Hi,
I've gotten settled in at home pretty well and have a pretty good schedule as far as running turns is concerned. I need to add update the AAR to that schedule so, carpe diem! We'll start now.
I've made it all the way to Feb 10th.
Philippines:
Mindanao is all cleared up except for a couple units at Zamboanga on the very tip of the western peninsula. We've done some housekeeping and cleared off most of the small unoccupied islands in the PI.
Slightly further South we have Manado as a patrol base. If you recall it was taken in an early para-drop. It's covering everything from the South tip of Java to Australia.
On Luzon we're still besieging Clark Field. I thought it was almost over. We were getting 1-2 odds almost 1-1 when we had a bad attack. I don't know if I had bad die rolls or wasn't paying attention to the disruption and fatigue as closely as I should've. Or maybe he pulled some supply from Batan? It doesn't matter how but I had a 1-6 attack. It wrecked my forces there. I even had two small units destroyed. I've bought both back for 2 PP's each. In about 30 days we'll be rebuilding them.
Borneo:
North side of the island is all mine now except for Kuching. It's on the back burner for a bit.
South side of the island is barely touched. I've been sitting in Tarakan for quite some time. He pulled his troops out of the base to the SW. I have a unit going overland to take it. It's very slow going.
He's pulled several units into Balikpapan. We're moving slow here but the hammer is on the way. Troops have been bought out in Japan and are on the way. The last should arrive at Babeldaob on the next turn. Them plus the now free units on Mindanao should help to speed things up a bit in this theater.
Malaya:
Singapore has fallen today. This frees up about 6 divisions and an odd assortment of other troops. I'm shifting three of the least beat up to the North to assist in the super slow motion Burma campaign. The rest will push into the DEI. Troops and aircraft are moving to Singers to get into position for the big Palembang fight that's coming. Ships are on the way to sweep up the minefield.
Sumatra:
We landed a few turns ago at Oosthaven. The base was empty so we took it right off the bat. 1 each, division, brigade, and regiment are marching towards Palembang. It was a pretty big undertaking. All my carriers, 8 BB's, and well over 100 transports were involved. We've left about 100 fighters, mostly Zeros with about 35 or 40 Oscars to provide a good CAP. I left a force of 2 BB's, 1 CA, 1 CL, and 6 DD's to cover the base from bombardments. I built my one and only MGB and it's in a TF there by itself too. Also I have 4 mini-subs in the hex. Why not? Fredrik has attacked here a few times. It's been a very good chance to attrition down his fighters somewhat. In the past few days he's lost 50-70 P40E's. Not bad. We also got some of his A24's. Got 20 of them in one attack, if recall correctly. His past couple attacks have lost a lot of escort but not many bombers. He's flying SBD's escorted by P40E's. He's not hit the surface TF I left but he has done some damage to my transports.
And to say the attack was a complete success would be inaccurate. We have taken our own losses. An attack of 11 Swordfish (the bane of my carriers existence) escorted by a whopping 9 Hurricanes got through a CAP of 129 Zeros and put two fish in CVL Shoho. Fortunately I happened to have a port very close by. In fact one hex over at Oosthaven. Shoho is disbanded there with 31 system, 74 flood, and 5 engine damage. She's ok at the moment but it says 40+ days to repair the minor damage. A port raid that gets through or even a bombardment TF could probably finish her off. Shoho is deep in Indian country.
Additionally one of those raids, the one that prompted me to remove my more important ships, was one of the A24 raids. They got through with extreme losses to escorts and put a 1000 pounder in Soryu. She's on the way back to Cam Ranh Bay. She's not really in any danger. Damage is 38 system, 3 flood, and 6 engine. Only 1 point of engine damage is major. It's probably from sailing around with little break since the war started. Hopefully she'll be back in the war soon.
I don't know if I mentioned it but Zuiho got hit too. The ships screen shows it was a 1000 pounder as well. I think it was an attack coming out of Palembang that got through while everybody was on the way to Oosthaven. I don't really remember. Anyway, she's at Cam Ranh Bay and all repaired except for 6 major flood damage. I'm probably going to get her back into the fight and repair that later. She's there with CVL Nisshin which arrived about a week ago.
Ship production:
I have Junyo arriving in 24 days. I'm tempted to accelerate and get her in 12... And, the mighty Yamato is set to arrive in 9 days. We'll be able to turn on the CB's that I shut down. I had shut down Mushashi but I'd rather get her done and have her naval points available so the CB's which show up later anyway, took the hit.
Speaking of acceleration, we've accelerated all the CV and CVL's that arrive in 44 or later. That leaves Junyo, Hiyo, and CVL Ryuho arriving in the next few months. There are three Shokaku Kai class that will arrive in 1943. Some of the CVE's have been accelerated as well. I'm a firm believer that you can never have enough flight decks. My reasoning can easily be explained by the way I keep getting them damaged. [:'(]
Well, maybe I have another turn. If not I have plenty of things around the house I ought to be doing.
Later but hopefully not as long as the last time,
Joe
Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
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RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi,
Well, much has happened in the past couple turns.
China: I didn't cover China in the last update. We've continued to hit units in the open. The big army I had encircled fell some time ago. We attempted to encircle Nanyang but it doesn't take a genius to see what's coming and he pulled out before we got him encircled. We'll try somewhere else. Current plans are to clear the bases to the West and South of Changsha. Kukong is showing 16 units. We'll see if we can pull a fast one on him. Of course if he pulls out again we still get the base. I'd rather kill the units though.
Also, I've sent very little air forces to this region. I have some Lily's bombing an isolated unit. They're getting some good real world training and eventually they'll finish it off. Anyway, about a week or week and a half ago he started a heavy bombing campaign at Wuchang. Sweeps and escorts of H81's and those Chinese biplanes. A solid 60-70 SB-III's would come in to bomb. With nothing but a dozen Nates here and there I didn't really oppose him at all. I did get some Oscars together. About a hundred got moved into Hankow with more assembling. They were at 50% CAP and range 0 so they didn't stray into Wuchang. This past turn his H81's came to sweep Wuchang. They got murdered. I lost 4 Nates and no Oscars to his 25 H81's in air to air losses and a further 5 to ops losses. Nice work by the IJA!
DEI: Nothing really new to report here. No more air attacks at Oosthaven. Sallies are flying out of Singapore to keep the air base knocked down at Palembang. He's capping with whatever he can scrounge but the Zero escorts are knocking them down and keeping them from the bombers. Oh, one thing I saw a few days ago and forgot to mention. Some PT's attacked and were met by a BB TF of mine. I saw a PT boat sunk by a 36cm shell. What a shot!
KB: We're refilling units to make up for losses in the previous campaigns. Tomorrow we sail from Cam Ranh Bay around the East side of Borneo towards Balikpapan. He has some air there so we'll smash it and cover the invasion. I think he's weakened himself by diverting assets to the Palembang fight. Either way we're bringing the hammer. We'll para-drop on Samarinda which appears to be empty. As quickly as possible 53rd division, and Guards Mixed Brigade will land. Support units will arrive at the same time so we can fly in some air power. The infantry will be supported by 3 artillery units and a recon rgt. There will be a reserve of 1st Maizuru Assault Division and 51st Naval Guard. I don't want a long siege here. I want to push hard and fast. Hopefully the reserves won't be needed and we can push them on to follow on targets. The whole area is covered by search aircraft so I'm expecting little in the way of surface opposition.
There's another reason I suspect little surface opposition. I kept it for last because it's the most interesting thing to happen in the game yet. While KB was playing at Oosthaven he assembled his US carriers and massive surface forces and sneaked in with a big invasion force. Where, you ask? Rabaul. It's going to fall very soon. I only have one major unit there and that's 144th Rgt. Other forces are all engineers. They're facing 24th Infantry and 3rd Aussie Infantry. Along for the ride are two combat engineer regiments and I Australia Corps HQ. The nearest forces in the area are at Truk where I have 2 BB's, 5 CA's, and 3 CL's plus DD's. I'm not sending them into that mess. That would be VP's for the Allies. Everything that can sail is on the way to Babeldaob just in case he goes up that way before I can get there with support. Truk has about 50 Nells, 25 Zeros, and 25 Claudes. We've set the Zeros to drop tanks and the Nells to naval attack at the same range as the Zeros which is 14 by the way. It won't be enough to stop his CV's but we might get lucky and put a torpedo or two in one or two. Obviously I'll be watching this situation closely. Unless he invades Truk, and maybe not even then, we'll press on with the Balikpapan attack. KB will likely be on her way to that theater soon. We could see it all here! Carrier battles, big surface ships tearing each other up, massive invasions and counter invasions! I love it!
Joe
Well, much has happened in the past couple turns.
China: I didn't cover China in the last update. We've continued to hit units in the open. The big army I had encircled fell some time ago. We attempted to encircle Nanyang but it doesn't take a genius to see what's coming and he pulled out before we got him encircled. We'll try somewhere else. Current plans are to clear the bases to the West and South of Changsha. Kukong is showing 16 units. We'll see if we can pull a fast one on him. Of course if he pulls out again we still get the base. I'd rather kill the units though.
