The Accidental War Obvert vs Lowpe

[Lowpe]

October 23, 1942

A bleak day, as Hue Falls, the troops run in the wrong direction, and Hanoi and Haiphong's days are numbered.

[Lowpe]

Allied air forces are strong in China...

I forgot to mention P40s too, plus all the bombers...

[Lowpe]

A pivotal fight...probably not, since the Allied tanks will arrive in the west. China will gone before 1943 starts.

[witpqs]

October 23, 1942

A bleak day, as Hue Falls, the troops run in the wrong direction, and Hanoi and Haiphong's days are numbered.

In which direction did they retreat?

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

October 23, 1942

A bleak day, as Hue Falls, the troops run in the wrong direction, and Hanoi and Haiphong's days are numbered.

In which direction did they retreat?

West, into the jungle where they will slowly starve, bypassed. Will miss those units. A large chunk of my western anti tank capability.

[Capt. Harlock]

Allied air forces are strong in China...

I forgot to mention P40s too, plus all the bombers...

I'm willing to believe you, but it takes a lot more than two Wildcats to constitute "strong"!

OTOH, if they have no opposition, that means complete air supremacy!

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock

Allied air forces are strong in China...

I forgot to mention P40s too, plus all the bombers...

I'm willing to believe you, but it takes a lot more than two Wildcats to constitute "strong"!

OTOH, if they have no opposition, that means complete air supremacy!

I once saw a TV news advertisement in NYC that their station had two traffic helicopters (while other stations then had one) giving them twice the air supremacy!

[Lowpe]

Here is today's Lightning Sweep over Hankow, with the runway damaged, sweeps have now lessened to one F$F squadron 18 planes, and one Lightning Squadron...

Morning Air attack on Hankow , at 85,50

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 35,550 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 22

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 31550 feet

[Lowpe]

October 24, 1944

Here is the Soviet infantry push with few mechanized units...but lots of artillery. The 1st and 2nd Tank Divisions counter attack was split and out maneuvered by numerous Soviet units...and came to nothing...Soviets were much stronger here than initially spotted.

[Lowpe]

Despite the presence of some of Japan's monster artillery, Chengting bombardment goes heavily to the Soviets. Can the 27th and 28th save Chengting...which will then probably get surrounded anyhow.

Ground combat at Chengting (92,40)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1800 troops, 160 guns, 120 vehicles, Assault Value = 2765

Defending force 28426 troops, 262 guns, 78 vehicles, Assault Value = 756

Japanese ground losses:
205 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 7 (5 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Assaulting units:
1st Chinese Corps
61st Tank Division
43rd Tank Brigade
206th Tank Brigade
7th Chinese Corps
42nd Chinese Corps
203rd Tank Brigade
111th Tank Division
12th Chinese Corps
35th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
39th Guards Mortar Regiment
32nd Guards Mortar Regiment
413th Howitzer Regiment
33rd Guards Mortar Regiment
178th Mortar Regiment

Defending units:
59th Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
2nd NCPC Infantry Brigade
68th Division
26th/C Division
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd RF Gun Battalion
47th Field Const Co
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
9th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd FF Const Unit
56th JAAF AF Bn

[Lowpe]

10/24/1942

We hold for one more day, and two divisions and some tanks will arrive to solidify the defense.

[Lowpe]

No, picture, so sorry. Perhaps I will watch the replay again, to get it.

Sub attack near Attu Island at 151,47

Japanese Ships
SS RO-33

Allied Ships
xAP Princess Elizabeth, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AVD Gillis
xAP Princess Charlotte
KV Quesnel

SS RO-33 launches 2 torpedoes at xAP Princess Elizabeth
RO-33 diving deep ....
KV Quesnel fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Quesnel fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Quesnel fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Quesnel fails to find sub, continues to search...
KV Quesnel fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

[Lowpe]

Flying from Soviet bases on conquered territory. Well, doesn't that just suck.[:(]

[Lowpe]

End of October, 1942

The Soviet Chinese combined Army achieves another victory. I had two divisions and one armored unit attempting to arrive but they went from 43 miles to not arriving and staying in their own hex.

Of course the besieged troops then retreat to the north further behind enemy lines.

China falls. I bet I set a record.[;)]





Hiyo eats a torpedo, from another sub, which are simply thick as thieves. Damage is very light.

[Lowpe]

End of October 1942

A Soviet Tank Division gets crushed![:)] We won't talk about the air phase, as I foolishly lefty some ground attacks on trying to destroy B17s on the ground at Soviet air bases and flew into Lightnings, Vanguards, P40s.

[Lowpe]

October 30, 1942

Soviets have crossed the river with 17 units, and I am attempting to encircle them. However there are so many supply paths for them it will be tough.

[Lowpe]

Meanwhile, I was hoping to put a hurt on some soviet vehicles here, but not to be:

What a roll those guys had, and even superbly led, considering the IJA Tank Division has one of Japan's best leaders.

[Lowpe]

It is Nov 1, 1942, and Japan is seriously getting their butts kicked. Everywhere.

The close coordination between Soviets/Chinese/British/Dutch have just devastated the Empire. Soviet supplies feeding the Chinese. Combined Soviet/Chinese Spearheads. B17s flying from Soviet base.

Anyhow, Japan was looking forward to getting some Jacks up in the air...but for some stupid reason that I have never, ever seen before, all Japanese research and development stopped.

There are supplies...just no progress.

Anybody every see this before? It doesn't really matter, considering how Japan is getting so destroyed...but still.

[Lowpe]

Best I can figure is that with realistic R&D OFF, if you turn off repairs it will stop R&D. I was under the impression that there nothing the player could do to stop r&d, and I globally shut down repairs to conserve supplies.

Well, I guess I did conserve supplies.![;)]

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Best I can figure is that with realistic R&D OFF, if you turn off repairs it will stop R&D. I was under the impression that there nothing the player could do to stop r&d, and I globally shut down repairs to conserve supplies.

Well, I guess I did conserve supplies.![;)]

You don't get R&D from a partially disabled factory.

Alfred