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Check the Aircraft and Engine Production Pool screen.

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I think it means you sent planes back to the pools. More than you lost.

Right - the +8 is the balance in the inventory after the returned aircraft arrive, and the -8 is under the "Used so far" column, the negative value being the opposite of being used ; i.e. returned.

I'm not so sure. It's in the "air to air losses" section.


...maybe you had 8 defectors? [:D]

OHH! I didn't realize that was on the intel summary screen you were talking about, not the Aircraft Pool screen I was assuming.
Very strange result in the tally for the day. Maybe you hijacked some of his planes in mid-air? Or they tried to kamikaze on your HBs and all they achieved was imbedding their fighter in the side so they got carried back to your base? [8|]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

Have you upgraded all your American infantry units to the 42 squads that came on in July? I am just starting the process. Even with decent experience it is amazing how tough it is for Allied units in 1942 to fight Japanese units on a 1-1 basis. I can now see how Japanese tanks are so fierce in 42 because Allied squads have such pitiful AT values. The American squads get 25% more firepower in mid 42 (garand rifle, I suppose) and their AT value goes from 15 to 35 (first bazookas). However all Commonwealth squads remain very weak until 1943, when their anti tank values go from 5 to around 75. (God bless the piat). 1943 really sees the scales turn. It can't come fast enough for me...

I've been upgrading the US units, yes, and almost time for 43 now! Looking forward to it.

There is still one kind of Allied unit that can fight on semi-equal terms; the Marines. I hope to get them more use soon!

ORIGINAL: veji1

Whatever happens I must say I loved this campaign in China. Seeing a real campaign, tough, painful for both players, costly for the japanese, etc. is really a nice thing to see. Kudos on your resistance so far.

Yeah, Nick is still cursing under his breath about several battles. It's not been easy for either of us I can tell you, but the challenge has been fun. I wanted to try to put into practice what i've found difficult on the other side, but the SL have been an entirely new thing to get used to. I do like them. If Nick balances his forces he faces long slog. If he uses all tanks he takes tank losses which are slow to replace. If he uses heavy arty and less infantry he breaks me down slowly, but can't take the hex unless he switches those out for more AV. It's interesting.

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I think it means you sent planes back to the pools. More than you lost.

Right - the +8 is the balance in the inventory after the returned aircraft arrive, and the -8 is under the "Used so far" column, the negative value being the opposite of being used ; i.e. returned.

Okay. Maybe that's it. Just never saw planes being withdrawn or swapped out showing up as ops losses.

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: crsutton

Have you upgraded all your American infantry units to the 42 squads that came on in July? I am just starting the process. Even with decent experience it is amazing how tough it is for Allied units in 1942 to fight Japanese units on a 1-1 basis. I can now see how Japanese tanks are so fierce in 42 because Allied squads have such pitiful AT values. The American squads get 25% more firepower in mid 42 (garand rifle, I suppose) and their AT value goes from 15 to 35 (first bazookas). However all Commonwealth squads remain very weak until 1943, when their anti tank values go from 5 to around 75. (God bless the piat). 1943 really sees the scales turn. It can't come fast enough for me...

I've been upgrading the US units, yes, and almost time for 43 now! Looking forward to it.

There is still one kind of Allied unit that can fight on semi-equal terms; the Marines. I hope to get them more use soon!

You've been playing the Dark side too long.

Marines fight on superior terms.

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: crsutton

Have you upgraded all your American infantry units to the 42 squads that came on in July? I am just starting the process. Even with decent experience it is amazing how tough it is for Allied units in 1942 to fight Japanese units on a 1-1 basis. I can now see how Japanese tanks are so fierce in 42 because Allied squads have such pitiful AT values. The American squads get 25% more firepower in mid 42 (garand rifle, I suppose) and their AT value goes from 15 to 35 (first bazookas). However all Commonwealth squads remain very weak until 1943, when their anti tank values go from 5 to around 75. (God bless the piat). 1943 really sees the scales turn. It can't come fast enough for me...

I've been upgrading the US units, yes, and almost time for 43 now! Looking forward to it.

There is still one kind of Allied unit that can fight on semi-equal terms; the Marines. I hope to get them more use soon!

