The Good The Bad & The Indifferent

[Grfin Zeppelin]

I bet 500 Franks that Canoerebel is going to Hokkaido if he dented the KB further.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

I bet 500 Franks that Canoerebel is going to Hokkaido if he dented the KB further.

Sorry, you misspelled it and your Francs are no good as they were replaced by Euros. [;)]
And your Franks are no use to AFBs either![:)]

[witpqs]

Aw, he's goin' after the food.

Take it back, man, take it back!

[Canoerebel]

5/6/44

Quick, short post due to family plans today. But it was a mighty good day.

CenPac: USN sub puts a TT into Shokaku a bit north of Pagan, thus getting some balance for CV Sumatra and also confirming the hunch about KB's whereabouts.

Fun House: 7th Australian Div. beats back a decent fragment of 56th Div. at Baybay. Two 7th Div. RCT will pursue to Tacloban. The third RCT switches prep to Puerto Princessa.

Superforts hit Shanghai shipyard in numbers, doing a pretty good bit of damage. This was an effective raid, either because it will rattle John, as hoped, or if the target doesn't bother him, then it'll mystify him.

DEI: 33rd Div. wipes out enemy resistance at Namlea.

Burma: Successful Allied attack north of Rangoon pushes most of the IJ army back into the big city. Tomorrow, the other Allied army will attack north of Pegu. John's defenses are collapsing. He has roughly 80k to 100k here. They are beat up and in trouble.

[Flicker]

Well, I hope John has time to repair the Shanghai shipyard before your invasion...

It was a mighty good day IRL: 70F and sunny.

[CaptBeefheart]

Sorry if I missed something, but what is the level of the Shanghai shipyard?

Cheers,
CC

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

Sorry if I missed something, but what is the level of the Shanghai shipyard?

Cheers,
CC

Street level, now! [:D]

[Canoerebel]

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

Sorry if I missed something, but what is the level of the Shanghai shipyard?

Cheers,
CC

Shanghai has a 51-level repair shipyard. The B-29s knocked out 39 on a 5/6/44 raid. (We've been discussing the merit of choosing that as a target.)

[Canoerebel]

5/7/44

Breakthrough in Burma today. See map for details from that theater and Fun House.

[Lowpe]

That was a very good B29 raid.

It is easy to have some ships stuck in a upgrade process...not sure what happens when the port drops below the size threshold. Probably nothing as it is probably only looked at when initially starting the upgrade process.

I can't begin to tell you how many ships I lost in port due to B29 strikes. And the heck of the thing is it only takes a handful of B29s to do it.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

Sorry if I missed something, but what is the level of the Shanghai shipyard?

Cheers,
CC

Shanghai has a 51-level repair shipyard. The B-29s knocked out 39 on a 5/6/44 raid. (We've been discussing the merit of choosing that as a target.)

That means it's actually size 50 [:)].

[Canoerebel]

5/8/44

With Allied armies advancing to Rangoon and Pegu in Burma, and to Tacloban on Leyte, there was no ground combat today. That will begin to change the day after tomorrow.

So today was relatively quiet, but it was a productive day. See map for details.

[Canoerebel]

Confirmation today of the sinkings of a Japanese sub and a big AO, both in February, give the Allies a small but respectable lead in points for ship sunk for the first time in the game.

[Canoerebel]

The turn is off to John.

I'm trying something new for Fun House:

B-29s from Legaspi and 4EB from Naha to hit Manila at 20k, preceded (ideally) or followed by many top fighter squadrons set to sweep.

John has 200+ fighters based at Manila. The objective is to destroy as many of them as possible, either in the air or on the ground.

Things could go wrong - sweeps follow bombers or John guesses right that an attack is coming and guesses perfectly on altitude - but even then losses should be acceptable. 4EB shouldn't take excessive damage at 20k and even if my fighter squadrons are roughed up there are quite a few remaining at base.

[JohnDillworth]

your mileage may vary but I have had some success bombing form 31,000 feet with B-29's. I get a handful of fighter kills as the climb to meet the big boys. Sweeps wok better and you have the correct aircraft so good luck. Might consider putting a smattering of P-51's as escort of you have them of bomb at night and spread those night fighters out.

[Flicker]

Looks like you have some target practice north of Lashio. Are you training bombers on them? Are you planning on sending some units in need of some experience there?

On to Rangoon!

[Canoerebel]

Two stacks of enemy units isolated in the jungle near Lashio. They have no way to egress. The stacks include 12th Div., an IJA HQ, 1/3rd of a Thai division, and a mishmash of other stuff.

John's leaving them in the jungle thinking it's a vexation: that I'll have to send troops in to extinguish them.

I won't. As you noted, they're good for bombing practice. They're targeted every day by Brit and American bombers. Eventually John will give up and move them into an Allied hex and suicide attack.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

The turn is off to John.

I'm trying something new for Fun House:

B-29s from Legaspi and 4EB from Naha to hit Manila at 20k, preceded (ideally) or followed by many top fighter squadrons set to sweep.

John has 200+ fighters based at Manila. The objective is to destroy as many of them as possible, either in the air or on the ground.

Things could go wrong - sweeps follow bombers or John guesses right that an attack is coming and guesses perfectly on altitude - but even then losses should be acceptable. 4EB shouldn't take excessive damage at 20k and even if my fighter squadrons are roughed up there are quite a few remaining at base.

You have Okinawa already?!

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

The turn is off to John.

I'm trying something new for Fun House:

B-29s from Legaspi and 4EB from Naha to hit Manila at 20k, preceded (ideally) or followed by many top fighter squadrons set to sweep.

John has 200+ fighters based at Manila. The objective is to destroy as many of them as possible, either in the air or on the ground.

Things could go wrong - sweeps follow bombers or John guesses right that an attack is coming and guesses perfectly on altitude - but even then losses should be acceptable. 4EB shouldn't take excessive damage at 20k and even if my fighter squadrons are roughed up there are quite a few remaining at base.

You have Okinawa already?!

The base in Luzon above Legaspi. I believe. Naga.[;)]

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

The base in Luzon above Legaspi. I believe. Naga.[;)]

I know.