Also, I've sent very little air forces to this region. I have some Lily's bombing an isolated unit. They're getting some good real world training and eventually they'll finish it off. Anyway, about a week or week and a half ago he started a heavy bombing campaign at Wuchang. Sweeps and escorts of H81's and those Chinese biplanes. A solid 60-70 SB-III's would come in to bomb. With nothing but a dozen Nates here and there I didn't really oppose him at all. I did get some Oscars together. About a hundred got moved into Hankow with more assembling. They were at 50% CAP and range 0 so they didn't stray into Wuchang. This past turn his H81's came to sweep Wuchang. They got murdered. I lost 4 Nates and no Oscars to his 25 H81's in air to air losses and a further 5 to ops losses. Nice work by the IJA!
DEI: Nothing really new to report here. No more air attacks at Oosthaven. Sallies are flying out of Singapore to keep the air base knocked down at Palembang. He's capping with whatever he can scrounge but the Zero escorts are knocking them down and keeping them from the bombers. Oh, one thing I saw a few days ago and forgot to mention. Some PT's attacked and were met by a BB TF of mine. I saw a PT boat sunk by a 36cm shell. What a shot!
KB: We're refilling units to make up for losses in the previous campaigns. Tomorrow we sail from Cam Ranh Bay around the East side of Borneo towards Balikpapan. He has some air there so we'll smash it and cover the invasion. I think he's weakened himself by diverting assets to the Palembang fight. Either way we're bringing the hammer. We'll para-drop on Samarinda which appears to be empty. As quickly as possible 53rd division, and Guards Mixed Brigade will land. Support units will arrive at the same time so we can fly in some air power. The infantry will be supported by 3 artillery units and a recon rgt. There will be a reserve of 1st Maizuru Assault Division and 51st Naval Guard. I don't want a long siege here. I want to push hard and fast. Hopefully the reserves won't be needed and we can push them on to follow on targets. The whole area is covered by search aircraft so I'm expecting little in the way of surface opposition.
There's another reason I suspect little surface opposition. I kept it for last because it's the most interesting thing to happen in the game yet. While KB was playing at Oosthaven he assembled his US carriers and massive surface forces and sneaked in with a big invasion force. Where, you ask? Rabaul. It's going to fall very soon. I only have one major unit there and that's 144th Rgt. Other forces are all engineers. They're facing 24th Infantry and 3rd Aussie Infantry. Along for the ride are two combat engineer regiments and I Australia Corps HQ. The nearest forces in the area are at Truk where I have 2 BB's, 5 CA's, and 3 CL's plus DD's. I'm not sending them into that mess. That would be VP's for the Allies. Everything that can sail is on the way to Babeldaob just in case he goes up that way before I can get there with support. Truk has about 50 Nells, 25 Zeros, and 25 Claudes. We've set the Zeros to drop tanks and the Nells to naval attack at the same range as the Zeros which is 14 by the way. It won't be enough to stop his CV's but we might get lucky and put a torpedo or two in one or two. Obviously I'll be watching this situation closely. Unless he invades Truk, and maybe not even then, we'll press on with the Balikpapan attack. KB will likely be on her way to that theater soon. We could see it all here! Carrier battles, big surface ships tearing each other up, massive invasions and counter invasions! I love it!
Joe
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Looks like things are going fairly well. Good work plastering those Allied cruisers with KB.
Glad you are building the CBs. I like them a lot. Nice to get a pair of fast, powerful escorts for all those new flattops!
Glad you are building the CBs. I like them a lot. Nice to get a pair of fast, powerful escorts for all those new flattops!
Member: Treaty, Reluctant Admiral and Between the Storms Mod Team.
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Thanks John. Sending some Allied cruisers to the bottom was a pretty important win. Maybe caused him to hold off on his Rabaul adventure for awhile. I've seen flaws in my play, as I'm sure you have, but it has made me a better player. Next time my opening will be much improved.
And, by the way, thanks for the awesome mod! I'm really liking it.
Well, it's now Feb 17th.
Let's start at Sumatra since it's probably the most important fight of the war. We have 2nd division, 21st Ind Mixed Bde, and 4th Ind Mixed Rgt assembled and ready to cross the river into Palembang. I have mixed feelings. I think it might be better to go around so I don't have to shock attack across the river but I don't want to leave my lines open. One way or another three or four days will see what ground forces I need or don't need from Singapore. Either way I suspect I'll send two regiments and three more divisions. The other three I've started on the way up to Burma to hopefully speed things up there.
Oosthaven has been pretty bloody in the skies and on the seas. An Allied surface force came in and surprised my heavy ships. This is the result:
Japanese Ships
BB Ise, Shell hits 2
BB Hyuga, Shell hits 8
CA Nachi, Shell hits 7
CL Kinu, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Maikaze, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Arashio
DD Yamagumo
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Murasame
DD Ariake
DD Shinonome
Allied Ships
CA Houston, Shell hits 2
CA Canberra, Shell hits 1
CA Cornwall, Shell hits 3
CA Exeter, Shell hits 1
CL De Ruyter
CL Perth
CL Danae, Shell hits 3
CL Mauritius, Shell hits 1
CL Glasgow, Shell hits 2, on fire
CL Boise, Shell hits 1
DD Paul Jones
DD Parrott
DD Peary
DD Pope, Shell hits 1
DD Stewart, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
Follow on air attacks have gotten through and put some bombs into more ships, including a port attack that hit the Shoho. She's still alive but I don't have high hopes for her. At least we sunk the Stewart! [:'(] I've upped my CAP percentage and shortened the range. Results in the air have been pretty good but the bombers are still getting through. Maybe the escort losses and higher CAP will be enough to get through and start trashing his bombers. I'm leaving all my DD's that can still fight and retreating my big ships out to the West to make a long trip around Sumatra to Singapore. Here's hoping they don't run into any opposition or I'll be out a couple BB's and CA/L's.
Meanwhile to the East the KB is one day out from strike position near Balikpapan. She'll take up a position six hexes away and trash the airfield which is showing fewer and fewer aircraft. I'm sure they're all over at Java hitting Oosthaven. Paras will take Samarinda and I'll continue to fly in as much as I can. Meanwhile the invasion force (details of composition are in my previous post) is steadily steaming closer. 3-4 days and they should be unloading in a Japanese occupied Samarinda. It'll be a short march across the way to Balikpapan. We're bringing along over 125,000 supply so we should be able to get right in to repairing any damage.
Recon shows very little on Celebes. Kendari appears to be the only base with any troops. If the floating reserve isn't needed we'll hit Madjene with the Naval Guard unit and Kendari with the Assault Division.
Rabaul: We have hit a few ships at Kavieng with our Nells based at Truk. Other than that no good news. Rabaul is toast and so is Kavieng. He landed another division there a day or two ago but bombardments and air attacks destroyed the unit there before he even attacked. Meanwhile he's landing at Shortlands. Should it come to a CV clash I've identified units from Yorktown, Lexington, Enterprise, and Saratoga. Hornet does not appear to have arrived yet and I saw no British aircraft or air units. By my calculations he should be able to field about 90 fighters, 150 dive bombers, and 50 torpedo bombers. Some of the fighters are still F2A Buffalo and the torpedo planes are TBD's. I don't have all the original starting units on my ships. If he's keeping track of air units he'll expect more than what I actually have available. Kaga will be laid up for a couple more months but her air groups are flying with the KB. Some of them anyway. I'll field 220 Zeros, 95 Vals, and 120 Kates. Strike aircraft are roughly equal but I have a huge advantage in fighter quality and quantity which has a quality all it's own.
China: It's interesting here. Both sides are moving a lot of forces a lot of different places. It really needs a map. I'll work one up and post it later today or tomorrow.
I don't think there is much else to add at this point. Thanks for reading!
Joe
And, by the way, thanks for the awesome mod! I'm really liking it.
Well, it's now Feb 17th.
Let's start at Sumatra since it's probably the most important fight of the war. We have 2nd division, 21st Ind Mixed Bde, and 4th Ind Mixed Rgt assembled and ready to cross the river into Palembang. I have mixed feelings. I think it might be better to go around so I don't have to shock attack across the river but I don't want to leave my lines open. One way or another three or four days will see what ground forces I need or don't need from Singapore. Either way I suspect I'll send two regiments and three more divisions. The other three I've started on the way up to Burma to hopefully speed things up there.
