Never Thought I'd Start Another One - tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J)

[Mike Solli]

You can fly some squads from an Air HQ to Wake and they will do the job just fine.

The AS company is already enroute, but that's a good idea.

I suggest dividing the Rjuyo's Kates into thirds, they are then capable of performing more attacks especially if smaller task forces are fleeing. Their bombs will work fine against the Allied CAs and smaller right now. Leave them with torpedoes as the main armament and they will fly with a full load of bombs at 1K - so will Nells and Betties! The Nells and Betties being torpedo bombers will be fully functional on level 2 airfields as well. If there are no torpedoes, they will fly with a full load of bombs even at 1K.

Done!

When I play the Allied side, I like to use the B-17Ds as ASW platforms because of their long range and bomb load. They would also work well for Naval Search. They are easier to kill than other 4Es due to the lack of a tail gun.

Ted already told me that he won't upgrade them to the E model because he want's to save them for later. More experience for me...

For Hong Kong and elsewhere, you can use PBs in minesweeping TFs but there has to be a minesweeper in the hex to form that TF. While the Ansyu PBs may not sweep that many mines, they can usually clear a mine with their hull and not sink. Those are also great ships to carry artillery and tank units in Fast Transport TFs. They can be loaded with supplies in a Fast Transport TF and then added to other TFs as escorts but not to non-fast transport TFs if they are carrying units. So there should be no need to have cargo vessels just loaded with supplies in amphibious TFs unless you want to add ships to help dilute any air attacks on the invasion convoys.

I have 9 DMS heading into Hong Kong right now to take care of the mines.

And yes, I LOVE the Ansyu PBs for Fast Transports. I figured that out midway through the last game.

[Mike Solli]

14 Dec 41

Sub War

Nothing to report.

5 Fleet

Nothing to report.

4 Fleet

A NG landed and took Ocean Island. R 16(4)

SE Fleet

Manus, Madang and Wewak were liberated.

SRA

Malaya

In the AM air phase, 42 bomber sorties in a couple of raids, tried to bomb Georgetown. A Buffalo and Blenheim IV F shot a couple down. The Nate sweep didn't happen until the PM phase. At least they shot down the Blenheim.

My ambush over the CA TF 1 hex SE of Kuantan worked. 9 Zeros made it to cover the TF and two British flights attacked them. The first was 6 Blenheim IVs and 3 Hudsons escorted by 20 Buffalos. The Zeros blew past the Buffalos with ease to get to the chewy center, shooting down 3 and 2 bombers respectively. Flak got a Buffalo!

Only 2 Zeros remained for the second Brit attack of 3 Swordfish and 12 Vildebeests escorted by 8 Buffalos. The Buffalos held off the Zeros and flak got one of each of the bombers.

There were no losses or damage among the Japanese ships and planes. I moved the CA TF a few hexes north to extended range of the Buffalos. Tomorrow, Zeros, Tojos and Oscar Ibs will provide LRCAP to the cruisers. Let's see what happens.

The remnants of the Kota Bharu garrison were trashed once again 1 hex south along the rail line and pushed another hex south.

Philippines

The beat up 1 PA Division is in Lingayen and will be attacked tomorrow.

A Paratroop SNLF will drop on Cabanatuan tomorrow. The only thing there is a handful of damaged bombers.

The 48 Division is pushing south, the 65 Brigade is pushing west and the 16 Division is. pushing north.

Mindanao

The only Japanese unit on the island is a NG company just south of Davao. In 3 days, 3 tank regiments will land on the north side of Mindanao at Butuan and quickly overrun Cagayan, the base holding the B-17Ds. Today, there was a small raid on Babeldaob by 4 B-17s. This jives with my intel saying 12 have been lost. At any rate, I want Cagayan to station Betties and Nells there. Maybe they'll do something.

Burma

Forces are still crawling toward Moulmein and Pegu/Rangoon.

