43 - The Mouse bites back. Rob vs Littlejoe 43+

[Rob Brennan UK]

Beginning of FEB 43 was a good day for the allies.

Japanese have been very effective in ASW a/c in the bay of bengal. the subs that were lurking
at Diamond harbour had to withdraw. BUT he sent out an ASW group just as the planes from
andaman is. went out ship hunting. !

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/02/43

Day Air attack on TF, near Victoria Point at 25,39


Allied aircraft
Swordfish x 20
Vengeance I x 28
Blenheim IV x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 27


Allied aircraft losses
Swordfish: 1 damaged
Vengeance I: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Hatsuyuki, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Shikinami, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsushima, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Amagiri, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Yayoi, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

Day Air attack on TF, near Victoria Point at 25,39


Allied aircraft
Swordfish x 8
Vengeance I x 25
Blenheim IV x 7
P-40E Warhawk x 4


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Satsuki
DD Hatsuyuki, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsushima, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Day Air attack on TF, near Victoria Point at 25,39


Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 6


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Satsuki
DD Hatsushima, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

very good news , 2 confirmed DD's sunk .. more damaged .

We also attacked shipping in rangoon harbour twice in one day.

1st attack went in well .. considering the opposition numbers and the P40's were stuck on escort
duty.

Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8
A6M3a Zero x 15
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 13
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 20

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 9
Wellington III x 12
P-40E Warhawk x 56

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 5 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 5 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 7 destroyed, 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 10 destroyed, 5 damaged

Japanese Ships
AK Hozan Maru #5, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AK Muroran Maru
AK Shanghai Maru, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage SANK
AK Samarang Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

The afternoon raid was a disaster !

Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19
A6M3a Zero x 8
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 13
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 15

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 10
Wellington III x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 46

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 3 destroyed
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 5 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 21 destroyed, 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
AK Toyohasi Maru
AK Tosei Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK Toyama Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Cant sustain P40 losses like that ! .. i do have enough to replace them all though and thats
a bonus .. roll on P40N's ! .. without PDU its a juggling act with allied a/c. especially
trying to decide whet to upgrade etc. as no downgrading is possible [:(].

I did however get a bonus with a small air raid over Buna which i suspected was
flying LR cap over port moresby ..It was ! and forgot to defend itself.

Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 6

Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 6 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 5

Great new clobbering Tony airframes on the ground ..

Allied air power hits burmese troops hard again today ( the AAR bits are long and boring)
suffice to say that the new beaufighter is a superb ground attack aircraft ..

just an example

Day Air attack on 18th Division, at 32,30


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 10
P-40B Tomahawk x 21


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
86 casualties reported


I'd love to get an 8-1 ratio for the level bombers [;)] today was very light on escorts
in burma and he may start a bit of LR cap tomorrow, although his fighters in rangoon
did take losses today. best be careful .

[Rob Brennan UK]

Here is the tally of air casulaties too. as you can see we both have been conserving a/c , making
todays P40E casualties quite more significant.

[aztez]

It seems that you are building up Solomon's??? Any immediate plans or operations regarding this area?

[Rob Brennan UK]

With a lack of CV's for the past year, i have been thinking about advances covered by LBA, with the new lightning and the advanced bases in the solomons i will hopefully be able to advance slowly under LBA. I'm suprised he hasnt tried to stop me here. he could bomb these bases easily from lunga . but im not complaining [;)]

I am thinkng of 4 simultanous ( mear enough) invasions.

1) Baker is. .. lst/lci and para attack.

2) secure a base very close to lunga under LBA from the new bases( i have a lot more AV support heading to noumea for this purpose.

3) CV escorted and LBA cover for huge invasion of PM

4) British invasion of sabang in sumatra.

All probably within 1-2 months at the latest. The main delay is building up the new solomon bases, I have shed loads of seebees round here, and APD's take the vehicles after DD's take the troops. alternated with big DD supply runs. Lord help me if KB shows up again [;)]. 72 new lightnings converting in brisbane and the 150 (now semi experienced P38's in N australia are easily transferred to cooktown/cairns or luganville for both ops.