You've been playing the Dark side too long.

Marines fight on superior terms.

Marines in 42 are still superior to Japanese squads in soft fire power (I think they had larger squads than US Army) and just get more godly with time. The squads eventually have double the firepower of a Japanese squad. Additionally Marine divisions get a lot of machine gun squads. It just put everybody else to shame. [;)] If I recall by 1945 it was normal for all marine squads to have a flame thrower. Talk about a FP boost. I only look at the editor once in a while but it sure does help to understand game mechanics to look these things over on occasion.

[font="Times New Roman"]Dec 2 - 4, 1942[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] The second phase begins on the tip of India, landing paras in four vacant bases. Support troops will arrive tomorrow by rail. About 180 fighters, moslty P-40K move into benares in a show of force more than an active LR CAP. I'll cover that base and see what the reaction is for now. Marines and other troops ready to head out of Benares once more AA shows up.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CENT PAC: [/font] All major fleet units are at Canton and will move out for another foray here soon. B-17E groups hit Nauru but due to weather and flak, accumulation of damage is slow here. Only shown at 9 for the fields.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SO PAC: [/font] I got an interesting coast watcher report on the 1st and this led to a scrabble to see what I could get to explore it.

[font="Trebuchet MS"]Coastwatcher Report: CVL Chitose reported in port at Umboi Island[/font]

I loaded up one PBY group with good ground attack pilots and transferred the last remaining B-17D group to Cairns where they'd have a long range shot at Umboi Island. I set F4F-7 recon planes to have a look. Everything flew, but to no avail. Not a single hit on anything. I wasn't able to even tell if this report was good intel or if this was an AG sitting there, or nothing at all.

The same report occurred a few days later again but recon during the day show nothing in the report. The good thing is that I noticed fighters moved to Umboi and ships moved out of Rabaul port. [:)]

Also got this, the first sighting of the J1N1-C Irving. He's got recon legs in the Pacific now.

[font="Trebuchet MS"]J1N1-C Irving sighted over Normanton[/font]

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] Nick takes an empty Kweiyang after our battered troops move back. Another successful retreat without too much devastation. This cuts off about 1,500AV, seven Corps, an Army HQ and a base force in the Tuyun pocket. I'll try and hold in the good terrain here to delay a solid LOC using the rail lines for the Japanese.

Nick has been heavily bombing Changsha and now Wenchow. He's also sending in one DD bombardments at that base. Surprisingly successful.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SIGINT:[/font] Aha! This unit has moved back in! What other surprises will be over here soon?

[font="Trebuchet MS"]1/5th Amphibious Brigade is located at Esperance(56,153).[/font]

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 2, 42
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Morning Air attack on Umboi Island , at 100,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 12
PBY-5 Catalina x 12

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5 Catalina: 1 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x PBY-5 Catalina bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Umboi Island , at 100,125

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 3

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Nauru Island , at 127,128

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 25 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 13

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed by flak

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on Nauru Island , at 127,128

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9

No Allied losses

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Ground combat at Kweiyang (74,49)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 47034 troops, 501 guns, 275 vehicles, Assault Value = 1419

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 1421

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 1421 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kweiyang !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:

Assaulting units:
51st Division
15th Division
9th Tank Regiment
16th Division
23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
11th Army
21st Mortar Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 3, 42
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Morning Air attack on Nauru Island , at 127,128

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 10

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Nauru Island , at 127,128

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged

Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 12000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 4, 42
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Naval bombardment of Wenchow at 89,58

Japanese Ships
DD Susuzuki

Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Resources hits 2
Heavy Industry hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 7
Port hits 4
Port supply hits 1

DD Susuzuki firing at Wenchow

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Ground combat at Ontong Java (115,131)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 571 troops, 0 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 20

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 5

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Ontong Java !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-), fatigue(-)

Assaulting units:
1st Pion Bn /6

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Ground combat at Tanjore (32,42)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 62 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 4

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

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

Allied forces CAPTURE Tanjore !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), leaders(-)

Assaulting units:
2/7 Commando Bn /1

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Ground combat at Trichinopoly (31,41)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 108 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 8

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Trichinopoly !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+)

