(RA) Allies in Tatters Deaniks(A) vs Soulsilver(J)

[deaniks]

its march 14,
as of now nothing happening still happening but i got a sig int that the 10th artillery reg was planning for an attack on Perth idk if this to throw me off from his real ambitions in India or this is a attack but like I said before I am leaving at least two divs behind in Aussie to hold back what ever he might throw into there and move at least 3 divs to India i also think I will move a couple of air groups from Aussie to India as well to strength its air deference

[RangerJoe]

Check your air group reinforcements at Aden. The 10th US Air Force comes in there.

[deaniks]

ya so those p-40s don't come in for like another 60 days and by the time they arrive it might be to late use them for anything also for the deference of India would i want a div on every tile like i have in china or just on my bases and around them with important roads protected?

[RangerJoe]

Have units in strategic mode to be able to move fast to reinforce, have your engineers fortify bases. Secure bases behind the lines in case soldiers drop out of airplanes.

[Q-Ball]

Too late now, but it's a good idea to send a USAAF fighter group and bomber group to Cape Town right away, like Dec 8th. Also some Marine Planes to put on RN CVs. British really need those US Air Pools in India.

It takes about 2 1/2 months to transit fully from Cape Town including the sail, but that gets those US Airgroups to Bombay in early to mid-Feb

[deaniks]

ya i did do so i have atleast 50 p-39d's in India plus some muraders just moving some more planes from Aussie to India

[Anachro]

If you can manage it, try to get the US air wings that start in China into India, even if only one plane from each, as you can reinforce in India and upgrade to good planes with deep pools. I'm thinking of the 27-plane units. Also try to use air transport to extract some of the USA CAF engineer base units that spawn in China potentially. Not sure if they are there yet.

[RangerJoe]

You are thinking of the Chinese mercenaries called the AVG. They started at Tougoo in Burma. They fly a Swedish version of the P-40B, which is a H-81 in the game. One of those pilots later attacked over 40 enemy fighters, shooting down at least 5 of them and based on the bomber's crews reports, that pilot was awarded THE Medal.

[Anachro]

Yes, those ones; and in my game they are my top performing units by far, though I have a few other USAF units that approach them in kills. Regardless, they get access to US pools and pilots. Forgive the conditions at the moment, they will be reinforced by lots of air support soon. [:D]

[Q-Ball]

ORIGINAL: Anachro

Yes, those ones; and in my game they are my top performing units by far, though I have a few other USAF units that approach them in kills. Regardless, they get access to US pools and pilots. Forgive the conditions at the moment, they will be reinforced by lots of air support soon. [:D]

They are the best fighter units the Allies have at start; decent pilots, in a good spot.

You also want to convert out before all the H-81s are lost, because the Chinese Air Units can use those planes....and that's the only decent plane they get for some time

[deaniks]

March 17,
not much is happening right now some some Aussie brigades spawned in Colombo a few turns ago and I just picked them up and moving them to Indian proper as i fear a future invasion of Ceylon might be here quicker then I think

[deaniks]

so once the Charlotte and enterprise meet up with Yorktown I think I want to try a raid on either port Morsbey or Rabaul will recon over the next several day since enterprise has to go back to Sydney also there might be a few carriers stationed at truk or some other base since I haven't seen any raids in the south pacific in a while. ik there was atleast 2 carriers mabey 3 plus a cvl or something in India he might have his whole main carrier fleet there with a small portion in south pacific this raid will hopefully draw a conclusion on where he has what stationed

[deaniks]

March 18,
so invasion of Ceylon showed up he landed at Jaffna his ships are his carriers at least 4 carriers and a couple cvls maybe my battle fleet leaving Ceylon lost the Ramillies and the othe 2 bb's i had are damaged resolution looks like a goner and will be sunk but the revenge might survive also some of the transports carrying the Aussie bridges were sunk and lost about 6k men from it still around 10k left most likely he will send his carriers after them and the rest will be sunk

[Bif1961]

A classic case of our opponent running on his own time table and plan. What to do, what to do?

[deaniks]

ya well right now there isnt much i have the enterprise meeting the Yorktown at Sydney planning for a raid near port morseby i would say about a in game week and its march 21 so i would say around the 28th my raid should start also with apirl nearing my opponent wont be able to do as many landings as before so he trying to rush and land every he can before it runs out

[Anachro]

I would advise against revealing your hand needlessly as to where your carriers are. Not to say that you shouldn't conduct raids where his KB is not, but pick your targets so as to get some transactional value from it. Giving your opponent knowledge of your CV location is valuable, you should be accomplishing some goal to do it. Have you noticed areas/ports of high enemy activity? Have you sent DD/CLs skirting around the CenPac and even Japan to find gaps in Japan's naval search coverage? In one of my past games, I was able to sneak up on Truk and launch a port strike due to finding and using such gaps, I have even tried '42 and '43 raids on Tokyo, though without success in terms of not being discovered early.

Rather than just throwing your CVs at Port Moresby, which could very well turn out to be nothing, pick your target for such a raid carefully and try to get some enemy ships in the process.

[RangerJoe]

In his famous campaign, Greyjoy was able to sneak an invasion into Hokkaido in 1944 . . . [X(]

[deaniks]

ya the only way i would raid port morsbey if there was anything there seems like nothing is there atm i might run a ca bombardment up there and see what that accomplish and have some other ships scouting around seeing whats where and what i can do

[deaniks]

ya also most of my dd's are now upgrading so i wont be able to do anything for a while forgot to upgrade them earlier

[deaniks]

bin kind of busy lately so not posting much on here since being busy and actually nothing really happening in the game so i thought i give a little update on whats happening. Carriers that were raiding the west coast of India seem to be moving back to port for refueling the Ceylon invasion is going so its properly going to take him at least another 2 weeks to clean it up by them its just a matter of time before he invades some where else in India. Bases are getting engs and other units to help defend/build them up and units and planes from Aussie are going to India as we speak might try an route them through cape town then to Karachi to avoid Ceylon but that might take to long and i might just try my luck going super close to the edge of the map will see.