Notes from a Small Island

[BBfanboy]

Might be worthwhile to check the Recon skill of the FP pilots on your BBs. I train my BB/CA/CL pilots in Recon whenever they are in transit in a safe area. It seems to make a difference when they get to 50 Recon Skill, but it could also just be the overall Experience increase that makes them better spotters.

[Capt. Harlock]

Modest results for this bombardment TF. That's a consistent trend - the Alabama TF seems to underperform compared to the Iowa TF, even allowing for the size and quality differential in the BBs and the TFs. I'll check the quality of the commander.

Have to agree. The Richelieu TF did almost as well with a single 15-inch gunned BB.

[Canoerebel]

11/27/44

Uruppu: My Paint crashed on both screen captures of during the Japanese arty bombardment and the following Allied arty bombardment. So I don't have the two images that show how Japanese unit AV dropped during the combat phase. But this provides some info. Progress is slow but it does seem to be steady.

[Canoerebel]

11/27/44

Uruppu: The two US combat engineer units at Uruppu will withdraw in three days. I think withdrawl may be prior to the combat phase, so I'm gonna use 'em, it'll have to be by the day after tomorrow.

Note that this unit has 42% prep. It was at Shikuka, but I brought it over to Uruppu about two weeks ago when I noticed the withdrawal date.

I'm leaning towards attacking, though I'm not positive. The advantage is that it makes use of the combat engineers before they withdraw. This disadvantage is that is messes with disruption, fatigue and disablements for what is presently a pristine army that's growing steadily. There are advantages to biding my time, waiting for the navy, the air force and the artillery to keep doing their thing until the enemy is battered and low on supply. (That sounds like how the Allies felt about the pre-invasion bombardment at Betio…..)

[Canoerebel]

11/27/44

Uruppu: This is the bulk of the Allied fighting power.

[RangerJoe]

I count 294 AV in armor and 125 AV in Combat Engineer units. While the odds aren't the best, you probably will get mostly disablements with the armor. I would bombard with the other units. You might knock down the forts which will hasten the decline of the defense. As long as you keep the airfield and port damaged, the forts won't repair so it should be a good option. Include a small "invasion" with your rocket LCIs to increase the damage, disruption and fatigue for the turn and you might be pleasantly surprised - or not! If it were my game, I would go for it.

If that AUS 1st ARM Reg has soft infantry included, you might want to airlift those out so they will not get destroyed so that unit will be pure armor.

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Uruppu: A marginal bombardment takes out one supply point.

The amount of supply removed depends upon various factors such as the explosive size of the armament that did the damage and the amount of supply in the respective depot. It was one supply hit which could take out many supply points.

But it all accumulates, including the supply used when firing at your ships and aircraft.

Early on in my experiences with this game the AI was taking out 1000 supply points with each supply hit and doing so consistently.


This led me to belive it was a set amount of damage per supply hit and when I posted that I was quickly shooled by Alfred, Moose, Loka and others that the damage amount is variable.


I do know from that first hand experience though that the varaible amount can be at least as high as 1000 points of supply per supply hit.

[Canoerebel]

11/28/44

Uruppu: Impact of the bombardment again unimpressive. Most of the ships targeted 28th Division. I hope to do a better job screen capturing during the land combat phase to check on Japanese unit AVs.

Richelieu TF bombarded out of turn today, leap-frogging ahead of the Iowa TF. I'm saving the latter for tomorrow, to coincide with the opening Allied deliberate attack (assuming I pull the trigger, which is likely).

[Canoerebel]

11/28/44

Uruppu: Today's air raids vs. Uruppu managed to knock out supply. This is one of them. Most (but not all) 4EB are set to Ground Attack. All 2EB and a few 4EB squadrons are set to Airfield attack.

[Canoerebel]

11/28/44

Air War: The air war has been hot and heavy the past ten days or so, especially at Kushiro, where nearly every day large Allied sweeps encounter large Japanese CAP.

