::Felix, Ferdinand and FRUPAC:: obvert (A) v Greyjoy (J)

[crsutton]

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Umboi is a key base for advancing up the coast. You will need it.

PS. Unless something changed or my memory is failing me the dot base North of Lae can be built up to size 9. Only that one and Hansa Bay that can be built up all the way. You will need one of the two at level 9 if going up the coast like I did.

In general plan your invasions after where the level 9 fields are. They are very scarce going North from here. And while it might be hard to imagine now one of your biggest problems will be finding room for your planes. Especially the 4Es. [:)]

Yeah, it's the one up the yellow road from Lae, called Nadzab, that can go to a level 9. North of Madang Hansa Bay also can go to a level 9. Also Buna can, which is very lightly defended. I agree these are precious and I'll go for them hard.

Yep, it is all about those level 9 bases. Nazdab is pretty much a dagger, (broadsword) in the heart of any defensive position that lies in fighter range of it. Hansa is another key point but you need not control both to own that whole region. Control one or the other and Rabaul is useless to Japan.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Watch it with "air field damage". Its not runway damage showing but for some crazy reason its air BASE damage. [8|] Who the fudge cares about base damage??? Which means the fields are already open there since it repairs the runway before starting on the base...

Took a while for me to figure that out through the help of a poster in my AAR (BBfanboy?).

It....depends. I think. So far as I can tell, "airbase hits" are the ones that damage the Service line in the base screen. Runway hits are obviously runway.

I have many a raid that hit Runway almost entirely, but also many others that are about half and half...

I think it's an average also, however you could have 100% Service damage and a completely open Runway at Airfield 50... Basically, unless it says 75+, I don't consider something closed.

I am doing H2H gaming and I know for sure that the Intel on a base shows Airfield service damage, not runway damage. Furthermore, non-engineer troops can help repair runway damage so it repairs much faster than anything else. This makes sense for a dirt field, but once you start getting hard surface fields it really should take equipment to repair.
The airfield service damage affects the maintenance of aircraft and the ability to put together a coordinated strike. You just can't "bomb up" a lot of strike aircraft without facilities and equipment. And the service crews need their teakettle/coffeepot too! [:)]

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Watch it with "air field damage". Its not runway damage showing but for some crazy reason its air BASE damage. [8|] Who the fudge cares about base damage??? Which means the fields are already open there since it repairs the runway before starting on the base...

Took a while for me to figure that out through the help of a poster in my AAR (BBfanboy?).

It....depends. I think. So far as I can tell, "airbase hits" are the ones that damage the Service line in the base screen. Runway hits are obviously runway.

I have many a raid that hit Runway almost entirely, but also many others that are about half and half...

I think it's an average also, however you could have 100% Service damage and a completely open Runway at Airfield 50... Basically, unless it says 75+, I don't consider something closed.

I had thought that even with an open runway and groups there flying CAP, the CAP would be weakened by low morale and getting tons of ops losses from coming out of a damaged base. That doesn't seem to be the case always.

It's too bad if the service damage shows up more the recon, as in a real situation it's pretty easy to see a messed up field in a photo, but not so easy to see whether the crews could service the planes. In fact from a book I just read about Medmenham the photo interpreters could tell if a field had intentional (false) damage inflicted by the user to appear as if it were closed (or not repaired) when in fact it was operational.

[koniu]

ORIGINAL: obvert
I had thought that even with an open runway and groups there flying CAP, the CAP would be weakened by low morale and getting tons of ops losses from coming out of a damaged base. That doesn't seem to be the case always.

What i even notice is that very often even rebasing squadron to base with damaged service/runway facilities gives immediate morale reduction. I also believe how much morale is reduced depend of unit lieder skills, presence of HQ and how much AF is damaged.

If AF have 100% service damaged You cant repair planes. According to manual 1/3 of planes flying CAP end day with damage(not always big enough to send plane to maintenance). If You don`t manage to repair service fast after few days You will end with bunch of damaged planes and squadrons with low morale

I also what to confirm that intel show service facilities damage so base with operational runway is shown as 100% damaged

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ORIGINAL: koniu

ORIGINAL: obvert
I had thought that even with an open runway and groups there flying CAP, the CAP would be weakened by low morale and getting tons of ops losses from coming out of a damaged base. That doesn't seem to be the case always.

What i even notice is that very often even rebasing squadron to base with damaged service/runway facilities gives immediate morale reduction. I also believe how much morale is reduced depend of unit lieder skills, presence of HQ and how much AF is damaged.

