Mission Impossible? Hades1001(A) vs Hongye(J)

[hades1001]

And Darwin Raid is a historical event in 1942.

[jeffk3510]

Dont be discouraged by home much Japan can take early on. They can move further, unload faster, and have better air coordination than you do in the early stages of the war.

It is nice to pick off a few landing forces like you have done. Bright spots in a usually dark time..

[hades1001]

I think the dark time just begin...You'll see. The whole India and SOPAC campaign.

[jeffk3510]

With scenario 2, you should just accept that they can take all of the historical territory taken by Japan, and then some more where their major push (or two) is at..

[hades1001]

Dec 30, 41

The disaster in Darwin continues and I managed to provide some air support for the fleeing fleet. Most of the damaged warships managed to get away, of course, except those already sunk ones
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Moa at 72,120, Range 16,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CV Kaga
CV Hiryu
CV Soryu
CV Shokaku
CV Zuikaku
CV Akagi
BB Hiei
BB Kirishima
CA Tone
CA Chikuma
CL Abukuma
DD Akigumo
DD Kagero
DD Isokaze
DD Shiranui
DD Urakaze
DD Hamakaze
DD Tanikaze
DD Arare
DD Kasumi

Allied Ships
AM Abraham Crijnssen, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 76,124

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 138 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 51 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 55
D3A1 Val x 44



No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AO TAN 2, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Clan Alpine, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
TK Talang Akar, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Filleigh, Bomb hits 9, and is sunk

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 67,117

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 76 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 28 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 33
D3A1 Val x 15



Allied aircraft
B-339D x 4
P-40E Warhawk x 41


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
D3A1 Val: 5 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-339D: 3 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 6 destroyed

Allied Ships
CL Ceres
DD Alden
DD Whipple, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Marblehead, Bomb hits 2

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Wyndham at 71,126

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
B5N2 Kate x 13



No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD Scout, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
DD Stewart

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 77,124

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
B5N2 Kate x 18



No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AM Deloraine, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
AM Ballarat, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AM Ipswich, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AM Toowoomba, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AM Cairns, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk

Japs took Malacca
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Ground combat at Malacca (49,81)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1700 troops, 4 guns, 145 vehicles, Assault Value = 236

Defending force 3159 troops, 20 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 123

Japanese adjusted assault: 107

Allied adjusted defense: 10

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Malacca !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), leaders(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
1407 casualties reported
Squads: 24 destroyed, 43 disabled
Non Combat: 80 destroyed, 25 disabled
Engineers: 21 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment

Defending units:
22nd Indian Brigade
3/16th Punjab Battalion

Our sub managed to get another Japan big AMC near Port Moresby.
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Submarine attack near Carnarvon at 47,135

Japanese Ships
SS RO-34

Allied Ships
AGP Aldebaran, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage



AGP Aldebaran is sighted by SS RO-34
SS RO-34 launches 2 torpedoes at AGP Aldebaran

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Submarine attack near Port Moresby at 98,130

Japanese Ships
AMC Aikoku Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Gudgeon

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



AMC Aikoku Maru is sighted by SS Gudgeon
SS Gudgeon launches 4 torpedoes at AMC Aikoku Maru

[hades1001]

Dec 31, 41

After Sumatra was occupied and oil and refinery facilities merely damaged in Palembang, Japanese imperialists started to aim at Java.

Today Championzhao send a major sweep to Bandoeng where I kept lots of my fighters at, and this is the first time I learned in AE that sweep has a bonus over CAP. And the A2A result is really shocking. I lost some 50 fighters and against 7 on Jap's side.

