Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))

[Lowpe]

Sub force is making themselves a nuisance for Japan...

[Lowpe]

One of our CAP Traps works to perfection...

[Lowpe]

Toowoomba

[Lowpe]

The Dutch continue resisting.

[Lowpe]

Butchers Bill for the day.

[Lowpe]

The Air War so far...sorted by total losses.

Look at the Bab losses to flak![:(]

Japanese bomber forces are being hit hard...those great starting pilots I think must be severely attrited.

Scenario 2, so Japan basically has unlimited planes, but not pilots.

[Lowpe]

The defense of Maryborough...

it will be close. Allies have a significant advantage in guns...but our troops are still rookies, and the squads poorly equipped.

193rd Tank is recovering disabled tanks at Brisbane, 34th US Regiment is resting in Sydney.

IJN showing two Battleships and two destroyers at Rockhampton.

[Lowpe]

A message from Japan with our latest turn.

Its like playing whack a mole with your fighters and clearly I am not great at that game

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

A message from Japan with our latest turn.

Its like playing whack a mole with your fighters and clearly I am not great at that game

[&o][&o][&o]

[witpqs]

Is the base at Maryborough damaged? Do you suppose it might make fortifications 3 before the battleships commence nightly runs?

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

Is the base at Maryborough damaged? Do you suppose it might make fortifications 3 before the battleships commence nightly runs?

No damage, I have good recon on the enemy bases and there is no AKE presently close by.

I will try to drop some mines in with two DMs, and create some PT boats there, and evacuate a fair bit of planes from Brisbane but leave their PT boats there.

Maryborough has 3 CD units, 2 Australian, 1 Marine. Oh, and three dutch subs on the approach hex...plus maybe some night bombing attacks.

[Ambassador]

Did your opponent drop any hint on the number of pilots he’s lost ? A good number of his losses are A2A or flak, so a lot of them happened over your bases. It must start to hurt.

[Lowpe]

Forgot to mention this nuclear bombardment.

I have forts 2, the MTBs skirmished with the bombardment fleet, and the 1st Indian Coastal CD unit was present with a full compliment of guns...and they didn't fire once but rather were totally destroyed.

Still, after all this only 6 damage to the base, and a few disabled squads on the British division.

Have made plans to attrit his bombardment forces should they reappear.

Night Naval bombardment of Chittagong at 55,41 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Japanese Ships
CA Ashigara
CA Chokai
CL Jintsu
DD Kuri
DD Sagiri
DD Asagiri
DD Hibiki
DD Akatsuki
DD Hatsushima
DD Arashio
DD Michishio
DD Oshio

Allied ground losses:
352 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 23 (5 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Resources hits 8
Manpower hits 6
Fires 342
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 21
Port hits 16
Port fuel hits 4
Port supply hits 2

F1M2 Pete acting as spotter for CA Ashigara
CA Ashigara firing at 18th British Division
E8N2 Dave acting as spotter for CA Chokai
CA Chokai firing at 1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment firing at CA Chokai
E7K2 Alf acting as spotter for CL Jintsu
CL Jintsu firing at Chittagong
DD Kuri firing at 18th British Division
DD Sagiri firing at 18th British Division
DD Asagiri firing at Chittagong
DD Hibiki firing at 18th British Division
DD Akatsuki firing at Chittagong
DD Hatsushima firing at 18th British Division
DD Arashio firing at 18th British Division
DD Michishio firing at Chittagong
DD Oshio firing at 6th Medium Regiment

PS: also had some mines, around 100 not that many. Adding more.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Ambassador

Did your opponent drop any hint on the number of pilots he’s lost ? A good number of his losses are A2A or flak, so a lot of them happened over your bases. It must start to hurt.

Nope.

Well, now I am using all off map bases including Canada. I created a table with distances and then rated them for safety. Choosing safety now, and will transition later to faster routes.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Forgot to mention this nuclear bombardment.

I have forts 2, the MTBs skirmished with the bombardment fleet, and the 1st Indian Coastal CD unit was present with a full compliment of guns...and they didn't fire once but rather were totally destroyed.

Still, after all this only 6 damage to the base, and a few disabled squads on the British division.

Have made plans to attrit his bombardment forces should they reappear.

