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Here a pic from a week ago of a crippled sub, will it make it ??

3 days of May 42: (now is the 7th)

...we ran a FULL SPEED fleet to Tassa because there was a small fleet which sank some PBs of ours (there are quite alot of PB sunk meanwhile, but I read here that they are not fuel efficient anyway. But they are useful enough to guard ports etc. maybe not so much as escort because they only have low exp and bad DCs - only the weak type 95). Out fleet cought the enemy but broke the battle off - I saw one of the DDs ran out of fuel this was probably the reason they did not press the attack more. Still good result older CA sunk for zero own losses:

FTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 05, 42
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Tassafaronga at 113,137, Range 11,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
CA Aoba
DD Kazegumo
DD Ariake, Shell hits 1
DD Shirakumo
DD Yayoi
DD Yukaze
DD Tadeshiwa

Allied Ships
CA Louisville, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
CL Hobart, Shell hits 1
DD Sims, Shell hits 1
DD Hammann, Shell hits 1
DD Helm
DD Ward, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DMS Trevor

... in China and India not much... we close to the CH plains and a concentric movement towards Calcutta, cleared 2 more CH corps on the way to Kienko (entrance to plains)
.... seems the Allied has figured out we are too strong and evacuated troops from Calcutta to Howrah, one of our TK regiments was quite trashed there at Howrah. But strong force now crossing the river to Calcutta...

... we clear some more Dutch islands and move stonger fleet assets south to assist there (from Singapore, Soerabaya...there is no enemy fleet presence, except now ca. a dozen subs came in - we only managed to damage 2 or so by air so far).

... an RO sub torpedoes an xAP in the south and is hit in turn once..

... Allied bomber offensive restarted after some quiet days now of course hitting Tassa, we can not stop them, only 4 enemy losses reported, only 1 4e [:(] But no planes destroyed on ground but ca. 30% damage to fields [:(]

...Allies have stronger fleets now at Lunga, seems even 2-3 CVs, recon says now up to 120 fighters there, must be overstacked - the Lunga field is still 3. Allies will soon have that build up tho... US,NZ troops march to Tassa....

... a bombardement fleet with some DDs and 2 CLs bombards Townsville but was sighted before and all planes were moved away just that turn, only minor damage caused. But also no hits on our fleet...

...Jakes bomb and hit xAPs in the south, but only with 60kg

...in the afternoon enemy fighters seem to be low enough and catch the Jakes and also Kates that sortied to hit this fleet, no hit but we lose over a dozen planes shot down by US fighters...(no escort everyone is on CAP there vs. bomber raids). Jake and Kate units now totally depleted and send to the hinterland...

... Allies send lots of fragmented raids to Tassa and Tulagi, but this time it seems to be sweeps and LR CAP as well old divebombers. One DB raid is caught without escort, we shoot down 4-5, the fighter combats are quite even out - not much Zero losses but Nicks take a beating. Only 2 Oscars from our LR CAP showed up and 1 is shot down form them... the weather was thunderstorm so I guess this was the reason of the many small sorties by the Allies (and/or overstacked airfield at Lunga?) and our LR planes having trouble to participate.

Anyway I need to figure out what to do down there, must take off a day to think about it - we also have now 3 bigger warships back from repairs there. I evacuated some troops from Tassa which seemed not to heal anyway (these retreated from Lunga), but the rest there is quite a big number still. Would suck to lose them all, these are only few real combat troops so if the US arrives in strength there....[:(][:@]

We reached the 16th May 42 my PBM partner is very reliable even if we both could only make 1 turn in 2 days. I also had some conversation about the game, as he said he had bad luck with another torp hit on one of his CVs. I told him I was surprised to see the Allies going on the offense already in April 42. Also that I honestly think the forward defense of Burma (at Pegu, Rangoon, Akyab...) might turn out not in the Allies favor. But he told me in the south I can not to much anymore, as he has (now had) a massive fleet there, I needed to re-inforce India and therefore draw troops away from the south. In fact I do not need to as I have troops from the Phillipines now there at Rabaul and PM (and now also at Tassa)..

Also he thinks that Rangoon is a "Stachel in meinem Fleisch". Perhaps translated as "a sting in my flesh". Yes, I still besiege Rangoon and the Allies there hold, but I brought over meanwhile more tropps also 2 of the scen2 divisions and the tank brigade. As well some arty from China and Korea bought out...but I still could take the offense in India, so I doubt the the sting in flesh analogy he uses is true from my view. It will be shown in the next 2-3 turns when the first DA will take place (his troops should have supply problems there too).

Otherwise these days were much carnage in the sotuh seas around Guadalcanal, guess the waters there can be called ironbottom sounds also in this game... here is a video about some ships that sunk there in reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJytlYgg-Dw

I will first report the CBI theater shortly and tomorrow the southern one:

- We took in China: Kienko, Tujun and yesterday even Changsa (most Chinese troops could retreat only a few surrendered)
- We still lay siege to Rangoon and bring in more troops, we took Lashio and Kalemjo in Burma
- We shortly lost Howrah shortly in India a tank reg was destroyed of ours, but we took Calcutta and yesterday also Diamond harbour and retook Howrah...

Not much going on there in the air or sea so far, but we lost a sub minelayer at Bombay which wanted to lay some mines there....[:(] We also patrol now with 3-4 subs these areas in the distance but so far found no prey at all....[8|]

Rest of the month:

So our subs redeemed themselves with 1 hit on a CVs and 2 on a CLs all in the south. One US CV more seems to be confirmed sunk in the area now, which means at least 3 US CVs and 1 Brit CV "Indomitable" should be sunk...

Sub attack near Duff Islands at 122,143

Japanese Ships
SS I-171

Allied Ships
CV Lexington, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

sub attack near Lunga at 114,138

Japanese Ships
SS RO-63, hits 11

Allied Ships
CL Marblehead, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


ub attack near Duff Islands at 127,143

Japanese Ships
SS I-171

Allied Ships
CL Capetown, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage


Now with many ships repaired we could deal out also some bombardement:

Night Naval bombardment of Lunga at 114,138

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5A Catalina: 6 damaged
PBY-5A Catalina: 1 destroyed on ground
P-40E Warhawk: 45 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed on ground
F4F-3 Wildcat: 23 damaged
F4F-3 Wildcat: 2 destroyed on ground
P-39D Airacobra: 14 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed on ground
A-24 Banshee: 6 damaged
P-400 Airacobra: 14 damaged
P-400 Airacobra: 1 destroyed on ground

Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Mutsu
CA Mogami

Allied ground losses:
216 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 5 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 22
Port hits 21

Strong Allied surface fleet - perhaps wanted to bombard Tassa - runs in our forces. They sank before and after these battles a minelayer and 3 PBs of ours.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Tassafaronga at 113,137, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima, Shell hits 12
CA Aoba, Shell hits 1, on fire
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 2
CL Nagara
CL Natori, Shell hits 1
CL Tama
DD Kazegumo
DD Harusame
DD Kawakaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake
DD Inazuma, Shell hits 1
DD Ayanami, Shell hits 1
DD Tadeshiwa, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

