(RA) IJN refloated Soulsilver (J)vs Deaniks (A)

[soulsilver]

Gilberts July 13th 1942

[soulsilver]

July 14th

A much better day of sweeps today in India. The size 30 Tojo unit sweeped indore again and achieved spectacular results. final losses was 14:1.

Afternoon Air attack on Indore , at 43,22

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 29

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 8
P-39D Airacobra x 4
P-400 Airacobra x 4
P-40E Warhawk x 5

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 4 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-400 Airacobra: 2 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

In other news another attack on the encircled Chinese went in and did ok.

Ground combat at 77,50 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 86937 troops, 1079 guns, 930 vehicles, Assault Value = 2585

Defending force 23819 troops, 113 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 448

Japanese adjusted assault: 1715

Allied adjusted defense: 538

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1675 casualties reported
Squads: 24 destroyed, 71 disabled
Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 56 (20 destroyed, 36 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1921 casualties reported
Squads: 108 destroyed, 55 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)

[soulsilver]

July 17th

today opened with some sub ops that spotted a convoy heading to Sydney.

ASW attack near Newcastle at 94,166

Japanese Ships
SS I-1, hits 2

Allied Ships
DD Laffey
PC Onondaga
PC Perseus
AM Oriole
xAK Macedon
xAK Asphalion
DD Mameluck

Sweeps are uncontested today in India, so the bombers are also uncontested when they bomb one of Dean's airfields. Gonna halt the bombing tomorrow and keep sweeping. either Dean runs away or he puts his fighters on CAP.

Morning Air attack on Indore , at 43,22

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 4
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 31
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 40

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 2 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed on ground
P-400 Airacobra: 3 damaged
Hurricane IIb Trop: 4 damaged
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed on ground

In china Another attack on the encircled troops. They appear pretty close to breaking now.


Ground combat at 77,50 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 84949 troops, 1076 guns, 860 vehicles, Assault Value = 2487

Defending force 20866 troops, 111 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 282

Japanese adjusted assault: 1443

Allied adjusted defense: 76

Japanese assault odds: 18 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
690 casualties reported
Squads: 21 destroyed, 83 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 11 (1 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 16 (8 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1527 casualties reported
Squads: 88 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 11 (5 destroyed, 6 disabled)

[soulsilver]

July 20th

reinforcements: 14 knot STC A cargo ship

The day starts with a US sub putting a working fish into a 14 knot fast transporting PB resupplying forward bases in the Solomon Islands.

ASW attack near Green Island at 107,129

Japanese Ships
PB Marei Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PB Aso Maru #7

Allied Ships
SS Salmon

Offensive sweeps in India do well, with zeros coming in and trading evenly, but then the real hero's show up in the Tojo and smash whats left for no loss.

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Morning Air attack on Indore , at 43,22

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 26
P-39D Airacobra x 8
P-400 Airacobra x 5
P-40E Warhawk x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-400 Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on Indore , at 43,22

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 27

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 14
P-400 Airacobra x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 3 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Im getting ready to start sweeping Bombay soon as I have a level 2 air base within range. I just need to get a little more supply there. In China mass air attacks pummel the Chinese frontline with multiple air attacks resulting in around 500 casualties in total.

Morning Air attack on 73rd Chinese Corps, at 78,48 , near Chihkiang

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 36
G3M3 Nell x 20
G4M1 Betty x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 28

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged

Allied ground losses:
261 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

In India We bombard Bhopal to get a better idea of what's there. The troops appear to be moving west so I'm gonna attempt and attack supported by air attack.

Ground combat at Bhopal (45,24)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 55020 troops, 625 guns, 229 vehicles, Assault Value = 1688

Defending force 20590 troops, 189 guns, 201 vehicles, Assault Value = 541

Japanese ground losses:
38 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
4th Division
19th Ind Engineer Regiment
20th Ind Engineer Regiment
21st Division
14th Division
Imperial Guards Division
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
3rd Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
87th Mountain Regiment
9/1st Punjab Battalion
19th Indian Division
26th Indian Brigade
23rd Indian Brigade
88th Indian Brigade
1/3 West Coast Base Force
1st Madras Construction Battalion
6th Medium Regiment
Pathan Construction Battalion



I plan to give you guys an overview of my Pilot pools and current air production in a few turns.

[RangerJoe]

Did you attack that chemical plant at Bhopal? [:@]

[soulsilver]

July 22nd

two attacks have gone in on Bhopal over the intervening days. The first achieved 3:1 but failed to take the base.... [8|] The second only got a 2 to 1. I'm gonna move north and around the base with most of the divisions, to cut his line of retreat. Bad weather has grounded most air operations in China and India recently. Once the weather clears I'm gonna start sweeping Bombay with Tojos and A6M5s.

