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

[PaxMondo]

5 Nov 42
Still haven't decided whether to surround the 60k rabble or push them into Chungking...

Trust, me, keep them out. They will cost you 10x the losses if they get inside behind lvl9 forts. Move a "sick" ID (you know, one that is only about 300 AV and maybe a BDE or 2 if you are worried) in with them and then 2 - 3 Ann/Mary training groups to bomb them every turn. You'll get pilots and exp out of it and then when CK falls, you'll get VP's.

I've come to the same conclusion, but for different reasons. I figured the fewer troops in Chungking the better.

Exactly.

[Mike Solli]

7 Nov 42

Sub War

Nothing to report.

5 Fleet

Dutch Harbor:

The 3 Ansyu PBs on fast transport duty dropped 1400 supply (with 1600 more to unload tomorrow). The 21 Division is now flush with supply and their fatigue/disruption is down to 17/24 (down from 30/30). They'll continue to wait until their fatigue, disruption and disablements are minimal before attacking. Also, two CA TFs are enroute to bombard. All will coincide for the big attack. The raw AV differential is 284:108.

Three LB-30s went after some a small TF of a CL and 7 DDs guarding the beachhead. Five Zeros from KB2 caught them shooting down 1 and possibly causing a second to go down. I'm trying some LRCAP by a full daitai tomorrow. He has more LB-30s. Maybe they will all fly tomorrow.

Adak:

The Fuso and Yamashiro, scheduled to bombard Adak, found one of the ACMs in a TF (as a target) and sank her. They then proceeded with their bombardment mission killing 10 squads and disabling 32 more while giving the survivors a severe headache (read higher disruption).

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

137 P-39Bs strafed some of my troops in and around Salamaua today. I'm sending in a sentai of Nicks tomorrow to try and catch some.

SRA

Nothing to report.

Burma

The Allied artillery bombardment of the front line was extraordinary. For a loss of 11-0(2) they took 601-34(49) casualties. I'll take it!

China

I attacked Neikiang (2 hexes NW of Chungking) killing 1 squad and disabling 100 (89 infantry) while losing 1 infantry and disabling 20. I'll rest a bit before continuing the attack. Reinforcements are enroute. The attack force is composed of 1 Tank Division and 2 tank regiments. The tanks are taking no losses. Eventually, I'll wear them down and get the base.

Other Stuff

Reinforcements
8 Area Army HQ (with 17 & 18 Army HQs assigned), headed to Tinian, 17 Army HQ is already at Guam. This Army will encompass all 4 islands of the Marianas and Pagan (which will be a fighter base).
18 Army HQ, headed to Saipan.

[sfatula]

What kind of damage are the P-39's doing? Can you post a sample turns report for those?

[Mike Solli]

8 Nov 42

Sub War

The I-25, patrolling east of Auckland, put a torpedo into an xAK. There was no report of her sinking. I spotted 3 additional TFs leaving Auckland for points north. I'm pretty sure I spotted the route the computer sets to head north from Auckland. I'll post more subs along that route. I really need more subs in SE Fleet AO. More on that below in the "Other Stuff" section

5 Fleet

Dutch Harbor:

Things are progressing nicely. The Fast Transport TF dropped off the remaining 1600 supply without being hit. 21 Division now has 3029 supply (869 required) and its disruption/fatigue is down to 8/20 from 17/24. Two CA and 1 CL will bombard tomorrow and 3 CA and 2 CL will bombard the day after. I'll attack with 21 Division when the second TF bombards.

Thirty-seven Vals from KB2 hit the port heavily damaging the AS and AD.

Adak:

DD Asagao hit Tunny with a DC. Some of her tubes were damaged, so I hope that sends her home. I still see 3 subs (one of them Tunny) attempting to harass me at the base.

I finally stationed a sentai of Sallies at Attu (level 3 airfield) and they bombarded troops at Adak. They didn't do much damage (only 2x 250kg bombs each) but they will add to the disruption.

Yamato and Mutsu, along with 2 CLs, bombarded killing 13 squads and disabling 5 more. The constant bombardments are starting to yield some good results.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

Thirty-eight Nicks caught 5 P-39Ds over Salamaua and only shot down 2. Really? The rest of the Airacobras hit other bases in the area and none of the Nicks went after them.

