Godzilla {J: Andav} vs. Rodan {A: witpqs}

[witpqs]

1942 June 10

Not much use to the carrier performing like this...

DD Aaron Ward collides with DD Stack at 209 , 107

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

possible to slide another corp into that stack next to Sian, just to screw with his math? On the other hand I decided to take a slow
combat mode retreat from a similar situation hoping to buy some time in the woods.

The cupboard is bare. If he knew almost all the units recovering in Sian are in Rest mode he could jump the river without a fuss and really complicate things.

[RangerJoe]

1942 June 10

Not much use to the carrier performing like this...

quote:


DD Aaron Ward collides with DD Stack at 209 , 107

Well, think of this collision:

The Glowworm smashed into the side of the German ship, just aft of her anchors. The destroyer’s bow was wrecked as she ripped a massive gash in the side of the much larger cruiser. The German ship took on tons of water, but eventually isolated the damage, and prevented a total flooding. The Glowworm drifted away, a sinking, burning inferno.

The Admiral Hipper fired another salvo, at close range into the destroyer, and a single gun responded. Chief Petty Officer Walter Scott, despite his ship sinking rapidly, stood by his gun and had fired one final round before the boilers exploded at 1024. She sank soon after.

When A British Destroyer Rammed a German Cruiser In World War Two

[witpqs]

Quite a story!

[Anachro]

Very interesting. Some crazy images on the Glowworm's wiki page. Shame only 36 survived out of 146.

[witpqs]

Forgot to mention: a bunch of AK at Pearl Harbor have 11 days remaining in their upgrades so that's a hard lower limit on when I can start loading. The two battleships upgrading at San Francisco will be done in a few days and head for Hawaii along with the coming USMC Rgt and the additional AE's and AKE's. One battleship upgrading at Pearl Harbor needs close to 3 weeks and will be the straggler if external conditions allow the operation to commence ASAP.

[jwolf]

At least the Ward and Stack ran into each other instead of colliding with the carrier. Could have been worse. [:'(]

[Bif1961]

You mean like the Cruiser Belknap CG26 did to the JFK in the med, 22 Nov 1975?

[Macclan5]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Forgot to mention: a bunch of AK at Pearl Harbor have 11 days remaining in their upgrades so that's a hard lower limit on when I can start loading. The two battleships upgrading at San Francisco will be done in a few days and head for Hawaii along with the coming USMC Rgt and the additional AE's and AKE's. One battleship upgrading at Pearl Harbor needs close to 3 weeks and will be the straggler if external conditions allow the operation to commence ASAP.

Still lurking around here.

Good Luck and Good Hunting on Operation CO.

Your AAR is once again thoughtful and insightful at the same time.

You have yet to mention your mastrokova plan; we know you did the beginner course at VladPutinU 101 [8D]

If the biggest fear/threat is:

1) KB1 at Truk and
2) KB2 is likely down at Balikipan or DEI / Australia ~

..for arguments sake... are you launching an offensive in Burma? Responding in Australia clearly but assigning a 'misdirection' squadron of USAAF 5th in Australia to support ?

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Macclan5

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Forgot to mention: a bunch of AK at Pearl Harbor have 11 days remaining in their upgrades so that's a hard lower limit on when I can start loading. The two battleships upgrading at San Francisco will be done in a few days and head for Hawaii along with the coming USMC Rgt and the additional AE's and AKE's. One battleship upgrading at Pearl Harbor needs close to 3 weeks and will be the straggler if external conditions allow the operation to commence ASAP.

Still lurking around here.

Good Luck and Good Hunting on Operation CO.

Your AAR is once again thoughtful and insightful at the same time.

You have yet to mention your mastrokova plan; we know you did the beginner course at VladPutinU 101 [8D]

If the biggest fear/threat is:

1) KB1 at Truk and
2) KB2 is likely down at Balikipan or DEI / Australia ~

..for arguments sake... are you launching an offensive in Burma? Responding in Australia clearly but assigning a 'misdirection' squadron of USAAF 5th in Australia to support ?

Thanks! [8D]

For greatest distraction I was thinking about holding an international press conference and behaving really stupidly... [;)]

I really can't do anything in Burma just yet, but I doubt any advance into Burma would cause KB1 to respond anyway. I do have both some US ground troops and plenty of US aircraft in Australia. Cloncurry is building pretty fast and, at size 4, I am willing to use it now for B17's; Just waiting for the Imperial troops to appear.

