Waiting for 3rd AE patch - bigbaba vs. Castor Troy

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/15/42

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Sub attack at 61,43

Japanese Ships
TK Kuremente Maru
TK Nissho Maru
TK Nisshin Maru
PG Heijo Maru
PG Hakkaisan Maru
PG Eiko Maru
PG Eifuku Maru
PG Choko Maru #2
PG Choan Maru #2
PG Chokai Maru
PG Busho Maru

Allied Ships
SS Grouper

8 escorts in the TF, another 6 DDs in the hex... does it help? no...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 68
D3A Val x 68
B5N Kate x 49
G4M1 Betty x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 34
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
140 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 83
Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 78th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3
Ki-21 Sally x 17
Ki-48 Lily x 12
Ki-49 Helen x 4

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 87th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 30
Ki-32 Mary x 9
Ki-51 Sonia x 12
Ki-21 Sally x 63
Ki-48 Lily x 23
Ki-49 Helen x 15

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
193 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet

we´ve switched our air attacks back to Sian...

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14172 troops, 450 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2888

Defending force 123314 troops, 808 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3720



Allied ground losses:
291 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 23,11

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 24150 troops, 312 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 490

Defending force 4500 troops, 40 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 118

Japanese max assault: 464 - adjusted assault: 200

Allied max defense: 123 - adjusted defense: 20

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
84 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Vehicles lost 2

Allied ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

this is West of Delhi, one of our divisions forced a Burma bgd to retreat! Both units had quite an awful adjusted av... my tanks arrived in the area around Bombay already, my Madras divisions are near Hyderabad now...

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8403 troops, 290 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2523

Defending force 43142 troops, 326 guns, 254 vehicles, Assault Value = 815



Allied ground losses:
119 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1

the first Chinese unit entered Myitkyina a couple of days ago. The first unit of the second wave of reinforcements out of China. But the Allied can achieve nothing here, they seem to be nearly or totally out of supply and my troops outnumber them 3:1 and my troops are fully supplied.

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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 740 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 31

Defending force 4877 troops, 35 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 147

[Ambassador]

ORIGINAL: castor troy

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

Very good news from Madras indeed.  I hope your LCUs were not shredded by the defence there.

With India conquered, China subdued, and maybe (who know) no more USSR in Siberia, you might not be able to completely hold away the USN, but you'll have much more assets to use, from LCUs to aircraft, to supply, to shipping, more HI/ressources/oil, etc.  You'll be hard to push back... and this foretells much fun for the readers.[:)]

ahh, so you recommend me to invade Russia also? [;)]

Knocking out India and therefore having this front secured until really late in the game when the US and Australian forces decide to retake it is a big advantage, no doubt. Knocking out China or better say reducing it into an area not big enough to supply the 100+ Chinese units is also a big advantage as you don´t have to fear the Chinese hordes breaking out sometime in 44. But all those troops on the continent in China and Mandchuko are restricted commands so even if I would completely conquer India, China and Russia - LOL - then I couldn´t use those units for a defense against the US and Aussie forces as I can´t lift those restricted command units out into a defensive line in the Pacific or SRA.

I will still be "stuck" with the Southern Area command div/bgd I have now and the reinforcements of course. And a couple of restricted command units I will buy out with political points. Supply will be plenty around I guess, also resources won´t be a problem. Oil still stays the same problem with my tankers being probably the bottleneck. The expected Allied bombing campaign against the Home Ilsands will still have nearly the same impact as if I wouldn´t conquer India as I´m only producing aircraft and engines in Japan. And aircraft/engines will probably be the numero uno target for the B-29.

The biggest advantage is to not having to fear the British/Indian offensive on Burma/Malaya in early 44.

