in enemy at Madras I guess.
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TF 1003 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)
Allied Ships
DD King
still sub laid mines at Palmyra...
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Day Air attack on Madras , at 18,21
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5 [X(][X(]
B5N Kate x 157
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 3 destroyed, 26 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 6 destroyed
Dakota I: 1 destroyed
Wellington III: 4 destroyed
Hurricane IIb: 4 destroyed
Hudson I: 2 destroyed
Beaufort I: 3 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
37 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 21
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 121
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 20000 feet
Strike from KB´s carriers with only 5 Zeroes as escorts! This pretty much scared me as I´ve set my fighters to 80% Cap to have an escort against the expected Cap over Madras. Well, Miller obviously ordered all his fighters to conduct offensive operations and this saved a lot of Kates! Still, I lose half a dozen Kates from this attack but we also destroy a good number of aircraft on the ground and even more important, together with the night naval bombardment we scored nearly 150 hits on the runways and 30 and the airbase. I hope that this is sufficient to stop any offensive ops coming from that base tomorrow.
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 39
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 48
G4M1 Betty x 43
Ki-27 Nate x 106
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 96
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 92
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 18
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Americal USA Division, at 98,99
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
G4M1 Betty x 21
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
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Not surprising, Miller had a lot of aircraft on nav search so the enemy squadrons were launching a couple of attack waves against our armada! Here we go...
Day Air attack on TF at 22,24
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 109
Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 4
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 6 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 4 destroyed
This is an attack against the hex with my invasion TFs, we have CV Junyo and a couple of CVLs/CVEs for close escort of my troop ships in the hex, KB is one hex to the South West and helps with leaking Cap. Can´t have all my carriers with my invasion TFs due to our stacking limit of carrier based ac. I love to see those Beaufort I being shot down as they are the only aircraft in India (besides the Swordfish) that can carry torps. Attack from 5 hexes, so in this attack they would have carried bombs anyway.
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Day Air attack on TF at 22,24
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 124
Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 3
Beaufort I x 6
P-40B Tomahawk x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 9 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 3 destroyed
Beaufort I: 4 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 3 destroyed
Japanese Ships
AP Heito Maru
AP Kumakawa Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Beaufort I bombing at 5000 feet
Second wave, this time KB has even more fighters leaking into this hex. A good number of fighters on Cap but Nikmod proves to work very well again and two bombers made it through, performing unsuccesful bombing runs against two of my medium transports.
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And here comes the enemy´s main strike from Madras!
Day Air attack on TF at 21,25
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 83
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 9
Wellington III x 18
Beaufort I x 3
P-40B Tomahawk x 31
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 14 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 9 destroyed
Wellington III: 1 destroyed, 16 damaged
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 7 destroyed, 14 damaged
Japanese Ships
CV Zuikaku
BB Kongo
CV Hiryu
CV Shokaku, Bomb hits 1, on fire ouch [:(]
BB Hiei
BB Kirishima
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Beaufort I bombing at 5000 feet
4 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
Due to our leaking Cap from KB into the hex with our invasion TFs we only have a "small" Cap over our carriers which have to face the enemy´s main strike. Our fighters tangle with the enemy escorts taking them out easily, most of the AVG broke off the attack leaving the bombers alone. Unfortunately we see 18 out of 21 bombers breaking through our Cap diving down to release their bomb loads over our carriers and battleships. I have all four Kongos and BB Yamato in this TF to act as targets and bomb magnets for the enemy aircraft. It worked pretty good as only 8 of the attacking bombers actully attacked my carriers. Unfortunately one of the Wellingtons managed to put a 500lb GP bomb into CV Shokaku causing damage. Thank god there was no follow up explosion, the ship ends the turn with 16 sys, 9 flt and 13 fire. I guess this will increase sys damage to 25-30 in the end and I still have the ship with KB, will decide tomorrow if the damage is too much to keep the carrier with the other flat tops.
Also here, I think Nikmod worked perfectly! In stock, my fighters would have wiped out everything.
at the end of the turn we have spotted 7 enemy subs in this area, which seem to be the major threat besides the air attacks. I don´t expect the remaining Royal Navy ships to show up near the invasion area as long as KB is around. Wonder what´s left of the RN in India anyway...
