Tophat<IJ>vs.pmt411<Allies>

[Tophat1815]

Just starting off tonight,i'm once again Imperial Japan and sam has volunteered to be the poor Allied whipping-boy.
We are doing an historical first turn.No variable setup.......and i'm awaiting his reply for the first turn.

In this AAR i'm going to be meticulous in just what production,shiphuilding and conversion choices I make and why. i hope to be interesting or controversial enough to generate responses. Perhaps i'll simply slander Allied and jap fanboys so i get a rise out of you all.

Startingoff........no japanese forces can be sent to china from anywhere but Kwantung Army. All forces sent to china must be paid for and converted to China command.
We are going with 4 ship limit on ASW groups,not escort ships within a convoy.
No 4E bombers running rampent attacking below 6,000 ft.
No mass B-24's operating out of Burma/India before 43'.
No KB hanging around PH and smashing the US Fleet.
I also intend to operate in a Sane japanese manner,not invade the US westcoast for example.

With all this said,i'm awaiting the results of our PH attack.....

[Tophat1815]

Dec 7th turn................

There was no "vary setup" so we did all historic first turn moves/invasions....I was also unable to make pre-first turn production adjustments!

ECONOMY:


Industry: I expanded a 5 industry city by 5 on turn one,currently i have lost my note on the cities name.

Naval Shipyard:......Expanded 3 small ship yards a total of 15 pts for all 3 combined.

Aircraft:
Harbin.......Halted Nate production.
Nate factory in Home islands.switched to A6M2 zero production,my goal is to have a 300 aircraft reserve in the pool before i halt production. This is after all conversions!
Nells.....switched to betty's and production tweaked up.

Ok on the aircraft more changes are to follow.i forgot to halt ida production!

Engines........
All nissian engines converted to nakajima!
Small 20 engine nakajima plant increased in size!
Surprise,surprise there is now a 120 units of hitachi engines being produced.i need to see if I need a production run of any of these engines! Then will shutoff and convert to nakajima.
Isawakawhater.....converted to nakajima.

*****moses started a thread about jap aircraft reseach plants being damaged and taking "alot" of supply. i'm going to look at this next turn and see about shutting these down or letting it go awhile and check back on his thread.


I'm annoyed...my combat report is of AdaviDB and my game! i'll delete it and run the turn over!

[Tophat1815]

hmmmn,re-ran my dec 7th turn...the combat report didn't update/regenerate.............nuts is this a bug? We will see if it continues in afew turns!

[Tophat1815]

Dec 9th:

Still having a problem generating a combat report,possibly a bug,I will continue to look at this.


State of the WAR:

KB is steaming away from PH now and due to rendeavous with my tankers for refueling. All subs that had started campedout on PH's doorstep are now approaching their picketline positions.

Gilberts:
I have a small landingforce approaching Tarawa,they are covered by Nell's and zero's so I hope he hits me with a CV group.

PI:
48th ashore at Apparri and 65th ashore at Vigan. baseforces and supplies on the way to both so I can get air operating there ASAP! I have the 16th Inf div headed for Naga as well.
Airops in the PI I have Clark hammered and am going for manila fields next. He has kept his P-40's in manila and has them all dropping 100lbs bombs on my ships.

Hongkong:
First shock attack was no good,so was second......I now have 2 CmbtEng rgts able to attack along with the 38th div. so we should see some success now.

Malaya:
18th div first shock attack failed but hurt the Allies..i'm trying again. The 5th Div is on the road to Alor Star. Imperial guard div is headed for a port to embark,target mersing. 23rd inf brigade is embarking for Kuantan Invasion........I want to pin and destroy him inplace not let him run into singapore!
AirOps malaya:
Good God! He has the whole AVG in Singapore and everything is on a flippin bombrun! Every fighter and bomber is armed with bombs and going after my ships!
Good news.my air-raids are all getting through.....bad news is he is hitting afew ships! But i'm smacking his airstrips!


Production:
I'm still wondering why i am keeping the hatachi engines producing,going to look at this again this turn and most probably halt production. I will see how many factories are producing Hitachi engines.....

[Speedysteve]

HI Tophat,

Basic question but is the CR turned on in the main game options menu AND in the the 'in-game' preferences menu?

Regards,

Steven

[Tophat1815]

Main game menu...."yes' just checked again...........preferences menu or whatever by pressing "P" when the game loads.also yes! I'm checking again to make certain,rather have it be my own stupidity!

[Tophat1815]

speedy,
Shames me to say when game loaded and i hit "p" to get to options/pref screen....combat reports were again off.again i turned them on.have to tell my allied partner how to do this as well so we break the cycle!

[Speedysteve]

Hope it sorts it out Tophat [8D]

Regards,

Steven

[Tophat1815]

ORIGINAL: Speedy

Hope it sorts it out Tophat [8D]

Regards,

Steven

Hope so too,i'll let you know!

[Tophat1815]

Speedy..........you are a genius,I swear i'd adjusted that setting,but I MUST not have because my combat reports work fine once again!


Dec 11th:

KB metup with her tanker support and toppedoff...i have a possible US naval force coming after my tankers...can it be a US CV or two............KB will drop back and cover.......i'm licking my chops!


PI:
Moving baseforces and droppingoff supply at Vigan and Apparri. I have the 16th Inf div going to land at Naga and i'm waiting for that to happen! The 4th or 56th will land at San marcelino to blow open the front at Clark........

AirOps in PI have me blasting Clark and now going after manila.He still has everything carrying bombs and trying to hurt my shipping!

Day Air attack on TF, near Aparri at 46,49


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 30


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Maya
CA Ashigara
CL Kuma

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
4 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
4 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
4 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
4 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
4 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
4 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
4 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

Thank heaven they are at 2000 feet,those fighterjocks aren't hitting me badly yet!

Day Air attack on TF, near Vigan at 44,49


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 3


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
PC Ch 11

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet


But this is abit disconcerting,however i can still whack his airfields while he doesn't challenge my raids!