Yes, why not Russia.[:D] You showed such proficiency in China and India[&o], that your respectful readers expect something more everytime. It would be interesting, to say the least.[;)]


Re: restricted command units, it's true most of those units would be stuck there. But base forces, artillery, engineers, tanks, etc, are much cheaper than infantry, and they can help much. All those air groups that would be released (at much lower cost) are also interesting, at least as ASW vigils.
Note, you're not forced to pay PP at full cost for every unit : when an LCU has many disabled squads, its cost is much lower (I wonder if disruption doesn't also reduce the cost, as it seems to be keyed on AV), so if towards the end of the fighting in India, China, and/or Siberia, you accumulate enough PP, you can have two or three times more units out of the restricted commands. Same goes for air groups : transfer them when they're not full.
Perhaps more tricky : if you bottled up the chinese corps in Chungking, set a full division or two to make a deliberate attack, or a shock attack. Hopefully, you'll get many disabled squads, and maybe a few destroyed squads, but the cost in PP will be greatly reduced - and after a bit or R&R in Shangai or Pekin, you'll have a full division at reduced cost (half PP, a bit of supply and a few armament points).[;)]

Well, just my two cents of newbie.[:)]

[castor troy]

I´ve already changed nearly all of my air units from China and Mandchuria into non restricted commands and am using them wherever they are needed.

And also ALL my tank units were bought out already, that´s why I´m using over a dozen in India! I´ve received two understrenght divisions that were also bought out and are now slooooowly building up, both cost me some 1000 pp.

This means I´m fairly low on pps at the moment. Base forces out of the restricted commands aren´t needed at the moment, I´ve got so many coming as reinforcement that I´ve got problems moving them out to the front due to not having enough lift capability as 80% of my shipping is still around Rangoon and Burma due to the India invasion. I bought out a couple of AA units though.

Art units aren´t that cheap, they cost something around 300-400 pp, considering that a whole div is around 3000 then it´s not worth it IMO as I don´t think that art units have the effect in WITP they should have, especially when being used against troops landing at a hostile beach. I could be wrongh though.

I know that it´s cheaper to buy out units that are mostly disabled but that´s somewhat gamey for me. If it´s an understrenght unit, ok, but if the unit is at full (or nearly full) strenght with lots of disablements then I don´t see the point why it should be cheaper as the unit will be 100% ready within 2 months at the latest. Building up a div from 30/30 to 100/100 takes nearly a year.

Good thoughts about the "wreck a division to buy it cheap" but as I´ve said, for me that´s an exploit.

[Ambassador]

That's your call on it, nobody else may make that decision.[:)]  I only suggested this, seeing what Miller does at Manilla (ordering shock attacks to wipe his own units faster, to rebuild them from fragments).

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/16/42

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TF 24 encounters mine field at Madras (18,21)

Japanese Ships
MSW Seki Maru
MSW Rokko Maru
MSW Musashi Maru
MSW Kyo Maru #5
MSW Choun Maru #21
MSW W.5

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Sub attack near Sasebo at 58,41

Japanese Ships
DD Umikaze
DD Suzukaze
DD Kawakaze
DD Yamakaze
DD Shigure

Allied Ships
SS Wahoo, hits 1

we only engage subs if they attack us first... and then we achieve as much as nothing...

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Day Air attack on Dacca , at 31,24

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 27
Ki-49 Helen x 141

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 32

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-21 Sally: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 3 destroyed, 17 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 27 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 16
Airbase supply hits 11
Runway hits 102

Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

Dacca was hit hard today as was our bomber force again... In the end it´s only a 3:1 in kills today. Miller is now fighting with his aircraft, something he refused to in the past. I guess he now thinks that he will lose those squadrons anyway when he will lose India, why not losing the aircraft during a fight, better than losing them on the ground...



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Day Air attack on 74th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 21
Ki-48 Lily x 9
Ki-49 Helen x 10

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
91 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 78th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 10
Ki-48 Lily x 4
Ki-49 Helen x 3

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 6000 feet
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ASW attack near Makin at 85,89

Japanese Ships
ML Ishizaki
ML Hoko
PC Ishigaki
PC Kunashiri
PC Hachijo
CL Nagara

Allied Ships
SS S-47, hits 3

I don´t like subs in the same hex as my precious MLs... 3 near misses...