Allied Ships
BB West Virginia, Shell hits 12, heavy fires
BB Ramillies, Shell hits 2, on fire
BB Resolution, Shell hits 5, on fire
CL Hobart, Shell hits 1
CL Emerald, Shell hits 2
CL Danae, Shell hits 7, and is sunk
CL Dragon, Shell hits 2
CL Durban, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
CL Colombo, Shell hits 2
DD Anderson, Shell hits 3
DD Bagley
DD Gridley
DD Maury, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Benham
DD Ellet
DD Perkins, Shell hits 1
DD Preston, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Farragut
DD Worden
DD Dale
DD Edsall
DD Schley
DD Norman
DMS Hovey
DMS Zane

Night Time Surface Combat, near Tassafaronga at 113,137, Range 6,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Makigumo
DD Shinonome
DD Hayate

Allied Ships
CL Hobart
CL Emerald, Shell hits 1
CL Dragon
CL Colombo, Shell hits 1
DD Anderson
DD Bagley
DD Gridley
DD Maury
DD Benham
DD Ellet
DD Perkins
DD Preston, on fire
DD Farragut
DD Worden
DD Dale
DMS Hovey
DMS Zane

Night Time Surface Combat, near Tassafaronga at 113,137, Range 4,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Shirakumo, Shell hits 1
DD Shikinami, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Amagiri, Shell hits 8, heavy fires, heavy damage (later sunk)

Allied Ships
CL Hobart
CL Emerald, Shell hits 3
CL Dragon, Shell hits 1
CL Colombo, Shell hits 3
DD Anderson
DD Bagley
DD Gridley
DD Maury, Shell hits 2
DD Benham
DD Ellet
DD Perkins
DD Preston, on fire
DD Farragut
DD Worden
DD Dale, Shell hits 1, on fire
DMS Hovey
DMS Zane

The below pic in this post belongs to above battle!




...we hit a damaged DD and a minelayer ("Bungaree") near Ndeni with 1 sub torp each

...and sank/damage some smaller ships near Portland roads which I have no idea what their intention was with Nells from PM and Jeans from a CVE fleet that was moving from Singers to the southern theater..(perhaps they wanted to supply or safe the stranded troops from Terapo??).

..we also tried to hit Lunga again with the double aim to bombard and meet the ships from above battle. I figured they were damaged enough and/or out of ammo. At Lunga they should not be able to re-load heavy weapons (damaged port3). But they combined with some other ships as well the 3rd British R-class BB. And were quite formidable (not short enough of ammo to make an impact): 2 BBs , 1 CA and DD or ours sunk. 1 US BB of theirs confirmed sunk, another British one suspected sunk.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
F1M2 Pete: 3 destroyed
E13A1 Jake: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu, Shell hits 37, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
BB Ise, Shell hits 61, heavy fires, heavy damage (later sunk on way home)
CA Mogami, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
CL Kuma, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
CL Kiso, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Yugumo, Shell hits 1
DD Akigumo
DD Natsugumo
DD Yamagumo, Shell hits 2
DD Nenohi, Shell hits 1
DD Oboro, Shell hits 20, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Mutsuki, Shell hits 2
DD Kisaragi, Shell hits 1
DD Mochizuki
DD Matsukaze

Allied Ships
BB West Virginia, Shell hits 50, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
BB Revenge, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage (probably sunk?)
BB Ramillies, Shell hits 7, on fire
BB Resolution, Shell hits 39, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Chicago, Shell hits 3
CL Hobart, Shell hits 3
CL Emerald, Shell hits 1
CL Dragon, Shell hits 1
CL Glasgow
CL Helena, Shell hits 1
CL Colombo, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
DD Sims, Shell hits 1
DD Bagley
DD Blue, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Mugford
DD Ralph Talbot
DD Jarvis, Shell hits 1
DD Gridley, Shell hits 1
DD Benham, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Ellet, Shell hits 1
DD Perkins, Shell hits 1
DD Balch, Shell hits 3, on fire
DD Nizam, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Norman, Shell hits 12, and is sunk
AMC Manoora, Shell hits 23, heavy fires, heavy damage

More wounded ships hit: (must be wounded because normally our subs do not hit DDs):

Sub attack near Kirakira at 115,139

Japanese Ships
SS RO-64

Allied Ships
DD Balch, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

ASW attack near Vaitupu at 141,143

Japanese Ships
SS I-21

Allied Ships
APD McKean, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

ub attack near Lunga at 114,139

Japanese Ships
SS I-164, hits 2

Allied Ships
CV Saratoga, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage (was damaged by bombs some turns ago... but why was it still there ?)


We send another heavy surface fleet:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Haruna
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako
CL Nagara
CL Natori
DD Makigumo
DD Oshio
DD Minegumo
DD Harusame
DD Kawakaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake
DD Inazuma
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami
DD Kikuzuki

Allied Ships
DD Morris, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Preston, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Edsall, Shell hits 2
DD Schley, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DMS Hovey, Shell hits 1
DMS Zane

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 10,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Haruna
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 1
CA Kako
CL Nagara
CL Natori
DD Makigumo
DD Oshio
DD Minegumo
DD Harusame
DD Kawakaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake
DD Inazuma
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami
DD Kikuzuki

Allied Ships
AV Curtiss, Shell hits 17, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AV Tangier
AV Pocomoke, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
DMS Boggs
DMS Chandler
DMS Wasmuth, Shell hits 1
DMS Elliot, Shell hits 2, on fire
AVD Williamson, Shell hits 2, on fire
AE Lassen, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
AK Bellatrix
AK Fomalhaut, Shell hits 12, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AK Almaack, Shell hits 27, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
AK Procyon, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Sea Hound, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Exchange
xAK Exhibitor, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Examiner, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
KV Hollyhock, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
KV Fritillary, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
AVD Mackinac, Shell hits 1

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 9,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Haruna
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako
CL Nagara
CL Natori
DD Makigumo
DD Oshio, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Minegumo
DD Harusame
DD Kawakaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake
DD Inazuma
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami
DD Kikuzuki

Allied Ships
AV Tangier, Shell hits 28, and is sunk
DMS Elliot, Shell hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
AK Bellatrix, Shell hits 3, on fire
xAK Exchange, Shell hits 16, heavy fires, heavy damage
AVD Mackinac, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Haruna, Shell hits 1
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako
CL Nagara
CL Natori
DD Makigumo
DD Oshio, heavy fires (would be sunk by enemy sub later)
DD Minegumo
DD Harusame
DD Kawakaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake
DD Inazuma
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami
DD Kikuzuki

Allied Ships
DMS Boggs, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DMS Chandler
DMS Wasmuth, Shell hits 1
AVD Williamson, on fire
AK Procyon, Shell hits 9, and is sunk
KV Hollyhock, Shell hits 2, and is sunk

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 12,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Haruna, Shell hits 2
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako, Shell hits 1
CL Nagara
CL Natori
DD Makigumo
DD Oshio, heavy fires
DD Minegumo
DD Harusame
DD Kawakaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake
DD Inazuma
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami
DD Kikuzuki

Allied Ships
BB Revenge, Shell hits 14, heavy damage
BB Ramillies, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Balch, and is sunk