Ground combat at Bhopal (45,24)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 55511 troops, 625 guns, 241 vehicles, Assault Value = 1569

Defending force 13585 troops, 107 guns, 83 vehicles, Assault Value = 349

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 1296

Allied adjusted defense: 463

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1801 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 144 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 36 disabled
Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1188 casualties reported
Squads: 21 destroyed, 46 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 35 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 21 (9 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (3 destroyed, 9 disabled)

Defending units:
9/1st Punjab Battalion
26th Indian Brigade
23rd Indian Brigade
88th Indian Brigade
1st Madras Construction Battalion
6th Medium Regiment
1/3 West Coast Base Force
Pathan Construction Battalion


In the Philippines I've almost completely ignored Clark and Bataan. the 16th Division, 65th Brigade, and all engineer and arty assigned to 14th army were left to ensure the Americans couldn't escape. I'm planning to actually clean up This eye sore finally. Within a week I'll have enough PPs to buyout the 1st Division from Manchuria which will be moved to the Philiphines. The defenders are completely out of supply (I've been bombing their air fields since day one) and have been bombarding them for months. Here is a snapshot of what is in Clark, with more defenders assumed to be at Bataan. The 16th division is currently a tile behind the front resting in preparation for an assault.

Do you guys know if coastal guns still fire if they have 0 supply? Im thinking about sweeping the mines at Battan and bombarding the base, that is if the coastal guns wont be a problem.

Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1014 troops, 92 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 278

Defending force 20207 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 438

Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
3rd Ind Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
21st Ind Engineer Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
31st PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Infantry Division
51st PA Infantry Division
41st PA Infantry Division
1st Constabulary Regiment
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
24th PS FA Regiment
Cavite USN Base Force
Nichols Field AAF Base Force
I Corps
II/Prov'nl SPM Grp
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
2nd Constabulary Regiment

[soulsilver]

July 24th

I was gonna move around Bophal, but given closer inspection of the combat report I realized how close I was to 3 to 1 in the last attack, and the reduction of the fort level to 1. If the damned weather will relent, I'll be able to provide the air support that made the initial 3:1 possible, along with some rest. Bad weather has continued but I'm gonna try again tomorrow despite the weather reports.

Thankfully in China the weather has relented so my Bombing raids have gone in on Chinese troops defending the road north to Chungking. Once the encircled troops finally surrender all the heavy artillery and tanks will move up the road to start grinding, while lighter infantry units infiltrate's off road east and west of Chinese positions. Dean will be forced to either pull back or be cut off.

Japanese air attacks are split up over a few attacks with this being the largest one

Morning Air attack on 55th Chinese Corps, at 78,48 , near Chihkiang

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
G3M2 Nell x 33
G4M1 Betty x 80
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 11

No Japanese losses

Allied ground losses:
256 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 24 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

(about 3 corps and a HQ are in the tile with most of deans troops arrayed in a defense in depth leading up the road to Chungking)

In India 7 out of My 9 tank regiments in India seize Surat north of Bombay sealing southern India off from the north. Dean has around 30k troops at Bombay which can now only evacuate from the Sea.


Ground combat at Surat (39,20)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2670 troops, 0 guns, 519 vehicles, Assault Value = 294

Defending force 3414 troops, 6 guns, 69 vehicles, Assault Value = 64

Japanese adjusted assault: 158

Allied adjusted defense: 11

Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Surat !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 24 (2 destroyed, 22 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1509 casualties reported
Squads: 28 destroyed, 28 disabled
Non Combat: 70 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 37 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 68 (66 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
7th Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
5th Tank Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
10th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
44th Indian Brigade
16th Light Cavalry Regiment
24th Indian Engineer Battalion

[soulsilver]

July 25th

IJN Pilot Pools review, and training standards.

My IJN Fighter pilot pool is currently sitting at an uncomfortably low 57, with an additional 70 in the Tracom. I have around 350 fighter aircraft training IJN fighter pilots with an additional 60 or so float planes also training air skill. Ive been drawing down Tracom a bit to replace the 60 exp pilots that arrive with carrier air groups in this mod. My overall minimum quality standards for my fighters are 70 Air and 65 Defense, with 70/70 being the ideal goal. Some of my frontline land based air units have pilots in the low 60s due to the lower state of Exp most Japanese air wings begin at at the start of the game. for the first few months I lived hand to mouth in regards to IJN fighter pilots, so my standards were not always attainable. I try to send my 55-60 exp rookies to quiet sectors where they can gain exp flying CAP but that isn't always possible.

For bombers I have 88 in the pool and 4 in tracom with about an even split between dive bombers pilots and Torpedo Bomber pilots. All my air groups in Japan have been resized since around Jan of 42 so I don't have many more avenues for expansion of the training program without pulling back frontline units. Torpedo Bombers are trained to 70 in torpedo and 70 in Naval bombing, while Dive bombers are trained to 70 in Naval Bombing and 60 in both Ground bombing and Naval search. I try to get at least 65 Defense like any other pilot type.

In terms of Patrol pilots I have 64 pilots trained in Navs 70 and 65 ASW. Demands for new pilots are fairly low and Ive resized quiet a few Air groups up to 24 with around 250 float planes sitting in Nagasaki Training. I plan to keep 2 Cruiser float plane carriers around to ensure I have a back up cruiser so I can keep resizing air wings.

The IJN further have 14 transport pilots and 12 recon pilots. I only have 1 IJN recon unit of 6 planes serving in a training role, but I dont exactly need many pilots for the 2 other recon air wings the IJN possesses. No IJN transport units currently serve in a pure trainer role but most of the air groups are training pilots when not in active service.