At Rennell Island (2 hexes SW of Lunga) I spotted 2 enemy TFs totaling at least a dozen ships. It looks like an invasion TF and a covering force. I had the 4 Aobas escorted by 8 Fubukis headed down here to maul them until I spotted something else.

Two hexes SW of Rennell Island I spotted a CV TF. It looks like it's only one carrier, because I see 39 fighters, 58 bombers and 6 auxiliary aircraft. I have 5 subs within 5 hexes of the CV TF. Three are headed to the hex and the other 2 are moving to likely directions it may move. The Aobas are unspotted and are remaining out of possible range of the enemy carrier bombers. They'll stick around in case there is an opportunity.

SRA

Nothing to report.

Burma

Today's Allied bombardment of the front line yielded 3 Japanese squads killed and 11 disabled vs. Allied losses of 27 kills and 50 more disabled.

China

Ted must by spying on this AAR (just joking) because he is moving the former Kweiyang garrison north along the road toward Chungking. Thirteen units are 2 hexes SW of Chungking and the remaining 7 are 3 hexes SW of Chungking (where I was attempting to surround them). I'm attempting to move a brigade to the hex immediately SW of Chungking to cut them off, but the Chinese are moving northward along a road and my brigade is moving overland. If they continue to move, they'll make it back to Chungking. We'll see what happens.

Other Stuff

I currently am using more Naval Shipbuilding points than I have (1500). It will remain that way until BB Musashi (233) is completed in 22 days. I have 6 CVs accelerating, along with 4 DDs (all that can be accelerated. One accelerated DD (13 tripled) will complete in 4 days.

I have 6 subs (all normal) completing in the next 87 days:

I-176 (26), 16 days
I-34 (33), 17 days
I-35 (33), 19 days
I-36 (33), 50 days
RO-100 (24), 76 days
RO-101 (24), 87 days

When Musashi completes, the first 3 subs will be done, and the last 3 will be at 28, 54 and 65 days remaining. I'll accelerate I-36 but not the ROs. We'll see what the surplus looks like. I may accelerate I-38 (33) set to arrive 14 February 43. But, I'll always accelerate DDs when I can and I want to accelerate CV Taiho, but that would cost an additional 206. We'll see about that.

[Mike Solli]

9 Nov 42

Sub War

Two hexes SW of Rennell Island, the I-174 launched 4 torpedoes at CA Minneapolis, which missed. They did spot BB North Carolina, 3 CA, 2 CL and 5 DD, but no carriers. Hmm... I don't see any planes in the TF now, but there are severe storms in the hex. Hopefully, that'll hide the 4 subs converging on the hex tomorrow.

Off Auckland, an AM hit I-25 with a depth charge. She took enough damage that she'll head to Truk for repairs.

At Adak, the Haddock hit DMA W-3 with a torpedo, sinking her, and got away unscathed.

5 Fleet

Dutch Harbor:

Two CA and a CL bombarded Dutch Harbor today in preparation for the bombardment and deliberate assault scheduled for tomorrow. The bombardment hit the port but did kill a few squads and disable another 19. By the way, all of KBs Vals and Kates are scheduled to hit the troops here unless an enemy TF shows up. Nothing has hit my sub tripwire and nothing has left Pearl Harbor, so I don't anticipate that happening.

Thirty Zeros met two flights each of 3 LB-30s and shot down one in each flight for no loss.

Thirty-seven Vals hit Dutch Harbor's port again today putting 3x 250kg bombs into the AR leaving here burning fiercely and heavily damaged. I think she may finally be done for.

Adak:

The Sally sentai killed a single squad and lost a Sally to flak.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

A squadron of F4F4 Wildcats and SBD-3 Dauntlesses stationed at Woodlark Island have been hitting my bases in the area. Today, they went after Buin's airfield. The raid was 17 Dauntlesses escorted by 14 Wildcats. I had 9 Zeros on CAP, who got the bounce on them. After shooting down 5 Wildcats, they burned through and shot down 5 Dauntlesses. The Dauntlesses got two runway hits (that were easily repaired). On the return trip, the Zeros shot down 4 more Dauntlesses. Banzai!