I think I so little to make a credible decoy operation that any such op would be immediately seen as a decoy. If I am right about that, the best misdirection is simply to show up. In the absence of any obvious ploy by me KB1 might just be somewhere else's as part of the Empire's own plans.

[RangerJoe]

A misdirection that might be credible is to have a lot of small craft loading and unloading units to cause lots of radio traffic. Flood the ingress routes to the area with subs and minefields as well. Combine that with judicious recon and it might work.

But you are probably correct that just suddenly showing up might be the best way to go unless something comes up in the meantime.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Macclan5

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Forgot to mention: a bunch of AK at Pearl Harbor have 11 days remaining in their upgrades so that's a hard lower limit on when I can start loading. The two battleships upgrading at San Francisco will be done in a few days and head for Hawaii along with the coming USMC Rgt and the additional AE's and AKE's. One battleship upgrading at Pearl Harbor needs close to 3 weeks and will be the straggler if external conditions allow the operation to commence ASAP.

Still lurking around here.

Good Luck and Good Hunting on Operation CO.

Your AAR is once again thoughtful and insightful at the same time.

You have yet to mention your mastrokova plan; we know you did the beginner course at VladPutinU 101 [8D]

If the biggest fear/threat is:

1) KB1 at Truk and
2) KB2 is likely down at Balikipan or DEI / Australia ~

..for arguments sake... are you launching an offensive in Burma? Responding in Australia clearly but assigning a 'misdirection' squadron of USAAF 5th in Australia to support ?

Hey John Mac! Did you learn your spelling at a certain University that recently closed up, or were you a student of Greyjoy's? [:D]
The term is maskirovka!

[witpqs]

1942 June 11

INVADED
Amphibious TF 50 unloading at Komodo
Changsha is invested.

CHANGED OWNERSHIP
Babar is occupied by the Japanese
Japanese forces CAPTURE Komodo !!!



Overall
• No carrier sightings.

• It appears reinforcement of the Marshall Islands is ongoing.


West Coast USA, Alaska, Hawaii
• Enemy sub activity near Pearl Harbor.

• Damage might be accumulating, but the latest mouse-over shows 2 subs in the TF.

ASW attack near Pearl Harbor at 181,106

Japanese Ships
SS I-1, hits 2

Allied Ships
DD Aylwin

SS I-1 is located by DD Aylwin
I-1 diving deep ....
DD Aylwin attacking submerged sub ....
DD Aylwin loses contact with SS I-1
SS I-1 eludes ASW attack from DD Aylwin
DD Aylwin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Aylwin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Aylwin fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Aylwin fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

• The large troop convoy is detouring around Lihue to avoid the (possibly 2) subs NE of Pearl Harbor. No convoys have contact.


Pacific
• Enemy sub activity near Suva.

• Got another one!

Submarine attack near Kusaie Island at 123,116

Japanese Ships
AV Kiyokawa Maru, Torpedo hits 1

Allied Ships
SS Tautog

AV Kiyokawa Maru is sighted by SS Tautog
SS Tautog launches 4 torpedoes

But it floats yet.

Sub attack near Kusaie Island at 123,116

Japanese Ships
AV Kiyokawa Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tautog

SS Tautog launches 4 torpedoes

During combat animation the main map showed two additional TF's near Kwajalein and Roi-Namur.

• This must have been one of them.

Sub attack near Bikini at 129,112

Japanese Ships
AG Daido Maru
AMc Tama Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Grayback

SS Grayback launches 2 torpedoes at AG Daido Maru
AMc Tama Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
AMc Tama Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
AMc Tama Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
AMc Tama Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
AMc Tama Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, New Britain
• Enemy sub activity near Portsea, Melbourne, Brisbane.

• Fuel unloading at Melbourne.


Philippines


DEI, Dutch new Guinea, Borneo, Malaya
• Freedom of the seas right of navigation violated!

Day Time Surface Combat, near Semarang at 53,100, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DMS W-1
DMS W-2
DMS W-3
DMS W-5
DMS W-6

Allied Ships
HDML P 12, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
HDML P 13, Shell hits 2, and is sunk

Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions: 15,000 yards
Range closes to 11,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 11,000 yards
Massive explosion on HDML P 13
DMS W-3 engages HDML P 13 at 11,000 yards
Range closes to 6,000 yards
HDML P 13 sunk by DMS W-2 at 6,000 yards
Range closes to 5,000 yards
HDML P 12 sunk by DMS W-6 at 5,000 yards
Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk...