[soulsilver]

IJA Pilot pools

The IJA has 71 Fighter pilots in the pool with 40 more in TRACOM. My standard for fighter pilots is 70 air and 70 defense with 65 defense being an acceptable minimum. I'm not too worried about my IJA pools especially with the Tojo coming online. The Tojo has been almost unbeatable with only 2 combat losses thus far so I don't expect heavy air loses for the IJA for a bit.

IJA bomber pool is currently at 137 and growing so no real concern here. Ive been training my bombers in ground bombing and ASW. Ive swapped a few training wings over to Ground bombing and Naval bombing in preparation for the Lily dive bomber. Most of my Bomber pilots in the pool have ASW training but not all of them.

I am swimming in Transport pilots with currently 100 in the pool. I train up to 70 trans exp and usually call it a day.

My recon pool is fine with 61 in the pool most of which are 70 recon skill

[soulsilver]

25th Combat Report

I didn't get around to actually talking about what actually happened on the 25th and there was a good deal to talk about so I'll try and fill you guys in.

Weather Permitted air strikes at Bopal today to support a ground attack.

Morning Air attack on 6th Medium Regiment, at 45,24 (Bhopal)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 56
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 39

No Japanese losses

Allied ground losses:
184 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

The deliberate attack, with some air support was able to take the base.

Ground combat at Bhopal (45,24)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 54637 troops, 624 guns, 241 vehicles, Assault Value = 1494

Defending force 12493 troops, 96 guns, 77 vehicles, Assault Value = 289

Japanese adjusted assault: 875

Allied adjusted defense: 135

Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Bhopal !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
514 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 36 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled

Allied ground losses:
4296 casualties reported
Squads: 114 destroyed, 37 disabled
Non Combat: 145 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 109 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 57 (50 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Vehicles lost 80 (80 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 7
Units destroyed 1

In china The encircled troops finally begin to surrender enmass, 1 more attack and the rest should surrender. After this the heavy artillery and tanks will head north along the road to Chungking, while lighter infantry units proceed off road towards the northern plains.

Ground combat at 77,50 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 84560 troops, 1078 guns, 934 vehicles, Assault Value = 2422

Defending force 14586 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14

Japanese adjusted assault: 1775

Allied adjusted defense: 16

Japanese assault odds: 110 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker:

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

Allied ground losses:
4563 casualties reported
Squads: 155 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 202 destroyed, 104 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 14 (14 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

[soulsilver]

july 26th

Extensive sweeps today of Bombay along with the surrender of the encircled Chinese troops.

In India sweeps achieve 3:1 air to air losses with 5 A6M5, and 5 Tojos being lost for 14 p-40e, 5 Fulmar, 10 hurricanes, and 1 P-38.
overall air losses were 18 to 34.

The Chinese are finally finished off West of Chihkiang

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 84750 troops, 1078 guns, 937 vehicles, Assault Value = 2437

Defending force 10449 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5

Japanese adjusted assault: 1868

Allied adjusted defense: 4

Japanese assault odds: 467 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker:

Allied ground losses:
12016 casualties reported
Squads: 293 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 944 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 20 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 22 (22 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

Assaulting units:
110th Division
9th Tank Regiment
12th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
15th Division
37th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
15th Tank Regiment
34th Division
104th Division
17th Division
11th Tank Regiment
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Mortar Battalion
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
4th Mortar Battalion
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
21st Mortar Battalion
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Mortar Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
94th Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps

[soulsilver]

August 2nd India

[soulsilver]

Major sweeps over Bombay have been trading well in terms of air frames over the past week with around 100 planes destroyed for around 20 Tojos and 10 Zeros. Carrier Division 4 was able to get in a strike on Bombay while Dean had stood down his cap and sunk 3 subs in harbour along with a few support ships.

My main carrier force is at Truk with the two Shokaku class carriers, 1 Shokaku kai, and Hiryu and Soryu. Akagi and Kaga are still undergoing upgrades at Singapore but will join the other carriers at Truk when they are done.

Im currently in the proccess of moving engineer units from frontline bases in the solomon islands where they are no longer needed to rear area bases such as Saipan, Truk and Pelileu. Im using Cruiser TFs to extract the more exposed bases such as Russel Island, but the rest will be moved using normal transport ships. Most of the bases in the Solomon islands area have level 4-5 forts which is probably more than sufficent. Im not gonna try and build up these forward bases anymore than I already have. I hope to get Truk and Ponape to level 9 fort as well as the Marianas.

[soulsilver]

August 3rd

Not much action today, Sweeps were uncontested over Bombay. I would like to punish dean for this, but slowing down retreating allied troops with ground strike is taking priority. I forgot to mention that the Helen began Production this month and im looking forward to swapping out a bunch of my squadrons flying K-21 IC over to Helen. The Helen will eventually replace the Sally in all frontline units.

In the Philippines I'm getting ready to finally assault Clark field and Bataan. 1st division and the Karafuto Brigade are in the process of moving to lingayen and should be there within 3-4 days. The clean up crew will also include the 16th Division and 65 brigade which have kept the Americans bottled up in Bataan and Clark since December of 41.