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 21264 troops, 145 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 414
Defending force 5046 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 42
Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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Ground combat at Sian
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 14326 troops, 462 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3808
Defending force 91885 troops, 443 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2415
Allied ground losses:
535 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Even though the enemy´s av is over 2000, half of the defending troops are the corps that were forced to retreat two days ago. I´ve already ordered a deliberate attack for tomorrow.
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7876 troops, 272 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2974
Defending force 46064 troops, 375 guns, 255 vehicles, Assault Value = 967
Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
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Ground combat at Chungking
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 177158 troops, 1829 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5201
Defending force 120145 troops, 1296 guns, 21 vehicles, Assault Value = 2491
Japanese ground losses:
77 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
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Ground combat at Kweiyang [X(]
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 212244 troops, 1577 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5896
Defending force 135289 troops, 1559 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 2906
Allied max assault: 6341 - adjusted assault: 4684
Japanese max defense: 3017 - adjusted defense: 6121 [:D]
Allied assault odds: 0 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
946 casualties reported
Guns lost 99
Vehicles lost 2
Allied ground losses:
8270 casualties reported[:D]
Guns lost 288
Miller tries again and again his troops get chopped to pieces attacking my dug in troops in the woods. 200.000+ troops attacking must have used up A LOT of supplies which has to be low in China anyway and the Chinese units took a lot of losses. Guess this attack has really strenghten my position here and I can concentrate on my offensive in the North. If something goes wrong in the South (which I doubt) I still have three divisions sitting at Canton which I could order to march to a fall back position for my troops at Kweiyang.
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Naval bombardment of Madras, at 18,21
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 1 destroyed
Hudson I: 2 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 1 destroyed
Dakota I: 3 destroyed
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed
Japanese Ships
CA Atago
CA Takao
CA Chikuma
CA Tone
Allied ground losses:
189 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 26
KB and it´s supporting TFs ended up six hexes off Madras yesterday and I formed a bombardment TF out of KB´s heavy cruisers and a full 6 DD ASW TF to attack the enemy´s airfields at Madras. No nuke but we did some damage to the grounded enemy aircraft just waiting to attack our ships with the first light in the morning. As you could see in the last screenshot, we won´t be landing somewhere around Calcutta, but in the Madras area. There was the option to land directly at Madras (would be a bad choice as it´s an urban hex and there are some 10.000 troops spotted), or at Trimcomale (South West of Madras) which is too close to the airfields on Ceylon, or at Yanam, the little base East of Madras. We decided to land at Yanam! It´s empty and we have ordered a para regiment to take the base tomorrow to enable us to land our troops unopposed. This means that Madras´ airfields will be our major threat, it´s four hexes away from Yanam. We have to take out Madras´ airfields (level 4) at all cost, followed by the airfields at Hyderabad North of Madras, which are only level 3 at the moment. I guess there aren´t a lot of air support troops either. Yanam is a port 0 airfield 1 base, so unloading there will take an eternity, but it´s still better than to land directly into the guns of a dug in enemy at Madras I guess.
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TF 1003 encounters mine field at Palmyra (106,85)
Allied Ships
DD King
still sub laid mines at Palmyra...
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Day Air attack on Madras , at 18,21
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5 [X(][X(]
B5N Kate x 157
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 3 destroyed, 26 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 6 destroyed
Dakota I: 1 destroyed
Wellington III: 4 destroyed
Hurricane IIb: 4 destroyed
Hudson I: 2 destroyed
Beaufort I: 3 destroyed
Allied ground losses:
37 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 21
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 121
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 20000 feet
Strike from KB´s carriers with only 5 Zeroes as escorts! This pretty much scared me as I´ve set my fighters to 80% Cap to have an escort against the expected Cap over Madras. Well, Miller obviously ordered all his fighters to conduct offensive operations and this saved a lot of Kates! Still, I lose half a dozen Kates from this attack but we also destroy a good number of aircraft on the ground and even more important, together with the night naval bombardment we scored nearly 150 hits on the runways and 30 and the airbase. I hope that this is sufficient to stop any offensive ops coming from that base tomorrow.
