À la guerre comme à la guerre - ITAKLinus (J) vs Ste_peterpan (A)

[ITAKLinus]

Hello everybody

I am a 25yold guy from Italy who discovered matrix world at the end of this February, coming from HOI3 games.

Then I had started a PBEM against a very experienced Italian player who left me at 1st of August 1942 after I was on the verge of conquering the whole China (basically he had only Chungking and a couple of bases in the mountains).
My adversary told that I was cheating (?!) and exploiting the fact that ground warfare is broken and some on the Italian forum even agreed to the fact that going for “China First” was an exploit.
Game ended with his quit.

After that horrible and coward quit I have restarted a PBEM against another Italian experienced player who is currently finishing another PBEM (they're at the beginning of 1945 if I recall well).


I will give some more details later in the thread, however we are currently at something like 25th of March and here is the general situation:


I decided to skip Philippines invasion and P.H. as well. I have bombed Manila killing 21-23 out of 27 subs over there. Then I have covered landings in Mersing on 8th Dec. Troops originally headed toward Philippines were diverged to assist Singapore's siege and other operations.

Singapore fell on the 5th of January. In late December I completed the conquest of Borneo (except Tarakan which I conquered only few turns ago) and Salomons. I have also landed in Java, taking the southern half of the island and slaughtering Soerbaja's defenders.

In January I have conquered the whole Sumatra and organized the next step.

Luzon? Nope.
Burma? Not at all.

Yeah, I landed in Diamond Harbour directly, skipping the whole Burma. It has been a massacre. I trashed every allied unit in the zone and the remnants fought fiercely inside Calcutta for days against 5 Japanese divisions. At the beginning of March, after 1 month of harsh fightings, I decided for a more indirect approach to the city.

In the meanwhile I sunk BB Pennsylvania near Kwajalein with 3 sub torpedoes and put another 2 on CV Enterprise. PoW and Repulse were at that time already sleeping in the Ocean (got them on 7th Dec).

Royal Navy tried to contrast me in the Indian Ocean. It has been quite funny. CVL Hermes sunk. CV Indomitable got 50 bombs (250Kg and 800Kg) in 3 days, guess she's gone. BB Royal Sovereign did even better, gathering almost 70 bombs in one week period (again, 250Kg and 800Kg). Both were in Madras after suffering some damage at sea (other bombs from my CVs).

Last week I had sunk other 2 CLs in the zone, thanks to my DDs and their long lances.

Let's return to the important stuff.
Beginning of March.

I begun the encirclement of Calcutta and I am currently near to accomplish it. In the meanwhile I landed 3 divisions and various Independent Brigades in Burma, finding everything near abandoned. Got Rangoon at the first deliberate and I am in the process of killing the 12 units that were in the city (currently 10).

I am also attacking the central part of Burma (Magwe and co) that is semi-desert: just few Base Forces and Air Support units. Some spare Burmanese battalions.

2 divisions landed in Chittagong, trashing the place and its defenders. I have pushed 6 allied units from there to Burma. Yeah, pushed them back in the meatgrinder: now they're sitting east of Akyab, which I own. Spare SNLF landed in Chittagong conquered Dacca, Imphal and other nice bases. The 2 divisions are re-embarking to fight near Calcutta.

My enemy tried to throw everything he has in the zone. Australian reinforcements (actually a couple of divisions splitted into Brigades) got raped north of Calcutta while trying to relieve the siege. British 18th Division is holding the last hex conneting Calcutta to the rest of the world, a couple of Jap division are fighting in that base.

Last week I have landed Guards Mixed Brigade and 1 infantry division in Mindanao. Guess I will attack Luzon on June/July. And completed the conquest of Java (still had to take Batavia).



China is quite important to me and I have launched a massive offensive in the NORTH, taking Sian and I am now marching toward Lanchow. Many Chinese died and are routing everywhere. I also managed somehow to keep Ichang for months thanks to massive LB bombings and ARM came there from Hankow&co. Some days ago the Chinese made the last effort to conquer the base. Well, they lost 50,000 men in a three-day battle and my counterattack repelled them.




Sooner or later I will understand how to attach images and I will add something more specific.


