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

[Historiker]

you are absolutly right! That's what tanks are good for. And one shock attack without success makes the attacker pay a lot for using this, so its fair!

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/26/43

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


937 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
MSW W.17, Shell hits 12, on fire
MSW W.7

Japanese ground losses:
1390 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 22

The inf units at Darwin are firing like wild on our invading troops but the CD unit seems to be either killed off or still that much disrupted that my ships stay unharmed...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 23
TF 23 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese ground losses:
51 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 45
TF 45 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


143 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Yamato Maru

Japanese ground losses:
38 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 92
TF 92 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


34 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese ground losses:
219 casualties reported

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86 [:D]


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 5 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 4 destroyed
B-26B Marauder: 7 destroyed
B-25C Mitchell: 6 destroyed
Wellington III: 5 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed
F-5A Lightning: 1 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Maya
CA Atago
CA Tone

Allied Ships
AK Eldorado, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
3387 casualties reported
Guns lost 56
Vehicles lost 12

Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 107

I guess this time there were so many TFs of mine around that Miller wasn´t able to figure out if one of them is going in against Wyndham. That was a nuke, but considering the number of bombers there we didn´t kill that many of them. Or my aerial recon again is totally crap...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


1189 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kyokuzan Maru, Shell hits 10
AK Oyashima Maru
AK Hague Maru

Japanese ground losses:
1484 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 44

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 23
TF 23 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


41 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Yamasimo Maru, Shell hits 6

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 92
TF 92 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese ground losses:
77 casualties reported

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Sub attack at 23,64

Japanese Ships
AK Sagara Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Grampus

Grampus is parked two hexes NE of Soerabaja and the big AK sinks immediately... there are dozens of naval search ac in this area but Grampus made all it´s way into the heart of the SRA unspotted...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 31
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 254

No Japanese losses

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 61

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-49 Helen x 125

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 1 [X(]

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 24 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
129 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Runway hits 30

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

I was shocked to see an enemy fighter in the air! This means the airfield was operational today...

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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
G3M Nell x 19
G4M1 Betty x 66
Ki-46-III Dinah x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged


Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 34

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet

hopefully it will be a loooong time until we see Allied ac at Darwin again...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2
Kittyhawk I x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 9


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 3 damaged

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

we have been lucky this turn as Wyndham was clouded in both in the morning and afternoon, so no attacks on our shipping... [&o]



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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15847 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1536

Defending force 287123 troops, 1808 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6933



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15992 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3472

Defending force 195492 troops, 210 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5445



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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27200 troops, 279 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 888

Defending force 182035 troops, 1412 guns, 2241 vehicles, Assault Value = 4002


Japanese ground losses:
206 casualties reported

over 4000 assault points landed already and 800 more to come. What pretty much p*sses me off at the moment is how the game disperses the unloaded supplies between my units. I have divs with over 17.000 supplies and my tank divs for example don´t even have 50% of their needed supply. God damn game features... this can become a serious problem. I have unloaded over 100.000 supplies already and it´s not that easy to bring in another 100.000 within a week. Not that easy, well it´s impossible for me...

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/27/43

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


692 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kyokuzan Maru, Shell hits 31, on fire
AK Kosei Maru

Japanese ground losses:
726 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 14

it seems it takes forever to completely unload the TF with my tank units...

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Sub attack at 23,64

Japanese Ships
PC Ch 7
PC Toshi Maru #3
PC Tama Maru #8
PC Seki Maru #2
PC Takunan Maru #5
PC Ch 9

Allied Ships
SS Grampus, hits 1

moved an ASW TF to Grampus´ position and Ch7 immediately acts as a target. 4 torps miss and the PCs achieve a near miss...

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Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
AK Sasako Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tuna

Tuna missed also, the sub later was hit twice by Vals, isn´t confirmed sunk though...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
BB Fuso
BB Yamashiro
BB Ise
CA Chikuma
CA Myoko
DD Hatsuharu
DD Nenohi
DD Hatsushima
DD Yugure
DD Hibiki
DD Ikazuchi

Allied Ships
AK Barwon, heavy damage
AK Californian, Shell hits 2, heavy damage
AK American Leader, Shell hits 32, and is sunk

Miller has put three AKs into the way of my incoming battlewaggons. One is sunk by 5 inch fire from my destroyers. The famous DD Hibiki is in this TF also! [:)]

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ASW attack at 23,64

Japanese Ships
PC Toshi Maru #3
PC Tama Maru #8
PC Seki Maru #2
PC Takunan Maru #5
PC Ch 7
PC Ch 9

Allied Ships
SS Grampus

another round against Grampus, all PC failed to locate the sub...

