A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

[Cap Mandrake]

Ut-oh. Arried-mens cruisers try sneak attack on Rockhampton. Eveidentarry Japan-mens recon miss Arried wah canoes yesterday.
This-ah empty transports. Everyone eventuarry sink but one PB.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Rockhampton at 96,152, Range 6,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
PB Saiko Maru, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
PB Ginyo Maru, Shell hits 17, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Seattle Maru, Shell hits 4, heavy fires
xAK Seia Maru, Shell hits 6, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CA Canberra
CL Concord
DD Smith
DD Selfridge
DD Dewey

[Cap Mandrake]

Sub attack near Phuket at 48,68

Japanese Ships
DD Shigure

Allied Ships
SS O21

SS O21 launches 2 torpedoes


*************Aboard O21****************

Cmdr Van Meter: <watching the run of his boat's two torps through the periscope> Ahhh....F*** it!

XO: <from navigation station> I make Phuket about 12.5 km bearing 280, sir.

[Cap Mandrake]

Arried-mens cruisers run into smarr Japan-mens force which fight hard but apparentry roose interest.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Rockhampton at 95,152, Range 6,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Yura
DD Kawakaze
DD Umikaze

Allied Ships
CA Canberra, Shell hits 1
CL Concord, Shell hits 1
DD Smith
DD Selfridge, Shell hits 1
DD Dewey

[Cap Mandrake]

Somebody in Tokyo have contract for PB's. Too big for rooking for submarines and too srow to get away from enemy-mens buretts too. Too many points as werr.


Night Time Surface Combat, near Rockhampton at 95,152, Range 5,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
PB Aso Maru #3, Shell hits 25, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Choko Maru #2, Shell hits 13, and is sunk
PB Edo Maru, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
PB Shoei Maru, Shell hits 17, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Canberra
CL Concord
DD Smith
DD Selfridge
DD Dewey

[Cap Mandrake]

Harro! France Maru. What-ah think arr of noises about? Fireworks?

Night Time Surface Combat, near Rockhampton at 95,152, Range 6,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
PB Kaiun Maru, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
xAK France Maru, Shell hits 26, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CA Canberra
CL Concord
DD Smith
DD Selfridge
DD Dewey

[Cap Mandrake]

Sun come up. Rest of ships at Rockhampton not-ah get in fight.

Armoured unit on road West of Maryborough. Pretty much everything with wheers brow up.

Morning Air attack on 2/7th Armoured Regiment, at 95,156 , near Bundaberg

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
G3M2 Nell x 68
G4M1 Betty x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 4 damaged

Allied ground losses:
416 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 48 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Somebody in Tokyo have contract for PB's. Too big for rooking for submarines and too srow to get away from enemy-mens buretts too. Too many points as werr.


Night Time Surface Combat, near Rockhampton at 95,152, Range 5,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
PB Aso Maru #3, Shell hits 25, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Choko Maru #2, Shell hits 13, and is sunk
PB Edo Maru, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
PB Shoei Maru, Shell hits 17, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Canberra
CL Concord
DD Smith
DD Selfridge
DD Dewey

What Mandrake-san expect from a TF led by an Aso ?

[Cap Mandrake]

Ahs-so Maru [:D][:D] Entire crew bunch of Ahs-sos.

[Cap Mandrake]

Harro, pride of Japan! Idea is actuarry hit enemy-mens ships. 40 mires from Bundaberg, no CAP and Japan-mens waste sorties and
escorts with British-mens carriers only 160 mires out.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Bundaberg at 97,154

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8
G3M2 Nell x 7
G4M1 Betty x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 2 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Concord
CA Canberra

[Cap Mandrake]

D-oh!

Morning Air attack on TF, near Bundaberg at 97,154

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 15
G4M1 Betty x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CA Canberra
CL Concord

[Cap Mandrake]

D-oh!

Morning Air attack on TF, near Bundaberg at 97,154

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Canberra
CL Concord

[Cap Mandrake]

"Stretcha bearers!"

Morning Air attack on 2/7th Armoured Regiment, at 95,156 , near Bundaberg

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21

No Japanese losses

Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 9 (7 destroyed, 2 disabled)

[Cap Mandrake]

Fightah sweep ovah Bundaberg. Somehow, Arried-mens figure out how to get different squadrons fry sweep together.

Morning Air attack on Bundaberg , at 96,155

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 28

Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 3
P-39D Airacobra x 15
P-40E Warhawk x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra: 3 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed

[Cap Mandrake]

Arried-dogs try deprete fightah covah ovah Bundaberg. Pretty good pran considering genetic inferiority.

Morning Air attack on Bundaberg , at 96,155

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 17

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed

[Cap Mandrake]

This rook rearry bad but Mutsu onry have 3% frooding and armost no system damage.

Morning Air attack on TF, near Bundaberg at 96,155

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 17

Allied aircraft
Albacore I x 14
F4F-3 Wildcat x 6
SBD-3 Dauntless x 12

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Albacore I: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
F4F-3 Wildcat: 3 destroyed
SBD-3 Dauntless: 8 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu, Torpedo hits 2
BB Hiei
BB Hyuga
BB Ise

[Cap Mandrake]

Finarry, in afternoon, somebody carr in with rocation of British-mens carriers. This compretery crappy coordination.
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Maryborough at 100,158

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 69 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 24 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 14
G4M1 Betty x 7

Allied aircraft
Sea Hurricane Ib x 18
Martlet II x 18
F4F-3 Wildcat x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Sea Hurricane Ib: 1 destroyed
Martlet II: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
DD Hammann

[Cap Mandrake]

[:-]

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Maryborough at 100,158

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 79 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 27 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21
G3M2 Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 6

Allied aircraft
Sea Hurricane Ib x 11
Martlet II x 13
F4F-3 Wildcat x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
G3M2 Nell: 4 destroyed
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Sea Hurricane Ib: 1 destroyed
Martlet II: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Formidable
CV Indomitable

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp
1 x G3M2 Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp

[Cap Mandrake]

<face parm>

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bundaberg at 97,154

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M2 Nell x 3
G4M1 Betty x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 2 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
CL Concord
CA Canberra

[Cap Mandrake]

Arried-mens bombardment South of Maryborough. New anti-ronson units. That-ah not matter much because Japan-mens run away anyway.

Ground combat at 96,158 (near Maryborough)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14409 troops, 258 guns, 180 vehicles, Assault Value = 429

Defending force 7661 troops, 91 guns, 172 vehicles, Assault Value = 291

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

Assaulting units:
13th Australian Brigade
1st Australian Division
70th Coast AA Regiment
108th Anti Tank Regiment
109th Anti Tank Regiment

Defending units:
8th Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
146th Infantry Regiment
Kure 2nd SNLF
40th Field AA Battalion
48th Field AA Battalion

[Cap Mandrake]

Air rosses incruding Nerrs shot down ovah Chittagong and rosses in China.