Pauk's corner: sake break for Japanese fanboys

[pauk]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/09/42

Very boring turn. There are only few things worth to be mentioned: Zeros from Baby KB shot down 7 enemy fighters at Darwin (no losses on our side) and victory in China:

Ground combat at 47,34 (hex south of Ichang)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 49511 troops, 576 guns, 6 vehicles

Defending force 10293 troops, 50 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 12 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
1146 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Vehicles lost 1

Allied ground losses:
240 casualties reported
Guns lost 11

Andy have now two choices: either he will retreat from Ichang either he will be surounded.

Divine strike-go ordered for tomorrow and i'm ready to take quilty if operation will failed. One chinese LCU (partial) is in Kumning, not BF, according to recon pilots. But i have to try this. At least it will give some headache to the Scottman.

I'm afraid that my paras will be evaporated in the near future - there are two Chinese units in Yunan now...

[pauk]

a double update:

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/10/42

SS Sailfish sunk near San Jose (as I predicted).


Another raid on Chungking - two I-153 shot down, 12 resource hits. More than 100 transports carried our brave paratroopers on suicide mission. After the first battle i knew it I wouldn't be able to caputre Kumning. It was so close, so close....


Ground combat at Kunming

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 2156 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 2916 troops, 17 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 3)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1


Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1



AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/11/42

Palembang is under heavy bombardment from the air. It would take eternity to my units arrive at Palembang hex...grrr.

Manila is under heavy pressure from the air too. Yesterday all planes attacked assigned targets (AF and ground units) but today only bombers assigned to port and AF attack...strange.

In next few days i will have about 3500 AP - what to do? Shock or deliberate attack? Can shock attack be overbalance (?) in my favour or not? I would appreciate any input from you guys....


SRA

These Bettys are coming from Kendari. Enemy TF based at Derby. Andy didn't move it yesterday from Derby [&:] yesterday. What is he doing: fuel problem or another sneaky plan by this Scottsman?

Koepang is reinforcing with base force and construction units, supply is still at low level. I moved in one Zero daitai and LBA and limited them on 11 hex range. BB Yamashiro and Fuso protecting the base and reinforcements. Akagi and Kaga are few hexes east of Koepang, while Baby KB sails to Kendari (refueling)

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Paul Jones, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Banckert

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet


Troops unloading over beach at Medan - mix bde + eng rtg.

Bandoeng captured. Imperial guard division still traveling from Krangen to hex W of the base. 18th div starts to unload at Kragen. SED is unloaded and ordered to join our Java troops.


CHINA





Ground combat at Kunming

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 3250 troops, 24 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 3365 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0


Japanese ground losses:
310 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

[pauk]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/12/42


SRA

Enemy surface TF (at Derby) dissapeared. I've ordered naval/port attack on Derby (few ships reported in port.

Imperial Guards div arrived in hex north of Soerbaya and will attack Dutch units along with 35th bde, tk rtg and 2 naval garnison units (780 AP points).

Mutsu TF will bombard Soerbaya this night...

I have 3 Zero daitai at Mandalay and ordered a sweep over a base in India (Calcutta, Dacca?) - app 40 enemy figters reported on the CAP duty there (Hurricanes and P-39). Let's see what will happen here....

PHILIPPINES

Army bombers attacked usual targets - Manila AF and port, while part of them bombed 1st and 41PA division. I hope that tomorrow all my bombers will attack ground targets (I assigned all 300 bombers to ground attack) because a deliberate attack is scheduled for tomorrow on Manila. I have little less than 3500 AP and very anxsious to see tomorrow results. Honestly i have no idea what will happend here....

CHINA

Ground combat at Kunming

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 2813 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 3822 troops, 24 guns, 0 vehicles

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


Japanese ground losses:
137 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Allied ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

No suprise here, Andy continue with bringing reinforcements by air. Zeros on LR CAP over Kumning shot down few fighters and 3 transports but i was unable to cut Kumning. Divine strike-go is recalled. I need to save my paratroops and rebuild them.

Meanwhile, a massive attack on Chinese units south of Kweiyang. Pretty disappointing, assault strengh is down to 3100 points.


Ground combat at 42,37

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 208706 troops, 2428 guns, 247 vehicles

Defending force 147878 troops, 717 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
7442 casualties reported
Guns lost 188
Vehicles lost 17

Allied ground losses:
977 casualties reported
Guns lost 57

[pauk]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/13/42


A quite dissapoint results from night bombardment of Soerbaja (4 BBs): 6 Dutch ac, 321 casaulties. Hm, i'm gonna to check TF commander....