Oosthaven has been pretty bloody in the skies and on the seas. An Allied surface force came in and surprised my heavy ships. This is the result:
Japanese Ships
BB Ise, Shell hits 2
BB Hyuga, Shell hits 8
CA Nachi, Shell hits 7
CL Kinu, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Maikaze, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Arashio
DD Yamagumo
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Murasame
DD Ariake
DD Shinonome
Allied Ships
CA Houston, Shell hits 2
CA Canberra, Shell hits 1
CA Cornwall, Shell hits 3
CA Exeter, Shell hits 1
CL De Ruyter
CL Perth
CL Danae, Shell hits 3
CL Mauritius, Shell hits 1
CL Glasgow, Shell hits 2, on fire
CL Boise, Shell hits 1
DD Paul Jones
DD Parrott
DD Peary
DD Pope, Shell hits 1
DD Stewart, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
Follow on air attacks have gotten through and put some bombs into more ships, including a port attack that hit the Shoho. She's still alive but I don't have high hopes for her. At least we sunk the Stewart! [:'(] I've upped my CAP percentage and shortened the range. Results in the air have been pretty good but the bombers are still getting through. Maybe the escort losses and higher CAP will be enough to get through and start trashing his bombers. I'm leaving all my DD's that can still fight and retreating my big ships out to the West to make a long trip around Sumatra to Singapore. Here's hoping they don't run into any opposition or I'll be out a couple BB's and CA/L's.
Meanwhile to the East the KB is one day out from strike position near Balikpapan. She'll take up a position six hexes away and trash the airfield which is showing fewer and fewer aircraft. I'm sure they're all over at Java hitting Oosthaven. Paras will take Samarinda and I'll continue to fly in as much as I can. Meanwhile the invasion force (details of composition are in my previous post) is steadily steaming closer. 3-4 days and they should be unloading in a Japanese occupied Samarinda. It'll be a short march across the way to Balikpapan. We're bringing along over 125,000 supply so we should be able to get right in to repairing any damage.
Recon shows very little on Celebes. Kendari appears to be the only base with any troops. If the floating reserve isn't needed we'll hit Madjene with the Naval Guard unit and Kendari with the Assault Division.
Rabaul: We have hit a few ships at Kavieng with our Nells based at Truk. Other than that no good news. Rabaul is toast and so is Kavieng. He landed another division there a day or two ago but bombardments and air attacks destroyed the unit there before he even attacked. Meanwhile he's landing at Shortlands. Should it come to a CV clash I've identified units from Yorktown, Lexington, Enterprise, and Saratoga. Hornet does not appear to have arrived yet and I saw no British aircraft or air units. By my calculations he should be able to field about 90 fighters, 150 dive bombers, and 50 torpedo bombers. Some of the fighters are still F2A Buffalo and the torpedo planes are TBD's. I don't have all the original starting units on my ships. If he's keeping track of air units he'll expect more than what I actually have available. Kaga will be laid up for a couple more months but her air groups are flying with the KB. Some of them anyway. I'll field 220 Zeros, 95 Vals, and 120 Kates. Strike aircraft are roughly equal but I have a huge advantage in fighter quality and quantity which has a quality all it's own.
China: It's interesting here. Both sides are moving a lot of forces a lot of different places. It really needs a map. I'll work one up and post it later today or tomorrow.
I don't think there is much else to add at this point. Thanks for reading!
Joe
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi,
Wow! Some crazy awesome turns the past couple days! We've advanced to Feb 20, 1942, which, incidentally, is 38 years to the day before my birthday! Yay me! (Me and Sailor Jerry are celebrating. Who likes rum?
) I've taken my hits and so has Fredrik. I've probably taken worse than him but I'm still very happy. Bloodbaths like this are awesome fun!
I'll update all the areas and maybe post a couple pictures. We'll start with NoPac.
NoPac: Not a thing is going on up here. Not on my side anyway. Fredrik may have some evil plot brewing up here. If I posted about it you might recall we went in and took Attu, Amchitka, and Adak a week or two ago. There was no opposition. Still dead quiet up this way. It's nice. I don't seem to have to worry up here... yet...
Rabaul: He landed two divisions and change at Rabaul, one division on Kavieng, and I had thought he had gone to Shortlands too but he didn't. Thank God. [8|] Before all is said and done there will be a great deal of blood here.
Borneo: We're two days out from landing at Samarinda. As you know we planned to (and did) para-drop there about two days ago. On the 21st we'll land our Balikpapan invasion forces at Samarinda. I hope they'll all unload in one or two days. Within a week or ten days we should be attacking across the river. By the way, we captured Samarinda with it's 100 oil completely undamaged.
Good news because God only knows what's going to happen at...
Palembang: This is where it's been crazy! I'm fairly certain I mentioned I had sent my big ships (damaged all of them) around Sumatra to Singapore. They're still on the way. I still worry a bit about them. They're certainly not out of the woods yet! I ended up leaving some DD's to cover Oosthaven. They didn't have the strength to defend Oosthaven and I should have pulled them and my airplanes out but I hoped we could stop the Allies. I was wrong. In the past three days or so we've lost about a dozen DD's (actually my first true warship losses) and, between the bombing missions and ship bombardments we lost the Shoho.
I should've risked sending her to Singapore. Water under the bridge. First CV loss is mine. Time to get some payback. Sooooo...
The past turn two 7 DD forces arrived in the Oosthaven area. The first one got smacked hard. The second got in close. It started at 1000 yards at night. My 7 DD's faced off against 4 CA's, 5 CL's, and 4 DD's. Over the past few days we've knocked down his destoyer escort a bit. That's the best we could do until today. For three more DD's we sunk CA Exeter, CL Caledon, and 2 DD's. We also got some hits on CL Boise. His bombardment TF still got through and smacked Oosthaven again but I liked seeing a good tough fight. Bloody, vicious and awesome! My kind of day. But we can't have too many more like it or we'll be out of ships.
His first bombardment destroyed pretty much all my airpower at Oosthaven. Over 100 aircraft were destroyed. Bummer. I hope to give turnabout in the Rabaul area.
China: I promised a picture and we'll get one. Ichang only has two units so we're marching North to take the city. It should fall soon. Changsha has 36 units and Hengyang has 5. The other bases in the area have 1 each. Pingsiang, where we have a big stack (about 3400 AV), has 29 enemy units. 4 HQ's, 7 Artillery units, 2 Corps that have been divided (/A /B, etc.), and 16 Corps. 7 of the 16 have been shattered already and have AV below 20. His total AV is around 2400. 100 Oscars are providing CAP and escort out of Wuchang for 100 Lilies and Sallies. They're bombing this stack every day. It would be nice to reduce these guys but it'll take awhile and he has big reinforcements at Changsha. We're looking at a tough fight. The Ichang force has about 1200 AV so we'll likely press on and see if we can push past the North of Changsha and cut supplies to the area. Good stuff going on here. We could have a hammer and anvil situation setting up with the forces to the North and South.
More to come later.
Joe
Wow! Some crazy awesome turns the past couple days! We've advanced to Feb 20, 1942, which, incidentally, is 38 years to the day before my birthday! Yay me! (Me and Sailor Jerry are celebrating. Who likes rum?
) I've taken my hits and so has Fredrik. I've probably taken worse than him but I'm still very happy. Bloodbaths like this are awesome fun!I'll update all the areas and maybe post a couple pictures. We'll start with NoPac.
NoPac: Not a thing is going on up here. Not on my side anyway. Fredrik may have some evil plot brewing up here. If I posted about it you might recall we went in and took Attu, Amchitka, and Adak a week or two ago. There was no opposition. Still dead quiet up this way. It's nice. I don't seem to have to worry up here... yet...
Rabaul: He landed two divisions and change at Rabaul, one division on Kavieng, and I had thought he had gone to Shortlands too but he didn't. Thank God. [8|] Before all is said and done there will be a great deal of blood here.
Borneo: We're two days out from landing at Samarinda. As you know we planned to (and did) para-drop there about two days ago. On the 21st we'll land our Balikpapan invasion forces at Samarinda. I hope they'll all unload in one or two days. Within a week or ten days we should be attacking across the river. By the way, we captured Samarinda with it's 100 oil completely undamaged.
Good news because God only knows what's going to happen at...Palembang: This is where it's been crazy! I'm fairly certain I mentioned I had sent my big ships (damaged all of them) around Sumatra to Singapore. They're still on the way. I still worry a bit about them. They're certainly not out of the woods yet! I ended up leaving some DD's to cover Oosthaven. They didn't have the strength to defend Oosthaven and I should have pulled them and my airplanes out but I hoped we could stop the Allies. I was wrong. In the past three days or so we've lost about a dozen DD's (actually my first true warship losses) and, between the bombing missions and ship bombardments we lost the Shoho.
I should've risked sending her to Singapore. Water under the bridge. First CV loss is mine. Time to get some payback. Sooooo...The past turn two 7 DD forces arrived in the Oosthaven area. The first one got smacked hard. The second got in close. It started at 1000 yards at night. My 7 DD's faced off against 4 CA's, 5 CL's, and 4 DD's. Over the past few days we've knocked down his destoyer escort a bit. That's the best we could do until today. For three more DD's we sunk CA Exeter, CL Caledon, and 2 DD's. We also got some hits on CL Boise. His bombardment TF still got through and smacked Oosthaven again but I liked seeing a good tough fight. Bloody, vicious and awesome! My kind of day. But we can't have too many more like it or we'll be out of ships.
