Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))

[Lowpe]

Did some damage at Palembang.[;)]


I can get 24 B17s to Singers easily enough...just now sure if it is worth it.

[ny59giants]

I can get 24 B17s to Singers easily enough...just now sure if it is worth it.

Yes it is!!. Unless Nat has changed from our game, he does NOT repair any Oil or Refineries outside Japan. I was surprised by this, but that's the way he plays.

[RangerJoe]

If you want to try it, although it can lead to some supply spoilage, you can maximize the supply draw from Ledo into Burma at all of those dot bases with stockpiling. When they get overfull, then release the supplies but increase the supply request in Burma at Lashio and in China at Paoshan. You might have to increase the supply draw at Ledo first. But when you release those supplies, you might want to reduce the supply demand with no stockpile at Lashio and stockpile any other bases connected to it by rail and road so the supplies don't return to India. The idea is to get more supplies at those dot bases, keep them from going back into India but on to Burma and then China.

Sorry if this is incoherent, a cat wants to knead me with his sharp claws digging into my skin. [:(]

Edit: Paoshan might look like this with no HQ present. [:D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Getting to the end game in the SRA.

Looks like the Pillsbury task force could handle that TF coming north toward Balikpapan. Not sure of the total picture for where it goes after a run south.

[Ambassador]

Bringing bombers to Singapore might push him to remove squadrons from the front line to defend Palembang, or divert troops to conquer Singers.

Same from Mindanao/Jolo, if you can get bombers there and he takes Tarakan/Balikpapan.

Any damage done now is much more interesting, in my very humble opinion, than the loss of those bombers. Strategic VP are nice, and depriving Japan from that oil production, even if he repairs it, is time lost for his industrial production.
And it’ll increase four-fold the VPs he’ll have to amass to manage auto-victory in ‘43.

[RangerJoe]

There are no strategic VPs for bombing in the DEI, at least as far as I can recall. What is worse is the loss of the oil production. If it gets repaired, that is 1000 supply units. If it does not get repaired, that is a lot of oil that won't get turned into fuel, thus HI and supplies.

[Ambassador]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

There are no strategic VPs for bombing in the DEI, at least as far as I can recall.

Really ? I always refused to do it, as I thought IRL it would not have been done (after all, the Netherlands were an Allied nation), but it’d be great if it was reflected in the VP allocations.


ÉDIT: an old professor of mine used to say « when in doubt, read the law, everything is in the law », at least five times an hour. I checked the manual, p.264, and indeed VP are scored only for North America, Australia and Hawaii, for the Japanese, and for mainland Japan, for the Allies.
So, I always believed those house rules I was reading about not bombing industry in China was to avoid VP-farming. I was wrong. One learns something every day.

[RangerJoe]

The house rules for China bombing is to help keep the Chinese in the game. They are already short of supply but destroying it only makes it worse.

But the oilfields were bombed by the US, at least a few times.

[GetAssista]

So, how is it all going? This is quite a big lull already, there are murmurs in the peanut gallery [8D]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: GetAssista

So, how is it all going? This is quite a big lull already, there are murmurs in the peanut gallery [8D]

Shhhh! Our US members are having secret Thanksgiving AE planning conferences - necessary work of course! The turkey and beverages are incidental ...

[GetAssista]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: GetAssista
So, how is it all going? This is quite a big lull already, there are murmurs in the peanut gallery [8D]

Shhhh! Our US members are having secret Thanksgiving AE planning conferences - necessary work of course! The turkey and beverages are incidental ...

Ah, that one, I see now! I did not realize it is that bad though [:)]

[Lowpe]

Jan 10, 1942

US and Dutch forces combine in a nice bombardment of Geraldton...

[Lowpe]

More bombing here...

[Lowpe]

Cleaning up the paratroopers...

An great result at Bundaberg...will SR troops in today and we should be able to hold, until the non stop ship bombardments start. Isolating an IJA division here would be great, if only temporary.

[RangerJoe]

If you can bomb the Japanese Bundaberg, that would be nice.

Mining the waters in the area as well might help wreck any relief troops and supplies as well.

But nice work on those paratroopers, hopefully you can get more Japanese to die for their emperor soon.

[Lowpe]

Where are the troops in Sian going? Are some heading into the mountains off road?

I cannot find the dozen tank regiments...I think they are off flanking up the road towards Kungchang...but I thought they would get spotted today. I assigned my pitiful bombers to recon, and they didn't spot anything.

Indian Mountain Guns started arriving at Kungchang today...which is good, while 2 pounder AT will be flown to Chengtu later today, and then onto Kungchang. Building Tienshui up to a level 1 runway to facilitate air transport.

[Lowpe]

Jan 11, 1942

Keeping up the bombardments!

[Lowpe]

Banshees hit the IJA tanks...

[Lowpe]

Way too timid here, the Yanks should have arrived two days ago along with an Aussie Division...

More bombing at Cloncurry…


Ground combat at Bundaberg (96,155)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 10407 troops, 50 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 338

Defending force 7802 troops, 183 guns, 82 vehicles, Assault Value = 168

Japanese adjusted assault: 478

Allied adjusted defense: 117

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Bundaberg !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
290 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 32 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2711 casualties reported
Squads: 40 destroyed, 30 disabled
Non Combat: 183 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 28 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 68 (62 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 90 (87 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Units retreated 6
Units destroyed 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
4th Division

Defending units:
17th MG Battalion
34th Infantry Regiment
5th RAA Coastal Artillery Regiment
Bundaberg RAN Base Force
2/16th Field Regiment
1st Medium Regiment
2nd RAA Coastal Artillery Regiment

Good news, another fighter squadron shows up in Oz, bringing the total now present to 7, but only two are full strength.

20th PS (P) arrives at Brisbane

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Banshees hit the IJA tanks...

I have also found that the bigger bomb carried by DBs helps against tanks. Have you been flying at dive bombing altitude or lower? I was losing too many planes with dive bombing so I switched to level bombing from just above IJ light AA levels. Still effective bombing.