Troops finally disembark at Medan. Deliberate attack ordered for tomorrow.

Uh, i was suprised when I saw only one Daitai on sweep over Dacca. Of course, it was my mistake - did not set other 2 Daitais target for sweep. So here what i got:

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

Allied aircraft
Hurricane II x 19
P-39D Airacobra x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane II: 9 destroyed, 1 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 4 destroyed, 2 damaged

Not a bad result, after all. At least, daitais set on sweep but without target stood down so Andy don't know that they are there. I moved fatigued Daitai to Rangoon and replace it with fresh one and if Andy send his monsters (B-17) he will faced with 60 Zeros on CAP. I'm think I'm ready.

Anyway, I'm satisfy with Curry-go, diversion operation that will, hopefully, keep Andy in belief that I will go for India.

Air raid (11 LBA) on Derby did not achive any succes - one Nell is destroyed, no hit on anchored ship(s).

CHINA

85 Army bombers bombed Chungking resources - no significant fighter opposition and 8 resource hits are scored - 138 resources are damaged so far.

All is quiet on the ground at Kunmning, but skies over the base are not. Andy did not attack my paras which is good. As long as they are in the hex base no supply is produced.

He sent 7 SB-2c to bomb paras at Kumning. Zeros on LRCAP shot down 3 of them plus one I-16c and one Locheed 212. Enemy lost 24 planes while i lost 7 (4 zero 3 A2A) this turn


PHILIPPINES

hmph... i didn't got 2-1 odds and my army there have barely more than 3000 AP (from 3500). Heay bombing on 21st PA Division (118 casualties reported, guns lost 8), 45th PS Regimental Combat Team (46 casualties reported, guns lost 4), 81st PA Division did not help...

Disruption level is not so high but some of units have more than 50 and i ordered rest for them.

Ground combat at Manila

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 184310 troops, 1797 guns, 488 vehicles

Defending force 66865 troops, 589 guns, 160 vehicles

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0


Japanese ground losses:
4168 casualties reported
Guns lost 135
Vehicles lost 16

Allied ground losses:
1769 casualties reported
Guns lost 58
Vehicles lost 2

PACIFIC

Well finally some action in this theatre [8|]. My subs are really dissapointment in this game. They don't dare to attack even conwoys like this one - it was ASW attack! Phew!


Japanese Ships
SS I-6

Allied Ships
AK Empire Summer
AK Empire Confidence
MSW Latrobe

Tomorrow i will post a map about my future plans in this theatre.

BURMA

Now i can understand why Andy run away with burmanese units from Mandalay towards Dacca (trail). Two Chinese units appears at Lashio and defeat my Tk rtg (which attacked first). Now i have to reinforce Mandalay with mix rtg from Rangoon.

33rd Div arrived at Bankok and sent to Rangoon.


Hmmm.... i caught myself that I'm thinking again about India invasion...puff!

Ground combat at Lashio

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 3041 troops, 24 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 1710 troops, 0 guns, 118 vehicles

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

Allied forces CAPTURE Lashio base !!!


Allied ground losses:
69 casualties reported


Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

[pauk]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/14/42



BURMA


Enemy reaction on the sweep over Dacca was quick, as I expected. Sneaky Scotsman withdraw fighters from Daca (so no CAP over base) but i wasn't so stupid to send another sweep over the base. Instead this i ordered CAP over Mandalay (90%) but only 45 of app 70 zeros fly over Mandalay sky.

They met Andy's monsters (LB-30 and B-17) and bloody encounter begins. Their base is Ledo and i guess he training them with supply mission to China.

I hit escape button after watching A2A combat for some time because almost every LB-30 shot down my Samurai(s). But hey, we all know that Allied pilots are liers! Anyway, this bloody encounter did not go bad for Andy. I've lost 11 Zeros this turn (7 A2A combat, 3 on the ground and one ops los - this one could be lost in China skies).

Bombing raid on Mandalay cost him 14 4E bombers (8 LB-30, 7 A2A, 1 ops and 6 B-17E; 3 A2A, 2 flak, 1 ops los).


Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 45

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 31
LB-30 Liberator x 48

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 9 destroyed, 10 damaged
Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 destroyed, 20 damaged
LB-30 Liberator: 7 destroyed, 20 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
41 x LB-30 Liberator bombing at 6000 feet
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet
15 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet

Seven Samurai's are KIA in action. Unfortunatly all of them were veterans or even crack pilots:

F2 Tainan Daitai (leader Nakajima 74/81, overall exp 82) - 3 pilots died: W. Kasai (no more flying over Planica hill[:D]) 79exp, T. Yamamoto (the nephew of great Admiral) 89 exp and V. Nomura (76). The Daitai flew on 24K but they climb towards the bombers on 6K[&:].