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Sub attack at 80,78

Japanese Ships
AK Junpo Maru, Shell hits 3, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Sunfish

Sunfish seems to be on transit West, this is one hex NE of Kwajalein. The torps missed, 4x4 inch shells do moderate damage but the small AK will live on... looks like the enemy subs have completed their radar upgrade as more and more of them are spotted already again... we had a long phase without any subs in the SRA at all and only a couple of S-class subs around Australia...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
CA Ashigara
CA Takao
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato


Allied ground losses:
795 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 6
Port supply hits 3

rather pathetic result...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Myoko
CA Chikuma
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso

Allied Ships
LCM 532D, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
3020 casualties reported
Guns lost 37
Vehicles lost 23

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 29
Port hits 16
Port fuel hits 5
Port supply hits 5

but the second bombardment was a nuke, at least when we look at the ground losses. The port was hit hard also but P L E A S E, can´t we knock out the airfield? This is the only reason for those bombardments, but the game engine is too dumb to know that... my ships (especially the heavy cruisers) are accumulating sys damage so quickly that they can´t be used for long anymore. Many of them went through 10 sys points already, slowing them down to 5 hexes per phase. Hopefully we will take Darwin soon as this then would mean that we don´t need those bombardments all the time...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


408 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kyokuzan Maru, Shell hits 24, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
514 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 12

still unloading tank units...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 60
TF 60 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


249 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Hakozaki Maru

Japanese ground losses:
2638 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Vehicles lost 1

and this is the TF that carries the two inf divisions of the second wave...

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ASW attack at 23,64

Japanese Ships
PC Toshi Maru #3
PC Tama Maru #8
PC Seki Maru #2
PC Takunan Maru #5
PC Ch 7
PC Ch 9

Allied Ships
SS Grampus, hits 7

another round, this time 6 near misses and a hit. SS isn´t on fire so I doubt the hit did occur. But the sub will probably have to retire...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 32
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 251

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 93

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-49 Helen x 232
Ki-46-II Dinah x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 18 damaged


Allied ground losses:
113 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 44

Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

strike from Kendari and to my total surprise, not a single Helen was lost today. A Zero crashed though, the pilot was killed...

what would be nice also would be to achieve a dozen hits on the supply depots each turn, this is what the Allied bombers did at Dili with each of their attacks...



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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15892 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1537

Defending force 286562 troops, 1787 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6914



Allied ground losses:
52 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16045 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3480

Defending force 195336 troops, 203 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5449



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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27353 troops, 282 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 892

Defending force 202371 troops, 1521 guns, 2433 vehicles, Assault Value = 4595


Japanese ground losses:
211 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported

I have ordered my troops (except the two divs that are landing at the moment) to execute the first deliberate attack. Most of my troops have more supply they will ever need, one of my tank divs is only 90% supplied though, even though that we have nearly 100 AKs unloading. But the supply isn´t equally dispersed between all my units... it´s a shame...

[castor troy]

Gentlemen, the current situation really looks good and the Japanese high command is confident to defeat the Allied agressors once again!

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/28/43

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


472 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kanaiyama Maru, Shell hits 2

Japanese ground losses:
451 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 11

boy, it really takes long to unload this TF... at the end of the turn, it was still not unloaded... [:(]

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 60
TF 60 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


376 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese ground losses:
2287 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

the two divs from the second wave are nearly completely unloaded but obviously it was a fault to land them over the hostile beach. They were only around 80/100 when loaded onto the ships, after being unloaded at Darwin they are now down to around 60/100. Those two divs will act as garisson units for the base as soon as we took it...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
F-5A Lightning: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Musashi
BB Yamato


Allied ground losses:
4654 casualties reported [X(][X(][X(]
Guns lost 57
Vehicles lost 6

Airbase hits 11
Runway hits 77
Port fuel hits 1

now this time the big boys really scored... there´s one thing I was alos really afraid all the time: British Barracuda torp bombers. Those could have sunk more than one BB so far if Miller would have employed those bombers. Don´t know where all his torp bombers are, but obviously not where they should be from the Allied perspective.