Forty Nicks met 21 P-39Ds on a strafing run at Salamaua. The Nicks did ok, shooting down 4 for a loss of 2. They did better against the next group of 17 P-39Ds, shooting down 5 for a loss of a single Nick. The 3 remaining Nicks then met 11 P-39Ds losing 1 and causing no Allied loss. Overall, 4 Nicks were shot down and a couple more were op losses (1 KIA, 5 WIA) vs. 7 P-39Ds.

SRA

Nothing to report.

Burma

Nothing to report.

China

The 20 units I was trying to surround are all now 2 hexes south of Chungking. I suspect they're moving north to the city. I won't be able to cut them off because they're moving along the road and my troops trying to cut their route are moving cross country. Too bad.

Other Stuff

The A6M5b R&D advanced to 1/44 and is expected to become operational 3/43.

[Mike Solli]

10 Nov 42

Sub War

The I-23 spotted an invasion TF (not surprising) but couldn't get into firing position. She took enough damage from the DC attack that she'll head for Truk for repairs.

5 Fleet

Dutch Harbor:

The morning started off with a brisk barrage from 3 CA and 2 CL. They further damaged the AD and AR (that damn thing won't sink!). I think I heard sinking sounds afterward, but we're on a family vacation with our kids, their spouses and the grandkids so it's pretty noisy around here. I see 2 ships still in port including the AR, so maybe the AD sank. *Shrug* Anyway, 10 squads were killed with another 28 disabled and more damage was done to the port, so there will be no addition to the forts here.

The full might of KB was supposed to bomb Dutch Harbor's troops today in preparation for the deliberate assault, but they were a no show. Too bad. The attack went in anyway getting 1:1 odds (1.66:1 actually) and reducing the forts from 1 to 0. 21 Division will try again tomorrow. Hopefully, KB does make an appearance and that's enough to push them over the edge.

Adak:

A dozen Sallies bombed the troops at Adak. They did no damage but added to the probably significant disruption in preparation for tomorrow's attack.

I'm trying another attack tomorrow. The troops are all at 0 disruption and 3 fatigue. Let's see how this attack goes. Two BBs are scheduled to bombard before the attack.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

Five Catalinas attempted to bomb the CA TF north of Rennell Island, but fortunately missed. I spotted the TF that was then wasn't then was again today a CV TF. They moved south of Rennell Island a few hexes missing my 4 subs that tried to find them. Now I see they have 68 fighters and 85 bombers, probably 2 carriers. At any rate, my CV TF is currently 10 hexes north of them and will move north 13 hexes to stay out of their way. They'll remain in the vicinity just in case the carriers withdraw and there still are some juicy xAPs they can pounce on.

SRA

Nothing to report.

Burma

Still bombarding at the front with casualties on both sides. Ted was right when he anticipated a big grinding operation on both sides.

China

My tank army at Neikiang (2 hexes NW of Chungking) attacked again today getting 2:1 odds and reducing the forts from 2 to 1. They'll attack again tomorrow.

Ted's 20 chewed up units will make it to Chungking, unfortunately. I never really had a chance because they were on the road and I had to go off road to surround them. Of the 20 units, 11 are a hex SW of Chungking and the remaining 9 are a hex to the SW of them. I have 1/3 of a division with the 9 units, which I suspect are support units. I'm attacking the regiment to try and hasten their departure.

Other Stuff

Nothing to report.

[Mike Solli]

11 Nov 42

Sub War

I learned today that you can't put a ship into an ASW TF if it has no depth charges left in its inventory. Interesting. I learned this by watching DMS W-4 use up its DCs (unsuccessfully) on Haddock and, afterward, split out the DMS to go get more DCs and couldn't put her in an ASW TF.

South of Norfolk Island, the I-25 put a torpedo into a fuel laden TK leaving her heavily burning. I didn't see her go down but did hear sinking sounds later and I suspect it was the TK.

5 Fleet

Dutch Harbor:

The attack went in today and was successful! The attack was 2:1 with no forts (actually 2.61:1 so there was a buffer). The following units were destroyed:

37 (SEP) Infantry Regiment
Dutch Harbor USN Base Force
2/250 Coastal Artillery Battalion

Fortunately, I lost only 27 disabled squads in this attack. They are now planning for Adak but will rest, recover and plan until the garrison arrives.

Adak:

Nine Sallies bombed the troops disabling one non-combat squad.

Adak is definitely a grind, at least until they run out of supply. There is still AAA so he still has supply. I attacked today knowing the attack wouldn't be effective, and it wasn't. My divisions took a lot of losses landing so they're not very strong (~150-300 AV each). The attack was only 1:3 but they did reduce the forts from 5 to 4. I will need reinforcements here at some point. 21 Division is a good candidate, but they lost a lot landing too. Right now their infantry is 211(75). I'll let them recover before sending them in. The other candidate is 56 Division, at full strength and sitting in Tokyo. Remember, they "vanished" from Burma and had to be rebuilt. The down side of this unit is its experience is only 48. They are planning for Adak and are at 42. Maybe I'll send both. We'll see. Interestingly, 56 Division rebuilt to 102% strength.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

Sixty-five P-39Ds strafed various bases in PNG again. That's down from >120 a day a few days ago. There have been NO 4E bomber sorties for about 9 days now. Nine days ago, they took a beating and have vanished. Nice!

SRA

Nothing to report.

Burma

I've been noticing a LOT of enemy fighters stationed at Chittagong (>100). I want to bombard it to try and kill some. Unfortunately, all my BBs are up in the Aleutians, so the job has to be assigned to the 4 CAs I have stationed at Singapore. I also noticed a few small ships in 2 TFs sitting in harbor so I sent CL Jintsu and 5 DDs in today to clear them out. They went in and found the first TF composed of 2 MGB and easily sank them. Then they found a single MTB who launched some errant torpedoes and fled. I'm sending them back in today on a bombardment mission hoping they sink the MTB and maybe damage a plane or two.

There was more grinding at the front line, but 25 enemy guns were supposedly destroyed.

China

My armor hit Neikiang (2 hexes NW of Chungking) again getting 1:1 odds and dropping the forts from 1 to 0. I'm attacking again tomorrow. The Chinese lost only 2 infantry squads but disabled 76 more, so the defender is definitely getting weaker. My only losses were 8 infantry disabled. All my armor is intact.

The former Kweikang residents are almost all a hex SW of Chungking and can some of them actually made it to Chungking. Only 2 were still 2 hexes SW of Chungking and were attacked by my 1/3 division. The two units were a Chinese Corps and a base force. My unit chewed them up and one retreated. The other one is still in the hex and will be attacked again tomorrow. I hope it's the base force and is destroyed. Only infantry units come back at 1/3 strength.

Other Stuff

The Ha-43 engine R&D advanced to 4/44 and is expected to become operational 7/43.

I still have only 3 of 18 George R&D factories fully repaired. Two are at 29(1) but refuse to repair that last point.

[InHarmsWay]

Very interesting AAR! I am learning all the things I have been doing wrong in my Aleutian invasion. Wont elaborate further as Admiral Wa likely is listening in to this thread. It does sounds like you have it in hand (but always be aware of victory disease). With the high level of research on the key fighters, what are your best estimates for arrival of the George, Frank, Sam and others?

[Mike Solli]

Very interesting AAR! I am learning all the things I have been doing wrong in my Aleutian invasion. Wont elaborate further as Admiral Wa likely is listening in to this thread. It does sounds like you have it in hand (but always be aware of victory disease). With the high level of research on the key fighters, what are your best estimates for arrival of the George, Frank, Sam and others?

My "plan" for the Aleutians was to overwhelm him with numbers. The Adak invasion was almost a disaster because of the mines. I forgot to put minesweepers in the TFs. That cost me 2 obsolete DDs and a handful of xAPs, most with troops on board. What's keeping me afloat is the constant bombardment with 6 BBs. Their sys damage is creeping up. I'm going to send the two worst offenders (sys damage wise) back to the Home Islands to get repaired.

When I attack, I try for 2 different options. I want to invade with 3:1 odds in terms of infantry formations, so a division should invade against a regiment (which happened at Dutch Harbor. I didn't get that at Adak. 3 divisions ended up going against the equivalent of 2 1/3 divisions. He's getting weaker but I need probably both divisions that I discussed above.

Don't worry about victory disease. This will be the last major offensive, most likely. An opportunity I can't afford to miss may crop up, but it won't be on the scale of the Aleutians.

My R&D...