Daitai is awarded with 3 confirmed kills: crack pilots gained one exp point (both from 82 to 83) for one kill (Shibata and Nomura L.)

F2 Yamada Daitai (leader Sekiya 83/78, overall exp 76): lost one pilot (Kondo-67exp) and shot down 3 enemy planes. Pilots which gain exp are: Obura (from 74 to 77), Hamamoto (from 71 to 74). Hirano stays at 76. They all shot down one 4E each.

F2 Omura Daitai (leader Motomatsu 56/52, overall exp 59 - mix of crack and green pilots). 3 pilots KIA: Kanzuki (86), Hamano (62) and Aihara W (60). Daitai is awardered with 4 kills:

Matsuba get 4 exp point (61/65), D. Fujita (64/68), H. Matsuyama (62/66) and Nagashi (66/70) also get 4 exp point, all of them for one kill (this results match (?) with my previous experiments - posted in main forum)....



CHINA


Zeros on LR CAP over Kunmning shot down one SB-2c and damaged 4.

Still no withdraw from Ichang, but i need several days to encircle him...

Allies finally cleans Yunan hex. My paras withdrew one hex SE of the base.




PHILIPPINES


Air bombing on 2nd PA Division and 41st PA Division in Manila



PACIFIC





SRA


Medan captured. Only 5 oil are damaged. Defeated enemy retreats towards Kulla.


Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 19315 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 729 troops, 7 guns, 1 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 56 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Medan base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Allied ground losses:
323 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

One (cadre?) of RN base force arrives at Palembang. Bulk of my forces arrived there and i will attack Palembang tomorrow.

[pauk]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/15/42



Palembang falls into my greedy hands - oil, my precious oil. Despite heavy bombardments from sea, land and air last two weeks i did not capture oil fields intact. Nevertheless i can consider Oil-go as a moderate success - 138 oil are damaged (568 is operational) and 89 resources are damaged (811 operational). I will post soon my war industry statistics.

I found something about 10K resources and 121K of oil. According to my calculation more that 240K oil and 50K resources should be produced during last two months. I doubt that Andy managed to take 40K resources nad 120 K oil (i sunk most of his TKs in the area)... oh well...

Defeated enemy engs withdraw south of Palembang - one NLF unit embarking at Palembang and will capture Teloemba... something to cut these troops and provide me a free training camp!


Ground combat at Palembang

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 94137 troops, 945 guns, 21 vehicles

Defending force 1740 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 4

Japanese assault odds: 734 to 1 (fort level 4)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Palembang base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
70 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Three Dutch garnisons holds against IMG division, 35 bde, Tk regiment and naval garnisons. The reason for that is i don't have support while he have (Dutch base forces)...

Ground combat at 22,64

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 44066 troops, 426 guns, 117 vehicles

Defending force 11805 troops, 107 guns, 4 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
662 casualties reported
Guns lost 23

Allied ground losses:
540 casualties reported
Guns lost 29
Vehicles lost 2


Tjilitjap captured and Dutch CD surrenders.


Ground combat at Tjilitjap

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 6180 troops, 0 guns, 119 vehicles

Defending force 1023 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Tjilitjap base !!!



Allied ground losses:
1668 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


PACIFIC

Japanese forces CAPTURE Emirau Island base


BURMA


As you can see on picture i will have to deal with Chinese divisons in area. Can't allow them to re-open Burma road. I suspect that Andy will start air raids on Mandalay but did not move Zeros in Mandalay. I have to admit that i'm very very careful with my Samurai's.

[pauk]

(Title means : Sneaky Scotman evacuation route [:D])


Under the impression of General Hoepner's AAR's i checked my oil and resource status in Home islands. And what i can see... no more than 30-40K resources in any base, several bases are low at resources?! Oil is in the much better situation... Created some emergency conwoys (from China) before my "regular" shipment from SRA arrives in HI. Wierd, pretty wierd. I have more than 18.000 resources in total, but today my stocks shrinks from 1 622 000 to 1 594... hm, have to keep an eye on production....




AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/16 AND 02/17/42


Not a much to report for 16th February. Dutch sub (K VII, I think) is hit twice on eastern Sumatra coast by Sally and Alf.

Andy moves bombers in Bankha and i thought that he will use them against my ships there. I sent Haruna and Kongo on bombardment run, covered vith fighers TFs in area, but these planes were on transfer from India to Australia, I guess. Today they are reported at Barj something (base east of Balikpapan, on SW Borneo). Anyway, ordered Fuso and Yamashiro TF to bombard this place, just in a case.