Night Naval bombardment of Chittagong at 55,41 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Japanese Ships
CA Ashigara
CA Chokai
CL Jintsu
DD Kuri
DD Sagiri
DD Asagiri
DD Hibiki
DD Akatsuki
DD Hatsushima
DD Arashio
DD Michishio
DD Oshio

Allied ground losses:
352 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 23 (5 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Resources hits 8
Manpower hits 6
Fires 342
Radiation 247 <---
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 21
Port hits 16
Port fuel hits 4
Port supply hits 2

F1M2 Pete acting as spotter for CA Ashigara
CA Ashigara firing at 18th British Division
E8N2 Dave acting as spotter for CA Chokai
CA Chokai firing at 1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment firing at CA Chokai
E7K2 Alf acting as spotter for CL Jintsu
CL Jintsu firing at Chittagong
DD Kuri firing at 18th British Division
DD Sagiri firing at 18th British Division
DD Asagiri firing at Chittagong
DD Hibiki firing at 18th British Division
DD Akatsuki firing at Chittagong
DD Hatsushima firing at 18th British Division
DD Arashio firing at 18th British Division
DD Michishio firing at Chittagong
DD Oshio firing at 6th Medium Regiment

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Forgot to mention this nuclear bombardment.

I have forts 2, the MTBs skirmished with the bombardment fleet, and the 1st Indian Coastal CD unit was present with a full compliment of guns...and they didn't fire once but rather were totally destroyed.

Still, after all this only 6 damage to the base, and a few disabled squads on the British division.

Have made plans to attrit his bombardment forces should they reappear.

Night Naval bombardment of Chittagong at 55,41 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Japanese Ships
CA Ashigara
CA Chokai
CL Jintsu
DD Kuri
DD Sagiri
DD Asagiri
DD Hibiki
DD Akatsuki
DD Hatsushima
DD Arashio
DD Michishio
DD Oshio

Allied ground losses:
352 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 23 (5 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Resources hits 8
Manpower hits 6
Fires 342
Radiation 247 <---
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 21
Port hits 16
Port fuel hits 4
Port supply hits 2

F1M2 Pete acting as spotter for CA Ashigara
CA Ashigara firing at 18th British Division
E8N2 Dave acting as spotter for CA Chokai
CA Chokai firing at 1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
1st Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment firing at CA Chokai
E7K2 Alf acting as spotter for CL Jintsu
CL Jintsu firing at Chittagong
DD Kuri firing at 18th British Division
DD Sagiri firing at 18th British Division
DD Asagiri firing at Chittagong
DD Hibiki firing at 18th British Division
DD Akatsuki firing at Chittagong
DD Hatsushima firing at 18th British Division
DD Arashio firing at 18th British Division
DD Michishio firing at Chittagong
DD Oshio firing at 6th Medium Regiment

Nuke them 'til they glow, then shoot them in the dark - it is easier that way.

or

Nuke them 'til they are glass then polish them with Windex.

[Encircled]

Hmm, as soon as he brings up AKEs then he's going to be very hard to stop at Maryborough

Danger is that he wins and your 3 Aussie Divs become completely combat incapable

But you know all this!

I'm sure you have a plan!

[Lowpe]

Feb 8th, 1942

You can watch the replay and think you had a horrendous turn, and then in digging in a bit realize it wasn't so bad.

The really bad: Iboat sinks the large oiler Neosho. But examining the turn it was the Tippecanoe instead.

The very bad: Heavy Cruiser Canberra takes two torpedoes hits in two different attacks.

The nots so bad: Zeroes sweep Brisbane, where I put 1/3rd of the fighters on providing CAP for Canberra and the replay makes me think our P40s really suffered.

The good news, a strong hold by the Chinese Army near Kweilin. 31st Corp didn't even have to come out of reserve mode to bolster the lines. Slowly but surely our experience is climbing.

[Lowpe]

Bad, but perhaps salvageable.

The Indians showed up at Maryborough, leaving Toowoomba a bit on the weak side...but with lots of units.

Forts at Maryborough almost to 3. In a few more days the Perth defenders start to arrive...some of them at least.

[Lowpe]

Perth...aiming for a few surprises here.