Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))

[Lowpe]

Worried a bit about the approaching IJA forces, we do recon by Hudson...a few other squadrons fly in doing some damage too.

Relieved to see it is only a recon unit.

[Lowpe]

Sad day, but we still keep shooting down valuable planes.

Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
B5N1 Kate x 10
B5N2 Kate x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 4 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied Ships
BC Repulse, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 15000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb
4 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 15000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb
10 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 15000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb

[Lowpe]

B26 goodness. Every IJ base needs to be pulverized. First economically, 2nd supply and fuel stores and that bombing will stop expansions.

[Lowpe]

Not sure I see the point in having this bad guy on the front lines in a nonbase hex.

[Lowpe]

First bombardment at Rockhampton...no attacks for the immediate future other than bombardments.

[Lowpe]

Rockhampton and Bundaberg...50K trapped IJA troopers.

[Lowpe]

Butchers bill for the day...

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

First bombardment at Rockhampton...no attacks for the immediate future other than bombardments.

Apparently all his heavy arty is in China! The Aussie 25 pounder and the US 105 (about 36 pounder) are good guns but not really heavy arty. He must have only Mountain Guns or the old 3" field pieces.

Loved to see those Philippine PTs get 4 torp hits from three boats! Hope they can reload somewhere.

RIP Repulse.[:(] But he might not know that she slipped under during the night and he will send more bombers to your flak. [:)]
Loaded for bear and finding only cucarachas!

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy


Loved to see those Philippine PTs get 4 torp hits from three boats! Hope they can reload somewhere.

Returned to the pool...no joy on rearming them any other way.

[Lowpe]

April 9th, 1942

Still hitting the tanks...gave up on the strafing without bombs. Neither strafing cannon seemed to get any hits.

[Lowpe]

Will attempt a long range dive bomber attack with Vindicators in two days...to hit the train of shore bombardments coming in. Tonights wasn't bad.

Surprised to see the number of vehicles hit. Need to check on exactly what was hit. Allies have a 2-1 advantage in AV, will attack with tanks only in two days at Rockhampton.

Bundaberg looks good, no AA present. With troops in both bases, no SR available...





Night Naval bombardment of Rockhampton at 95,152

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
DD Yomogi
DD Hagikaze
DD Arashi
DD Maikaze
DD Kagero

Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 38 (3 destroyed, 35 disabled)
Vehicles lost 25 (1 destroyed, 24 disabled)

E8N2 Dave acting as spotter for CA Mikuma
CA Mikuma firing at 2nd Medium Regiment
E8N2 Dave acting as spotter for CA Mogami
CA Mogami firing at 41st Infantry/A Division
DD Yomogi firing at 41st Infantry/C Division
DD Hagikaze firing at 182nd Infantry Regiment
DD Arashi firing at 21/22 Field Regiment
DD Maikaze firing at 41st Infantry/B Division
DD Kagero firing at 41st Infantry/B Division

[Lowpe]

Coastwatcher Report: harbor at Koggala is reported empty
Coastwatcher Report: xAK Shinetsu Maru reported in port at Tulagi
Coastwatcher Report: 1 ship in port at Nadi
Coastwatcher Report: harbor at Suva is reported empty
Coastwatcher Report: 5 ships in port at Chittagong
Coastwatcher Report: harbor at Perth is reported empty
Coastwatcher Report: xAK Shinetsu Maru reported in port at Madang
Coastwatcher Report: harbor at Rabaul is reported empty
Coastwatcher Report: 1 ship in port at Manus
Coastwatcher Report: xAK Shinetsu Maru reported in port at Horn Island
Coastwatcher Report: xAKL P-61 reported in port at Koumac
Coastwatcher Report: xAK Shinetsu Maru reported in port at Noumea
Coastwatcher Report: 4 ships in port at Esperance
Coastwatcher sighting: 2 Japanese ships at 92,144 near Townsville , Speed unknown
Coastwatcher sighting: 7 Japanese ships at 95,152 near Rockhampton , Speed 13 , Moving Southwest
Coastwatcher sighting: 5 Japanese ships at 92,144 near Townsville , Speed unknown
Coastwatcher sighting: 1 Japanese ship at 106,125 near Rabaul , Speed unknown
Coastwatcher sighting: 2 Japanese ships at 106,125 near Rabaul , Speed unknown
Coastwatcher sighting: 2 Japanese ships at 113,156 near Koumac , Speed unknown


Shinestsu Maru really gets around![:D]

[Lowpe]

Japan still has plenty of punch left in them...but this?