If AF have 100% service damaged You cant repair planes. According to manual 1/3 of planes flying CAP end day with damage(not always big enough to send plane to maintenance). If You don`t manage to repair service fast after few days You will end with bunch of damaged planes and squadrons with low morale

I also what to confirm that intel show service facilities damage so base with operational runway is shown as 100% damaged

This is what I've experienced too, these reductions in morale flying from damaged bases and the accumulation of more inoperable planes than usual.

I'm doing a few tests on recon and damaged bases, and so far the results are interesting. (I want to run more for a better sample but I was interrupted by a turn). [:)]

I'll try to get some up here soon.

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[font="Times New Roman"]March 29 - 31, 1943[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SUBS: [/font] Skipjack hits another xAK near Ceylon, but no troops on board. Pampano has a run-in with an xAKL on the surface near Fukue-Jima and hits it with a bunch of small arms fire, then takes a 12cm short gun hit and submerges. She's got about 12 service and 8 flat damage, but I'll keep her running around over there.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] Strikes on ground forces fly on the 29th but airfield strikes are again grounded by weather. There is a division at Trin that was at Colombo. Same on the 30th, which gave me the jitters along with the approaching CV TF, so I just ran sweeps on the 31st. Good thing as Nick was able to move 250 fighters back into Trincomalee. Our sweeps got a slight advantage, and with service troubles there I'm sure there are a lot of damaged planes around, but I'm not going to risk anything else with another 500-700 fighters at Madras able to move in.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CENT PAC: [/font] Preparing for some moves by getting troops reorganized and opening up some space on bases, getting units put together again and lots of little details.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SO PAC: [/font] After the air strike on the surface forces in So Pac the 29th turns into an active night and day. First, the IJN DDs go right in for the injured and hit Leander and two DDs, the only unscathed ships from the day before, guarding Shortlands. The Allied ships fight hard, although outnumbered, and it looks like the IJN should lose the Yuzuki and the Allies did lose the Lardner to a long lance.

Four of the IJN DDs continued on to find the damaged Canberra, which also fought them off after taking two hits. It then limped back toward Tulagi.

The next wave of Allied ships showed up behind the IJN, hitting Buin with a good bombardment, destroying a few fighters and getting some good damage on the fields. They then run into two IJN DDs, the Shimakaze and Tamanami, and likely sink the Shimakaze, which is great as she's a very good ship.

Later Judys arrived and went for the two damaged USN DDs, getting under LR CAP and sinking both. This I didn't see during the turn due to a sync bug, so I had thought it was a decent day. That turned it a bit sour. It also looks like the CA Cornwall is not going to fight off the fires. They went up into th e40s and damage continued to accumulate in port. There is a bit of naval support here, but unfortunately I don't have more to be able to fly in. I fear the worst.


[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] Kunming still holds after two more assaults on the 29th and the 31st.

I've decided to try to get supply to far Western China and bring troops there to rehabilitate and potentially grow, upgrade and prepare for the endgame, rather than simply letting them starve and fade away. Kashgar is in range of India and I need now to build the base on each side once supply starts to flow. I have a Corps moving from Urumchi to get started. This will take a good long time, but is the only hope to save some of the Chinese army from becoming recycling Zombie troops garnering continual VPs for the Japanese.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]OZ:[/font] Troops are reaching Cunerdin and will get to Perth soon. No sign of evac for the units here. One of the units is an air HQ, and I'll try to win Perth and then let it rot rather than letting him buy it back immediately. We'll see if it will actually retreat or just surrender.

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 29, 43
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Shortlands at 110,132, Range 7,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Shimakaze, Shell hits 1
DD Tamanami
DD Oboro, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Kikuzuki
DD Yuzuki, Shell hits 14, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Uruyuke, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
CL Leander, Shell hits 4
DD Lardner, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Barton


Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 39% moonlight: 8,000 yards

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Shortlands at 110,132, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Shimakaze
DD Tamanami
DD Oboro, on fire
DD Kikuzuki

Allied Ships
CA Canberra, Shell hits 2

Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 32% moonlight: 8,000 yards

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Night Naval bombardment of Buin at 109,131

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 51 damaged
A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-15-II Babs: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Australia
CL Perth
CL Achilles
DD Wilson
DD Sterett
DD Morris
DD Walke
DD O'Brien

Japanese ground losses:
330 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 23
Airbase supply hits 11
Runway hits 68

Seagull V acting as spotter for CA Australia
CA Australia firing at Buin

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Buin at 109,131, Range 17,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Shimakaze, Shell hits 11, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Tamanami, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
CA Australia, Shell hits 3
CL Achilles
CL Perth
DD O'Brien, Shell hits 1
DD Walke
DD Morris, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Sterett, Shell hits 1
DD Wilson, Shell hits 1

Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions: 20,000 yards

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 30, 43
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Sub attack near Madras at 39,49

Japanese Ships
xAK Banshu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Ayo Maru
PB Keiko Maru

Allied Ships
SS Skipjack

SS Skipjack launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Banshu Maru
Skipjack diving deep ....