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Morning Air attack on Bandoeng , at 50,100

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 59
Buffalo I x 58
B-339D x 10


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 1 destroyed
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on Bandoeng , at 50,100

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 31



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 52
Buffalo I x 49
B-339D x 10


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 4 destroyed
Buffalo I: 4 destroyed
B-339D: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet *

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Morning Air attack on Bandoeng , at 50,100

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 32
Buffalo I x 35
B-339D x 8


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 1 destroyed
Buffalo I: 3 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on Bandoeng , at 50,100

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 25
Buffalo I x 24
B-339D x 8


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
H81-A3: 1 destroyed
Buffalo I: 4 destroyed
B-339D: 2 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on Bandoeng , at 50,100

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 94 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 31 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 17
Buffalo I x 13
B-339D x 3


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 2 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on Bandoeng , at 50,100

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 60
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 30
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 1



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 12
Buffalo I x 10
B-339D x 1


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 damaged

No Allied losses


Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 29

[hades1001]

Jan 1, 42 - Jan 7, 42

Championzhao brought the whole combined fleet to the Java Campaign! KB, miniKB and all surface ships!
The landing was done swiftly without hesitate, the Java island was cut to half by his landing at Semarang.
Even Combined Fleet HQ participated in the amphibious attack!

Our air counterattack goes out uncoordinated and all lost to the superior CAP. we lost hundreds of planes in the week without achieving much thing significant.

[hades1001]

Jan 8, 42

Rangoon is bombed to oblivion from the first day of the war and I tried to sneak in several supply convoy but all destroyed. So I gave up Rangoon and put all my resource to build Myitkyina.

Rangoon is taken today by Japan today. No defense in Rangoon.

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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 9631 troops, 103 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 363

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 155

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 155 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Rangoon !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker:



Assaulting units:
2nd RTA Division
15th Guards Regiment
4th RTA/B Division

[hades1001]

Jan 09, 42

I use Patrol planes to pull out about 20,000 men from Singapore deathtrap and deployed Dutch and Malaya army at Bandoeng in Java. This place is Mountain Terrain and over 80,000 tons of supplies. Best stronghold I can find in Java. Hoping that it take Japanese a month or more to conquer this place and thus buy sometime for the Allied.

We also lost Batavia and Kendari today.

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Ground combat at Bandoeng (50,100)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12532 troops, 114 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 430

Defending force 36559 troops, 424 guns, 275 vehicles, Assault Value = 1249

Japanese ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Assaulting units:
53rd Division

Defending units:
Marinier Battalion
Lijfwacht Cav Sqn
22nd Australian Brigade
1st KNIL Regiment
4th KNIL Regiment
6th KNIL Regiment
44th Indian Brigade
2nd KNIL Regiment
Tjilatjap KNIL Battalion
45th Indian Brigade
28th Gurkha Brigade
2nd Argylls Battalion
48th Gurkha Brigade
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
1st Regt Cavalerie
27th Australian Bde /1
2/15 Punjab Bn /1
Malang Base Force
KNIL Army Command
Batavia Base Force
Soerabaja Base Force
Djojakarta Base Force
1st KNIL AA Battalion
Banjoewangi Base Force
ML-KNIL
Bandoeng Base Force
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
106th RN Base Force /1

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Ground combat at Batavia (49,98)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 17782 troops, 285 guns, 120 vehicles, Assault Value = 603

Defending force 879 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 30

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 730

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 730 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Batavia !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Allied losses

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

Japanese ground losses:
104 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Allied ground losses:
526 casualties reported
Squads: 71 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 45 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units retreated 1
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
9th Infantry Regiment
113th Infantry Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
56th Recon Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
22nd Recon Regiment
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
3rd Mortar Battalion
56th Field Artillery Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
5th Mortar Battalion
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion
4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion

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Ground combat at Kendari (70,106)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 3330 troops, 58 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 130

Defending force 1100 troops, 14 guns, 31 vehicles, Assault Value = 21

Japanese adjusted assault: 87

Allied adjusted defense: 11

Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kendari !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
120 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
383 casualties reported
Squads: 26 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 71 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 16 (16 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 31 (31 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
33rd Infantry Regiment
Kure 2nd SNLF
Sasebo 1st SNLF /1

Defending units:
Kendari Garrison Battalion
Cebu USN Base Force
Kendari Base Force



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Submarine attack near Muntok at 52,89

Japanese Ships
xAK Toyooka Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS KXV

xAK Toyooka Maru is sighted by SS KXV
SS KXV launches 4 torpedoes

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Submarine attack near Broome at 64,123

Japanese Ships
SS I-160

Allied Ships
xAK Elysia, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)


xAK Elysia is sighted by SS I-160
SS I-160 attacking xAK Elysia on the surface

[hades1001]

Jan 10, 42

Singapore falls! Less than 30,000 Allied troops surrendered. Other troops has already been extracted to Java.