I have no idea when I'll get the Frank or Sam. Neither is close to getting an operational R&D factory. The George just got its 4th repaired factory so it's up to +8% a day. Very late Dec 42 if I'm really lucky? I have 1262 Ha-45 engines in the pool so that won't be an issue for a long time, if ever.

I get the Tojo IIc in mid-December, so I'll have a decent IJA fighter that will serve them well until the Frank arrives.

The IJNAF gets the Zero M5c (with armor) around October 43 which will serve the carrier groups for a long time. The George will help a lot in the Solomons when it arrives.

I get the Jill in February 43, which will work well with the A6M3a, which I'm producing at 2 a day.

More detail later. Gotta run.

[PaxMondo]

7 Nov 42
137 P-39Bs strafed some of my troops in and around Salamaua today...

Ted has really been massing his air force extremely well. Not sure I see where he is going yet, but he is massing his forces. Has he always done this, or is this a new wrinkle for him?

[PaxMondo]

8 Nov 42
.... But, I'll always accelerate DDs when I can and I want to accelerate CV Taiho, but that would cost an additional 206....

Always one of my MOST difficult game decisions. Lately, I've been going with the Taiho. Getting it in Jan 43 WHILE the ZERO still reigns Lord over the Wildcat, it generally allows me to prosecute my India attacks and stifle any allied reinforcements. Yes, the lack of DD's during this time is a pain, but India is worth +1M in supply to me, so its kinda one of those "de facto" decisions now.

Having said the above, given where you are in the game, to me it's a no brainer: keep on with the DD's. The Taiho isn't going to change the calculus for you one iota now. By the time you can get it, even accelerated, the Death Star will have formed with F6F's. The Taiho is just VP's to be harvested by the allies until you have A7M ... and even then, it isn't much more. Sadly.

[PaxMondo]

9 Nov 42
Thirty-seven Vals hit Dutch Harbor's port again today putting 3x 250kg bombs into the AR leaving here burning fiercely and heavily damaged. I think she may finally be done for.

Except it's an allied ship in port. If it was IJN, it would have sunk last turn, but USN ... fingers crossed.

Forty Nicks met 21 P-39Ds on a strafing run at Salamaua... Overall, 4 Nicks were shot down and a couple more were op losses (1 KIA, 5 WIA) vs. 7 P-39Ds.

Outstanding!!!

[Mike Solli]

7 Nov 42
137 P-39Bs strafed some of my troops in and around Salamaua today...

Ted has really been massing his air force extremely well. Not sure I see where he is going yet, but he is massing his forces. Has he always done this, or is this a new wrinkle for him?

He did mass his Air Force last game, eventually. It didn't happen until sometime in 43. He told me he has taken the air game to heart and is using the Air War Guide. It's definitely making a difference. I'm trying my best to hit him here and there. My newest addition is putting 2 AAA regiments (8.8 cm and 10 cm guns) in Rabaul. One finished landing this most recent turn (not yet posted) and the second is a couple of days out. I suspect he'll come back to Rabaul full bore with his 4E bombers once he rests them. I'll be ready for him.

[Mike Solli]

8 Nov 42
.... But, I'll always accelerate DDs when I can and I want to accelerate CV Taiho, but that would cost an additional 206....

Always one of my MOST difficult game decisions. Lately, I've been going with the Taiho. Getting it in Jan 43 WHILE the ZERO still reigns Lord over the Wildcat, it generally allows me to prosecute my India attacks and stifle any allied reinforcements. Yes, the lack of DD's during this time is a pain, but India is worth +1M in supply to me, so its kinda one of those "de facto" decisions now.

Having said the above, given where you are in the game, to me it's a no brainer: keep on with the DD's. The Taiho isn't going to change the calculus for you one iota now. By the time you can get it, even accelerated, the Death Star will have formed with F6F's. The Taiho is just VP's to be harvested by the allies until you have A7M ... and even then, it isn't much more. Sadly.

I'll probably start accelerating Taiho after I get Musashi and about half a dozen subs that are due over the next month or so. But yes, DDs come first. Right now I am accelerating 4, which is all that are possible to accelerate at this point.

[Mike Solli]

9 Nov 42
Thirty-seven Vals hit Dutch Harbor's port again today putting 3x 250kg bombs into the AR leaving here burning fiercely and heavily damaged. I think she may finally be done for.