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14230 troops, 455 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2906

Defending force 123162 troops, 813 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3729



Allied ground losses:
227 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8423 troops, 290 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2524

Defending force 45399 troops, 324 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 895



Allied ground losses:
95 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 740 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 32

Defending force 4890 troops, 35 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 148

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

That's your call on it, nobody else may make that decision.[:)]  I only suggested this, seeing what Miller does at Manilla (ordering shock attacks to wipe his own units faster, to rebuild them from fragments).

that´s true...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/17/42

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TF 24 encounters mine field at Madras (18,21)

Japanese Ships
MSW Seki Maru
MSW Rokko Maru
MSW Musashi Maru
MSW Kyo Maru #5
MSW Choun Maru #21
MSW W.5

all remaining mines at Madras are swept already... Madras could now be used as a staging base for heavy IJN units to attack Ceylon if needed...

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Naval bombardment of Trimcomalee, at 15,25


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Sunderland: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga
BB Ise


Allied ground losses:
770 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Vehicles lost 4

Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 49
Port hits 1

Miller spotted my TF yesterday and so all Hurricanes have gone... we only hit a couple of patrols... no CD counterfire...

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ASW attack at 64,44

Japanese Ships
DD Asanagi
DD Hayate
DD Oite
DD Amagiri
DD Yugiri
DD Asagiri

Allied Ships
SS Herring, hits 2

wow, 2 near misses... still 4 Allied subs around Japan...

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Day Air attack on Trimcomalee , at 15,25

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-21 Sally x 47
Ki-49 Helen x 127

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 9 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Sunderland: 2 destroyed

Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 12
Runway hits 103

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet

The base´s airfield is closed, will take a couple of days to get it repaired I guess as there don´t seem to be that many troops at Trimcomalee...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 137
D3A Val x 68
B5N Kate x 41
G4M1 Betty x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
92 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 119
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14211 troops, 458 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2912

Defending force 123271 troops, 818 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3742



Allied ground losses:
255 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Yenen

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 69463 troops, 836 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 1984

Defending force 20070 troops, 117 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 412

Japanese max assault: 2868 - adjusted assault: 2844 [:D]

Allied max defense: 355 - adjusted defense: 471

Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 9)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 3 [:D][:D]


Japanese ground losses:
963 casualties reported
Guns lost 26
Vehicles lost 3

Allied ground losses:
389 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

we moved into the base yesterday, immediately ordering a shock attack as I was 100% sure to see level 9 forts and the only way to bring them down fast is with a shock attack. It was a gamble as there are three units West of Yenen on the road and I´m sure Miller ordered them to move into the base again. Would those troops have arrived, it could have become a bloody defeat but his troops didn´t make it and there were only two HQs, a base force and the two understrenght corps that were forced to retreat a couple of turns ago. Forts at level 3 and another shock attack tomorrow. If I´m lucky again, the enemy reinforcements will still be on the road, which would mean the base will fall tomorrow already. There´s nothing that could stop us from taking the Northern bases as Sian is cut off and there are only minor units left in the North that can move around.

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8321 troops, 288 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2523

Defending force 45363 troops, 325 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 889



Allied ground losses:
131 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 7944 troops, 24 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 34

Defending force 4899 troops, 34 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 149

Allied max assault: 40 - adjusted assault: 0

Japanese max defense: 138 - adjusted defense: 389

Allied assault odds: 0 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
267 casualties reported

[Ambassador]

There're some big guns in Ceylon, it's amazing they didn't fire back.[&:]

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

There're some big guns in Ceylon, it's amazing they didn't fire back.[&:]

Yeah, IIRC there should be two 9" CD guns grouped with over a dozen 6 inchers. Probably not that much supply at Trimcomalee.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/18/42

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Sub attack at 62,44

Japanese Ships
AP Surabaya Maru, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Grouper, hits 4

that´s the downside of not including escorts, the sub attacks on the surface. Must be a lot of FOW in this attack as I doubt that the AP was hit by two torps as it´s only moderately damaged. Sys, flt and fire in the 30s, the ship has a good chance to make it into a level 9 port. Would Grouper be hit by 4x3 inch shells it would at least be burning so I guess this is alos just FOW... There´s also a MSW ASW TF in the hex... [>:]

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Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77 [X(]

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 91

Allied aircraft
Catalina I x 7
Blenheim IV x 9
B-25C Mitchell x 133 [X(]
B-17E Fortress x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 7 destroyed, 50 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 12 destroyed, 109 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 15 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
41 casualties reported

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 50

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 15000 feet

hmmm... Miller learnt... a lot of those Mitchells are Dutch groups, couple of weeks ago they were still flying Martins so he figured out he should upgrade them to those durable medium bombers. Well, Miller took once again the advantage of the feature that he can see my aircraft transfers and attacked this base immediately after he spotted the dark airfield symbol. Don´t know if it was an advantage today though.

