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Hi all,

No worries Mike. No harm done[8D]

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The usual stuff around PI and Java and another nuclear bombardment at Singapore wiped out 2 Bn's:

Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1982 troops, 209 guns, 74 vehicles, Assault Value = 1512

Defending force 37150 troops, 479 guns, 256 vehicles, Assault Value = 800

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
394 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 27 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Guns lost 15 (9 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (5 destroyed, 4 disabled)


Assaulting units:
15th Ind. Engineer Regiment
113th Infantry Regiment
143rd Infantry Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
5th Engineer Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
55th Infantry Regiment
12th Engineer Regiment
21st Division
23rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
42nd Infantry Regiment
11th Infantry Regiment
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
25th Army
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Field Artillery Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

For what it's worth I'll try shooting back with my guns tomorrow.

DD Evertsen and Whipple sunk today. Both had left Batavia heavily damaged but I felt I had no choice but to risk them otherwise they'd have been smashed in the port in due course.

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Submarine Warfare -

SS Tarpon had tracked a smoke haze on the horizon for the past day near Laoag....she found her target today, AK Tazima Maru (damaged yesteray by Bataan's FP's). 10 torpedoes later...1 hits and she will probably sink.

The first air hit on a sub today by a Lilly on SS KXII south of Saigon. She is limping to Singapore but may sink - 92/33/20.

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Housekeeping -

From reading various topics on Support Ships I've decided to send one of my AR's at PH to Dutch Harbour, the other to Suva.

BF, ENG, Construction and 30,000 supply leaving Seattle for Attu Island.

SigInt has let me know the 40th Bde is preapring to attack Darwin. Not surprised and I will NOT counter this move unless the Japanese move into the Australian interior (please do).

with only 33 flt damage I would be surprised if she sinks. High fires though, something I haven´t had on a sub so far, so I don´t know how the fires will influence the flt. Usually I get my subs back with 60 flt with absolutely no problem. They show up as crippled and move only at 1 hex but as soon as they´ve reached a ship yard, they are back in action within only a couple of days. The worst damaged sub I´ve had so far took 16 days to be repaired, far too fast IMO. Subs are operational again far too early after being stood down, perhaps this is due to their low tonnage. There should be an own repair routine for subs, all other ships seem to repair at a realistic rate, the subs aren´t at all.

Hi all,

Hi Castor - she didn't survive. I have found that once something get's into the 90's in SYS damage and if they have flooding over 15 or so they are quite often toast. As an FYI the 20 was ENG damage not Fire.

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PI -

The airspace has been ceded to the Japanese as of today. My boys have fought fiercely but today was the last gasp. 20 fighters were on CAP today and the Zeroes came a calling. By days end 17 Allied fighters had been shot down for a reported 5 Zeroes. There were 11 fighters left at days end in a mixture of states but not enough to form a credible defence. The remaining men and machines have been disbanded........

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Malaya -

More nuclear shells at Singapore wipe out another Bn and cause over 250 casualties. I fire back causing a pathetic 81 casualties........

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Java -

Faber has moved another Tk Rgt into Madoien. Zeroes now patrol over Tjepoe as well so the milk runs my few bombers have been having against his troops are over costing me x 139's today.

CL Sumatra (arriving yesterday in a damaged state at Soerabaya) sped away southwards towards Perth....she's clear of enemy air attack now.

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China -

The Japanese reinforcements at Singyang turned the tide and launched an attack against the Chinese positions outside the city. My men, suprisingly, provided a stern test:

Ground combat at Sinyang (86,48)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 31839 troops, 304 guns, 105 vehicles, Assault Value = 1167

Defending force 31522 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 956

Japanese adjusted assault: 808

Allied adjusted defense: 1221

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
844 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 74 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 51 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Vehicles lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1095 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 48 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 79 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Assaulting units:
4th RGC Division
13th Tank Regiment
13th Division
116th Division
12th RGC Temp. Division
14th RGC Temp. Division
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
18th RGC Temp. Division
11th Army
52nd Road Const Co
67th JAAF AF Coy

Defending units:
53rd Chinese Corps
8th Chinese Corps
7th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
20th Group Army
21st Group Army

I have moved 5 Chinese Corps SW of Chengchow against 3 reported Japanese units. We recon and shell tomorrow to investigate. If I can just get a few local victories I may be able to rout the Japanese locally and make some headway.