China
• They held longer than anticipated.

Ground combat at 80,39 (near Tienshui)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 25818 troops, 198 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 649

Defending force 7787 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 98

Japanese adjusted assault: 475

Allied adjusted defense: 142

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
244 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 55 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled

Allied ground losses:
3009 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 105 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 6

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
26th Division

Defending units:
69th Chinese Corps
21st Chinese Corps
7th Construction Regiment
1st Construction Regiment
1st War Area
2nd Construction Regiment

• Now the Empire knows their next blow will be telling.

Ground combat at 84,42 (near Sian)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2994 troops, 159 guns, 336 vehicles, Assault Value = 1286

Defending force 39219 troops, 160 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 490

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
167 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
13th Tank Regiment
17th Division
34th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
15th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
25th Division
9th Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
16th Chinese Corps
12th Chinese Corps
57th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps
61st Chinese Corps
115th Red Chinese Division

India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina
• Enemy sub activity near Karachi.


Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russia
• Keeping them interested.

Sub attack near Tanegashima at 101,63

Japanese Ships
PB Hokuyo Maru
PB Toyokuni Maru

Allied Ships
SS Grenadier

SS Grenadier launches 2 torpedoes at PB Hokuyo Maru
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toyokuni Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Complete combat report attached.

[CaptBeefheart]

I'm not quite caught up with your AAR, but I'm going to comment on the ship collision of May 25 between Bintang and Sophocles. There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for that:

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

I'm not quite caught up with your AAR, but I'm going to comment on the ship collision of May 25 between Bintang and Sophocles. There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for that:

Are you implying that it wasn't Sophocles' captain staring at his navel to find the meaning of life?

[witpqs]

1942 June 12

INVADED
Changsha is invested.

CHANGED OWNERSHIP



Overall
• No carrier sightings.


West Coast USA, Alaska, Hawaii
• Enemy sub activity near 4 hexes SW of Lihue. Possibly this is a damaged submarine heading for repairs; being pursued by our ASW TF (which has DL 4/4).

• No convoys report contact.

• Two battleships finished upgrades/repairs at San Francisco. They will wait the additional troops and aircraft to be ready for loading and accompany them to Hawaii.

• 22 USMC Rgt has arrived at san Diego and is heading to San Francisco.


Pacific
• Enemy sub activity near Suva.

• Torpedoes porpoised toward the target...

Sub attack near Kusaie Island at 125,116

Japanese Ships
PB Toshi Maru #3
PB Tama Maru #8

Allied Ships
SS Herring

SS Herring launches 2 torpedoes at PB Toshi Maru #3
Herring diving deep ....
PB Tama Maru #8 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Toshi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, New Britain
• Enemy sub activity near Melbourne, Portsea

• Two artillery units unloading at Sydney.

• I-27 and another sub in TF with it have been sitting beside our ASW routes keeping track of ships at Melbourne. Maybe we can punish their boldness.

ASW attack near Portsea at 82,172

Japanese Ships
SS I-27, hits 8

Allied Ships
KV Aster
KV Hollyhock

SS I-27 is located by KV Aster
I-27 bottoming out ....
KV Hollyhock fails to find sub and abandons search
KV Aster fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Aster fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Aster fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Aster fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Aster attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

• Cloncurry airfield is now size 5.

• Still no sign of enemy land units.


Philippines


DEI, Dutch new Guinea, Borneo, Malaya
• Hope is fading.

Ground combat at 46,84 (near Pakanbaroe)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 793 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 60

Defending force 746 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Japanese adjusted assault: 25

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 25 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

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

Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
2nd Raiding Regiment
Yokosuka 1st SNLF

Defending units:
Pakanbaroe Cdo

China
• The countdown for Sian commences. We need the biblical 40 days to get that large unit which arrives at Sian. Two units remain behind as rear guard and will certainly pay the piper tomorrow.

