Aussies v Aussies - Clubbing baby seals (no AOFFEN or Mark)

[ny59giants]

Chungking - Can you move enough Tojo close enough to sweep the skies clear and then use Oscars to escort in bombers to hit his AF and destroy his supply?? If his supply situation gets bad enough here, then the AI will not move much out to the other bases and units. When I was playing the Allies, I was able to hold on barely until he started hitting this base and my supply situation went from bad to worse. You will know he is in trouble if he tries to send some Hurricanes or P-40K over to defend the airspace.

[jrcar]

There is no Chinese airforce, it is all destroyed! Our bombers roam freely, hitting bases, destroying supply, and hitting ground troops

Major Chinese bases with airfields over 1 are all continually hit so that allied aircraft can't be bought in either.

Oscar sweep around just in case, and small Tojo units help escort to encourage the bomber breathern to fly.

So yup all good

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Chungking - Can you move enough Tojo close enough to sweep the skies clear and then use Oscars to escort in bombers to hit his AF and destroy his supply?? If his supply situation gets bad enough here, then the AI will not move much out to the other bases and units. When I was playing the Allies, I was able to hold on barely until he started hitting this base and my supply situation went from bad to worse. You will know he is in trouble if he tries to send some Hurricanes or P-40K over to defend the airspace.

[jrcar]

27 Feb 1943 the IJNAF needs new glasses!

Indicators and Warnings

USA 25th Infantry Div now at Katherine.

US CV's protecting a convoy south of NZ.

Subs
We are generally supressing his subs with ASW and air units.

Burma
Sweep and bomb Katha against no opposition. He has also stopped trying to fly troops in.

His airforce is resting... so is a third of ours.

We are repositioning forces now that it is clear he is going north first (then maybe east? to clear the route to China?).

DEI

OZ
Usual bombing of stuff.

Pacific
Our planes find the raiders deeper into our territory... and miss! These are all pretty well trained guys, but it is long range.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Morning Air attack on TF, near Iwo-jima at 112,82

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 53 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 18 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 4



Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Montpelier

Morning Air attack on TF, near Iwo-jima at 112,82

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 13



Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Montpelier
DD Taylor

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Iwo-jima at 112,82

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 20



Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 12 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Montpelier
DD Taylor
DD Helm


We continue to tag and track the large CV protected convoy, it is well south of NZ. We want to know eher it goes so we have several subs heading into the southern Australian port areas so we can see where he is offloading. This may give us some clues to his future intentions.

China
Our Armoured unit crosses the river hex side and triggers a shock attack. The Chinese forces now only have one hexside open to the East into the woods.

Ground combat at Kweiyang (74,49)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 960 troops, 0 guns, 143 vehicles, Assault Value = 1295

Defending force 61340 troops, 441 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1529

Japanese adjusted assault: 56

Allied adjusted defense: 2635

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 47

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 81 (6 destroyed, 75 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
2nd Tank Division
12th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Division
51st Engineer Regiment
6th Division
19th Div /1
23rd Army

Defending units:
49th Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
14th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
86th Chinese Corps
87th Chinese Corps

More of the forces we defeated on the Burma/Chinese border have now marched to Tsuyung. We have been flying in lots of supply and our guys are recovering nicely!

Ground combat at Tsuyung (68,46)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 7731 troops, 46 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 186

Defending force 921 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 30

Allied adjusted assault: 13

Japanese adjusted defense: 55

Allied assault odds: 1 to 4

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker: disruption(-), supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
101 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled


Assaulting units:
71st Chinese Corps
54th Chinese/A Corps
10th Construction Regiment
54th Chinese/C Corps
NCAC

Defending units:
2nd Raiding Regiment
Yokosuka 3rd SNLF



Still trying to work out what Andrew is trying to do on the central Oz front. If he just wanted to hold why have a good US div stuck there... However he doesn't have the 3 div it requires to take Darwin either... Meanwhile our bombers gets lots of practice killing stuff in the open with no retaliation.