Assaulting units:
2/7 Commando Bn /2

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Ground combat at Madurai (30,42)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 254 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 14

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Madurai !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Assaulting units:
2/7 Commando Bn /3

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Ground combat at Trivandrum (27,43)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 94 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 6

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Trivandrum !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), leaders(-)

Assaulting units:
2/7 Commando Bn /4

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[font="Trebuchet MS"]This is the track I expect Nick will try to take. Lots of x2 terrain. He's shown a willingness to go off road, and this makes a lot of sense here. Especially forgoing the river crossing. It's going to be tough to stop three tanks divisions and all of the other little regiments trailing along in this territory. [/font]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: HansBolter

ORIGINAL: obvert




I've been upgrading the US units, yes, and almost time for 43 now! Looking forward to it.

There is still one kind of Allied unit that can fight on semi-equal terms; the Marines. I hope to get them more use soon!

You've been playing the Dark side too long.

Marines fight on superior terms.

Marines in 42 are still superior to Japanese squads in soft fire power (I think they had larger squads than US Army) and just get more godly with time. The squads eventually have double the firepower of a Japanese squad. Additionally Marine divisions get a lot of machine gun squads. It just put everybody else to shame. [;)] If I recall by 1945 it was normal for all marine squads to have a flame thrower. Talk about a FP boost. I only look at the editor once in a while but it sure does help to understand game mechanics to look these things over on occasion.

Yeah, I've been looking much more often in this game, trying to figure out why my Allied troops suck. Seeing the Marines' numbers perked me up a bit! [:)]

Still, I won't think in 'superior' terms yet. The IJA in India have a LOT of high exp units. Who knows, Madras could have 9 forts by now too!

[font="Times New Roman"]UPGRADES/REFITS[/font]

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As December hits a lot f ships have upgrades to start on, including ALL of the fleet subs. These are short, so I'll rotate them out, but want to get them done to be ready for the better torps come 1/43. A few BBs go into loooong upgrades and lots of transports are getting better AA.

I've just barely finished the 10/42 upgrades for most of the USN. The CVs and their escorts are a lot more pric-kly now with the Bofors addition.

I can only imagine what these kinds of lists are going to loo like in 44-46!! [X(]

[font="Trebuchet MS"]SS Salmon taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Sawfish taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Sargo taken out of commission to begin refit at Sydney
SS Grayback taken out of commission to begin refit at Sydney
SS Gato taken out of commission to begin refit at Sydney
BB Nevada beginning refit in shipyard at Pearl Harbor
BB Oklahoma beginning refit in shipyard at Pearl Harbor
SS Porpoise taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
SS Pike begins refit while under repair at Tabiteuea
SS Perch begins refit while under repair at Luganville
SS Seadragon taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Gudgeon taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Greenling taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
SS Growler taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Amberjack taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Blackfish begins refit while under repair at Sydney
SS Herring begins refit while under repair at Brisbane
SS Kingfish taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Shad begins refit while under repair at Sydney
SS Wahoo taken out of commission to begin refit at Nukufetau
SS Hake taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
SS S-32 taken out of commission to begin refit at Canton Island
PC Tiger taken out of commission to begin refit at Mombasa
PC Bonham taken out of commission to begin refit at Socotra
xAP North Coast taken out of commission to begin refit at Suva
xAP Yukon taken out of commission to begin refit at Suva
xAKL Raub taken out of commission to begin refit at Aden
xAKL Kuala taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
xAKL Larut taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
xAP Hong Peng taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Hong Siang taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Kedah taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Kelantan taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Matang beginning refit at Melbourne
xAP Kajang beginning refit at Suva
xAP Sin Kheng Seng beginning refit at Melbourne
xAP Cremer taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Maetsuycker taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Swartenhondt taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Pijnacker Hordijk beginning refit at Suva
xAP Rochussen beginning refit at Suva
xAP Speelman beginning refit at Suva
xAP Van Cloon taken out of commission to begin refit at Suva
xAP Van Imhoff beginning refit at Suva
SS S-38 taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
SS Tarpon taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Plunger taken out of commission to begin refit at Canton Island
SS Grampus taken out of commission to begin refit at Nukufetau
SS Barb taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS S-46 begins refit while under repair at Christmas Island[/font]

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Also, these are now starting to arrive!![&o]

Regardless of what is actually going on in the game, an Allied player can look forward to two days each month - 15th and last day of the month when the big reinforcements come out. When you have month after month of about 8 Fletchers arriving on the 15th, it does tend to bring a smile to your face. [:D] 16 DDs come in across the board in all of Aug '43!!

