Sinking the red castle - Smeulders vs. Erkki

[Smeulders]

More than a month between updates ? Well, this AAR isn't really getting the attention it deserves.

Main points for the Allies this month
- A cease-fire has come in effect in China. Turns out we both hate the theatre. We've both agreed not to overdo troop movements out of the area.

- A raid at Makassar was a disaster, with the moon at 0% I thought I could risk an attack with some light cruisers on the invasion fleet. Instead they ran into the covering force consisting of a number of CA an decent DD. In the battle itself the RN cruisers got hit badly in return for a DD. During the retreat it then turned out part of KB had placed itself on the route back to Perth. Final results were 4 Clemsons and 2 old RN Cruisers sunk for one modern IJN DD.

- Allied air force in the DEI was useless. So far there is one hit on a Japanese xAK.

- Small incursions into India. Akyab and Cox's Bazaar taken. Troops are moving to defend Chittagong. One Australian ID + 18th British ID was diverted to India, so I should have some good troops to counter a limited attack, right now it's just 7th Armoured and one Indian Bde moving to Chittagong though, I don't think there is much moving up the coast yet.

- Slow Japanese advance in the Pacific (furthest advance Tabiteaeu) and Solomons (Ndeni).

- Christmas and Pago Pago both have good defensive forces (About an ID). Noumea is getting the Americal regiments arriving in Oz, Suva will follow later with one more American ID.

[Capt. Harlock]

More than a month between updates ? Well, this AAR isn't really getting the attention it deserves.

+1 [;)]

[Smeulders]

Doing 2 AARs properly has become too time consuming since I started work (you don't know just how much time you've got as a student until you stop having it.) and a new basketball seasons taking up a lot of my spare time. My other PBEM is on hold at the moment though so a quick flyby of the past month or so was in order. I'll try to get short updates in after important battles, but otherwise this AAR is going to be very quiet.

[Smeulders]

Not much important happened during the last month or so, mostly a clean up of the DEI.

HMS Glaswgow escorted by a USN Destroyer did a short raid on shipping near Horn Island (half a dozen merchants damaged, but no sinkings reported) and narrowly escaped carriers coming down to Darwin. 1 Dutch destroyer wasn't so lucky, she got hit by a bomb and ran into a cruiser group the next night.

Last couple of days were bad for the long range merchant fleet of the Allies. A group of carriers (mini-KBish) is roaming between Oz and Cape Town and hit that shipping lane just as 2 xAK groups were crossing each other (one Oz-bound, the other returning to Cape Town). They got massacred on 2 consecutive days. Today I got punished for a lack of attention, another xAK group just got out of the wormhole and was slaughtered in turn, I should have turned them around but didn't. In total it cost me 21 merchants, worth 12 VP a piece and measuring over 6000 tons....