NFC East Slapdown: NY59Giants (A) vs 1EyedJack & Rysyonok (J) - BTS

[BBfanboy]

Nice to see the CM Tokiwa go down. That one is quite big and can carry a big load as a fast transport.

[topeverest]

So the death star is an ambush for Borneo and / eastern DEI?

[ny59giants]

So the death star is an ambush for Borneo and / eastern DEI?

What "Death Star??"

TF 403: Scouting
BC Ranger & Constellation, 8 DD

TF 405: Lexington
CV Lexington (27 Buf, 18 SBD-2, 18 SBD-3, 15 Dev, 18 F4F-3)
CVL Jacksonville (12 Buff, 6 SBD-2)
CVL Charlottle (12 Buff, 6 SBD-2)
4 CA, CL, 11 DD

TF 406: Enterprise
CV Enterprise (27 F4F-3A, 36 SBD-2, 15 Dev, 18 F4F-3)
CVL Melbourne (9 Buff, 6 Sword)
CVL Wellington (9 Buff, 6 Sword)
4 CA, CL, 10 DD

TF 415: CL, 7 DD

TF 420: Force Z
BB Prince of Wales, BC Repulse, CL, 5 DD

TF 437: CA, 2 CL, 7 DD

TF 412: (Dutch) 3 CL, 7 DD

Soerabaja: CA Chicago, CL Dallas (6 days until repairs completed), 4 DD

Tjilatjap: CVL Hermes (12 Fulmar, 12 Sword), 2 CA, CL, 4 DD

[topeverest]

That is a very impressive early war sledgehammer. I eagerly await the results when you unleash it, specially since KB is being split. I'd even be comfortable with a CV exchange considering the force pools, but I think you will get the better of it.

Your deployment suggests you are going to surface counterpulse on AP's at the same time as drawing out a favorable CV battle?

Are you going to hide these puppies in nondescript small base(s) disbanded and wait - to make them harder to spot?

[ny59giants]

Date: 41 Dec 27th -
Central China seems to be the main direction by Cribtop

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are italics, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings:

CVs:
KB1 & 2 - MIA [&:][&:]
KB3 - MIA
KB4 - MIA
CVEs - 4 WNW of Tabiteuea

Allied Mini-Death Star - leaves Darwin and heads west before swinging north towards

Subs:
I-19 is 6 NE of Pearl and misses the empty supply TF that is set as a CS convoy to and from San Fran.

India/Burma:
Moulmein -
Pegu - one hex due east is captured by elements of 55th ID in shock attack. My Burma battalion is wiped out.

China:
Nanyang -
Wuchow -
Chengchow - the lightly defended base falls easily.

Ground combat at Chengchow (88,44)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 36096 troops, 301 guns, 40 vehicles, Assault Value = 1457

Defending force 6104 troops, 43 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 125

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 253

Allied adjusted defense: 14

Japanese assault odds: 18 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Chengchow !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
146 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
4099 casualties reported
Squads: 79 destroyed, 45 disabled
Non Combat: 112 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 19 (8 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
41st Division
37th Division
35th Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
12th Army
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
40th Chinese Corps
24th Group Army

Malaya: -
Singapore -
Kuala Lumpur -

Philippines:
Manila -
Clark -
Cagayan -

Borneo:

SRA:

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:
Canton -
Christmas Island -
Ocean Island - 10 Zeros escort in 11 Vals from the CVEs south of base.

South Pacific:

North Pacific:

Australia:

Engineers:
Calcutta F3; Madras F3; Perth F3; Port Augusta P2;

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
A quiet day for Allies.

[ny59giants]

Date: 41 Dec 28th -

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are italics, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings:

CVs:
KB1 & 2 - MIA [&:][&:]
KB3 - Babeldoab
KB4 - MIA
CVEs - 2 West of Tabiteuea

Allied Mini-Death Star - left Darwin and heads west before swinging north towards Mataram (6 SE of Soerabaja). Plans are for ships to head for Balikpapan to suck up much of the 71k in fuel.

Subs:
I-25 is 7 NE of Pearl. One of my empty supply carrying transports is hit twice in two separate attacks. The second by I-19 (there are three I-boats here). I will need to adjust the waypoints for this CS convoy once she gets back to San Fran. I will eventually have two CS Convoys with different waypoints bring supplies to Pearl. I use the Transmarine Class transports for this with two or three escorts.
Plunger sinks an xAKL at Adak with her deck guns. [:D]

India/Burma:
Moulmein -
Pegu -

China:
Trail to Ankang - 24 Nates escort in 9 Ann & 7 Sonia to hit troops moving up from Ichang area trying to get into Wood/Rough hex just in from clear terrain.
Nanyang -
Wuchow -
Loyang - ground bb attack by 36th ID

Malaya: -
Singapore - 26 Oscars sweep empty skies. Multiple strikes with 41 Oscars escorting in 13 Lily & 50 Sally.
Kuala Lumpur -
Georgetown - ground bb by 56th Inf Rgt

Philippines:
Manila -
Clark -
Cagayan -

Borneo:

SRA:

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:
Canton -
Christmas Island -
Ocean Island -

South Pacific:

North Pacific:

Australia:

Engineers:

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
Only China seems to be busy.