His first bombardment destroyed pretty much all my airpower at Oosthaven. Over 100 aircraft were destroyed. Bummer. I hope to give turnabout in the Rabaul area.
China: I promised a picture and we'll get one. Ichang only has two units so we're marching North to take the city. It should fall soon. Changsha has 36 units and Hengyang has 5. The other bases in the area have 1 each. Pingsiang, where we have a big stack (about 3400 AV), has 29 enemy units. 4 HQ's, 7 Artillery units, 2 Corps that have been divided (/A /B, etc.), and 16 Corps. 7 of the 16 have been shattered already and have AV below 20. His total AV is around 2400. 100 Oscars are providing CAP and escort out of Wuchang for 100 Lilies and Sallies. They're bombing this stack every day. It would be nice to reduce these guys but it'll take awhile and he has big reinforcements at Changsha. We're looking at a tough fight. The Ichang force has about 1200 AV so we'll likely press on and see if we can push past the North of Changsha and cut supplies to the area. Good stuff going on here. We could have a hammer and anvil situation setting up with the forces to the North and South.
More to come later.
Joe
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RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
I think that the optimal size for SCTFs is 8 ships. At least, I've always used groups of this size, and they generally kicked ass. Naval combat routine favors DDs firing on DDs and capital ships on capital ships if both are present, so I prefer either 8 DDs or 3-4 capital ships and 5-4 DDs per TF. Only 4DDs is, perhaps, preferable in combat, but can lead to capital ships detaching as escorts if anything is heavily damaged. Don't forget to handpick captains for everything from DD up, the default ones sometimes aren't very good. After PH and hit on the Pacific cruiser force, you should have surface superiority, so don't be afraid of the attritional fight at the moment, DEI is more important than a few ships.
As about the Allied counterattack at Solomons, simply land major forces with good air support in some of the surrounding bases and blockade their vanguard at Rabaul, once KB is released to the Pacific. You should be able to establish air superiority at the moment unless you're doing something very wrong, starve the Allied force and then overrun it. This attack is almost certainly meant to throw you out of the loop with an unconventional move - just continue to be cool, Allies don't actually have force to back up such audacity yet, unless the Japanese player does too many tactical mishap.
As about the Allied counterattack at Solomons, simply land major forces with good air support in some of the surrounding bases and blockade their vanguard at Rabaul, once KB is released to the Pacific. You should be able to establish air superiority at the moment unless you're doing something very wrong, starve the Allied force and then overrun it. This attack is almost certainly meant to throw you out of the loop with an unconventional move - just continue to be cool, Allies don't actually have force to back up such audacity yet, unless the Japanese player does too many tactical mishap.
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RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Thanks for the reply FatR. It's nice to get feedback and comments. And thank you as well for your work on the mod.
I'm not worried about the Allied counterattack at all. It's him trying to get into my head. We'll deal with the resource areas of the DEI and then we'll bring the sledgehammer. He's hit me with some bombardment TF's that have hurt my ground and air forces pretty badly. I'm looking forward to using the same on him in this area.
Just a quick update. We're loading up 3 divisions, 1 regt, and 3 or 4 arty units at Singapore to send into the fight at Palembang. We'll be bringing another 1000 AV or so to the fight. Should speed things up there. Over on Borneo we should have the Balikpapan force all unloaded by the next turn. I think I've brought enough so I went ahead and sent the floating reserve towards Celebes. The naval guard unit has landed and will take an unoccupied base there this turn. The assault division will land tomorrow. They'll march all over the island trails and take the whole thing. It's good to finally have some movement in this area. Additionally we have units from the Mindanao campaign beginning to clear off the defended islands in the Philippines.
Joe
I'm not worried about the Allied counterattack at all. It's him trying to get into my head. We'll deal with the resource areas of the DEI and then we'll bring the sledgehammer. He's hit me with some bombardment TF's that have hurt my ground and air forces pretty badly. I'm looking forward to using the same on him in this area.
Just a quick update. We're loading up 3 divisions, 1 regt, and 3 or 4 arty units at Singapore to send into the fight at Palembang. We'll be bringing another 1000 AV or so to the fight. Should speed things up there. Over on Borneo we should have the Balikpapan force all unloaded by the next turn. I think I've brought enough so I went ahead and sent the floating reserve towards Celebes. The naval guard unit has landed and will take an unoccupied base there this turn. The assault division will land tomorrow. They'll march all over the island trails and take the whole thing. It's good to finally have some movement in this area. Additionally we have units from the Mindanao campaign beginning to clear off the defended islands in the Philippines.
Joe
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi,
No update in over ten days. Shame on me. I've been on vacation so we haven't gotten many turns in. I've been back to work two nights now. [:(]
Anyhow I'll give a fast update here.
Sumatra: We have our reinforcements landed and they're strat moving to Praboemoelih. The last units should arrive tomorrow and then it'll be three days for everybody to unpack out of strat mode. A few days later we'll all be in Palembang. That'll be a total of 1800 AV brought to the fight. My recollection is hazy but I believe it was around 750-800 AV that he has there. It may take a siege but we'll take it.
PI: Leyte and Panay are the last two minor islands to need captured. We attacked at Clark and he still inflicts more damage on us than we do on him. I bought out two Infantry Groups (approx 250 AV each) and am shipping them to the siege. They should get things moving along.
Borneo: We're pushing hard at Balikpapan. We outnumber him by about 6-1 in raw AV. Disruptions have hindered us here. We're going to rest a couple or three days and attack again. I expect it to fall within the week.
China: We have an interesting situation developing here. I'm posting a screenshot. What it shows is an attack force of almost 4000 AV pushing North of Changsha, 4000+ AV at Wuchang, a 3900 AV force pinning 33 units South of Changsha, and a 600 AV Armor force looking to close the back door out of Changsha. The red arrows are the current axes of advance. The blue arrow is a possible advance we can make to pin his units in Changsha. I'm debating about when to do this advance. Wait and he can pull units out which makes it easier at Changsha and tougher elsewhere. Do it now and it's easier elsewhere and tougher at Changsha but I also lose any sort of reserve I have in the area. He's shifted some units out of Changsha to the North to try to stop that thrust. We'll see who brought enough. My tanks should be able to go through the bases to the West of Changsha. My goal is to cut off all these units (over 50) and destroy them. A win here and we'll open up the entire road/rail line all the way to Singapore. And destroy 50+ Chinese units. Here's hoping we can pull this off! Edit: I forgot to mention. The numbers in the picture are the number of Chinese units in the hex.
Joe
No update in over ten days. Shame on me. I've been on vacation so we haven't gotten many turns in. I've been back to work two nights now. [:(]
Anyhow I'll give a fast update here.
Sumatra: We have our reinforcements landed and they're strat moving to Praboemoelih. The last units should arrive tomorrow and then it'll be three days for everybody to unpack out of strat mode. A few days later we'll all be in Palembang. That'll be a total of 1800 AV brought to the fight. My recollection is hazy but I believe it was around 750-800 AV that he has there. It may take a siege but we'll take it.
PI: Leyte and Panay are the last two minor islands to need captured. We attacked at Clark and he still inflicts more damage on us than we do on him. I bought out two Infantry Groups (approx 250 AV each) and am shipping them to the siege. They should get things moving along.
Borneo: We're pushing hard at Balikpapan. We outnumber him by about 6-1 in raw AV. Disruptions have hindered us here. We're going to rest a couple or three days and attack again. I expect it to fall within the week.
China: We have an interesting situation developing here. I'm posting a screenshot. What it shows is an attack force of almost 4000 AV pushing North of Changsha, 4000+ AV at Wuchang, a 3900 AV force pinning 33 units South of Changsha, and a 600 AV Armor force looking to close the back door out of Changsha. The red arrows are the current axes of advance. The blue arrow is a possible advance we can make to pin his units in Changsha. I'm debating about when to do this advance. Wait and he can pull units out which makes it easier at Changsha and tougher elsewhere. Do it now and it's easier elsewhere and tougher at Changsha but I also lose any sort of reserve I have in the area. He's shifted some units out of Changsha to the North to try to stop that thrust. We'll see who brought enough. My tanks should be able to go through the bases to the West of Changsha. My goal is to cut off all these units (over 50) and destroy them. A win here and we'll open up the entire road/rail line all the way to Singapore. And destroy 50+ Chinese units. Here's hoping we can pull this off! Edit: I forgot to mention. The numbers in the picture are the number of Chinese units in the hex.
Joe
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RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi,
I have a couple questions for the peanut gallery. An issue has arisen in my game involving the wonderful overland supply mechanics that the game uses. I'll put in a picture. The units labeled tanks are about 650 AV of my tank units. Frederik, probably rightly so, thinks it would be quite difficult to keep those units supplied in the location they're at over the terrain it has to flow across. It would have to go through the rough and jungle terrain to get to the armor. Here's some of his views:
In 81/54 China I see you have the equallant of 2 Armor Divitions behind enamy lines, in a jungle hex without a rail or road based supply chain. The Fuel is probablly going to be very very hard to move through the 46 miles of rougth terrian and then into and through the
46 miles of rougth jungle terrein wihout the help of a road or rail link.