China

The DM Thracian, which was in Hong Kong port yesterday, sailed to Pakhoi where I was dropping off troops and beat up an xAP. The troops should unload tomorrow before the xAP sinks. The Thracian sailed past a surface TF "protecting" the transports and the surface ships just watched the whole event.

The 9 DMS are moving into the port of Hong Kong to clear the mines. I don't know how many there are, but there are a lot.

Other Places

The CL Dragon sallied into Singkawang harbor and sank a small supply TF of an xAK and PB, then just sat there. My sub in the hex watched the whole debacle and did nothing. Later in the day, 3 Mabels stationed at SIngkawang managed to put a bomb into Dragon. A CA and some escorts will arrive there tomorrow to take on Dragon if she sticks around.

Other Stuff

I converted some merchant yards to naval yards a few days ago. Today, I increased some of the naval yards to get it to my goal of 1500. That should be complete in 8 days.

I increased the vehicle factories from 72 to 100. This should be complete in 3 days.

Manpower: I won't repair this. It's currently at 4025 with 20,263 in the pool.

HI: It's currently at 14,054. IF I repair/increase any it'll be in Java. I doubt I do that. Anyway, my goal is 15,000, but we'll see how that turns out.

LI: I'll take what I get. It's currently at 9788.

Refinery: It's at 1200 and producing at 100%. Including HI, LI and Refineries, my supply production currently is 15,042 per day. My fuel production is the max at 10,800 per day. The refineries use 12,000 oil per day.

Oil: I have the starting 224 oil fields producing the max 2240 oil per day. My net loss of oil is 9,760 oil per day. I need 976 undamaged oil fields to break even. I won't take them too early because there are still enough enemy bombers in the SRA to cause damage to them.

Resources: I have 14,043 undamaged resource centers producing 280,860 resources per day. For the HI and LI, I need 125,988 resources per day. I'll need more as I liberate HI and LI, but yeah, it's good. I want to push enough resources to the Home Islands so it'll be self sufficient at some point. I'll track it monthly to see the status. Once there's enough in the Home Islands to last through the end of the war, I'll stop.

Armament: It's still at the starting 620. I won't increase it unless losses are heavier than normal. Then I'll consider it. I track a lot of stats daily, so I keep a close watch on things. This is one of them.

Vehicles: It starts at 72. Recently, I increased it to 100. It's currently at 87 and will reach 100 in 3 days. I'll increase it over the next month or so to 150.

Here's my engine data:

Type, Factories(Damaged), Producing (Y/N), Pool, Need
Hitachi Amakaaze, 0(0), No, 119, Use up on E14Y1 Glen
Kawasaki (early), 0(0), No, 85, Use up on Ki-32
Ha-31, 45(0), No, 244,- Used for Ki-46-II until the Ki-46-III comes out
Ha-32, 66(14), Yes, 35,120, Used for Sally and Betty, Will increase production over time
Ha-33, 71(4), Yes, 101,129, Used for Val, Jake, Nell, Mavis, Will increase production over time
Ha-34, 16(14), Yes, 8, ~150?, For Helen & Tojo when production begins
Ha-35, 190(50), Yes, 180, 173, For Zero, Oscar, Kate, Thalia
Ha-5, 0(0), No, 101, -, Use up on Ki-30
Nakajima Hikari, 0(0), No, 99, -, Use up on B5N1

You'll notice that I'm using up some obsolete engines on the Ki-30, ki-32, E14Y1 and B5N1. The first two are serviceable 1 engine bombers. the Glen will be used over the course of the war on subs and the B5N1 is a great TB for MKB. Eventually, some of the Kates will be used in training units and will end their life (as will just about everything) as a Kamikaze. The reason I like to build these aircraft is because the engines are already built so the aircraft can be built for half price, only 18 HI per plane.

