RADM Yamaguchi's Diary (Pls no affins or cheesesteak)

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 17, 41
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Submarine attack near Lubang at 78,78

Japanese Ships
xAK Nichibi Maru, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS S-38

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
a us sub with at least 1 good torpedo
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Amphibious Assault at Madjene (65,103)

TF 148 troops unloading over beach at Madjene, 65,103

Japanese ground losses:
62 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
I bet not too many players here have landed at the completely wrong base before! I thought i was landing at Makassar????
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Marcus Island at 121,79, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Oite
DD Hayate
DD Asanagi
DD Yunagi

Allied Ships
DD Pillsbury, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
I almost didn't hunt this one down. my opponents were hoping to base their AAR around it's story.
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Sub attack near Port Moresby at 96,133

Japanese Ships
SS RO-61

Allied Ships
xAKL Pulganbar, Shell hits 9, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
i'm not sure but i think they may have gotten some reinforcements to port moresby before i could invade
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Ground combat at Hong Kong (77,61)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 36782 troops, 486 guns, 260 vehicles, Assault Value = 1127

Defending force 5854 troops, 128 guns, 79 vehicles, Assault Value = 149

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 1216

Allied adjusted defense: 265

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Hong Kong !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Walrus II: 6 destroyed

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

Japanese ground losses:
1142 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 49 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled

Allied ground losses:
4149 casualties reported
Squads: 206 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 504 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 27 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 158 (158 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 109 (109 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 6
That's cool. i would usually move the 38th div to clark field and bataan but i may deploy in china this time. They are moving to cut HK off from Canton but i don't think it will work for long.
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Ground combat at Johore Bahru (50,83)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 18734 troops, 301 guns, 153 vehicles, Assault Value = 935

Defending force 2412 troops, 29 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 100

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 420

Allied adjusted defense: 47

Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Johore Bahru !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
113 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled

Allied ground losses:
917 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 56 disabled
Non Combat: 30 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 15 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 22 (11 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
I've got 2 full divisions and a lot of artillery and engineers but i think i'll have to wait a number of turns for a 3rd division. Anybody make the crossing to singapore with only 2 divisions?
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Ground combat at Butuan (80,89)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 667 troops, 0 guns, 100 vehicles, Assault Value = 56

Defending force 2284 troops, 24 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 52

Japanese adjusted assault: 92

Allied adjusted defense: 7

Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Butuan !!!

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

Allied ground losses:
1153 casualties reported
Squads: 54 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 24 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 9 (4 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5
Still cleaning up Mindinao, these allied units are getting beat up a bit but no surrenders yet.
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Ground combat at Victoria Point (51,66)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 517 troops, 0 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 55

Defending force 151 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 40

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 40 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Victoria Point !!!

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

Allied ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Thinking of moving the 22nd Air HQ and it's betties and nells here to watch over bay of bengal and any attempts to reinforce Port Blair before i can get there. Other ideas?
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Ground combat at Kendari (70,106)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 6804 troops, 59 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 161

Defending force 818 troops, 10 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 21

Japanese adjusted assault: 238

Allied adjusted defense: 7

Japanese assault odds: 34 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kendari !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
401 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
23rd Air HQ and betties and nells to go here
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Ground combat at Praboemoelih (48,92)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 675 troops, 0 guns, 101 vehicles, Assault Value = 56

Defending force 2235 troops, 17 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 61

Japanese adjusted assault: 80

Allied adjusted defense: 6

Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Praboemoelih !!!

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

Allied ground losses:
2667 casualties reported
Squads: 98 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 175 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 15 (14 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Units destroyed 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
6th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
Zuid KNIL Battalion
So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion
Palembang Base Force
did they get a really bad dice roll or is this unit that good?
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Japanese forces CAPTURE Madang !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tulagi !!!
consolidating in New Guinea area.

[RangerJoe]

How about landing in the wrong country! That is what Lowpe did with supplies against Obvert - he landed supplies in the USSR. Stalin objected to the rotten sushi.

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[RADM.Yamaguchi]

RangerJoe you are awesome. I read your comments all over other threads. thanks for the help.

[tarkalak]

ORIGINAL: Gridley380

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I think that only the paratroopers would shock attack unless the other units were ordered to shock attack. If their orders were to deliberate attack, then that is what they would do.