Was not sure what the intent was but I assume you are protecting your flank. The game does not simulate the supplies shortages for tanks ect when it has to be moved throuh extreme terrein so I think it has to be done by the human manually.
Fair enough. I didn't really consider it before doing it and it's probably not realistic. But we didn't have a house rule on supply flow logistics and it's not reality, it's a game. In the game the supply gets there so I didn't consider it being an issue. I haven't played a PBEM in over 6 years and the AI never complained.
And we have:
I see my troops near Icheng, in theori the army at Changtech (The 160 000) would probablly considerd surrendering or at least routing at this point as the Road feeding them has been cut off. The unit who cut it off are itself nearlly cut off, unless it can secure Icheng within a week or two max so that a line of supplies can be brought to it. Those units are only light infantry and consume very little compared to ie. Armor.
If they succseed however I think that the Changtech army should consider surrender if unable to brake out of the pocket.
I'll just say that's not going to happen. For one it assumes minimal supplies in Ichang and flowing there to Changteh. He doesn't know that's the case because I don't even know if it's the case. I haven't looked.
My question for you guys is what kind of response is appropriate? I really do want to be fair and not game the engine. And I certainly did not post every point he has raised. For the most part I agree with him. But, we don't have a rule on this type of issue and it only now comes up when I'm in a position to possibly do some real damage behind his lines. With tanks. They're supposed to do that sort of thing.
As I see it I have a few options. First and least likely; go back the way I came wasting all that transit time. Not a chance. They're here and they're going to do something before they leave. Second; press the attack on the base with 6 units and keep pushing. Third; turn south and go towards Kukong. What do you guys think? I'm going to hold on to the current turn until we have the issue resolved.
Thanks very much for any and all input.
Joe
I have a couple questions for the peanut gallery. An issue has arisen in my game involving the wonderful overland supply mechanics that the game uses. I'll put in a picture. The units labeled tanks are about 650 AV of my tank units. Frederik, probably rightly so, thinks it would be quite difficult to keep those units supplied in the location they're at over the terrain it has to flow across. It would have to go through the rough and jungle terrain to get to the armor. Here's some of his views:
In 81/54 China I see you have the equallant of 2 Armor Divitions behind enamy lines, in a jungle hex without a rail or road based supply chain. The Fuel is probablly going to be very very hard to move through the 46 miles of rougth terrian and then into and through the
46 miles of rougth jungle terrein wihout the help of a road or rail link.
Was not sure what the intent was but I assume you are protecting your flank. The game does not simulate the supplies shortages for tanks ect when it has to be moved throuh extreme terrein so I think it has to be done by the human manually.
Fair enough. I didn't really consider it before doing it and it's probably not realistic. But we didn't have a house rule on supply flow logistics and it's not reality, it's a game. In the game the supply gets there so I didn't consider it being an issue. I haven't played a PBEM in over 6 years and the AI never complained.
And we have:
I see my troops near Icheng, in theori the army at Changtech (The 160 000) would probablly considerd surrendering or at least routing at this point as the Road feeding them has been cut off. The unit who cut it off are itself nearlly cut off, unless it can secure Icheng within a week or two max so that a line of supplies can be brought to it. Those units are only light infantry and consume very little compared to ie. Armor.
If they succseed however I think that the Changtech army should consider surrender if unable to brake out of the pocket.
I'll just say that's not going to happen. For one it assumes minimal supplies in Ichang and flowing there to Changteh. He doesn't know that's the case because I don't even know if it's the case. I haven't looked.
My question for you guys is what kind of response is appropriate? I really do want to be fair and not game the engine. And I certainly did not post every point he has raised. For the most part I agree with him. But, we don't have a rule on this type of issue and it only now comes up when I'm in a position to possibly do some real damage behind his lines. With tanks. They're supposed to do that sort of thing.
As I see it I have a few options. First and least likely; go back the way I came wasting all that transit time. Not a chance. They're here and they're going to do something before they leave. Second; press the attack on the base with 6 units and keep pushing. Third; turn south and go towards Kukong. What do you guys think? I'm going to hold on to the current turn until we have the issue resolved.
Thanks very much for any and all input.
Joe
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RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi,
I made my decision. I said I would try to pay closer attention to the realities that the supply movement model doesn't cover as well as it could. Other than that it's game on. And we have an interesting situation down south of Mindanao.
It looks like two US CV's raiding. You can see my force dispositions on the picture. I'm thinking load Junyo up with fighters and hang back out of range behind a surface force (DD's or Yamato and DD's or transports) and provide LRCAP. Between LRCAP from Junyo and my LBA we should be able to do a pretty good CAP trap and knock down his striking power. Beat it down enough and Junyo may be able to pick off a CV or two. Or the surface forces in the area could intercept. We'll see what the next turn brings.
Joe
I made my decision. I said I would try to pay closer attention to the realities that the supply movement model doesn't cover as well as it could. Other than that it's game on. And we have an interesting situation down south of Mindanao.
It looks like two US CV's raiding. You can see my force dispositions on the picture. I'm thinking load Junyo up with fighters and hang back out of range behind a surface force (DD's or Yamato and DD's or transports) and provide LRCAP. Between LRCAP from Junyo and my LBA we should be able to do a pretty good CAP trap and knock down his striking power. Beat it down enough and Junyo may be able to pick off a CV or two. Or the surface forces in the area could intercept. We'll see what the next turn brings.
Joe
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RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi,
We're making a little progress but stalled in other areas.. Still working on Palembang and Clark. Clark shouldn't be ridiculously longer. Though some might say it's been a ridiculous long time already. [:'(] Last two attacks were a 1-1:
Japanese ground losses:
1158 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 86 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 25 (1 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Vehicles lost 25 (1 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1501 casualties reported
Squads: 86 destroyed, 59 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 28 (17 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 17 (2 destroyed, 15 disabled)
And a 1-2 the next day that did:
Japanese ground losses:
1536 casualties reported
Squads: 22 destroyed, 105 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 16 (1 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Vehicles lost 27 (5 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1197 casualties reported
Squads: 63 destroyed, 78 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 48 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 47 (14 destroyed, 33 disabled)
Vehicles lost 38 (23 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Looks like 63 IJ squads destroyed vs 149 US. Even the 1-2 saw 3-1 destroyed ratio. A day or two and we attack again. I also have another Infantry group coming from Japan. It'll add another 250 AV. Additionally about 200 AV of cleanup units have finished Cebu, the last island to fall in the Philippines except Luzon, is also going to head for the siege. I want to free up those troops sooner rather than later. Time is ticking! It's almost April and we haven't even touched Java yet.
A little further South we've taken the last of Celebes. Makassar fell a week ago or so and a couple days ago Kendari fell. A few naval guard units are loading up at Davao to start picking up unoccupied bases in the area. We won't go farther than Moluccas because there are enemy CV's in the area. We'll shift some of our CV's to the area later. I don't think I mentioned the outcome of the CAP trap I was attempting. It took out about 20-25 each of his CV Buffaloes and SBD's. I ended up losing a half dozen transports. Maybe we at least killed some of his good pilots.
We're doing some para-drops on unoccupied bases on the West coast of Borneo. Bandjermasin is ours. Sampit should fall tomorrow. I'll probably use paratroops to take my initial landing site on Java. That way I can land with no disruption of forces.
On Sumatra we have 53rd Division and Guards Mixed Bde on the way. If you recall, they were a part of the Borneo forces. They took Balikpapan. With the CV's in the area we're taking the long way around Borneo over to Oosthaven where they'll unload and march to the siege. I hope to get these sieges over with as soon as possible. In other areas things aren't going so well.
China we weren't able to push through in the Changsha area. We're not stopping though. We've had some victories ambushing units he's moving in from other areas. Like this set of attacks at Nanyang:
Allied Shock Attack
Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
2138 casualties reported
Squads: 42 destroyed, 88 disabled
Non Combat: 28 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
And this Japanese Shock Attack:
Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
1941 casualties reported
Squads: 56 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 52 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 1
I think those units got smacked down so he sent them in again to be destroyed and come back at a greater strength for free. I'll take the destroyed units though.
We're sending the tanks around the far South. It took two attacks and some Infantry helped out but three more of his units are smashed.
Japanese ground losses:
190 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 77 (3 destroyed, 74 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
2139 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 246 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 23 (1 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Japanese ground losses:
263 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 32 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 56 (1 destroyed, 55 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
3964 casualties reported
Squads: 200 destroyed, 101 disabled
Non Combat: 195 destroyed, 108 disabled
Engineers: 22 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 27 (19 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Units retreated 3
That makes Kukong ours. Next up is Wuchow,Kweilin, Liuchow, and Nanning. I'm shifting some troops to the South but leaving enough in the Changsha area to keep him honest. Taking those four bases will open up a road/trail route all the way to Singapore.