NE aus has the airbases and AV support and now an Air HQ .. so big
4E bomber strikes will pound PM before landings and try and close off gili and buna while im at it. I'd like to have thursday is. to close down Lea but sending an invasion force there is just as risky as sending one to PM for less gain imo. I can take it after securing PM.

All this as well as the british advance in Burma too. apart from the aleutians it's going to be a global offensive. 2 new british divs in 9 days too, one indian one british both in karachi. will be very handy.american troops are mostly eng and AV/HQ for quite some time so i have to play with what i have in S/SW Pac .. but it should be enough and i have prepped for a number of targets, so i can dump off a div or its equivalent in most important places with probably 100% prepping. Basically i stopped defensive prepping quite a while back so most troops with Assault values have japanese targets now [;)]

One slight error i made in the previous posts . i have -1000 PP whoops .. no commander changing for a while . forgot i'd freed up an experienced aussie div for the PM invasion 1st inf i think. I have prepped aussie home defence units for enemy bases too so no delay when i can get command of them. unfortunately chuchill has been greedy recently [;)]

Its a bit of a lull apart from burma now.. and he will have one dead arm brigade come next turn as it violated the ceasefire and entered one of my hexes [;)]

[aztez]

That sound like a one huge plan Rob! [:D]
 
It is quite bold so I think you just might be able pull it off! I doubt Joe is expecting anything like this in near future!
 
If you can capture Port Moresby and Lunga than he will have huge problems supplying his frontline troops. It smells like a huge POW camp for the Japanese in Southern Pacific!
 
Sabang. I guess you are about to bomb Singapore to stoneage! [X(]

[Rob Brennan UK]

ORIGINAL: aztez

That sound like a one huge plan Rob! [:D]

It is quite bold so I think you just might be able pull it off! I doubt Joe is expecting anything like this in near future!

If you can capture Port Moresby and Lunga than he will have huge problems supplying his frontline troops. It smells like a huge POW camp for the Japanese in Southern Pacific!

Sabang. I guess you are about to bomb Singapore to stoneage! [X(]

More interested in bombing the oil fields 1st [;)].. and i do have to build the darn thing up too.. hopefully not too long.

I doubt i will be doing a head long attack on lunga yet[;)]. but i would like to get enough airpower to close it down then surround and ignore [;)].. no map infront of me so i cant be more specific about the solomons plan.. and its all subject to change should KB show up ..

i'll do baker is. 1st .. try and draw out KB .. then hit sumatra .. and while he's sailing round like a headless chicken i'll hit PM and the solomons.. well thats the plan anyway [:D]

[VSWG]

ORIGINAL: Rob Brennan UK

i'll do baker is. 1st .. try and draw out KB .. then hit sumatra .. and while he's sailing round like a headless chicken i'll hit PM and the solomons.. well thats the plan anyway [:D]

Careful with plans that rely on mistakes of your enemey. There's a German proverb: "Even a blind chicken finds a piece of grain sometimes". I'd amend that to "Even a headless chicken finds a piece of grain sometimes". [;)]

But it does sound good...

[Rob Brennan UK]

LOL VSWG .. never heard that one before .. however it does beg the question how does a headless chicken actually eat the grain ? [;)]

2 turns have gone by but no AAR as not much happened really, apart from he's having an almost game busting bug with ground movement from mandalay .. the AI keeps sending him straight SE ( into my hex) when he targets pagan as a destination . AND he cannot move out WITHOUT targetting a city due to the daft 'rule' that you cant move into a hex you own from a contested one [&:][8|]

Anyhoo .. I have made an offer .. I can move out of mandalay quite fast. when no allied troops are present he can move out direct west to his 'escape route' and i dont have to give up the south bit and when he's gone i'll move back into mandalay .. does that make sense ?