Now take a look what this Scotman the Sneak doing! Transfer route from Cayagan to Australia via Mortoai with one or two Catalina on transport duty, i guess, but it isn't really matter...

K VIII sinks (SW of Amboina).





CHINA

Air raid on Kweiyang with 43 Sallys. They destroyed 4 Chinese "forts" (IL-4c) on the ground.

Raid on Chungking wasnt so successful. 60+ Army bombers scored just two resource hits.

2 SB-2c's shot down over Kumning.



BURMA

Enemy sweeping Mandalay base (they are set on high attitude, of course) over last two days. The Emperor told me that we can't allow such arrogantly behaviour from American mercenaries, so i visited Mandalay again. AVG/B pay it dearly [:'(]. Didn't withdraw Zeros from the Mandalay this time.

Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 69

Allied aircraft
P-40B Tomahawk x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Tomahawk: 18 destroyed

Allies lost 20 ac in A2A while i lost 7 (4 zeros). But lots of LR CAP mission cost me several fighters. Total losses this turn are 25 Allied for 15 Japanese planes.

Enemy withdrawing from Ichang.


PHILIPPINES

I'm pissed, just slighty pissed off. Bombers on AF strike fly regulary while those on ground attack didn't attack. And this is not a first time. What annoys me most is that this happends when i order my LCU to attack enemy at the Manila. Phew!


Ground combat at Manila

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 180793 troops, 1663 guns, 467 vehicles

Defending force 63036 troops, 490 guns, 157 vehicles

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


Japanese ground losses:
3416 casualties reported
Guns lost 51
Vehicles lost 17

Allied ground losses:
2089 casualties reported
Guns lost 72
Vehicles lost 1

Back to 0-1. Disruption is 70+ and I'm again under 3000 AP. Only good thing here is that i suffered 1.600 casaulties less than in previous attack, while allied losses going up.

[Gen.Hoepner]

Under the impression of General Hoepner's AAR's i checked my oil and resource status in Home islands. And what i can see... no more than 30-40K resources in any base, several bases are low at resources?! Oil is in the much better situation... Created some emergency conwoys (from China) before my "regular" shipment from SRA arrives in HI. Wierd, pretty wierd. I have more than 18.000 resources in total, but today my stocks shrinks from 1 622 000 to 1 594... hm, have to keep an eye on production....

Resources have been a great problem for me in my game with MC ( not now as long as most of my industries have been already shut down). It seems that there's a leak somewhere in the resources stocks...but i've never understood where....[&:]
For the whole 42 i had to make some extra shipments of resources from Korea and China to be able to fullfill the requests of the homeland, being SRA-and DEI never enough

[Gen.Hoepner]

ah...do not look at the general stock! Always check your single bases....

[AmiralLaurent]

Manpower points eats ressources (5 per day) and there are more than 800 manpower centers in Japan, so you need in Japan 4000 ressources more than oil each day.

Also the total shown by the games are only the ressources, oils, supplies and fuel in your bases. To know you real stock you should add what is aboard your ships. In your case the drop of 28 000 is probably due to ships loading ressources in Chinese ports.

[Lt. Calley]

ORIGINAL: pauk

PHILIPPINES

I'm pissed, just slighty pissed off. Bombers on AF strike fly regulary while those on ground attack didn't attack. And this is not a first time. What annoys me most is that this happends when i order my LCU to attack enemy at the Manila. Phew!

Do the bombers on ground attack have at least 50% of their TOE strength in undamaged aircraft? If not, they will not attack (an undocumented feature).

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: Lt. Calley

Do the bombers on ground attack have at least 50% of their TOE strength in undamaged aircraft? If not, they will not attack (an undocumented feature).

How did you learn of this?

[Lt. Calley]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: Lt. Calley

Do the bombers on ground attack have at least 50% of their TOE strength in undamaged aircraft? If not, they will not attack (an undocumented feature).

How did you learn of this?

#8 in the Prerequisites section of the first post:
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=690235

[pauk]

Hey it is nice to see a bunch of my future opponents here[:D]

Seriously, thanks for your advices. Amiral, you could be right and i will watch it carefully.

Lt. Calley, no this is not a case. All my groups bombers, fighters etc all in perfect condition - always (I'm airforce fanboy). No less pilots in ac group than ac... etc... I start to think that is some hidden hardcoded rule(s) in the game... oh i'm getting paranoid.[:D]

ok, back to the bussiness (sp?)


