Ocean of (Allied) Blood.

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: khyberbill

Wow.  Look at the jap AV..

I would think FatR would have supply problems with a large stack so far from the coast and rail heads.

This has never been my experience in China. The Japanese don't see to have many supply problems at all unless they are not shipping enough to the costal ports.

[bigred]

Lil Andaman has fallen to the IJA.  A sad depressing day for the Commonwealth.  For some time I was out of supply.  I read on the threads that it only takes one point of supply for a unit to fight full strenght.  So I loaded all the subs in the area w/ supply transport and started a continuous feed.  On the last attack I did not have  a sub in port unloading.....I was also flying 18 catalinas per turn into L.A., all seemingly to no avail.  The brit 18th/AUS 7th were both non upgraded divisions. 

round combat at Little Andaman (44,59)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 65149 troops, 799 guns, 271 vehicles, Assault Value = 1853

Defending force 42500 troops, 918 guns, 674 vehicles, Assault Value = 921

Japanese adjusted assault: 2696

Allied adjusted defense: 401

Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 4)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Little Andaman !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), disruption(-)
experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
2563 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 225 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 37 disabled


Allied ground losses:
37050 casualties reported
Squads: 1230 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 3012 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 415 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1331 (1331 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 835 (835 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 19


Assaulting units:
48th Division
27th Electric Engineer Regiment
5th Division
38th Division
21st Division
8th Engineer Regiment
53rd Division
18th Division
8th Mountain Gun Regiment
15th Army
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
Southern Army
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
18th British Division
7th Australian Division
6th Australian Div /2
35th Light AA Regiment
I Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
6th Heavy AA Regiment
175 Wing
IV Indian /2
Eastern Fleet
RAF 222 Group Base Force
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
RAF 223 Group Base Force
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
48th Light AA Regiment
222 Group RAF
I Australian Corps
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
Sikh Construction Battalion
III Indian /1

[bigred]

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

What were the pilot skills on the B24's like that hit Rabaul? Does a port strike use NavB or GndB (I'd assume NavB).

Both Port and Airfield strikes use Ground skill. In both instances you are hitting fixed facilities located on terra firma.

Alfred

As requested, yellow is single digit. i felt the results to be good..26 planes---16 known hits...61% hit rate per plane. Or is it figured 16x5=96x500lb bombs 16/96=16% of all bombs droped found a target.

[Itdepends]

Thanks Bigred- and to you as well Alfred. I thought I'd need to be training my heavy bombers in NavB as well to have a chance of catching my opponent in a port strike- good to know that's not necessary.

Cheers,

Daniel

[bigred]

43-6-16:

[bigred]

In other news one Bombardment FT each where ordered to Munda/Milni while an amphib group will land at Rossell this turn.   Possibility of Jap naval air catching my 2 CVE cap covering force, but I expect the IJN to return to Rabaul.

[bigred]

43-6-16:
1.  FatR must have seen my arriving SAGs at suamlaki as both trans/ CVL tfs withdrew before i arrived. 

2.  Rossell is a level one AF and growing.  Amphib frce uncontested.

3. Armor battalion of stuarts 2 hexes southeast of Magwe trashed by 3 regiments of jap armor.

[bigred]

43-6-18:  IJN sag Tf has reinforced the celebes.  I am starting to feel uncomfortable w/ a lack of air cover for my ships.

[bigred]

This turn AtA score was 40 ijaaf to 12 allied.  Night bombing Magwe w/ 100%moon destroyed bout 15 planes on the ground.

[bigred]

I wanted to see the effect of my moonlight bombing campaign over a period of time...see here we see a the daily air grind.

[bigred]

3xCVs have arrived north of Darwin.

[bigred]

2nd time I have seen FatR bring a BB TF w/in my bomber range.  These TFs just sit next to his base w/ local CAP.  Got 3x500lb hits on a Kongo class BB but did not score too good in the air war.
 

[witpqs]

Just bait?

[bigred]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Just bait?

I am not sure. The range is 7 and the TBF has a torp range of 6 so..
I had 2 sqns of TBFs set to range 8 @kira and off they went into attack w/AP bombs and about 6 f6fs escort...so i reduced the range to 6 and dont expect FatR to come into range w/out LRCAP. I felt like he did this 3 times on purpose. No problem w/me, I will have to be careful.

[bigred]

3xFish in the Krish:

After last turn I expected FatR to realize I had TBFs at Kira.  Never in my wildest dreams did I expect The BB SAG at Munda to move south w/out LRCAP. SoPac has a new mission---insure these BBs do not return to Japan.

BB Kirishima, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, on fire
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring BB Kirishima--5 SBDs could not report hits do to the smoke.

[bigred]

Chungking continues to deteriorate:
Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 353105 troops, 4326 guns, 3587 vehicles, Assault Value = 11211

Defending force 207461 troops, 1592 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6859

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 5680

Allied adjusted defense: 8663

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
47190 casualties reported
Squads: 187 destroyed, 4551 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 397 disabled
Engineers: 14 destroyed, 583 disabled
Guns lost 324 (12 destroyed, 312 disabled)
Vehicles lost 112 (4 destroyed, 108 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
10601 casualties reported
Squads: 263 destroyed, 844 disabled
Non Combat: 58 destroyed, 565 disabled
Engineers: 27 destroyed, 74 disabled
Guns lost 142 (36 destroyed, 106 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

[bigred]

My nearest SAG is located at Ndendi.  CL/6xDD.  I am surprised the CVLs in that TF did not fly CAP.  I would bet they are all set to Escort.  Nt sure.  Time to unload my PT reserve at Kira.  A PT pursuit TF..HaHa

[bigred]

Next day Essex/Wasp/Vic TF spring into action from the south of Munda.  Fighter losses are heavy.  FatR said in private email i should have sweep munda.   But i did not know where the Tfs would end up when i made my move.  Note my lack of torp hits...
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Munda at 111,134

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 73 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M4 Zero x 13
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 16
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 19



Allied aircraft
Martlet IV x 12
F6F-3 Hellcat x 82
SB2C-1C Helldiver x 24
SBD-3 Dauntless x 18
TBF-1 Avenger x 39


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Martlet IV: 1 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 15 destroyed
SB2C-1C Helldiver: 2 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CA Maya
BB Kirishima, Bomb hits 9, on fire, heavy damage
CA Atago, Bomb hits 1, on fire
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Munda at 111,134

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 75 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M4 Zero x 13
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 15
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 19



Allied aircraft
Martlet IV x 12
F6F-3 Hellcat x 57
SB2C-1C Helldiver x 21
SBD-3 Dauntless x 17
TBF-1 Avenger x 48


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Martlet IV: 4 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 10 destroyed
SB2C-1C Helldiver: 3 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
TBF-1 Avenger: 7 damaged
TBF-1 Avenger: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
CA Atago, Bomb hits 1
DD Oyashio
DD Yudachi
CA Maya, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires
BB Kirishima, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Isokaze

[bigred]

Probably was a cap trap.

[bigred]

Was it worth it.  I bet they are still floating.