For the distant future I haven't decided yet where we'll go once we get to the railroad. Recon shows Chungking with only five units. That would be amusing to capture. What would that do to his units coming back after destruction? Would they still come back or would it leave them destroyed for good?
I don't know if I explained the Burma issue I had some months ago. Our house rule was restricted Japanese, Chinese, and Indian troops could move wherever they can march, even across borders. That's why I have so many troops in China. I made a mistake about the intention of the HR and was using Thai troops in Burma. When I realized the mistake and marched them out. Consequently I had very little in theater and now he's reinforced heavily. I'm not making any progress and he's probably going to start pushing out sooner rather than later. That's one reason to get the borders open in China and end the sieges in Clark and Palembang. I need to stop him. Or I could suck him in and land behind him in Burma. That's pretty risky though. We'll only do it if we have to.
Speaking of Burma, we have CV's at Victoria Point. He keeps running bombardment TF's every week or so. We may be able to ambush him and score a big win here and knock him off his game a bit. Later on the CV's will go to cover the Java area operations but that won't kick off until Clark is taken. Sumatra will be awhile. The forces there will probably have to keep pushing to take the rest of the island.
Joe
We're making a little progress but stalled in other areas.. Still working on Palembang and Clark. Clark shouldn't be ridiculously longer. Though some might say it's been a ridiculous long time already. [:'(] Last two attacks were a 1-1:
Japanese ground losses:
1158 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 86 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 25 (1 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Vehicles lost 25 (1 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1501 casualties reported
Squads: 86 destroyed, 59 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 28 (17 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 17 (2 destroyed, 15 disabled)
And a 1-2 the next day that did:
Japanese ground losses:
1536 casualties reported
Squads: 22 destroyed, 105 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 16 (1 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Vehicles lost 27 (5 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1197 casualties reported
Squads: 63 destroyed, 78 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 48 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 47 (14 destroyed, 33 disabled)
Vehicles lost 38 (23 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Looks like 63 IJ squads destroyed vs 149 US. Even the 1-2 saw 3-1 destroyed ratio. A day or two and we attack again. I also have another Infantry group coming from Japan. It'll add another 250 AV. Additionally about 200 AV of cleanup units have finished Cebu, the last island to fall in the Philippines except Luzon, is also going to head for the siege. I want to free up those troops sooner rather than later. Time is ticking! It's almost April and we haven't even touched Java yet.
A little further South we've taken the last of Celebes. Makassar fell a week ago or so and a couple days ago Kendari fell. A few naval guard units are loading up at Davao to start picking up unoccupied bases in the area. We won't go farther than Moluccas because there are enemy CV's in the area. We'll shift some of our CV's to the area later. I don't think I mentioned the outcome of the CAP trap I was attempting. It took out about 20-25 each of his CV Buffaloes and SBD's. I ended up losing a half dozen transports. Maybe we at least killed some of his good pilots.
We're doing some para-drops on unoccupied bases on the West coast of Borneo. Bandjermasin is ours. Sampit should fall tomorrow. I'll probably use paratroops to take my initial landing site on Java. That way I can land with no disruption of forces.
On Sumatra we have 53rd Division and Guards Mixed Bde on the way. If you recall, they were a part of the Borneo forces. They took Balikpapan. With the CV's in the area we're taking the long way around Borneo over to Oosthaven where they'll unload and march to the siege. I hope to get these sieges over with as soon as possible. In other areas things aren't going so well.
China we weren't able to push through in the Changsha area. We're not stopping though. We've had some victories ambushing units he's moving in from other areas. Like this set of attacks at Nanyang:
Allied Shock Attack
Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
2138 casualties reported
Squads: 42 destroyed, 88 disabled
Non Combat: 28 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
And this Japanese Shock Attack:
Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
1941 casualties reported
Squads: 56 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 52 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 1
I think those units got smacked down so he sent them in again to be destroyed and come back at a greater strength for free. I'll take the destroyed units though.
We're sending the tanks around the far South. It took two attacks and some Infantry helped out but three more of his units are smashed.
Japanese ground losses:
190 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 77 (3 destroyed, 74 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
2139 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 246 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 23 (1 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Japanese ground losses:
263 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 32 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 56 (1 destroyed, 55 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
3964 casualties reported
Squads: 200 destroyed, 101 disabled
Non Combat: 195 destroyed, 108 disabled
Engineers: 22 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 27 (19 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Units retreated 3
That makes Kukong ours. Next up is Wuchow,Kweilin, Liuchow, and Nanning. I'm shifting some troops to the South but leaving enough in the Changsha area to keep him honest. Taking those four bases will open up a road/trail route all the way to Singapore.
For the distant future I haven't decided yet where we'll go once we get to the railroad. Recon shows Chungking with only five units. That would be amusing to capture. What would that do to his units coming back after destruction? Would they still come back or would it leave them destroyed for good?
I don't know if I explained the Burma issue I had some months ago. Our house rule was restricted Japanese, Chinese, and Indian troops could move wherever they can march, even across borders. That's why I have so many troops in China. I made a mistake about the intention of the HR and was using Thai troops in Burma. When I realized the mistake and marched them out. Consequently I had very little in theater and now he's reinforced heavily. I'm not making any progress and he's probably going to start pushing out sooner rather than later. That's one reason to get the borders open in China and end the sieges in Clark and Palembang. I need to stop him. Or I could suck him in and land behind him in Burma. That's pretty risky though. We'll only do it if we have to.
Speaking of Burma, we have CV's at Victoria Point. He keeps running bombardment TF's every week or so. We may be able to ambush him and score a big win here and knock him off his game a bit. Later on the CV's will go to cover the Java area operations but that won't kick off until Clark is taken. Sumatra will be awhile. The forces there will probably have to keep pushing to take the rest of the island.
Joe
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi,
Just issued orders for March 28th. The invasion bonus is almost over!
We took a few bases on Moluccas. That island is completely mine except for the two dot bases. I'll let the rowboat corps take those.
Reinforcements are moving towards the Clark siege. We got a 1-2 a couple days ago that was 1189 Japan vs 1453 Allied casualties including 85 of his squads destroyed. The end is nigh. We have almost 500 AV of reinforcements on the way. We'll attack again tomorrow when some of them have arrived. I've also transferred some Sallys from China. They're ground attacking and will help speed things up.
Palembang saw another attack two days ago. We're destroying more squads than he is but our disabled squads are crippling! Last attack I lost 2393 to his 1716. He also had a unit destroyed in the attack. Nice! That's probably most of his casualties in the last attack but we'll take whatever we can get. Reinforcements are also on the way here. I held them up for a day to wait on KB to come down and cover their run in to Oosthaven. With the SBD's operating out of Palembang I don't want to get a division sunk. We had a minor setback yesterday. Praboemoelih fell to his rowboat corps. Sigh. I picked up as much of a para unit out of Sampit and took it back to Balikpapan. They'll para drop on Praboemoelih tomorrow and take it back. I'll strat move an engineering construction unit up there. That should keep it from falling again. I plan to transport all my para units from Borneo to Oosthaven. We'll use them to drop on all the unoccupied bases on Sumatra. Should help to get things going there.
China still has forces moving around. Should arrive in Wuchow in 1-2 days. It still shows three units so I don't expect it to last long under my tanks.
Burma is the latest crisis area. You may recall I had KB stationed up at Victoria Point to try for an ambush of his bombardment TF's. KB is free from that task because he has nowhere to bombard because Frederik has pushed me out of Moulmein. I took 10,000 losses in that mess. That was my last coastal hex that had anybody in it so he's welcome to bombard empty hexes. It's all part of my devious plot to get him to run out of BB ammo. I'm building a big force of Oscars, both upgraded units and some I've transferred from China (he's not doing much there, for now). Those guys will try to CAP trap and otherwise make a nuisance of themselves once Palembang falls.
Joe
Just issued orders for March 28th. The invasion bonus is almost over!
We took a few bases on Moluccas. That island is completely mine except for the two dot bases. I'll let the rowboat corps take those.
Reinforcements are moving towards the Clark siege. We got a 1-2 a couple days ago that was 1189 Japan vs 1453 Allied casualties including 85 of his squads destroyed. The end is nigh. We have almost 500 AV of reinforcements on the way. We'll attack again tomorrow when some of them have arrived. I've also transferred some Sallys from China. They're ground attacking and will help speed things up.
Palembang saw another attack two days ago. We're destroying more squads than he is but our disabled squads are crippling! Last attack I lost 2393 to his 1716. He also had a unit destroyed in the attack. Nice! That's probably most of his casualties in the last attack but we'll take whatever we can get. Reinforcements are also on the way here. I held them up for a day to wait on KB to come down and cover their run in to Oosthaven. With the SBD's operating out of Palembang I don't want to get a division sunk. We had a minor setback yesterday. Praboemoelih fell to his rowboat corps. Sigh. I picked up as much of a para unit out of Sampit and took it back to Balikpapan. They'll para drop on Praboemoelih tomorrow and take it back. I'll strat move an engineering construction unit up there. That should keep it from falling again. I plan to transport all my para units from Borneo to Oosthaven. We'll use them to drop on all the unoccupied bases on Sumatra. Should help to get things going there.