Just look at the damage rate the Allied bombers took and then look at the op losses further below... [8|][8|][8|] When my bombers fly 2 hexes without any defensive fire then half a dozen crash constantly even though they are very experienced. We damage 100+ Mitchels that are flying at absolute max range and hey... 1 lost to ops... [>:] at least 9 more were going down on the way home, accounted as a2a kill

we were quite lucky not to lose more Oscars on the ground it seems and in total we lose 5 pilots today. The good thing is that the bomber morale must be totally trashed and I don´t really fear to see them coming back anytime soon.



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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 141
D3A Val x 68
B5N Kate x 62
G4M1 Betty x 34
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
176 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 81
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 1st Reserve Tank Regiment, at 23,11


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 28


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 4

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

attack out of Delhi... As the Allied troops can´t break through towards Karachi, 7 of them have entrenched at Delhi now, which is urban also. Two of my inf units are moving there or have already arrived and I will just block the enemy there while preparing the other troops to assault Karachi where we now spot 10 units and 40.000 troops. Looks like troops arrived from the reinforcement list.

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Day Air attack on 8th Ind. Brigade, at 50,26


Allied aircraft
IL-4c x 7


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
32 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x IL-4c bombing at 6000 feet

attack on my units at Yenen...

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Day Air attack on 78th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-51 Sonia x 2
Ki-21 Sally x 22
Ki-48 Lily x 12
Ki-49 Helen x 4

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
105 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 53rd Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21 Sally x 12
Ki-48 Lily x 8
Ki-49 Helen x 3

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
99 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 87th Chinese Corps, at 47,29

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-32 Mary x 8
Ki-51 Sonia x 10
Ki-21 Sally x 46
Ki-48 Lily x 14
Ki-49 Helen x 11

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
230 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Madras at 18,21


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 20
Hudson I x 21


Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 2 damaged
Hudson I: 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Hyuga, Bomb hits 2
DD Yukikaze

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Wellington III bombing at 5000 feet
2 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet

looks like I was lucky as most of the enemy bombers failed to locate the target. I´ve got some 80 fighters at the base, they were all set to escort because my bombers were ordered to fly an attack - which they didn´t... Hyuga got a secondary armament turret knocked out...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Madras at 18,21


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 27
Hudson I x 17


Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 1 destroyed
Hudson I: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Ise, Bomb hits 4, on fire
BB Hyuga, Bomb hits 5, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 5000 feet
2 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet

another strike in the afternoon. The bombers are coming from Ceylon and this time they achieve quite a couple of hits, knocking out another secondary armament turret. Both ships accumulated something like 4 sys points and also 3-5 fire points so the total will probably be 5-7 sys points. I don´t like that.

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ASW attack at 62,44

Japanese Ships
MSW W.20
MSW W.19
MSW W.14
MSW W.2
MSW W.1

Allied Ships
SS Grouper, hits 1

now my ASW TF tries to attack Grouper... lol, the impressive result of a near miss again...

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ASW attack at 62,44

Japanese Ships
MSW W.20
MSW W.19
MSW W.14
MSW W.2
MSW W.1

Allied Ships
SS Grouper

another round, performing even worse...