Over in the Arabian sea I have an amphibious operation in motion to take Socotra and Masirah to seal off an approach to Karachi. Two Elite regiments, supported by naval artillery and carrier Division 4 should be able to take both bases, as only a base force defends Socotra, and Masirah appears to be undefended. both regiments have 90 ish Planning so should not take many losses while landing.

[soulsilver]

August 8th

three days ago the emergency reinforcements for India were fired when I landed at Masirah and Socotra in Oman and off the coast of Yemen. I was not aware that these bases fired the emergency reinforcements, and asked my opponent to go back a day but he declined. Given my current dominance in India, I'm gonna keep going and try and take Karachi overland, since I'm pretty sure Dean has Karachi well defended, and I doubt I'll be able to take the city via a backdoor naval invasion. I expect level 9 forts by the time I get there. On the Bright side the reinforcing Divisions are almost entirely trapped in Aden, at least until the Mediterranean opens up in Mid 43. If dean wants to get his troops into Karachi, or elsewhere Hes going to have to run a Guantlet to get them anywhere. I'm gonna try and build up Socotra and Masirah into decent sized air fields, and as bases for Nav Search.

Otherwise the main news over the past few days has been the encirclement of the American 32nd Division west of Indore, a Major b-17 raid supported by p-38s up in the Aleutians, that failed to do any real damage other than shoot down a few zeros, and what appears to be a BB bombardment TF moving to attack Adak Island.

In China The main force of artillery and Tank supported infantry pushed the Chinese further up the road with heavy losses to the Chinese. Half the units in the hex retreated last turn despite only a 2:1 being achieved. not sure why sometimes only half the units retreat.

Ground combat at 78,48 (near Chihkiang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 76545 troops, 1032 guns, 1103 vehicles, Assault Value = 2692

Defending force 19882 troops, 148 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 211

Japanese adjusted assault: 1118

Allied adjusted defense: 197

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
2165 casualties reported
Squads: 32 destroyed, 38 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 28 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 51 (16 destroyed, 35 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
6174 casualties reported
Squads: 358 destroyed, 26 disabled
Non Combat: 207 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 37 (15 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Units retreated 4


Also of note in India was another land based strike on Bombay which caught 3 more subs in harbour. I think almost every sub dean has lost thus far has been killed via the air, or via sub attack.

Morning Air attack on Bombay , at 36,24

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 36
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 63

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAK La Pampa, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
SS Perch, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
DD King, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS KXV, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
AS Lucia, Bomb hits 3, on fire
AG Haitan, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AS Colombia, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
SS Greenling, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
AM Poole, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
2165 casualties reported
Squads: 32 destroyed, 38 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 28 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 51 (16 destroyed, 35 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
6174 casualties reported
Squads: 358 destroyed, 26 disabled
Non Combat: 207 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 37 (15 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Units retreated 4

[29000Kevin]

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

August 8th

three days ago the emergency reinforcements for India were fired when I landed at Masirah and Socotra in Oman and off the coast of Yemen. I was not aware that these bases fired the emergency reinforcements, and asked my opponent to go back a day but he declined. Given my current dominance in India, I'm gonna keep going and try and take Karachi overland, since I'm pretty sure Dean has Karachi well defended, and I doubt I'll be able to take the city via a backdoor naval invasion. I expect level 9 forts by the time I get there. On the Bright side the reinforcing Divisions are almost entirely trapped in Aden, at least until the Mediterranean opens up in Mid 43. If dean wants to get his troops into Karachi, or elsewhere Hes going to have to run a Guantlet to get them anywhere. I'm gonna try and build up Socotra and Masirah into decent sized air fields, and as bases for Nav Search.

Otherwise the main news over the past few days has been the encirclement of the American 32nd Division west of Indore,

Huh a invasion of Socotra and Masirah a first I've seen from Witp:AE.

You got to be careful for British Battleship bombardments of those Airfields, make sure to station PT boats on them or at least something that can waste a BB's ammo.

Did some quick research of Bullwinkle58's expedition's to find the trigger lines and apparently Socotra didn't trigger the LOD in 2010 so it looks like Masirah was the trigger or maybe the islands were triggers because of the later date.

Well you have to deal with 3 Indian Divisions coming out of Aden along with the XXI Indian Corps + the XXI Corps Engineer Battalion, Rommel can thank you for helping him in every North African battle that ever happened starting with Battle of Alam el Halfa till 1943.

There is also the 31st Indian Armoured Division in Aden, 100 Valentine III tanks look angry along with the 50 Stuart tanks and 50 Humber Armoured cars.

There is also a Indian Division at Abadan.

And last but not least a Pakistani Division in Karachi.

Oh and the British get 72 Spitfires VII, 72 Hurricanes IIa Trop, 72 Wellington Ic's, 24 Catalinas I's and 36 Vengeance I planes.
- All at Aden, you better Blockade the heck out of the area or these monsters are going to ruin your day.

Good luck mate the fact the US has landed in India has made this operation to take Karachi much more harder but you were lucky in encircling that US Division, with a bit of luck and good dice rolls the operation should work.