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Submarine warfare -

No successful sub attacks today.

Only point of note was the sinking of KXII.

The 2nd British boat to enter the fray, Truant, left Columbo today.........

Hi all,

A 2 day update.......

PI -

30 Japanese bombers attacked Clark on 29th January. A few shells come our way too. Other than that and my little firneds (FP's) at Bataan landing a bobm on AMC Akagi Maru not much to report.........

Well other than a little miracle I've been praying on for the past week [;)] I had secretly dispatched 6400 tonnes of supply on the damaged AK Boero at Palembang. She AMAZINGLY sailed all the way to Bataan unnoticed and is unloading now! Recon was spotted overhead so I wonder if Faber has seen her at Bataan now? We can but pray....IF I unload 6400 tonnes of supply that will keep me going for another week at Clark.....

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Malaya -

The Japanese attacked again on the 28th.....my men gave up some ground but fought fiercely:

Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 44094 troops, 501 guns, 126 vehicles, Assault Value = 1532

Defending force 36596 troops, 472 guns, 249 vehicles, Assault Value = 786

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 1025

Allied adjusted defense: 1177

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
2098 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 102 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 153 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 31 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
2987 casualties reported
Squads: 61 destroyed, 103 disabled
Non Combat: 58 destroyed, 337 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 26 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 31 (6 destroyed, 25 disabled)


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Java -

Madoien fell to the Miura Rgt supported by Tanks on the 28th.

Batavia still holds firm though:

Ground combat at Batavia (49,98)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 16638 troops, 249 guns, 122 vehicles, Assault Value = 504

Defending force 15992 troops, 182 guns, 76 vehicles, Assault Value = 364

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 317

Allied adjusted defense: 673

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
892 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 57 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 62 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 36 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (2 destroyed, 10 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
624 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 40 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)

The last Singapore Buffalo Sqn (RNZAF) flew from Soerabaya to Makassar before heading to Australia.

Talking of Makassar my brave Dutch forced the Kure 1st SNLF back into the Jungle with 200 casualties! Go Dutch [;)]

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Other areas -

Amazingly Noumea resisted the first Japanese attack on 29th:

Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 8256 troops, 59 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 294

Defending force 2539 troops, 74 guns, 60 vehicles, Assault Value = 36

Japanese adjusted assault: 109

Allied adjusted defense: 112

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
101 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
157 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)


Assaulting units:
Guards Mixed Brigade
Sasebo 2nd SNLF

Defending units:
New Caledonia Det
114th USAAF Base Force
147th Field Artillery Regiment
131st Field Artillery Battalion
115th USAAF Base Force
148th Field Artillery Battalion

Interestingly recon puts the 40th Bde and 20th Recon both in Keijo, Korea. Now the 40th is reportedly preparing to invade Darwin....either a hoax or an assembly area of the Australia invasion?!?

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India -

With Burma all but gone to the Japanese (Shwebo fell on 29th) I figured it time to detail a little of the defence of India.

Personally I would love Faber to invade it. I have positioned strong forces here.

7th ARM, Ind Div, 254th ARM Bde + 3 Ind Bde's are stationed around Calcutta.

18th UK is spread around the area Mangalore to Madras + 23rd/19th Indian Divisions.

6th Australian will take up positions from Vizangapatam (sp?) to Calcutta and Diamond Harbour.

A few Ind Bde's occupy Chittagong and some light forces will cover Imphal and Kohima.

