Too much Iron in my Diet - Mundy(A) vs KenchiSulla (J)

[JocMeister]

ORIGINAL: Richard III

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

. I´m a cautious guy though. [:)]

LOL ! That must be why Boise & Houston are prowling around after innocent Japanese Cruise Ships filled with friendly tourists..[:-]

You mean the Hospital ships Boise and Houston...? [;)]

Mundy, didn´t realize he had the KB that close by. Have you considered a massed Catalina evaq? I lifted out the entire 1st Marines in my game vs Erik from Noumea to Nadi. Took only 3-4 days. I think I even got the big guns out with me. Only motorized support left.

[Capt. Harlock]

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 11609 troops, 162 guns, 68 vehicles, Assault Value = 384

Defending force 17828 troops, 131 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 392

It looks like you might still do Bombardment Attacks to advantage, though.

[Mundy]

Yeah, I'm keeping the gunnery up.

22 March 1942

A chink in his air armor:

Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 29

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 7 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (4 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
64th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 17

Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 11

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 2 destroyed

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 14000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes
64th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
10 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 16000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 11

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 17000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes
64th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 24000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 54 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 26 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8

Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 2

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 19000 and 24000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes
64th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 11000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes

The rickety old biplane bombers at Chittagong have been doing airfield strikes at Dacca, just for something to do. Looks like nobody's there.

Mutsu and Nagato hit Moresby again.

Otherwise quiet.

Ed-

[Sangeli]

By this time you should have enough Hurricanes to replace Buffaloes. Too late for them to fly I think. You can see the difference in the sweep results.

[Mundy]

Hurricanes, have been rolling in pretty regularly.  The UK P-40 pool has been filling up, and I just need to get the Buffalo squadrons moved to a legit base to get them converted.
 
I still have my rail network intact in the north, and I'm getting enough troops up there to block.  Outside of Calcutta itself, I think he's using weaker troops to take the bases surrounding it.
 
Calcutta's going to become an enclave.  The problem is that I still have to be wary of landings elsewhere.  I have about 4 days until the US division starts boarding the ships.  They'll be at the pointy edge.
 
Once they're moved, I have one regiment of Americal at Cape Town.  I have to decide whether to flip them over or instead do it on the cheap with the units under Hawaiian command at Pearl.
 
I'm still waiting for the Marauders at Umnak to finally hit the port at Adak.  Constant thunderstorms lately.
 
Ed-

[Richard III]

ORIGINAL: Mundy


Once they're moved, I have one regiment of Americal at Cape Town.  I have to decide whether to flip them over or instead do it on the cheap with the units under Hawaiian command at Pearl.

Ed-

Don`t you have to use PP for those restricted 24 & 25 Div. Rgts. to get them shipped off map to CT ?

Just asking because I`m at the same point in my Allied game VS JS, didn`t even try to move those Rgts..[&:]

[Mundy]

No, oddly enough, the restricted units can ship there.
 
Come to think of it, I'm not sure if I'm violating the house rule on this or not.  Whether I flip them before going to Cape Town or after, the time waiting before real use is exactly the same.  They'll never meet the Japanese at CT.
 
Ed-

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Mundy

No, oddly enough, the restricted units can ship there.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure if I'm violating the house rule on this or not.  Whether I flip them before going to Cape Town or after, the time waiting before real use is exactly the same.  They'll never meet the Japanese at CT.

Ed-

I'm not sure if you can load a restricted unit on a ship to go from EC USA to CT, but if you used simple Strat Move, Richard III may not know about that feature so I will mention it here.
Instead of using ships, you can get the unit to CT by just putting it in Strat Move mode and designating CT as the destination. The game will ask if you want to do this, just click yes, and the unit will disappear for about a month and reappear at Cape Town.
Essentially the AI is assuming transatlantic convoys would be available to move the unit. You can do this with air units too, just by choosing transfer and CT destination.

Transhipment is a bit faster by using fast transport ships like the two Queens, but it takes time to get them to EC anyway, so you might as well use the Strat Move feature.

[Mundy]

Forgot about that. It was a straight transfer, not on a ship. Rather handy.

24 March 1942

Landings at Damar and Ruteng. The Monkey gave me a warning about the Damar landing -- one day ago. Rochefort needs to pick up his game.

I've been getting raids at Wuchow, with him hitting my buildup there. I decided to LRCAP from Liuchow and got decent results. This was practically the entire Chinese fighter command.

orning Air attack on 3rd Chinese Cavalry Corps, at 76,56 , near Wuchow

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 7
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6
Ki-44 Tojo x 4
Ki-51 Sonia x 28

Allied aircraft
I-16-III x 7
I-15-III x 10
Hawk 75M x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27b Nate: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-51 Sonia: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb
7 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb

The Umnak boys finally flew their missions to Adak and Amchitka. No damage. Continuous thunderstorms must be a factor.

Cannonfodder took Comilla this turn. I finally have real targets for the Chittagong biplanes. Hurricanes will escort.

About it for now.

Ed

[Mundy]

25 March 1942

The sub density around Noumea is finally starting to catch up.