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Day Air attack on Samarinda , at 31,63
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 62
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 39
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 48
G4M1 Betty x 43
Ki-27 Nate x 106
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 96
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 92
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Kendari Garrison Battalion, at 33,70
Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 18
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x B5N Kate bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Americal USA Division, at 98,99
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
G4M1 Betty x 21
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
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Not surprising, Miller had a lot of aircraft on nav search so the enemy squadrons were launching a couple of attack waves against our armada! Here we go...
Day Air attack on TF at 22,24
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 109
Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 4
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 6 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 4 destroyed
This is an attack against the hex with my invasion TFs, we have CV Junyo and a couple of CVLs/CVEs for close escort of my troop ships in the hex, KB is one hex to the South West and helps with leaking Cap. Can´t have all my carriers with my invasion TFs due to our stacking limit of carrier based ac. I love to see those Beaufort I being shot down as they are the only aircraft in India (besides the Swordfish) that can carry torps. Attack from 5 hexes, so in this attack they would have carried bombs anyway.
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Day Air attack on TF at 22,24
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 124
Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 3
Beaufort I x 6
P-40B Tomahawk x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 9 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 3 destroyed
Beaufort I: 4 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 3 destroyed
Japanese Ships
AP Heito Maru
AP Kumakawa Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Beaufort I bombing at 5000 feet
Second wave, this time KB has even more fighters leaking into this hex. A good number of fighters on Cap but Nikmod proves to work very well again and two bombers made it through, performing unsuccesful bombing runs against two of my medium transports.
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And here comes the enemy´s main strike from Madras!
Day Air attack on TF at 21,25
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 83
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 9
Wellington III x 18
Beaufort I x 3
P-40B Tomahawk x 31
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 14 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 9 destroyed
Wellington III: 1 destroyed, 16 damaged
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 7 destroyed, 14 damaged
Japanese Ships
CV Zuikaku
BB Kongo
CV Hiryu
CV Shokaku, Bomb hits 1, on fire ouch [:(]
BB Hiei
BB Kirishima
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Beaufort I bombing at 5000 feet
4 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
Due to our leaking Cap from KB into the hex with our invasion TFs we only have a "small" Cap over our carriers which have to face the enemy´s main strike. Our fighters tangle with the enemy escorts taking them out easily, most of the AVG broke off the attack leaving the bombers alone. Unfortunately we see 18 out of 21 bombers breaking through our Cap diving down to release their bomb loads over our carriers and battleships. I have all four Kongos and BB Yamato in this TF to act as targets and bomb magnets for the enemy aircraft. It worked pretty good as only 8 of the attacking bombers actully attacked my carriers. Unfortunately one of the Wellingtons managed to put a 500lb GP bomb into CV Shokaku causing damage. Thank god there was no follow up explosion, the ship ends the turn with 16 sys, 9 flt and 13 fire. I guess this will increase sys damage to 25-30 in the end and I still have the ship with KB, will decide tomorrow if the damage is too much to keep the carrier with the other flat tops.
Also here, I think Nikmod worked perfectly! In stock, my fighters would have wiped out everything.
at the end of the turn we have spotted 7 enemy subs in this area, which seem to be the major threat besides the air attacks. I don´t expect the remaining Royal Navy ships to show up near the invasion area as long as KB is around. Wonder what´s left of the RN in India anyway...
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 21264 troops, 145 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 414
Defending force 5046 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 42
Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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Ground combat at Sian
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 14326 troops, 462 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3808
Defending force 91885 troops, 443 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2415
Allied ground losses:
535 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Even though the enemy´s av is over 2000, half of the defending troops are the corps that were forced to retreat two days ago. I´ve already ordered a deliberate attack for tomorrow.
