The Power of Inexperience / GreyJoy(A)-Rader(J)

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: Xargun

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

At the same time two bombardment TFs (4 CAs, 3 CLs and 12 DDs) bombed again the beaches at Tulagi....again with no enemy casualities reported (...and yes, i had 3 kingfishers groups on recon duties)[&:].

To be honest that is not a very powerful bombardment TF. What range did you set them to bombard and escorts to bombard or not ? Also check their ammo level - if its not nearly full they will do a few shots and then pull back. If their ammo is too low they will not even fire.

I never do bombardments unless I have at least 1 BB in the TF. If those enemy troops have been there several months then they have lvl 4+ forts and a 'light' bombardment won't hurt them.

Xargun

They did have plenty of ammo and they did fire pretty every shot they have...range was set to 0 and escort were set to bombard. During the first days of the invasions my bombardment TFs did do some damages.... however it could be a mix of forts, FOW and bad luck.

Not a terrible problem however for the considerations above.

They could stay there rotting for the whole war for what it bothers me.

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

GreyJoy, my sincere compliments for your new avatar.

It changed, but why you chose it is clear. The bush might have been removed, but still, theres the bush.

While I do not share your entusiasm for those of the female species abhorred by razors, I do share it for
a good symbol.

May i use it?...it's SOOOO COOOL!

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Forum, I hereby move that we dismantle this AAR and banish forthwith GreyJoy to an island somewhere...anywhere...and I think John Dillworth probably needs to join him there (John, bless his pea pickin' heart, was an innocent bystander willingly sucked into GreyJoy's obsession with flora and fur, God rest his soul!).

CR, the rage you are showing in this holy crusade of yours against the save-the-fur movement (which is growing bigger every day), it cannot be justified by anything else but the fact that, secretly, you DO LOVE "bearded-ladies-underwears" (LOL)...but you're just too "bourgeois" to admit it and so you scream and shout and point your guilty finger at us hoping the world won't doubt about your love for razors and waxing

John D., don't get scared by these empty threats....bearded underwears will triumph!

[JohnDillworth]

May i use it?...it's SOOOO COOOL!

Sure can. I just picked up off of Google images. There is a website called TinEye that can help you locate the original, or at least a great copy. Just download the image, feed it to TinEye, and it will show you all the places on the web where it's been used. I was actually looking for the Monty Python "No Shrubbery!" guy, but I could not resist this.

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: DOCUP

A bush in the hand is better than 2 birds or something like that.[8|]

You got the momentum now Greyjoy keep it and roll on.

doc

Yes, 2 birds in the hand are surely worse than one single bush...[:D]

Don't overstimate my situation. Rader is losing some minor battles but it's still a long way to get back from the corner he put us....the whole India is still to be recaptured and his forces are still mighty and intact...i DON'T have to get overconfident nor complacent. Gotta keep the pressure and the focus up

[JohnDillworth]

Don't overstimate my situation. Rader is losing some minor battles but it's still a long way to get back from the corner he put us....the whole India is still to be recaptured and his forces are still mighty and intact...i DON'T have to get overconfident nor complacent. Gotta keep the pressure and the focus up

Yes, but you slowed him enough to upgrade to Hellcats. He has Capitol ships that need repair. His training program is running on the springs and needs to to recover, you have preserved your carriers until mid-43. As long as you do nothing stupid you should be able to ramp up the presure.

[GreyJoy]

April 25, 26, 27 and 28 1943

Nothing much happened. Rader has moved all his fighter force back on the front. Russell, Thousands and Auki are full of fighters. He also moved in some 100 Kates on ASW duties and they already killed 3 of my subs on April 27th [:o]

Another armoured merchant sprung up near thaiti and sunk an empty xAK of mine in a lighly escorted convoy....i'll try to counter this new old threat ASAP.

No sign of the KB....

In India i can confirm you he has moved in another 2 Divisions (the 33rd and the 7th). His army has now went out of Multan and is chasing down my fleeing Eastern Army...i went beyond the river just in time....fiuuu...

Lots of air activity lately in India. 400 Japanese bombers are pounding Karachi, Hyderabad and my Eastern Army...despite that 11 Albacores that managed to escape to the carnage that has suffered my Indian Air Army (that exists no more) took off and attacked on a japanese CL that were raiding my shippings at Karachi. 2 torps in the morning of the 27th, 2 more torps in the afternoon and the poor bastard is blown out of the seas[8D]

Moving more supplies, troops, planes and ships to the front. I need to consolidate my positions now...i smell an incoming battle...