Y, nothing like viewing the Allied reinforcement schedules to get through the dark days. Congrats to obvert for reacting well to GJ's onslaught. The loss of Burma, India, Ceylon & North-/West-Coast Oz must have been hard to bear, but the defense of China is already an 'epic for the annals', & recent gains in the Solomons & CentPac are a v. bright point.

One thing wrt Allied reinfs - many USAAF bomber groups resize upwards in early '44, so it's kinda important to start 4 months beforehand to train a boatload of USArmy pilots in GrdB skill. I used the majority of my rear-area USArmy Fighter groups for this purpose, training lots of newb replacement pilots & high Def-skill Fighter pilots for eventual transfer to bomber air-groups.

[font="Times New Roman"]Dec 5 - 7, 1942[/font]

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ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SUBS: [/font] The Halibut runs into an old CL and DDs near the Marshalls. No hits, but good to know the CAs aren't out here, just some rusty old CLs. [:)]

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] All of the newly acquired Indian bases get engineers and build a fort and get close to a field. There is no reaction yet.

I've also noticed that the stack near Patna has decreased and the small block near Ranchi is very small, around 25k troops in x2 terrain. This is on a gray road one hex from my main stack, and I'm thinking of running that way and trying to hit it. The benefit of the last try here is that a lot of units have better experience now. I have 3,100AV in good divisions and armor, and I'm pretty sure that if I can get an attack on the road to Ranchi against 20k troops, it could go well. Pretty sure. Not entirely positive. Worth a try though, and I'll include deception that I'm moving toward Patna again make him think it could go either way.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CENT PAC: [/font] A CA bombardment does really well at Nauru. I ran this in from 16 hexes and left it to bombard in the daylight, mainly because I saw that last turn my bombers didn't fly due to weather but he had moved in 50+ fighters to Nauru. I actually managed to catch them both in the air with a P-38 sweep and later in the day on the ground withe the cruisers. [8D]

The score was 10:1 in the air and another 9-12 lost on the ground. The bombardment does nicely against the troops as well, but still no more than cursory info on what is here. All I know is that there is the big IJN base force with 30AV and DP guns, a Naval Guard, some AA and some engineers. Nine units are listed for ~9k troops, so I feel I'm still missing something here.

On the way out DD Balch, a Porter class, hits a mine. She's okay with 24/14/3 damage and makes it back doing 30 knots with the rest. A few mines are cleared in a more conventional sense, but this is also good to know for the future.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SO PAC: [/font] Ontong Java is taken with no resistance or reaction, yet. This is quite far out on a limb, but I'll fly in some troops and supply and get things building. Right now it provides an immediate PBY base for ops in Cent Pac to see the approaches from Rabaul. Rossel Island makes a field and a port. Troops are prepped for Milne Bay, but I'll need some air cover for that one and I have little info on the base. I'll need recon and a bombardment to go in before a definite choice on landing.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] The Japanese attack South of Kweiyang with two infantry and one tank division and get a bit of a surprise. These Chinese units are battle hardened and experienced, and in x3 hold well, dishing out nearly 400 disabled Japanese infantry squads with another 25 vehicles disabled. They'll now be able to dig a bit, but supply will continue to be an issue. Still, any delay is a good delay.

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 5, 42
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ASW attack near Nauru Island at 127,128

Japanese Ships
SSX Ha-21, hits 3, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CA Cornwall
CA Canberra
CA Louisville
DD Worden
DD Clark

SSX Ha-21 is sighted by escort
DD Worden attacking submerged sub ....