Bombay usually has a lot of supply in the game (like 250k) unless the Allied commander upgraded his ports and Airports in Karachi meaning that the lot India's supply has gone to that city instead to stockpile.

We will see when the siege of Bombay happens (that city is a very tough nut to crack).

The fact you have all the Industry in Eastern India is still a boon and will help your economy immensely even without the rest of India.

Also the garrisoning of India is usually not worth from what I've heard but this is RA so I'm not sure.

[soulsilver]

ORIGINAL: 29000Kevin

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

August 8th

three days ago the emergency reinforcements for India were fired when I landed at Masirah and Socotra in Oman and off the coast of Yemen. I was not aware that these bases fired the emergency reinforcements, and asked my opponent to go back a day but he declined. Given my current dominance in India, I'm gonna keep going and try and take Karachi overland, since I'm pretty sure Dean has Karachi well defended, and I doubt I'll be able to take the city via a backdoor naval invasion. I expect level 9 forts by the time I get there. On the Bright side the reinforcing Divisions are almost entirely trapped in Aden, at least until the Mediterranean opens up in Mid 43. If dean wants to get his troops into Karachi, or elsewhere Hes going to have to run a Guantlet to get them anywhere. I'm gonna try and build up Socotra and Masirah into decent sized air fields, and as bases for Nav Search.

Otherwise the main news over the past few days has been the encirclement of the American 32nd Division west of Indore,

Huh a invasion of Socotra and Masirah a first I've seen from Witp:AE.

You got to be careful for British Battleship bombardments of those Airfields, make sure to station PT boats on them or at least something that can waste a BB's ammo.

Did some quick research of Bullwinkle58's expedition's to find the trigger lines and apparently Socotra didn't trigger the LOD in 2010 so it looks like Masirah was the trigger or maybe the islands were triggers because of the later date.

Well you have to deal with 3 Indian Divisions coming out of Aden along with the XXI Indian Corps + the XXI Corps Engineer Battalion, Rommel can thank you for helping him in every North African battle that ever happened starting with Battle of Alam el Halfa till 1943.

There is also the 31st Indian Armoured Division in Aden, 100 Valentine III tanks look angry along with the 50 Stuart tanks and 50 Humber Armoured cars.

There is also a Indian Division at Abadan.

And last but not least a Pakistani Division in Karachi.

Oh and the British get 72 Spitfires VII, 72 Hurricanes IIa Trop, 72 Wellington Ic's, 24 Catalinas I's and 36 Vengeance I planes.
- All at Aden, you better Blockade the heck out of the area or these monsters are going to ruin your day.

Good luck mate the fact the US has landed in India has made this operation to take Karachi much more harder but you were lucky in encircling that US Division, with a bit of luck and good dice rolls the operation should work.

Bombay usually has a lot of supply in the game (like 250k) unless the Allied commander upgraded his ports and Airports in Karachi meaning that the lot India's supply has gone to that city instead to stockpile.

We will see when the siege of Bombay happens (that city is a very tough nut to crack).

The fact you have all the Industry in Eastern India is still a boon and will help your economy immensely even without the rest of India.

Also the garrisoning of India is usually not worth from what I've heard but this is RA so I'm not sure.

Thankyou for the input, I intend to blockade this area heavily as you said, I'm probably gonna move Kido Butai back to Singapore and station a cruiser force at Socotra. I currently have 6 motor Torpedo boats which I will move over to this area as you suggested.

Dean's current Naval forces in the area for dean is no more than a few DDs and maybe a damaged cruiser or two. The British lost 1 CV, all 4 of the R class BBs, along with the Resolution BC (an add on in RA), 7 CL, and 2 CA, and 3 DD. Warspite and Valiant were spotted in the Aleutians earlier so they arn't in the area. I'm gonna send more H8ks to Deigo Garcia to keep an eye on the Cape town exit so I can see any potential naval reinforcement coming.

In terms of land units in India, it appears that dean reinforced India with three American Divisions, the 18th British and 70th British, and the 7th Aussie Division. The 7th Aussie Division was reduced to 10% TOE earlier but I regret not completely destroying it, the 18th British was destroyed, along with the 7th and 20th Indian Divisions near Calcutta. 17th Indian is currently isolated in the rear near Burma so wont be playing a role in any future campaign. All of the troops on Ceylon were also destroyed, so I'm just dealing with 2 American Divs, the 70th British, a depleted 7th Aussie, the Pakistani Division, and any Indian units that have survived thus far.

On my side I have 13 Infantry Divisions, and 2 Armoured Divisions to facilitate a push on Karachi. Not really sure If I should try to knock out Bombay first or go for Karachi.

[29000Kevin]

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

ORIGINAL: 29000Kevin

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

August 8th

three days ago the emergency reinforcements for India were fired when I landed at Masirah and Socotra in Oman and off the coast of Yemen. I was not aware that these bases fired the emergency reinforcements, and asked my opponent to go back a day but he declined. Given my current dominance in India, I'm gonna keep going and try and take Karachi overland, since I'm pretty sure Dean has Karachi well defended, and I doubt I'll be able to take the city via a backdoor naval invasion. I expect level 9 forts by the time I get there. On the Bright side the reinforcing Divisions are almost entirely trapped in Aden, at least until the Mediterranean opens up in Mid 43. If dean wants to get his troops into Karachi, or elsewhere Hes going to have to run a Guantlet to get them anywhere. I'm gonna try and build up Socotra and Masirah into decent sized air fields, and as bases for Nav Search.