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 11,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Haruna, Shell hits 2
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako
CL Nagara
CL Natori
DD Makigumo
DD Minegumo
DD Harusame
DD Kawakaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake
DD Inazuma
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami

Allied Ships
DMS Boggs, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
DMS Chandler, Shell hits 23, and is sunk
DMS Wasmuth, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
AVD Williamson, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage

Night Time Surface Combat, near Lunga at 114,138, Range 12,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
BB Haruna
CA Kinugasa
CA Kako
CL Nagara
CL Natori
DD Makigumo
DD Minegumo
DD Harusame
DD Kawakaze
DD Hatsushima
DD Ariake
DD Inazuma
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami

Allied Ships
DMS Wasmuth, Shell hits 5, and is sunk
AVD Williamson, Shell hits 7, and is sunk

....still enough ammo left to bombard:

Night Naval bombardment of Lunga at 114,138 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 62 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 8 destroyed on ground
P-39D Airacobra: 29 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 10 destroyed on ground
P-38E Lightning: 16 damaged
P-38E Lightning: 2 destroyed on ground
PBY-5A Catalina: 24 damaged
PBY-5A Catalina: 4 destroyed on ground
P-400 Airacobra: 17 damaged
P-400 Airacobra: 2 destroyed on ground
F4F-3 Wildcat: 3 damaged

37 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
BB Haruna
BB Kongo
CA Kako
CA Kinugasa
CL Natori
CL Nagara
DD Sazanami
DD Akebono
DD Inazuma
DD Ariake
DD Hatsushima
DD Kawakaze
DD Harusame
DD Minegumo
DD Makigumo

Allied ground losses:
65 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 12
Runway hits 65


Last attack on Changsa (taken):

Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 54728 troops, 613 guns, 175 vehicles, Assault Value = 1308

Defending force 54266 troops, 291 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 853

Japanese adjusted assault: 1108

Allied adjusted defense: 379

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Changsha !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
2195 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 217 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled

Allied ground losses:
23643 casualties reported
Squads: 679 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1132 destroyed, 44 disabled
Engineers: 120 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 107 (106 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 14
Units destroyed 2


BTW: We also REEINFORCED TASSA, I decided there are too many units to let them be destroyed and as we seem to get sea supority again we brought in a veteran division from the Phillipines campaign (exp 84). They should be able to defend the place together with the left overs from Lunga and the others that were already there (but only aux untis and nav guards so nothing that could provide a capture by stronger US forces, but this division should do the trick). Most of the naval forces engaged in above battles were actually there before to protect the landings and troop convoi at Tassa. Which worked, as soon the convoi left I could use them overwise.

The Allied 4e bombers did not fly in the area for a while, so we reached also fort level 3 at Tassa.

Some massive surface battles. Recreating Ironbottom Sound there, eh? =)

I'm not sure if the mixed SCTF practice is a good one. A lot of players here seem to think BB/CA/CL seem to work better when in separate TFs.

Iron Bottom Sound lives up to it's name.

ORIGINAL: GetAssista

Some massive surface battles. Recreating Ironbottom Sound there, eh? =)

I'm not sure if the mixed SCTF practice is a good one. A lot of players here seem to think BB/CA/CL seem to work better when in separate TFs.

Some of these TFs were too large it seems. Severall collisions on both sides, we have a DD and CL more damaged to the collision than to enemy action. But combat report said also Allied ships collided - but not known for which degree of damage. The Allied playerlikes to concentrate his stuff this is clear, we were also able to recon both Ndeni and Luganville, both together have over ca. 400-500 planes, as well up to 200-250 ships.


Re. my post 20, crippled sub - this one made it back to harbour, I will repair all damage than can be repaired.

Re another also crippled DD I tried to send back first to Munda (which worked) but then the damage increased while en route to Rabaul. This DD is now stuck at Shortland with ca. 80 float damage - most major.

After the bombardements of Lunga I thought the enemy fighters are now weakened and send 2 Zero units to sweep, but again no good result, our losses are 2x as high as the Allies. Seems Zero M2 is just too slow as a sweep plane.

Both sides laid mines in the Lunga area, we also laid a new field at Tassa and 3 enemy subs are reported hit there. We lost a sub at Lunga again (I know it is stupid to send them to harbour hexes, but I tried to catch one of the damaged British BBs - 1 or 2 plus a CA are reported at harbour of Lunga. Port 3 should not be able to repair them. Pity we have no air superiority there, otherwise we could try to bomb them). We also laid a field in an ocean hex - the entry one from the south to Lunga - but it faded without hit.

We had landed some forces at Cooktown as it was empty and took this town, but no air support to send there... The Allies now started to bomb the place with Hudsons, the Aussies also took back Normanton,which a small airborne unit (landed by an AK which sank running aground at a reef there btw) took 2 weeks ago. I could not follow up these landings with air or more units this was more or less distraction...

British DDs in the south hit 2 more subs of ours both need to go back, we hit a sub of theirs in exchange near Tassa.

Only smaller fleet units now left in the CBI area, but they bombard Rangoon every 2-3 days or so:

Night Naval bombardment of Rangoon at 54,53

Japanese Ships
CL Kinu
CL Isuzu
DD Tsuga
DD Kuretake
DD Akikaze
DD Hatakaze
DD Harukaze
DD Kamikaze
TB Kasasagi

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

Resources hits 1
Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 22
Port hits 7

We were able to get finally enough supplies to re-inforce our 2E bombers there and all of them now hit Rangoon (switching to ground from airfield attack more and more). There are some stranded Allies near Akyab left that retreated in the jungle when we took the town. But they should not get supply. The same for others at Lashio. Only Rangoon and Mytkina (sp?)is now left in Allied hands there.

We chase around left over Aussies with tanks and snlf:

Ground combat at 75,128 (near Katherine)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 945 troops, 0 guns, 135 vehicles, Assault Value = 73

Defending force 1577 troops, 34 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 13

Japanese adjusted assault: 132

Allied adjusted defense: 9

Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1

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

Allied ground losses:
936 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 59 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 25 (25 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
8th Tank Regiment

Defending units:
NW Australia Base Force
Tennant Creek RAAF Base Force

First DA at Rangoon worked ok and lowered the forts:

Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 59831 troops, 705 guns, 481 vehicles, Assault Value = 2571

Defending force 49269 troops, 501 guns, 725 vehicles, Assault Value = 1399

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 1998

Allied adjusted defense: 1861

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 3

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
7264 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 493 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 51 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 49 disabled
Guns lost 47 (2 destroyed, 45 disabled)
Vehicles lost 55 (4 destroyed, 51 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1179 casualties reported
Squads: 19 destroyed, 108 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 43 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 21 (8 destroyed, 13 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (4 destroyed, 8 disabled)


...in another "distraction" landing snlf took Port Hedland

.. we hit another Dutch sub in the south (reported sunk?)..

..we lost a first better AK to enemy sub action near the HI...

.. with sea superiority we also could try to send minelayers to Lunga again - which laid and returned alive - and a sub reported hit by these mines...