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Morning Air attack on Nauru Island , at 127,128

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 11 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M3 Zero x 23

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 17

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3 Zero: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x P-38G Lightning sweeping at 20000 feet

CAP engaged:
Yokosuka Ku S-1 with A6M3 Zero (0 airborne, 16 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 21000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes
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Naval bombardment of Nauru Island at 127,128

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3 Zero: 29 damaged
A6M3 Zero: 4 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
CA Cornwall
CA Canberra
CA Louisville
CA Northampton
DD Worden
DD Clark
DD Balch
DD Chevalier
DD Fletcher

Japanese ground losses:
613 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 53 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 24 (2 destroyed, 22 disabled)

Resources hits 4
Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 10
Runway hits 69
Port hits 32
Port supply hits 4

CA Cornwall firing at Nauru Island
CA Canberra firing at Nauru Island
CA Louisville firing at Nauru Island
CA Northampton firing at 21st Special Base Force

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Ground combat at 75,50 (near Kweiyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 38618 troops, 486 guns, 568 vehicles, Assault Value = 1284

Defending force 42206 troops, 232 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1186

Japanese adjusted assault: 722

Allied adjusted defense: 967

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
3027 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 374 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 41 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 35 disabled
Guns lost 20 (1 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Vehicles lost 27 (2 destroyed, 25 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
847 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 110 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
15th Division
16th Division
Guards Tank Division
21st Mortar Battalion
23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
11th Army
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
75th Chinese Corps
58th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
62nd Chinese Corps
95th Chinese Corps

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 6, 42
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TF 304 encounters mine field at Nauru Island (127,128)

Allied Ships
DD Balch, Mine hits 1

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TF 304 encounters mine field at Nauru Island (127,128)

Allied Ships
DD Clark
DD Fletcher

4 mines cleared

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Night Naval bombardment of Nauru Island at 127,128 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
CA Cornwall
CA Canberra
CA Northampton
DD Worden
DD Clark
DD Chevalier
DD Fletcher

Japanese ground losses:
69 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Resources hits 1
Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 5
Port hits 7
Port supply hits 2

CA Cornwall firing at Nauru Island
CA Canberra firing at Nauru Island
SOC-1 Seagull acting as spotter for CA Louisville
CA Northampton firing at 21st Special Base Force
21st Special Base Force firing at CA Northampton
DD Worden firing at Nauru Island
DD Clark firing at Nauru Island
DD Chevalier firing at Nauru Island

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 7, 42
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ASW attack near Ebon at 129,122

Japanese Ships
DD Murakumo
CL Tama
DD Yanagi
DD Uranami
DD Kosugiri
DD Kuretake
DD Hayate

Allied Ships
SS Halibut

SS Halibut launches 4 torpedoes at DD Murakumo
Halibut diving deep ....
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[font="Trebuchet MS"]While this feels like progress, it's slow, and taking Madras back would actually give a huge boost to what we can do in the area. It could be tough if this is about two divisions (or equivalents). I know there has been both a Division, the 6th Guards, and a garrison force here, so usually around 150AV with little in terms of arty.

6th Guards Division is located at Madras(35,40).
16th AA Regiment is located at Madras(35,40).
1/9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion is loaded on xAK Asakaze Maru at Madras (35,40).
10th Garrison unit is located at Madras(35,40).[/font]

[font="Times New Roman"]SLOC[/font]

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The routes for transport across the Pacific have trend toward more Southerly areas and have been consistently routed toward several hubs to feed the growing number of ships and units in Central and South Pacific areas.

All TFs travel from the West Coast routed to or around the edge of Christmas Island, then on to Pago and Suva. Noumea is built up but lass frequently used so far. Once I have more action in So Pac and an active SW Pac this will change.

Secondary hubs are located at Canton Island, Tabiteuaea, Luganville and increasingly Ndeni.

In the IO it's pretty simple. Send stuff fast from Cape Town to Mombasa, then add escorts and go mission speed to Bombay or Karachi.

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: HansBolter






You've been playing the Dark side too long.

Marines fight on superior terms.

Marines in 42 are still superior to Japanese squads in soft fire power (I think they had larger squads than US Army) and just get more godly with time. The squads eventually have double the firepower of a Japanese squad. Additionally Marine divisions get a lot of machine gun squads. It just put everybody else to shame. [;)] If I recall by 1945 it was normal for all marine squads to have a flame thrower. Talk about a FP boost. I only look at the editor once in a while but it sure does help to understand game mechanics to look these things over on occasion.