In the meanwhile the dakotas are transporting enough supply to the troops south of mandalay ( all white supply levels). and today routed a brigade , 1st paras an SNLF and one other unit from here to pagan :-

Ground combat at 32,31

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 43368 troops, 314 guns, 477 vehicles, Assault Value = 986

Defending force 14360 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 338

Allied max assault: 1890 - adjusted assault: 1384

Japanese max defense: 254 - adjusted defense: 120

Allied assault odds: 11 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
262 casualties reported
Guns lost 11

Allied ground losses:
586 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Vehicles lost 2


Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

with an aditional 25% dead im happy with this ! ..

also mining some of the ports in the DEI is paying off

TF 11 encounters mine field at Brunei (32,57)

Japanese Ships
DD Makigumo
DD Nenohi, Mine hits 1 HUZZAH !

unfortunately he's stationed MSWs in balikpapan and Palambang so no point mining them now.

Kwajelein mines almost get another DD

TF 72 encounters mine field at Kwajalein (79,79)

Japanese Ships
DD Ushio
DD Akebono
DD Akatsuki

Japan has switched to night bombing the andaman islands with Nicks .. no effect so far.

Also as a first .. japanese bombers seen over Attu is in the aleutians .. stalemate so far.
I'll send up some ground based wildcats as they are far more expendable than P40's

Day Air attack on Attu Island , at 92,34

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
G4M1 Betty x 5

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 13

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed, 1 damaged

Runway hits 1


SS autilis also bagged an AP while mining truk harbour .. bonus !

Sub attack near Truk at 63,78

Japanese Ships
AP Yokohama Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire MASSIVE EXPLOSIVE DAMAGE .. whatever that means

Allied Ships
SS Nautilus good boy <pat>

Baker is continues to get flattened .. todays turn was the B25C ( just in range from canto is.)

Day Air attack on 19th Naval Guard Unit, at 94,92


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 110


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
227 casualties reported

i have been hitting groud/port/AF for months now .. port 100% AF100% damaged .. and 250 bombers
in range from canton daily hitting the place .Must be a real mess as recon has shown a drop in men from 12k to 9k ! i'd bet most of them are injured/starving too. I know hes flying in supply from tarawa but theres nowt i can do about it, but with a bust runway he must be getting bad atrittion at least.

with the 4 operations planned I need some 'code words' to identify the nature of the attack etc.
Actually i'll refer to them as

Operation retake baker island again

Operation Ooze to crowd out lunga

Opertion Drop off 2 million men at PM

Operation British invade sumatra

Although not very military i'll remember them .. Calling something Operation Broken Kettle to confuse Japan would only confuse me more [;)]

To inject a note of humour ( note the use of a U in the correct spelling ). [;)] How about some funny 'operation names' I'll kick off with these ..

Operation moon landing .. for Baker island as its so badly cratered and possibly lifeless too.

Operation i really hope no japanese CV's turn up ! for the british adventure into sumatra.

Operation completely pointless for landings around Lunga

Operation Sorry australians i'm doing a Macarthur to you.. for the attack on PM.

Suggestions ?

[aztez]

[:D]&nbsp;...Those codenames can come in handy later on!

[ctangus]

ORIGINAL: Rob Brennan UK

Suggestions ?

Suitably dignified operational names are a must IMO.

Sumatra - The first thing I think of is Operation Coffee Bean. However, not only do you brits spell humor incorrectly, but also you drink tea. You might need to stick with Operation i really hope no japanese CV's turn up - it does have a certain ring to it.

PM - Since CVs will be involved, you could call it Operation Doodoolittle.

Solomons - I like your Ooze suggestion.

Baker - Well, Baker Island is now a bird sanctuary. You should therefore call it Operation Boobies. Afterall, your troops should know what they're fighting for...





Above: Red-Footed Booby (Sula Sula)

The smallest booby grows to be 28 in (71 cm) long with a wingspan of 4-½ ft (1.37 m). Most of the Red-Foots are all brown with the exception of red legs and feet and a light blue bill with a red base. A small percent of the red-foots are mistaken for masked boobies with white heads, bodies and wings, red feet and legs, and blue beaks.

[tiger111]

Hi Rob

A useless bit of info regarding codewords-apparently the US used as a code (1 of several) for the strategic launch of their ICBM`s&nbsp; FIREPLAN WARM PUPPY !!
&nbsp;How about
K-Leaf&nbsp; after the dog
Tigger
Felix
Mallissa
&nbsp;
p.s. I know I`ve spelt my forum name wrongly !