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Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 79650 troops, 689 guns, 676 vehicles, Assault Value = 2909

Defending force 28983 troops, 395 guns, 305 vehicles, Assault Value = 518

Japanese adjusted assault: 2219

Allied adjusted defense: 523

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Singapore !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Allied losses

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

Japanese ground losses:
5159 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 269 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 142 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 37 disabled
Vehicles lost 32 (6 destroyed, 26 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Allied ground losses:
27088 casualties reported
Squads: 557 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2263 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 125 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 277 (277 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 347 (347 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 39


Assaulting units:
1st Formosa Inf. Regiment
5th Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
33rd Division
114th Infantry Regiment
5th Recon Regiment
55th Infantry Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
7th Tank Regiment
21st Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
2nd Formosa Inf. Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
II./143rd Infantry Battalion
48th Recon Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
56th Infantry Regiment
42nd Infantry Regiment
11th Infantry Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
III./143rd Infantry Battalion
6th RTA Division
5th Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
43rd Const Co
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
5th Field AF Construction Battalion
Southern Army
11th Shipping Engineer Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
53rd Const Co
54th Const Co

Defending units:
3/16th Punjab Battalion
1st Malay Battalion
SSVF Brigade
27th Australian Brigade
Singapore Fortress
3rd SSVF Battalion
2nd Malay Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
5/14th Punjab Battalion
5/2nd Punjab Battalion
22nd Indian Brigade
2nd Gordons Battalion
3rd Cavalry Regiment
28th Gurkha Bde /1
1st Manchester Battalion
2/17 Dogra Battalion
22nd Australian Bde /1
2nd ISF Base Force
2nd HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
223 Group RAF
III Indian Corps
Singapore Base Force
109th RN Base Force
29 Battery/3 HAA
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
110th RAF Base Force
Malaya Army
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
111th RAF Base Force
11 Battery/3 HAA
224 Group RAF
137/155th Field Regiment
112th RAF Base Force
AHQ Far East
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2/215th Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
Malayan Air Wing
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
5th Field Regiment

Port Soerabaja is bombed today. The ships under repair in the shipyard are mostly sunk.
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Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 39



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
SS Shark, Bomb hits 7, and is sunk
SS Spearfish, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
AG Albatros, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
xAKL Luzon, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage



Port hits 10
Port fuel hits 5

[hades1001]

Jan 17, 42


The enemy's attempt has been defeated for a few times now. And this is a big one.
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Ground combat at Cagayan (79,89)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 14752 troops, 101 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 569

Defending force 9508 troops, 57 guns, 50 vehicles, Assault Value = 360

Japanese adjusted assault: 277

Allied adjusted defense: 187

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
1961 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 121 disabled
Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 107 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled


Allied ground losses:
583 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 21 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
Maizuru 1st SNLF
146th Infantry Regiment
Guards Mixed Brigade
I./124th Infantry Battalion
II/81st Naval Guard Unit

Defending units:
3rd/101st PA Battalion
3rd PA Constabulary Regiment
102nd PA Infantry Regiment
103rd PA Infantry Regiment
102nd PA Infantry Division
Cagayan USAAF Base Force
III Philippine Corps

[Chickenboy]

hades1001,

I too am in mid 1943 (July) in a PBEM and am finding it a very exciting time. I look forward to reading your AAR.

Will your IJ opponent be putting one together from his perspective? As that is my traditional focus, I'd appreciate that as well.

Good luck!

[hades1001]

Chickenboy, welcome aboard

Unfortunately my opponent won't because he doesn't handle English very well. As a non English speaker my English sucks too but at least I can write a little:)

To put it simple, I'm facing a similar situation as GJ had back in 43 but mine is even worse.

