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Naval bombardment of Townsville, at 46,103
Allied Ships
CL Glasgow
CL Mauritius
CL Hobart
CL Perth
CL Achilles
CL Leander
CA Canberra
CA Shropshire
BB Ramilles
BB Royal Sovereign
Japanese ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
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TF 71 encounters mine field at Lunga (67,97)
Japanese Ships
MSW Tokuho Maru #5
MSW Kongo Maru #2
MSW Hinode Maru #20
sub laid mines...
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 42
D3A Val x 54
A6M3a Zero x 51
B5N Kate x 82
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 27
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 326
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 191
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Tarawa , at 85,91
Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 138
Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 12 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
71 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
Airbase hits 21
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 65
Aircraft Attacking:
22 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet
after the fall of Canton Island, the next expected targets of an Allied offensive in the region South of Kwajalein are of course Baker Island, Apamama, Tarawa and Makin. As Tarawa has the biggest airfield, I would expect this to be the next Allied operation. Not as easy as Canton Island as Tarawa is in range of several of my airfields and I can field hundreds of Tonies in this area to take on the CV based Hellcats. Could be a tough fight if I spot the enemy early enough as I need two or three days to bring the Navy into position... I doubt that Miller would try to grab one of the atolls in the Tarawa area without massive CV support. Massive means at least one (or several) TFs to field 450 cv based ac per hex.
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107
Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 33
Beaufighter VIF x 19
Liberator VI x 9
Beaufighter VIC x 11
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 24
Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st Reserve Tank Regiment, at 60,6
Allied aircraft
Yak-1 x 48
Yak-9D x 85
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2
Aircraft Attacking:
48 x Yak-1 bombing at 2000 feet
a TK rgt is going around Irkutsk... Miller again does nothing to counter this...
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Day Air attack on 64th Division, at 45,101
Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 36
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
3 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107
Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 37
B-25C Mitchell x 9
B-25J Mitchell x 53
B-26B Marauder x 12
No Allied losses
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 82
Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet
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Ground combat at 67,32
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 59135 troops, 612 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1232
Defending force 17849 troops, 194 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 396
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Irkutsk
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 14251 troops, 452 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 7114
Defending force 139214 troops, 1666 guns, 205 vehicles, Assault Value = 2664
Allied ground losses:
149 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Wyndham
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 232477 troops, 2413 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 4586
Defending force 130578 troops, 760 guns, 347 vehicles, Assault Value = 2377
Allied ground losses:
368 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1
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Ground combat at Chungking
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 15869 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2323
Defending force 297984 troops, 1520 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 6789
Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Kweiyang
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 22605 troops, 268 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 2448
Defending force 165170 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4795
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Ground combat at Uglahamensk
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 22449 troops, 256 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 482
Defending force 5489 troops, 22 guns, 105 vehicles, Assault Value = 83
Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1
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Ground combat at Irkutsk
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 96628 troops, 1535 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 2663
Defending force 369123 troops, 3117 guns, 3234 vehicles, Assault Value = 7114
Japanese ground losses:
585 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Chungking
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 150440 troops, 1442 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6789
Defending force 114484 troops, 1237 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 2323
Japanese ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
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Ground combat at Karachi
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 100326 troops, 814 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2852
Defending force 89225 troops, 845 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1794
Japanese ground losses:
228 casualties reported
Guns lost 9
Allied ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
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Ground combat at Townsville
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 57459 troops, 581 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1151
Defending force 101089 troops, 1179 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 2008
Japanese ground losses:
102 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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Ground combat at Canton Island
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 60780 troops, 507 guns, 121 vehicles, Assault Value = 1398
Defending force 3444 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 34
Allied max assault: 76 - adjusted assault: 72
Japanese max defense: 21 - adjusted defense: 2
Allied assault odds: 36 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
627 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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Sasebo 5th SNLF Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!! ghost
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125th IJN Base Force Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!! ghost
it took the Allied not even a week to completely wipe out everything that was on Canton Island. Level 9 forts, 500av, 25.000 supplies, two attacks and the base was lost, three more days and all 30.000 defenders wiped out. This all wouldn´t be that severe if the damned bugged database wouldn´t turn all my fragments either into ghosts or vanishing LCUs. Seems to hit only me though as the half dozen divisions that Miller moved out from Borzya are rebuilding like wild. Insane how fast they grow in strange again... [:@]
After I have lost the next half dozen atolls I will run out of base forces as I have no chance to rebuild a single unit, even if I get loads of troops out. As soon as the parent dies, the f*cking database kills all my units. Don´t have to tell you how severe it is to completely lose a big base force or the big CD units.
IT SUCKS!!!! [:@][:@][:@]
As Terje asked for the Tony production, I took a screenshot of my major aircraft production. As you can see, our fighter production focuses nearly completely on the Tony (for the IJAAF) with only some Oscar IIs to have them in the pool if we need long range escorts. The A6M3 will switch over to the A6M5 in September and I plan to upgrade my CV based fighters asap, no Zeke will go into land based daitais as long as the CV bases daitais haven´t upgraded. I´m not sure if I will ever upgrade my IJNAF land based fighters to the Zeke as we would lose the range of the A6M3 (11 hexes compared to 6 of the Zeke) and the Zeke doesn´t look that better than the Zero anyway. It get´s one point more armament and one point of armor, bit faster but less maneuverable. As long as I can afford it, the IJAAF will be mainly tasked to defend my bases while the long ranged IJNAF Zeroes will provide escorts for the IJNAF bombers. When it turns out to be for no gain to still use the Zeroes or if we need more point defense fighters then hopefully we will be in early 44 already, which would mean that we can upgrade the IJNAF fighters to Jacks (range 6) and Georges (range 4). By the end of this year we will also have nearly all our Betties upgraded to the Frances which should result in fewer losses as the Frances is far faster than the Betty, it gets an armor point and has slightly higher durability.
The next big step of aircraft production (and probably the most important aircraft of the war for the Japanese) will be the Frank, but this fighter is still at least 10 months out (if we are lucky with R&D, otherwise longer). Nearly all our IJAAF fighters were upgraded to the Tony already and in a month we will produce considerable less aircraft. Guess I will switch 200 over to Frank R&D as soon as we have 250-300 in the pool. We aren´t producing a single Tojo anymore but have 1000+ in the pool which we could use for downgrading shot up Tony sentais if the Tony pool would get low.
When looking at the production numbers of real life and what we have produced so far than we are still far from what was built historically, of course we don´t have to produce any training aircraft and aren´t producing any obsolete aircraft.