China still has forces moving around. Should arrive in Wuchow in 1-2 days. It still shows three units so I don't expect it to last long under my tanks.
Burma is the latest crisis area. You may recall I had KB stationed up at Victoria Point to try for an ambush of his bombardment TF's. KB is free from that task because he has nowhere to bombard because Frederik has pushed me out of Moulmein. I took 10,000 losses in that mess. That was my last coastal hex that had anybody in it so he's welcome to bombard empty hexes. It's all part of my devious plot to get him to run out of BB ammo. I'm building a big force of Oscars, both upgraded units and some I've transferred from China (he's not doing much there, for now). Those guys will try to CAP trap and otherwise make a nuisance of themselves once Palembang falls.
Joe
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Looks like things are going pretty well. Nice job on the CAP Trap but too bad on losing six ships for downing a bunch of his good pilots.
What large ships of his have you sunk at this point?
What large ships of his have you sunk at this point?
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RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi John,
We have sunk what you see in the picture plus about a dozen DD's. All subject to FOW, of course.
I've lost Shoho and quite a few DD's. Most around Oosthaven in those big fights when Sumatra was just starting.
Joe
We have sunk what you see in the picture plus about a dozen DD's. All subject to FOW, of course.
I've lost Shoho and quite a few DD's. Most around Oosthaven in those big fights when Sumatra was just starting.
Joe
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RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Nice read and nice plan! You seem to have it working for you... One question about China, are you trying to capture resource areas or just steamrollering? I like the encirclement, just hate losing so many troops with the hammer when one month of starving them of supply will slaughter them the same without the losses to your side... Then again, I may be missing something!
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi Moore,
Thanks for the comments. The objective in China is to beat down the Chinese units and destroy his squads so he ends up weaker and weaker. (Steamrolling in other words.) I was hoping to encircle the Changsha area and destroy the units there. The idea was to maneuver and encircle so we could run him out of supply. For various reasons it hasn't worked yet. Now I'm more interested in holding him in place with a portion of the forces at hand and lead with the tanks farther to the west. I'm at work typing on my phone so I don't have the game available. I listed the target bases earlier. Chungking still only has six units if I recall right. That would be fun to take and we will push as far and fast as we can but it won't be a quick campaign. The likely objective, depending on how far he can push from Burma, will be to open the road/rail network between Manchuria all the war to indochina and Burma. That way I can march restricted units in to stem the tide of his offensive. I want to cut supplies to china as well.
I think what I'm getting at is we're actually on the same page. I will use the hammer when I have a likely chance of quick success. Changsha wasn't going to be quick and I knew it. With such large stacks of troops his supply shouldn't take a really long time to be exhausted. If we can still pull of an encirclement it may still be possible to bag the 60-75 units there.
As far as the plan coming together. Overall no I'm not really satisfied with my progress. I don't hold any of Burma or Java and little of Sumatra. I'd like to have lost fewer DD's but I'm happy with the surface losses I've inflicted. I'm happy with what we've accomplished in china. That's where I'm most happy with progress. Most of that progress stems from the added troops from Manchuria. But I'm still happy. All I know is I've learned a great deal and next game will see a much better effort on my part. I think my next game will see me at the very least much closer to my objectives in a similar time frame.
Joe
Thanks for the comments. The objective in China is to beat down the Chinese units and destroy his squads so he ends up weaker and weaker. (Steamrolling in other words.) I was hoping to encircle the Changsha area and destroy the units there. The idea was to maneuver and encircle so we could run him out of supply. For various reasons it hasn't worked yet. Now I'm more interested in holding him in place with a portion of the forces at hand and lead with the tanks farther to the west. I'm at work typing on my phone so I don't have the game available. I listed the target bases earlier. Chungking still only has six units if I recall right. That would be fun to take and we will push as far and fast as we can but it won't be a quick campaign. The likely objective, depending on how far he can push from Burma, will be to open the road/rail network between Manchuria all the war to indochina and Burma. That way I can march restricted units in to stem the tide of his offensive. I want to cut supplies to china as well.
I think what I'm getting at is we're actually on the same page. I will use the hammer when I have a likely chance of quick success. Changsha wasn't going to be quick and I knew it. With such large stacks of troops his supply shouldn't take a really long time to be exhausted. If we can still pull of an encirclement it may still be possible to bag the 60-75 units there.
As far as the plan coming together. Overall no I'm not really satisfied with my progress. I don't hold any of Burma or Java and little of Sumatra. I'd like to have lost fewer DD's but I'm happy with the surface losses I've inflicted. I'm happy with what we've accomplished in china. That's where I'm most happy with progress. Most of that progress stems from the added troops from Manchuria. But I'm still happy.
All I know is I've learned a great deal and next game will see a much better effort on my part. I think my next game will see me at the very least much closer to my objectives in a similar time frame.Joe
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi,
We've progressed to April 1st. Let me go around the map.
China: Fairly quiet all things considered. Troops are moving around trying to get into the fight to the West of Changsha. My tank army took Wuchow and did a nice job of roughing up the three Chinese units there. My casualties were very light at 129 with 1 squad destroyed and nine vehicles. Chinese losses were:
7187 casualties reported
Squads: 158 destroyed, 168 disabled
Non Combat: 100 destroyed, 137 disabled
Engineers: 25 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 71 (33 destroyed, 38 disabled)
Units retreated 3
Philippines:
At long last Clark has fallen! Yay!!! It's been a long siege. Now we start Bataan. Our losses were very light, 465 with only 2 vehicles as actual losses and the rest as disablements. US forces lost this:
12883 casualties reported
Squads: 475 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1381 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 103 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 252 (252 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 509 (509 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 36
Too bad no units were destroyed but I sure like to see the almost 1400 non combat squads destroyed. That'll help keep him from repairing his units. We're moving air support forward to Clark and will begin bombing as soon as possible. Land units will take a breather until the last couple reinforcing units make it to Clark from Manila. They are the PI cleanup crew that was a part of the Mindanao campaign. I need to start giving my campaigns code names...
Burma:
He's not pushing. I have units in the jungles or on trail hexes and pretty exposed. All he seems to do is to bomb. I don't mind. It keeps me from having to throw more troops this way to stop him from steamrolling all the way back down to Singapore. Sooner or later we will come back to this theater in a big way.
Sumatra:
We're still getting bombed at Palembang and maintaining the siege. Every now and then we deliberate attack but usually hurt ourselves worse than him. I've ordered sweeps from Oosthaven and Singapore. Each base will send 80-100 Oscars into his CAP. We should get the height advantage. I'm not one to do the strato-sweeps but I'm sending them in at 23,000 or 24,000 ft. He has well over 100 fighters here. I'd like to wear them down. If I can get air superiority here we'll send every 2E I have to this theater because I have got to get Palembang. It's second most important to me after Tokyo.
PNG:
As you recall he took back Rabaul earlier in the war. I've been ignoring this theater and he's pushed a bit further. He snuck a small transport fleet up to Hollandia and took the unoccupied base. There is two units there. I don't know what they are because he occupied the base without an attack. We had Junyo, Yamato, and Aoba at Babeldaob. They all sortied to within 5 hexes of the base but Junyo didn't launch yesterday so I sortied Yamato, Aoba, and 5 DD's into Hollandia. The 4 unescorted xAK's and two xAP's were no match and they all went under for no losses. I probably could've just sent some DD's and kept the Yamato's presence a secret but I wanted to see her in action! It was pretty awesome to see those 46cm hits and the critical damage (no kidding?) pop up on the screen! Banzai! May those be the first of many that fall to the mighty Yamato!
On a more serious note, I don't really know where I'm going to rearm her main guns. I have 4 AKE's on the way to Babeldaob but I doubt they're big enough to re-arm Yamato. Additionally what am I going to do about Hollandia? I have over 300 AV (two assault divisions) sitting at Kendari with a transport TF on the way to pick them up. I was planning on using them on Ambon but may divert them to Hollandia to, hopefully, stop the blood flow in that theater. Well, mine anyway. His guys may feel free to bleed out for all I care.
It's after 10 am now and I work nights so I'd best get to bed.
Later,
Joe
We've progressed to April 1st. Let me go around the map.
China: Fairly quiet all things considered. Troops are moving around trying to get into the fight to the West of Changsha. My tank army took Wuchow and did a nice job of roughing up the three Chinese units there. My casualties were very light at 129 with 1 squad destroyed and nine vehicles. Chinese losses were:
7187 casualties reported
Squads: 158 destroyed, 168 disabled
Non Combat: 100 destroyed, 137 disabled
Engineers: 25 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 71 (33 destroyed, 38 disabled)
Units retreated 3
Philippines:
At long last Clark has fallen! Yay!!! It's been a long siege. Now we start Bataan. Our losses were very light, 465 with only 2 vehicles as actual losses and the rest as disablements. US forces lost this:
12883 casualties reported
Squads: 475 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1381 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 103 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 252 (252 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 509 (509 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 36
Too bad no units were destroyed but I sure like to see the almost 1400 non combat squads destroyed. That'll help keep him from repairing his units. We're moving air support forward to Clark and will begin bombing as soon as possible. Land units will take a breather until the last couple reinforcing units make it to Clark from Manila. They are the PI cleanup crew that was a part of the Mindanao campaign. I need to start giving my campaigns code names...