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14194 troops, 457 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2926

Defending force 122691 troops, 813 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3742



Allied ground losses:
132 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Yenen

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 99470 troops, 1043 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 1916

Defending force 48878 troops, 326 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1369 [X(][:(]

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese max assault: 3290 - adjusted assault: 2686

Allied max defense: 1363 - adjusted defense: 2459 [8|]

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2


Japanese ground losses:
5790 casualties reported [X(][X(][:(][:(][:(]
Guns lost 51
Vehicles lost 2

Allied ground losses:
663 casualties reported
Guns lost 16

god damn! I hate it to be unlucky! Today, three fresh Chinese corps moved into the base, increasing the enemy av by 1000! points, resulting in 2000 points in the wooden hex. This totally wrecked my Army here! When I say totally, I mean totally...

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Ground combat at 24,11

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 24055 troops, 310 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 986

Defending force 2406 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 27

Japanese max assault: 456 - adjusted assault: 902

Allied max defense: 26 - adjusted defense: 3

Japanese assault odds: 300 to 1



Allied ground losses:
352 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

South West of Delhi, a base force is forced to retreat...

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8338 troops, 288 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2522

Defending force 45297 troops, 322 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 882



Allied ground losses:
92 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 130501 troops, 1346 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3976

Defending force 101401 troops, 1064 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 2023


Japanese ground losses:
244 casualties reported
Guns lost 5


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Ground combat at Yenen

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14851 troops, 97 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1361

Defending force 92263 troops, 881 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 1546



This was clearly a victorious Allied turn IMO...

[castor troy]

And here´s the unit that was cut to pieces this turn. It started out the day with 99/102 and is now at 70/98!!! This means no more fighting for this unit for the next 8 weeks. In 8 months of war, none of my major ground units has been hit in one day like this one, the unit lost over 50% of it´s combat strenght in one day.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/19/42

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Day Air attack on Colombo , at 14,24

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 35
Ki-49 Helen x 105

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 64 [X(]
Hurricane IIc x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 9 destroyed, 7 damaged
Ki-21 Sally: 4 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 23 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 35 destroyed
Hurricane IIc: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged
Hudson I: 3 destroyed
Wellington III: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 12
Runway hits 41

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet
10 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

it´s the usual cat and mouse play with the Allied having the ability to see aircraft transfers and the Japanese having to guess which airfield to attack out of a dozen. In this case I pretty much knew how this turn will look like and I ordered the attack on Colombo. As Colombo staged 100 Allied medium bombers with 40 Hurricanes on Cap yesterday, Miller knew I would bomb this base today, so he moved out all his bombers (with a couple of damaged bombers left behind) and moved in 4 or 5 dozen Hurricanes more to fly Cap. I don´t just want to destroy the medium bomber force but of course also the Allied fighters in India, so here we go. Unfortunately for us, parts of the attacking formations failed to locate the target and so only 60 out of 80 fighters and nearly all bombers arrived over the target meeting a pretty high number of fighter bombers on Cap. The Hurricanes are still far less effective than our high exp fighters but the only reason for that is the fact that Miller avoided every fight he could in the last months, therefor it´s still like in the opening month of the war. The enemy Cap still achieves a 1:3 a2a which isn´t that bad IMO, my Oscar sentai lost 25% of their veteran crews and this is what makes our fighter sentais being far less dangerous in no time.

IMO Miller just took on the fight far too late, my airforce could be far less dangerous already would he have taken on the fight earlier and would he have tried to fight on his terms, not mine. And that is possible for the Allied also early on.

In the end we destroyed a lot of Hurricanes today and a couple of such engagements more and the Allied resistance in the air will be totally broken.




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Day Air attack on 26th Division, at 50,26


Allied aircraft
IL-4c x 6


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
15 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x IL-4c bombing at 6000 feet

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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14274 troops, 460 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2623

Defending force 122653 troops, 812 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3750



Allied ground losses:
107 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8363 troops, 290 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2522

Defending force 45224 troops, 321 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 878



Allied ground losses:
123 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 130532 troops, 1346 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3976

Defending force 101208 troops, 1062 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 2020


Japanese ground losses:
37 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/20/42

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Day Air attack on Dacca , at 31,24

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 36
Ki-49 Helen x 133

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 20 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 3 destroyed
Wellington III: 2 destroyed
Catalina I: 2 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 113