The combat reports I've seen just show "shock attack."

It seems units that just moved into the hex (and thus did not have combat orders) will attack when the paras do. If that isn't what is happening then I've beaten a good IJA division with an understrength para brigade at least once...
It is certainly possible that if a unit is already in the hex (with combat orders) it will execute those instead of shock attacking.

If any of the units has Shock attack, the report will show Shock attack, even though individual units will do whatever they are ordered to.

Paradrop, amphibious landing at a an atol and river crossing (if the hex you attack doesn't have 3 times the assault value of the units that cross) will trigger Shock attack for the units that do that. Did your division cross a river to enter Palembrang (sp?)?

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

If any of the units has Shock attack, the report will show Shock attack, even though individual units will do whatever they are ordered to.

That's good to know. Thanks

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 18, 41
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Cebu at 80,85

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 7 NM, estimated altitude 1,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 13

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAKL Luzon, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk
Still a few targets around
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Soerabaja at 56,104

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
D3A1 Val x 13

Allied aircraft
75A-7 Hawk x 1

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
CM Gouden Leeuw
AM Jan van Amstel, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
mini kb didn't find the australian cruisers so they swung by soerbaja to see what they could find
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Afternoon Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 36
B5N1 Kate x 33
B5N2 Kate x 30
D3A1 Val x 20

Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 7
75A-7 Hawk x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
CW-21B Demon: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CM Gouden Leeuw, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
xAP Speelman, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Rochussen, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
AMc Tjerimai, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
PG Soerabaja, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AMc Aroe, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
nothing big
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1229 troops, 84 guns, 91 vehicles, Assault Value = 2530

Defending force 27623 troops, 307 guns, 589 vehicles, Assault Value = 588

Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
clark might be ready soon

[Bif1961]

It all depends what he has in Singapore and what level you believe his forts to be. If you have it cut off and no more of his troops can enter it and you are bombing it daily to keep forts construction suppressed you can wait until you have the 3rd Division to make the crossing. One no no is to have a lot of Rgts try to cross instead of building them back into their parent Divisions since Division are much stronger than there 3 separate Rgts crossing at the same time.

[jdsrae]

Clark AV ratio looks good for a deliberate attack, but that is complex terrain so if there are already forts there the firepower of any US tanks and artillery there can sting you. I’d try a DA and keep the airfield bombed.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 19, 41
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TF 109 encounters mine field at Hong Kong (77,61)

118 mines cleared
119 mines cleared
17 mines cleared
52 mines cleared
37 mines cleared
I had 2 MSW TF cleared them all
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Morning Air attack on Kota Bharu , at 51,75

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 8

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
PB Awa Maru, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
PB Heiyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
I was too busy with JAVA and Rabaul and forgot about Kota Bahru CAP
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Batavia at 49,98

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 42
B5N2 Kate x 13
D3A1 Val x 13

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IF x 1
B-339D x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IF: 1 destroyed
B-339D: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
xAP Poelau Bras, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAP Glenapp
xAP Kota Tjandi, Bomb hits 2, on fire
xAK Whangpu, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Kajang, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
Pretty cool to find so many ships still at Batavia and Soerbaja. My opponents may not realize that i have 3 Naval HQs at Pontianak(L3) so i can reload almost everything with having to go back to Saigon or Cam Rahn Bay
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Ground combat at 50,82 (near Johore Bahru)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 4314 troops, 26 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 185

Defending force 6596 troops, 65 guns, 40 vehicles, Assault Value = 288

Japanese adjusted assault: 206

Allied adjusted defense: 165

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
780 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 62 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
194 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled

Assaulting units:
1st Tank Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
11th Indian Division
They are trying to get more troops to Singapore? I shocked because i thought my troops were pretty good and he would be fatigued but not so good.
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Ground combat at 81,76 (near Cabanatuan)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 960 troops, 0 guns, 143 vehicles, Assault Value = 77

Defending force 1829 troops, 31 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 62

Japanese adjusted assault: 30

Allied adjusted defense: 16

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Allied ground losses:
220 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Assaulting units:
8th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
41st PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
PAF Aviation
I keep running my tank units all around Luzon and Mindinao shocking the phil troops wherever i can
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Ground combat at Luchow (88,51)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 14971 troops, 128 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 511