[ny59giants]

Date: 41 Dec 29th -
Cribtop forms his version of Panzer Corp in China at Nanyang.

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are italics, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings:
Ocean Island

CVs:
KB1 & 2 - MIA [&:][&:]
KB3 - Babeldoab
KB4 - MIA
CVEs - 3 South Ocean

Allied Mini-Death Star - South of Mataram (6 SE of Soerabaja).

Subs:
I-164 is 1 SW of Singapore. She sinks am xALK leaving Singapore for Palembang with part of a BF. I'm using three, now two, of these small xAKLs with small troop capacity and the Dutch transport planes to shift some Aviation Support from the empty Singapore AF to Palembang.
O-19 gets two TT hits on xAK at Ambon, but doesn't hear any sinking sounds.

India/Burma:
Moulmein -
Pegu -

China:
Trail to Ankang - 24 Nates escort in 9 Ann & 7 Sonia to hit troops moving up from Ichang area (2 hexes due north of that base) trying to get into Wood/Rough hex just in from clear terrain. Day 3 here. The Chinese Air Force from Changsha sends in 6 A-29s, 6 DB-3M, 5 SB-III to attack 13th Tk Rgt trying to get here.
Nanyang -

Ground combat at Nanyang (85,45)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 46099 troops, 487 guns, 508 vehicles, Assault Value = 1928

Defending force 1214 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 1311

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 1311 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Nanyang !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender:
Attacker:

Allied ground losses:
1517 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 106 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
110th Division
3rd Division
6th Division
3rd Tank Regiment
26th Division
5th Armored Car Co
5th Tank Regiment
10th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
11th Army
1st Mortar Battalion
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion

Defending units:
2nd Group Army

Four ID and six tank seem to be part of the newly formed Panzer Corp. The question will be their next move. Will they head up the road to Sian or swing south and try the trail to Ankang??

Wuchow -
Loyang - another ground bb attack

Malaya: -
Singapore - 26 Oscars sweep empty skies to be followed by 40 Oscars with 35 Sally
Kuala Lumpur -
Georgetown - 20 Sally and 29 Lily soften up the troops for assault. The base holds for another day from 26:10 attack.

Philippines:
Manila - 36 Oscars with 12 Sally & 15 Lily.
Clark -
Cagayan -

Borneo:

SRA:

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:
Canton -
Christmas Island -
Ocean Island - 12 Claudes, 7 Zero, 9 Kates, & 11 Vals from CVEs hit troops. 51st Nav Gd takes base.

South Pacific:

North Pacific:

Australia:

Engineers:
Prince Rupert P4; Pingsiang F3; Toungoo F2;

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
CV Yorktown & CVL King's Mountain arrive at San Diego. They will stay until after the New Year to allow air group re-sizing to occur.

Screenshot - the situation in Central China shows possible avenues of approach by Cribtop.

[ny59giants]

Date: 41 Dec 30th -

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are italics, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings:

CVs:
KB1 & 2 - MIA [&:][&:]
KB3 - Babeldoab
KB4 - MIA
CVEs - 4 South Ocean

Allied Mini-Death Star - at Mataram (6 SE of Soerabaja). Ordered north to Balikpapan to refuel.

Subs:

India/Burma:
Moulmein -
Pegu -

China:
Trail to Ankang - 24 Nates escort in 9 Ann & 7 Sonia to hit troops moving up from Ichang area (2 hexes due north of that base) trying to get into Wood/Rough hex just in from clear terrain. Day 4 here.
Wuchow -
Loyang -

Malaya: -
Singapore - 29 Oscars sweep empty skies
Kuala Lumpur -
Georgetown - 21 Sally and 17 Lily soften up the troops for assault. The base falls easily 114:9

Philippines:
Manila -
Clark -
Cagayan -

Borneo:
Jesselton - the RN BF is easily overwhelmed as base falls 8:3

SRA:
Kendari - 40 & 4 Zeros sweep

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:
Canton - transports 26 hexes out (4 days)
Christmas Island - transport 20 hexes out (3 days)
Nauru - 6 Betty hit troops; 12 Claudes, 7 Zero, 9 Kate, 11 Val hit troops.

South Pacific:

North Pacific:

Australia:

Engineers:
Ichang F3; Colombo F3; Townsville P4; Sian AF2 (important to be able to use as possible CAP/LRCAP later); Suva F3;

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
CV Saratoga in one day out of Pearl.

[topeverest]

KB3 seems to be in the trap zone. Is it time?

From the cheaps, it seems more and more like a China focused approach. Quick recoveries in DEI may the course of action with your CV power. He can't get to auto victory only in China, so he has to come out to play somewhere else.