Ground combat at 84,42 (near Sian)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 45217 troops, 503 guns, 861 vehicles, Assault Value = 1642

Defending force 32543 troops, 146 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 466

Japanese adjusted assault: 770

Allied adjusted defense: 343

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1029 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 112 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled

Allied ground losses:
7513 casualties reported
Squads: 340 destroyed, 61 disabled
Non Combat: 216 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 35 (24 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Units retreated 4

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
25th Division
15th Tank Regiment
37th Division
17th Division
34th Division
3rd Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
57th Chinese Corps
16th Chinese Corps
12th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps
61st Chinese Corps
115th Red Chinese Division

• An Imperial unit of unknown strength is moving toward the road stub SE of Mengtze.


India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina
• An Australian Bde is moving from Calcutta to Ledo to take up defense so all the Chinese Army units at Ledo can move to supply rich Calcutta and hopefully take replacements even faster.


Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russia
• Funny, the torpedoes seem to run straight through the target.

Submarine attack near Swatow at 80,63

Japanese Ships
xAK Zuiko Maru

Allied Ships
SS Drum

xAK Zuiko Maru is sighted by SS Drum
SS Drum launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Zuiko Maru

• Running interference for Drum.

ASW attack near Shanghai at 93,55

Japanese Ships
PB Narita Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sailfish

SS Sailfish is sighted by escort
Sailfish bottoming out ....
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Narita Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Complete combat report attached.

[witpqs]

1942 June 13

INVADED
Changsha, Sian are invested.

CHANGED OWNERSHIP



Overall
• No carrier sightings.


West Coast USA, Alaska, Hawaii
• Enemy sub activity near Eureka, Pearl Harbor.

• Parting gifts for I-1:

ASW attack near Niihau at 172,113

Japanese Ships
SS I-1, hits 5

Allied Ships
DD Farragut
DD Dewey

SS I-1 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Farragut
DD Dewey fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dewey fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dewey fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dewey fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Dewey attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

• All convoys report no contacts. There is 1/1 DL of Pearl Harbor so we know another sub TF with an aircraft is close by. The large troop convoy will arrive at Pearl Harbor early tonight; the support unit troop convoy will arrive at Lahaina tomorrow; the aircraft convoy will arrive at Pearl Harbor in 3 days.


Pacific
• We know Imperial subs are hunting here but no contacts this day.


New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, New Britain
• Enemy sub activity near Brisbane, Sydney.

• 1st Tank Bn has reached Daly Waters.

• Still no sign of Imperial ground units in NW Australia.

• Supply unloading at Sydney.


Philippines


DEI, Dutch new Guinea, Borneo, Malaya
• We one more unit on Sumatra.

Ground combat at 46,84 (near Pakanbaroe)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1684 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 59

Defending force 716 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 13

Japanese adjusted assault: 77

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 77 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
fatigue(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Allied ground losses:
952 casualties reported
Squads: 29 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 33 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (7 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
2nd Raiding Regiment
Yokosuka 1st SNLF

Defending units:
Pakanbaroe Cdo

• Loyalists tell us all our naval mines have been cleared from the harbor at Batavia.


China
• With 7 armored units pursuing our forces into Sian all commands there are now in Combat mode, Rest mode being a memory.

Ground combat at 84,42 (near Sian)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 41164 troops, 500 guns, 420 vehicles, Assault Value = 1561

Defending force 8977 troops, 37 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 105

Japanese adjusted assault: 716

Allied adjusted defense: 130

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
222 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Units pursuing 7

Allied ground losses:
3224 casualties reported
Squads: 107 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 128 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
34th Division
37th Division
9th Tank Regiment
25th Division
3rd Tank Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
17th Division
15th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
16th Chinese Corps
115th Red Chinese Division

India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina
• Enemy sub activity near Karachi.


Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russia


Complete combat report attached.

[witpqs]

1942 June 13

The first activity we've seen down here in a while.

[CaptBeefheart]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Are you implying that it wasn't Sophocles' captain staring at his navel to find the meaning of life?

Who's to say one captain wasn't soused on Indonesian beer while the other was contemplating his Oedipus complex?

Cheers,
CC

[CaptBeefheart]

OK, I'm finally caught up in this AAR. This is a great read, WITPQS. Good luck with Cantankerous Olfactory, two words which in human history have likely never been juxtaposed before.

One comment on paras. I've found that lack of prep for a target should not be a reason to not use them. They will tend to get high disruption on landing, but have very few if any disabled squads, and disruption will decline quickly. They are great for taking undefended dot hexes as well as CD gun-heavy, infantry-light bases.

Cheers,
CC