[tiger111]

Oh yeah. Aren`t there TWO "O"`s in HUMOUR&nbsp;[:)][:)][:)]

[Rob Brennan UK]

Nice replies guys .. Operation Earl Grey ? as it will be lauched from india/ceylon [;)]

We have a development !

Invasion heading to the aleutians .. Really should have seen this coming . the B25's on Attu hit the BB iso to no effect and missed the transports.. all i have in theater are 1 ML and 9 SS.. oh and one AP in anchorage .. thats it ! lost 2 AK's to the bombardment group.

This being an early game is coming back to haunt me now. I havnt got the support bases ready in this area yet, he's going to hit the only level 4 here .. whoops .. one RCT at 100% behind lvl 9 forts .. how long ? odds please.

I have got an RCT in all 'built' bases so im not giving the place away and i have been sending up bits i dont need from south pacific but they are a way away still.

No Cv's detected in the horth either .. but bad weather covered one jap TF for 2 days .. maybe.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/08/43

Pagan airfield was down to 40% damaged .. not anymore !

Day Air attack on Pagan , at 31,31


Allied aircraft
Mohawk IV x 7
Spitfire Vb x 28
Blenheim IV x 40
Wellington III x 42
Liberator VI x 12
Hudson I x 16


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
231 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 114 BOOM .. hehe

same treatment the following day too.

The debacle at ATTU is. .. follows

Night Time Surface Combat, near Attu Island at 92,34

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
CA Takao
CA Myoko
CA Haguro
CA Nachi
DD Urakaze
DD Kasumi
DD Mutsuki
DD Mochizuki, on fire, heavy damage HIT a mine on the way in .. as i only had 40 here [:D]
DD Yuzuki
DD Otori

Allied Ships
MSW Motive, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
AK Jane Addams, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
AK Jefferson Davis, Shell hits 12, and is sunk

the PT boats i cannot get the hang of these buggers ..

Night Time Surface Combat, near Attu Island at 92,34

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
CA Takao
CA Myoko
CA Haguro
CA Nachi
DD Urakaze
DD Kasumi
DD Mutsuki
DD Mochizuki, on fire, heavy damage
DD Yuzuki
DD Otori

Allied Ships
PT PT-39
PT PT-66
PT PT-67
PT PT-68, Shell hits 16, and is sunk
PT PT-73
PT PT-74
PT PT-75
PT PT-76, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
PT PT-77
PT PT-78, Shell hits 1, on fire
PT PT-79
PT PT-80
PT PT-81

The BB run was badly recuced though

Naval bombardment of Attu Island, at 92,34


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
DD Otori
DD Yuzuki
DD Mutsuki
DD Kasumi
DD Urakaze
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Myoko
CA Takao
BB Kongo


Allied ground losses:
33 casualties reported

Runway hits 8
Port hits 1
Port supply hits 1

he also had zero recon to my knowledge to that helped a lot too. I have
withdrawn all bar the catalinas.

then a possible revenge .. but missed

Day Air attack on TF at 91,35


Allied aircraft
B-26B Marauder x 2


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Mochizuki, on fire, heavy damage


she has a long way to go home though.

More PT boat sillyness

Day Time Surface Combat, near Attu Island at 92,34

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo
CA Takao
CA Myoko
CA Haguro
CA Nachi
DD Urakaze
DD Kasumi
DD Mutsuki
DD Yuzuki
DD Otori

Allied Ships
PT PT-39
PT PT-66
PT PT-67
PT PT-73
PT PT-74
PT PT-75, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
PT PT-77, Shell hits 6, and is sunk
PT PT-78, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
PT PT-79, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
PT PT-80
PT PT-81

tomorrow should be interesting .. he is hitting the best defended place outside of anchorage.

Overall i am pathetically understrength in the area .. the ML was newly arrived and i have an
MLE heading to Adak is for that purpose .. ML olgalga would have been excellent for here but too
late now.