I am waiting for "Sunday 23rd of March 1942 - TURN 107"



Dunno if I managed to attach the base situation at 15th of March. I think I have not been able



So far I lost 1xCA and 9xDD (7 in a 1-week-long battle in front of Diamond Harbour, 1 on 7th Dec near Mersing due to Repulse&PoW and 2 because of mines)



I'll be back soon!

[ITAKLinus]

Little note:

Singapore was captured on 4th of January actually.

Many green 'bases' are dots.

Situation evolved from this screen since I have captured several bases in Burma and India.

Batavia fell yesterday (got the turn while I was writing).



As a sidenote: I decided not to do the "China First" again for fun and because I was quite tired of random people on the Italian forum intervening stating that's gamey and whatever. This time I'll get India.


Out of the 14 divisions in India, 12 are in good shape. 2 are 250/300ish due to prolonged fights.


Units trapped in Calcutta/Howrath (total: 1500AV):

Howrah
562AV

3/4 Ghurka Rifles Battalion
7th Aus Div Cav Regiment
50th Tank Brigade
254th Armoured Brigade
Madras Police Battalion
18th British Division
1st NW Frontier Base Force
77th Heavy AA Regiment
RAF 223 Group Wing
6th Medium Regiment
1st Madras Construction Battalion

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Calcutta
940AV

20th Indian Division
23rd Indian Division
7/17th Dogra Battalion
25th Australian Brigade
19th Indian Division
45th Indian Brigade
44th Cavalry Regiment
1st Assam Rifles Battalion
Fort William
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
Eastern Command
3rd Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
2nd Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
48th Light AA Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Bombay Construction Battalion


And the only troops seen so far in India apart from those in Calcutta (they are part of the troops which tried to relieve the siege... The part that didn't surrender):

Raw AV = 130

7th Armoured Brigade
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
17th Australian Brigade
16th Australian Brigade
18th Australian Brigade
Peshawar Brigade
2/11th Field Regiment
95th Heavy AA Regiment
2/13th Field Regiment
RAF 224 Group Base Force
2/9th Field Regiment
36th Indian Brigade

[GetAssista]

Hey, welcome to the WITP:AE AAR world!
Brace yourself. As an Italian you have a glorious history of WITP Italians to maintain! [:)]

Famed GreyJoy is an Italian too, pity he is not active on the forums since 2015. But his newbie AAR against Rader is legendary tm.asp?m=2761796

[ITAKLinus]

Yeah ahahahah thanks !

It has been one of the few AAR I have read here on Matrix Forum back in the days when I was trying to figure out how the game works


I think I have mentioned one of Reder's games recently (yesterday actually) because I read on Greyjoy's AAR that he had conquered URSS in a previous game.


To be honest, I also add myself to the hairy bush lovers as Greyjoy. A lot of fun in those pages [:D][:D]



I am currently gathering some spare info in order to give a better understanding of my game so far.



Is there a way to use 'spoilers' in the forum? I don't like to have infinitely long posts because of reports and 'spoilers' lighten that

[GetAssista]

ORIGINAL: ITAKLinus
Is there a way to use 'spoilers' in the forum? I don't like to have infinitely long posts because of reports and 'spoilers' lighten that

No spoilers functionality, but you can attach a text file with full combat report, and describe only the essentials in the message itself

[Anachro]

Regarding your first game and China, in most PBEMs Japan ends up taking China as the base game doesn't model the difficulties of combat/logistics there very well. What happened to your opponent is not unusual, in other words...and to be honest, having or losing China will not make or break an allied player's ability to win the game.

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: Anachro

Regarding your first game and China, in most PBEMs Japan ends up taking China as the base game doesn't model the difficulties of combat/logistics there very well. What happened to your opponent is not unusual, in other words...and to be honest, having or losing China will not make or break an allied player's ability to win the game.

No, but making it your focus right out of the starting gate to exploit that weakness in the game design, can and did succeed brilliantly in completely demoralizing your opponent costing you the rest of the game.

Frankly, the sentiment on the Italian forums treating it as an exploit is perfectly understandable.

Playing a competitive game is as much about the opponent as it is the game.

[ITAKLinus]

ORIGINAL: Anachro

Regarding your first game and China, in most PBEMs Japan ends up taking China as the base game doesn't model the difficulties of combat/logistics there very well. What happened to your opponent is not unusual, in other words...and to be honest, having or losing China will not make or break an allied player's ability to win the game.

I perfectly agree.