I will try to draw Faber into India by appearing to only lightly defend Imphal/Kohima which I will at the start. Of course interior lines of communication and rail would allow me to mass 2 x top class Divisions, 4 Ind Divisions, 7th ARM, 5 Ind Bde's etc.....+ ART, forming up Ind ARM, Infantry Bde's etc etc if needed.

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Submarine warfare -

A poor 2 days with only a few missed and dud attacks.

Hi all,

Boero still lives! A further 2300 tonnes of supply were unloaded at Bataan today. All adds up......Another day and a half to unload fully.

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Malaya -

Usual nuclear bombardment causing over 400 casualties. In return my similar number of guns cause 91 casualties.

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Java -

The Japanese stormed through the Dutch positions at Semarang causing over 2300 casualties.

I'm thinking of evacing Batavia and holing up in Buitenzorg. I think it's a mountainous hex?

Out of interest what key do you press to see the terrain?

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Other areas -

Noumea was just subject to shelling today.

BB Idaho is ready for service at San Francisco. BB California has repaired all damage at PH.

Another batch of reinforcements are loading up at San Fran for SoPac and most likely Australia:

Americal Division
1st USMC Raiders
Tk Bn
CD Rgt
ENG
3rd BG
40 PG

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Submarine warfare -

No contacts today [:(]

Where have all the Japanese ships gone?!?

it´s 1 to see terrain IIRC. Am at work at the moment so I can´t check. But as I´m only using the 1 (terrain?), w and r key, I´m pretty sure it´s 1 for terrain. Someone may correct me if I´m wrong.

what I´m sure is that most of the hotkeys mentioned in the manual are either not working at all or have got a different result than mentioned.

'1' is the hotkey that shows terrain in each hex. Full list is on pages 17-18 of the manual. Note that this list of hotkeys applies to the main map. The Intelligence Display has it's own hotkeys, described on pages 54-65 of the manual. And every hotkey works as described in the manual.

Hi all,

Thanks guys....1 it is [8D]

As such I will make my last stand on Java in Buitenzorg. The Japanese are moving up from the SE just taking Djokjakarta......

The last 3 x B339's flew a sweep over Merak......none returned......

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Malaya -

The usual nucle....errr artillery duel at Singapore wipes out another Bn. Forts almost back up to Level 3.

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PI -

Boero is almost fully unloaded and will try to sneak back to Palembang. Go Boero![;)]

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Other areas -

Good old Noumea......

Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 8153 troops, 59 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 286

Defending force 2201 troops, 74 guns, 59 vehicles, Assault Value = 31

Japanese adjusted assault: 20

Allied adjusted defense: 79

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
83 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
308 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 49 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 14 (2 destroyed, 12 disabled)


Assaulting units:
Guards Mixed Brigade
Sasebo 2nd SNLF

Defending units:
New Caledonia Det
114th USAAF Base Force
147th Field Artillery Regiment
115th USAAF Base Force
131st Field Artillery Battalion
148th Field Artillery Battalion

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Submarine warfare -

1 dud attack today [:(]

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Err I'm baffled......how can the 43rd Const co be at both Kuching and Uttaradit?[&:]

ORIGINAL: ckammp

'1' is the hotkey that shows terrain in each hex. Full list is on pages 17-18 of the manual. Note that this list of hotkeys applies to the main map. The Intelligence Display has it's own hotkeys, described on pages 54-65 of the manual. And every hotkey works as described in the manual.

wonder if I´ve got a different manual or different keys then [&:]

Hi all,

The end of January passes. This month has seen the Japanese take 1/2 of Java, encroach on Singapore, make little headway in China, a stalemate at Clark Field and progress in the South Pacific and Burma.

All in all a successful month for the Japanese.

The main losses for them were CVL Zuiho and BB Nagato, both sunk by Vildebeast's out of Batavia.

