It almost sounds too good to be true, will be kinda hard for Allies to face only Franks, Jacks and George fighters in 44!
It will take some time to optimize the production line to sustain a major production of Jacks and Georges.
Already got a good amount of George and Franks in production but only 32 Jacks - but that's the inferior relative here anyway me thnks.
Yeah, the MTBs stuck on the production line has annoyed me for some time - I halt the boats when they get stuck on day 1.
So I shouldn't have any unneccessary production drains.
I asked Andy whether we could upgrade to the beta patch and he said ok and that he probably could live with it..
That's good sport even though we would have upgraded anyway when the patch goes public in x-xx days / weeks.
This turn bombers decimated a light tank regiment heading into the jungle east of Magwe.
Had planned to create a picket line as I'm kinda expecting Andy to launch a two pronged attack in this direction.
- Didn't know he had spotted us and the attacks were devastating.
Our fighters have just recently repaired damage and I set 100 fighters to CAP the tank regiment next turn.
Very possible that Andy will sweep it heavily, but his dividing his attention among multiple targets.
Nells hit a large troop ship near Luganville, looks like Andy is bringing in troops - need that to get an airfield started.
One of the biggest surprises this turn was the appearence of multiple TFs near Nuku Hiva, a CVE TF among them.
- Very likely a pending invasion.
Not much we can or want to do about that, but a limited reaction force has been alerted at Xmas Island!
No way I'm going to send KB into the vast expanses of the Central Pacific at this time: we need to protect the SRA and Burma first of all.
Actually it would be a good thing to engage Andy in a battle he thinks he can win, just like Zhukov at Stalingrad. If we feed in just enough troops
to delay and halt the Allies in Burma while building up strong reserves we may be able to lock them in another stalemate.
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 04, 43
Air Combat
Morning Air attack on 4th Tank Regiment, at 57,46
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 30
P-40N1 Warhawk x 10
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 19 (1 destroyed, 18 disabled)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Morning Air attack on 4th Tank Regiment, at 57,46
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-25D1 Mitchell x 36
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 38 (5 destroyed, 33 disabled)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Morning Air attack on 2nd Tank/B Division, at 60,44
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Allied aircraft
A-20A Havoc x 8
A-20G Havoc x 22
B-25C Mitchell x 13
Allied aircraft losses
A-20A Havoc: 2 damaged
A-20G Havoc: 7 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
63 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Also attacking 101st Machine Canno AA Battalion ...
Also attacking 2nd Tank/C Division ...
Also attacking 2nd Tank/A Division ...
Also attacking 48th Field AA Battalion ...
Also attacking 62nd Field AA Battalion ...
Also attacking 2nd Tank/B Division ...
Also attacking 101st Machine Canno AA Battalion ...
Also attacking 2nd Tank/A Division ...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Luganville at 120,150
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 41 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 1 damaged
Allied Ships
APD Dickerson
xAP Mount Vernon, Torpedo hits 2
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x G3M3 Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
South and Central Pacific