Except it's an allied ship in port. If it was IJN, it would have sunk last turn, but USN ... fingers crossed.

Forty Nicks met 21 P-39Ds on a strafing run at Salamaua... Overall, 4 Nicks were shot down and a couple more were op losses (1 KIA, 5 WIA) vs. 7 P-39Ds.

Outstanding!!!

I think the AR sank before I captured Dutch Harbor. At any rate, all of the ships there are gone.

[PaxMondo]

11 Nov 42
I learned today that you can't put a ship into an ASW TF if it has no depth charges left in its inventory. Interesting. I learned this by watching DMS W-4 use up its DCs (unsuccessfully) on Haddock and, afterward, split out the DMS to go get more DCs and couldn't put her in an ASW TF.

Learn something new every day in this game ... I also did not know this, but it makes sense ...

Dutch Harbor:
The attack went in today and was successful!

BANZAI!!!!!

Adak is definitely a grind, at least until they run out of supply. There is still AAA so he still has supply. I attacked today knowing the attack wouldn't be effective, and it wasn't. My divisions took a lot of losses landing so they're not very strong (~150-300 AV each). The attack was only 1:3 but they did reduce the forts from 5 to 4.

Good progress. Reducing forts. Keep up the air bombardments, you will get him.

SE Fleet

Sixty-five P-39Ds strafed various bases in PNG again. That's down from >120 a day a few days ago. There have been NO 4E bomber sorties for about 9 days now. Nine days ago, they took a beating and have vanished. Nice!

OK,
P39's: I don't think you have dropped 55 in the few days, so where did they go?
4E's: Yeah, but they didn't lose that many. Where have they gone?

Burma

I've been noticing a LOT of enemy fighters stationed at Chittagong (>100). I want to bombard it to try and kill some. Unfortunately, all my BBs are up in the Aleutians, so the job has to be assigned to the 4 CAs I have stationed at Singapore. I also noticed a few small ships in 2 TFs sitting in harbor so I sent CL Jintsu and 5 DDs in today to clear them out. They went in and found the first TF composed of 2 MGB and easily sank them. Then they found a single MTB who launched some errant torpedoes and fled. I'm sending them back in today on a bombardment mission hoping they sink the MTB and maybe damage a plane or two.

Is he re-orienting to India? From the SoPac? It would make sense at this point of the war ... but is he?

The former Kweikang residents are almost all a hex SW of Chungking and can some of them actually made it to Chungking. Only 2 were still 2 hexes SW of Chungking and were attacked by my 1/3 division. The two units were a Chinese Corps and a base force. My unit chewed them up and one retreated. The other one is still in the hex and will be attacked again tomorrow. I hope it's the base force and is destroyed. Only infantry units come back at 1/3 strength.

BANZAI!!!!!

I still have only 3 of 18 George R&D factories fully repaired. Two are at 29(1) but refuse to repair that last point.

The luck of the rolls. Next month they will likely flip in the first few days ... How are the other N1K factories doing?

[Mike Solli]

I think the 4E and P-39Ds are still in the Solomons area. I still see his carriers (2 CVs I think) tooling around south of the Solomons. I think they're covering some of his ships dropping off troops at dot bases near Guadalcanal.

I just had a fourth George factory complete repairs, so now it's increasing by 8% a day. Here are the remaining 14:

29, 28, 27, 26, 25x2, 24x2, 23, 21x3, 17, 8 - They're getting there.

[Mike Solli]

12 Nov 42

Sub War

Nothing to report.

5 Fleet

Ise and Hyuga bombarded Adak killing a dozen or so squads and damaging the airfield some more, including an all important airfield supply hit.

Half a dozen Sallies bombed the troops on Adak causing no damage, but causing them to use a few supply points on inefficient AAA.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

I saw 51 P-39Ds today.

SRA

Six Beaufort VIIIs bombed Dili's airfield causing a couple of points of damage. I'm going to have some Oscars fly LRCAP tomorrow hoping to get a few.

Burma

The Jintsu and her DD escort returned to Chittagong as a bombardment TF and ran into the MTB again. And again, she launched her torpedoes against me unsuccessfully and successfully disengaged. Jintsu bombarded the airfield damaging a single Hurricane and put a couple of hits on the airfield which was easily repaired.