I was attacking CK at the beginning of August in that game and I was using basically every division I had. I mean, Burma was defended (a part from garrisons) by a couple of SNLF.

Same for Java and Salomons.

The allied player has been totally passive trying to lure me into an attrition battle over heavily fortified Noumea/Figi/etcetc. I refused to destroy my planes and ships on mega super fortifications and he quitted.


Well, it's gone. Fuck Longstrett. Let's fight Ste_Peterpan, a far better and reasonable enemy



I'm putting together info from my AAR on the Italian forum just to do a recap. Currently I am playing the 24th of March 1942 and I have done a sort of summary up to 14th Feb

[ITAKLinus]

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: Anachro

Regarding your first game and China, in most PBEMs Japan ends up taking China as the base game doesn't model the difficulties of combat/logistics there very well. What happened to your opponent is not unusual, in other words...and to be honest, having or losing China will not make or break an allied player's ability to win the game.

No, but making it your focus right out of the starting gate to exploit that weakness in the game design, can and did succeed brilliantly in completely demoralizing your opponent costing you the rest of the game.

Frankly, the sentiment on the Italian forums treating it as an exploit is perfectly understandable.

Playing a competitive game is as much about the opponent as it is the game.

On the other side one can argue that it was something like his billionth year of playing the game as Allies and my very first game ever. Not even campaign vs AI. Not even other matrix games.

I mean, I had done tons of mistakes for sure

[ITAKLinus]

Sooner or later I'll give you a summary of previous events...

For now, let's go with the current state of the war.


Tuesday 25th of March 1942 - TURN 109

Nothing special happens.

1) Inner Perimeter Theatre

I still have to conquer Philippines, but I landed 7th Division and Mixed Guards Brigade in Mindanao. Those 750AV are currently conquering bases. No enemies apparently.

In Wake (it's part of this 'theatre' since it gets supplied/garrisoned by Home Islands directly) forts reach 5.12; as soon as I get the magic lvl=6 I will put those ENG in Marcus Island.

2) DEI Theatre

2 Infatry Divisions reached Merak from Batavia and tomorrow they'll shock attack the last Dutch defenders of the island. Before that a Bombardament TF with 6xBB will trash the place.

Various AirHQs and Air Support are landing in future large AF around Timor and Flores. Kendari has a naice 100A.S. as well. No signs of enemy ships trying to supply Darwin: if Stefano tries to do that he will get 70 Betty/Nell on his cargo. Not bad.

Conquering dots with paras.

3) Southeast Pacific Theatre.

Many many units in Rabaul waiting to be shipped in various places.
The zone around Tulagi is rapidly growing (Tulagi + 5 other dot bases in development) and an Infatry Brigade (252AV) will hopefully land in Lunga tomorrow. They'll be the garrison of the place for the moment.

In Finshafen/Lae area I am also developing bases with spare ENG units. I usually land on a dot with 1xENG and I get port lvl=1, then I begin to ship other stuff accordingly to the future I plan for the base.

1° Kido Butai (5xCV Hiry-Soryu-Shokaku-Zuikaku-Akagi) and 1° BC Fleet (4xBB Kongo Class) are near Ontong Java ready to rape any Allied incursion. Some midget subs and MTBs are in Tulagi. The area is heavily mined as well.

Gilberts are all 3 reaching lvl=5 forts. Not bad at all. 1xENG and 1xNavGuards are the current garrison of each, many more troops will arrive in a couple of months.


4) Indo-Burmese Theatre

Oh boys, what a pain!

I landed in Diamond Harbour on 29-JAN-1942 without holding a single base in Burma.

Currently I have conquered the southern part of Burma (I'm in the process of attacking Magwe and Shwebo in these days) that was semi-abandoned. Very few Allied AV in this area: every man of the Commonwealth has been sent to defend India. I am conquering the whole Burma with spare Brigades and Naval Guards. 1 Tank Regiment is helping them. 4xTHAI DIV are resting in Singapore after a really tough Malayan campaign.


The Indo-Burmese border has been almost secured on the Indian part (I have taken everything west of Imphal and I'm in the process of marching toward Ledo).


Calcutta is under siege since the first week of February but I still have to completely encircle it. There are 970AV in Calcutta and 500AV in Howrath, the last base connecting Calcutta to the rest of the world. I will surround Howrath as well, leaving Calcutta and Howrath encircled with the entire British Army inside them.