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


84 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kanaiyama Maru, Shell hits 3

Japanese ground losses:
126 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 60
TF 60 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


287 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Tatsutake Maru, Shell hits 8
AP Ayatosan Maru

Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 223

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 83

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-49 Helen x 136
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged


Allied ground losses:
155 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 40

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

I´ve decided to throw in some port attacks now and then in future, perhaps we can then score some supply hits... We have to destroy Lautern´s supply depots asap to see the enemy divisions starving there.

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 106

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 107
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
G3M Nell x 36
G4M1 Betty x 117
Ki-46-III Dinah x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 4 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 12 damaged


Allied ground losses:
56 casualties reported

Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 132

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15
Kittyhawk I x 51
P-40E Warhawk x 85


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 2 damaged

Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 51

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

got two base forces at Luganville but they do nothing... Japanese flak just sucks, even in Nikmod... wouldn´t want to see my fighters going in against a dozen Allied flak guns...

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Ground combat at Darwin [8D]

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 167060 troops, 1363 guns, 2466 vehicles, Assault Value = 4673

Defending force 37102 troops, 297 guns, 158 vehicles, Assault Value = 897

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 8

Japanese max assault: 3992 - adjusted assault: 2809

Allied max defense: 895 - adjusted defense: 1053

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 8)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 8


Japanese ground losses:
3594 casualties reported
Guns lost 82
Vehicles lost 48

Allied ground losses:
4256 casualties reported [&o][&o][&o]
Guns lost 118 [&o]
Vehicles lost 41 [&o]

here we go! This result clearly shows that Darwin won´t be able to hold for a long time. With over 4.000 Allied casualties, two inf and a tank unit in the lead of the Allied troop stack, I´m sure that those three units are wrecked now. Leaves the 2nd USMC division as only combat effective unit. There´s no doubt that we will take the base and IMO, Miller should NOW order his troops to retreat. Everything else would be the wrong decision. The immense number of Allied casualties is a result of my mass employment of armor. This attack surely has cost the Allied a couple of hundred assault points. I expect the base to fall within the next three attacks. BANZAI!

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Ground combat at Chengtu [8D]

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 81526 troops, 952 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1751

Defending force 17746 troops, 105 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 354

Japanese max assault: 3258 - adjusted assault: 3878

Allied max defense: 387 - adjusted defense: 221

Japanese assault odds: 17 to 1 (fort level 8)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Chengtu base !!! [&o]


Japanese ground losses:
1834 casualties reported
Guns lost 47

Allied ground losses:
724 casualties reported
Guns lost 9


Defeated Allied Units Retreating! [:(]

my reinforcements arrived at Chengtu and as soon as my troops were fully supplied (which wasn´t easy over the trails) I´ve ordered a shock attack that easily took the base today. The only downside was the fact that the enemy was able to retreat into the woods instead of being forced to surrender as expected. Nevertheless, my offensive actions in China saw a succesful end today. The troops left in China (some 7000 assault points) act as garisson units and as blocking force at Chungking and Kweiyang where the Allied have massed some 500.000 troops. As those bases seem to be very low on supply, I don´t see the Chinese as a threat anymore! With only some 1.000 supplies a day I guess this won´t ever change again. BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!

Where to now, Gentlemen? [;)]

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15855 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1533

Defending force 285991 troops, 1765 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6902


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16061 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3482

Defending force 195108 troops, 191 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5438


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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14928 troops, 138 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 620

Defending force 213018 troops, 1517 guns, 2490 vehicles, Assault Value = 4422

as you can see, there´s not much left that can do a bombardment... [8D]

We´ve got quite an impressing number of vehicles here... taking up the thought about helping Adolf with some action against the Russian bear, I´ve forgot to say that I´m not only wanting to have most of the IJAAF in Manchuko but also all those tank units, as they are perfectly suited to wreck havoc in the clear terrain around the Northern Russian bases, just like in the clear terrain of Northern Australia! [:D]


With every turn going by, it seems it becomes more and more sure that we will at least cause a lot of trouble in Northern Australia, if not taking it completely. IMO Miller has again made the mistake not to send in the kitchen sink against this mega invasion. Mega invasion because it´s huge, even if the Allied would do it in 44 as it involves nearly the whole IJN (at least every major combatant) and most of the merchant navy as well. Not to talk about the fact that we have something like 7.500 assault points ready to rumble in this area and the 1.500 aircraft supporting this operation. While it was a gamble at the beginning, the goal to get ashore more or less unharmed has been achieved already. We have seen only O N E day with limited Allied air attacks that cost us perhaps half a dozen ships sunk and another dozen damaged (all merchants). Two or three subs are operating in the area, accounting for another 2 or 3 ships sunk. And that´s it!

