Lambs to the slaughter (Lowpe (J) vs Jocke; BillBrown (A)) Finished

[Lowpe]

A look at Alaska...

Size 3 ports are Seward, Sitka, Kodiak, and Juneau. Should take all three shortly.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Almost at 400 Ha35 engines; will keep production of planes off until over 500. I need that bonus for the fully repaired A6M3a, and A6M5 lines as well as the Nicks. I really want the Nicks for India.

By my rough calculation I should start making 3 Nicks a day in roughly 20 days or less. 1 Squadron will be at Coal Harbor, the other three will head to India and will coincide nicely with the larger airfields there that are currently under construction.

Currently I am not planning any wild invasions in India, just an attack up thru Chittagong across to Ledo and north west. Paratroops will be able to cut rail lines in a few days causing Jocke some worry hopefully. I have toyed with a struggling offensive at Chittagong in appearance, while I land deep into India but with the British Navy at full strength don't think I want to risk something like that.

Pearl Harbor is completely repaired; I rebuilt 10 points of ship repair yards for minor repairs, but it is great to see the large port really fix all the damaged shipping there. A day or two another large group of ships will head back to Honshu.

The Junyo and Kaga are in the HI, the Kaga still being repaired. The Junyo undergoing basic sea trials and training.

Out of curiosity... in most cases I find repairing capital ships to be faster at pier side in large ports, especially if there is naval support present (Combined Fleet begins at Kure)... Is it really faster in Shipyard at Critical? I'm skeptical!

[Lowpe]

I will give it a shot...see what happens.

Here is a list of very late war research for the Ki94II. 10% finished in the first 100 days. I also have a Karyu factory 3 (27); and several other factories Sam, Sam J in the same ball park.

This goes to show you that r&d for planes 2+ years ahead isn't wasted.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Almost at 400 Ha35 engines; will keep production of planes off until over 500. I need that bonus for the fully repaired A6M3a, and A6M5 lines as well as the Nicks. I really want the Nicks for India.

By my rough calculation I should start making 3 Nicks a day in roughly 20 days or less. 1 Squadron will be at Coal Harbor, the other three will head to India and will coincide nicely with the larger airfields there that are currently under construction.

Currently I am not planning any wild invasions in India, just an attack up thru Chittagong across to Ledo and north west. Paratroops will be able to cut rail lines in a few days causing Jocke some worry hopefully. I have toyed with a struggling offensive at Chittagong in appearance, while I land deep into India but with the British Navy at full strength don't think I want to risk something like that.

Pearl Harbor is completely repaired; I rebuilt 10 points of ship repair yards for minor repairs, but it is great to see the large port really fix all the damaged shipping there. A day or two another large group of ships will head back to Honshu.

The Junyo and Kaga are in the HI, the Kaga still being repaired. The Junyo undergoing basic sea trials and training.

Out of curiosity... in most cases I find repairing capital ships to be faster at pier side in large ports, especially if there is naval support present (Combined Fleet begins at Kure)... Is it really faster in Shipyard at Critical? I'm skeptical!

Sometimes it seems faster to repair all the System damage at pierside then switch to shipyard as required for the major Flotation and Engine damage.

'Critical' is mostly a priority thing, but there is a little more to it, best explained by the example I ran into. An RN CL got whoppingly damaged, basically low 90s System damage plus some major Flotation and Engine damage (but I forget the amounts). In Colombo shipyard it was not repairing at all. It was the only ship repairing at Colombo and the shipyard is 40,000 tons versus less than 10,000 for the CL. The % toward the next point of repair was not changing at all from day to day. Maybe it was repairing so slow that it was losing even that when numbers were rounded off or something. Just guessing at that.

Michael looked at the save and suggested changing it to Critical priority because there are some other things that go on under the hood with that setting. He did not elaborate but the CL has been repairing, quite slowly for sure but steadily repairing.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Almost at 400 Ha35 engines; will keep production of planes off until over 500. I need that bonus for the fully repaired A6M3a, and A6M5 lines as well as the Nicks. I really want the Nicks for India.

By my rough calculation I should start making 3 Nicks a day in roughly 20 days or less. 1 Squadron will be at Coal Harbor, the other three will head to India and will coincide nicely with the larger airfields there that are currently under construction.

Currently I am not planning any wild invasions in India, just an attack up thru Chittagong across to Ledo and north west. Paratroops will be able to cut rail lines in a few days causing Jocke some worry hopefully. I have toyed with a struggling offensive at Chittagong in appearance, while I land deep into India but with the British Navy at full strength don't think I want to risk something like that.