Defending force 4553 troops, 43 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 170

Japanese adjusted assault: 686

Allied adjusted defense: 10

Japanese assault odds: 68 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), leaders(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
418 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 21 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2113 casualties reported
Squads: 36 destroyed, 108 disabled
Non Combat: 63 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 23 (7 destroyed, 16 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Still consolidating china where i can
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Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 78694 troops, 795 guns, 296 vehicles, Assault Value = 2570

Defending force 27647 troops, 307 guns, 588 vehicles, Assault Value = 587

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 1046

Allied adjusted defense: 1774

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

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

Japanese ground losses:
4170 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 138 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 32 disabled
Guns lost 29 (3 destroyed, 26 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
883 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 72 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 38 disabled
Engineers: 33 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 23 (6 destroyed, 17 disabled)

Assaulting units:
2nd Division
16th Division
48th Division
33rd Division
4th Division
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Division
1st Ind. Engineer Regiment
14th Army
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
25th Ind. Engineer Regiment
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
14th PS Engineer Regiment
1st PA Constabulary Regiment
3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion
21st PA Infantry Division
194th Tank Battalion
31st PA Infantry Division
31st Infantry Regiment
57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
2nd PA Constabulary Regiment
Clark Field USAAF Base Force
Manila USAAF Base Force
1st PI Base Force
Cavite USN Base Force
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
USAFFE
Asiatic Fleet
South Luzon Force
Far East USAAF
North Luzon Force
1st USMC AA Battalion
Subic Bay Defenses
jdsrae, i tried the DA. What do you think? I have 2 Engineer co, and 2 hvy Art Bn 1 hex away, and 4 other hvy art Bn 2 hexes away all moving towards clark
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Ground combat at Makassar (65,106)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 7546 troops, 93 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 302

Defending force 1436 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 53

Japanese adjusted assault: 278

Allied adjusted defense: 4

Japanese assault odds: 69 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Makassar !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
50 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1173 casualties reported
Squads: 46 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 23 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (5 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Makassar is nice for getting ready for java
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Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 425 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 30

Defending force 1725 troops, 46 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 30

Japanese adjusted assault: 13

Allied adjusted defense: 34

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)

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

Japanese ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

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

Assaulting units:
Yokosuka 1st SNLF /1

Defending units:
VII KNIL Battalion
Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
Tarakan Base Force
i dropped paras into tarakan, i have another para to drop and i can always bring troops from makassar

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 20, 41
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Submarine attack near Singkawang at 54,87

Japanese Ships
xAK Kashiwara Maru, Torpedo hits 1

Allied Ships
SS O20

Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
rutro. Dutch sub again.
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Batavia at 49,98

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
G3M2 Nell x 16

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAP Van Cloon, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
xAP Glenapp
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Afternoon Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 45
B5N1 Kate x 31
B5N2 Kate x 29
D3A1 Val x 20

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
xAKL Siaoe, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Boero, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Mijer, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AMc Digoel, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AG Deneb, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Toendjoek, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
AMc Endeh, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk

Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
No TFs around so we went after the port
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Ground combat at 81,76 (near Cabanatuan)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 960 troops, 0 guns, 143 vehicles, Assault Value = 74

Defending force 1594 troops, 24 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43

Japanese adjusted assault: 132

Allied adjusted defense: 13

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1

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

Allied ground losses:
567 casualties reported
Squads: 51 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 46 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (3 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
8th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
41st PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
PAF Aviation
These guys never seem to tire out
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Ground combat at Kweiteh (90,46)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 11606 troops, 102 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 411

Defending force 2475 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 96

Japanese adjusted assault: 349

Allied adjusted defense: 5

Japanese assault odds: 69 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kweiteh !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1386 casualties reported
Squads: 83 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 46 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
32nd Division

Defending units:
51st Chinese Corps
69th Chinese Corps
China consolidation continues
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Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 419 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 48

Defending force 1709 troops, 46 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 29

Japanese adjusted assault: 18

Allied adjusted defense: 34

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)

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

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

Allied ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
Yokosuka 1st SNLF /1
1st Raiding Rgt /1

Defending units:
VII KNIL Battalion
Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion
Tarakan Base Force
1st raiding rgt lands to give aid to the Yokosuka 1st. I think i'll be okay here without help?????

