Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A)

[Empire101]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

The 5th and 38th Division will need to be divided and have decent leaders assigned to speed up rebuilding AFTER you capture Singapore.

Right now everybody except IG looks good leadership wise.

That's what I love about this game, you learn something new everyday.

Thanks ny59giants, great tip!![8D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Just checked. 4 out of 5 look ok:

Division - Leadership/Inspiration/Admin/Aggression/Land

18 - 66/69/48/65/76
2 - 74/64/54/66/72
38 - 58/77/48/69/71
5 - 70/63/53/72/76
IG - 29/58/30/68/52 - Ouch

IG definitely. What do you think about the others?

Probably good enough. But the IG? Blech.

[Hanzberger]

I guess I should have said what is the minimum

[zuluhour]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Just checked. 4 out of 5 look ok:

Division - Leadership/Inspiration/Admin/Aggression/Land

18 - 66/69/48/65/76
2 - 74/64/54/66/72
38 - 58/77/48/69/71
5 - 70/63/53/72/76
IG - 29/58/30/68/52 - Ouch

IG definitely. What do you think about the others?

Now here is some intel I can use![;)]

[CRations]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

The 5th and 38th Division will need to be divided and have decent leaders assigned to speed up rebuilding AFTER you capture Singapore.

Right now everybody except IG looks good leadership wise.

I thought you just need double the supplies at a base (see 16.4 on page 260 of the manual). There is also supposed to be an advantage to rebuilding your ground unit near lots of well stocked bases.

What skill are you looking for in leaders to help build your unit back up to full strength? ADMIN?

CR

[PaxMondo]

Unit Leadership and HQ leadership help with rebuild.  I find being in a big base with many big bases nearby the most important though.  Units rebuild VERY quickly in Tokyo and Osaka for example.

[ny59giants]

LCUs within the command range of a Command HQ will pull in replacements on a daily basis vs every three days. Usually they do well at a large base as it helps to have over the minimum in support troops and having over 20k supply. If you divide the division, then each of the three components will draw in replacements and repair disabled squads vs just once if you keep the division whole.

Rear Area Units Refitting
Units can be moved to a rear area to reconstitute (ideally out of a malaria or cold zone or in a base large enough to negate the effects). If the units are in the rear area to restore disabled elements, reduce fatigue, and replace lost elements, assign unit leaders using the following order of priorities:
• Administration – Influences ability to use Supply to reduce Disruption and Fatigue.
• Inspiration – Influences fatigue reduction, morale reduction due to fatigue, disabled elements destroyed due to fatigue, and assault value for attack and defense.
• Leadership – Influences experience gain (this is unimportant if the unit has already reached the maximum training experience).
• Of small import, Land Skill – Influences attacking & defending LCU assault value, firing accuracy and experience gain.
• No other skills or qualities have any influence

[zuluhour]

Giants said it right, the game penalizes Chang for this in Chungking, IMHO.

[Historiker]

Giants, you've posted a HQ guide somewhere. Can you provide the link once more?

[ny59giants]

Giants, you've posted a HQ guide somewhere. Can you provide the link once more?

See my AAR (post 29)

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[Historiker]

Thank you!

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Just checked. 4 out of 5 look ok:

Division - Leadership/Inspiration/Admin/Aggression/Land

18 - 66/69/48/65/76
2 - 74/64/54/66/72
38 - 58/77/48/69/71
5 - 70/63/53/72/76
IG - 29/58/30/68/52 - Ouch

IG definitely. What do you think about the others?

Now here is some intel I can use![;)]

[:-] [:D]

[Mike Solli]

1 Mar 42

Sub War

The O21 caught an empty xAKL north of Rabaul and put her under. Damn Dutch subs.

5 Fleet

A regiment was bought out of Kwantung and is headed for Dutch Harbor. It's going to be a while though....

4 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

SE Fleet

Bloody battle over Pt. Moresby today. 18x Zeros met 25 P-40Es. We lost 5 planes shot down (5 pilots lost too [:(]) and 2 op losses for us while 7x P-40s were shot down with 6 op losses for Ted.

Philippines

Cebu fell to a 3:1 attack. The 81 PA Division and a base force surrendered yielding 1861(655) Allies to 21(0) Japanese. The 16 Division is loading for movement to Bataan. Bataan is the final Allied base in the area.

China

Still working on cleaning up surrounded units.

Burma

Lots of fighting over Magwe. Basically, we lost 3x Zeros (2 pilots WIA) vs. 5x P-40Es. The bombers only damaged 5 oil (201/300 now). I'll have a lot more fighters over Magwe tomorrow. In addition, the 18 plane Yamada Det (elite Zeros) will arrive the day after tomorrow.