Pearl Harbor is completely repaired; I rebuilt 10 points of ship repair yards for minor repairs, but it is great to see the large port really fix all the damaged shipping there. A day or two another large group of ships will head back to Honshu.

The Junyo and Kaga are in the HI, the Kaga still being repaired. The Junyo undergoing basic sea trials and training.

Out of curiosity... in most cases I find repairing capital ships to be faster at pier side in large ports, especially if there is naval support present (Combined Fleet begins at Kure)... Is it really faster in Shipyard at Critical? I'm skeptical!

Sometimes it seems faster to repair all the System damage at pierside then switch to shipyard as required for the major Flotation and Engine damage.

'Critical' is mostly a priority thing, but there is a little more to it, best explained by the example I ran into. An RN CL got whoppingly damaged, basically low 90s System damage plus some major Flotation and Engine damage (but I forget the amounts). In Colombo shipyard it was not repairing at all. It was the only ship repairing at Colombo and the shipyard is 40,000 tons versus less than 10,000 for the CL. The % toward the next point of repair was not changing at all from day to day. Maybe it was repairing so slow that it was losing even that when numbers were rounded off or something. Just guessing at that.

Michael looked at the save and suggested changing it to Critical priority because there are some other things that go on under the hood with that setting. He did not elaborate but the CL has been repairing, quite slowly for sure but steadily repairing.

Ok, sure... if a ship isn't repairing, play with the settings to get repair points allocated to it.

But in this case, the Kaga can be repaired completely at pier side as long as the port is size 7+. Kure is at least 9 (I think it might be a 10?). You can put her at Critical at pier side also...

[witpqs]

I wasn't meaning to comment on Kaga, just pass on that probably very little known special case that I ran into in case one of you guys run into it.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

I wasn't meaning to comment on Kaga, just pass on that probably very little known special case that I ran into in case one of you guys run into it.

I definitely took the priority tip and applied it to my malfunctioning ARDs the other day, and now they're working.

[Lowpe]

I popped the Kaga to portside...will monitor the repairs. I suspect the system damage will repair quite quickly, and that Lok is right that the overall time to fix the ship will reduce.

Pearl Harbor is doing a great job fixing ships at pierside only. There is an AMC in the small shipyard there...

Interesting information about critical.

I noticed that my first Tojo IIa factory repaired to 30 (0). Yeah! I have four factories researching the Tojo line, a size 60 and three size 30s. The 60 will go to production, while the size thirties will go to research other models. Tojo sentais will fight in India.

Initially only two decent size squadrons are IIa eligible, but as each new model comes out more squadrons can convert to them. Tojo will be a plane built for the entire game, as several squadrons upgrade to the Ki202. All Jack squadrons upgrade to the Ki202 Naval version while Georges generally go to Karyu. Interesting.

It is important to get to the IIc model as quite a few of these squadrons then upgrade to the Frank A. I am hoping at having the Frank A a solid 6 months early (6/43) and get the Frank R sometime in latter 1943.

[Lowpe]

First of April, 1942

We lose 18 fighters to 13 Hurricanes over Comilla. I am happy with that...Jocke has his own Air strategy and to a degree I am still adapting. Soon, my bombers will be able to hit Calcutta and I wonder how bad the AA will be there.

Japanese bombers hit the 18th British Division, avoiding the 7th Australian since it is stuffed with three AA units and is rather nasty.

Later in the day the 7th Aus forces the remnants of my very light spearhead back to Comilla. I am retreating all troops back to Chittagong and hoping he follows...our forces will have parity or slight favor to Japan, but Japan controls the seas and plenty of battleships are standing by undetected at Ramree Island.

More troops arrive at Chittagong safely, so we are moving forward here on the Indian Front and feeling pretty good. 3+ divisions are on ships steaming here along with more support troops.

[Lowpe]

April, 1942

Continue light bombing of North America, picked up 60 strategic victory points for no loss...The runway at Coal Harbor is 80%. A Betty squadron should land tomorrow to add to the Nells already there. A Sally and Nick Sentai are still heading in.

In India the Allies are moving on Comilla, which my troops are leaving. IJA bombers hit the 18th Division, which now has joined with the 7th Aus,and 3 AA for the move on Comilla. Paratroopers landed at Chittagong yesterday, more artillery should arrive in the next day or two, and the runway at Chittagong is now level 2. Mandalay and Magwe are both at level 3 working on 4.

