Sneer vs Raverdave - summery and calendarium
main concept
grab PI and Malaya ASAP and move to east india to secure burma area from usual 43 allied counterattack
secondary objective on continent - knock china out of war
in the pacific - secure more or less historical perimeter line early , stop and dig in - concentrate on force preserving and
trying to defeat allied navy during counterattack in late 42/ all russia talking on forum was purely disinformation as east
india was target.
december 41
main thrust was in dei i resigned from PH attack and decided to concentrate in dei
4 Cv were used on singapore and 2 on manila / lba divided by 2 areas , cvl force hunted merchant fleet at PI /1 time zone
rule used/
POW,Repulse 20+ subs and many more smaller vessels as well as few light cruisers are sunk in early days - KB made sweep
through java sea - lots of ships in soerabaja hit and sunk /allied loose over 1000points in ships in 4 days/
malaya - main landing site at mersing secondary at khota baru , PI main at lingayen and secondary at lagespi ,
on pacific wake/ guam rabaul at first
mid dec 41 gili gili north guinea and salomons underway by snlf units as well as gilberts
clark field taken on 23rd after heavy fights as well as whole mindanao , rangoon force cut off base and rangoon taken by para
- cutting off troops was mistake - i was unaware game mechanism and lost up to 3 weeks here
singapore taken on 26th DEC - part of units designed for java and rest clear malayas , battle for changsha starts
30th dec australin cruiser force destroyed in 1st real surface battle and finished by carriers
Hong Kong , bataan and Port Moresby taken on 31th dec
january 42
RN counterattacks at rangoon - planes rebased to moulmain and Revenge and ceres sunk on next day
5th jan - batavia taken by troops from singapore - malaya almost cleared
11th yenan+ changsha taken and offensive in china takes momemntun
15th jan manila taken and luzon finished / troops resting and moving to east India as well as troops from malayas
enemy surrounded in burma as paras take both lashio and Mytikina - burma roadd closed , mandalay taken without fight after
flanking move
23th carrier raid against allied convoys in pacific , baker isl taken later raid against nomuea ,
Feb 42
again KB raids fat allied supply convoy at suva area very deep into enemy teritory / intel info
air campaign against chinase resources
7th FEB soerabaja taken
13th feb malaya cleared troops free to use
14th palemabang taken - operation to take oil centres - landing at akyab
17th invasion of east india -150k+troops in diamond harbour heavy use of paras at asanol
22th rn cvs and small KB duel - both rn cv damaged - operation of finisfing sumatra , calcutta taken - enemy withdraws
akyab falls and rest burmanese units is cut off and destroyed later - looks like I destroyed most of malayan forces and whole
burmanese
27th combined operation against southern borneo - oil centers targeted
attrition air war in east india - both sides very exhausted
east india troops withdraw orderly / brave asanol defence by 18th inf / it was never my intention to go for karachi - benares
and jamshedpur and borderline in india - action will be halted here / except air war till 11/43 /
March 42
great hunting west of java - raverdave moves all merchant and navy to Oz and i find them with part of small kb and surface
force - soon about 100 vessels is sunk in next 2 weeks
22th march 2nd cv battle RN against 2cvl - 2 rn cv damaged and retreating - meanwhile rest of small Kb underway and
on 29th they are cought almost at perth and sunk
31th invasion on timor kendari and makassar
April 42
last days of japanese offensive against lucknow
heavy air fights
15th paras raids in deep india bases
on 18th operation in east india officially finished - there will be fight over benares in next months but force preservation
doctrine will make me moving them air units away and cover ports
may 42
KB raids canton - pslmyra area - again light forces and merchant convoys caught and sunk
mid mid may ichang and homan taken
late may battle over kungchang
late may KB in raids in cen pac again -palmyra region again - again DD and transports scored
on 20th light forces raid darwin harbour
June 42
early june - canton Island taken after heavy fights - offensive in pac stopped - units and supply used to fortify everything
I have - game looses tempo
4e starts beeing more than nuisance
july 42 - sleeping