Australian reinforcements to relieve Calcutta siege have been trashed together with other spare Birtish units sent to the zone.

I have 10 infantry divisions (soon 14: the 2 from Java and a couple from Rangoon where they were resting), a fair amount of support and tanks.
Tainan Ku S-1 and a couple of Oscar Ic units are dominating the skies in the zone.

2° Kido Butai is based in Singapore and it usually sails to the area to destroy stuff and threaten my enemy. CVL Hermes, CV Indomitable and BB Royal Sovereign sunk at the beginning of February and the same fate met a couple of SurfaceTF sent from Celyon. 2xCA and 4xCL sunk as well, along with many DDs.
I lost 1xCA (mine) and 7xDDs (1 mine; 5 surface combat; 1 torpedo) in the process of cleaning the Gulf of Bengala.

5) China Theatre

My goal is to confine Chinese troops in Chungking plateau. I have done a strong offensive since January headed toward Sian and Langchow. Dozens of thousands Chinese and Jap died in terrible battles, but I have conquered everything in the area and I am currently on the mountains south of Langchow.

In the Centre I managed to defend Ichang for months thanks to huge aerial support from LBs and some tanks. In mid-March Stefano launched the last set of attacks but I trashed Chinese troops killing as much as 40k of them in a one-week-long battle.

Wuchang has been liberated from Chinese threat today:


Ground combat at Wuchang (84,51)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 43541 troops, 321 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 1333

Defending force 19494 troops, 102 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 340

Japanese adjusted assault: 975

Allied adjusted defense: 185

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1

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


Japanese ground losses:
1474 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 132 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled

Allied ground losses:
6972 casualties reported
Squads: 185 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 267 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 14 destroyed, 19 disabled
Guns lost 12 (3 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Units retreated 3

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

I am also marching with spare units in the south. During late-February I have repelled Chinese offensive in the area and successfully defended Shangai region. Then I counterattacked encircling many Chinese troops that have been destroyed. I keep advancing with a couple of divisions and a tank unit as spearhead, with several 50AV Chinese collaborationists as backup to surround Chinese troops and rout them.
I am in the process of taking Wenchow, a nice base on the sea.


6) Economy

Since I didn't do P.H. attacking Manila instead, I have destroyed many SS on 7th Dec (22 in Manila only....) and some more have been destroyed in other attacks to Allied ports.
Got two of them on the docks when I conquered Batavia as well.

Currently the only sub activity is near Calcutta and some around Truk. Nothing serious.


Production is going fairly well. 100xA6M2 and 100xOscarIc every month are my production and I will keep it for a long time.
660 pilots in reserve, mainly fighter. I fly quite unenxperienced pilots currently, putting the good ones in the reserve for when I will have good planes.
Only 30ish pilots in TRACOM. Potentially, three times more, but I will keep some elite pilots in frontline units for some more months.

R&D is going on decently.

Fuel/Res/Oil/Supply are ok. I am somewhere -500k supplies from 7th DEC.

[ITAKLinus]

I will update the AAR doing a nice stuff when I will reach the magic 7 days from the forum registration. I have troubles in posting whatever I try to post as report: "no telephone numbers, links, blabla" and I dunno how to fix that thing a part from waiting


Regards,

[adarbrauner]

Per essere un 25 l'Inglese è perfetto anzi troppo perfetto, qui gatta ci cova.

[ITAKLinus]

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Per essere un 25 l'Inglese è perfetto anzi troppo perfetto, qui gatta ci cova.

Mica l'ho capita sai

[ITAKLinus]

Well, here the situation up to the 5th of April, current turn.

Strategy: I have decided to skip Philippines and to rush for Singers. Landed in Mersing on 8th of December and city captured on 3rd of January 1942 with minimal losses. It took only two attacks: river crossing shock attack and then a single deliberate.

In the meanwhile, I took most of the DEI between December and January, with the very last defenders of Java capitulating in mid-March (they controlled just a couple of bases near Batavia since mid-January).

In the last days of January, I landed in India at Diamond Harbor, while still not controlling Burma.

Difficult and bloody battles have been fought for more than two months before I had been able to encircle many Commonwealth’s troops in Howrath and Calcutta. At the same time, I conquered Burma with no resistance from British units and I have conquered most of the Indian bases near the Indo-Burmese border.