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/18/42


SRA

I can't explain why i love small victories, found them even more enjoyable than strategic ones. Well, maybe I'm just small sneaky Bastard (anyone watched The New Statesman?) who is delight when he outsmart smart guy[;)]

Andy lost cadres and 12 precious Coronado(s) (hm, could it be a whole unit?). I admit i was distrustful about performace of unsupplied NLF...


Ground combat at Morotai

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 618 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 574 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Morotai base !!!


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 6 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Allied ground losses:
631 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Here is a screenie of Java and Sumatra. No special reason for that - i just wanted to show you a traffic there [:D] and ASW effort. Andy is busy with evacuating cadres, while I'm runing rare material conwoys, redeploying SC ships and - bringing some more reinforcements.



No plane(s) destroyed during naval bombardment of Banjarmasin (944 casualties reported, guns lost 15, vehicles lost 5)- i'm one step behind Andy in this case. They are now in Australia probably and i guess that they are heavies (no ops losses during transfer from Sumatra to SW Borneo)... so the question is where and when they will strike?

If only i know would prepare a strong CAP..



PHILIPPINES

Now look. Same planes, same numbers, same ac groups - only difference is they are all set on AF or port attack. And yes...

Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
C5M Babs x 5
Ki-21 Sally x 122
Ki-48 Lily x 42
Ki-49 Helen x 24

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
189 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 38
Port hits 3
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1


CHINA

Ichang is abandoned by enemy and my forces capture it. Pretty quiet these days in the theatre, but that will change soon. I'm waiting for reinfocements in Kwelin-Kweiyang crossroad.

[dtravel]

*raises hand* And I'm the one who wrote that. That bit of information came from the developers about the time the 1.3 patch was released, which loosened some of the restrictions on Ground Attack missions. (I think it was 1.3, been a long time.) Which all came about as a result of a stink that was being raised about how hard it was to get Ground Attack missions to fly. (IIRC I started that too during one of my *ahem* discussions with Mr.Frag.)

So, you can blame me for knowing that particular tidbit. [8|] (Although I refuse to take responsibility for it existing in the first place! [:D])

[dtravel]

ORIGINAL: pauk

Lt. Calley, no this is not a case. All my groups bombers, fighters etc all in perfect condition - always (I'm airforce fanboy). No less pilots in ac group than ac... etc... I start to think that is some hidden hardcoded rule(s) in the game... oh i'm getting paranoid.[:D]

Getting paranoid about the programming just means you've been playing the game for more than a day. [:'(]

[Honda]

You don't understand. He gets REALLY paranoid. You wouldn't like him wen he's paranoid[:D]

[dtravel]

ORIGINAL: Honda

You don't understand. He gets REALLY paranoid. You wouldn't like him wen he's paranoid[:D]

[Honda]

Don't you go Spock on me[8D]

[pauk]

First raw material conwoy (60K oil, 40K resources) arrived in Tokyo.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/19 & 02/20/42

Another boring turn, but don't blame me;). After initial aggresive defence, Andy become a perfect example of brave "Sir Robin". Example: After my sweep on Dacca he stood down all fighters. My answer was sending unescorted Bettys!? on air raid on Dacca - 4 Dauntless were destroyed on the ground.. My recon reported no enemy planes at Dacca today:...

But I'm not fooled, he will strike when you don't expect at all... damn.

Yesterday another sub repored sunk - K XIV (S of Amboina). She was damaged before, in Manila area. I've raided Kweiyang AF and destroyed 4 enemy bombers on the ground (ILs and SB-2). He really doesn't care about Chinese airforce... (using them as decoy, rather than having his LCUs bombed from the air, i guess)

Bulk of my army arrived in hex N of Soerbaja and deliberate attack finally worked. However two Dutch rtgs withdrew before attack to the Soerbaja, while one Dutch rtg + 2 BF (defeated units) withdrew in Madieon.

That's was for yesterday. I finally have found some time and available units for Miri, and deliberate attack is ordered.

Enemy planes spoted at Tomini (one of Celebes bases). I send few TF forces to all those tiny bases on the island- don't like idea of airlift.

CHINA

Despite help from Army bombers, deliberate attack failed. Grrrr... Chinese there must be veterans now...I will for recuperation and reinfocements (700 AP) and try shock attack. It that not works, well, the China campaign is over.


Ground combat at 42,37

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 230410 troops, 2612 guns, 378 vehicles

Defending force 146616 troops, 671 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
6137 casualties reported
Guns lost 79
Vehicles lost 6

Allied ground losses:
4368 casualties reported
Guns lost 73


PHILIPPINES

The total number of Allied troops rapidly going down, even when i don't attack. I think that in last 2 or 3 days 3000 men are missing. Does it mean that he is finally starved? (experts?)



[>:]