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Ground combat at Myitkyina
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 7876 troops, 272 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2974
Defending force 46064 troops, 375 guns, 255 vehicles, Assault Value = 967
Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
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Ground combat at Chungking
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 177158 troops, 1829 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5201
Defending force 120145 troops, 1296 guns, 21 vehicles, Assault Value = 2491
Japanese ground losses:
77 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
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Ground combat at Kweiyang [X(]
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 212244 troops, 1577 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5896
Defending force 135289 troops, 1559 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 2906
Allied max assault: 6341 - adjusted assault: 4684
Japanese max defense: 3017 - adjusted defense: 6121 [:D]
Allied assault odds: 0 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
946 casualties reported
Guns lost 99
Vehicles lost 2
Allied ground losses:
8270 casualties reported[:D]
Guns lost 288
Miller tries again and again his troops get chopped to pieces attacking my dug in troops in the woods. 200.000+ troops attacking must have used up A LOT of supplies which has to be low in China anyway and the Chinese units took a lot of losses. Guess this attack has really strenghten my position here and I can concentrate on my offensive in the North. If something goes wrong in the South (which I doubt) I still have three divisions sitting at Canton which I could order to march to a fall back position for my troops at Kweiyang.
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RE: it goes on...
If Miller has forward deployed too many British/Indian LCUs into Burma and if he has not had an influx of Chinese into India, then I believe you have a good chance at success.
The conquest of Australia seems to be more difficult than India lately. Many Japanese players seem to regret not being more aggressive against India and see them coming down to Malaya with their Chinese friends later in the game.
The conquest of Australia seems to be more difficult than India lately. Many Japanese players seem to regret not being more aggressive against India and see them coming down to Malaya with their Chinese friends later in the game.
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RE: it goes on...
Here are the air losses of the first day of the invasion. We took out a good number of enemy aircraft, the most important are the Beaufort I and the Wellingtons. Unfortunately for us, the preparation of the invasion took longer than expected, I would have loved to attack before May as this is the date when the Royal airforce can upgrade their aircrafts. This means I´m now facing Wellingtons instead of Blenheims and probably Hurricanes instead of Buffalos. As it stands now, I see the Wellingtons as the biggest threat for my invasion as those damned bombers carry 9x500 lb GP bombs, have a decent range of 9 hexes and are far too durable to be taken out by my fragile carrier based fighters. I can only hope that there aren´t too much of them already combat ready and that morale soon becomes a problem for the enemy bombers. Taking them down is impossible, we can only hope to drive them back.
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RE: it goes on...
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
If Miller has forward deployed too many British/Indian LCUs into Burma and if he has not had an influx of Chinese into India, then I believe you have a good chance at success.
The conquest of Australia seems to be more difficult than India lately. Many Japanese players seem to regret not being more aggressive against India and see them coming down to Malaya with their Chinese friends later in the game.
As far as I can see he has some 700-800 assault points brought from India to Burma which seems not that much but it can be decisively weakening his positions there. The biggest problem for the Allied player at the beginning of an invasion (for the Japanese player too of course when he faces an invasion) is the fact that he has dispersed his troops over a large area, while the invader comes with strenght focussed on one place. I guess I will be able to seize the area around Madras up to Hyderabad BEFORE the enemy will be able to march major troop concentrations into this area. I am using hundreds of ships for my troops but will have to make a second trip with all my ships to actuall bring in all my troops that are tasked with the conquest of India. If Miller decides to completely strip the area around Calcutta to march all his troops to defend the West and North of India, I could of course also land my remaining troops somewhere in the Diamond Harbour area.
Miller didn´t move any Chinese units to India I guess, he moved half a dozen corps and tanks from China to Myitkyina though, that´s why I also moved four inf divisions out of China into Burma to counter those Chinese units with Japanese China command units. If I would have to guess, I would say Miller ordered his 50.000 troops at Myitkyina to march back to India today but this will take them at least 6-8 weeks on the trails. And what you might not forget, I could order my troops at Myitkyina to march North also as soon as the enemy units left the hex.
The total conquest of Australia is a mess, I have never tried it. In Nikmod I would say it´s near to impossible, and there´s also no real sense to do it anyway. What makes sense is the conquest of Northern Australia and that´s more or less easily doable, this makes the Southern SRA save from an Allied counterattack out of Australia for at least one more year IMO. Of course, attacking India AND Northern Australia isn´t possible. I won´t forget about the area around Timor though and if Miller will decide to attack out of Northern Australia (which he probably won´t within the next 6-10 months) then I will be ready to cause some damage. By that time, the conquest of India will have either been a failure or a success and I guess I won´t need KB in the area longer than 6 weeks anyway.