In China I adopted an offensive posture in the northern part of the country, conquering plains southward of Sian and then smashing Chinese units in the base.
Thus, I have been able to push northwards, splitting the northern part of China from the rest. I conquered Lanchow and routed every Chinese unit on my path. Only disorganized, unsupplied and under-strength defenders are still in that area.

Allied losses at sea have been modest. Though Allies have lost at least 40 subs (those of whom I am sure to have sunk, mainly in harbor attacks), other losses have been extremely low:
BC Repulse
BB PoW
BB Royal Sovereign
BB Warspite
CVL Hermes
CV Indomitable
(maybe BB Pennsylvania)
2 British CA
I lost the CA Kako on a mine. A single mine and she vanished.


Let’s begin

7th DEC
I didn’t attack PH going for Manila instead: I wanted to cripple American SS and, most importantly, cover Mersing landings.

1) from Formosa

Allied Ships
SS S-38, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage
SS S-40, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage
xAKL Sagoland, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Yu Sang, Bomb hits 2
PG Asheville, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS Seadragon, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
SS Perch, Bomb hits 1
SS Seawolf, Bomb hits 1
DD John D. Ford, Bomb hits 1, on fire
SS Sealion, Bomb hits 2
PT Q-112, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
SS Porpoise, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage
TK Mindanao, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AV Langley, Bomb hits 2
xAP Rochambeau, Bomb hits 1
TK Gertrude Kellogg, Bomb hits 2, on fire
SS Sturgeon, Bomb hits 1
SS Pickerel, Bomb hits 1
xAK Si Kiang, Bomb hits 1, on fire
SS S-37, Bomb hits 1
DD Peary, Bomb hits 1, on fire
SS Stingray, Bomb hits 1
xAKL Don Jose, Bomb hits 1, on fire
SS Swordfish, Bomb hits 1

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

2) Kido Butai

Allied Ships
xAP President Madison, Bomb hits 1
AV Langley, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS Tarpon, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
SS Sealion, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage
TK Mindanao, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Rochambeau, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAKL Palawan, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Capillo, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS Sturgeon, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
PT-31, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
SS Skipjack, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
SS Spearfish, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage
SS Permit, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
SS Shark, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
SS S-37, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
SS Saury, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
SS Pike, Bomb hits 1
SS Sculpin, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
AO Trinity, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AS Holland, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS Sailfish, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
xAP Neptuna, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AS Otus, Bomb hits 3, on fire
SS Seal, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
SS S-38, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AS Canopus, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Tantalus, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Peary, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Whippoorwill, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Princess of Negros, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
PG Tulsa, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
SS S-41, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage
DD Pope, Bomb hits 1, on fire
SS Swordfish, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
SS Sargo, Bomb hits 1
SS Seawolf, Bomb hits 1
xAKL Don Jose, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Pillsbury, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
SS Perch, Bomb hits 1
TK Gertrude Kellogg, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS S-40, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
SS Seadragon, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
SS Stingray, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
SS Salmon, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

3) from a CVL

Allied Ships
PT Q-111, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
SS Sargo, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
SS Pickerel, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
DD John D. Ford, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
SS Snapper, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
SS Sealion, and is sunk


BC Repulse and PoW sunk as well:

1st attack:
PoW and Repulse:
BC Repulse, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
BB Prince of Wales, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2nd attack:
BC Repulse, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
BB Prince of Wales, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk



On 8th Dec I landed in Mersing and I cut off Singapore in the following days with little effort.


11th dec 1941

Hong Kong falls at the second deliberate.

Japanese ground losses:
800 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 56 disabled
Non-Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled

Allied ground losses:
7195 casualties reported
Squads: 287 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non-Combat: 547 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 29 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 132 (132 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 78 (78 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 6



Then, many days of relative calm, with several landings in key locations in Celebes and Borneo. Moluccas fell and with them many other small bases around DEI.


24th dec 1941

Wake falls.


27th dec 1941

I take Nanyang and Kafieng killing around 25000 Chinese in the process. 2000 Jap casualties.

30th dec 1941

I cross the river getting into Singers. I was holding Johore Baru and massing troops there since 12th Dec.



