Hammer of the Gods Godochaos(A) vs Da Hammer(J) NO DA HAMMER PLS

[godochaos]

4-9-42
RN CL sag hits CL Oi w torp fires result at palembang
asw gets 5 hits on jap sub near rangoon- im shocked
SAG combat at Rabaul goes bad, this is a very very dissapointing result, Bettys get 3 hits on way out w bombs

[godochaos]

4-9-42 cont
Jap nells bomb palembang, cebu, pakhoi, liuchow, cagayan
Dutch air raids landing at palembang loses 5, b-17s hit palembang ground and get 646 casaulties over 2 raids!
allies bomb rabaul, chengchow
Jap CVL bombs Batavia and japs lose 4 planes
jap del atk at Cagayan, japs lose 1250 and we lose 125

[godochaos]

4-10-42
Wounded allied CA from previous turn rabaul attack sinks
jap subs torps ak at Rangoon
japs bomb palembang, changsha, dadjangas, cagayan, loyang, pakhoi, zamboanga
allies bomb chengchow, 2 dutch air raids near palembang miss BB haruna
B-17s hit palembang and Rabaul
13 Sallys miss BB Ramiles near Palembang
allies del atk cagayan japs 337 allies lose 32
allied del atk near sinyang japs lose 2000 allies 106, this was to beat up the units that retreated from sinyang
jap raiders seize prabomoelih near palembang blocking exit south

[godochaos]

4-11-42
ally SS torps AK near marshalls
RN BB Ramiles sunk near palembang see pic - will discuss this in my state of the game address coming up i'll just say that once again I am very dissapointed in our performance in a fair fight.

[godochaos]

4-11 cont
ally SS shoots up AKL near Davao
jap ss torps TK near brisbane
japs bomb dadjangas, liuchow, chushien, cagayan, cebu, ambon- japs lose 4, pakhoi, and palembang
dutch bomb BB Haruna and miss, Blenheims bomb the last japs near Rangoon, a cavalry regiment which i will soon gobble up as desert after beating up his forces near rangoon.
allied B-17s bomb palembang and we bomb chengchow as usual
a single Kate finishes off brit CL near palembang
we hold off atk at Chushien
changsha is now fort 5

[godochaos]

4-12-42
BB Haruna SAG sink Dutch DD limping home after SAG disaster at Palembang, plus AM Quail
Japs Bomb Dadjangas,palembang,liuchow, cebu, pakhoi, and loyang
oscars sweep Kalidjati and lose 2 we lose 1
allies bomb chengchow, above rangoon(cav rgt), and palembang
dutch bombers miss BB Ise
japs atk Chushien we hold, but not for long
allies beat up a fleeing Jap AF BNnear toungoo
allies bombard changsha hitting 140

*My opponent is out of town for 10 days so I will be doing a review and state of the game shortly

[godochaos]

REVIEW AND SUMMARY TIME
My opponent is out of town for a while so now is a good time for us to take a look at the big picture and try to figure out whats going on and where this is going.

I'll call upon my statistician and assistant "June" to provide me with some info, and try to make sense of it

[godochaos]

Thankyou June

So here we are in mid april of 42 and we have some parts of the war that are going well and some parts not so well.

Here is a general summary(we will break this down in more detail to follow):
- all allied carriers are alive and well
- some japanese carriers may have been sunk, 1 cv, 1 cvl
- Singapore and Manilla/Bataan have fallen after very solid resistance
- China seems like it is ok(i dunno)
- we seem to be winning the airwar overall
- we are not doing well in the sub war
- our aggresive SAGs have hit a rough patch lately
- we seem to have stopped all offensive action in the rabaul area, it seems like the ball is in our court
- KBs location is unknown


Lets start with the airwar
I honestly am surprised by the pic below in that I knew we were doing ok but it did not seem like we were that far ahead in planes destroyed. I have noticed that my opponent is not aggresive about trying to set up ambushs of unescorted bombers. I on the other hand learned from DOCUP to note when he makes attacks at locations with unescorted bombers and then try to create situations where i can cause some kills. Some chinese pilots have actually gotten quite a few kills as a result of one of these ambushes.

I feel like my opponent does not do enough to concentrate and focus his airpower. I think his lack of setting up situations where his bettys will be armed with torpedoes and then dominating sea lanes is a major mistake.

I am guilty of not concentrating all of my B-17s, but i feel like it puts less strain on the airfields limits to have them a little more dispersed.

[godochaos]

Top Pilots
note the chinese

[godochaos]

Review Part 2 - Naval Warfare
I have been very aggressive with Surface action groups and have lost a lot of cruisers and a few battleships. I have been making the decision to fight surface actions with even odds, but just for the sake of fighting surface actions. Recently the Japanese have sunk 2 brit battleships and torn up some others BB's all in fairly even battles.
The issue here is that I realize I am fighting just for fightings sake and not for a higher purpose. I cannot afford to keep losing BB's when there is not a higher goal.
Here is a prime example. I want to tell you that I lost the last BB, BB Ramiles while trying to stop the invasion of Palembang which is a noble reason to die. But when I actually look at the details and the sequence of events its not true.
He invades palembang and lands. I then send my reaction force. At the same time I sight japanese BB's nearby. My Ramiles SAG arrives near Palembang and cannot enter the channel due to ship size. I head back to Batavia and he slips away. Now i send out Ramiles again hoping I may encounter more transports, but I saw his transports had left. I knew there was enemy BB's around. So we fight a fair fight against jap BBs and Ramiles is sunk while performing poorly. But did Ramiles die for a higher goal? Not really. If I am going to send in SAGs in the future if I am going to sacrifice capital ships it needs to be in pursuit of a higher goal!
here is the naval top ships sunk. so in SAG combats we have lost 3 Battleships, generally in fair fights. All have done poorly.