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Submarine attack near Fukue-jima at 99,59

Japanese Ships
xAKL Columbia Maru, Shell hits 32

Allied Ships
SS Pompano, hits 1, on fire

xAKL Columbia Maru is sighted by SS Pompano
SS Pompano attacking xAKL Columbia Maru on the surface
Norton M. decides to submerge SS Pompano due to damage

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Ground combat at Kunming (69,48)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 14738 troops, 317 guns, 992 vehicles, Assault Value = 525

Defending force 22951 troops, 157 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 290

Japanese adjusted assault: 341

Allied adjusted defense: 259

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
238 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled

Allied ground losses:
747 casualties reported
Squads: 40 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 22 (10 destroyed, 12 disabled)

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 31, 43
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Morning Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 95
A6M5c Zero x 18
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 32
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 61

Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 2 destroyed
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1 Corsair: 2 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet

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Morning Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 83
A6M5c Zero x 10
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 15
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 49

Allied aircraft
P-40K Warhawk x 78

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 5 destroyed
A6M5c Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40K Warhawk: 5 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
25 x P-40K Warhawk sweeping at 25000 feet
12 x P-40K Warhawk sweeping at 25000 feet
12 x P-40K Warhawk sweeping at 25000 feet
3 x P-40K Warhawk sweeping at 25000 feet

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Morning Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 52
A6M5c Zero x 5
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 12
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 37

Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1 Corsair: 3 destroyed

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Afternoon Air attack on Woodlark Island , at 104,133

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 40

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 5
F4F-4 Wildcat x 7

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
37 x N1K1-J George sweeping at 25000 feet

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Ground combat at Kunming (69,48)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 14545 troops, 317 guns, 992 vehicles, Assault Value = 508

Defending force 22179 troops, 148 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 262

Japanese adjusted assault: 398

Allied adjusted defense: 406

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

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

Japanese ground losses:
342 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled

Allied ground losses:
641 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 71 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)
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[font="Trebuchet MS"]Too bad, but we'l see if the subs can do something now. [/font]

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[font="Times New Roman"]RECON and AIRFIELD DAMAGE[/font]

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Here are three days of recon from both sides. I have more and I'm putting it together slowly. Interesting that although the info is almost useless as the damage is higher on the base, the field damage is reported almost exactly on the 2nd, while the service damage remains and the port damage is off significantly.

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[Lokasenna]

I think it just goes to show that even with DL 9/10, you can't know everything. Notice that on the 3rd day, it shows lower numbers for both runway and port, and port is the last thing to fix - so it's definitely not down to 75.

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[font="Times New Roman"]April 1 - 3, 1943[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] All is as predicted. The fields at Trincomalee were packed well over their actual capacity with 700+ fighters and some ASW panes on April 1. The CVs shepherded some TFs to Madras and Trin, hanging out between.

The Irving-S shows up for the first time at Trincomalee on the 2nd as I try to get some hits on the overstacked airframes at night. The 4Es aren't much affected by the two planes and net about 10 planes on the ground. I also notice that suddenly NOTHING is in Madras anymore! Only two small units, engineers or base forces show up in our bombardment. Hats off to Nick for a very well orchestrated pull-out there. Not much I could have done to stop it. Still, the air campaign at Ceylon had more than the desired affect in getting the Japanese to also abandon Madras. Finally, at last we can concentrate on NE India and move toward China, I hope.

Looks like the division and maybe some AA move out of Trincomalee as well. No fighters are there on the 3rd, just a few Jakes left over. Massive strikes will hit the base on the 4th and I'll paradrop Jaffna, Koggola and Male.

In the NE Patna is abandoned as is Ranchi. Tentative moves forward are starting but I must be wary of the 800+ fighters and 100+ bombers in Calcutta now.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SO PAC: [/font] Georges take advantage of the LR CAP around Munda and we lose 9 Wildcats and a few Beaufighters for about 2-3 N1K1-J. Not much I can do agains them yet, but soon ti'll be more than a fair fight.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] At last Kunming falls.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]OZ:[/font] Tanks should enter Perth tomorrow. I'll attack once over 200AV are in the base in a few days.