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

as long as I´ve got to fight on in China and out of Burma I could need at least 200 medium bombers more...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 141
D3A Val x 68
B5N Kate x 62
G4M1 Betty x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
59 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 88
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 22nd Division, at 50,26


Allied aircraft
IL-4c x 6


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x IL-4c bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 10th Special Base Force, at 27,10


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 42


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 6 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
86 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet


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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14294 troops, 460 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2635

Defending force 122911 troops, 819 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3755



Allied ground losses:
151 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Delhi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16292 troops, 207 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 343

Defending force 38927 troops, 204 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 667

Delhi is an urban hex, looks like THIS will become the next Allied POW camp. I´m not interested in taking this base, would just take too long with too much losses. I will place a bgd here with some flak against ongoing air attacks and will just see this place starve... in 2 years or so! [:D] I guess Delhi has a sh*t load of supplies...

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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8365 troops, 288 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2522

Defending force 47631 troops, 318 guns, 251 vehicles, Assault Value = 958



Allied ground losses:
56 casualties reported

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 07/21/42

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ASW attack at 63,44

Japanese Ships
DD Karukaya
DD Fuyo
DD Asagao
DD Sanae
DD Kuretake
DD Wakatake

Allied Ships
SS Wahoo

as usual... [>:]
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Naval bombardment of Trimcomalee, at 15,25 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 1 destroyed
Hudson I: 1 destroyed

16 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu, Shell hits 2
BB Nagato


Allied ground losses:
516 casualties reported
Guns lost 13
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 37
Port hits 2

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Naval bombardment of Colombo, at 14,24 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 1 destroyed

21 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga
BB Ise, Shell hits 7


Allied ground losses:
1161 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
Vehicles lost 4

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 23

Ceylon´s airfields are more or less empty but with the troops there they will be repaired soon and could be used again. I´ve got no clue about the supply situation on Ceylon but I will move my air units soon away from Ceylon as I don´t have to surpress it when I´ve got no convoys moving to Madras. Those two BB TFs will soon shift their attention to Karachi...

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Day Air attack on Ledo , at 36,25

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-21 Sally x 26
Ki-49 Helen x 130

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Dakota I: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIb: 1 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
32 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 34

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

this airfield is FULL of enemy aircraft and there was no flak fire at all. I don´t know what those ac are really doing at Ledo, it looks like they are either supplying Myitkyina or China or are flying out (or in) some troops... hit rate is [8|]...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 140
D3A Val x 68
B5N Kate x 62
G4M1 Betty x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
45 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 51
Port hits 4
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 10th Special Base Force, at 27,10


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb x 37


Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
34 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

would like to see my inf unit attacked, not the flak unit...

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Ground combat at Malir

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 44643 troops, 524 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 848

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese max assault: 820 - adjusted assault: 393

Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 393 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Malir base !!!

my spearheads crossed the river into Malir today and are now sitting one hex SE of Karachi!
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Ground combat at Sian

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14268 troops, 458 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2636

Defending force 123193 troops, 827 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3764



Allied ground losses:
190 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Sian´s assault value is going UP every day so I guess it will take a couple of months until we will really be succesful here. Forts at level 9 and supply and nearly 4.000 av will be quite a nut to crack. But we HAVE time and supply won´t last forever here... I guess the enemy does not have more than 10-15.000 supplies...

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Ground combat at Delhi

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16255 troops, 207 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 818

Defending force 40568 troops, 210 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 685



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Ground combat at Myitkyina

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8395 troops, 289 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2524

Defending force 47582 troops, 320 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 949



Allied ground losses:
70 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Yenen

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 41422 troops, 306 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1366

Defending force 120108 troops, 1217 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2304

[anarchyintheuk]

Ouch, consider the 22nd well and truly forked.

At least Hurricanes are still useless. When do Spits arrive, August?

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Ouch, consider the 22nd well and truly forked.

At least Hurricanes are still useless. When do Spits arrive, August?

Have spotted some Spits recently over Karachi but only in very small numbers. IMO it´s too late for the Allied in India to fight for air supremacy. So I guess all those spits from the pool will show up in Australia. Northern Australia has some 600-800 aircraft I guess, all four bases seem to be fully stacked.