.. we lose a sub to sub:

Sub vs Sub: SS S-34 attacking SS I-173 at 113,137 - near Tassafaronga

Japanese Ships
SS I-173, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS S-34

SS S-34 launches 4 torpedoes at 1,000 yards

.. another bombardement hits Lunga and a Brit BB with 1 shell (hopefully a big one!)

Night Naval bombardment of Lunga at 114,138 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 19 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 14 destroyed on ground
P-39D Airacobra: 35 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 9 destroyed on ground
P-38E Lightning: 1 damaged
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed on ground
P-400 Airacobra: 2 damaged
P-400 Airacobra: 1 destroyed on ground
F4F-3 Wildcat: 3 damaged
PBY-5A Catalina: 5 damaged

11 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
CL Naka
CL Sendai

Allied Ships
BB Ramillies, Shell hits 1, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
446 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 37 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 3 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 24

More sub,mines action in the south:

ASW attack near Tassafaronga at 113,137

Japanese Ships
APD Susuki

Allied Ships
SS S-34, hits 7, heavy damage


TF 139 encounters mine field at Munda (111,134)

Allied Ships
SS S-47, Mine hits 1, on fire

TF 139 encounters mine field at Munda (111,134)

Allied Ships
SS S-47, Mine hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

... in India Allies try to re-take Ansanol (north of Calcutta) but fail - we detected movement and send bigger units there), they also used the already weakened units that fled from Burma - perhaps they are out of good troops there...

... another DA lowers forts at Rangoon again...

.. we finally hit an AK near Karachi with 1 sub torp...

.. but enemy sub hits a TK the first time of ours near Miri....(made it to port)

.. enemy sub hits a GOOD AK (Yusen class) of ours with only 1 torp in the south, but the AK sinks right away This was on resupply Tassa mission...this was a weaker torp from an S-class sub, but IJ merchantmen are too fragile it seems.

...a PB hits perhaps the same sub there 6 times...

... Lanchow in north-central Chinese mountains taken by only 1 div and 1 arm. car unit...

..nice coordinated air attack:

Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 75

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 damaged

Allied ground losses:
101 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 26

Allied bombers are also awake again and hit Tulagi for bad damage:

Morning Air attack on Tulagi , at 114,137

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 18

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12
B-17D Fortress x 7
B-17E Fortress x 28
B-26 Marauder x 25
B-26B Marauder x 3
P-38E Lightning x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 1 damaged
P-38E Lightning: 3 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 15
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 41


Aussie units near Terapo are wiped out by attrition as well Indian ones at Ansanol:
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4/2nd Det. NW Front Wiped Out at Asansol by attrition!!!

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1st Peshawar Base Force Wiped Out at Asansol by attrition!!!

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16/5th Mahratta Battalion Wiped Out at Asansol by attrition!!!

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9/10 Baluch Battalion Wiped Out at Asansol by attrition!!!

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20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment Wiped Out at Asansol by attrition!!!

Lark Battalion Wiped Out at Terapo by attrition!!!

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1st Australian Brigade Wiped Out at Terapo by attrition!!!

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41st Australian Battalion Wiped Out at Terapo by attrition!!!

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49th Australian Battalion Wiped Out at Terapo by attrition!!!

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15th RAAF Base Force Wiped Out at Terapo by attrition!!!

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1/4 Central Detach. Wiped Out at Asansol by attrition!!!

28.05. - 02.06.42

Allied subs now often try to hit our cargo/TK fleets (guess the better radar makes a difference)... luckily the torps mostly miss or are duds. Will report any significant hit. Our subs miss a big AP near the Indian west coast. But hit later on an even bigger target:

Sub attack near Funafuti at 144,146

Japanese Ships
SS I-4, hits 2

Allied Ships
CV Saratoga, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
CA Chicago
CL Dragon
CL Emerald
CL Hobart
DD Perkins
DD Benham
DD Maury
DD Sims
DD Paladin
DD Nizam
DD Edsall
DD Farragut

Sub attack near Funafuti at 143,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-4

Allied Ships
CV Saratoga, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Paladin

Our fleets hit Lunga and Kirakira, the first one were only CLs and did not do much damage but the latter one was better:

Night Naval bombardment of Kirakira at 116,140

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 65 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 25 destroyed on ground

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
BB Haruna
CA Kako
CA Kumano
CL Kiso

Allied ground losses:
231 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 20 destroyed, 22 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Airbase hits 19
Airbase supply hits 21
Runway hits 89
Port hits 3
Port supply hits 1

....we sweep Chunking with a weak Oscar unit but take down 4 better Chinese fighters (Lancer) for no own losses...

... we took Chengtu at the Chinese plains and move to Neikiang from 2 direction. The Chinese SORTY out of Chungking with lots of units (mistake?) and also start 2 offensives in direction Sian and Changteh, we have not so much in these areas and build forts, as well move units from Changsah in direction Changteh (ei. north)..we hit them with air but not much damage done...

..the Australiens take back Normanton and destroy the weak airborne unit there...also they finally show up in direction Tennant Creek, we fail to take the town (only 1 weaker airborne unit). 1 TK and 1 more SNLF on the way to there, but no report how strong the units are the Allies send to re-inforce the area and or take back bases there...if these turn out to be strong ones we must retreat back in dir Katherine, we do not plan to base strong units there...

Allies try to bombard TASSA again with a weaker CL fleet, which was lucky our strong surface fleet there left to bombard and then goes back to Shortlands were fuel and a AKE are located which can re-load up to 40cm guns....but they hit a mine on the way back and did not much damage to base or troops. But they sink 4 good bigger PBs on a fast transport mission to Tassa....

TF 135 encounters mine field at 115,138

Allied Ships
DMS Zane
DMS Hopkins
DMS Hovey
DD Stronghold
DD Witte de With
DD Van Nes
DD Aylwin
CL Helena, Mine hits 1

21 mines cleared

Bombers hit TASSA again severall times, but this time we have a lot of fighters, of course most bombers get through but the damage is now only moderate. Here an example:

Morning Air attack on Tassafaronga , at 113,137

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 29
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 3
B-17D Fortress x 3
B-17E Fortress x 15
B-26B Marauder x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 18 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 3 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 2 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 11 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed by flak

Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 16

We lose 3 fighters in the air to B17 gunners, and a dozen on the ground during the last attacks. But we also get fragmented US 2E bomber raids and shoot down 7-8 B25s/B26s (incl. OP losses, B17 OP losses reported as 4-5 and 2-3 to A to A)

No attacks the last turn, seems Allied bombers are hurt a bit....

Allied ground troops have reached the TASSA hex but are surprised to find a re-inforced IJ position with a complete div there, they do not dare to attack.

Another PB and small AK lost to at least a dozen US - subs in the south (only the ones that are visible - so it is possible ca. 20 USN SS operate there, luckily it seems the Dutch subs have gone back to base or even sunk!)

... we take Rangoon with bad losses for the Allies:

Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 69130 troops, 870 guns, 605 vehicles, Assault Value = 1816

Defending force 42354 troops, 447 guns, 663 vehicles, Assault Value = 914

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 1533

Allied adjusted defense: 429

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Rangoon !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 9 destroyed

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

Japanese ground losses:
3826 casualties reported
Squads: 76 destroyed, 338 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 59 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled
Guns lost 31 (5 destroyed, 26 disabled)
Vehicles lost 95 (6 destroyed, 89 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
46344 casualties reported
Squads: 1011 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4298 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 180 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 257 (257 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 646 (644 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 30

12.06.42

North, nothing happening there, 2 subs are patrolling there but only contact was with a small patrol boat. No interest to land in the Aleutians, instead building up Kuriles, Hokaido...