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Points:

Allies: -316
Japanese: +3046



Bases:

Allies: -34 (-1476 points)
Japanese: +36 (+851 points)



Planes:

Allies: +485
Japanese: +280



Troops:

Allies: +1163 lost
Japanese: +187 lost



Ships:

Allies: +85 ships (+547 points)
Japanese: +33 ships (+591 points)

I personally feel there are more shipssunk than this since I 'feel' my subs have sunk about 50 ships as is.

'Confirmed' (as much as can be due to FOW) sub successes:

Mines:
PB - 1

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Dutch boats:
AK - 11
CM - 2
PB - 1
DMS - 2
TB - 1
APD - 1
DD - 3

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Fleet Boats:
AP - 1
AK - 7
CM - 1
DD - 2

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S-Boats:
AK - 3
DMS - 1
CM - 1

Hey Speedy, subs kills do seem to get the FOW treatment pretty often, I'm seeing only about 50% of medium/large ships getting reported as sunk after a torpedo hit. You seem to be having a lot of success with them already though.

Whatever you've lost is more than made up for by Zuiho and Nagato.

Hi all,

Hi Smeulders/anarchy - I made an error in the above reporting. I remembered to take CV Zuikaku out of the ship count but not the point count! as such you can delete 304 VP's from the above total. Doh! Agreed though Anarchy taking a CVL and BB down with the SRA is not bad.

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A 7 day update as things move into a slow pattern......

The past week has seen virtual stalemate in most areas of operations.

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Malaya -

The Japanese launch nuclear shells every day other than their attack on the 7th which demolished more defensive positions (down to level 2 again) and caused over 2500 casualties. the main issue is that 7 Allied squads were destroyed vs 1 Japanese (along with 151 disabled!) It's a simple war of attrition with the Allies losing badly. I can only assume equipment firepower is the difference here and maybe experience!

Kuantan (the last Allied base on Malaya other than Singers) fell easily to 56th JA rgt on the 7th.

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PI -

Status quo at Clark Field with Almost daily air and land bombardments causing upto 100 casualties. Overall AV remains at about 1800.

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Java -

The Japanese are making slow progress here, but progress it is.

The Allies have systematically retreated to the 'fortress' of Buitenzorg all of the forces west of Soerabaya. Soerabaya itself has 100AV and is holding firm. Buitenzorg is now upto almost 800 AV with level 3 forts and over 40,000 supply. Will be interesting to see if I can hold and for how long.

The Japanese 'stormed' an empty Batavia on the 7th after another failed attack on 5th. My boys have done well here in holding up the 38th Division and moved to Buitenzorg in good order with a 15-20 EXP increase [:)]

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Burma -

Little has happened here. The Japanese have basically taken Burma (upto Katha) and the pathetic remnants of my Burma army are crawling back to Akyab and Imphal.

I do have strong forces in southern and central India as alluded to before though so feel fairly secure with India.

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China -

Fun and games here. Faber is attacking at Singyang at the mo but my men are holding firm outside the city (for now).

The Japanese stall south of Chengchow.

They are pushing west past Nanchang though.

On the Chinese side Paotow has been liberated in the north and we are pushing on further east!

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Other areas -

Amazingly the Japanese banged their head against the flimsy Allied forces at Noumea. Despite massively outnumbering the Allies in combat troops they only took the place yesterday. I salute my brave men!

KB was spotted by a PBY out of Suva heading east past Efate on the 4th! I ordered all shipping SE at flank speed! KB apparently knew it had been detected as they moved back westwards on the 5th. Shame as I had the might of 100 x fighters (P39/P40) and 48 x LBA...oooh the might[;)]

I am concocting an Allied CV operation for when Hornet arrives within a week...I will keep this one secret until nearer the time [;)]

BB Revenge is at Cape Town and will wait there for the SRA Cruisers (Houston, Danae and Dragon) to repair their damage before leaving harbour.

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Submarine Warfare -

A mixed week with several missed/dud attacks......

On the 3rd SS Sealion heavily damaged the lone freighter Lyons Maru with a few shells and a torpedo west of Korea.