I have 4 engine factories that are not being used but will eventually be converted to something else, some within the next day or so. I was spreading out the supply drain to repair so many things. Of the producing factories, only the Ha-35 has 2 factories. I am going to allocate 2 of the 4 available factories to the Ha-34 and Ha-35, giving them 2 and 3 respectively. I want to increase their pools to >500 to assist with R&D. Still debating on the last 2 factories.

[RangerJoe]

I need 976 undamaged oil fields to break even . . .

You will need more than that because of the refineries that you will capture, at least for the intact refineries.

If you do expand the HI, consider expanding it in Northern China and Manchukuo since that will also help to pull fuel to that area as well. There should be more than enough Resources that but it will also help to pull that there as well. You might want to stockpile oil, fuel, and resources at Port Arthur so those items will have to come from farther afield to the HI in that area, at least once you capture Urumchi and are also bringing those items to SE Asia and/or China.

The only LI that I will expand is at Fusan to increase the Resource demand there. Then then the Resources get loaded for the 2 hex trip to Japan.

I would consider changing the Armaments factory in Korea to a Vehicle factory. Then expand more as is needed.

Some naval combat vessels also use merchant shipyards. These are the CVEs and maybe even the CS class vessels along with other support ships.

If you use your CAs, CLs, and DDs as fast transport TFs to capture bases, once they are unloaded they become surface combat task forces which can then greet any Allied ships that are visiting.

[PaxMondo]

... expand is at Fusan to increase the Resource demand there. Then then the Resources get loaded for the 2 hex trip to Japan.
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+1

I definitely increase this.

[PaxMondo]

I am wondering if the new beta prevents this now with all of the flooding rework of the China map...

Honestly, I don't know. I'm using 1127b in my current game. I tried 1128 6? months back and there were too many bugs, and too many map changes for me to deal with in my mod. I'm 99% sure that the flooding re-work was to eliminate the magic highway. I haven't looked at the pwhexe file for 1128 to know whether it will or not. Having said that, I suspect that it will still work, but it will just be more difficult to get it to work. Why? Unless they re-wrote the supply movement code, the fundamentals are still there. Supply will want to flow; you can restrict it, but it still wants to flow. If you understand how it flows, then you can overcome simple obstacles.

Here's the good news for the IJ: most allied players are totally ignorant of how supply moves as they have so much of it they never bother to learn. The increasing the flood zone effects in mid-China will impede the allies ability to supply Eastern China/MAN/MON from HK. So, I view this as a huge Easter Egg for the IJ in the late game. The allies will have to conduct one more landing at Shanghai to support their troops. One more landing is just that much more time. Tick Tick Tick. At least, this is how I see it. We'll see as the AAR's advance ...

[RangerJoe]

I am wondering if the new beta prevents this now with all of the flooding rework of the China map...

Honestly, I don't know. I'm using 1127b in my current game. I tried 1128 6? months back and there were too many bugs, and too many map changes for me to deal with in my mod. I'm 99% sure that the flooding re-work was to eliminate the magic highway. I haven't looked at the pwhexe file for 1128 to know whether it will or not. Having said that, I suspect that it will still work, but it will just be more difficult to get it to work. Why? Unless they re-wrote the supply movement code, the fundamentals are still there. Supply will want to flow; you can restrict it, but it still wants to flow. If you understand how it flows, then you can overcome simple obstacles.

Here's the good news for the IJ: most allied players are totally ignorant of how supply moves as they have so much of it they never bother to learn. The increasing the flood zone effects in mid-China will impede the allies ability to supply Eastern China/MAN/MON from HK. So, I view this as a huge Easter Egg for the IJ in the late game. The allies will have to conduct one more landing at Shanghai to support their troops. One more landing is just that much more time. Tick Tick Tick. At least, this is how I see it. We'll see as the AAR's advance ...

Actually, no . . .

I asked about the map changes with the flooding and Kyushu not being connected anymore to Honshu, they only affect the movement of units but not the movement of supplies, resources, fuel, and oil.

[PaxMondo]

I asked about the map changes with the flooding and Kyushu not being connected anymore to Honshu, they only affect the movement of units but not the movement of supplies, resources, fuel, and oil.

No, I am sorry.

If the RR line from Kyushu to Honshu is broken, resources will flow, but at a slower/lower rate.

I'm not saying that the change is wrong or not historically accurate; it is historically accurate.

I am saying that to state it doesn't affect resource movement is inaccurate. It does. The port-port transfer rate is a fraction of a large RR line. What I'm trying to figure out is why someone would suggest to you that there isn't any affect?

And yes, it is a pretty large game balance change too. So, also interesting in that regard as well.

[RangerJoe]

I asked about the map changes with the flooding and Kyushu not being connected anymore to Honshu, they only affect the movement of units but not the movement of supplies, resources, fuel, and oil.

No, I am sorry.

If the RR line from Kyushu to Honshu is broken, resources will flow, but at a slower/lower rate.

I'm not saying that the change is wrong or not historically accurate; it is historically accurate.

I am saying that to state it doesn't affect resource movement is inaccurate. It does. The port-port transfer rate is a fraction of a large RR line. What I'm trying to figure out is why someone would suggest to you that there isn't any affect?

And yes, it is a pretty large game balance change too. So, also interesting in that regard as well.

You interact with the person who informed me of this, this was the person who asked me to beta test the game. I inquired of him about the movement of the supplies, resources, fuel, and oil. I passed along the information that I received.

[Seacat54]

For Hong Kong and elsewhere, you can use PBs in minesweeping TFs but there has to be a minesweeper in the hex to form that TF. While the Ansyu PBs may not sweep that many mines, they can usually clear a mine with their hull and not sink. Those are also great ships to carry artillery and tank units in Fast Transport TFs. They can be loaded with supplies in a Fast Transport TF and then added to other TFs as escorts but not to non-fast transport TFs if they are carrying units. So there should be no need to have cargo vessels just loaded with supplies in amphibious TFs unless you want to add ships to help dilute any air attacks on the invasion convoys.

I have 9 DMS heading into Hong Kong right now to take care of the mines.

And yes, I LOVE the Ansyu PBs for Fast Transports. I figured that out midway through the last game.

I use the AMc, I consider the DMS too valuable as escorts.
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[Mike Solli]

15 Dec 41

Sub War

Good day today, with a rare event. The I-19 put a torpedo into DD Tucker leaving her burning and heavily damaged about 10 hexes NE of Pearl Harbor. Immediately after that, the I-6 put a torpedo and shell into an xAK just east of Pearl leaving her burning and heavily damaged. Immediately after that, I heard sinking sounds. Not sure which ship sank, but intel said both sank. If the DD is still afloat (which I think, see below), I think it's unlikely she makes it to Pearl. I have 10 subs all around Hawaii with a couple following the hex row that ships will take between Pearl and the US West coast. That's where I found Tucker. Lots of sharks that have smelled blood in the water.

One thing I have learned is that in the intel screen the Allied ship losses is accurate. In today's example, a DD (value of 6) and xAK (value of 5) are both reported sunk in the sunk ship screen but in the intel screen, the number of sunk ships increased by 1 and the value of the sunk ships increased by 5. That tells me the xAK sank and the DD is still afloat.

5 Fleet

Nothing to report.

4 Fleet

Troops landed at and took Tarawa. They will reload and merge with other forces to take Baker Island later.

SE Fleet

More combat troops are flowing in. The next target is Rabaul.

KB is 2 days from refueling and replenishing aircraft lost on 7 Dec. They will then head east to cover the Baker and Johnston Islands invasions.

SRA

Malaya

There still is an air presence of 2 Buffalos and 1 Blenheim IF, which the sweeping Nates can drive off but not shoot down. No matter. Tomorrow, Taiping will be liberated and Georgetown cut off. A division is already moving to invest and reduce Georgetown while the rest of 25 Army continues south toward Singapore. IJA medium bombers are pounding the troops at Georgetown in preparation for the attack in a few days.