CBI, our advance was stopped, in fact we made a mistake in China to not wait and concentrate more power before entering the CH plains. Chinese have thrown out a big army of ours 1 hex west of Chungking. Troops were weakened by a river crossing before. Many Chinese than moved in and after 2 attacks routed our guys. 3 smaller units destroyed, 3-4 divs trashed (80-90% disabled!). We had send more from the north which took Chengtu before, than Neikiang but those are now besieged in turn by the Chinese and bottled up. In the far north a division took Lanchow and moves on the the town above. Chinese re-took Changteh and are besieging Sian (so far we hold there). We moved troops from Changsah to Changteh and besiege the town. For sure it would have been better to secure these areas better and have more troops and better coordination before entering the CH plains. Looks like Armeegroup south in Russia split up to much, given to many objectives with the result reacing none of them and being beaten back instead... Portions of the Chinese were supplied and their bigger corps are able to beat Japanese as shown.

In India our advance has stopped perhaps we take a defensive posture near Calcutta. Allies are hitting troops per air with many bombers and good escort of P40 and Hurries. Turns out Hurry IIc is quite effective. We rolled up the eastern bases like Inmphal etc tho. Now marching to Ledo. In Burma some Allied refugees (from Rangoon battle) were routed to the jungle. Small counterattack from these at Lashio was beaten back...we still fly Oscar 1c there so air cover a bit dubious.


...more later

16.06.42

CBI, the Chinese have taken Sian with great damage tot he garrison there, they also lay siege to Neikiang and Chengtu (central plains), an air raid of IJA was cought without escort and 7-8 bombers lost mostly 1E. However we swept Chungking 3 x (Oscar) and get more escort (still Nates) most Chinese fighters shot down. Transported some troops before from China to India, Burma and a division as reserve to Manila. Needed to buy out more and they are now on the way to China from Kwantung and Korea armies. Troops slowly recovering that were routed near Chungking (guess will take 1-2 weeks until some more squads are healed while the guns repair faster)...we now also get some supply issues so loaded some at the HI.

In India Allies have started air offensives and bombed our troops with everything they have - and lots of escorts. Trained and rested Oscars have now reached the area and will try to interfere, as well 1 Zero unit. Half of the troops from captured Rangoon recovered meanwhile and are now transported north - some will also fill out Burma...

Australia, our weaker troops are on retr.... ahem, strategic relocation to the north. Aussies have at least 1 armor regiment and 1 motor brigade there. General of sector phoned Rommel and asked for advise re. desert warfare. Rommel said, use 2 pz. divisons to outflank enemy and set up PAK traps with 88mm guns. However the Japanese have only 1 light tank regiment and no guns above 47mm there [:(] RAAF still bombs the now almost deserted Cooktown and 3 enemy units show up (we evacuated most before)

South: Allies sent another bombardement fleet which I think was quite brave, after he should have realized we concentrated a lot of the IJN there. And 2 of our fleets are on guard at TASSA in which the enemy stumbled:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Tassafaronga at 113,137, Range 8,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Walrus II: 1 destroyed
SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Yamato, Shell hits 4
BB Yamashiro, Shell hits 6, on fire
CA Maya
CA Ashigara, Shell hits 2
CA Mikuma, Shell hits 5
CL Yubari, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Akigumo, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
DD Asashio
DD Michishio, Shell hits 1
DD Arare, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Kasumi
DD Yugure, Shell hits 1
DD Uzuki, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
DD Suresushio, Shell hits 2, heavy fires

Allied Ships
CL Glasgow, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
CL Helena, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
DD Ellet, Shell hits 8, and is sunk
DD Worden, Shell hits 29, and is sunk
DD Aylwin, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Banckert
DD Van Nes, Shell hits 1
DD Witte de With, Shell hits 13, and is sunk
DD Piet Hein, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Van Ghent, Shell hits 2
DD Stronghold, Shell hits 2
DD Tenedos, Shell hits 12, and is sunk
DD Encounter, Shell hits 10, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DMS Hovey, Shell hits 4, and is sunk
DMS Hopkins, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
DMS Zane, Shell hits 6, on fire


Night Time Surface Combat, near Tassafaronga at 113,137, Range 12,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
CL Sendai
CL Naka
CL Oi
DD Yugumo, Shell hits 1
DD Kazegumo
DD Yamagumo
DD Harusame
DD Sazanami
DD Kikuzuki
DD Mochizuki
DD Matsukaze

Allied Ships
DD Aylwin, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Piet Hein, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Van Ghent, Shell hits 1
DMS Zane, on fire

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo, Shell hits 1
CL Sendai
CL Naka
CL Oi
DD Yugumo, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Kazegumo
DD Yamagumo
DD Harusame
DD Sazanami
DD Kikuzuki
DD Mochizuki
DD Matsukaze

Allied Ships
DD Piet Hein, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
DD Van Ghent, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DMS Zane, Shell hits 6, and is sunk

...We lose 1 DD and another damaged one was torpedoed by sub...
....we lose 2 more DDs one of them was hit mine weeks before, but float damage still 70, it sunk on transit from Munda to Rabaul (no more repairs possible there), the other later by port strike on Munda by 4Es. Also 1 AKL and 1 ACM sunk and 1 more DD damaged (saved to Rabaul)... Could be worse, but the good DD losses hurt, especially the one I saved with the huge float damage only to have it sink 4 hexes from Rabaul. [:(] We shot down 4-5 4Es with Zeros.

...we hopefully sank this Dutch sub per our sub:

Sub vs Sub: SS I-9 attacking SS O21 at 116,141 - near Kirakira

Japanese Ships
SS I-9

Allied Ships
SS O21, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

...we hit the heavily damaged British (from surface actions before see reports above) Revenge class twice with a torp each per sub. One of them should be sunk (or even both), which means the pendulum in this battle in which we also lost 2 BBs is now in our favour (3:2 BBs or even 4:2)...

... we send a smaller CA fleet to bombard LUNGA again with weak results

... Allies sweep TASSA with P40,400,39.. weaker numbers cause many of them were destroyed on the ground by ships before , and we get a 3:1 in our favour (only Oscars lost and Zeros damaged)...

... Allies also hit TULAGI port but find only 1 ACM to sink, this is bad tho we lost the Munda and Tulagi ACMs to enemy bombers so no mine tending anymore.

...Allies also hit TASSA again with lots of bombers and P38 escorts and now the battles last longer. Hopefully the radars (even if it is bad) we now have contributed that the enemy could be intercepted earlier and so were not able to blast through our CAP so fast as before. He suffered 4-5 P38 and ca. 10 2E bombers, we lost only 2 fighters or so (but not the P38 but to B17 gunners). Seems we caused also 2-3 op losses to B17s.