Miller once told me that an invasion of Lautern would be suicide for my Navy because he could employ 600-800 bombers against that invasion but now (it seems) I´m succesfully invading Northern Australia directly and while I´ve been fearing his bombers, he didn´t employ them. And he´s now running into a disaster if I would be able to knock out the Northern Australian bases and cut off Lautern with the 22 units (including half a dozen inf divisions) there.

Miller unfortunately had to leave for work now, so there won´t be any turn until tomorrow. He told me I should sweet up my GF for an all day WITP session tomorrow... [;)]

[Zond]

ORIGINAL: castor troy

so there won´t be any turn until tomorrow

The Lord works in mysterious ways. That surely is a sign to finish off my thesis. Finally. [:D]

[Ambassador]

Nearly 300 AV lost after this first attack, you have some reasons to be enthusiastic.  Anyway, it's really impressive : you're in '43, and you're on the path of conquering North Australia, and maybe even destroy several Allied divisions.That's very good.[&o]

[bigbaba]

waaaah...no "rumble in the jungle" turn until tomorrow...

[Xxzard]

Been away for a while, just read through the whole invasion, Very nice!!!

I also noticed that coastal fire from the dedicated CD unit in Darwin was very pitiful when I invaded it. Maybe the very low number of guns just dies so quickly it never has a chance to do anything. ofc that was in January 42, this is quite unprecedented at this stage. [:)]

I was rather wondering what happened with the very large force that was deployed to India and then seemed to disappear for a while [:D][:D]

[Hornblower]

ouch

[Rainer79]

Wow, a successful invasion of Northern Australia at this date is certainly something. Congratulations.

The next few days should be very interesting.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Xxzard

Been away for a while, just read through the whole invasion, Very nice!!!

I also noticed that coastal fire from the dedicated CD unit in Darwin was very pitiful when I invaded it. Maybe the very low number of guns just dies so quickly it never has a chance to do anything. ofc that was in January 42, this is quite unprecedented at this stage. [:)]

I was rather wondering what happened with the very large force that was deployed to India and then seemed to disappear for a while [:D][:D]

I have been really afraid of Darwin´s CD unit and that´s why my troops originally started planning for Broome. They started their plannings when they were shipped from India to Soerabaja, most of them for Broome, the rest for Derby. With the propaganda in my emails and the fact that I´ve thought Miller would never think I could invade Australia at this date I hoped to land at Broome and take the base quickly (comparable to what many players do early in the game). But I guess that he just got too much intel about my divisions prepping for Broome and I noticed more and more of his units marching from the East to the West, with most of them going to Broome. Well, this forced me to go to Darwin and as it stands now it´s going quite nice.

CD counterfire is mostly an all or nothing thing in WITP. I have seen those 9 and 6 inch CD guns killing off whole invasions with dozens of ships being sunk but with heavy naval bombardements you mostly see no fire from the CD units at all. Thank god in this case we knocked the unit out, otherwise this could have been total defeat for me on day two or three already.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Rainer79

Wow, a successful invasion of Northern Australia at this date is certainly something. Congratulations.

The next few days should be very interesting.

thanks. Yeah, the next days will definetely be interesting but despite some ground action I doubt that we will see much happening. The most interesting days are probably over already as Miller normally doesn´t do much to counter my ground moves. Perhaps we will see some of his bombers flying ground attacks as soon as we break out of Darwin (no doubt we will take the base) and perhaps a nav attack now and then.

At the moment there are only aircraft at Broome and Derby left, mostly fighters and transports it seems. With only those two bases full of aircraft this means the total number of ac is already half of what it has been the last couple of months in Northern Australia.

What I don´t understand is why his Navy didn´t even left port. I guess the majority of the USN is at Brisbane at the moment, there should be the whole Royal Navy too. Also Perth shows a dark port symbol but I guess this is where most of the Royal Navy merchants have gone when India was lost. Don´t know what they are doing there though. I have a lot of patrols on the Southern tip of New Guinea and if the enemy carriers would have gone North I surely would have spot them and believe me, this would definetely have made me nervous to some extend. But what did Miller do? Nothing. One day he flew airstrikes and that´s it. He has been just too passive again IMO.