China

Neikiang (the base 2 hexes NW of Chungking) was successfully liberated from the big Chinese Corps defending. The infrastructure was intact:

Manpower: 1(1)
Resources: 37(3)
LI:19(1)

Nice!

The Chinese Corps retreated north toward Chengtu, which is great news. The armor is chasing it and its remnant will reach the city.

Other Stuff

The B6N2 Jill R&D advanced to 9/43 and is expected to become operational 2/43.

[Mike Solli]

13 Nov 42

Sub War

Nothing to report.

5 Fleet

At Adak, I see only 1 sub today. In the past, there have been 3 subs there. I can't hit it though.

KB2 is headed to Yokohama for minor repairs and to top off the few plane losses. It's lost 4 Zeros and a Kate, all op losses and no pilot losses. The sys damage is very minor with a max of 4 points on Tone and Abukuma. Once repaired, it'll come back to the Aleutians to replace KB1, which has about the same amount of damage to repair. It's the BBs that are racking up the sys damage. Two of the 6 functional BBs are headed to the Home Islands for repairs. Nagato took two Catalina torpedoes and is currently making minor repairs at Attu. Her damage is currently 14-30(30)-12(9)-0. Once the minor damage is lower, she'll head to the Home Islands for full repairs.

On the ground, not much has happened.

Tomorrow, two groups of 2 BBs each will bombard. That'll be the first time there are 2 bombardments in one day. We'll see what happens.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

Ninety P-39Ds appeared today. Soon, I'll pit 80 Nicks and 60 Zeros against them. Still no sign of the 4E bombers.

SRA

I put some Oscar LRCAP over Dili and they Beauforts didn't show up. I'll keep it up for a few more days to see if they can get lucky.

Burma

Jintsu and her DD escort attempted once again to take out that British MTB at Chittagong. It was the same old story. The MTB launched torpedoes that missed and the Japanese ships couldn't hit anything. I'm sending in the CA bombardment TF tomorrow. Hopefully, the escorting DDs will take care of the MTB so the cruisers can focus on bombardment.

China

I attacked Lanchow again reducing the forts to 0 and getting 1:1 odds (1.58:1 actually). I'll rest the troops and try again later. I have Sallies that are keeping the airfield damaged (currently at 44%) so the forts will not be rebuilt. That base will be in my hands soon (fingers crossed). It's got 90 oil and refineries and 60 resources and LI. That will be a nice cut in Chinese supply and whatever survives I'll gladly accept. I'll most likely repair the oil facilities. An extra 900 oil per day will be a nice boon. Taking it will free up 4 divisions, 5 tank regiments and a HQ for future operations. That army will head due south and enter the Chungking plain from the NE with the mission of clearing Kienko (1 unit, 13k troops) and then surrounding Chengtu.

Other Stuff

The N1K1-J George R&D advanced to 5/43. Four of 18 factories are fully repaired and increasing R&D by 8% per day. I hope to have this model operational at the end of 42 or beginning of 43, but I'm not sure of an exact date.

The Ki-44-IIc Tojo R&D advanced to 4/43 and is expected to become operational in mid-December 42. It's R&D is advancing 14% a day.

Reinforcements:
AMc Yuen Maru #10, Kujira Maru class, will convert to a 12 kt PB with 4900 endurance, not a bad escort/torpedo magnet.
7 Ship Engineer Regiment, Southern Army, appeared at Manila and will stay there.
107 Ship Engineer Company, Southern Army, appeared at Manila and will stay there for now.
207 Ship Engineer Company, Southern Army, appeared at Manila and will stay there for now.
307 Ship Engineer Company, Southern Army, appeared at Manila and will stay there for now.
38 Field AA MC Company, 18 Army, headed to Saipan.
39 Field AA MC Company, 18 Army, headed to Saipan.

[PaxMondo]

12 Nov 42

China

Neikiang (the base 2 hexes NW of Chungking) was successfully liberated from the big Chinese Corps defending. The infrastructure was intact:

Manpower: 1(1)
Resources: 37(3)
LI:19(1)

Nice!

BANZAI!!!!!!!

What you need for taking CK!!!

How far will you build it up?