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR April 2, 43
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Night Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
J1N1-S Irving x 2

Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged

Airbase hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Night Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

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

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Night Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 destroyed on ground
A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged

Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Munda , at 111,134

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 13 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 40

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Ic x 10
F4F-4 Wildcat x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter Ic: 2 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 7 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
33 x N1K1-J George sweeping at 25000 feet

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR April 3, 43
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Night Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Ground combat at Kunming (69,48)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 14451 troops, 317 guns, 992 vehicles, Assault Value = 505

Defending force 21583 troops, 144 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 258

Japanese adjusted assault: 1001

Allied adjusted defense: 286

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kunming !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
138 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 16 (1 destroyed, 15 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
7237 casualties reported
Squads: 165 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 428 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 68 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 49 (44 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 20 (20 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 12
Units destroyed 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
18th Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Division
Guards Tank Division
13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
56th Chinese Corps
32nd Chinese Corps
49th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
33rd Base Group
64th Chinese Corps
11th Group Army
56th AT Gun Regiment
5th Group Army
9th Group Army
10th Construction Regiment
102nd RAF Base Force
16th Chinese Base Force

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Ground combat at Madras (35,40)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 162984 troops, 2401 guns, 3649 vehicles, Assault Value = 5621

Defending force 665 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 5

Allied adjusted assault: 12906

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 12906 to 1 (fort level 5)

Allied forces CAPTURE Madras !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
857 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 53 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

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

Assaulting units:
159th(Sep) Infantry Regiment
762nd Tank Battalion
7th Indian Division
26th Indian Brigade
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
16th Light Cavalry Regiment
63rd Indian Brigade
75th IAC Regiment
102nd(Sep) Infantry Regiment
26th Indian Division
2nd British Division
19th Indian Division
6th Australian Division
150th RAC Regiment
255th Armoured Brigade
194th Tank Battalion
84th Indian Brigade
268th Motorised Brigade
754th Tank Battalion
3rd Cavalry Regiment
3rd Marine Division
24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
22nd (East African) Brigade
7th Australian Division
70th British Division
147th(Sep) Infantry Regiment
1st USMC Tank Battalion
I Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
254th Armoured Brigade
267th Armoured Brigade
Waziristan Division
94th Coast AA Regiment
15th NZ AA Bde
2/9th Field Regiment
26th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
198th Field Artillery Battalion
6th Medium Regiment
2/11th Field Regiment
369th Coast AA Regiment
21st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
IV Indian Corps
30th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Indian Heavy AA Regiment
64th Coast AA Regiment
III Indian Corps
65th Coast AA Regiment
134th Field Artillery Battalion
209th Field Artillery Battalion
77th Heavy AA Regiment
2/1st Med Regiment
85th British AT Gun Regiment
501st Coast AA Regiment
28th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
111th Ship Eng Coy
211th Ship Eng Coy
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[font="Trebuchet MS"]I'll drop some mines in the Calcutta port in case things are trying to ship out. Our tanks should arrive in Patna tomorrow. [/font]

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

I think it just goes to show that even with DL 9/10, you can't know everything. Notice that on the 3rd day, it shows lower numbers for both runway and port, and port is the last thing to fix - so it's definitely not down to 75.

Yeah, one thing I've noticed is that certain days recon is just out of whack. Others much more consistent. All points to the unreliability of individual reports. It's all about lots of data. I'll post some more examples soon.

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[font="Times New Roman"]April 4 - 6, 1943[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] The paradrops land and the Allies are back on Ceylon! We also picked up Male with about 30 Jakes there, so that was obviously unexpected. He'll probably have to buy that group back. Got a few more planes at Trincomalee, including some mystery A to A combat with Tojos. It must have been there, but in another version of the replay that I didn't watch. Either way, I'll take it.

Now supply and troops, including a Brit brigade and two US ind. regiments are being air-lifted to Ceylon.

Patna turns over to us and at last the NE area looks accessible. Troops from Madras are railing over.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CENT PAC: [/font] Some more Navy 4Es are heading in, and I'll keep trying to wear things down here without really using too much stuff.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SW PAC: [/font] A strange thing happened at Portland Roads. Three xAKL landed a small fragment unit there, and a turn later it disappeared due to attrition. Huh. No bombardments happened so he still doesn't really know what i have there, which is just one small armor unit and some base forces.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] Some troops in the center are holding well, and the mountains are slowly crumbling.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]OZ:[/font] The first Perth DA goes well and tomorrow the base should fall.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SIGINT:[/font] Troops from madras heading to Burma. no surprise there. Anti-aircraft moving to Sabang along with the 18th division.