My ambush of the RAF over the CA TF (which moved north to a point where the Buffalos stationed at Singapore had to escort their bombers at extended range against my Zeros, Tojos and Oscar Ibs at normal range) was wildly successful. There were 5 separate British air attacks against the CA TF. Here's a roll up of the total sorties:

Buffalo: 28 sorties, 15 shot down
Blenheim IV: 15 sorties, 1 shot down
Blenheim I: 12 sorties, 4 shot down
Hudson I: 2 sorties, 2 shot down from flak
Wirraway: 3 sorties, 2 shot down

That's a loss of 24 of 60 sorties, or a 40% loss. Oh yeah, there were no Japanese air losses. The Mikuma did take a bomb that hit armor but destroyed a 5" turret. I'll take it.

Intel says 34 Buffalos have been lost to date.

Philippines

I'm pushing the Allied troops toward Bataan and their eventual demise.

Philippines, 16 Dec 41.pdf

(271.12 KiB) Downloaded 9 times

There is one unit each in Iba and Manila, 60k troops in Clark Field and 18k troops in Bataan. I'll take Manila quickly and probably land a small unit at Iba to take that base and take the last 2 bases in the southern peninsula then move everyone into Clark Field at the same time. I will NOT attack the troops at Clark Field. I will bomb them with bombers and artillery until they withdraw. When they withdraw, I will attack them to hasten their departure and inflict casualties. While doing this, I will use some of my bombers to bomb Bataan's airfield to prevent the building of forts there.

The squadron of P-35s swept Laoag. Five of them didn't return for no loss to my Zeros. Why did they sweep? No clue. I'll take it though.

Lingayen was liberated, once again beating up the already beat up 11 PA Division.

Cabanatuan was liberated (no enemy troops) by 65 Bde assisted by some paratroopers landing there. Only a couple of ancient B-10 bombers were destroyed on the ground.

Mindanao

Three tank regiments will land at Cagayan in 2 days. I want to take this base to drive the remaining B-17s out and allow elements of 23 Air Flotilla to forward deploy for future operations

Borneo

My Singkawang lodgment is spreading out to take the surrounding bases.

Other Places

Burma

15 Army is crawling toward Moulmein.

Chiang Mai will receive substantial (for the Japanese) engineers to build that airfield (eventually) to level 4. It will be a major medium bomber air base. Initially, I want to increase the airfield from level 1 to 2 so I can station fighters and 1E bombers there.

China

The 9 DMS cleared all the mines from Hong Kong in one day! And without loss! Nice! Now I can send some transports there to pick up 38 Division and 2 independent engineer regiments for further SRA exploits and all the artillery for the Philippines.

Two SNLFs landed at Pakhoi and will attack (with a previously landed NG) the Chinese Corps there tomorrow.

The hex west of Wuchow was cleared.

I'm still rearranging troops to free up combat troops. This will take awhile.

Other Stuff

Nothing to report.

[RangerJoe]

I suggest that you put a LR CAP over his airfields to increase his OPs losses. The Nates if they are within range which are otherwise used for defensive CAP would be good for this, otherwise Oscars will work. LR CAP will also work as bomber escort but without as many fighters as if the unit was on an escort mission. They may also show up during sweeps.

[Mike Solli]

I suggest that you put a LR CAP over his airfields to increase his OPs losses. The Nates if they are within range which are otherwise used for defensive CAP would be good for this, otherwise Oscars will work. LR CAP will also work as bomber escort but without as many fighters as if the unit was on an escort mission. They may also show up during sweeps.

I have LRCAP over every base with enemy fighters in Malaya and Luzon with the exception of Singapore. I'll put some over Singapore as soon as I take Kuantan, which should be in a few days.

[Seacat54]

I asked about the map changes with the flooding and Kyushu not being connected anymore to Honshu, they only affect the movement of units but not the movement of supplies, resources, fuel, and oil.