And that’s all for December 1941 - SOON JANUARY 1942

[ITAKLinus]

JANUARY 1942


1st Jan 1942
CV Enterprise gets 2 sub torpedoes near San Diego

3rd Jan 1942

Singers falls at the very first attack (a part from shock for river crossing):

Ground combat at Singapore ( 50,84 )

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 79648 troops, 1003 guns, 801 vehicles, Assault Value = 4112

Defending force 22933 troops, 313 guns, 141 vehicles, Assault Value = 339

Japanese adjusted assault: 1987

Allied adjusted defense: 329

Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Singapore !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 8 destroyed
Vildebeest III: 13 destroyed
Buffalo I: 3 destroyed

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

Japanese ground losses:
1828 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 195 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
12390 casualties reported
Squads: 531 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1429 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 81 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 425 (425 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 191 (191 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 26

Assaulting units:
5th Division
16th Infantry Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
20th Infantry Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
55th Engineer Regiment
143rd Infantry Regiment
2nd Engineer Regiment
124th Infantry Regiment
55th Cavalry Regiment
21st Division
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
16th Recon Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment
15th Ind. Engineer Regiment
113th Infantry Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment
2nd Recon Regiment
65th Brigade
23rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
18th Division
48th Division
6th Tank Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
20th AA Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
56th Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
32nd Field AA Battalion
25th Army
3rd Mortar Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
27th Australian Brigade
2nd Gordons Battalion
2nd Argylls Battalion
22nd Australian Brigade
SSVF Brigade
2nd Malay Battalion
1st Manchester Battalion
2/17 Dogra Battalion
1st Malay Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
3/16th Punjab Battalion
AHQ Far East
Malaya Army
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
III Indian Corps
Singapore Base Force
111th RAF Base Force
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
11 Battery/3 HAA
224 Group RAF
2nd HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
Singapore Fortress
Malayan Air Wing
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
5th Field Regiment


5th Jan 1942

Conquering Shortlands/Guadalcanal/Buna with simultaneous amph assaults.

Landed a couple of divisions in Java, a third division landed some days before gets repelled by Soerbaja defenders.

17th Jan 1942

Soerbaja falls

25th Jan 1942

Heavy Chinese losses near Hankow.

I take remaining bases in Salomon area.

Amphibious assault at Port Blair and Sabang (Sumatra)

27th Jan 1942
First deliberate at Sian. Roughly 7k Japs dead to 5k Chinese.

29th Jan 1942
2 divisions land in Diamond Harbour.

Heavy Chinese casualties trying to take Ichang (around 100k Chinese losses there since 7th Dec).

11k Japs dead to 5k Chinese at Sian.

30th Jan 1942
A third division lands in Diamond Harbour and I conquer the base.

4500 Jap casualties to 550 Chinese at Sian.



To Be Continued.........[:'(]

[adarbrauner]

ORIGINAL: ITAKLinus

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Per essere un 25 l'Inglese è perfetto anzi troppo perfetto, qui gatta ci cova.

Mica l'ho capita sai

che il tuo Inglese è sorprendentemente ottimo e anche più

[ITAKLinus]

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

ORIGINAL: ITAKLinus

ORIGINAL: adarbrauner

Per essere un 25 l'Inglese è perfetto anzi troppo perfetto, qui gatta ci cova.

Mica l'ho capita sai

che il tuo Inglese è sorprendentemente ottimo e anche più

Grazie mille, troppo gentile!

[ITAKLinus]

I'm still putting together February's reports and salient points. I hope tomorrow I'll be able to post the update.

Just played 6th and 7th of April...

[ITAKLinus]

FEBRUARY


3rd Feb 1942

13k Japs to 5000 Chinese dead in Sian.

4th Feb 1942

I complete the conquest of Sumatra.

At Sian I take the place:

Ground combat at Sian (83,41)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 139465 troops, 1266 guns, 410 vehicles, Assault Value = 2786

Defending force 68871 troops, 347 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1231

