Tale of the Sheep! - JocMeister (A) vs. Lowpe (J)

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]West Coast invasion D+5[/font]
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Finally got the turn! [&o]

Sadly only a miss...

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]San Diego.[/font]
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Jeff would jump out of his pants if he took this... [X(]

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]Los Angeles[/font]
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Looks like the 40th took the biggest hit. Fine by me as they will be cheaper to buy out... [:D]

We will attack again tomorrow.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]Los Angeles[/font]
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Nothing touches the Marine corps!

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]Reinforcements[/font]
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This is not good news for the IJN... [:'(]

[catwhoorg]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

I went back and started fortification construction in San Diego after seeing this, [:)]

The strategic reserve was good preparation as well.

You built a wall along the Mexican Border?

And he will make the Japanese pay for it!

[obvert]

Yeah, 1,000,000 fuel would be HUGE, but the ability to get that much out would be unlikely too.

I guess he could set up a convoy system to Hawaii which would be what, a two week turnaround for fast tankers? So say 2 TFs of 10 x 12k capacity, 18knot TK/AO (if he has that many available). It's 61 hexes to PH. So at 240k per month he'd need four months to get it out. Or a LOT of tankers. Losses from sub activity would also make a dent, but still, it's a good opportunity for Japan here.

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

April 42

SF 900K
LA 1500K
SD 250K

It depends how much shipping you have assigned as home port at each base.

And 250k to Japan is like another 75 oil production site for an entire year. That assumes it could be used or hauled back of course.

It would be quite useful if it only got back as far as PH.

[Cap Mandrake]

Important safety tip: Try not to lose San Diego. [:)]

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: obvert

Yeah, 1,000,000 fuel would be HUGE, but the ability to get that much out would be unlikely too.

I guess he could set up a convoy system to Hawaii which would be what, a two week turnaround for fast tankers? So say 2 TFs of 10 x 12k capacity, 18knot TK/AO (if he has that many available). It's 61 hexes to PH. So at 240k per month he'd need four months to get it out. Or a LOT of tankers. Losses from sub activity would also make a dent, but still, it's a good opportunity for Japan here.

Even a quarter of it would be good. Fleet ops, not production. And as the Inuit (supposedly) say, "The best place to carry food is in your belly." He could run his fleet around SoCal for a long time with what SD offers. Seal the Balboa wormhole for sure.

[Cap Mandrake]

One of the B-24 assembly plants in San Diego in 1942. Huge buildings and still there.

[Cap Mandrake]

B-24 line in SD, 1942

[Bullwinkle58]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

B-24 line in SD, 1942

Look at all the spilled rice! [:'(]

[IJV]

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

[font="Verdana"]San Diego.[/font]
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Jeff would jump out of his pants if he took this... [X(]

I fear there might be jumping of some description if he was aware you only had 50k supplies there! Notwithstanding that there's some industry, that doesn't seem like an awful lot - you're certainly on a timetable to lift the siege...

[traskott]

That fuel and resources, plus LI should make some supply, isn't¿

[JocMeister]

Turn is away to Jeff. I doubt I´ll get it back today though. But hopefully the replay.

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]Invasion Day 6[/font]
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Got the replay but no turn!

Basically the remnant of the PT boat fleet was annihilated during the turn. Japanese bombard LA heavily but to no avail. I´ll not declare this a victory yet but things do look grim for the Japanese.

Ground combat at Los Angeles (225,76)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 69771 troops, 1332 guns, 2891 vehicles, Assault Value = 3908

Defending force 37419 troops, 421 guns, 650 vehicles, Assault Value = 1119

Allied adjusted assault: 1758

Japanese adjusted defense: 1665

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1282 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 103 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 68 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 45 (2 destroyed, 43 disabled)
Vehicles lost 86 (47 destroyed, 39 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
905 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 86 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 30 (1 destroyed, 29 disabled)
Vehicles lost 61 (3 destroyed, 58 disabled)

Assaulting units:
6th Armoured Division
2nd Armored Division
LA Harbor Defense
41st Infantry Division
40th Infantry Division
3rd Marine Division
641st Towed Tank Destroyer Battalion
5th Armoured Division
4th Motorized Division
7th Motorized Division
13th Armoured Division
8th Motorized Division
Provisional Tank Brigade
West Coast
503rd Coast AA Regiment
21st MAG
I US Corps
21st US Naval Construction Battalion
214th Coast AA Regiment
183rd Field Artillery Battalion
23rd AA Bde
165th Field Artillery Battalion
Los Angeles USN Base Force
Provisional GMC Grp
37th US Naval Construction Battalion
24th MAG
352nd Construction Regiment
188th Field Artillery Battalion
204th Coast AA Regiment
511th Coast AA Regiment
19th Base Maint Engineer Battalion
603rd Coast AA Regiment
II USA Corps

Defending units:
9th Division
18th Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
1st Division
2nd Tank Division
3rd Air Defense AA Regiment
15th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Air Defense AA Regiment
22nd Fld AA Gun Co
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment

Notice the Japanese 2nd Tank division arriving. What Jeff doesn´t know is that I´m not attacking with the full 4000 AV. 7th and 8th Motorized divisions, 2nd Armored division and Provincial Tank BDE are still getting off the trains. Their should be ready to attack in 2 days. Hopefully they will tip the balance.

[RangerJoe]

It is interesting that the armor is at LA and is not in the SD attack. That is to your benefit.

A suggestion, if you have combat engineers available, airlift them to SD to both defend and help rebuild any lost fortifications.

[JocMeister]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

It is interesting that the armor is at LA and is not in the SD attack. That is to your benefit.

A suggestion, if you have combat engineers available, airlift them to SD to both defend and help rebuild any lost fortifications.

Very much so. And looking at the losses his tanks took a beating. Then again it could all be motorized support.

Sadly all the combat engineers are in SOPAC...good idea though. [:)]

[JocMeister]

[font="Verdana"]China[/font]
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First attack at Chungking. Can´t complain. I think Jeff closed the last hexside hence the shock attack.

Ground combat at Chungking (76,45)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 121877 troops, 1308 guns, 456 vehicles, Assault Value = 3659

Defending force 202751 troops, 752 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4560

Japanese adjusted assault: 1691

Allied adjusted defense: 1857

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 6)

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

Japanese ground losses:
16679 casualties reported
Squads: 58 destroyed, 1086 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 127 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 86 disabled
Guns lost 103 (6 destroyed, 97 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
7702 casualties reported
Squads: 105 destroyed, 311 disabled
Non Combat: 158 destroyed, 262 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 45 (11 destroyed, 34 disabled)
Units destroyed 5

Good news is that he didn´t lower the forts. Bad thing is that it doesn´t look good for the Chinese. I think I have a month here. Maybe two.

Much of the Chinese army have already escaped into the mountains though. They will be paramount in the recapture of China.