SS O20 reportedly sank AK Toho Maru with 2 torpedoes outside of Kuching.

On the 4th SS Permit had a good day heavily damaging AK Maya Maru and AK Manko Maru both off the SW coast of Korea.

On the 7th SS KXVI heavily damaged the Kagero class DD Hayashio with a torpedo SE of Balikpapan (appears to be a SC/CV TF). SS S-37, also in the area, spotted the limping Hayashio and sent her under with a fish to the bow.

On the other side SS KXIV limped away for the Kuching area after heavy IJN units spotted her and DD's littered the area with DC's on the 2nd.

SS I-10 blew up TK H.M. Storey with 2 torpedoes SE of Suva on the 3rd.

I-10 struck again on the 7th sinking AR Medusa also SE of Suva!

I-10 has sunk 2 very important ships.......

Hi all,

Firstly, a question - how have peopel found the Monsoon effects in Burma? Dramatic? When do they run from? With Burma/India being the only land mass I'm still engaged in with any power I'd like to attrite the scummy Japanese in Burma in due course.

PI/Malaya - same old.

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Java -

The Japanese advanced further inland today taking Djokjakarta. The rest of the Dutch LBA force is based at Buitenzorg amassing 8 bombers....wooooo.

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Other areas -

US Forces have begun disembarkation and port/airfield construction on the icy island of Attu.........

7th Australian Division elements are beginning to arrive at Aden befoire moving onto Australia.

Allied LBA based at Imphal (Blenheim's with AVG escort) begin bombing harrasment on Japanese tanks approaching Katha, Burma.

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China -

Japanese try again to push out from the city of Singyang but fail:

Ground combat at Sinyang (86,48)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 26701 troops, 256 guns, 77 vehicles, Assault Value = 992

Defending force 22387 troops, 156 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 531

Japanese adjusted assault: 868

Allied adjusted defense: 635

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1114 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 82 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 86 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
608 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 98 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 103 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Little do they know that 900 AV of angry Chinese wait to the SW awaiting them and my men........

I've attached a sit rep of China and it's multitude of battles.......

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Submarine warfare -

The only successful contact reported today was by SS O21 patrolling south of Davao. Despite having a failing tube during attack the 1 remaining fish found it's mark leaving the troop laden transport Kamo Maru listing to port heavily damaged.

Anyone?

We're just in January '42. The wet monsoon is winter, but at the moment I'm not trying to move supplies through that area.

Hi all,

Thanks witpqs - anyone else going to chime in?!?

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3 day update.

PI -

A quiet couple of days were followed by a hive of activity from the Japanese lines at Clark on the 11th! They were attacking! My men are low on supply (orange level) but still have enough in them for this day and probably a couple more. Many Japanese littered the battlefield after a morning of tremendous carnage:

Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 59333 troops, 560 guns, 480 vehicles, Assault Value = 2113

Defending force 52573 troops, 945 guns, 592 vehicles, Assault Value = 1898

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 691

Allied adjusted defense: 4828

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 6 (fort level 2)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
7402 casualties reported
Squads: 26 destroyed, 366 disabled
Non Combat: 59 destroyed, 403 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 153 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 173 (40 destroyed, 133 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
2463 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 192 disabled
Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 284 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 28 (4 destroyed, 24 disabled)


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Malaya -

Much the same here. In fact the 11th marked a day of aggressive attacking by the Japanese across the theatre.

Singapore is close to falling. My men fought well taking down over 1800 Japanese. In return they've lost more ground on the island (1 fort left) and lost over 3800 men...........

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Java -

Same story here. A quiet couple of days followed by the 146th Rgt attempting to storm Soerabaya. They were repulsed for almost 500 casualties.

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Burma -

Japanese tankers are reported in Lashio now and heading east into China....I'll have a little welcoming party for them.........

Allied LBA based in Imphal harass Japanese Tankers daily near Katha for little effect.