[font="Trebuchet MS"]148/6th Guards Division is loaded on a Gozan Cargo class xAK moving to Rangoon.
16/21st Air Defense AA Regiment is loaded on a Yusen N class AK moving to Sabang.
1/18th Division is loaded on a Horai Maru class xAP moving to Sabang.[/font]

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR April 4, 43
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Morning Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 4
Hurricane IIc Trop x 10
Kittyhawk I x 7
B-25C Mitchell x 27
B-25D1 Mitchell x 15
B-26 Marauder x 6
P-39D Airacobra x 25
P-40K Warhawk x 96
F4F-4 Wildcat x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 47

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 4
B-26B Marauder x 10
P-40K Warhawk x 48

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 destroyed on ground
J1N1-S Irving: 1 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-26B Marauder bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Trincomalee , at 31,47

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 4
Hurricane IIc Trop x 10
Kittyhawk I x 6
B-25C Mitchell x 12
P-40K Warhawk x 56

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Pre-Invasion action off Portland Roads (91,132) - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

34 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
xAKL Nichiryo Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
xAKL Totai Maru
xAKL Bichu Maru

3rd RAN Base Force firing at xAKL Nichiryo Maru
xAKL Nichiryo Maru fired at enemy troops
xAKL Totai Maru fired at enemy troops
xAKL Bichu Maru fired at enemy troops
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 5,000 yards
Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards [X(][&:]

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR April 5, 43
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Ground combat at North Male (20,45)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 378 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 19

Defending force 148 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Allied adjusted assault: 8

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE North Male !!!

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 12 destroyed

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

Japanese ground losses:
195 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

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

Assaulting units:
2/7 Commando Bn /1

Defending units:
33rd JAAF AF Coy

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Ground combat at Koggala (29,50)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 465 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6

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

Allied adjusted assault: 6

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Koggala !!!

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

Assaulting units:
1st USMC Parachute Bn /1


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Ground combat at Jaffna (31,45)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 239 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 21

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

Allied adjusted assault: 20

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 20 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Jaffna !!!

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

Assaulting units:
50th Indian Para Bde /1

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Japanese Unit(s) Wiped Out at Portland Roads by attrition!!!

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR April 6, 43
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Night Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 23

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 7

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-25C Mitchell laying Mk 13 Mine from 7000 feet

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (6 airborne, 17 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 6000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes

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Ground combat at 78,49 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 38546 troops, 440 guns, 674 vehicles, Assault Value = 1295

Defending force 42490 troops, 135 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1215

Japanese adjusted assault: 957

Allied adjusted defense: 559

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1505 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 356 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled

Allied ground losses:
744 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 94 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Assaulting units:
3rd Tank Division
60th Division
69th Division
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
12th Army
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
20th Chinese Corps
68th Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps

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Ground combat at Perth (49,147)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2304 troops, 0 guns, 424 vehicles, Assault Value = 518

Defending force 7486 troops, 37 guns, 216 vehicles, Assault Value = 92

Allied adjusted assault: 116

Japanese adjusted defense: 45

Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
1053 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 68 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
Vehicles lost 27 (2 destroyed, 25 disabled)

Assaulting units:
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
2/8th Armoured Regiment
2/6th Armoured Regiment
2/10th Armoured Regiment
2/4th Armoured Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
2/5th Armoured Regiment
2/9th Armoured Regiment
641st Towed Tank Destroyer Battalion
Otago (Mtd) Rifles Regiment

Defending units:
32nd Nav Gsn Unit
4th Div /20
10th JAAF Base Force
4th Air Division
1st JAAF Base Force
16th JNAF AF Unit
22nd Port Unit
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Bn /2
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[font="Trebuchet MS"]The Japanese will have had Perth for less than a year. [/font]

[BBfanboy]

I have seen the evaporating troops phenomenon several times. It seems to happen when the amphib TF uses up almost all of its Op points before arriving so it can only land a tiny fragment, which is not enough to create a squad or two. The funny thing is, when the rest of the TF unloads the following turn, the missing troops seem to find their way back into the ranks as there are no losses to TOE beyond those suffered from surf and perf(oration) by defensive fire.

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I have seen the evaporating troops phenomenon several times. It seems to happen when the amphib TF uses up almost all of its Op points before arriving so it can only land a tiny fragment, which is not enough to create a squad or two. The funny thing is, when the rest of the TF unloads the following turn, the missing troops seem to find their way back into the ranks as there are no losses to TOE beyond those suffered from surf and perf(oration) by defensive fire.