Japanese adjusted assault: 2278

Allied adjusted defense: 504

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Sian !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
I-15-III: 3 destroyed
SB-III: 1 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
11865 casualties reported
Squads: 353 destroyed, 437 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 137 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 48 disabled
Guns lost 92 (25 destroyed, 67 disabled)
Vehicles lost 31 (1 destroyed, 30 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
31052 casualties reported
Squads: 869 destroyed, 48 disabled
Non Combat: 649 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 259 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 103 (71 destroyed, 32 disabled)
Units retreated 15
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
13th Indpt Infantry Regiment
6th Division
51st Infantry Brigade
58th Infantry Regiment
37th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
32nd Division
3rd Division
12th Tank Regiment
11th Indpt Infantry Regiment
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
61st Infantry Brigade
12th Indpt Infantry Regiment
15th Tank Regiment
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
5th Armored Car Co
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
41st Division
35th Division
15th RGC Temp. Division
North China Area Army
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
11th Army
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
12th Army
1st Army
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Mortar Battalion
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
1st Chinese Corps
76th Chinese Corps
16th Chinese Corps
47th Chinese Corps
57th Chinese Corps
3rd Chinese Corps
17th Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Base Force
7th Group Army
Red Chinese Army
34th Group Army
5th War Area
4th Construction Regiment



10th Feb 1942


I decide after 3 deliberate that I cannot take Calcutta and I begin the encircling movement around the city.

I land in Chittagong and trash defenders (5k allied casualties)

Many Chinese dead all over the map. I repel the 15th-ish attack on Ichang.


13th Feb 1942

Royal Navy gets intercepted

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8
B5N2 Kate x 40
D3A1 Val x 19

Allied aircraft
Fulmar II x 15
Sea Hurricane Ib x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 10 destroyed, 2 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 5 destroyed, 5 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
Fulmar II: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
BB Royal Sovereign, Bomb hits 2
CVL Hermes, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 5, on fire

Fuel storage explosion on CVL Hermes
Fuel storage explosion on CVL Hermes


His carriers do not counterattack (even if they're in range)

CA Exter a couple of CLs and 4 DDs are sunk as well by the escorting SCTF of CA and by aerial attacks.


14th Feb 1942

I summarize here bombs over CV Indomitable and BB Royal Sovereign in Madras. Actually, they also got some hits from 6xBBs packs hitting the base in naval bombardament from 20miles.
CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
BB Royal Sovereign, Bomb hits 4

CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
BB Royal Sovereign, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage

BB Royal Sovereign, Bomb hits 15, heavy fires, heavy damage

BB Royal Sovereign, Bomb hits 15, on fire, heavy damage

And many others on Indomitable mainly I can't currently find.


15h Feb 1942

Surface night action between my CAs and poorly armed British Cls ends very well for my units:

CL Enterprise, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
CL Hobart, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
DD Vampire, Shell hits 4, heavy fires [SUNK DURING THE NIGHT]


7k Chinese die near Haiphong and are repelled from Vietnamese territory.


17th Feb 1942

I conquer Pegu, near Rangoon with little enemy resistence.
I capture also Jessore near Calcutta killing a couple of British INF brigades quite under-strength.


18th Feb 1942

I sink 10 cargos in Calcutta's harbor.

And in China I there's a massacre at Loyang:

Ground combat at Loyang (87,43)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 82323 troops, 553 guns, 619 vehicles, Assault Value = 2991

Defending force 77797 troops, 335 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1530

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 1645

Allied adjusted defense: 506

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Loyang !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
7682 casualties reported
Squads: 83 destroyed, 483 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 94 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 20 disabled
Guns lost 41 (15 destroyed, 26 disabled)
Vehicles lost 51 (3 destroyed, 48 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
24468 casualties reported
Squads: 495 destroyed, 91 disabled
Non Combat: 1109 destroyed, 158 disabled
Engineers: 210 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 93 (68 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Units retreated 22
Units destroyed 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!


20th Feb 1942

I sink 3 DDs in Bengala Gulf with Vals. I bomb Madras with 10BBs as well but I do little damage. BB Royal Sovereign and CV Indomitable are probably sunk (50-70 bombs 250-800Kg for each of the two ships in a week-long battle)

Here a typical softening action done by my LBs in China:

Morning Air attack on 90th Chinese Corps, at 87,42 , near Loyang

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 50
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27
Ki-30 Ann x 15
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 28

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 10 damaged
Ki-30 Ann: 1 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 2 damaged

Allied ground losses:
1148 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 58 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 82 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 6 (4 destroyed, 2 disabled)


28th Feb 1942

I keep advancing in Burma and India.

In China I attack a group of Chinese who were attacking Shangai area while I was busy with Sian offensive. I repulsed their attacks, encircled the poor guys and then done a single deliberate which caused them to surrender:

Allied ground losses:
9949 casualties reported
Squads: 459 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 542 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 28 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 25 (25 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


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