No, I am sorry.

If the RR line from Kyushu to Honshu is broken, resources will flow, but at a slower/lower rate.

I'm not saying that the change is wrong or not historically accurate; it is historically accurate.

I am saying that to state it doesn't affect resource movement is inaccurate. It does. The port-port transfer rate is a fraction of a large RR line. What I'm trying to figure out is why someone would suggest to you that there isn't any affect?

And yes, it is a pretty large game balance change too. So, also interesting in that regard as well.

If true I am never playing this version unless it comes with a November 1942 map with the Kanmon tunnel.

[Mike Solli]

16 Dec 41 - Relatively quiet day today.

Sub War

Nothing to report.

5 Fleet

Nothing to report.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

Nothing to report.

SRA

Malaya

My trap off Kuantan (4 CA, 4 DD) caught the RAF destroying 3 Buffalos and 3 bombers for no loss. Intel is showing 24 fighters in Singapore and none anywhere else.

Philippines

A handful of Betties hit the port of Manila, where intel told me there were some ships. The Thanet was hit 3 times leaving her with heavy fires and heavy damage, along with the reported sinking of an xAP and TK. The last 2 were fictitious. None of the 3 ships showed up as sunk in the intel screen and no ships showed up in the sunk ships screen either. Were they really hit? Who knows.

Naga was liberated, clearing the southern half of the southern peninsula of Luzon.

Mindanao

The tank regiments should land tomorrow at Cotabato.

Other Places

Do-24s keep attacking my shipping (a surface TF) in Singkawang and the Zeros there never engage them. I discovered why today. They are coming in at 1000 feet and the Zeros are at 15k feet. I reduced them to 5k feet to see what happens tomorrow.

Sambas (base to the east of Singkawang) was cleared destroying a Do-24 on the ground. Those flying boats are a pain in the ass.

Burma

15 Army is still crawling north.

China

Pakhoi was liberated. My idea is to push the Chinese north to allow the flow of resources and oil eastward to Fusan. Manpower 1(1) and Resources 20(20)

Other Stuff

Nothing to report.

[PaxMondo]

Good day today, with a rare event. The I-19 put a torpedo into DD Tucker leaving her burning and heavily damaged about 10 hexes NE of Pearl Harbor. Immediately after that, the I-6 put a torpedo and shell into an xAK just east of Pearl leaving her burning and heavily damaged. Immediately after that, I heard sinking sounds. Not sure which ship sank, but intel said both sank. If the DD is still afloat (which I think, see below), I think it's unlikely she makes it to Pearl. I have 10 subs all around Hawaii with a couple following the hex row that ships will take between Pearl and the US West coast. That's where I found Tucker. Lots of sharks that have smelled blood in the water.

I don't know why, but I always like when this happens. Completely anecdotal and empirical, but it always seems like these happen in groups of 2 or 3 for me. Prolly not, but it seems that way and I do enjoy it!!!

One thing I have learned is that in the intel screen the Allied ship losses is accurate. In today's example, a DD (value of 6) and xAK (value of 5) are both reported sunk in the sunk ship screen but in the intel screen, the number of sunk ships increased by 1 and the value of the sunk ships increased by 5. That tells me the xAK sank and the DD is still afloat.

I think this is a difference between PBEM and AI games. In my AI games, the ship points are always a lie, but the others not. You can manually back into it, and of course, eventually they will agree.

My ambush of the RAF over the CA TF (which moved north to a point where the Buffalos stationed at Singapore had to escort their bombers at extended range against my Zeros, Tojos and Oscar Ibs at normal range) was wildly successful. There were 5 separate British air attacks against the CA TF. Here's a roll up of the total sorties:

Buffalo: 28 sorties, 15 shot down
Blenheim IV: 15 sorties, 1 shot down
Blenheim I: 12 sorties, 4 shot down
Hudson I: 2 sorties, 2 shot down from flak
Wirraway: 3 sorties, 2 shot down

That's a loss of 24 of 60 sorties, or a 40% loss. Oh yeah, there were no Japanese air losses. The Mikuma did take a bomb that hit armor but destroyed a 5" turret. I'll take it.