Cheers

Rob

[jrcar]

28 Feb 1943 Quiet turn

Indicators and Warnings

Subs
A mass of allied subs is transiting south of Japan towards the east Japan hunting grounds. Looks like the sub war is about to hot up again!

Burma
We sweep and bomb Katha, now looks closed.

DEI

OZ
We had moved an armoured unit to flank Katherine, he sent out two... we bomb

Afternoon Air attack on 2/9th Armoured Regiment, at 77,128 , near Katherine

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3 Zero x 15
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 18
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 26



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 19 (5 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Pacific
Our aircraft fail to fly against the raiders, who are nearing IwoJima. Looks like I forgot to route one resource convoy, it ends up next door to the raiders

We have a SCTF that isabout 2 days out to deal with these raiders.

China
We bombard at Chihkiang. We attack next turn (this was a stuff/up miscommunication, they should have attacked).

Ground combat at Chihkiang (78,50)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12724 troops, 122 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 738

Defending force 14943 troops, 97 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 309



Assaulting units:
9th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Regiment
104th/A Division

Defending units:
3rd New Chinese Corps
26th Chinese/A Corps
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
4th Chinese/A Corps
14th Chinese Base Force
29th Group Army
4th Group Army
13th Chinese Base Force
11th Chinese Base Force
23rd Group Army
7th War Area
88th Chinese Corps
16th Construction Regiment

[jrcar]

1 Mar 1943 Raiders strike

Indicators and Warnings

Subs

ASW attack near Toyohara at 125,48

Japanese Ships
DD Niizuki

Allied Ships
SS Halibut, hits 1

Sub attack near Chichi-jima at 109,73

Japanese Ships
xAK Tokusima Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
PB Ryusei Maru
xAK Pacific Maru
PB Yahada Maru

Allied Ships
SS Silversides

Japanese ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Burma
Our rear guard collapses. We have a frabment out backdeeper in Burma, so it saves marching them out!

Ground combat at 63,42 (near Myitkyina)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 7030 troops, 77 guns, 518 vehicles, Assault Value = 347

Defending force 392 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 12

Allied adjusted assault: 421

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 421 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
423 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Allied ground losses:
15 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
2nd Royal Tank Regiment
3rd USMC Tank Battalion
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
268th Motorised Brigade

Defending units:
55th Cavalry Regiment

DEI

OZ
More bombing of the tk units near Katherine.

Morning Air attack on 2/10th Armoured Regiment, at 77,128 , near Katherine

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3 Zero x 15
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 18
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 47



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 2 damaged


Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 30 (2 destroyed, 28 disabled)

Pacific
Our counter SCTF is now 2 hex away. He gets some good hits on our transports The PB's are just afloat.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Iwo-jima at 108,82, Range 4,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
xAK Yamahuku Maru
xAK Yamahagi Maru, Shell hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage [SUNK]
xAK Kirikawa Maru
xAK Seian Maru, Shell hits 2
xAK Tamashima Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire
xAK Toyooka Maru
xAK Delagoa Maru
xAK Teisin Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire [SUNK]
xAK Nanman Maru, Shell hits 14, heavy fires, heavy damage [SUNK]
PB Okuyo Maru, Shell hits 6, heavy fires
PB Seikai Maru, Shell hits 8, heavy fires

Allied Ships
CL Montpelier
DD Taylor
DD Helm

Our bombers fail to launch due to weather

China
Mass airstrikes on Chihkiang and then we attack.

Ground combat at Chihkiang (78,50)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20591 troops, 190 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 738

Defending force 14878 troops, 96 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 305

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 285

Allied adjusted defense: 391

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
665 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 76 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled


Allied ground losses:
828 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 39 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 13 (4 destroyed, 9 disabled)


Assaulting units:
9th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Regiment
104th/A Division

Defending units:
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
26th Chinese/A Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
4th Chinese/A Corps
11th Chinese Base Force
4th Group Army
88th Chinese Corps
23rd Group Army
7th War Area
14th Chinese Base Force
29th Group Army
13th Chinese Base Force
16th Construction Regiment

Tojo IIC and the Emiliy H8K2 are now availale. When we try to turn the Tojo IIa factories to IIc though they are damaged... is this because we skipped a generation of aircraft (IIb?).

