Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat)

[John B.]

Here is what his first wave of bombers was up against.

[John B.]

Land action in Burma. Scott launched two shock attacks on me (marked). The southern one was basically a no effect (I lost 3 squads he lost 6) but that's good because my troops are now likely to get away without being hounded down the road and a fresh division is moving up from Bangkok. In the norther attack an East African Brigade got gut punched going across the river.

[John B.]

Sorry, here is the Burma map.

[John B.]

bombardment at Manila. I'm sorry to see that I actually took losses. But still a very nice pro-Japanese ratio. He is losing lots and lots of guns there.

[John B.]

Back on track for at least a little while. October 22nd saw not too much action. More bombardment at Manila.

[John B.]

On October 23rd, however, things heated up. I tried a Kamikaze raid at Manila. Despite the presence of many vulnerable allied transports my sweep flew in the morning and my Kamikazes flew in the afternoon so that his CAP had a chance to rest and then fly up to shoot down most of my raid. I did hit two ymcs. [8|]

[John B.]

Combat in Burma! The poor Indian Brigade got hit, again, in the south marking it's 3rd advance and retreat into that hex. In the north at Uttradit Scott tried a conventional assault and got no where. Scott is pounding it from the air but it's a good division.

[John B.]

This Indian Brigade may mutiny if they send it north again!

[John B.]

Battle at Utradit.

[John B.]

And, bombardment at Manila. More dead guns and dead artillery units. But, supply is running low.

[John B.]

October 24th. No big news in the air (btw, I just noticed that some of my screen shots did not past onto the messages above sorry about that, I have no idea why). But, some big ground action.

[John B.]

In the Burma theater (ok, technically French Indochina (ok technically Cambodia)) you may recall that Scott landed at Kampong Trach and he sent in reinforcements. Well, I launched a tank regiment and an infantry regiment on a shock attack against his partial Australian division, para regiment, and base force.

[John B.]

And the Aussies surrendered! I was stunned at this result. But, more volunteers for my coal mines.

[John B.]

wrong file, sorry. Here is the battle of Kampong Trach.

[John B.]

And, October 25, 2014. Scott did a savage fire bombing attack on Kagoashima that burned out some shipyards and resources but not too much industry so I did not really care (I think he only gets VP for industry that is destroyed). But, this turn I guessed right on Nagasaki again and took more P-47s down.

[John B.]

The actual air losses chart. This is the second time in two weeks that he's taken heavy P-47 losses. I know he's not getting P-47 replacements right now so it's nice to knock these out of the sky at about a 1-1 ratio. I have been careful to not set my industry to repair but my plane and engine factories are a real weak spot. Once Scott can start to destroy the big ones it will not be too long before he can lay real waste to Japan.

[John B.]

And, melancholy news from Manila. My bombardments have not been that efficient these past few days. Only 69 squads and devices today and 66 the day before. I'm also not shooting down as many planes. Yet, I continue to burn 1,200 supply per day. Manila never seems to get socked in with clouds as there are air raids every day.

[John B.]

October 26th and not much to report, other than the continued decline in the effectiveness of my troops at Manila. Another round of BB bombardment and I only killed about 46 squads devices. Switching more transports to fly out support troops. I don't really need construction battalions there any longer and they just eat supplies.

[John B.]

I do have one attack set here in China. Scott did not bomb there this turn so all of my divisions are at 0 disruption. I'm sure he'll bomb next turn but, unless the heavies come his dive bombers and torpedo planes really do very little damage to me there. Scott has 3 divisions, plus some artillery and 2-3 tank divisions. I have 11 divisions. Veterans and very well led. We'll have to see how this turns out.

[John B.]

Here are the AVs fo the units slated to attack. I toyed with the idea of a shock attack, but, given american firepower and the bad terrain (plus the chance that the heavies might come a callin') I'm sticking with deliberate. The potential for a slaughter is too great.