[castor troy]

Sunday afternoon, I guess we will get some turns done today... [;)] Here we go...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/29/43

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


256 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kanaiyama Maru

Japanese ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2

at the end of the day, all my invasion TFs will finally have unloaded. Only supplies are being unloaded in the next two or three days... We will have unloaded roughly 150.000 supplies for our troops in this invasion. Support troops and a couple of bgd/div are waiting offshore to be unloaded when the port will be ours. There are another 100.000 supplies with those troops, I haven´t made the mistake twice not to bring enough supplies with the first wave like in India when I had to find out that 100.000 supplies are not enough for 3.500 assault points to fight a ground war for more than two weeks.

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 60
TF 60 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Kinugasa
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Chokai


Allied ground losses:
1158 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Vehicles lost 4

Airbase hits 6
Runway hits 43
Port hits 1

looks like the majority of the support troops was hit hard already... my recon tells me that the enemy troops are marching from Broome and Derby to the West already. Looks like Miller wants to defend Wyndham...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
CA Aoba
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya


Allied ground losses:
708 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 36
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


85 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Matsutan Maru, Shell hits 6

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 250

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 99

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-49 Helen x 232
Ki-46-II Dinah x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 26 damaged


Allied ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Port hits 5
Port supply hits 2 [8|]

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

what a pathetic result. Expected more from 232 high experienced medium bombers. Looks like we will just have to wait until the enemy runs out of supply, we can´t destroy it obviously...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 34
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 105

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 96

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 15000 feet

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15864 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1538

Defending force 285142 troops, 1744 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6891



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16011 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3479

Defending force 194783 troops, 186 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5430



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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22518 troops, 149 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 630

Defending force 215240 troops, 1543 guns, 2538 vehicles, Assault Value = 4483


Japanese ground losses:
27 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported

have ordered my troops to deliberate attack tomorrow! All are well supplied and disruption is VERY low. One div and a bgd were kept on defensive mode though, those two units are below 70/100 and I´ve thought the rest of the troops can do the job alone. With the great result of our first attack, I expect to achiev something like a 3 or 4:1 already. Everything lower would be a very lucky die roll for Miller I guess. If we inflict a lot of casualties again then I can think about a shock attack in a couple of days. Our tank units will then finish off the retreating enemy troops.

[Historiker]

I thought about your statement that its gamey to reassign exausted divisions to a new command as it costs less. If this isn't part of your House Rules, its false. Just think about the second world war, the eastern front.
It was quite usual to redeploy exausted units to France or the Low Lands to gather strength. So if you want, you may consider doint this as historical correct, ergo allowed! [:)]

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

I thought about your statement that its gamey to reassign exausted divisions to a new command as it costs less. If this isn't part of your House Rules, its false. Just think about the second world war, the eastern front.
It was quite usual to redeploy exausted units to France or the Low Lands to gather strength. So if you want, you may consider doint this as historical correct, ergo allowed! [:)]

yes that´s correct, but then I´m missing the point of the implementation of the political points system. At the moment I don´t have trashed divs of restricted commands anyway. The only way to get trashed divisions again would be to attack the Russian at this point as there´s nothing else left. Well I could also order my troops at Chungking to do a suicide attack, but again it´s just not what I want to do.

[castor troy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/30/43

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 254

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 39

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 106

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 38
Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 21
Kittyhawk I x 64
P-40E Warhawk x 108


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 3 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported

Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 30

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

guess it would be the same if I would evacuate my two base forces from this island. They can´t do any damage to the enemy fighters doing training runs... [:(]

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Ground combat at Darwin

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 183443 troops, 1398 guns, 2572 vehicles, Assault Value = 4545

Defending force 32021 troops, 170 guns, 117 vehicles, Assault Value = 660

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 7

Japanese max assault: 4066 - adjusted assault: 2709

Allied max defense: 639 - adjusted defense: 718

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 7)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 7


Japanese ground losses:
2169 casualties reported [:)]
Guns lost 44
Vehicles lost 22

Allied ground losses:
4099 casualties reported [:)]
Guns lost 42
Vehicles lost 31

as expected, we achieved a 3:1, close to 4:1 today. The question now is, doing another deliberate attack in two days or already a shock attack? The saver way would probably be to do another deliberate attack as we would have to achieve a 7:1 at least with the shock attack (if the combat eng take down a fort, otherwise we would need a 8:1). When looking at the remaining troops, I guess it won´t be possible to achieve a 8:1, so there will be another deliberate attack in two days... the shock attack will be ordered in four days and then I expect Darwin to fall...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15884 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1538

