Turnaround? Lowpe (J) vs Tiemanj (A) Stock

[Lowpe]

Nagoya survives another day. But not much longer I fear.

It looks like the Allies have lightened their troops here. Can't be good.

[ny59giants]

Too many Marines for you to hold out against. Their experience levels by now have got to be in 80s or better.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Too many Marines for you to hold out against. Their experience levels by now have got to be in 80s or better.

You are right![:(]

They are beasts, hard to knock down their AV.

It is the bombers and the naval bombardments though that are killing me quickly. Can't slow them...

But we are still trying to stop them![;)]

[Lowpe]

Bought out another IJA Manchuria Division, this time the 12th.

They are splintered, and taking barges to defend Japan.

[Lowpe]

Our troops retreat NW up the road, instead of 23 miles thru the jungle to Vinh. Interesting.

There is also the Valiant, QE, and Rich BB along with those carriers. I know where they are going, and I am powerless to stop them.

[witpqs]

LCU are never allowed to retreat into, or trace a retreat path through, a hex with enemy LCU present.

[Lowpe]

Thanks, I forgot that.[:)]

[Lowpe]

Aug 14, 1944

It's a donnybrook!

[Lowpe]

Flash: Nagoya lightly bombarded;

Triple Flash: Nagoya not bombed. Repeat Nagoya not bombed.

Air Losses for the day!

[Lowpe]

Urgent! Nagoya not even bombarded.

[Lowpe]

Where will the Allies invade next?

[Lowpe]

70 Barges across three task force move a lot of troops overnight, and disband in port.

What in the world would Japan do without her barges?

Those are all crack heavy infantry squads too!

[Encircled]

Top work with those barges.

I take it he's not been successful at all in interdicting them?

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Encircled

Top work with those barges.

I take it he's not been successful at all in interdicting them?

I can usually make the Allies pay in lost strike planes when they switch to bombers to naval strike around Honshu. So for the most part the Allies don't try. Plus barges can be amazingly swift, depending upon the distance.

They have dropped aerial mines galore, but they have proved dispersed and ineffective.

My mines and CD guns have proved somewhat a deterrent from SAG, but the Allies I think should try a little harder here.

[Drakanel]

I really wonder what he's doing at Nagoya. He should have kept the pressure up. This only gives you more time to reinforce.

It makes not much sense, unless he plans to invade somewhere else, but with all these troops here... I don't know, I would have kept pushing. You were close enough to collapsing there.

What does he want to do with those assets? Another invasion seems likely. But where?

[Encircled]

He might, and I stress the word MIGHT be thinking that he's been stopped at Nagoya.

He's been full on now for a while, and he's got to be hurting as well.

[Lowpe]

Who knows what he is up to. I lack the ability to stop his invasions, and he is very good at picking the weakest areas to invade.

I need to start railroading two divisions around I think.

Trying something new this day. I set up night fighters in an attempt to shoot down the Allied battleship recon float planes. I wonder if it will work?

I doubt Nagoya could have held up to another few days of bombing, but in truth never were the reserves ever activated (600 AV, x4 =2400 AV less disruption).

The Allies must be burning the supply something fierce, but I have proven totally ineffective at inhibiting the supply lines.

[Encircled]

Well, he's either hurting at Nagoya so much he's had to have a break, or he's hurt so much he's having to go somewhere else.

Both are a win/win for you

Help yourself to a much needed BANZAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII![:)]

[Lowpe]

Aug 15, 1944

WooHoo! Almost half done with August. I really want to be in December.[;)]

VP level is 2.062 to 1. It was around 20 days ago that he surpassed 2-1, so growth here isn't catastrophic. It will be the next Allied landings.

I will get a few pictures up a little later, but I wanted to report on my night time long range CAP of Nagoya. The second bombardment group had no spotting planes listed. I didn't shoot any down, but perhaps I damaged them? Anyhow, it effectively halved losses from bombardment. What a neat strategy if it is working.

This is the first time there has been no spotting planes over his bombardment groups at Nagoya so I doubt it is coincidence.[8D]

It was a rough day for the IJN, I lost four or five destroyers. One that spawned at Tokyo and my remaining BB group got caught by the deathstar near Wenchow and I lost 4 destroyers there plus damage to the battleships. Looks bleak for them...

I did manage to shoot down 11 Catalinas and nothing much happened on the ground.

[Lowpe]

My damaged battleships.



I think I messed up, as I am sending BBs off in different directions, but I don't think the Fuso can make her port and air protection. My bad.[:-]