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ASW attack near Koepang at 68,116
Japanese Ships
DD Tachikaze
DD Asagao
Allied Ships
SS S-38
not sure but I guess we haven't hit an enemy DD yet...
SS S-38 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Tachikaze
S-38 bottoming out ....
DD Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub
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Amphibious Assault at Tandjoengselor (68,92)
TF 202 troops unloading over beach at Tandjoengselor, 68,92
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Morning Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet
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Morning Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 9 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 2
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet
for what reason ever, bluebook keeps sweeping Tarakan...
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Bataan at 78,77
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid detected at 76 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes
Japanese aircraft
D3A1 Val x 12
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
PT-41
PT-35
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x D3A1 Val releasing from 1000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
3 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
4 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb
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Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 38 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 22
Ki-30 Ann x 28
Ki-36 Ida x 11
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 23
Ki-51 Sonia x 12
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 6 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 3 damaged
Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 14
Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
22 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
6 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
28 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
12 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb
11 x Ki-36 Ida bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 30 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 41 NM, estimated altitude 35,810 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 63
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed
No Allied losses
after the enemy CV strike a week ago encountered two dozen Warhawks at Darwin the enemy now sends some sweep from Koepang... the Zeroes are horrible outnumbered with 63 out of exactly 100 P-40 on Cap and even though they get their strato dive it only last for two passes... then the Zeroes are shred by our fighters... Koepang -> Darwin = a looong way to fly, which means trouble for any damaged aircraft... 2/3 of the attacking Zeroes are lost...
CAP engaged:
3rd PS (P) with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 29000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes
17th PS (P) with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 29000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes
20th PS (P) with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 29000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes
33rd PS (P) with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 29000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes
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Afternoon Air attack on Singapore Fortress, at 50,84 (Singapore)
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes
Japanese aircraft
B5N1 Kate x 62
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 2 damaged
Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Aircraft Attacking:
36 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 11000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
26 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 11000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 38
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 15 damaged
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5
Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
18 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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Afternoon Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid detected at 69 NM, estimated altitude 42,500 feet.
Estimated time to target is 23 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 31
Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 55
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 6 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed
the Zeroes weren't the only sweep and a big number of Oscars shows up too, amazed they got the range to get from Keopang to Darwin... the Oscars did far better as their strato dive lasted for something like two dozen passes which accounted for 7 P-40 instantly shot down for no loss for the strato sweepers... only as the dive ended we also saw the firing from behind passes to end and then the Oscars suffered from being totally undergunned, not even able to damage the Warhawks... near every burst from the Warhawks resulted in an Oscar falling from the sky which lead to a 2:1 in favour of the P-40 as quite a couple of Oscars crashed on their way home... guess we were able to take down 18-20 enemy aircraft for the loss of 10 Warhawks which is quite a good result considering the date... together with the AVG those 4 P-40E squadrons are flown by the best currently available fighter pilots though so every other squadron should do worse... don't think bluebook will come back with another sweep...
CAP engaged:
3rd PS (P) with P-40E Warhawk (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 29000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes
17th PS (P) with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
9 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 33000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes
20th PS (P) with P-40E Warhawk (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 32000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes
33rd PS (P) with P-40E Warhawk (4 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 26950 and 29000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes
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Afternoon Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84
Weather in hex: Thunderstorms
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 5
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 20
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 4
Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb
5 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
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ASW attack near Koepang at 68,116
Japanese Ships
BB Haruna
BB Kongo
CA Atago
DD Asashio
TB Kamo
DD Arashio
DD Oshio
Allied Ships
SS KXII, hits 4
interesting intel but a succesful attack on an enemy capital ship would be about time as the enemy has been running with carriers, battleships and cruisers over my subs on a near daily basis... does Kongo and Haruna mean KB being around? Guess not when I see a TB in the same task force which seems a little strange to me...
SS KXII is sighted by escort
DD Arashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Oshio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Arashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Arashio attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub
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Amphibious Assault at Manokwari (85,109)
TF 120 troops unloading over beach at Manokwari, 85,109
Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 8th Indpt SNLF Coy
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 46943 troops, 404 guns, 483 vehicles, Assault Value = 1602
Defending force 74252 troops, 1026 guns, 712 vehicles, Assault Value = 2398
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2
Japanese adjusted assault: 744
Allied adjusted defense: 7855 [:D]
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 10 (fort level 2)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
6677 casualties reported
Squads: 42 destroyed, 353 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 80 disabled
Engineers: 92 destroyed, 127 disabled
Guns lost 61 (7 destroyed, 54 disabled)
Vehicles lost 84 (23 destroyed, 61 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1305 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 136 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 43 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 26 disabled
Guns lost 20 (1 destroyed, 19 disabled)
lots of interesting stuff going on this turn, I was absolutely surprised by this attack at Clark Field, bluebook knew that I would have more than 2000 av at the base and when I asked about what this was, he answered that he has to start wearing me down at some point... well, I like that... though a pity they managed to take down a fort on their first attempt already... guess without reinforcements from Singergrad he won't take the place anytime soon... and when looking at the assault there, then this should become even more bloody for the enemy... those attacking eng rgt should look horrible now...