In this case the three xAKL dropped some troops, but they TOTALLY evaporated and no more were landed.

What kind of an op was this?

A mistake? Meant to go somehow to Horn Island and got off track? Not likely.

A scout for a larger force coming soon? Possibly, but what will this accomplish? The base has a level 4 field but is far from anything useful to hit.

Faulty recon, showing less here than there actually is in base? That seems possible, as the armor unit will show up as vehicles, but infantry might not be 'seen' at all, giving the impression the base is undefended and vulnerable.

[obvert]

[font="Times New Roman"]April 7 - 9, 1943[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SUBS: [/font] The Gato runs into a TK and misses with two fish, and E Shirataka can't put a hit on it. This initiates an offensive deep into the supply lines of the Empire. No subs working the DEI have DL from air ASW yet.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] About 45-50 bombers were set to mine Calcutta and Diamond Harbor on the night of the 7th. Most of them didn't make it, but a few did. Still no major effect that I can see, but it at least makes things slow down in the area.

A nearly clear day over Ceylon means Trincomalee finally got a plastering, with over 200 hits on the fields on the 7th.

At Jaffna around 150AV is present and some supply is building. It'll be a week before I can move out to Dambulla with this force, and something may happen at Colombo before that. I need to get search installed at Koggola before anything critical happens.

Two CA give Colombo a good shot, but troop damage is light, so I'm guessing there are some decent forts here.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CENT PAC: [/font] Two Navy 4E groups hit Mili for the first time. I'll try to close the fields here and work on supply. Nauru is finally looking short as AA has stopped. He could have also put units on rest, but they would really suffer in bombardments if that is the case. Nearly ready to continue the assault here after months of sitting around.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SO PAC: [/font] Georges again have their way with CAP in the Solomon Sea region. About 6 Wildcats lost.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] The Japanese quickly take the hex near Chikhiang after several attacks wipe the remnants of the Chinese supply. Heavy losses for the retreating units. They'll move to the deep West and aim for Urumchi and Kashgar is possible. It'll take 3-4 monte to get there.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]OZ:[/font] Perth is Allied again! The units there all retreat which is nice. I'll pin them in whatever hex they want to end up in, preferably inland, as they are trying to move now. Once the fighting units Banzai themselves out, the rest will very slowly wither. This will at least keep some of these units, including the 4th Division (fragment), the 4th Air Division and two big IJAAF base forces from being bought out and reused. Since the division fragment is here the rest of that unit can't upgrade either, which is nice. Air Divisions are precious though for the Japanese, and if I can keep this out of play fr a while that is a big plus.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SIGINT:[/font] The 4th Guards Division was lately of Calcutta. Is this a general pullout? Are they moving from Cox's to Ramree, maybe beyond? May not know until later.

I had also wondered if Diego would be abandoned, but if so, not yet, or not everything. This is a big valuable base force there.

[font="Trebuchet MS"]11th Special Base Force is located at Diego Garcia(11,62). - 6th

1/4th Guards Division is loaded on xAK Kyokusei Maru at Cox's Bazar (54,43). - 7th
21/4th Guards Division is loaded on xAK Gotake Maru at Cox's Bazar (54,43).
15/4th Guards Division is loaded on xAK Hokutatsu Maru at Cox's Bazar (54,43).
46/4th Guards Division is loaded on xAK Tihuku Maru at Cox's Bazar (54,43).

35/4th Guards Division is loaded on xAK Syunko Maru at Ramree Island (54,48). - 8 th
10/4th Guards Division is loaded on xAK Jinshu Maru at Ramree Island (54,48).
40/4th Guards Division is loaded on xAK Hoeisan Maru at Ramree Island (54,48).
32/4th Guards Division is loaded on xAK Tamaki Maru at Ramree Island (54,48).

11/3rd Air Army is loaded on a Yusen S class AK moving to Rangoon.
6/3rd Air Army is loaded on a Yusen N class AK moving to Rangoon.
12/48th Field AA Battalion is loaded on a Japanese AK moving to Rangoon.[/font]

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR April 6, 43
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Night Air attack on Diamond Harbour , at 52,38

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Allied aircraft
A-29A Hudson x 5
Wellington GR.VIII x 12

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Wellington GR.VIII laying Mk 13 Mine from 6000 feet
5 x A-29A Hudson laying Mk 13 Mine from 7000 feet

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Morning Air attack on Deboyne Islands , at 103,135

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 44

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 17

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 5 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
39 x N1K1-J George sweeping at 25000 feet *