[jrcar]

2 Mar 1943 Raiders sunk!

Indicators and Warnings

Subs
One of our subs tracking the CV/CVE protected convoy is attacked.

ASW attack near Dunedin at 103,196

Japanese Ships
SS I-177, hits 1

Allied Ships
AM Matai
AM Muritai
PC Taney

Sub attack near Toyohara at 125,48

Japanese Ships
xAK Tokusima Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [SUNK]
xAK Morioka Maru
xAK Horai Maru
xAKL Shoan Maru
xAKL Malacca Maru
xAKL Kuwayama Maru
xAKL Indus Maru
xAKL Ganges Maru
SC CHa-19

Allied Ships
SS Halibut

Burma

DEI

OZ

Pacific
We catch the raiders as they head for home A real knife fight, 2000 yards!

Night Time Surface Combat, near Agrihan at 114,82, Range 2,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 3 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Aoba, Shell hits 1
CL Sendai
DD Wakazuki
DD Natsushio
DD Tokitsukaze

Allied Ships
CL Montpelier, Shell hits 22, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Taylor, Shell hits 3, heavy fires
DD Helm
Poor visibility due to Thunderstorms with 17% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Thunderstorms and 17% moonlight: 2,000 yards
Range closes to 25,000 yards...
Range closes to 21,000 yards...
Range closes to 17,000 yards...
Range closes to 13,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 6,000 yards...
Range closes to 4,000 yards...
Range closes to 2,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 2,000 yards
Hisamune, Yonejiro crosses the 'T'
CA Aoba engages CL Montpelier at 2,000 yards
CL Sendai engages CL Montpelier at 2,000 yards
CL Montpelier sunk by CA Aoba at 2,000 yards
DD Taylor engages DD Tokitsukaze at 2,000 yards
Range increases to 4,000 yards
CA Aoba engages DD Taylor at 4,000 yards
DD Taylor engages DD Tokitsukaze at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 3,000 yards
CA Aoba engages DD Taylor at 3,000 yards
CL Sendai engages DD Taylor at 3,000 yards
Range increases to 5,000 yards
DD Helm engages CA Aoba at 5,000 yards
CL Sendai engages DD Taylor at 5,000 yards
Task forces break off...

China
We hit Chihkiang from the air and attack. Our guys are heavily disrupted. We are hitting the troops marching into the place... maybe we can take it...

Ground combat at Chihkiang (78,50)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 20383 troops, 190 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 717

Defending force 14704 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 234

Japanese adjusted assault: 766

Allied adjusted defense: 271

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
442 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 56 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled


Allied ground losses:
1322 casualties reported
Squads: 38 destroyed, 21 disabled
Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 100 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 15 (10 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
4th Ind.Mixed Regiment
9th Division
104th/A Division

Defending units:
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
26th Chinese/A Corps
4th Chinese/A Corps
11th Chinese Base Force
4th Group Army
14th Chinese Base Force
7th War Area
23rd Group Army
16th Construction Regiment
29th Group Army
9th Chinese Base Force
13th Chinese Base Force
20th Artillery Regiment
88th Chinese Corps
18th Artillery Regiment
22nd Artillery Regiment

At Tsuyang our paras are regaining strength fast with lots of supply being droped in. They are at level 4 forts and almost fully recovered. We are supporting them with ground strikes against the Chinese forces in the base.


In the end we loose 5 transports and probably two PB's to the raiders, total points loss to us about 60 (there were 3 big transports sunk) vs 51 Allied points lost... but getting a modern US Cleveland class CL and a Fletcher class DD I think is worth it

[Cribtop]

Raiding is like whacking a hornet's nest. All fun and games at first but you need to leave before the hornets find you.