[RangerJoe]

Don't forget to bomb the ground units at Tarakan to increase disruption and take the base next door so the enemy will retreat into the jungle.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

Ranger joe i did forget. Thank you.

is there a way you could look over my turn before i send it to my opponents?[:)]

[RangerJoe]

I could look over your turn but I won't. I am not that good as Japan yet.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I could look over your turn but I won't. I am not that good as Japan yet.

well if you keep giving me great ideas in your comments here i will do my best to share anything i know about playing Japan.

[RangerJoe]

I was just starting a scenario 2 as Japan but I want to see if I can take Moskva. I think that I can cut the railroad with just paratroopers while capturing the IL-2 factory. I want to do this in 1942 . . .

[jdsrae]

On Clark, that’s probably US tanks and artillery firepower doing the damage. You need to wear them down.
Let your infantry and tanks defend for a few days to reduce fatigue then try another DA. Rinse and repeat.
With Manila in your hands try to keep Clark and Bataan airfields closed and also a bit of ground bombing troops to keep their disruption up, if you can spare the bombers.
Looks like you have six Divs there, that should do the job after a few DAs. If one of your Divs gets a bit beaten up just change it to Reserve so it doesn’t keep attacking and taking higher losses.
I don’t know exactly how it works but if your troops there don’t have their own field forts yet that can result in higher losses for you.
I had a Heavy Arty Bn almost destroyed outright when I let them bombard the day after they arrived with no forts.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I a just starting a scenario 2 as Japan but I want to see if I can take Moskva. I think that I can cut the railroad with just paratroopers while capturing the IL-2 factory. I want to do this in 1942 . . .

Could you please let me know what you do for a/c research. most of the ideas i had here were not very popular. are you sure you're playing the right game?

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

ORIGINAL: jdsrae
I had a Heavy Arty Bn almost destroyed outright when I let them bombard the day after they arrived with no forts.

that's crazy. I didn't realize something like that could happen. I have been bombing airfields clark, bataan, singapore daily since the begining to stop fort building. I recently switched to ground attack to disrupt units. I just didn't post about it because i don't consider it significantly interesting.

[RangerJoe]

quote:

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I was just starting a scenario 2 as Japan but I want to see if I can take Moskva. I think that I can cut the railroad with just paratroopers while capturing the IL-2 factory. I want to do this in 1942 . . .


Could you please let me know what you do for a/c research. most of the ideas i had here were not very popular. are you sure you're playing the right game?

I put all of the aircraft into a spreadsheet, the aircraft through the upgrades and tie the engines to them. I look through and see what I think that best aircraft is from the various groups and then decide which ones to research. I then can concentrate on the engines and research the ones that I will need. One of engines for aircraft that are less than optimal I will not research. So no early Judys nor Tonys for me. I will research them but then move right along to the ones that I want. You want early war, mid war, late war, and dream aircraft.

As an example, the fastest way to get to the A6M5 is not through the A6M2 but rather through the float A6M2-N Rufe. But the Rex does not lead to the George although the Rex came first and the George was the land based version. You may want both the Jill and the Grace since they can complement each other and I believe that the Jill ends up with Radar which might help with night attacks, if you want to try those.

Research also depends upon the type of game that you want to play and, as Imperial Japan, late war land bombers may not be worth trying to get early other than the Army's Peggy T. Updating carrier aircraft to the best possible is advisable to help when you decide to use the KB in an attempt to slow the Allied Juggernaut.

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I was just starting a scenario 2 as Japan but I want to see if I can take Moskva. I think that I can cut the railroad with just paratroopers while capturing the IL-2 factory. I want to do this in 1942 . . .


Could you please let me know what you do for a/c research. most of the ideas i had here were not very popular. are you sure you're playing the right game?

You want early war, mid war, late war, and dream aircraft.

i was wondering if i could have some factories researching the rufe, when fully repaired, let one build rufes let the rest research 5c and when their done have 3 or 4 produce but switch a couple over to the jack and research that. I have some researching the jack right from the start but why can't i switch a couple extra rufes to jacks later on. Is the HI and supply hit that great?