Otherwise the main news over the past few days has been the encirclement of the American 32nd Division west of Indore,

Huh a invasion of Socotra and Masirah a first I've seen from Witp:AE.

You got to be careful for British Battleship bombardments of those Airfields, make sure to station PT boats on them or at least something that can waste a BB's ammo.

Did some quick research of Bullwinkle58's expedition's to find the trigger lines and apparently Socotra didn't trigger the LOD in 2010 so it looks like Masirah was the trigger or maybe the islands were triggers because of the later date.

Well you have to deal with 3 Indian Divisions coming out of Aden along with the XXI Indian Corps + the XXI Corps Engineer Battalion, Rommel can thank you for helping him in every North African battle that ever happened starting with Battle of Alam el Halfa till 1943.

There is also the 31st Indian Armoured Division in Aden, 100 Valentine III tanks look angry along with the 50 Stuart tanks and 50 Humber Armoured cars.

There is also a Indian Division at Abadan.

And last but not least a Pakistani Division in Karachi.

Oh and the British get 72 Spitfires VII, 72 Hurricanes IIa Trop, 72 Wellington Ic's, 24 Catalinas I's and 36 Vengeance I planes.
- All at Aden, you better Blockade the heck out of the area or these monsters are going to ruin your day.

Good luck mate the fact the US has landed in India has made this operation to take Karachi much more harder but you were lucky in encircling that US Division, with a bit of luck and good dice rolls the operation should work.

Bombay usually has a lot of supply in the game (like 250k) unless the Allied commander upgraded his ports and Airports in Karachi meaning that the lot India's supply has gone to that city instead to stockpile.

We will see when the siege of Bombay happens (that city is a very tough nut to crack).

The fact you have all the Industry in Eastern India is still a boon and will help your economy immensely even without the rest of India.

Also the garrisoning of India is usually not worth from what I've heard but this is RA so I'm not sure.

Thankyou for the input, I intend to blockade this area heavily as you said, I'm probably gonna move Kido Butai back to Singapore and station a cruiser force at Socotra. I currently have 6 motor Torpedo boats which I will move over to this area as you suggested.

Dean's current Naval forces in the area for dean is no more than a few DDs and maybe a damaged cruiser or two. The British lost 1 CV, all 4 of the R class BBs, along with the Resolution BC (an add on in RA), 7 CL, and 2 CA, and 3 DD. Warspite and Valiant were spotted in the Aleutians earlier so they arn't in the area. I'm gonna send more H8ks to Deigo Garcia to keep an eye on the Cape town exit so I can see any potential naval reinforcement coming.

In terms of land units in India, it appears that dean reinforced India with three American Divisions, the 18th British and 70th British, and the 7th Aussie Division. The 7th Aussie Division was reduced to 10% TOE earlier but I regret not completely destroying it, the 18th British was destroyed, along with the 7th and 20th Indian Divisions near Calcutta. 17th Indian is currently isolated in the rear near Burma so wont be playing a role in any future campaign. All of the troops on Ceylon were also destroyed, so I'm just dealing with 2 American Divs, the 70th British, a depleted 7th Aussie, the Pakistani Division, and any Indian units that have survived thus far.

On my side I have 13 Infantry Divisions, and 2 Armoured Divisions to facilitate a push on Karachi. Not really sure If I should try to knock out Bombay first or go for Karachi.

*Reads The Royal Navy Loses*
[X(]

Woah woah woah, oh dear that is absolutely dreadful to lose all of those coastal Bombardment platforms, heck I don't even remember reading this in the AAR since the loses most likely happened before the "Indian adventure" started.

Hopefully your adversary isn't too effected by the lost, we of course want to make it 1945.

The remaining battleships/Battlecruisers left are now the British Reinforments by 1944, the suriving Standard era BB's, Obsolete Ameircan BB's and the modern new US fast BB's + there's the French ship and the goodies from RA.

-------------------------------------------------

Now on to the situation at hand with Inida...

The odds are looking good as of now but it could change.

If I was to pick Bombay or Karachi I would rather much prefer to not allow Dean's units to get a chance rest and rebuild in Karachi while the rest of IJA gets a punch on the nose in Bombay.

Obviously the focus is to take Karachi to prevent the LOD from landing it's painful punch at you, the city will unfortunately have high fort levels since its August 42 but with the current state of the Allies in India and attrition from bomber attacks the situation should have goods odds in favour of the Japanese plus the firepower from those tanks will really hurt the Allies.

Bombay as of right now should be scouted by Recon by Bombardment, the Airfield needs to be bombed consistently slow down the building of forts.

Bombay is a very painful city to take over, especially with a prepared Allied defense, the fact you haven't mentioned that any divisions in the city means that taking over it should be be a piece of cake, just make sure you have a big enough army to break the defense and try not to destroy half the industry in the process.