My roommate and I solved this problem by firing on a bee's nest at his ranch with an old British .303 Lee Enfield at about 50 yards. Those bees were really pissed that they couldn't find what was hassling them. [:D]

[ny59giants]

Tojo IIC and the Emiliy H8K2 are now availale. When we try to turn the Tojo IIa factories to IIc though they are damaged... is this because we skipped a generation of aircraft (IIb?).

You have to go through the "B" model first. Then click on the "C" model. If you do it in sequence you can do both in one turn without any damage.

[jrcar]

And therein lies our problem, we haven't researched the B model....

Looks like we will have to have them damaged then repair them

Cheers

Rob

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Tojo IIC and the Emiliy H8K2 are now availale. When we try to turn the Tojo IIa factories to IIc though they are damaged... is this because we skipped a generation of aircraft (IIb?).

You have to go through the "B" model first. Then click on the "C" model. If you do it in sequence you can do both in one turn without any damage.

[ny59giants]

I do my orders first and then save the game file. Then, in situations like yours, I go make the industry changes and if I do something bad like you did, I exit the game and try again until I get it right.

[jrcar]

The problem as as we havn't researched the b model, it is not available for production. only the a andc model. Therefore we can't switch the production factory from a-c direct. Anway have bitten the bullet and converted a number of factories to the c model, while keeping the a in production to cover losses.

3 March 1943 Quiet turn except in China.


Indicators and Warnings

Subs
Sub attack near Aogashima at 113,66

Japanese Ships
PB Yahada Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Silversides

Sub attack near Dadjangas at 79,94

Japanese Ships
xAP Buenos Aires Maru, Torpedo hits 1
CM Okinoshima
CM Tsugaru
xAP Teikyo Maru
xAP Kashima Maru
xAP Haruna Maru
DD Nokaze
DD Hakaze

Allied Ships
SS Saury


Burma
Allied airforce continues to stay at home. We hit troops here and there.

DEI

OZ

Pacific

China
Our attack fails at Chihkiang as we are very tired.


Ground combat at Chihkiang (78,50)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 19945 troops, 190 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 674

Defending force 16981 troops, 118 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 290

Japanese adjusted assault: 433

Allied adjusted defense: 424

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
687 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 52 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled


Allied ground losses:
912 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 55 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled
Guns lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)


Assaulting units:
4th Ind.Mixed Regiment
9th Division
104th/A Division

Defending units:
62nd Chinese Corps
26th Chinese/A Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
4th Chinese/A Corps
88th Chinese Corps
7th War Area
11th Chinese Base Force
18th Artillery Regiment
16th Construction Regiment
9th Chinese Base Force
14th Chinese Base Force
23rd Group Army
13th Chinese Base Force
29th Group Army
4th Group Army
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
22nd Artillery Regiment

In a nearby hex he crosses the river... we will attack back.

Ground combat at 76,51 (near Chihkiang)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 2632 troops, 21 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 80

Defending force 3340 troops, 16 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Allied adjusted assault: 33

Japanese adjusted defense: 790

Allied assault odds: 1 to 23

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
81 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
131 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 44 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
31st Chinese Corps

Defending units:
2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment

Our paras continue to hold

Ground combat at Tsuyung (68,46)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 7604 troops, 44 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 171

Defending force 1006 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 42

Allied adjusted assault: 14

Japanese adjusted defense: 49

Allied assault odds: 1 to 3

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker: supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
52 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled


Assaulting units:
71st Chinese Corps
10th Construction Regiment
54th Chinese/A Corps
54th Chinese/C Corps
NCAC
200th Chinese Division

Defending units:
2nd Raiding Regiment
Yokosuka 3rd SNLF

[jrcar]

4 March 1943


Indicators and Warnings
The enemy has abandoned Kweilen and is pulling out of the central front.

Also appears to be pulling out of Katherine.

CV/CVE Tf heading to sydney, looks like no threat to the DEI at this stage.

Subs
Lots now to the SW of Japan.