Allies now tried 2 DAs at TASSA but both fail one with 3:1 the second with 5:1 in our favour. The division there should hold quite a while [:)]

Ok you are massacrating one each other around Guadalcanal, more realistic than this...

22.06.42


CBI

Our re-inforcements start to arrive (as written above we had shipped out troops from China to serve in other places, but that was a big mistake many many Chinese still alive)... and are slowly getting in position esp. to block the hordes of Chinese 1 hex south of Sian (we left 1 eng as rearguard to delay them which was annihalated) as well at Changteh. We tried a DA there but it failed, Chinese then fed even more troops in there. We also brought in as many planes that could be serviced in fact many more than we have AV. Also updated a Lily to Sallies, which hit the all Chinese troop concentrations esp. the most dangerous one at Neikiang. We also rebase a Betty unit from Rangoon to China which hits Chungking airbases. Even some torpedo planes are bombing troops now....

We are still holding at Neikiang and now opened a supply path up with a tank regiment which also should cut of the Chinese from Chungking (the tk regiment and 2 division are trashed, these can serve as arty brigades now as they have only a handful squads - AV - left):

Ground combat at Neikiang (75,44)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 96187 troops, 350 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2486

Defending force 36177 troops, 389 guns, 302 vehicles, Assault Value = 654

Allied adjusted assault: 879

Japanese adjusted defense: 718

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
4255 casualties reported
Squads: 121 destroyed, 198 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 97 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 39 disabled
Guns lost 46 (5 destroyed, 41 disabled)
Vehicles lost 87 (9 destroyed, 78 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
4383 casualties reported
Squads: 83 destroyed, 387 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 47 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 28 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Assaulting units:
40th Chinese Corps
43rd Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
96th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
31st Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
50th Chinese Corps
71st Chinese Corps
21st Chinese Corps
14th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
48th Chinese Corps
33rd Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
20th Artillery Regiment
89th Chinese Corps
4th Heavy Mortar Regiment
39th Chinese Corps
7th Artillery Regiment
3rd Heavy Mortar Regiment
22nd Artillery Regiment
86th Chinese Corps
49th AA Regiment
18th Artillery Regiment
56th AT Gun Regiment

Defending units:
13th Tank Regiment
36th Division
35th Division
63rd Division
37th Division
1st Army



In India, we build forts at the main cities like Howrah and Calcutta. We have now changed Oscar 1c units, one to Tojo and one to Nick and hope they will provide better protection against the British raids (however just when we had them in place no enemy plane flew, so lets see next day what happens). Hurries and P40 also swept Calcutta, in fact at 30000 (my partner told me he forget about the sweep rule), we lose up to 10 Oscars and even 7 pilots. The others lose 4 to A2A and 4 more to Ops. We took Ledo against a basefoce with overkill of the Im.Guard div.


Australia, re-location continues, Aussies do not pursue sofar and they have no big airbases in range, so our units are unmolested


South: We bombard Lunga with some cruisers, 3 fighters destroyed, 300 squads disabled and lots of base hits (but not really deadly their fighters are still flying CAP happilly)

...we lose an AK and an APD to sub torp

USSAF&Co hit our southern most outpost (only some recon, jakes and engs located there):

Morning Air attack on Rennell Island , at 113,140

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 3
A-29 Hudson x 3
B-17E Fortress x 28
B-26 Marauder x 6
B-26B Marauder x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

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

Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 16
Runway hits 71

..more waves would follow and the base is quite trashed and the supply I was just unloading is halfed

....near Hokaido, Kuriles.. we lose 2 cargos to S class subs.

23.06.

All quiet except China, we also hit Kungming now with Nells from Burma... the Chinese again SA at Neikiang and DA at Changteh:

round combat at Changteh (81,50)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 103145 troops, 558 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2703

Defending force 53919 troops, 460 guns, 269 vehicles, Assault Value = 1536

Allied adjusted assault: 427

Japanese adjusted defense: 2469

Allied assault odds: 1 to 5

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker: supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
2130 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 191 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled
Vehicles lost 35 (1 destroyed, 34 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
6333 casualties reported
Squads: 361 destroyed, 337 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 68 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 17 disabled
Guns lost 35 (11 destroyed, 24 disabled)


Ground combat at Neikiang (75,44)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 92459 troops, 349 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2129

Defending force 32994 troops, 384 guns, 283 vehicles, Assault Value = 416

Allied adjusted assault: 305

Japanese adjusted defense: 309

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

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

Japanese ground losses:
4549 casualties reported
Squads: 269 destroyed, 169 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 176 disabled
Engineers: 43 destroyed, 24 disabled
Guns lost 44 (33 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 24 (4 destroyed, 20 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
3467 casualties reported
Squads: 246 destroyed, 101 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 44 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

This is what 1 of the divisions there looks like [X(][:(]

28.06.

Slowly more and more the difference PBM - AI is showing: My plans in China are thrown back at least 2 months and severall division were hard hit, some at Neikiang have under 10 (!!!) AV left (more guns of course). In India also the Allies seem to plan to cut off and/or bottle up our troops in the eastern part as well around Calcutta (luckily we have shipped supplies and fuel there so we can not be starved). I also had to turn back an army from further offensives to counter the Allied "bottling" process. What I thought was only a small spearhead turned out to incl. 2 complete Indian division. At least our fighter arm in India did good work.

CBI,

in China Allies have these bases left:

Ichang - We did not care to take it as it has no industry, and also I reconsidered to cross the river from the east. We will avoid river crossings now, as near Chungking the troops were so weakened that they could be thown back with 20000 losses. Rather take more time and find another route/plan. Ichang shows 89000 CHtroops 240+ guns, 3 more units seem to move there.

Sian & Chengteh, both were re-taken but the troops of the good side (aka IJA) are besieging Changteh (not enough to take it) and are on the way to re-liberate Sian too (bought out troops). Changteh has over 230000/510 CH troops...

Chungking: Is now besieged by an army that cannot take it but at least bottle it up

plus
... some towns in the far north as well in the mountains between Burma and China, we have sent troops now to take these places also (from Burma).

Neikiang, Chengtu, Kienko are all besieged by the Chinese but all seem to hold (even if the Neikiang ones took terrible losses, we hope the Chinese will crumble to lack of supply and disruption asap)

Our reeinforcements have arrived among them 1 good division as well all the partf of 1. + 2. tank divisions (these needed to be bought out anyway). We send a fast spearhead to Sian, while the huge Chinese horde is running south the main road. We have now some blocking forces in place but weaker ones. Lets hope they hold...

India
As described the Allies give us no rest and try flanking, bottling manouvres. Offensive actions dir north are called off to defeat these moves.

Therefore we shoot down a lot of P40 and some Hurries and bombers, ca. 30-35 P40 shot down for only 5-6 own losses, we have a good Tojo unit there now the production of it started early June. Mostly over Calcutta...but masses of bombers hit our ground troops in the countryside, need some more fighters for LR CAP it seems...