Taking Bombay early is nice but it's not critical for having dominance over the sub continent, the Bomaby sea route is much more easier to defend thanks to being far (compared to Karachi) from the off map areas.

Destroy the Allied forces in Karachi then taking over Bombay should be a piece of cake, a focus on Bombay first policy will give the Allies escaping up north a break with we can't do with the fact the holdings in Yemen won't last in 6 months.

----

Side note I should mention with the defense of the Pacific island's, you should build your forts to Level 6 instead of 5 since
a) This level takes 5,600 supply to build.
b) That the next level cost 3 times more supply to build.
c) This level allows bases to deploy Barrage balloons which can damage or destroy attacking enemy bombers, useful for countering some Night Bombings or low alt attacks.


Here's a piece of information I've taken from Obvert,

Using 10 Construction Battalions

Levels 1,2 and 3- cost about 1,000 supplies and take 3 days
Level 4 - 2,400 tons of supplies; 9 days
Level 5 - 3,600 supplies, 13 days
Level 6 - 5,200 supplies, 19 days
Level 7 - 20,000 supplies, 25 days
Level 8 - 26,700 supplies, 33 days
Level 9 - 29,900 supplies, 38 days


Here was the conclusion of the fort building

To go from level 0 to level 9 required ~93,000 supplies and ~145 days..

[soulsilver]

ORIGINAL: 29000Kevin

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

ORIGINAL: 29000Kevin




Huh a invasion of Socotra and Masirah a first I've seen from Witp:AE.

You got to be careful for British Battleship bombardments of those Airfields, make sure to station PT boats on them or at least something that can waste a BB's ammo.

Did some quick research of Bullwinkle58's expedition's to find the trigger lines and apparently Socotra didn't trigger the LOD in 2010 so it looks like Masirah was the trigger or maybe the islands were triggers because of the later date.

Well you have to deal with 3 Indian Divisions coming out of Aden along with the XXI Indian Corps + the XXI Corps Engineer Battalion, Rommel can thank you for helping him in every North African battle that ever happened starting with Battle of Alam el Halfa till 1943.

There is also the 31st Indian Armoured Division in Aden, 100 Valentine III tanks look angry along with the 50 Stuart tanks and 50 Humber Armoured cars.

There is also a Indian Division at Abadan.

And last but not least a Pakistani Division in Karachi.

Oh and the British get 72 Spitfires VII, 72 Hurricanes IIa Trop, 72 Wellington Ic's, 24 Catalinas I's and 36 Vengeance I planes.
- All at Aden, you better Blockade the heck out of the area or these monsters are going to ruin your day.

Good luck mate the fact the US has landed in India has made this operation to take Karachi much more harder but you were lucky in encircling that US Division, with a bit of luck and good dice rolls the operation should work.

Bombay usually has a lot of supply in the game (like 250k) unless the Allied commander upgraded his ports and Airports in Karachi meaning that the lot India's supply has gone to that city instead to stockpile.

We will see when the siege of Bombay happens (that city is a very tough nut to crack).

The fact you have all the Industry in Eastern India is still a boon and will help your economy immensely even without the rest of India.

Also the garrisoning of India is usually not worth from what I've heard but this is RA so I'm not sure.

Thankyou for the input, I intend to blockade this area heavily as you said, I'm probably gonna move Kido Butai back to Singapore and station a cruiser force at Socotra. I currently have 6 motor Torpedo boats which I will move over to this area as you suggested.

Dean's current Naval forces in the area for dean is no more than a few DDs and maybe a damaged cruiser or two. The British lost 1 CV, all 4 of the R class BBs, along with the Resolution BC (an add on in RA), 7 CL, and 2 CA, and 3 DD. Warspite and Valiant were spotted in the Aleutians earlier so they arn't in the area. I'm gonna send more H8ks to Deigo Garcia to keep an eye on the Cape town exit so I can see any potential naval reinforcement coming.

In terms of land units in India, it appears that dean reinforced India with three American Divisions, the 18th British and 70th British, and the 7th Aussie Division. The 7th Aussie Division was reduced to 10% TOE earlier but I regret not completely destroying it, the 18th British was destroyed, along with the 7th and 20th Indian Divisions near Calcutta. 17th Indian is currently isolated in the rear near Burma so wont be playing a role in any future campaign. All of the troops on Ceylon were also destroyed, so I'm just dealing with 2 American Divs, the 70th British, a depleted 7th Aussie, the Pakistani Division, and any Indian units that have survived thus far.

On my side I have 13 Infantry Divisions, and 2 Armoured Divisions to facilitate a push on Karachi. Not really sure If I should try to knock out Bombay first or go for Karachi.

*Reads The Royal Navy Loses*
[X(]

Woah woah woah, oh dear that is absolutely dreadful to lose all of those coastal Bombardment platforms, heck I don't even remember reading this in the AAR since the loses most likely happened before the "Indian adventure" started.

Hopefully your adversary isn't too effected by the lost, we of course want to make it 1945.

The remaining battleships/Battlecruisers left are now the British Reinforments by 1944, the suriving Standard era BB's, Obsolete Ameircan BB's and the modern new US fast BB's + there's the French ship and the goodies from RA.

-------------------------------------------------

Now on to the situation at hand with Inida...