Intel says 34 Buffalos have been lost to date.

Whoo-HOO!!!


A really great turn. What we live for!!

[PaxMondo]

If true I am never playing this version unless it comes with a November 1942 map with the Kanmon tunnel.

It is fairly easy to edit the pwhexe file to change this. Either before game start, or introduce it during the game in Nov 42.

[PaxMondo]

16 Dec 41 - Relatively quiet day today.

Pakhoi was liberated. My idea is to push the Chinese north to allow the flow of resources and oil eastward to Fusan. Manpower 1(1) and Resources 20(20)

Watching with great interest.

[PaxMondo]

You interact with the person who informed me of this, this was the person who asked me to beta test the game. I inquired of him about the movement of the supplies, resources, fuel, and oil. I passed along the information that I received.

Understood and thanks for confirming what I suspected. No worries. As I note above, it is an easy thing to mod ... I think I update maps like 6 or 7 times in my mod if I get into '45 .... one more just isn't that big of a deal.

[Mike Solli]

16 Dec 41 - Relatively quiet day today.

Pakhoi was liberated. My idea is to push the Chinese north to allow the flow of resources and oil eastward to Fusan. Manpower 1(1) and Resources 20(20)

Watching with great interest.

I have a couple of YO hauling oil from Fusan and there is constantly a flow of oil there when they arrive back there. Granted, it's only 1k oil total, but oil is flowing there. I also have some cargo ships hauling resources and every time they arrive, the resources are there. I'm a couple of turns behind in the AAR, but a TK showed up (7950 capacity) and it's going to Fusan to haul more oil. Granted, the oil is from C/M/K, but it's still flowing to that port.

[Mike Solli]

17 Dec 41

Sub War

Nothing to report.

5 Fleet

The two subs that are headed to scout the Aleutian Islands are just south of Attu. I should get some info in the next few days.

4 Fleet

Forces are gathering to take Baker and Howland Islands. That should take close to a week for everything to be in position.

SE Fleet

Forces are enroute to Truk to expand southward.

SRA

Malaya

The CA TF did its job again today. For no fighter losses and no damage to the TF, 9 Buffalos were shot down and a bomber was taken down by flak. Intel says that a total of 56 Buffalos have been lost to all causes to date. Very nice.

Philippines

A morning attack on the port of Manila by some Betties put a 250 kg bomb into the damaged Thanet putting her down for good.

Mindanao

One tank regiment has landed successfully at Cagayan with two more that should land tomorrow.

Borneo

The chutai of Zeros at Singkawang flew at 5k feet today and finally engaged a couple of flights of Do-24s coming in at 1k feet. While they didn't shoot any down, they did damage them and drove them off.

Other Places in the SRA

I had placed some mines in Merak (northern tip of Java) at the beginning of the war. Ted swept them, with one mine being taken out by an AMc hull.

Immediately after that, Boise reared its ugly head finding the Ryujo TF. Ryujo's entire escort was 6 DDs. Spunky Ryujo put a shell into Boise and in turn was hit by a 6" shell. One of the DDs also hit Boise before the short encounter ended. I was really worried about Ryujo only to learn that it was FoW. There was no damage!

After the sun rose, Ryujo's Kates put 4 bombs into CL Mauritius south of Jolo at a cost of one Kate (KIA). Unfortunately, Mauritius is still going strong.

Burma

Engineers and AS are enroute by train to Chiang Mai to expand the airfield there in preparation for the 15 Army invasion of Burma.

China

Still shuffling forces around and trying to gather forces for offensive operations.

Other Stuff

Reinforcement
36 JNAF AF Unit - Southern Army - headed to SE Fleet AO.