...more later + combat reports

So almost end of June and July already starts with giving the Allies more stuff, and they already hurt us quite a lot without wonder planes and trillions of super squads/tanks they get later. Socan only get worse - good to know. I noted so many nice maps etc. in this forum, like the planning with strike directions etc. I can not disclose too much here as I said this is an open thread my opponent may read on the forum Also noted that in some games the Allies already can push in 43 near IJ oilfields. That was scary to read, so I guess I need to start building some defenses at Celebes, Timor and this general area. This game quite overhelms me tbh

But here a map with numbers as follows:



1: We finally come from the west to China mountains and took Paoshan. I was quite lazy, complecement (sp?) because I could have started this already 2 weeks ago, I might have less trouble in area 3 now. Because their is a small road with leads to the area 3 from 1 and I noted the enemies at Neikiang do not get a supply MINUS in every combat, conclusion they get some chunks every other day over this route [8|][>:]

2: Small counter by 3 weak CH units - we have only a baseforce there but with 3 forts, seems to hold

3; Neikiang, still ca. 182000/350 enemies (despite they attack every 2nd day and are hit by every bomber in range, Chengtu, 2 smaller CH units, ours 1 brigade, will hold. Kienko, 57000/260, ours 1 HQ, 1 Div and 1 art on the way, should hold, Chungkink 148000/250, we can not take the city but bottle/blockade it. The number 3 is right over the road I meant which still can supply the Chinese...

Terribe attrition for our divisions (now only regiments or battalion) at Neikiang:

Ground combat at Neikiang (75,44)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 75372 troops, 299 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1369

Defending force 34221 troops, 452 guns, 252 vehicles, Assault Value = 212

Allied adjusted assault: 37

Japanese adjusted defense: 412

Allied assault odds: 1 to 11 (fort level 2)

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(+), preparation(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-), supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
2059 casualties reported
Squads: 64 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 10 destroyed, 82 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 35 (20 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Vehicles lost 21 (11 destroyed, 10 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2429 casualties reported
Squads: 33 destroyed, 195 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled

4 Changteh: 224000/520, we can not take the city but bottle/blockade it

5 Ichang 87000/240 + 3 unknown units near it, we stopped the river crossing due to bad experiences in the past.

6 Sian, Nanyang, on the road: 157000/455 in Sian: 9000/5 (only support units I guess.) We held the horde on the road and from the east you can see the reeinforcements I wrote about above...

We held with good terrain:

Ground combat at 84,43 (near Nanyang)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 71875 troops, 451 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2146

Defending force 18877 troops, 139 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 580

Allied adjusted assault: 294

Japanese adjusted defense: 988

Allied assault odds: 1 to 3

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

Japanese ground losses:
2522 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 192 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
3582 casualties reported
Squads: 92 destroyed, 301 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 72 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 37 (1 destroyed, 36 disabled)

It seems lack of supply is not a deciding factor for the Chinese at least... [8|]

Other areas:

India, example of Allies ground bombing, these troops should feint an attack at Ranchi (main Allied base with lots of troops and planes), but in reality they should swing around it and isolate it. However the Allied spearhead behind my lines caused me to call these troops back in direction Calcutta, Jessore. They are slowed down by the air attack ofc. Will try to LR CAP them...

Morning Air attack on 18th Division, at 52,32 , near Ranchi

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Allied aircraft
Sea Hurricane Ib x 13
Blenheim IV x 15
Hudson IIIa x 11
Hurricane IIb Trop x 28
Lysander II x 14
Wellington Ic x 13
Hudson III (LR) x 3
B-25C Mitchell x 3

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
93 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Earlier attacks over Calcutta:

fternoon Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 29 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 17
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 19
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 6

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 7
Hudson IIIa x 9
Lysander II x 9
Wellington Ic x 9
P-40E Warhawk x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 5 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
Hudson IIIa: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Hudson IIIa: 1 destroyed by flak
Lysander II: 3 destroyed
Wellington Ic: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 14

Also he would send P40s at 100ft (!) which were jumped by our CAP from above with predictable results (esp. the Tojos with better speed would account for 10-15 P40 with 1 lost of their own)


Australia

Aussies finally reached Daly Waters and I planned toattack them directly if they arrive (cause of bad defensive terrain), but I forgot it. Instead they attacked (we have zero forts there, but engs are on the way!) but we held easily. Then Nells from Timor (on ext. range half bombload) and Sallies from Darwin (with AF3, so also only half load) hit the enemy and they were thown back. Finally a good victory again:

Ground combat at Daly Waters (76,131)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 4242 troops, 37 guns, 117 vehicles, Assault Value = 184

Defending force 3788 troops, 42 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 137

Japanese adjusted assault: 107

Allied adjusted defense: 13

Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
732 casualties reported
Squads: 39 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 25 destroyed, 38 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 52 (31 destroyed, 21 disabled)
Units retreated 3

(they had taken back Cooktown meanwhile and destroyed the fragments left there, mostly support. I cancelled the plan to land there in force for the time being, mainly for logistic and time concerns)

South:

Allied airforces seem to rest or weather bad, they send now only small ships in the area probably appalled by allthe bigger ship losses before. Our subs sink 2 yard patrols. We also hit Lunga again this time with 2 BBs - one of them Yamato, it was slightly damaged and only 30-40 main gun ammo left from earlier battle. These 2 BBs go back to Rabaul, Yamato should not be able to re-arm at Shortland anyway. We destry a dozen fighters or so. In the far south we send out some DD raiders that found nothing in the open ocean between Fiji and Aussie coast. Also we had send some smaller carriers they did not find much, but only 3 turns ago, they bombed a comvoi but with only AKs and it seems no troops on board. Sunk list only shows 1 big xAK and an AM as sunk, but 6 x 250kg which hit other xAKs should have sunk more, I hope ? Cause I guess the risk and fuel wasnot worth the raid results so far...

Ex of one of the attacks:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Anatom at 124,165

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B4Y1 Jean x 35
B5N2 Kate x 5
D3A1 Val x 7

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAK Glenaffric, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Clan Mactaggart, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
xAK Elysia, Bomb hits 3, on fire
xAK City of Canterbury, Bomb hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Troilus, Bomb hits 10, and is sunk
AM Whippoorwill, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Lark
AM Cessnock, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Horsham, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk


North, quiet. Our sub attacks a patrol boat but misses.

Other sub action: We hit a bigger xAK near Karachi with 1 torp. The Allies sink another small xAK near Hokaido as well a small TK (sadly loaded with oil). Send out more asw patrols but PBs and SCs are mostly useless (only soso exp and bad type 95 DCs), also need to send more planes there.

Template:
China:

India:

Australia:

South:
North = Aleutians, Hokaido, Kuriles... areas:
Other sub & small ship action:
Economy, production, research, politics:



From 01.07. to 08.07.1942:

China:

We hold everywhere in CH, reeinforcements arrived. We cancelled the cancellation of the river crossing to Ichang, because all other ways would take to long. The shock over the river went ok. Today we have taken the town. We also held on the small road above Nanyang, the area is now stronger and some troops have 3 forts there and I see no way the Chinese can advance further down. Instead we will now whittle them down. Meanwhile from the the east we outflanked them and had liberated Sian a 2nd time. Only 1 CH corps and support troops there. We held at Neikiang and at Kienko. Around Changteh it is quiet apart from bombardements.