[anarchyintheuk]

Yup, he could have used about 300 of them a month ago. With all the variables involved and considering how important ground support is to combat in urban hexes, if he had them I doubt it would have slowed you down enough to stall you before you got to Karachi (assuming, of course, that you will[;)]) but your a/c losses would have been much more severe. Regardless of how costly it would have been, taking India will save you a huge amount of a/c in the long run.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Yup, he could have used about 300 of them a month ago. With all the variables involved and considering how important ground support is to combat in urban hexes, if he had them I doubt it would have slowed you down enough to stall you before you got to Karachi (assuming, of course, that you will[;)]) but your a/c losses would have been much more severe. Regardless of how costly it would have been, taking India will save you a huge amount of a/c in the long run.

There was only one right moment to use ALL of his aircraft in India: when the invasion began! Like I´ve mentioned earlier, KB can´t fight two or three land bases for more than one day and the carriers are very fragile as the one succesful attack on KB with Wellingtons showed. With the force I´ve brought to India Miller only had a real chance IMO during the first days of the invasion and the days I had to bring in the desperately needed supplies. And of course it didn´t help him to evacuate the whole Royal Navy. IMO another mistake as the RN ships can easily stand the fight against the Japanese ships and as soon as KB would be forced to retreat due to ongoing air attacks I would have also retreated most of my other ships.

I´ve only lost O N E ship during my invasion! It was the DD that was lost attacking the 4 RN PT boats. Miller just didn´t want to risk losses in aircraft it seems and therefor he lost India. Of course it could have been also that he lost a lot of ac and still lose India but in that case I guess a lot of IJN ships would be reefs now also, not to talk about how my KB daitais would look like.

I agree, taking India will save me hundreds, no, thousands of ac in the long run.

As it looks now, Miller has brought all his ships from India to Perth, including masses of aircraft as Perth shows a dark port and aircraft symbol. The four Northern Australian bases are bristling with aircraft also and Miller just asked me if our stacking hr goes for total ac at a base or if ac that are stood down don´t count. [:D] Well, it´s about total ac at the base of course, otherwise this would totally negate the effects of stacking limits. IMO the Allied counterattack will come out of Northern Australia directly into the area around Timor. It´s the shortest way into important areas of the Empire but I can alos guarantee that it will be far bloodier then Miller will expect it to be. I will throw in the Kitchen sink against every attempt to attack in this area and my most important advantage will be the fact that I will have a dozen bases to support each other. He can surely advance but the question will be at what cost of ships, especially at what costs of aircraft carriers.

Wearing down the enemy carrier TFs with LBA and then throw in KB after two days is nowhere working better than in the area North of Timor. And damaged ships could go back to Soerabaja which will have a nav HQ, ARs and a level 9 port. This should give me a nice advantage.

[Ambassador]

And from Soerabaja, you're close to Singapore's repair yard.  Speaking of repair yards, there're a few in India too, some 80-100 if memory serves well, so I suppose this will be useful to you too, for non-priority repairs.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

And from Soerabaja, you're close to Singapore's repair yard.  Speaking of repair yards, there're a few in India too, some 80-100 if memory serves well, so I suppose this will be useful to you too, for non-priority repairs.

there´s a very small one at Colombo, one small one at Bombay and a small one at Karachi. All of them won´t be of much use I guess as it won´t be worth sending a damaged ship that far. I´ve got more than enough repair yards in Japan where I have increased the ones at Osaka and Tokyo for repairs on major ships and the one at Nagoya which is homeport of the merchant shipping in Japan.

Repair yards are most times only really useful for smaller ships, AKs, APs, DDs to perhaps CLs. For BBs and CVs those repair yards don´t really help a lot, you just see a damaged BB sitting with 600 repair points alone at Osaka and none of the repair points are used. Perhaps it´s speeds up the repairs with 2-3 points of sys damage a month for BBs or CVs.

When you have enough repair points from a ship repair yard at a port to meet the durability of the ship there then there´s only a die roll if one sys point is repaired. If not, the repair points are accumulated.