Yeah, I've been looking much more often in this game, trying to figure out why my Allied troops suck. Seeing the Marines' numbers perked me up a bit! [:)]

Still, I won't think in 'superior' terms yet. The IJA in India have a LOT of high exp units. Who knows, Madras could have 9 forts by now too!

I doubt that, Japanese forts build so slow and cost so much to build. Da Babes seems to make it even harder for the Japanese player to fortify. The problem is that he would need almost all of his construction capacity in India to build a base up to that level. But over time anything is possible....

ORIGINAL: obvert

[font="Times New Roman"]UPGRADES/REFITS[/font]

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As December hits a lot f ships have upgrades to start on, including ALL of the fleet subs. These are short, so I'll rotate them out, but want to get them done to be ready for the better torps come 1/43. A few BBs go into loooong upgrades and lots of transports are getting better AA.

I've just barely finished the 10/42 upgrades for most of the USN. The CVs and their escorts are a lot more pric-kly now with the Bofors addition.

I can only imagine what these kinds of lists are going to loo like in 44-46!! [X(]

[font="Trebuchet MS"]SS Salmon taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Sawfish taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Sargo taken out of commission to begin refit at Sydney
SS Grayback taken out of commission to begin refit at Sydney
SS Gato taken out of commission to begin refit at Sydney
BB Nevada beginning refit in shipyard at Pearl Harbor
BB Oklahoma beginning refit in shipyard at Pearl Harbor
SS Porpoise taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
SS Pike begins refit while under repair at Tabiteuea
SS Perch begins refit while under repair at Luganville
SS Seadragon taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Gudgeon taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Greenling taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
SS Growler taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Amberjack taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Blackfish begins refit while under repair at Sydney
SS Herring begins refit while under repair at Brisbane
SS Kingfish taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Shad begins refit while under repair at Sydney
SS Wahoo taken out of commission to begin refit at Nukufetau
SS Hake taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
SS S-32 taken out of commission to begin refit at Canton Island
PC Tiger taken out of commission to begin refit at Mombasa
PC Bonham taken out of commission to begin refit at Socotra
xAP North Coast taken out of commission to begin refit at Suva
xAP Yukon taken out of commission to begin refit at Suva
xAKL Raub taken out of commission to begin refit at Aden
xAKL Kuala taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
xAKL Larut taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
xAP Hong Peng taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Hong Siang taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Kedah taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Kelantan taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Matang beginning refit at Melbourne
xAP Kajang beginning refit at Suva
xAP Sin Kheng Seng beginning refit at Melbourne
xAP Cremer taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Maetsuycker taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Swartenhondt taken out of commission to begin refit at Cape Town
xAP Pijnacker Hordijk beginning refit at Suva
xAP Rochussen beginning refit at Suva
xAP Speelman beginning refit at Suva
xAP Van Cloon taken out of commission to begin refit at Suva
xAP Van Imhoff beginning refit at Suva
SS S-38 taken out of commission to begin refit at Bombay
SS Tarpon taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS Plunger taken out of commission to begin refit at Canton Island
SS Grampus taken out of commission to begin refit at Nukufetau
SS Barb taken out of commission to begin refit at Luganville
SS S-46 begins refit while under repair at Christmas Island[/font]

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Also, these are now starting to arrive!![&o]

Actually, is it the 1/43 sub upgrade where most fleet units lose their ability to carry mines? I try to hold back eight or ten from upgrading for this reason.

ORIGINAL: obvert

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The routes for transport across the Pacific have trend toward more Southerly areas and have been consistently routed toward several hubs to feed the growing number of ships and units in Central and South Pacific areas.

All TFs travel from the West Coast routed to or around the edge of Christmas Island, then on to Pago and Suva. Noumea is built up but lass frequently used so far. Once I have more action in So Pac and an active SW Pac this will change.

Secondary hubs are located at Canton Island, Tabiteuaea, Luganville and increasingly Ndeni.