So it would be very interesting and challenging to continue the game.

Please jumping in time to time and you advice will be well appreciated.

[hades1001]

Jan 22, 42


Japs start to attack Bandoeng! They suffered over 7,000 casualties when Allied suffered 5,000. The losses of the winning side is really huge.

Bandoeng is good because its terrain and inland location. Bombing and Bombardment is ineffective to this place.
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Ground combat at Bandoeng (50,100)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 122199 troops, 1080 guns, 302 vehicles, Assault Value = 4572

Defending force 41813 troops, 460 guns, 287 vehicles, Assault Value = 1437

Japanese adjusted assault: 1887

Allied adjusted defense: 4510

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
7081 casualties reported
Squads: 78 destroyed, 840 disabled
Non Combat: 63 destroyed, 824 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 80 disabled
Vehicles lost 91 (58 destroyed, 33 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
5062 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 314 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 321 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 29 disabled
Vehicles lost 39 (3 destroyed, 36 disabled)
Units destroyed 1


Assaulting units:
22nd Recon Regiment
42nd Infantry Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
112th Infantry Regiment
55th Engineer Regiment
2nd Formosa Inf. Regiment
12th Engineer Regiment
33rd Division
Imperial Guards Division
56th Engineer Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
Sasebo 8th SNLF
56th Recon Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
II./124th Infantry Battalion
56th Infantry Regiment
64th Infantry Group
66th Infantry Group
III./124th Infantry Battalion
5th Recon Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
4th Division
113th Infantry Regiment
53rd Division
55th Infantry Regiment
9th Infantry Regiment
11th Infantry Regiment
65th Brigade
16th Engineer Regiment
6th Tank Rgt /2
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
5th Mortar Battalion
3rd Mortar Battalion
56th Field Artillery Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
2nd KNIL Regiment
4th KNIL Regiment
28th Gurkha Brigade
45th Indian Brigade
1st Regt Cavalerie
1st KNIL Regiment
Marinier Battalion
22nd Australian Brigade
44th Indian Brigade
Mobiele Eenheid Battalion
6th KNIL Regiment
27th Australian Brigade
48th Gurkha Brigade
Lijfwacht Cav Sqn
Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion
2nd Argylls Battalion
Tjilatjap KNIL Battalion
2/15 Punjab Bn /1
Bandoeng Base Force
Djojakarta Base Force
ML-KNIL
Soerabaja Base Force
Banjoewangi Base Force
Tjilitap Base Force
KNIL Army Command
1st KNIL AA Battalion
Malang Base Force
Batavia Base Force
3rd KNIL AA Battalion
106th RN Base Force

[hades1001]

Jan 23, 42 - Jan 28, 42

With the first failed attack at Bandoneng, my opponent didn't try another one. Instead he pull out most of his troops and maneuvered to surrounded Bandoney, so my troops can't move anywhere and Bandoeng become a giant POW for 50,000 Allied troops....

It's a very smart move. He use the troop to take the rest of Java, which is undefended. And then continue his attack on other places.

[hades1001]

Jan 25, 42

KB raided Colombo and I didn't even realize that this is the begin of his India Campaign.
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Colombo at 29,48

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 156 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 49 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 70
B5M1 Mabel x 3
B5N2 Kate x 26
D3A1 Val x 22



Japanese aircraft losses
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
xAK Maldive, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK City of Hereford, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Michael Embiricos, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Varela, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

[hades1001]

Jan 29, 42 - Feb 10, 42

Japanese invaded India. They took Colombo first then Calicut then Mangalore. It's so early that I barely have and resources to defend my self. During my lack of experience I didn't bring man US air groups to India and I brought most assets from DEI to Australia.

My 3 carriers made a try to intercept Japanese convoys but was spotted 1 day earlier, and KB is nearby so I chose to retreat.

I borrowed a few pic from my opponent and hope you won't get confused by the language.

[hades1001]

Burma:

[hades1001]

Intelligence:

[hades1001]

Allied ship losses: