Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A))

[Lowpe]

2nd Wave is the 15th Guards Regiment.

[Lowpe]

3rd Wave!

[Lowpe]

Fourth Wave!

[Lowpe]

I thought the carriers were over at Chittagong! My bad! I also thought there were low on bombers. Double bad!

[Lowpe]

Damage!

[Lowpe]

Fulmars strike the invasion convoy.

[Lowpe]

So much for the British! I think everything is practically sunk...don't have the turn...but there was a lot of air strikes...one large air strike, a secondary am strike with many waves with seemingly as large a number of bombers, and then this lone air strike in the afternoon.

[Lowpe]

Landed a lot!

[Lowpe]

Very bad play on my part, out there without nearly enough naval search.

[ny59giants]

Losing the intelligence war is never good. Not enough recon planes in use or insufficient naval search can come up and bite hard.

Recent bought "Bodyguard of Lies" on Amazon for less than $25. This book is about 800 pages long and I got it in mid-70s when lots of information about WW2 and the D-Day invasion became declassified. Some how, I lost it. [:(] The battle for information, keeping it from the Germans, and the amount of deception involved for years to ensure the invasion was successful is huge. It has been decades since I read this book and forgot how much took place from '42 through '44. Ultra was very important, but there was a lot more going on besides reading the German's mail.

[Encircled]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Very bad play on my part, out there without nearly enough naval search.

Don't beat yourself up about it, you can't always know where the KB is, especially early game

And you had to react to a possible invasion of the Indian Ocean Islands

Course, now this is done, he's got a free hand for at least a few months in that part of the map, and if he's got bigger plans in mind that taking Calcutta then he's just got a significant boost.

And if you know where his carriers are, then yours can come out and play and make him pay.

[Lowpe]

March 6, 1942

Tough fighting in the x3 terrain!

[Lowpe]

Landings continued all day at Chittagong, with the 6" CD guns inflicting lots of hits and troop losses...

[Lowpe]

Scratch that, I guess the previous post was before the main battle took place. I wonder how much of the combat replay is fictional? Sightings, etc.[&:]

Ground combat at Chittagong (55,41)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 46194 troops, 507 guns, 224 vehicles, Assault Value = 1756

Defending force 22399 troops, 354 guns, 329 vehicles, Assault Value = 776

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 1044

Allied adjusted defense: 245

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Chittagong !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1559 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 171 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 38 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 11 (2 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Vehicles lost 99 (36 destroyed, 63 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
9205 casualties reported
Squads: 162 destroyed, 226 disabled
Non Combat: 370 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 144 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 239 (212 destroyed, 27 disabled)
Vehicles lost 253 (236 destroyed, 17 disabled)
Units retreated 11

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

[Lowpe]

The fight in China...


Ground combat at 74,52 (near Tuyun)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 28257 troops, 202 guns, 699 vehicles, Assault Value = 1064

Defending force 52655 troops, 498 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1496

Japanese adjusted assault: 600

Allied adjusted defense: 2611

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4

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

Japanese ground losses:
212 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 227 (50 destroyed, 177 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1451 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 171 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Guns lost 40 (7 destroyed, 33 disabled)

[Encircled]

Sadly if the combat replay is inaccurate, then a view on the action report will invariably be a lot worse outcome for the allies.

I'm getting a lot of variables in my combat replays as well, and its super annoying.

[Lowpe]

This unit in China took the last attack hard, and has to pull out and recover. It was the only unit with a sub par leader, land somewhere around 35, all the other dedicated artillery has 1 or less disruptions. Just changed leaders, which are getting damn scarce in China. Gonna have to switch some leaders from the east to the west...

A lot of the last fights artillery disruptions are the c80mm mortar tubes...

[Lowpe]

So, I am thinking of not watching the replay, and rather piece the turn together from other reports. It will change the AAR for sure, as I really like giving multiple posts as the turn progresses.

[CaptBeefheart]

A minor setback over there near Diego. If there's any player who writes AARs who can overcome something like that, it's Lowpe.

What does this Indian foray tell you about Oz? Are there any signs of Oz withdrawal? Has he milked about as many strategic bombing points as he can?

Cheers,
CB

[Encircled]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

So, I am thinking of not watching the replay, and rather piece the turn together from other reports. It will change the AAR for sure, as I really like giving multiple posts as the turn progresses.

Think its still worth watching, as the major errors are still very rare

I dunno if you are getting a copy of his generated combat report, but if you are that tends to be more accurate (not always though)