Moving on Katherine, then Fenton and finally Darwin.

The Allies lost two destroyers in a collision down near New Zealand a few days ago. That, and a sub attack on a large convoy off eastern Oz, lead me to believe Jocke forms up big convoys.

[Rio Bravo]

Lowpe-

I can't really comment much as I am reading Joc's AAR too.

All I can say is I hope Joc kicks your butt, you Evil Emperor.

Thank you for the time and energy you put into your AAR. It has been fun reading both your and Joc's ARRs.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Lowpe]

Well, I got the turn away. I have come to down with a cold, and quite frankly watched the replay yesterday in some fever induced fugue. I feel better today, but did a short turn and I am sure I forgot to do a fair amount.

Its a long war, so I should be ok.

Preparing to invade Juneau in Alaska.

[Lowpe]

Akyab falls, defenders (a junky railway unit) surrenders. Cox's is threatened and will probably fall with the first attack tomorrow.

Meanwhile, advance elements of the British/Australian counter attack reach Comilla which is held by a lone AA unit that will tonight. 2 More Divisions, and support troops have cleared Singers and Victoria Point and will land shortly at Chittagong securing that base, and providing troops for offensive action.

Query: When should paratroops take Tezpur cutting the rail line to the Allied troops in Southern India and Burma. Pull the trigger now, or wait? Tempted to wait.

Also, Diamond Harbor has only 1 unit, but 33 units and 47K troops are in Calcutta.

Over in Alaska, we route the defenders of Anchorage again inflicting many losses. Moving on Fairbanks and Juneau. Betties arrive safely, and bombers pick up another 40 or so strategic victory points. Runway at Coal Harbor is now 89% to level 4.

Moving on Katherine and Darwin.

Many troops and artillery being picked up in Batavia and Singers for use in: India, Luzon.

[Lowpe]

April, 1942

Well, we pick up some more strategic vp bombing North America, runways now at 92%. Soon, I will be able to unleash 70 Betties and Nells and they will start to pickup the points hopefully. Nicks are on the way to counter the 4E threat...plus a squadron of Sallies.

Juneau invasion should go off tomorrow. Juneau is worth 500 vp which is pretty impressive.

Over in India, the Allies shock attack at Comilla, no Japanese defenders. Two squadrons of Nells find the 6th Australian Division and inflict 300 losses on them. Still building my airfields and strength here. Getting engineers forward in this mod is a little difficult, but several more landed at Chittagong this day. The 4th Guards Division is past Port Blair, and there are two more divisions on the way plus some tanks. I am also massing quite a few planes ready for a solid offensive here.

[Lowpe]

I should grab Cox's this next day, further solidifying my southern India beach head.

Lots of troops that secured Java now are loaded up on ships heading for Luzon and India. I need to clean up Wenchow, Luzon, Alaska, Darwin (Katherine should fall in a day or two). Still lots to do.

Unfortunately, it will be till tomorrow before I can flip this turn. Still fighting a nasty cold, and I have a Tiemanj turn to finish first.

440 engines in the HA 35 line, adding 18 per day now, so the acceleration of the Nick, Oscar, Zero lines should start in a few days.

[tiemanjw]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Unfortunately, it will be till tomorrow before I can flip this turn. Still fighting a nasty cold, and I have a Tiemanj turn to finish first.

I don't remember agreeing to any sick leave! [:)]

Take your time, man... It's a game.

[Lowpe]

Take heart, both my turns are away.

I bought out several artillery units out of Manchuko today, and sent them to Wuchow, from there to Manila. Will be buying out more...I would like to get that heavy artillery into action.

Juneau invasion may start today, some cruisers bombarding there first...not sure what the defenders will look like. 2 Paratroop units arrived at Anchorage.

Attacking Cox's in India today. A light bombardment, some bombing and I hope to take it in one day.

Katherine might fall today...

And another grinding attack in China on the Ankang road. Bought a few bomber sentais out to help in China.

[Lowpe]

End of the first week of April

Stalemate here in India. The 4th Guards is unloading today, plus other troops. One more division is close, and then we shall renew our march on Comilla.

Akyab and Cox's are ours...

[Lowpe]

Oz proceeding as expected.

[Lowpe]

Alaska, going well.

Juneau fell without a fight, sinking three YPs. Sitka set a fire a CL, but the troops landed with no problems and will storm the garrison tomorrow.

Piling up the size 3 ports, putting in some AKEs and an AS.

Two paratroop units are at Anchorage, and I just unloaded their aviation support.