Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat)

[John B.]

P.S. I saved the turn at the start of me entering my moves so I'm pretty sure I set the units to Deliberate later on. If not, well, it won't be the first orders lost.

[John B.]

Not really much to report over the past two turns. My attack in China did not go well at all. Despite having 4x as many divisions with good leaders and no disruption I lost about 150 squades/devices and Scott lost about 25. Looks like the days of attacking allies is drawing to a close.

In any event, here is the latest. Just a couple of planes shot down over Manila. I'm still airlifting out the engineer units.

[John B.]

Another turn of not much going on. Scott terror bombed Kagoashima which brings to mind an interesting question. What industry does he get points for destroying? Everything? Or just light & heavy industry plus arms, vehicles and aircraft/engine factories. In other words, does Scott get points for blowing up resources and shipyards?

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ORIGINAL: John B.

Another turn of not much going on. Scott terror bombed Kagoashima which brings to mind an interesting question. What industry does he get points for destroying? Everything? Or just light & heavy industry plus arms, vehicles and aircraft/engine factories. In other words, does Scott get points for blowing up resources and shipyards?

Every industry, including resources and shipyards.

[John B.]

Oh ok! Thanks.

[John B.]

We are at the end of October and it was a bloody turn for the allies. Scott fell into a bit of a flak trap in China and there was a massive two day assault on Manila. More details to follow.

[John B.]

Scott did the multiple BB TF bombardment on Manila last turn and launched an assault. We each lost about 120 squads devices and he got a 1-1 plus reduced the fort to level 6. I guess his local commanders said give it a go and they went over the top again today and got punched in the mouth! Heavy losses plus dead engineers and that always is a good thing (I hope its combat engineers). And, no reduction in the fort value!

I've stepped up flying troops out as I can guess that Scott divisions are in bad shape right now and it will be awhile until he can get back to assault readiness. I've flown out most of the air support squads and construction engineers. I've started to fly out one of the five divisions. It's the one that is most disrupted so I might as well get it to china where it will be more useful than winding up in a POW camp near Manila.

I've also flown out parts of the two HQ that are there and the one remaining AT unit.

[John B.]

The flak trap was over near Kenshein (the western circle). Scott has had an airborne division there for several weeks. I tried to move my tanks in and they got hammered from the air with the lack of cover and the fact that they had to sit a turn in the open before they could attack. So, this time I moved several AA units out of Kukong and the tanks are going to assault him across the river. Scott lost a large number of land based carrier planes and even a few of his heavies. My divisions took little in the way of actual losses, but they are badly disrupted. There are three tank divisions going after an airborne division and a tank unit so we'll see what happens.

On the other flank, Scott invaded Wenchow this turn. It looks like its the forces from Okinowa that have done this which leads me to believe that Scott is not going to invade the HI. I have a mid-quality division and a brigade in Wenchow plus a collborationist brigade. Level 3 forts and I think it's wooded rough terrain so my hope is that I can hold him for at least a few turns. One good thing about the pending Kenshien attack is that it is diverting airpower from hitting Wenchow. The strategic airforce hit the armor divisions and he'll have to keep that up if he wants to save his airborne. That should buy time for Wehchow and reinforcements to move along.

[John B.]

In Burma in the south, Scott attacked with two Indian and an Australian division against a very weak Japanese division that managed to hold and inflict about 70 casualties for only 10 of its own. Every VP helps. I have a full strength division right behind them which is building its fort level so I'm not too worried about a break through.

In the North Scott took Chang Mai in an airdrop and appears to have lifted his troops out of there. That is exactly what I plan to do. If I can recapture the base, I have transports ready to fly the lads into Hanoi.

[John B.]

In my continuing quest to actually get Kamikazes to work, I planned another blow from Manila. But, I was not paying attention and the airfield was still badly damaged from the BB bombardments. Expect lots of cursing from me next turn! [:@] But, at least Manila still has 26K supply. Still enough for 18 turns or so before the supply level starts to eat into unit stockpiles.

[John B.]

Well, I did not lose any Kamikazes this time, but only because they did not fly. [8|] But, at least they were able to run away from Manila. Scott launched a shock attack at Wenchow and my boys held but at the cost of a dear departed collborationist errr freedom fighting Chinese division that was wiped out. Still fort level stayed at three and my troops like their holding their own for now which gives me more time to prepare a second line of defense.

And, it's the start of a new month!

[John B.]

Looks like since October 1 I've picked up 3,083 VP and Scott's score is up 4,757. Not the 2-1 ratio he's going to need so a good month for the Empire of Japan. Digging a bit deeper, I inflicted 1,162 army loss points to the 994 Scott caused on me. In the air, I shot down 1,632 points and Scott downed 409. God Bless the flak boys. Finally, in bases, Scott added 2591 and I went down by 5. Clearly all those allied engineers are expanding the American web of global domination. Scott also added 472 strat bombing points. There were no significant naval losses so I was too lazy to add those up.

A lot of Scott's losses have come from Manila. At some point soon that gift will stop giving and there will be a big surge in points for Scott but, it's held him up for four months now and more than paid for itself in terms of dead allies and shot down planes!

[John B.]

Resource usage shows a whopping decline of almost 800K in supply. That is clearly not sustainable and reflects a massive building effort for the Japanese air force as well as map wide entrenching. Fuel is only down a bit more than 100K and HI and oil are hanging in there and not flashing red yet. It's the supply useage that is most worrying!

[John B.]

Next up you can see the expansion of the Japanese aerial program. Cranking out the Ha-45s since I need those for Franks and Georges.

[John B.]

What ship lays the type 3 mine. They are building up in the warehouses and might as well be plunked in the water.

[John B.]

Loss leaders in the airforce. Zero and Frank still hold pride of place but lots and lots of C-47s have been kicked to the curb.

[John B.]

Just because I was curious, the B-25D is the plane most shot down by flak. The high numbers for it and the PV-Venturas are almost all due to the flak over Manila. And, you can't shoot down a Betty you're just not trying.

[John B.]

Current production screen. I don't know what a lot of this means, but here you go.

[John B.]

The experience levels of my replacement pilot pools. The IJN is not doing too bad at all. This most likely reflects both a lack of fighting on the part of many of their squadrons and the fact that they have a whole lot of pilots in Tracom (more on that in a minute).

[John B.]

155 Navy and 64 army pilots are in TRACOM right now. My plan is the hoard these puppies until I get the really good planes and then hit Scott with a double whammy. I'm about to get the Jack 5, Frank B and George 2 so I may start forming some elite squadrons out of those as well as a Zero 5c (since it has armor my pilots may not die as fast).