In the IO it's pretty simple. Send stuff fast from Cape Town to Mombasa, then add escorts and go mission speed to Bombay or Karachi.

Here is a good tip. I try to keep fast Aks and Aps in Cape Town or Eastern US. You can run an American infantry division from the US to Cape Town using full speed with no penalty in about 15 days. Then I don't off load but run them directly to Bombay at full speed from Cape Town. Takes about 7-8 days for them to get to the map entry hex where I have a TF of about six large cargo ships sitting. They can then pull fuel from this TF and continue onto Bombay at full speed without missing a beat. About 25 days from the US to Bombay...As long has he is not patrolling the entry hex, you are good to go. Works well for Karachi if you need it.

ORIGINAL: crsutton


Actually, is it the 1/43 sub upgrade where most fleet units lose their ability to carry mines? I try to hold back eight or ten from upgrading for this reason.

I just noticed that the Mk 10 mines go out of production at this point too. If that is true, and I can't mine with another mine type, I may as well get the upgrade. I haven't checked but I assume there are still subs that use mines. The Dutch and British, maybe? Can't look now, but I'd like to know as I do use this feature often.

ORIGINAL: crsutton

ORIGINAL: obvert

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The routes for transport across the Pacific have trend toward more Southerly areas and have been consistently routed toward several hubs to feed the growing number of ships and units in Central and South Pacific areas.

All TFs travel from the West Coast routed to or around the edge of Christmas Island, then on to Pago and Suva. Noumea is built up but lass frequently used so far. Once I have more action in So Pac and an active SW Pac this will change.

Secondary hubs are located at Canton Island, Tabiteuaea, Luganville and increasingly Ndeni.

In the IO it's pretty simple. Send stuff fast from Cape Town to Mombasa, then add escorts and go mission speed to Bombay or Karachi.

Here is a good tip. I try to keep fast Aks and Aps in Cape Town or Eastern US. You can run an American infantry division from the US to Cape Town using full speed with no penalty in about 15 days. Then I don't off load but run them directly to Bombay at full speed from Cape Town. Takes about 7-8 days for them to get to the map entry hex where I have a TF of about six large cargo ships sitting. They can then pull fuel from this TF and continue onto Bombay at full speed without missing a beat. About 25 days from the US to Bombay...As long has he is not patrolling the entry hex, you are good to go. Works well for Karachi if you need it.

I've used full speed from East Coast for some units, and send them to Mombasa still at full, where they then pick up escorts and go from there at mission speed. Still pretty fast, and keeps me from forgetting or getting some stuck out of fuel going from off to on-map.

[font="Times New Roman"]Dec 8 - 10, 1942[/font]

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[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SUBS: [/font] The Haddo launches 6 at a big AO with no luck. Found this TF up near Kusaie though, and that means he's using a good deal of fuel up here. [:)]

The I-168 hits DMS Dorsey running toward Nauru and sinks her. Escorts also sunk an RO sub near Ocean Island.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CENT PAC: [/font] The almost invasion. Over the past week I'd been feeling out the possibility of moving on Nauru with two regiments, one Marine and one US Army. They've been loaded and I've had multiple SCTFs, including two old BBs, plus the Wasp TF and another TF of five CVE. After a few days of maneuvering I got about 60 ships to within one hex of Nauru and they appeared to have no detection. I think some might have been seen, but there was no search running from Nauru, so it's possible they weren't even noticed! The Japanese closed South of Kusaie (probably looking at my bombardment run in with the CA TF near Ocean that showed 10/10 DL) and I've decided to pull back instead of landing the two regiments. I'm still not sure the base is softened enough, and I can't wait here and make sure air strikes go in and bombardments do their work before landing, so I ordered BBs to bombard and run and the rest to pull back immediately.