[ny59giants]

Date: 41 Dec 31st -

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are italics, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings:
Nauru

CVs:
KB1 & 2 - MIA [&:][&:]
KB3 - Babeldoab
KB4 - MIA
CVEs - 4 South Ocean

Allied Mini-Death Star - one hex south of Balikpapan to refuel. The Dutch SC TF is further behind.

Subs:
I-165 sinks an AVP off Billiton trying to escape Singkawang.

India/Burma:
Moulmein -
Pegu -

China:
Trail to Ankang - 7 Sonia hit troops 3 SE of base in Wood/Rough hex just in from clear terrain. In clear terrain, there are the six Japanese tank rgt. Meanwhile, 2nd Chinese Corp (271 AV) and 67 Corp (183 AV) will join the small Corp (82 AV) and 30th Corp (242 AV). Just behind is the 45th Corp (161 AV) as it needs to travel 6 miles. How well will my infantry do vs armor??
Wuchow -
Loyang -

Malaya: -
Singapore - 4 Lily come in at night. Why do this when I offer no resistance during the day?? 40 Oscars escort in 33 Sally.
Kuala Lumpur -

Philippines:
Manila -
Clark -
Lingayan - 7 Nate escort in 9 Sally & 18 Lily hitting the troops. Ground bb attack of 293:148

Borneo:
Singkawang - ground bb attack of 46:7

Sumatra:
Medan - 18 Lily hit the AF for first time.

SRA:
Kendari -

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:
Canton - transports 19 hexes out (3 days)
Christmas Island - transport 12 hexes out (2 days)
Nauru - 12 Claudes, 7 Zero, 9 Kate, 11 Val hit troops. 51st Nav Gd takes base.

South Pacific:

North Pacific:

Australia:

Engineers:

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
Penrhyn - I just finished unloading an EAB and Port Maintenance Unit (second came a reinforcement). I also have an AS, AE, AR, 2 AV, PC, & DD based here. Plans are to build port up one level to 2 before working on AF 0(0) getting up to level one (111 engineers present). If the Allies keep the Line Islands, this base can be stop over to shuttle planes from Pearl over to Pago Pago and beyond.

Enemy CVs - screen shot shows three separate CV/CVL/CVE type TFs. However, the number of planes in each TF is not great. I believe these are KB 1 & 2 along with CVEs and the numbers are wrong as the PBYs out of Ellice Islands have NavS skills of just 34.

SC TF is 3 west of Babeldoab. It shows as just warships as it heads west. I will have my DS refueling at Balikpapan next turn.

[ny59giants]

Jan 1st overview - Malaya

IMO, I sense no urgency here to take Singapore. 20 LCUs at Temuloh in central part of peninsula, but no small arrows indicating movement out. Would this indicate any future campaign into India is not an option??

[John 3rd]

I would be having kittens at this point. Way too slow of an offensive.

WHERE is he going? There MUST be some sort of 'big' objective but I don't see it. Have you received any sort of Allied intelligence that might help?

[ny59giants]

Jan 1st overview - Luzon

Cribtop has made steady progress, but I have not offered much resistance to date. In Manila, I have 51k in supply, 1200 AV, behind level 3 forts. 16 ID is driving up from the south while I suspect the 48 ID and 65th Brigade are in the north.

[ny59giants]

Jan 1st overview - Rabaul & Solomons

Where's Waldo?? I have two small Catalina (4 planes each) operating out of Rabaul.

[ny59giants]

Jan 1st overview - Eastern SRA

The only major base is Ambon. I move my British recon Buffalos to Kendari to get a more accurate picture of what he has at Ambon. See screenshot. My plans are for the Allied DS to refuel at Balikpapan and probable move briefly to Soerabaja (allow CV air groups to resize) and then linger at Mataram (6 SE of Soerabaja) to allow them to react in one day to be off Makassar to fly air strikes at an invasion of Kendari and/or to move up western side of Java to counter an invasion of Palembang.

[ny59giants]

Jan 1st overview - Borneo

Only a limited advance on this vital island. Singkawang will fall in the next few days. Then what??

[ny59giants]

Jan 1st overview - Burma

I've recombined the 1st Burma ID and have it at Toungoo. Both Rangoon and Pegu have token forces left behind. Earlier Intel Reports showed Imp Gds ID up here to go along with elements of 55th ID. I expect to lose the southern half in the next few weeks.

[ny59giants]

Jan 1st overview - Aleutians

After I missed postponing or stopping the capture of Adak, Attu, and Amchitka defensive preparation are going forth in eastern area. An EAB, large BF, and 87th Mtn Rgt will load at Prince Rupert for Umnak. Others will move west as PP become available.

[John 3rd]

The man is going to have a heart attack when I unleash my Japanese Offensive against him in our upcoming game!

TOO-----DARNED---SLOW...

[ny59giants]

Jan 1st overview - Central Pacific

With the normal bases captured in the Gilberts, will Cribtop expand elsewhere?? Is Canton Island, Line Islands, and/or Ellice Islands on the menu??