Burma
His leading units have reached Myitkynia

DEI

OZ
Continue to inflict good damage on his units in the open.

Pacific
The enemy CV/CVE protected Convoy is now heading nth to Sydney

China
Mixed rsults in China.

We cross the river behind Changsha. Two more Divisions are on the way.

Ground combat at Siangtan (81,52)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 24492 troops, 180 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 889

Defending force 14297 troops, 58 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 580

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 917

Allied adjusted defense: 732

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+)

Japanese ground losses:
2082 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 215 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled


Allied ground losses:
719 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 85 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled


Assaulting units:
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
39th Division
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade

Defending units:
16th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese/C Corps

Changsha has only 3 enemy corps in it now.

We attack the unit that crossed in central area. It is thrown back into the pocket.

Ground combat at 76,51 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 3286 troops, 16 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 115

Defending force 2384 troops, 21 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 47

Japanese adjusted assault: 192

Allied adjusted defense: 49

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
672 casualties reported
Squads: 32 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 23 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment

Defending units:
31st Chinese Corps

Paras land behind Sian,

Ground combat at Tienshui (81,38)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 115 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 8

Allied adjusted defense: 1

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Tienshui !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
3rd Raiding Rgt /2

[jrcar]

The Chinese appear to be in full retreat, the central front has collapsed, and they are also pulling back towards Sian. He will probably mass in the centre, we have about 700 AV there, with more on the way.

At Kweiyang on the left is is trying to get out of the hex. We will be attacking to damage him. We ant these forces tobe free to advance further west to take Kunming and clear the Burma route.

We have landed paras to disrupt his movement and cause dilemas.

I'm salivating at the thought of clearing the road rail route that will link Malaysia, Thailand, China and Manchuria. This will significantly improve our resource gathering, while reducing the sub threat.

[jrcar]

Burma
Burma is not so rosy. At least he decided to clear north Burma. This will give us more time to dig in and bring up more forces. We should be freeing up another div from Manchuria in about 7 days.

He is currently not contesting us in the air. Recon shows he has pulled fighters back to protect Ceylon and Madras. Not sure if he things something is going to happen, or he figures (rightly) he doesn't need the airforce to clear north Burma.

At Myitkynia we have about 500AV behind level 6 forts in Jungle Rough. Once he brings up his mass he will take it... it will be interesting to see how long it will take... We are supporting the gallent defenders from the air... but need to be careful of ambushes.

We are preparing a number of fall back battle positions, and looking to disrupt and annoy him where we can.

[Cribtop]

Conquer China and then re-take Burma from the road to Lashio. It's amazing testament to your progress that this suggestion is not offered in jest.

[jrcar]

5 March 1943 Again quiet

Indicators and Warnings
Katherine appears to have been evacuated. This ends the second Allied push to Darwin. He just can't draw enough supply.

Subs

Burma
We bomb the enemy troops against no opposition. Next turn though we will be doing something different

Katha is hit hard.

Afternoon Air attack on Katha , at 61,43

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 56
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 58



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled


Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 67

DEI

OZ

Pacific

China
we test the enemy atKweiyan.... not that succesfully! More troops are on the way, this was just the armoured divisions.

Ground combat at Kweiyang (74,49)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 16242 troops, 252 guns, 1286 vehicles, Assault Value = 1280

Defending force 46725 troops, 333 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1280

Japanese adjusted assault: 246

Allied adjusted defense: 1197

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
899 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 77 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 51 disabled
Guns lost 35 (1 destroyed, 34 disabled)
Vehicles lost 46 (5 destroyed, 41 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
389 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 52 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)


Assaulting units:
51st Engineer Regiment
6th Division
3rd Tank Division
2nd Tank Division
19th Div /1
12th Army
23rd Army

Defending units:
74th Chinese Corps
14th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps

Chnagsha is now almost empty, it looks like even the last corps are pulling out!

Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 790 troops, 98 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1550

Defending force 18780 troops, 128 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 787


Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Assaulting units:
102nd Infantry Regiment
51st Infantry Brigade
60th Division
138th Infantry Regiment
26th Engineer Regiment
12th Ind.Mixed Brigade
62nd Infantry Brigade
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
22nd/A Division
11th Army
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
1st Mortar Battalion
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
9th Prov Chinese Corps
72nd Chinese Corps
78th Chinese Corps

We take Kweilin without a fight. The forts are intact at 3.6, and the industry and resources are also intact!

[jrcar]

Thoughts.

While we have done very well ground wise we are increasingly concerned at how thin we are on the ground. We have used a number of outposts to act as early warning/ magnets for action while we prepared the more important mainline, then the subsequent defensive lines.

The Allies soon will be capable of simultaneous sequential "deep battle" style operations. The danger to the Japanese is that without defence in depth the Allies will break through the outer crust, and the inner becomes very very soft as you haven't prepared positions or dug in with even the minimal forces needed to stop para attacks.

Therefore we have begun the phased withdrawal of some of our outlying areas so that we can man the first two layers fairly hard and have enough in the third to force a deliberate attack.

The Japanese problem is that the Allies have too many options!

As we are now in the middle game we are preparing for the long game. For this we need to build up pour HI stockpiles and stockpiles of all the resources. We have expanded some more HI in Java so that the DEI can be more self sufficient, and to use the material that is there without having to ship it home. It also diversifies our economy and makes it a bit more resilient.

HI in China will also be repaired, we have a some in Hongkong repairing now and soon we should have 60 more in Changsha. We don't plan to repair the light industry.

We have had a steady stream of tankers arrive in the last few months and fuel is moving fairly well. We need more, much more, though.

Clearing the road/rail through China will improve the fuel/oil situation and we will need to reposition convoys to take advantage of that.

So now our challenge is to create the hardest shell we can to protect our industry/resources as long as we can so we can fight the climatic final battles with the best chance we can generate!

Territory is therefore only held now to enable that to happen, and we expect the Empire to slowly shrink so the many "holes" in our shell are closed up.

Cheers

Rob

[Wuffer]

Hi,

I'm following this since the beginning: outstanding.
Thx for your effort.

What do you think about the future prospects of the chinese campaign? Did you more hope or expect to free some japanese troops soon?

Anyway, good luck!

[jrcar]

Wuffer thanks for the feedback.

We "planned" to create the opportunity, in the "hope" that it would happen

Initially we focussed against Sian in the nth, however Andrew responded well after our initial advances. This drew his reserves this way...

We then comitted forces that would have otherwise invaded Ceylon, New Zealand, Perth or beefed up Burma, as in the long run we have far more to gain in China, than expanding the "Empire" for more territory however little more real long term benefit.

This forces did well, so we reinforced success, drawing more and more forces from the North (I think we have transferred 6-8 divs from the North now).

The key was fighting a "campaign" of little battles to create a positive force ratio with the aim of chewing up Chinese forces for little cost to ourselves.

Cheers

Rob

ORIGINAL: Wuffer

Hi,

I'm following this since the beginning: outstanding.
Thx for your effort.

What do you think about the future prospects of the chinese campaign? Did you more hope or expect to free some japanese troops soon?

Anyway, good luck!

[jrcar]

6 March 1943

Indicators and Warnings

Subs
Our defensive minefields claim a victim.

TF 261 encounters mine field at Merak (48,97)

Allied Ships
SS O19, Mine hits 1

We clear mines off Rangoon.

Lots of other contacts, but no hits.

Burma
Last turn we notice a lot of ships, including subs, at Chittagong with relatively littl in the way of fighters.. We sweep, but our bombers don't fly... and opportunity lost

Morning Air attack on Chittagong , at 55,41

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 159 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 43 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 120



Allied aircraft
Mohawk IV x 16
Hurricane IIb Trop x 7


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Mohawk IV: 1 destroyed

DEI

OZ

Pacific

China
The retirement of the enemy continues. We are advancing.