Hell Hath Frozen Over (Scout1 (J) vs Lowpe (A)

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Crossed orders, a 1/3rd of a Chinese Corp forces the river at Ichang, while the rest of the Chinese units watch. But the river crossing is now open...


Ground combat at Ichang (83,48)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 3816 troops, 23 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1520

Defending force 15201 troops, 116 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 549

Allied adjusted assault: 0

Japanese adjusted defense: 1805

Allied assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 3)

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

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

Allied ground losses:
1376 casualties reported
Squads: 63 destroyed, 50 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Classic SNAFU - happens to everyone who has a few hundred thousand clicks per turn ...[:(]

[Lowpe]

Vice Admiral Brown is no Halsey...he lost his nerve after running into the IJN's Wake Invasion fleet at night, and disobeyed orders -- instead he decided to turn tail to Pearl as Guam fell the previous day.

(Have to be more careful with 2 day turns![X(])

[Lowpe]

Pilot training

2 Days does not an assumption make when it is as complicated as pilot training. I would like to say that Nimitz is the only thing that changed, but runway service improved, weather changed, fatigue, etc, etc.

Still, it is a marked improvement.

[Lowpe]

Butchers Bill

[Encircled]

Good shooting there by everyone

That is one of the early allied turns where you know that its going to put doubt in the mind of the Japanese commander.

No CAP on any of the attacked convoys in the Philippines?

[jdsrae]

Congrats on sinking the Fukko Maru!

Sometimes it seems to take air units a few days of being set to train before they find the training manuals, dust them off and setup the classrooms and “simulators”.

[RangerJoe]

It looks like someone grabbed a tiger by the tail . . .

Cruisers and maybe even a CS? [&o]

Since you apparently spotted her you should check out the stats on some of those AMCs. [:D]

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Since you apparently spotted her you should check out the stats on some of those AMCs. [:D]

I wondered who else would spot that.

Here is Houston, able to survive a flank speed 2 day run after taking two torpedoes.

[Lowpe]

Unless Japan starts moving very fast, the focus of the Japanese amphibious phase is going to be on Sumatra and Malaya.

Stole half of Java's supply (over 50K) and it is shipping to Sumatra and Singers. 10K has already arrived.

Sparrow Btln is four days away from Sumatra...There are a lot of troops and supplies from all over the western map headed here.

Dutch PT boats are at Batavia, and will be able to easily make Palembang. Palembang is mined, might be a mistake to mine it so early. Dutch sub minelayers are at sea with mines awaiting opportunities.

[RangerJoe]

I never had luck with mines at Palembang. Maybe because it is a river hex.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: jdsrae

Sometimes it seems to take air units a few days of being set to train before they find the training manuals, dust them off and setup the classrooms and “simulators”.

When a squadron initially starts training, all the pilots have 0 points accumulated...and they need to earn points to advance in skill or experience -- so there is a lag before you see results.

Generally speaking you can train to 60 skill very quickly, about 30 days. Going from 60 to 70 takes generally 2 more months.

Of great interest is Draper A. A five point jump!

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I never had luck with mines at Palembang. Maybe because it is a river hex.

Correct. I was trying to find some CD guns to get there...

[Lowpe]

This is what 3 undamaged AS's can do to a submarine in 2 days at a level 1 port with no naval support squads.

[Q-Ball]

Nice work, though I would never attempt a Wake Invasion at this point as Japan.....USN CVs are too close. That's one thing you lose by not doing a PH strike, Wake is easy to cover after PH because KB can just show up and scare everyone off on the way back to Truk

[DesertWolf101]

I'm confused why Scout is including AOs and TKs in or near the invasion convoys.

[Lowpe]

The KB...

Have to put the brakes on the Wake Relief...at least they are thru the sub gauntlet around Pearl.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

Nice work, though I would never attempt a Wake Invasion at this point as Japan.....USN CVs are too close. That's one thing you lose by not doing a PH strike, Wake is easy to cover after PH because KB can just show up and scare everyone off on the way back to Truk

+1

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: DesertWolf101

I'm confused why Scout is including AOs and TKs in or near the invasion convoys.

One day might be a scouting error, but now this. I didn't even know you could put oilers into a Air Combat TF...I was going to check the manual.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
Do you intend to stay and finish cripples/fleeing ships?

Heck no. In fact they are in kind of a bad way right now. They have 10/10 dl on them.

Playing the Allies here early, is a lot like playing Japan late. And sticking around unless you have complete dominance is almost always a ticket to disaster.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: apbarog

Your aggressive actions will set the tone for the rest of the war. Your opponent will be more cautious, moving slower and committing more cover for his future moves. That's as big a success as the ships that your sinking and the ground troops that you are destroying. Nice work.

Whether the attacks were successful or not, that is definitely a goal...buying time.

Still, these are but pinpricks, just smoke and mirror meant to divert attention...the real damage to Japan currently is primarily logistical gaining time at Singers, Palembang, China.

And should Lady Lex or Big E fall victim to the KB...but there is a lot of sea room, and I know when to run. Although oilers are all out of position there exists other options, options that started moving into place on the 9th.