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China -

The Japajese general offensive also struck here on the 11th. Tired and weary men fought at Sinyang again, this time the Chinese were forced to retreat SW. Damn.

Chinese Hawks and I-15's made an appearance SE of Changsha ambushing enemy Sonia's taking out 6 of the scum.

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Submarine warfare -

SS Nautilus caught a prize on the 11th in the waters of the Sea of Japan. She surfaced and pumped 6" shells into the small Tanker Kozui Maru leaving her oil full hull burning and heavily damaged.

ORIGINAL: Speedy

Anyone?

I don´t expect it will be of much use to you... as I really ignore even the exact time of monsoon efects but..

April 42, quite a battle in Tavoy (2 division from each side) got 180.000+ supply in Bangkok (3 hexes away, cross jungle -north road cut by the enemy) Tavoy is starving

ORIGINAL: witpqs

We're just in January '42. The wet monsoon is winter, but at the moment I'm not trying to move supplies through that area.

Speedy, I got this wrong in my last post, wet monsoon is summer. I do recall that Patch 2 Beta had wrong dates but they were corrected in Patch 2 (final) after some of us consulted both wikipedia and the source below.


Click on the 'Geography' section.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... os/bm.html

Climate:

tropical monsoon; cloudy, rainy, hot, humid summers (southwest monsoon, June to September); less cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures, lower humidity during winter (northeast monsoon, December to April)

Hi all,

Thanks witpqs. So between June and September there'll be big effects?

Interesting vlcz - that is a massive detriement there!

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Malaya -

Singapore was attaked again on the 14th and my men held on losing 2500 men to 1700. Forts at level 1 again.

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Java -

Tjilatjap fell on the 13th and Makasar on the 14th.

Buitenzorg is quiet and will hopefully hold out for a fair while with 35K supply to hand and almost 900 AV.

Soerabaya still holding firm.

One of my subs spotted a CV force south of Makassar on the 13th. It became apparent what this was doing there on the 15th as Japanese forces invaded Koepang, Timor with the 17th Infantry Rgt. I assume the CV's are patrolling north and the heavy guns of Ise and Hyuga protected the landings.

Ironically my 2 Dutch PT's Squadrons had just reached there from Soerabaya and charged headlong into the invasion fleet. The Japanese had a well protected force though and despite blowing up DMS W-19 7 of my little friends were lost to Japanese fire. 3 remain.

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China -

Status quo in this region with only bombardments to show over the past few days.

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Burma -

1 x AVG Squadron , 1 x Hurri B Sqn, 2 x Blenheim Sqn and 1 x Hudson Sqn are now based at Imphal defended by 2 x AA Rgt's and a fully equipped BF. They are launching ineffective bombing runs on 33rd IJA Division positions west of Katha daily.

More reinforcements have reached India now with 2 more large BF's unloading at Madras along with 3 x Hurri and 3 x Blenheim Sqn's. Half of these are flying to Calcutta and then to Dimapur/Ledo for operations in Burma

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Other areas -

All quiet in SoPac now after Noumea fell. No sign of KB.

Strong forces are at Suva and would take about 4 x IJA Divisions + support to shift them.

Naval Bn's are en route to Raoul and Norfolk Islands.......

Unloading at Attu continues disturbed by SS I-5 today. Depsite being chased off by KV's she returned in the afternoon and sunk the fuel laden TK Hadnot with 2 well placed torpedoes.

CV Hornet arrived in the eastern US yesterday! She'll make her way to San Diego. When she gets there it will be time to start a little operation......

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Submarine Warfare -

SS Pike surfaced and put 6 shells and dud torpedoes into AKL Penang Maru south of Hamamatsu on the 12th.

SS Grayling also put dud torpedoes and 9 shells into AK Hohuku Maru in Toyohara harbour.

On the other side other than Hadnot's demise mentioned above 1 of my sub's have been damaged by DC's (Tarpon at Brunei).