Defending force 284512 troops, 1735 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6878



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16044 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3150

Defending force 194690 troops, 185 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5420



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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 11063 troops, 109 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 452

Defending force 213706 troops, 1492 guns, 2516 vehicles, Assault Value = 4348


as you can see, the coming days aren´t that interesting anymore as action has nearly gone to 0 again... we´re doing training runs, Miller is doing training runs. Our ships return from Darwin into safe regions again and there´s no sign of an Allied reaction other than the troop movements 700-1000 miles West of Darwin. Wonder if Miller decides to march a couple of divisions up North coming from Brisbane or so. He could march 6-12 divs up (if he has received reinforcements and brings the troops that took New Caledonia and the Fidjis) if he puts together a formidable force. Their problem will be the fact that it´s a long way and if I´m in Wyndham by that time then they won´t get much supplies due to the distance to their next supplying base. And we could supply our troops from the sea, but that would put our ships in range of enemy LBA again. In any case, he would meet a force that could put nearly 8.000 assault points into one spot, equivalent to nearly 20+ IJA inf divisions! [:D] So the only thing he could hope for would be to stalemate me - which would be a success already as the only goal I can have is to secure all four bases in Northern Australia and to cut off Lautern. To destroy the troops in both places would be a nice bonus. Not securing all four bases in Northern Australia would mean mission unaccomplished.

[Ambassador]

ORIGINAL: castor troy
What I don´t understand is why his Navy didn´t even left port. I guess the majority of the USN is at Brisbane at the moment, there should be the whole Royal Navy too. Also Perth shows a dark port symbol but I guess this is where most of the Royal Navy merchants have gone when India was lost. Don´t know what they are doing there though. I have a lot of patrols on the Southern tip of New Guinea and if the enemy carriers would have gone North I surely would have spot them and believe me, this would definetely have made me nervous to some extend. But what did Miller do? Nothing. One day he flew airstrikes and that´s it. He has been just too passive again IMO.

Maybe he thought it would be unwise to pass through the Torres Straits with your Betty daitais so close, and KB in the vicinity. If I remember correctly, you sank several of his CVs, so he should still be in inferiority for the moment.




Or perhaps he has a big invasion planned in the Pacific, and he's preparing to launch it while he knows you can't do anything against it.[;)]

[bigbaba]

i must say i find it very impressive chris. not only mounting such a large scale attack as the japanese in 1943, but to manage all the logistic and to bring such a huge number of troops and supply to australia few months after a large invasion in india!

and one thing more: you realy could be a briton because of your typical "british understatement" of your abilities and possibilities as the japanese.[:D]

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

ORIGINAL: castor troy
What I don´t understand is why his Navy didn´t even left port. I guess the majority of the USN is at Brisbane at the moment, there should be the whole Royal Navy too. Also Perth shows a dark port symbol but I guess this is where most of the Royal Navy merchants have gone when India was lost. Don´t know what they are doing there though. I have a lot of patrols on the Southern tip of New Guinea and if the enemy carriers would have gone North I surely would have spot them and believe me, this would definetely have made me nervous to some extend. But what did Miller do? Nothing. One day he flew airstrikes and that´s it. He has been just too passive again IMO.

Maybe he thought it would be unwise to pass through the Torres Straits with your Betty daitais so close, and KB in the vicinity. If I remember correctly, you sank several of his CVs, so he should still be in inferiority for the moment.




Or perhaps he has a big invasion planned in the Pacific, and he's preparing to launch it while he knows you can't do anything against it.[;)]

I´ve sunk only two of his CVs so far. 5 more were heavily damaged though. Due to pure luck on his side 300 Betties weren´t able to sink four of his British CVs in port. As he has showed near New Caledonia he can field a formidable CV force with over 200 fighters on Cap, so he could have brought them. Even if it would just be to make me nervous. With all the LBA and a big carrier force (not to talk about all the surface forces) it was a MUST for him to attack. He didn´t, we will see if he pays for it.

[castor troy]

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

i must say i find it very impressive chris. not only mounting such a large scale attack as the japanese in 1943, but to manage all the logistic and to bring such a huge number of troops and supply to australia few months after a large invasion in india!

and one thing more: you realy could be a briton because of your typical "british understatement" of your abilities and possibilities as the japanese.[:D]

it´s just putting together a couple of transport TFs and that´s it... [;)] with a couple of years of playing WITP you get used to it...