Since this game i tend to do the aleutians with more care and start closer to alaska too.
this game is all about the allies overcoming some really dumb ealry moves and losses , and
crummy deployment can now be added to the list [;)]

bye

[Rob Brennan UK]

Heres what landed on the island so far .. enough ? im not sure
he brought enough troops to the party .

[Rob Brennan UK]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/10/43 and the next day too ..

I'm going to be a bit naughty and operate some B24's from a level 3 airfield at Adak island
is that gamey ? possibly .. it's building to 4 though (slowly).
He has hit the best defended island in the aleutians though as it is the only one
upto level 9 forts. although RCT's are on adak/amachitka/siska and attu. The additional AA
guns may have helped in the invasion though as he took some big hits landing over the beach.
With only 150 mines total tally hit so far is 1DD ( sank) and 3 AP's .. shame the ML
olgalga didn't get here sooner as he forgot to bring MSW's to the party [;)].

TF 73 encounters mine field at Attu Island (92,34)

TF 73 troops unloading over beach at Attu Island, 92,34


39 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Daitei Maru, Shell hits 1

Japanese ground losses:
806 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

TF 224 encounters mine field at Attu Island (92,34)

TF 224 troops unloading over beach at Attu Island, 92,34


Japanese Ships
AP Nissho Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
36 casualties reported

Coastal Guns at Attu Island, 92,34, firing at TF 224
Japanese ground losses:
759 casualties reported

TF 227 encounters mine field at Attu Island (92,34)

TF 227 troops unloading over beach at Attu Island, 92,34


Japanese Ships
AP Amakasu Maru #1, Mine hits 1

Japanese ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Coastal Guns at Attu Island, 92,34, firing at TF 227
49 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Tatuho Maru
AP Tatuha Maru, Shell hits 1

Japanese ground losses:
5250 casualties reported BLIMEY !!!
Guns lost 2

Thats just a sample of reports where i got mine hits ..

As luck would have it 2 new NorPac RCT's arrived at the west coast today with SeeBees for N pac too
.. only enough shipping to move 1 RCT and 2 SB's though to anchorage. Still its a nice suprise.

In china . unprotected resources and HI are now legit targets for the allied air forces.
Now we have F5's on recon good results can be obtained.

Day Air attack on Chengting , at 52,28


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 19
P-38G Lightning x 19
F-5A Lightning x 6
B-25J Mitchell x 61
B-26B Marauder x 61


No Allied losses

Resources hits 45

also the IL's ( not upgraded as i like the range) harass shipping in canton port.

Day Air attack on TF, near Canton at 43,41


Allied aircraft
IL-4c x 11


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AK Nanko Maru, Bomb hits 1
AK Nissan Maru
AK Syogen Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire

Looks like no japanese fighters over much of china .. he's bombing my troops in the
north from peking i think. I would have though he'd relegate some oscar units to china
at least .. but im not complaining [;)]

Fingers crossed for the North and pray he does not do a deep CV raid here or i could get badly mauled with the curent convoys .. I have no definate proof he carriers are even up here but
i suspect it quite highly. with that in mind and shipping now at Canton island the invasion of
Baker will commence in a few days. also CV Victorious arrives tomorrow and as soon as she's in
ceylon .. load up for sumatra and have a go.

The past few days have seen a sizeable dent in the japanese DD forces with one lost
to mines in the north, 2 more hitting mines at palambang ( speculative sub mining) and burnei.
also one more sank off the coast of malaysia, a casualty of the nasty raid from andaman is
a few days ago.

Allied submarines are having an awful time in the central pacific . no targets at all it seems.
anyone got any good suggestions about them now the torps work occasionally ( they all have the
radar upgrade btw.). Ops off japanese coast were too costly before . maybe flood the DEI ? but i think that again will be costly . with that in mind i am transferring a lot of dutch subs
from diamond harbour to Darwin as the range is no good from india and his ASW is very very good
round rangoon. BUT with andaman is. now fully operational rangoon is firmly closed anyway.

[aztez]

Maybe to put some good range bombers on naval search too in North? That should bolster your recon in the area just in case KB tries to sneak attack.