Burma:
He's not pushing. I have units in the jungles or on trail hexes and pretty exposed. All he seems to do is to bomb. I don't mind. It keeps me from having to throw more troops this way to stop him from steamrolling all the way back down to Singapore. Sooner or later we will come back to this theater in a big way.
Sumatra:
We're still getting bombed at Palembang and maintaining the siege. Every now and then we deliberate attack but usually hurt ourselves worse than him. I've ordered sweeps from Oosthaven and Singapore. Each base will send 80-100 Oscars into his CAP. We should get the height advantage. I'm not one to do the strato-sweeps but I'm sending them in at 23,000 or 24,000 ft. He has well over 100 fighters here. I'd like to wear them down. If I can get air superiority here we'll send every 2E I have to this theater because I have got to get Palembang. It's second most important to me after Tokyo.
PNG:
As you recall he took back Rabaul earlier in the war. I've been ignoring this theater and he's pushed a bit further. He snuck a small transport fleet up to Hollandia and took the unoccupied base. There is two units there. I don't know what they are because he occupied the base without an attack. We had Junyo, Yamato, and Aoba at Babeldaob. They all sortied to within 5 hexes of the base but Junyo didn't launch yesterday so I sortied Yamato, Aoba, and 5 DD's into Hollandia. The 4 unescorted xAK's and two xAP's were no match and they all went under for no losses. I probably could've just sent some DD's and kept the Yamato's presence a secret but I wanted to see her in action! It was pretty awesome to see those 46cm hits and the critical damage (no kidding?) pop up on the screen! Banzai! May those be the first of many that fall to the mighty Yamato!
On a more serious note, I don't really know where I'm going to rearm her main guns. I have 4 AKE's on the way to Babeldaob but I doubt they're big enough to re-arm Yamato. Additionally what am I going to do about Hollandia? I have over 300 AV (two assault divisions) sitting at Kendari with a transport TF on the way to pick them up. I was planning on using them on Ambon but may divert them to Hollandia to, hopefully, stop the blood flow in that theater. Well, mine anyway. His guys may feel free to bleed out for all I care.
It's after 10 am now and I work nights so I'd best get to bed.
Later,
Joe
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi,
I have issued orders for April 3rd now. Turns have been slow. I don't know why but it's a good opportunity to update the AAR!
PI: Troops are moving to Bataan for the new siege and to Clark to repair the airfield. My 2E IJA bombers are working over Bataan as best we can. They're flying from Clark with no support. I didn't want to interrupt the campaign while we move units around. It'll mean some damage to my units but I'd rather not quit bombing. Additionally I don't expect Bataan to take as long as Clark did because all his units except the CD guns that can't move from Bataan were in Clark and are as badly beat up as my guys. Worse actually. We "won".
China: We've taken Wuchow, if I didn't mention that in the last update. There were three Chinese Corps that were evicted by the tanks. We've followed them and kicked them out of the hex to the NE. They retreated to the NW. Guess which way we'll go next turn! Liuchow and Kweilen both have three units. Depending on the situation when we get there we'll pick the one with the smallest garrison or Kweilen if the garrison looks the same size in each base.
Up near Ichang we sent 5 divisions across the river to clear two Corps and a base force off our supply line. One unit was destroyed and the other two were smashed pretty hard. Looks like they were very understrength but still we managed to kill about 100 each combat and non-combat squads. Combined with the three units at Wuchang and in three days we've killed over 300 combat squads. We're doing our best to deplete their pool!
Burma: Still pretty quiet
PNG: We've spotted a few ships at Hollandia. 5 DD's are sailing from Babeldaob to see if we can catch them.
Sumatra: We've swept Palembang twice with our Oscar's from Singapore and Oosthaven. Overall losses look to be about 45 Oscars to 55 Allied of various types. Ever so slightly better than 1-1. I'm producing almost 200 Oscars a month so I feel I should be able to keep this up for longer than he can. We're going to rest a day and then send the whole bunch in again.
We haven't made a ground attack at Palembang in awhile. 53rd Division and Guards Mixed Brigade should arrive in about three days. We'll see what happens then. I may go ahead and attack once before they arrive. Maybe not. I haven't decided. Fresh troops won't hurt though! That's for certain.
KB: We're steaming to Balikpapan and should arrive next turn. We'll refuel and rearrange the TF's into a main KB including my big carriers and a second that will be the CVL's and CVE's. KB2 will sail to Babeldaob and meet up with Junyo. I have a feeling we aren't done here and I'd like a bigger force on hand if I need to stop him from pushing. KB1 will cover future endeavors in the DEI. As a quick note, Hiyo is due in 4 days and Kaga should be repaired in 21. Hiyo will go to KB2 and Kaga will go back to KB 1.
That's all I have at the moment.
Joe
I have issued orders for April 3rd now. Turns have been slow. I don't know why but it's a good opportunity to update the AAR!
PI: Troops are moving to Bataan for the new siege and to Clark to repair the airfield. My 2E IJA bombers are working over Bataan as best we can. They're flying from Clark with no support. I didn't want to interrupt the campaign while we move units around. It'll mean some damage to my units but I'd rather not quit bombing. Additionally I don't expect Bataan to take as long as Clark did because all his units except the CD guns that can't move from Bataan were in Clark and are as badly beat up as my guys. Worse actually. We "won".
China: We've taken Wuchow, if I didn't mention that in the last update. There were three Chinese Corps that were evicted by the tanks. We've followed them and kicked them out of the hex to the NE. They retreated to the NW. Guess which way we'll go next turn! Liuchow and Kweilen both have three units. Depending on the situation when we get there we'll pick the one with the smallest garrison or Kweilen if the garrison looks the same size in each base.
Up near Ichang we sent 5 divisions across the river to clear two Corps and a base force off our supply line. One unit was destroyed and the other two were smashed pretty hard. Looks like they were very understrength but still we managed to kill about 100 each combat and non-combat squads. Combined with the three units at Wuchang and in three days we've killed over 300 combat squads. We're doing our best to deplete their pool!
Burma: Still pretty quiet
PNG: We've spotted a few ships at Hollandia. 5 DD's are sailing from Babeldaob to see if we can catch them.
Sumatra: We've swept Palembang twice with our Oscar's from Singapore and Oosthaven. Overall losses look to be about 45 Oscars to 55 Allied of various types. Ever so slightly better than 1-1. I'm producing almost 200 Oscars a month so I feel I should be able to keep this up for longer than he can. We're going to rest a day and then send the whole bunch in again.
We haven't made a ground attack at Palembang in awhile. 53rd Division and Guards Mixed Brigade should arrive in about three days. We'll see what happens then. I may go ahead and attack once before they arrive. Maybe not. I haven't decided. Fresh troops won't hurt though! That's for certain.
KB: We're steaming to Balikpapan and should arrive next turn. We'll refuel and rearrange the TF's into a main KB including my big carriers and a second that will be the CVL's and CVE's. KB2 will sail to Babeldaob and meet up with Junyo. I have a feeling we aren't done here and I'd like a bigger force on hand if I need to stop him from pushing. KB1 will cover future endeavors in the DEI. As a quick note, Hiyo is due in 4 days and Kaga should be repaired in 21. Hiyo will go to KB2 and Kaga will go back to KB 1.
That's all I have at the moment.
Joe
RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Looks like things are progressing pretty well.
How are you planning organize your CVs as the new ships come on-line?
How are you planning organize your CVs as the new ships come on-line?
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RE: Enthusiastically Sailing With Jerry (Reluctant Admiral)
Hi John,
Next one to come online is Hiyo in a few days then there's a gap until July something when a CVL, I don't remember the name at the moment, arrives. AFter that I think it's some time in '43 before the next arrives. Until Kaga comes back online in a few weeks I'm going to keep them in two TF's. I'll have the historical Pearl Harbor CV's in one and Hiyo, Junyo, and the CVL's in the other. I may or may not keep the CVE's on the front lines. I might start using them by themselves. I haven't decided.
I'll post a picture or something showing what my CV acceleration looks like. I'm trying to get as much as I can as early as I can.
Joe
Next one to come online is Hiyo in a few days then there's a gap until July something when a CVL, I don't remember the name at the moment, arrives. AFter that I think it's some time in '43 before the next arrives. Until Kaga comes back online in a few weeks I'm going to keep them in two TF's. I'll have the historical Pearl Harbor CV's in one and Hiyo, Junyo, and the CVL's in the other. I may or may not keep the CVE's on the front lines. I might start using them by themselves. I haven't decided.
I'll post a picture or something showing what my CV acceleration looks like. I'm trying to get as much as I can as early as I can.
Joe