CAP engaged:
VMF-441 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 9 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Cocanada at 42,39

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 14

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
LB-119, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
LB-124, Shell hits 2, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
LB-120, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
LB-114, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
LB-116, Shell hits 4, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Buffalo I bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 100 lb GP Bomb

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Ground combat at 78,49 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 35947 troops, 440 guns, 674 vehicles, Assault Value = 1014

Defending force 41651 troops, 130 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1131

Japanese adjusted assault: 586

Allied adjusted defense: 361

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
755 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 173 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
871 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 102 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

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Ground combat at 68,47 (near Kunming)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 7885 troops, 207 guns, 555 vehicles, Assault Value = 327

Defending force 29118 troops, 196 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 414

Japanese adjusted assault: 74

Allied adjusted defense: 790

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 10

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

Japanese ground losses:
49 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
784 casualties reported
Squads: 42 destroyed, 35 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 20 (2 destroyed, 18 disabled)

Assaulting units:
18th Tank Regiment
Guards Tank Division
13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
23rd Army
23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
10th Chinese Corps
72nd Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
32nd Chinese Corps
62nd Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
95th Chinese Corps
10th Construction Regiment
102nd RAF Base Force
5th Group Army
56th AT Gun Regiment
Lusu War Area
33rd Base Group
11th Group Army
49th Chinese Corps
9th Group Army
16th Chinese Base Force

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Ground combat at Perth (49,147)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4593 troops, 48 guns, 673 vehicles, Assault Value = 505

Defending force 6808 troops, 37 guns, 216 vehicles, Assault Value = 30

Allied adjusted assault: 188

Japanese adjusted defense: 43

Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Perth !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
2006 casualties reported
Squads: 73 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 243 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 26 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 21 (21 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 186 (164 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Units retreated 8

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

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
640th Tank Destroyer Battalion
2/6th Armoured Regiment
641st Towed Tank Destroyer Battalion
192nd Tank Battalion
2/5th Armoured Regiment
2/8th Armoured Regiment
2/9th Armoured Regiment
2/10th Armoured Regiment
2/4th Armoured Regiment
Otago (Mtd) Rifles Regiment

Defending units:
32nd Nav Gsn Unit
10th JAAF Base Force
4th Air Division
1st JAAF Base Force
16th JNAF AF Unit
4th Div /20
22nd Port Unit
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Bn /2

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR April 7, 43
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TF 404 encounters mine field at Colombo (29,48) - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

11 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
DMS Trevor
DMS Southard, Shell hits 1
DMS Elliot

DMS Trevor firing at 3rd Provisional Base Force
3rd Provisional Base Force firing at DMS Trevor

43 mines cleared

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Night Naval bombardment of Colombo at 29,48

Allied Ships
CA Frobisher
CA Hawkins
DD Norman
DD Nizam
DD Napier
DD Nestor

Japanese ground losses:
93 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Manpower hits 2
Fires 75
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 31
Port hits 4

CA Frobisher firing at Colombo

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Ground combat at 78,49 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 34600 troops, 440 guns, 674 vehicles, Assault Value = 875

Defending force 40644 troops, 129 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1036

Japanese adjusted assault: 695

Allied adjusted defense: 265

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1764 casualties reported
Squads: 9 destroyed, 148 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled

Allied ground losses:
7695 casualties reported
Squads: 210 destroyed, 72 disabled
Non Combat: 317 destroyed, 46 disabled
Engineers: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 11 (8 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
3rd Tank Division
60th Division
69th Division
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
12th Army
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
68th Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
74th Chinese Corps

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR April 8, 43
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Jaffna at 31,44

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 16

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
LB-129, Shell hits 1, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
LB-131, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
LB-132, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
LB-130, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x P-39D Airacobra bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

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Ground combat at 68,47 (near Kunming)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 14674 troops, 245 guns, 554 vehicles, Assault Value = 542

Defending force 27832 troops, 184 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 346

Japanese adjusted assault: 153

Allied adjusted defense: 259

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
466 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 38 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1604 casualties reported
Squads: 61 destroyed, 67 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 35 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 19 (11 destroyed, 8 disabled)

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Ground combat at 49,148 (near Perth)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 2282 troops, 16 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 25

Defending force 1221 troops, 0 guns, 184 vehicles, Assault Value = 112

Japanese adjusted assault: 0

Allied adjusted defense: 97

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
279 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled

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

Assaulting units:
4th Div /20
22nd Port Unit
4th Air Division
32nd Nav Gsn Unit
16th JNAF AF Unit
10th JAAF Base Force /1
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Bn /2
1st JAAF Base Force /1