August 42
few consecutive bombardment by Jpn battleline of darwin airfield
September 42 sleeping
October 42 campaign in china is going to end as i move fast north of canton
kweiyang taken
November 42 - kunming taken - allied starts air offensive from northern OZ
on 17th 1st allied navy offensive operation against wake - operation was expected and in 2 days combined fleet gathers at
marcus isl area with counterstrike duty - 2 japanese fast transport TFs badly hit by allied surface forces
some allied BBs are damaged from LBA and allied invasion fleet withrdraws after i refused to strike first. enemy tries to
lure me into midway area - i refuse - end of story after weak of manouvers
december 42 enemy Slaughter with ubercap my kwajelain LBA and withdraws
on 3rd Yunan taken - both sides of burma road in my hands enemy only holds chengtu and chungking - chengtu taken soon and
siege of chungking starts
15th allied fleet raids baker isl
january 43 war continue as we decided autovictory doesn't bother us and we play till war end
enemy raids canton on 5th
17th - biggest battle this war starts -////page 21 begins ////
KB on perimeter patrol spotted allied CVE group / allied were in transport to pago pago and they were not concentrated
5 cve damaged
19th of january - KB loose cohesion 1 of 4 groups is in diffrent hex - zuiho heavily hit will sink later - 3 other CV are
moderately damaged but ... saratoga lexington and enterprise sunk in counterattack 2 fast BB damaged too
my damaged CV sent to canton and their escort was sent to pago pago to attack transport reported earlier - i thought allied
withrdaw at night...Musashi+ kongo group met almost whole allied fleet - south dakota was finished and many other units were
damaged enough to create separate TFs - they will be killed in day phase - my BB heavily damged
day phase my fighters under clouds and allied strikes my damged carriers and BBs - I finish indiana in return
weather prevented main forces on attacking each other
raverdave moved against canton big bombardment group where he expects my flooded cv and BB - caught by KB - many hits on them
and they withdraw - carriers were moved / huge risk / to makin
24 th - battle continues washigton sunk from earlier damages - wasp sunk essex and hornet damaged heavily / they will sink
later /
26th and next days - pursuit after damaged CVE BB and cruiser in palmyra direction- many sunk
february 43
on 4th of feb exhausted japanese navy hits with all BB and CA force ships at pago pago - BB sunk after that
total result 6cv + 4cve + 4 fast BB + 6 slow BB+ 3 CA + CL and many smaller units sunk in exchange of 1 cvl
March 43
elements of KB raids santa cruz area and scores on convoy
mid march - series of surface attack on allieds in northern oz area- allied victory - enemy starts concentration there
late march - little success - kb raids east of New Zealand
april 43
again light forces attack allied shipping in northern oz and radar favours allied side
may 43 i set trap on raverdave - i expected him to hunt my raiders of north oz and moved cruisers and far cover of carriers (
hiyo class) - kako and agano are hunted and than my CV enters action - however i ws too weak to finish allied cv force -
many units are significantly damaged - victorious sunk later / page 33
A2A war gets intense - both india and timor heavily attacked
june 43
again light forces battles southof timor
mereuke taken by allied - 1st base retaken !!
it will be retaken by japan few weeks later
july 43 warspite sunk by sub
august 43 - chingking take on 16th of august - troops relocate to finish 2 groups off base
on 24th thursday Isl taken by allied - and as i hide combined fleet this base is not counterattacked - fleet stays in
southern dei
allied fleet starts operation against timor
september 43 - 27th -allied cruiser forces tries to make preassure on lautem - many damaged and my surface force can't meet
them
october 43 - 22th enemy cv spotted close to bali - this time enemy has hellcats - i managed to move KB and set cap over my
returning BBs - enemy is uncoordinated and looses lots of planes for my little costs - i decided to pursue enemy as carriers
have only ap 60% of fighters and little attack planes - perfectly coordinated strike is eaten by cap and both sides exhausted
moves to bases enemy feels unbeatable and from this point enemy fleet activity around timor rises significantly - with heavy ships visiting koepang next month