3/4th Brigade is planning for an attack on Anchorage.

Something I might do![:D]

[Lowpe]

What a great unit...need to be very careful with these planes as I gather the pools will be dry till 1943.

[CaptBeefheart]

I gave up on coastwatcher reports years ago. They've all got stills in operation or are growing wacky tobacco.

Has anyone gotten any utility out of the coasties?

Cheers,
CB

[HansBolter]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

All three SS to SST conversions are going on right now, and if I recall you can only load designated -p units in, and to load you need to actually move the troops in.

Some night bombing going on, stepping up the supply drop into Burma/China again using a LB30 squadron.

Just moving troops and supplies and ships and training. Lots of upgrades of CVs, cruisers and destroyers. Radar. [:)]

IIRC I had problems doing even this in my current game. Not certain. Beware.

I added several more SSTs to my current game, planning to be able to lift an entire battalion.
I discovered that troop loading on SSTs is heavily restricted.
At Pearl's level 8 port I could only load SST TFs with 3 boats.
Increasing to 4 boats greyed out the Load Troops function.
I had to load the paras into 3 boat TFs consecutively and then combine the TFs once loaded to achieve my goal of lifting the entire battalion.

Just something to be aware of.

[Lowpe]

April 10th, 1942

Beasts, at night in thunderstorms with low moonlight! For the most part my night bombing has been producing what most AFBs would respond with as very unsatisfactory results...mostly misses -- but persistence and low losses pay off.

The pilots are just now starting to approach a decent skill level, but experience is still low in the 50s. I don't think I have swapped out air commanders either.

But I am working on the DL.

Those 6 hits yielded some 20+ oil losses. Probably see a few more points over the next day or two.

[Lowpe]

Attack on Wenchow...

China is using reserve no pursuit mode, HQs...while Japan is aerial bombing and naval bombarding with Mutsu daily but has no HQ!

Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 21136 troops, 166 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 488

Defending force 18059 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 393

Japanese adjusted assault: 349

Allied adjusted defense: 493

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

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

Japanese ground losses:
1811 casualties reported
Squads: 67 destroyed, 35 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
376 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 45 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled

Assaulting units:
61st Infantry Brigade
13th Division
138th Infantry Regiment
1st Army

Defending units:
88th Chinese Corps
100th Chinese Corps
25th Group Army
10th Group Army
23rd Group Army
14th Chinese Base Force






PS: The 88th just passed the National Training level of 45, and now is prepping for Wenchow. Every drop counts![;)]

[Lowpe]

The triangle besieged on two fronts:

Ground combat at Manila (79,77)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2475 troops, 174 guns, 172 vehicles, Assault Value = 418

Defending force 29597 troops, 318 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 701

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Assaulting units:
14th Guards Regiment
11th Infantry Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
16th Guards Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Army
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
41st PA Infantry Division
91st PA Infantry Division
71st PA Infantry Division
51st PA Infantry Division
1st PA Infantry Division
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
II Philippine Corps
Nichols Field AAF Base Force
PAF Aviation
1st USMC AA Battalion
Asiatic Fleet
USAFFE
Cavite USN Base Force

[Lowpe]

Excitement in the land down under...my recon is not what I want it to be. Played it cautious with just a tank attack, will probably keep it cautious as our TOE and Experience isn't great. At least we have a HQ advantage again.[:)]

Forts 2 at Rockhampton.

Bundaberg just completed level 3 runways...so Japan is still building there.