Ex of air attacks on Chinese at Neikiang:

Morning Air attack on 98th Chinese Corps, at 75,44 (Neikiang)

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 22
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 12

No Japanese losses

Allied ground losses:
303 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 30 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Final attack there:
Ground combat at Ichang (83,48)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 42760 troops, 464 guns, 536 vehicles, Assault Value = 1371

Defending force 42015 troops, 265 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 673

Japanese adjusted assault: 538

Allied adjusted defense: 90

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Ichang !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
573 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 60 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled

Allied ground losses:
16438 casualties reported
Squads: 488 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 1500 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 107 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 66 (66 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 19
Units destroyed 3

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!


Last CH attack (we had 2 forts during the attack and now 3 there):

Ground combat at Neikiang (75,44)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 76817 troops, 302 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1137

Defending force 40400 troops, 552 guns, 238 vehicles, Assault Value = 719

Allied adjusted assault: 59

Japanese adjusted defense: 1272

Allied assault odds: 1 to 21 (fort level 2)

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-)
Attacker: supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
916 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 30 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Guns lost 36 (2 destroyed, 34 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2823 casualties reported
Squads: 109 destroyed, 260 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled

other areas later--


India:

Brits threw some small units in our way (our 2 divs and 1 art was marching west towards Rangpur) and we needed to stop to throw them back. Not sure if it is a tactic he uses, or errors. I thought in 42 the Indian/Brit pools are not that good. But seems the Allies in this game have enough stuff in 42 already... Near the central Indian plains (above) Calcutta there was air and ground action. I am not sure what these Indian divisions were doing. First it seemed they wanted to divide our area by threatening Jessore. We send a division there, so it is possible they scratched this plan but then we were able to concentrate stuff and after the 2nd attack threw them back:

Ground combat at 53,35 (near Asansol)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 32656 troops, 555 guns, 531 vehicles, Assault Value = 1157

Defending force 17468 troops, 292 guns, 303 vehicles, Assault Value = 526

Japanese adjusted assault: 888

Allied adjusted defense: 215

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
397 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 24 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
4656 casualties reported
Squads: 103 destroyed, 23 disabled
Non Combat: 242 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 55 destroyed, 22 disabled
Guns lost 89 (81 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Vehicles lost 72 (40 destroyed, 32 disabled)
Units retreated 7

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
5th Amphibious Brigade
41st Infantry Regiment
4th Ind. Engineer Regiment
21st Division
1st Tank Regiment
6th Guards Division
4th Tank Regiment
4th Ind.Mixed Rgt /3
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
1st Mortar Regiment
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
25th Army
5th Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
10th RF Gun Battalion

Defending units:
7th Indian Division
19th Indian Division
26th Indian Division
2/9th Field Regiment
7th Aus Div Cav Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Bengal Construction Battalion


Also several bigger aircombat generally we come ahead (we had upgraded a O1c to Tojos and they did good) also Zeros arrvied to help the O1c´s. 2 MGs are not enough even against Blenheims they have sometimes trouble. One battle was lost by our airforces as some escort and/or LRCAP was not flying and the weak escort overhelmed we lost over 10 bombers A2A and some more to ops. But generally we kill more of them as they of us:

Ex airbattle:

Morning Air attack on Asansol , at 53,34

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35

Allied aircraft
Sea Hurricane Ib x 5
Blenheim IV x 9
Hudson IIIa x 6
Hurricane IIb Trop x 7
Lysander II x 13
Mohawk IV x 7
Wellington Ic x 5
Hudson III (LR) x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Sea Hurricane Ib: 2 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Hudson IIIa: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed
Lysander II: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged
Mohawk IV: 1 destroyed
Wellington Ic: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Hudson III (LR): 2 damaged

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 12


Australia:

Whow the Aussies have now send more units, one of them arrived in time to spoil our attack. We are now moving back to Daly Waters where some engs finally arrived to build forts....

South:

Our raiders found some more:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Vaitupu at 142,145

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
A6M2-N Rufe x 7
B4Y1 Jean x 17
D3A1 Val x 3
E13A1 Jake x 16

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
B4Y1 Jean: 1 damaged
E13A1 Jake: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 3 destroyed

Allied Ships
xAK Red Jacket, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Tricolor, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK West Portal, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAK Troja, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires
xAK Meigs
xAK Silverwillow, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Itola, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Clan Forbes
xAK Silverteak, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 8 (3 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 25 (16 destroyed, 9 disabled)

We also found a TF with a small British CV, a BB and a CA, a torp hit was reported on the CV.. and some bomb hits on the BB. Probably only light damaged. We lost over 25 bombers however to CAP from the RN CV these were American F4 planes (no escort send)....




North = Aleutians, Hokaido, Kuriles... areas:

Quiet - our asw ships are useless, our subs find nothing, only our planes report subs and sometimes now also attack them. But the Allied subs also did not harm our freighters


Other sub & small ship action:

We again miss near the Western Indian coast an xAK.... but hit a small RN cruiser (c-class) near Australia some day ago. It is reported as sunk (only 1 torp hit, but those ships are quite small)

South contd....




We decided to land at Lunga, we had several units prepped from 60-100%, among them a good division, pretty risky cause the Americans have masses of ships and planes at Ndeni and Kirakira. We went ahead anyway, the troops were not used at Rabaul and PM, so...we lost in the landings 4 huge xAPs. We had one BB in the 2 invasion fleets and bombarded Lunga also before...damage was port 100%, fields 40-60%. It was a mistake to put X ships in the inv fleets, the AMCs, LSDs, AKs, APDs....did well and unloaded quickly and only 1 APD was heavily hit by 155mm guns from Marine def bats:

Here how the later attack went:

Ground combat at Lunga (114,138)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12624 troops, 166 guns, 140 vehicles, Assault Value = 633

Defending force 11605 troops, 131 guns, 81 vehicles, Assault Value = 165

Japanese adjusted assault: 690

Allied adjusted defense: 61

Japanese assault odds: 11 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Lunga !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5A Catalina: 2 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra: 3 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 14 destroyed
P-400 Airacobra: 2 destroyed

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

Japanese ground losses:
129 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 19 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Vehicles lost 17 (2 destroyed, 15 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
11559 casualties reported
Squads: 219 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1462 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 41 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 132 (132 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 47 (47 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 10

Assaulting units:
Maizuru 3rd SNLF
65th Bde /1
16th Division
2nd Tank Rgt /4
124th Infantry Rgt /1
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
13th Ind.AA Gun Co
17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Shipping Engineer Regiment
3rd Fleet /7

Defending units:
147th(Sep) Infantry Rgt /1
115th USAAF Base Force
136th USA Base Force
I US Amphib Corps
3rd Marine Defense Battalion
134th USA Base Force
135th USA Base Force
255th USN Base Force
4th Marine Defense Battalion
Bobcats USN SeaBees /1


Remember that the Allies still have several units besieging Tassa.... we tried to attack them, but they are to strong still, they now march back to Lunga. The place is totally destroyed, we were to bring supplies and engineers. But I doubt we can build a good base, any moment the US must react and bomb the shit out of Lunga. This must be done by the Allies, they can not allow us to entrench there just we like we did at Tassa, right. Ndeni has over 500 planes and 150 ships or so says recon LOL