The Chinese won´t be an issue at all in this PBEM as China already has lost the war. Even though theoretically they still own most of China (except the South), all of their positions in the North will be lost soon and then China is reduced to the bases around Chungking and Kweiyang, which shouldn´t be producing enough supplies to mount any offensive operations. I wonder if those bases even produce enough supplies to keep the Chinese troops from starving. I have no intentions to take out all of China though and will keep a lot of troops blocking the enemy at Kweiyang and Chungking and will have all my garrisson requirments met in the already conquered territory.
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RE: it goes on...
Here you can see how my invasion TFs look like. As I don´t like those attempts to exploit the game engine with dozens or even more mini TFs to see totally weird air attacks I tried to use as few TFs for my troops as was possible. The three TFs with troops consist of 90-100 ships each with the supply TF as a separate TF. Got two strong surface combat TFs and the medium sized (in number of carrier based ac) CV TF as cover and an ASW TF to hunt the Allied sub force that will start their attacks soon.
In the hex with KB I have three TFs at the moment, KB, a surface combat TF and an ASW TF. Tomorrow there will be four TFs in KB´s hex as I will include the CAs from the bombardment again in the KB TF and will form another ASW TF.
Even with trying to use as big troop transport TFs as possible, I still have 12 TFs operating in the area which causes to a lot of dispersed air strikes but at least I´m trying to keep the number of troop transport TFs as low as possible. As you can see I´m bringing in over 250.000 troops!
If I don´t want to take losses and want to see the air attack routine go completely crazy, I could of course have created 80x5 ship TFs out of my 400 troop and supply ships also...
In the hex with KB I have three TFs at the moment, KB, a surface combat TF and an ASW TF. Tomorrow there will be four TFs in KB´s hex as I will include the CAs from the bombardment again in the KB TF and will form another ASW TF.
Even with trying to use as big troop transport TFs as possible, I still have 12 TFs operating in the area which causes to a lot of dispersed air strikes but at least I´m trying to keep the number of troop transport TFs as low as possible. As you can see I´m bringing in over 250.000 troops!
If I don´t want to take losses and want to see the air attack routine go completely crazy, I could of course have created 80x5 ship TFs out of my 400 troop and supply ships also...
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RE: it goes on...
one major issue to see a succesfull operation will also be the question how much supply we will seize from fallen enemy bases. As you can see, I´m bringing in only some 70.000+ supplies with our first wave and bringing the same amount or even more will become problematic as a) I´m not swimming in supplies and b) my small AKs can only carry 1750 tons in Nikmod which is only half of the capacity of stock. At the moment I have ALL my APs ferrying troops around on the map and most of my TKs and AKs ferrying fuel, oil and ressources.
Everything will become far easier as soon as I have seized Madras, it´s pretty much comparable to the situation the Allied had in the Normandy in the real war. Madras is my Cherbourg.
Everything will become far easier as soon as I have seized Madras, it´s pretty much comparable to the situation the Allied had in the Normandy in the real war. Madras is my Cherbourg.
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RE: it goes on...
I don't know of many AARs where the Chinese are able to hold out on the stock map. Big B's mod is one in which it is detrimental for the Japanese player to be too aggressive at it releases all those static LCUs. You seem to be doing well in China already so he cannot expect too much help from them. The question is what forces he has in India and will he be able to retreat in good order or get cut off trying to get to Karachi. I hope you brought a lot of Tank bde to India with this first group.
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RE: it goes on...
ORIGINAL: ny59giants
I don't know of many AARs where the Chinese are able to hold out on the stock map. Big B's mod is one in which it is detrimental for the Japanese player to be too aggressive at it releases all those static LCUs. You seem to be doing well in China already so he cannot expect too much help from them. The question is what forces he has in India and will he be able to retreat in good order or get cut off trying to get to Karachi. I hope you brought a lot of Tank bde to India with this first group.
EVERY TK rgt the Japanese have is in the first wave! [:D] I used pps to get all restricted command TK rgts out to be used in India.
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RE: it goes on...
Wow !
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RE: it goes on...
ORIGINAL: Ambassador
Wow !
[:)] unfortunately I haven´t received a turn the last three days and I´m sitting at home not really able to move around due to having a screw taken out of my knee...
Miller is probably x-mas stressed...