if we sum up what the enemy has been using so far, there were 3100 av attacking Singergrad, 1600 av are attacking Clark Field and two enemy divisions were attacking the South Pacific, which makes roughly another 1100 av if you add in the SNLF and Navguard units being used for SOPAC, making it a total of 5800 av! [X(] Isn't that near double from what ppl told me the Japanese got at hand? Wow, it definitely is surely 1000 av more than I would have expected...
Assaulting units:
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
19th Ind. Engineer Regiment
20th Division
16th Engineer Regiment
16th Recon Regiment
48th Division
9th Infantry Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
20th Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
4th Tank Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
Defending units:
51st PA Infantry Division
31st PA Infantry Division
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
14th PS Engineer Regiment
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
41st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
93rd PA Infantry Regiment
81st PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
4th Marine Regiment
11th PA Infantry Division
45th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
194th Tank Battalion
61st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Infantry Division
192nd Tank Battalion
2nd PA Constabulary Division
73rd PA Infantry Regiment
71st PA Infantry Division
4th/101st PA Battalion
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion
Bataan USN Base Force
I Philippine Corps
Provisional GMC Grp
202nd PA Construction Battalion
803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion
Asiatic Fleet
201st PA Construction Battalion
Far East USAAF
Manila USAAF Base Force
1st PI Base Force
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
301st Construction Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
II Philippine Corps
PAF Aviation
USAFFE
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment
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Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 10056 troops, 365 guns, 56 vehicles, Assault Value = 2071
Defending force 39822 troops, 439 guns, 288 vehicles, Assault Value = 339
Japanese ground losses:
76 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
124 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
11th Infantry Regiment
113th Infantry Regiment
42nd Infantry Regiment
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
16th Infantry Regiment
5th Recon Regiment
2nd Engineer Regiment
33rd Division
148th Infantry Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
2nd Recon Regiment
15th Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Division
12th Engineer Regiment
56th Infantry Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
56th Recon Regiment
55th Infantry Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
II./4th Infantry Battalion
23rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
5th Engineer Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Field Artillery Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
84th JAAF AF Bn
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion
25th Army
1st Raiding Rgt /2
Defending units:
27th Australian Brigade
11th Indian Division
SSVF Brigade
9th Indian Division
223 Group RAF
2nd Gordons Battalion
1st Manchester Battalion
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
Malaya Army
3rd Heavy AA Regiment
AHQ Far East
3rd HK&S Light AA Regiment
22nd Australian Brigade
Malayan Air Wing
1st ISF Base Force
112th RAF Base Force
224 Group RAF
III Indian Corps
Singapore Base Force
2nd HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
Singapore Fortress
109th RAF Base Force
2nd Loyal Battalion
1st Malay Battalion
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
2nd ISF Base Force
FMSV Brigade
1st Hyderabad Battalion
110th RAF Base Force
111th RAF Base Force
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2nd Malay Battalion
109th RN Base Force
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Ground combat at Efate (120,154)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 378 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese adjusted assault: 16
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Efate !!!
Combat modifiers
Attacker:
Assaulting units:
5th Indpt SNLF Coy
and some intel again:
I./124th Infantry Battalion is loaded on a Aden Cargo class xAK moving to Cagayan.
reinforcements for the fight against my guerillas in Mindanao's mountains...
12/38th/C Division is loaded on a Japanese TK moving to Noumea.
3/35th JNAF AF Unit is loaded on xAK Yamahuku Maru moving to Suva.
5/4th/C Division is loaded on xAK Lima Maru moving to Suva.
1/4th/C Division is loaded on AMC Asaka Maru moving to Suva.
and two divs plus aviation support reported for SOPAC...
I don't think he needs 2000 av to keep you in prison in Mindanao and Clark Field, 1000 av (200 in Mindanao and 800 at Clark) after a month might very well be enough (again, not a lot of experience, but the advantages of terrain you are using also reduce the troop requirement for prison duty, especially once they have forts). I definitely think defensive postures is the way to go as the Allies (at least against an experienced opponent), as it poses a problem to the Japanese player, but I just don't feel that many Japanese players look at it as a chance to move many of their troops on earlier than they might otherwise have to. An extra 1000 AV freed up a month early might be worth more to the Japanese than an extra 2000 av two months later after their disabled squads are fixed (given the amphib bonus, with which I agree with you). It's not like the Japanese player won't have years to destroy those garrisons with impunity while they are on the defensive. Could even potentially use them as training for fresh troops. 