[Rob Brennan UK]

ORIGINAL: aztez

Maybe to put some good range bombers on naval search too in North? That should bolster your recon in the area just in case KB tries to sneak attack.

i have cats and the like on each base with AV support. I'd love to be able to have more Coronados but only 1 unit in non PDU so as usual i have 100's in the pools and no upgrades.. while low on catalina 1's (about 5). daft.

Speaking of daft, F4U Corsairs arrived and i cannt find a darn thing that upgrades to them , all land based F4 wildcats go to F6's ?? still japan has the same issue with oscars so i cant complain too much.

[VSWG]

Is Attu Island a mountain hex?

In any case, I'll doubt that he can take it quickly, unless you're running out of supplies. Even then, he will have to constantly bombard your troops in order to successfully take down those 9 forts (nice, BTW!). This looks like a perfect opportunity to attrit his troops. Try to maintain the mine field, he will have to make several bombardment and supply runs. Do you have some DM nearby?

And even if you do loose the island... well, it's not really important, is it?

[Rob Brennan UK]

ORIGINAL: VSWG

Is Attu Island a mountain hex?

In any case, I'll doubt that he can take it quickly, unless you're running out of supplies. Even then, he will have to constantly bombard your troops in order to successfully take down those 9 forts (nice, BTW!). This looks like a perfect opportunity to attrit his troops. Try to maintain the mine field, he will have to make several bombardment and supply runs. Do you have some DM nearby?

And even if you do loose the island... well, it's not really important, is it?

Its not important in the strategic sense whatsoever [;)]. I hame DM's down in pago piling mines all over the SPacific .. mines on mines etc. ML is in anchorage ( load 500) but a bit slow. Good point about the DM's though .. I was going to have them at canton is. then mine the %$%^ out of baker island after taking it back , After that they will get earmarked for the north. Unless i have any more old/slow ones in australian waters i can transfer to the S Pacific. ( possibly some long forgotten dutch ones).

Supplies are a bit low at 6000. the AK's ank 4 days back were just unloading 14k and had the bad luck to get sunk before dropping off much. the other islands have between 9k-25k so no problem. might use some older a/c for supply drops. along with the 'spare' catalinas in PH.

I wish the neighbouring island ( siska?) was level 4 AF .. and there were some beauforts up here .. humm i may ship some up from australia but it's a long long way [:D][:D]

[Rob Brennan UK]

Look what i found (skip to piccie).. hehe

Also in the news for today



Japanese Ships
AP Tatuha Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tatuho Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire

Naval bombardment of Attu Island, at 92,34

Japanese Ships
DD Yamagumo
DD Natsugumo
DD Arashio
DD Michishio
CL Jintsu
CL Sendai
CA Kako
CA Ashigara
BB Ise


Allied ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 7
Runway hits 24

out of ammo i assume [;)]

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 19
P-38G Lightning x 19
F-5A Lightning x 5
B-25J Mitchell x 48
B-26B Marauder x 32


No Allied losses

Resources hits 22


now its at 33% funtion after 4 days of air attacks .. one more turn and we are done !..

TF 227 troops unloading over beach at Attu Island, 92,34


Japanese Ships
AP Surabaya Maru, Mine hits 1

Day Air attack on Pagan , at 31,31


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 30
Blenheim IV x 38
Wellington III x 41
Liberator VI x 12
Hudson I x 16


Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 1 damaged
Wellington III: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
116 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 17
Airbase supply hits 9
Runway hits 85

NOT building up forts here i would think ..

Sub attack at 81,65

Japanese Ships
APD APD-46, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage SUNK

Allied Ships
SS Grayling <pat>


Baker invasion launched on a budget .. 3 raider btns is all so far .. recon in force really.

Also British ships and troops head to colombo for the final preperations for operation
Earl Grey.

CV's moveing to Brisbane along with HQ's and more AP's for the PM operation. is it only
amphibious HQs that fit into AGP's ( the hq support ship thingy)? if so thats a bugger
as only an australian HQ is prepped for PM [:@]. I DO have an amphib HQ at noumea in case
though .. prepped for lunga though. BUT i can change it and some prep and an HQ is better
than none imo.