The odds are looking good as of now but it could change.

If I was to pick Bombay or Karachi I would rather much prefer to not allow Dean's units to get a chance rest and rebuild in Karachi while the rest of IJA gets a punch on the nose in Bombay.

Obviously the focus is to take Karachi to prevent the LOD from landing it's painful punch at you, the city will unfortunately have high fort levels since its August 42 but with the current state of the Allies in India and attrition from bomber attacks the situation should have goods odds in favour of the Japanese plus the firepower from those tanks will really hurt the Allies.

Bombay as of right now should be scouted by Recon by Bombardment, the Airfield needs to be bombed consistently slow down the building of forts.

Bombay is a very painful city to take over, especially with a prepared Allied defense, the fact you haven't mentioned that any divisions in the city means that taking over it should be be a piece of cake, just make sure you have a big enough army to break the defense and try not to destroy half the industry in the process.

Taking Bombay early is nice but it's not critical for having dominance over the sub continent, the Bomaby sea route is much more easier to defend thanks to being far (compared to Karachi) from the off map areas.

Destroy the Allied forces in Karachi then taking over Bombay should be a piece of cake, a focus on Bombay first policy will give the Allies escaping up north a break with we can't do with the fact the holdings in Yemen won't last in 6 months.

----

Side note I should mention with the defense of the Pacific island's, you should build your forts to Level 6 instead of 5 since
a) This level takes 5,600 supply to build.
b) That the next level cost 3 times more supply to build.
c) This level allows bases to deploy Barrage balloons which can damage or destroy attacking enemy bombers, useful for countering some Night Bombings or low alt attacks.


Here's a piece of information I've taken from Obvert,

Using 10 Construction Battalions

Levels 1,2 and 3- cost about 1,000 supplies and take 3 days
Level 4 - 2,400 tons of supplies; 9 days
Level 5 - 3,600 supplies, 13 days
Level 6 - 5,200 supplies, 19 days
Level 7 - 20,000 supplies, 25 days
Level 8 - 26,700 supplies, 33 days
Level 9 - 29,900 supplies, 38 days


Here was the conclusion of the fort building

To go from level 0 to level 9 required ~93,000 supplies and ~145 days..

If you would like to view the demise of 3 of the old R class ships refer to page 2 of my AAR [:D]. The first Dead R class died before my AAR began in a failed raid on on my shipping near Moulmein. She did put Fuso in the docks for about a month and a half though, but she was outnumbered 2 to 1 in terms of capital ships, and had already expended some ammo sinking a convoy.

[soulsilver]

August 9th

The day opened well with three sub attacks near Perth sending 3 cargo ships to the bottom.

Submarine attack near Perth at 44,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-154

Allied Ships
xAK Troja, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
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Submarine attack near Perth at 45,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-159

Allied Ships
xAK Silverwillow, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

sweeps in India went in but got beaten up losing 15 Tojos today to shoot down 24 Allied fighters. Overall losses for the day was 20:26 not ideal. The Bombers have been hammering the 34th American Division.

Morning Air attack on Bombay , at 36,24

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 22

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 7
Hurricane IIc Trop x 2
P-38E Lightning x 11
P-40E Warhawk x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

It appears that the formidable is operating from the Aluetians likely in cooperation with the Yorktown and possibly the Hornet. No transports have been spotted, so it looks like a bombardment run with carriers providing cap for the BBs. My local defense fleet of 5 CLs and 9 DDs have moved to Paramushiro to potentially run interferance on my potential invasion in case I'm wrong.

Afternoon Air attack on Adak Island , at 162,52

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 7
F4F-4 Wildcat x 31
SBD-3 Dauntless x 26

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-3 Dauntless: 5 damaged

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 8

In the combat phase Madras falls, indor falls with the surrender of the 193rd Tank Battalion and the 32th Division is given a good thrashing for a second time.

Ground combat at Madras (35,40)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 29134 troops, 289 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 898

Defending force 11663 troops, 59 guns, 87 vehicles, Assault Value = 56

Japanese adjusted assault: 1622

Allied adjusted defense: 141

Japanese assault odds: 11 to 1 (fort level 3)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Madras !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
230 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled

Allied ground losses:
11839 casualties reported
Squads: 75 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 929 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 90 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 77 (77 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 120 (120 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 7

Assaulting units:
20th Division
56th Division
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
Madras Police Battalion
Madras Fortress
222 RAF Base Force
12th Indian Engineer Battalion
1st Somerset LI Battalion
XXXIII Indian Corps
100th RN Base Force

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Ground combat at 42,21 (near Indore)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 11096 troops, 183 guns, 104 vehicles, Assault Value = 330

Defending force 17032 troops, 136 guns, 230 vehicles, Assault Value = 602

Allied adjusted assault: 48

Japanese adjusted defense: 806

Allied assault odds: 1 to 16

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

Japanese ground losses:
138 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 9 (2 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1156 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 171 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 35 (1 destroyed, 34 disabled)

Assaulting units:
32nd Infantry Division

Defending units:
6th Tank Regiment
38th/A Division
2nd Mobile Infantry Regiment
2nd Recon Battalion
38th/B Division
18th/C Division