[godochaos]

Part 3 Subwar
I have no statistics to back this up but it seems like the sub war is going very poorly for the allies and quite well for the japanese.
it seems the japs sink about 3 ships every 2 turns and the allies about 1 every 3 turns. I have attempted to shift subs to other locations in order to find some sweet spots and it seems like the area up by Port Arthur is a good one, but generally I'm not finding his main shipping lanes. I have wondered if his lack of aggression and lack of high tempo operations has created a situation where there is just less flow of supplies and thus less action.
Overall I need to give my opponent credit for the advantage in this area

[godochaos]

Part 4 Regions
Dividing up the theater into several regions allows us to reduce the war to manageable chunks. Lets start by taking a look at:
West/Best Coast/Pearl Harbor/Midway/Alaska - There is absolutely no activity in this area by the Japanese other then moderate sub activity. There used to be a ton of subs but they mostly moved to Suva/Lunga. Oddly little sub activity on the West Coast.

Marshal islands/Canton area - very little activity. Im not certain but it seems like there is not a lot of intent by him to develop this area.

Solomons islands region/Guadalcanal/Rabaul - this is one of my favorite areas of operations. We have been very aggresive here and have done a good job of stymieing him here. We have kept constant pressure on Rabaul and seemingly have put him on the defensive here already. If he brought in KB and a major invasion force this could become an offensive area for him again. I must not get overconfident. He has beat up some of my surface action groups here but I have sunk a carrier here. We have solid bases at Suva and Lunga. We are working on developing more bases here and I would love to turn Shortlands into an airbase that makes Rabaul Unteneble. I still have a weak force at Cape Gloucester, I would love to hold on there and develop it. We have B-17s at Lunga that are regularly bombing Rabaul.

[godochaos]

Regions

Ambon area

We have very solid defenses at Darwin and Ambon is fairly well defended, I would like to boost the moderate force at Makassar and develop Koepang more. This area is fairly active. I would like to choke Kendari and keep Balikpapan airfield under pressure.

[godochaos]

Regions

Java region is heating up as he is making a major effort to take Palembang. He has landed 2 regiments and has pushed up the coast above Palembang to take the misc. bases above. We plan to hold Palembang as long as possible but I dont intend to make it a 100% effort. I want to stall to reinforce Java. B-17s are bombing his ground forces at Palembang. Hopefully it will take him some time to take Palembang.

[godochaos]

Regional Review
Rangoon area

We have won a significant battle at Rangoon, he pushed up some RTA divisions supported by misc Japanese units to take or harass Rangoon before Singapore fell. Knowing that his good troops were at Singapore freed me up to take some risks and we were able to beat him up very badly and force him back beyond Moulmein which we just abandoned and let him retake. We gutted several of his units. Now that Singapore has fallen and freed up the units at Singapore(and bataan/PI jap units freed also) its dangerous to try to hold Rangoon, but I have a lot of strong troops up there. The last unit he has up here is the cav brigade above Rangoon. Its about to be attacked by an Australian Division.

[godochaos]

Regional Review
China

I have a hard time know exactly what to do in China but we have had some successes. We have a few roving corps which have attacked some smaller japanese garrisons off the main axis and we have done well with that.
CHangsha is holding out and seems secure. Chushien will fall soon but it was an Alamo anyway.

[godochaos]

My opponent is back from his vacation and the war begins again:
4-13-42
BB Revenge gets some revenge by sinking 2 AKs at Georgetown
Jap sub torps TK near Batavia, this was a TK I snuck into palembang and loaded with oil. I don't mind it being sunk too bad because its basically loaded with HIS oil at this point lol. I knew it was a high risk proposition.
Jap subs torps TK near aus.
ally sub torps AK near keijo
japs bomb dadjangas, palembang, liuchow, chuhsien, cagayan, and pakhoi
dutch b-25s miss CA at Balikpapan
"" bombers miss CVL/E Hosho near palembang
B-17s bomb palembang
sallys bomb oosthaven and 2 dest, sallys miss
we get some reinforcements into oosthaven.
jap del atk chuhsien we hold but not for long i can see us breaking

[godochaos]

41442
jap ss torps aklx2 brisbane
asw hvy dmg to jap sub rangoon
ally CA SAG bombardment of Kendari
japs bomb palembang, liuchow, ambon 3 japs dest, pakhoi, sabang, cagayan
allies bomb palembang and rabaul w b-17s
ally ss shoots up jap akl near japan
allies bombard changsha hit 200
allied del atk cagayan is a moderate success
australian del atk above rangoon destroys cav rgt.
chinese del atk at loyang beat up 35th div 2200 japs hit
chinese del atk changteh fails 1500 chinese lost
chinese del atk above sinyang beats up recon rgt.
japs capture chuhsien see pic

[godochaos]

4-15-42
japs ss torps ap near milne bay
japs bomb dadjangas, cagayan, cebu, pakhoi, loyang, palembang, sabang, near chuhsien
allied b-25s miss CA at Balikpapan, miss BB Ise near palembang, 15 Wirraways miss BB Nagato near ambon
12 albacores from batavia get 3 bomb hits on loaded AP palembang
b-17s bomb palembang, Brit CVs attempt airstrike near palembang, miss BB Ise lose 7 planes
Allied CVs bomb Rabaul, 4 hits on a CA fires
Sallys attempt to retaliate against brit CVs 3 destroyed and japs miss
allied del atk at Cagayan japs lose 200
chiniese del atk loyang vs 35th Division japs lose 1700 allies lose 700

[godochaos]

4-16-42
ambon bombarded by dirty japs