[GreyJoy]

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[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: JohnDillworth

Don't overstimate my situation. Rader is losing some minor battles but it's still a long way to get back from the corner he put us....the whole India is still to be recaptured and his forces are still mighty and intact...i DON'T have to get overconfident nor complacent. Gotta keep the pressure and the focus up

Yes, but you slowed him enough to upgrade to Hellcats. He has Capitol ships that need repair. His training program is running on the springs and needs to to recover, you have preserved your carriers until mid-43. As long as you do nothing stupid you should be able to ramp up the presure.

Well...in India i was just almost doing something stupid...I was getting overconfident about the fact that he was going to invade the Solomons...and the fact that my subs weren't spotting anything in the Bengal Bay united to the fact that all his units were prepping for TLT made me believe i was facing only a minor army in India... If i didn't get aware in time of the risk i could have been encircled, bombed to dust by his bombers and defeated, opening the door to Hyderabad and Karachi...

Rader is a smart boy...he is using very strange routes to bring his convoys to India...using only coastal hexes to move... now that i understood his move he has placed Air ASW everywhere along the coast of Burma and Thailand so for me it's almost impossible to interdict this sealane....[&o]

[GreyJoy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 29,30 43


The AMC Kongo Maru near Thaiti has been chased down and sunk by CA Portland[8D]

Lost 2 xAKs due to Judys heavilt escorted over Lunga....my P-40ks on CAP couldn't help against overwhelming numbers of Georges and they suffered badly...[:o]

Another xAK was lost near Karachi due to an enemy DDs...the siege of Karachi is getting active again

Near Multan Rader made a mistake and didn't check the right direction of his tank army, relying on the "arrows"....they crossed the river and bumbed against my Eastern Army, resulting in the complete annihilation on his mobile army...however he was going to flank me, pinning me down with his bombers and moving on the flanks with his tanks...Thank God he made that mistake[&o][&o]


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Night Time Surface Combat, near Caroline Island at 179,168, Range 3,000 Yards

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
AMC Kongo Maru, Shell hits 14, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Portland


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Ground combat at 49,8 (near Multan)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 16840 troops, 74 guns, 1496 vehicles, Assault Value = 938

Defending force 215112 troops, 3834 guns, 6212 vehicles, Assault Value = 7770

Japanese adjusted assault: 130

Allied adjusted defense: 9376

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 72

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
3037 casualties reported
Squads: 220 destroyed, 72 disabled
Non Combat: 72 destroyed, 264 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 63 (28 destroyed, 35 disabled)
Vehicles lost 823 (314 destroyed, 509 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Allied ground losses:
460 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 48 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled


Assaulting units:
16th Recon Regiment
8th Tank Regiment
12th Tank Regiment
1st Mobile Infantry Regiment
51st Recon Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
10th Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
2nd Mobile Infantry Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
7th Ind.Tank Brigade

Defending units:
14th Indian Division
10th Indian Division
26th Indian Brigade
Gardner's Horse Regiment
Punjab Division
11th Indian Division
I Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
267th Armoured Brigade
42nd Cavalry Regiment
44th Cavalry Regiment
25th Indian Division
18th British Division
2nd British Division
16th British Brigade
84th Indian Brigade
1st Patiala Lancers Regiment
19th Indian Division
7th Indian Division
43rd Cavalry Regiment
255th Armoured Brigade
150th RAC Regiment
3rd Cavalry Regiment
7th Australian Division
14th British Brigade
20th Indian/A Division
268th Motorised Brigade
45th Recce Regiment
254th Armoured Brigade
23rd British Brigade
2nd Hyder Lancers Regiment
5th Indian Division
6th Australian Division
50th Tank Brigade
26th Indian Division
20th Indian/C Division
77th Heavy AA Regiment
India Command
21st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
6th Heavy AA Regiment
1st RM Heavy AA Regiment
IV Indian Corps
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2nd Indian AA Bde
28th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
26th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2/11th Field Regiment
XV Indian Corps
2/9th Field Regiment
22nd Light AA Regiment
85th British AT Gun Regiment
23rd AA Bde
23rd Indian Engineer Battalion
21st Light AA Regiment
12th Indian Engineer Battalion
6th Medium Regiment
29th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Belfast Heavy AA Regiment
13th Indian Light AA Regiment
III Indian Corps
2/13th Field Regiment
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
27th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
XXXIII Indian Corps
95th Heavy AA Regiment
8th Medium Regiment
1st Indian Light AA Regiment
2nd Indian Heavy AA Regiment
17th Indian Light AA Regiment
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment



Lost 3 more subs today...he has moved so many air units on ASW role that now i'm forced to move back all my subs at once....[:@]

[paullus99]

If his armored units are still in the hex, you should hit them again & perhaps annihilate them completely.