Early in this sequence, the Japanese got the best of things, particularly about three or four days ago, when Toyohara-based sweeps failed to go in and bombers from Shikuka got mauled. I lost about 35 B-29s over several days. But, even on days like that, the fighter losses were acceptable and the bombers were bait to keep Erik fighting (or so I felt). The past two days, Allied sweeps have done particularly well, downing Japanese fighters in large numbers and at excellent ratios.

Today's early sweeps mixed well with enemy fighters and then this raid came, targeting the port and Resources.

This was the firt time I used carrier Marine fighters to sweep.

I think Erik will bolster his fighter numbers tomorrow. I'll plan accordingly.

[Canoerebel]

11/28/44

Uruppu: Japanese auto-bombardment self-destructive. Enemy division AV is markedly lower than it was five or six turns back.

[Canoerebel]

11/28/44

Uruppu: This is the first time Allied arty fire has had a noticeable effect on the enemy at Uruppu.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

11/28/44

Uruppu: This is the first time Allied arty fire has had a noticeable effect on the enemy at Uruppu.

The fatigue and disruption that your bombing and naval bombardments built up is being converted to disablements and destruction now. Once he gets over 50% disruption in a unit the number of destroyed squads will rise sharply.

[Canoerebel]

I've ordered the general attack at Uruppu tomorrow. If the engineers weren't withdrawing, I'd stick to the current program for another week or two, but I'm hoping the combat engineers can reduce forts by one.

Another combat engineering unit won't be ready to insert for at least two weeks. It's about 45% prepped at Shikuka.

The first attacks at Ketoi were very rough and resulted in nearly all squads of 5th Australian Division disabled. I expect at least one division to take heavy disablements tomorrow. The Allied army will then rest (continuing to bombard daily) for several weeks. Over that time, three more divisions (including now-recovered 5th Aussie) will be inserted.

This approach should work within a reasonable amount of time unless Erik is able to derail the train through naval or air action.

[Bif1961]

Ok men I know you will be leaving the theater soon, so I will send you against the entrench prepared enemy until you do. Sounds like the civil war, with enlistments about to run out.

[Canoerebel]

Yeah, 90-days recruits...or the guys from the old 2nd Maine Regiment before Gettysburg.

A clever writer like Cuttlefish might come up with a plausible scenario. Perhaps the combat engineers drank from a polluted water source and come down with cholera?

[durnedwolf]

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Yeah, 90-days recruits...or the guys from the old 2nd Maine Regiment before Gettysburg.

A clever writer like Cuttlefish might come up with a plausible scenario. Perhaps the combat engineers drank from a polluted water source and come down with cholera?

Last chance to win a shiny medal or collect a souvenir to impress the state-side girls before you go home?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Ok men I know you will be leaving the theater soon, so I will send you against the entrench prepared enemy until you do. Sounds like the civil war, with enlistments about to run out.

More like, - OK boys this is your last chance to catch a minor wound that will send you home before we send the unit off to face German MG 42s!

[Chickenboy]

Why would there be German MG42s in the American Civil War? Or German MG42s in the Kuriles, circa late 1944? Now I'm all confused. [&:]

[RangerJoe]

I can imagine a dumb Lt trying to get his men ready for the fight by saying:

"Okay men, after helping to build the Alcan highway through the mountains and the muskeg swamps with their hordes of mosquitoes, then building airports on the nice Aleutian vacation islands of Adak and Shemya, you are being sent to Camp Bowies in Texas - of all places. It is just outside of Fort Worth. Why would you want to go to Texas? Rather, stay here and FIGHT for these lovely Kurile islands. Remember, if you get wounded, the lovely ladies at home will faun all over you. So don't leave without having a good fight first!"


The actual history of the 62nd Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy) which was part of the 18th combat Engineer Regiment.

62nd Engineer Combat Battalion (Heavy)

I have been to texas, I lived and worked there for a year and a half. I did not like it and I only stayed 10 extra days because a friend was injured. I have never been back but I might like to visit there but I can think of better places to visit, like this place.

a lovely small town.