At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Cap Mandrake]

SE Asia: RTA regiment at Udon gets murdered again by B-24's and B-25's and Wellingtons.

We capture Kratie which is just NE of Bien Hoa

Supply is now flowing overland all the way to the Vietnamese coast. The entire 26th Indian Brig (minus some trucks) has been flown in to Vinh.

Ground combat at Kratie (61,69)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 26 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

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

Allied adjusted assault: 3

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Kratie !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), leaders(-)

Assaulting units:
77th LRP Bde /5

[Cap Mandrake]

China: No overland supply reaching Chungking yet but it is clearly reaching Kunming and the forward units approaching Chungking and Kweiyang from the West.

Good ambush at Wuchow

Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-32 Mary x 3
Ki-51 Sonia x 20

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-32 Mary: 2 destroyed
Ki-51 Sonia: 3 destroyed, 1 damaged

No Allied losses

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


and

Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-32 Mary x 9

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-32 Mary: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged

No Allied losses

[Cap Mandrake]

Japs see the transport buildup at Chungking and go after them.

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-IIa Lily x 13

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
C-47 Skytrain: 1 damaged
C-47 Skytrain: 1 destroyed on ground

Runway hits 2

[Cap Mandrake]

PI: Still drawing down fighters on Luzon. As they are are repaired they go to Mindanao.

Japs attack at Iba. The local boys hold. The PA leader pool is getting deeper. Here we have better leaders than the IJA

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 5 (fort level 2)

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

Japanese ground losses:
281 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 43 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

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

Assaulting units:
302nd Ind.Infantry Battalion
301st Ind.Infantry Battalion
303rd Ind.Infantry Battalion

Defending units:
11th PA Infantry Division

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

**************January 11, 1943(e)***********

You know, I wasted 45 minutes trying to figure out the Soviet forces only to discover they weren't activated. i could have been cleaning up the laundry room.

Sundas/Flores/New Guinea and stuff like that:

A single PT boat causes the greatest one day loss of soy bean curd in world history.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Bima at 63,110, Range 5,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
PB Fuji Maru #4
xAK Tofuku Maru, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

Allied Ships
PT-173

Allied interrogator: What is the name of your ship?
Sunken sailor: Tofuku you!

[Cap Mandrake]

Allied Interrogator: OK, funny man. What was the name of the minesweepr escorting your vessel?

Ensign Hata: Hai! Ass-a-ho Maru

Allied Interrogator: OK, GET HIM OUT OF HERE! GIVE HIM SOME OF THAT SHIT WE FISHED OUT OF THE WATER! WE'LL SEE HOW YOU LIKEE DINNER, HOP SING! <prisoner taken out roughry>

Clerk/Typist: Sir, isn't that Chinese sir?

Allied Interrogator: What's that?

Clerk/Typist: "Likee Dinner". It think that's Chinese sir.

Allied Interrogator: Just f****** type it, son.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

SE Asia: RTA regiment at Udon gets murdered again by B-24's and B-25's and Wellingtons.

Bad joss! What-ah happen at Ramen? Chickenboy-san say maybe Japansmens there feer rike they have been boired and strained too!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Allied Interrogator: OK, funny man. What was the name of the minesweepr escorting your vessel?

Ensign Hata: Hai! Ass-a-ho Maru

Allied Interrogator: OK, GET HIM OUT OF HERE! GIVE HIM SOME OF THAT SHIT WE FISHED OUT OF THE WATER! WE'LL SEE HOW YOU LIKEE DINNER, HOP SING! <prisoner taken out roughry>

Clerk/Typist: Sir, isn't that Chinese sir?

Allied Interrogator: What's that?

Clerk/Typist: "Likee Dinner". It think that's Chinese sir.

Allied Interrogator: Just f****** type it, son.

[Twenty five minutes later, after the typed interrogation report is handed to regimental intelligence]

Clerk/Typist: No sir! I swear it! This was what the prisoner said!

Major Ben Dover, Allied Regimental Intelligence Officer: Oh, I get it. I've heard this potty talk before. Well, I'll have no more of it! You may consider yourself on latrine duty for the balance of the month, clerk.

[Guards are summoned and drag the clerk bodily to the latrine. There, he is roughly deposited at the feet of the enlisted man in charge of latrine sanitation]

Clerk/Typist: My God! This place is a mess! Who flung dung?

Hu Flung Dung, latrine sanitation enlisted man: GUARDS!

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

SE Asia: RTA regiment at Udon gets murdered again by B-24's and B-25's and Wellingtons.

Bad joss! What-ah happen at Ramen? Chickenboy-san say maybe Japansmens there feer rike they have been boired and strained too!

And seasoned with MSG.

[Cap Mandrake]

*****************January 12, 1943(e)*********

Sundas, New Guinea: Fighters at Dobo and Taberfane cover Kai-elanden.

Morning Air attack on Kai-eilanden , at 81,115

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 25,070 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 32

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk III x 2
P-38G Lightning x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 4
P-40K Warhawk x 3
F4F-3A Wildcat x 3
F4F-4 Wildcat x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk III: 1 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed
F4F-3A Wildcat: 1 destroyed

[Cap Mandrake]

JJ sends their Nettys over Kai and the Zekes are out of range. This is good for the good guys. The Zekes are flying separately from Ternate

Morning Air attack on Kai-eilanden , at 81,115

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 37
G4M1 Betty x 35

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 3
P-40E Warhawk x 4
F4F-3A Wildcat x 1
F4F-4 Wildcat x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 6 destroyed, 2 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 17


and

Morning Air attack on Kai-eilanden , at 81,115

Weather in hex: Severe storms

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

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 19

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 1
F4F-3A Wildcat x 1
F4F-4 Wildcat x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 4 destroyed, 2 damaged

No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 4

[Cap Mandrake]

Sweep over Babo.

Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 26,810 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 22

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 1
F4F-4 Wildcat x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 22810 feet

[Cap Mandrake]

Rhodesian Brig finally reaches Lae.

Ground combat at Lae (99,126)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 402 troops, 42 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 32

Defending force 1755 troops, 9 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 32

Assaulting units:
27th Rhodesian Bde /5

Defending units:
II/81st Naval Guard Unit
85th JAAF AF Bn

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

*****************January 12, 1943(e)*********

Sundas, New Guinea: Fighters at Dobo and Taberfane cover Kai-elanden.

I thought this said, "Tamerlane's Dodo fighters cover Thailand." Too many diet cokes [X(]

[Cap Mandrake]

Siamese Road. It's quite touchy because too much activity at any node along the way (Rahaeng, Nakhon, Udon Thani) and the flow slows.

Kratie, further down the road to Saigon has also been seized.

[Cap Mandrake]

In order to act as a supply hub, a base must posses > 3x the calculated need of the base (after supplying any units at the base).

Right now, for eg., Rahaeng is at 627/137 so that leaves only about 200 lousy points to send downstream this turn (minus whatever units moving on Bangkok consume. Of course, some supply from Moulmein will also move part of the way). Magically, Vinh is up about 1000 units of supply in the last 4 days.

[Cap Mandrake]

..

[Cap Mandrake]

New Guinea

[MakeeLearn]

Cahrles de Gaulle Brigade

[Cap Mandrake]

"Load ze baguette!"


75 mm APDB (75 mm Armor Piercing Discarding Baguette)