[JeffroK]

Well done, he must have Alan Cunningham directing his AFV's

[CaptBeefheart]

Well done on the Rabaul raid. Against the AI I tend not to attack ports at all; otherwise it would be too easy. Far better to engage on the open seas. I'm a bit surprised he was confident enough to park such forces in 4E range.

Cheers,
CC

[GreyJoy]

May 1, 2 1943

Rader's reaction is smart, stiff and brutally logic.

In india he's chasing me down. 9 more units entered in my hex, while more 60 units are making a flanking movement on the north. I cannot stop and fight him cause, otherwise, i'll be flanked.
Even simply running away i risk to be flanked and bypassed cause he can move with "move" status, while i need to move only with one stack and on "combat" status. This is caused by his constant air bombing...only massing all my AA with my LCUs i'm able to force him to bomb from the stratosphere, thus causing only minor damages...he interdicts anyway my movements so my units result to be always slower than his.... I'm getting pretty scared about this situation right now....[X(]

His DD raiders sunk 3 more xAKs resupplying Karachi, while his bombers keep Karachi and Hyderabad closed...the supply situation is getting worse....

In the SWPAC and SOPAC, i had to move my subs back from the Solomons....another sub was sunk today by his Kates on ASW role....i lost 4 subs in 4 turns....too much for no gain!

The KB keeps on hiding...i'm dedicating particular attention to the naval search of different part of the map but the "monster" remains hidden....

I moved at Karaikira a 200 fighter CAP umbrella and moved a SCTF composed of 7 fletchers, 2 Cleveland Class CLs CL Leander. As predicted his Judys from Thousands Ships Bay attacked furiously, escorted by Georges and Zeros, resulting in a stiff battle over Karaikira, easily won by my guys. We downed 36 enemy planes for a loss of 2 of our own.

[GreyJoy]

ORIGINAL: paullus99

If his armored units are still in the hex, you should hit them again & perhaps annihilate them completely.

No i cannot. My guys moved to the next hex immediately after that battle....however i cannot stop and fight cause the first priority now is to get back to Hyderabad and Karachi before he manages to flank me....

[jonreb31]

What bothers me is you have a perfectly good railroad network in the region yet you have to worry about being outflanked since the game mechanics won't let you use the railroad for unit movement.

[GreyJoy]

JonReb, thanks for sharing your thoughts first of all!

As i said i have to move on the road on "combat" mode, under costant air bombing of 150 Helens/Sallies that slow me down.
He can move on "move" mode on secondary roads.
This difference enables him to move faster than me, despite the road differences and this evidence is already showing...if he didn't make that terrible mistake with his tanks, now i would have them marching on my northern flank at a speed that i could not hope to reach....
He had already tought me how fast the japs units can move in India while pinning down the allies with bombers...

I need to run for my life now... I screwed my positions for being impatient....i had to wait to move east...i had to wait to have gained back the air space...now Karachi is in danger back again....[:o]

[obvert]

Do you not have any DDs to move with your surface supply convoys to Karachi? Put them in a SCTF following with the supply convoy, so if he attacks, first he has to fight? Sounds like you just need one good hit of supply to get in there every several weeks.

[GreyJoy]

Obvert, thanks.
I'm already sending couple of DDs to engage his raiders.... have to fear his betties thou...
However i'd like to underline that i'm not splitting my Eastern Army in two (so to cover both routes) because doing so i'll have to divide my AA protection, which is the only thing that has kept my Army in a decent fighting condition, forcing him to bomb it from the stratosphere. If i split the AAs, i fear i'll be subjected to a massacre from the air.

However i keep the option of sending my armoured units, along with my best AA guns on the northern secondary road in order to cover my left flank...but will be the "extrema ratio"

[DOCUP]

Nice hit on his ground units.  Looks like he might of been lureing you in for a trap.  Do you have any bombers that you could use to GB his units pursueing you  in Inda?
 
doc