Java

A DA on Soerabaja resulted in 2:1 odds, reducing the for level from 2 to 1 and causing 536(92) Dutch casualties to 234(2) Japanese. I'll attack again tomorrow.

A regiment of the 20 Division destroyed 2x base forces that were SE of Djokjakarta for no loss.

Malaya

I'm trying another attack on Singapore tomorrow. I replaced the IG Divisional commander.

[Mike Solli]

Just finished the next turn. Pretty exciting but I'm too beat to post it. Spent most of the day moving furniture. Getting to be a bit much for this 51 year old body. [:D]

Anyway, here's a list of the ships lost by both sides in Feb 42:

Japan:
1 AMC
2 PB
2 xAK
4 xAKL

Allies
2 xAKL
1 xAK
1 xAP
9 AMc
5 HDML
1 AP
1 AG
1 AVP
1 AM
2 PB
1 SS
1 DD - Alden
4 CL!
That Damn Boise!!!!
Marblehead
Danae
Java

Not bad. Half of my ship losses were simply dumb mistakes on my part. [8|]

[ny59giants]

That Damn Boise!!!!

[:-]

[Teikoku Kaigun]

Banzai! x4
Hoping it was a naval battle.[:)]

[Mike Solli]

Not many naval battles. Three succumbed to torpedoes from aircraft. The Danae was dispatched by CAs after she was damaged by torpedoes.

[Mike Solli]

2 Mar 42

Sub War

Tough day for the IJN submarine fleet. The Ro-67 caught a depth charge off Pt. Moresby. Her damage came to 10-46(32)-0-0. She'll head back to Rabaul for repairs, assuming no one else catches her.

Later in the day, the I-164, looking for trouble around Dutch Harbor, finds it and catches 2x depth charges. I figured she was a goner, but it looks like she may survive. Her damage is 10-46(31)-0-0. She's heading back to Etorofu.

5 Fleet

It was too bad that the I-164 was put out of commission by that PC. The BBs Warspite and Colorado, along with CA New Orleans, pounded the 2x Naval Guards on Dutch Harbor. They didn't cause much lasting damage, but they did do a fair amount of disruption to the units. I've sortied KB from Truk to sneak up on them, but it'll take a week for them to arrive. They'll hang out to the west out of sight. I'm rearranging my sub screen out there to try to keep tabs on them to see where they're heading. If I'm lucky, they'll try to come back and I'll ambush them. The fast replenishment fleet will accompany them so they'll be able to stay out there quite a while.

4 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

SE Fleet

45x Zeros caught a flight of P-40Es over Pt. Moresby and shot down 3 for no loss. The sentai of Lilys hit the airfield for light damage.

China

Nothing new to report.

Burma

No air activity at all. Odd...

Malaya

The shock attack at Singapore succeeded! Singapore is mine! The 2:1 attack netted 40,877(4193) prisoners for the loss of 3967(11) Japanese. Best of all, the infrastructure was intact at Manpower 1(2), resources 20(0), HI 35(1), LI 40(0) and Repair Yard 50(0). I increased the HI to 35(65). I captured 44k resorces, 20k supplies and 67k fuel. Not bad. The forces will rest a couple of days. Then, two divisions will head to Burma, two the the SRA and the last division will remain in Singapore for a while until I figure out the garrison for that base.

Java

Not to be out done, Soerabaja fell as well. Unfortunately, the infrastructure was totally destroyed. The 3:1 attack netted 15,236(1315) Dutch for 146(10) Japanese. The infrastructure looks like this:

Manpower 1(1)
Resources 0(80)
Oil 0(190)*
Refinery 0(170)*
HI 0(10)*
LI 0(40)
Repair Yard 0(8)

I'm going to rebuild everything marked with an *. I'll increase the HI as it gets closer to being rebuilt. I'll rebuild the repair yard later.

I guess it's time to start shipping supply to Soerabaja.

The only bases on Java that are still in Allied hands are Batavia, Bandoeng and Kalidjati.

Other Stuff

Reinforcements:

41 JNAF AF Unit - Southern Army
Singapore Det - 30 AS - arrived it Tokyo. I'll leave it there because it only sticks around for a couple of months.

[ny59giants]

Check Palanbang and Balikpapan for extra supplies. They may help until you can ship in more from Japan.

OT - Do you convert some of your larger TKs to AOs?? You lose a little in capacity, but it would be nice to have the flexibility of using two groups on each side of the wide Pacific in fast Replenishment TFs. Assign a slow CVE to both and train up the DB/TB in ASW skills and the extra Zero as CAP is always nice.

[Mike Solli]

Balikpapan is shipping supplies. It'll get me going short term. I'm still a few days away from Palembang. I suspect there'll be a nice load of supplies there.

I haven't converted any TKs, yet. I may do it later but right now they're all hauling fuel and oil to Japan. Event without Palembang, there's plenty to keep them busy.