This could still be dicey if he does run in, but I've sent all TFs toward Abemama/Kuria with a lot of LBA support there. It should be okay judging by what we've been seeing from search. Depressing to have everything work up to the last minute and then pull the plug, but it seemed the right choice and lets hope it's a fizzle he never even knows about. [;)]

Did lose some YMS here and a the DMS to the I-168.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]INDIA: [/font] More maneuvering here. He's reinforcing the hex near Ranchi. Our troops have pulled back and are holding the road while reducing the

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SO PAC: [/font] Just building and throwing more supply at Tulagi and Lunga. I have to hold off for some units prepping next bases and just make sure the infrastructure can support the next jump.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]CHINA: [/font] The IJAAF sent three sweeps into Chungking that got massacred. He flew them at 15k, most likely a mistake, and lost about 50 fighters on the day for 7 Allied losses. Probably a lot of good IJA pilots KIA/MIA too. This will even the field in China for a week or two.

[font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]SIGINT:[/font] Now I have info that the Imperial Guards Division is at Broome. Maybe the section reported in Perth was left, but some is also at Broome?

[font="Trebuchet MS"]Imperial Guards Division is located at Broome(62,127).[/font]

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 8, 42
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Japanese Ships
AO Ojikasan Maru
DMS Taboko
AO Tatekawa Maru
AO Akebono Maru
AO Tsurumi
AO Shiriya
AO Shiretoko
AO Sata
AO Erimo
E Kunashiri
E Hachijo

Allied Ships
SS Haddo

SS Haddo launches 6 torpedoes at AO Ojikasan Maru
Haddo diving deep ....
E Kunashiri attacking submerged sub ....

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 9, 42
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ASW attack near Ocean Island at 129,131

Japanese Ships
SS I-168

Allied Ships
DMS Dorsey, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DMS Chandler
DMS Zane
DMS Hovey

SS I-168 launches 4 torpedoes at DMS Dorsey
I-168 diving deep ...

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TF 454 encounters mine field at Nauru Island (127,128) - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

16 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
YMS-125, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
YMS-103, Shell hits 1
YMS-102, Shell hits 3

21st Special Base Force firing at YMS-125
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Submarine attack near Nauru Island at 127,128

Japanese Ships
SSX Ha-7

Allied Ships
YMS-125, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

YMS-125 is sighted by SSX Ha-7
SSX Ha-7 launches 2 torpedoes at YMS-125

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Morning Air attack on Chungking , at 76,45

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 27

Allied aircraft
P-66 Vanguard x 12
P-38E Lightning x 8
P-38F Lightning x 25
P-40K Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 11 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-66 Vanguard: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 15000 feet

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Morning Air attack on Chungking , at 76,45

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 32

Allied aircraft
P-66 Vanguard x 10
P-38E Lightning x 8
P-38F Lightning x 24
P-40K Warhawk x 24

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 6 destroyed

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 15000 feet

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Morning Air attack on Chungking , at 76,45

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 32

Allied aircraft
P-66 Vanguard x 10
P-38E Lightning x 8
P-38F Lightning x 22
P-40K Warhawk x 24

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-66 Vanguard: 1 destroyed
P-38F Lightning: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo sweeping at 15000 feet

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 10, 42
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TF 280 encounters mine field at Nauru Island (127,128)

Allied Ships
DD Sterett
DD Ellet
DD Bagley, Mine hits 1

4 mines cleared

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Submarine attack near Ocean Island at 129,130

Japanese Ships
SS I-16

Allied Ships
YMS-103, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

YMS-103 is sighted by SS I-16
SS I-16 launches 2 torpedoes

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Submarine attack near Nauru Island at 127,128

Japanese Ships
SS RO-68, hits 24, and is sunk

Allied Ships
BB Tennessee
DD Ellet
DD Benham
BB Idaho

SS RO-68 is sighted by escort
DD Ellet fails to find sub and abandons search

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Night Naval bombardment of Nauru Island at 127,128 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

4 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
BB Idaho
BB Tennessee

Japanese ground losses:
226 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 5
Port hits 3
Port supply hits 1

BB Idaho firing at Nauru Island
BB Tennessee firing at 21st Special Base Force
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[font="Trebuchet MS"]Here is the situation. The IJN 9 hexes (whew) from my forces, and looking ominous. We could be able to handle this, but I'd rather not have carnage of troops and CV/CVE getting hit out here in the open if it can be avoided. The LBA should either shield us (by keeping the IJN away out of range) or tip the balance in our direction if he does move that way. [/font]