Defending units:
2/9th Armoured Regiment
Otago (Mtd) Rifles Regiment
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Ground combat at 75,48 (near Kweiyang)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 21681 troops, 299 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 973

Defending force 44994 troops, 170 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1301

Japanese adjusted assault: 0

Allied adjusted defense: 1651

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99

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

Japanese ground losses:
1965 casualties reported
Squads: 91 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 17 disabled
Guns lost 18 (1 destroyed, 17 disabled)

Assaulting units:
51st Division
1st Tank Division
40th/A Division
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Mortar Battalion
10th Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
25th Chinese Corps
35th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
76th Chinese Corps
12th Construction Regiment

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[font="Trebuchet MS"]Nice to find a use for Buffalos! These guys weren't at all trained for low naval, and still sank all of the barges they could reach. [/font]

[crsutton]

Well, you are getting him out of India and Perth. There is something to be said for him delaying you and he has done a pretty good job of tying you up. However, I am not sure that it has gotten him much. Once you run him out of India, the Allies are pretty much where they would be in mid 43 anyways. They (Allies) really cannot start major offensive operations until the mid 43 reinforcement come on board anyways. He has burned a lot of supply and helped you train up your Indian army for when the counter offensive starts. This plus the position you hold in the Pacific make me wonder if it was worth the effort. China is a mess but vs any competent Japanese player China is going to be a mess.

It has always been my contention that no matter where the action is, the only real goal for the Allies in 1942 is to "not" lose their carriers. If they do that, then Japan has a problem come 1944.

Would you be so kind as to list yours and GJ's ship losses to date? Warships that is.

[paullus99]

Actually, that's a pretty good point - since Obvert has done an excellent job moving things around in the Pacific, he's got some good bases to move from, once the Fleet carriers really start coming online.

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

Well, you are getting him out of India and Perth. There is something to be said for him delaying you and he has done a pretty good job of tying you up. However, I am not sure that it has gotten him much. Once you run him out of India, the Allies are pretty much where they would be in mid 43 anyways. They (Allies) really cannot start major offensive operations until the mid 43 reinforcement come on board anyways. He has burned a lot of supply and helped you train up your Indian army for when the counter offensive starts. This plus the position you hold in the Pacific make me wonder if it was worth the effort. China is a mess but vs any competent Japanese player China is going to be a mess.

It has always been my contention that no matter where the action is, the only real goal for the Allies in 1942 is to "not" lose their carriers. If they do that, then Japan has a problem come 1944.

Would you be so kind as to list yours and GJ's ship losses to date? Warships that is.

I agree. At first I was mad I didn't get to the divisions at Madras and Ceylon to trap or really wear them down. After some reflection I realized that a retreat achieved simply through air strength is ideal and means I didn't have to dig a further hole in my commonwealth pools. Due to the loss of industry at Calcutta the India trip could be costly to the Japanese. There was still enough to support some operations made there at Madras and Jamshedpur, but probably not enough, and the oil at Ledo is basically less than what he could have had at Sian and Lanchow if he'd used some of those troops up there.

Nick has played the whole thing really well, but bad luck and hopefully some of the pressure I've been trying to put on his forces has at least taken a toll of supplies.

If I can get to Ledo sometime soon I'll feel a lot better about the whole thing.

Ship lists coming up.

[obvert]

[font="Times New Roman"]Allied Ship Losses[/font]

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A few big battles in the early stages around the DEI cost me a lot of older CL and I used the USN forces aggressively during the early stages, maybe not so judiciously.

As it is the old DDs are scarce now, but I probably won't miss the old CLs much. I've had a hard time figuring out what to do with the ones I have left.

Soon the Allies will be awash in waves of DDs and other escorts, so these losses won't be felt for long. The only thing I'm kicking myself for is the loss of Cornwall recently, just due to a mistake, but it taught me that not all CA are equal. The treaty classes everywhere suffered from poor armor and other compromises. Losing the ship to 5 x 100kg bombs was hard to take, still.

In 14 months I count 27 DDs lost.

[obvert]

[font="Times New Roman"]IJN Ship Losses[/font]

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The Japanese have lost few ships, as we've both been fairly conservative with the navies after the beginning stages.

It's good to have those two CA off the board early. I haven't hit a lot of DDs yet, though.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: obvert
Losing the ship to 5 x 100kg bombs was hard to take, still.

Take heart:

Those were not just any 100 kg bombs, but SAP ones. [:)] Less effect, but roughly 50% greater penetration than a stock gp bomb.