ASW attack near Noumea at 115,159

Japanese Ships
CL Naka, Torpedo hits 1
DD Nagatsuki

Allied Ships
SS KIX

SS KIX launches 4 torpedoes at CL Naka
Sub escapes detection

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Sub attack near La Foa at 113,159

Japanese Ships
AO Ken'yo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires
AO Toho Maru
AO Toei Maru
AO Nippon Maru
E Ishinui

Allied Ships
SS S-41

SS S-41 launches 4 torpedoes at AO Ken'yo Maru
S-41 diving deep ....
E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Another division has showed up at Noumea, but this didn't help much for him.

Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 27698 troops, 246 guns, 56 vehicles, Assault Value = 858

Defending force 21009 troops, 365 guns, 224 vehicles, Assault Value = 342

Japanese adjusted assault: 267

Allied adjusted defense: 676

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
1983 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 213 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 35 disabled
Guns lost 20 (1 destroyed, 19 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
316 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
8th Division
33rd Division

Defending units:
8th Marine Regiment
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
Fanning Island Det.
2nd Marine Regiment
New Caledonia Det
4th Marine Defense Battalion
19th Base Group
35th Base Group
97th Coast AA Regiment
168th Field Artillery Battalion
64th Coast AA Regiment
3rd Port Maint Engineer Battalion
142nd USN Stn Base Force
43rd Base Group
98th Coast AA Regiment
21st NZ Pioneer Coy

It's probably only a matter of time, but I'll probably bleed him pretty good. If KB would only depart, I could send more aid in. Those two armored batallions at Suva might make a difference. If he comes for Suva, it won't be as easy, as I have lots and lots of air there -- especially fighters.

Cannonfodder's resorted to sweeps over Wuchow. It started good, but then the Tojos showed up.

Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11

Allied aircraft
I-16-III x 1
I-15-III x 5
Hawk 75M x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 1 destroyed

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-43-Ib Oscar sweeping at 15000 feet

CAP engaged:
11th FG/41st FS CAF with I-16-III (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 15000.
Raid is overhead
5th FG/17th FS CAF with I-15-III (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
5th FG/29th FS CAF with I-15-III (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 15000.
Raid is overhead
3rd FG/32nd FS CAF with I-15-III (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes
11th FG/43rd FS CAF with I-15-III (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
11th FG/44th FS CAF with Hawk 75M (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44 Tojo x 6

Allied aircraft
I-16-III x 1
I-15-III x 1

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
I-16-III: 1 destroyed
I-15-III: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-44 Tojo sweeping at 20000 feet

CAP engaged:
3rd FG/32nd FS CAF with I-15-III (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes
11th FG/41st FS CAF with I-16-III (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes

All my bombers at Liuchow are going to hit Hong Kong's port tomorrow. I like the occasional random attack, especially if he decides to overload the sweeps over Wuchow. My fighters LRCAPping there are resting tomorrow.

I'm moving some heavy bombers into Cloncurry -- Early Forts and Liberators. I'm going to start hitting troops at Katherine... just because. I'm also hitting the port and airfield (seaplanes) at Adak, if they choose to fly, that is. Nothing but constant thunderstorms in the far north, it seems.

Other than that, he's landing at Munda. CF seems to be landing everywhere. In my short game as the Japanese, it seemed to me that the Japanese base forces are a bit on the puny side overall. I'm not sure he can concentrate a lot of air at any one point, if those bases are even built up to be worth anything.

Ed-

[Capt. Harlock]

It's probably only a matter of time, but I'll probably bleed him pretty good. If KB would only depart, I could send more aid in.

On the other hand, it's always a good thing for the Allies to know where the KB is.

[BBfanboy]

March 1942 seems a bit early to have enough supply at Cloncurry to support air ops. You will soon have to curtail or move your ops elsewhere (Alice?).
You may already know this but your plan to hit Katherine did not say whether you wanted to sustain bombing or just hit him to let him know you were still in Oz.

[Mundy]

I haven't surveyed all the Oz bases, but I'm over 20k at Cloncurry. I've had reasonably regular fuel shipments into Australia, from Cape Town and the States. They didn't fly today, for whatever reason. I'm now resting them to let all the damaged planes get fixed. Some of them were on the 10+ day list.

26 March 1942

I sent the B-17s at Suva to hit the troops at Noumea. I didn't get any hits, but the Zeros got roughed up.

Afternoon Air attack on 65th Brigade, at 115,160 (Noumea)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 17

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 7 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 20000 feet *
Ground Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 20000 feet *
Ground Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 20000 feet *
Ground Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 20000 feet *
Ground Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

The Intel screen shows 10 total Zekes lost with 8 by air-to-air. Some of these were from Koumac, but plenty more were from KB.

Now a landing at Tanahdjampea, south of Makassar.

My bombardments continue at Noumea, while he's just resting. I noticed this on the report:

Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1116 troops, 59 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 322

Defending force 25898 troops, 245 guns, 56 vehicles, Assault Value = 601

Japanese ground losses:
39 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)

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

Assaulting units:
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
8th Marine Regiment
Fanning Island Det.
2nd Marine Regiment
New Caledonia Det
97th Coast AA Regiment
64th Coast AA Regiment
43rd Base Group
142nd USN Stn Base Force
19th Base Group
3rd Port Maint Engineer Battalion
98th Coast AA Regiment
35th Base Group
4th Marine Defense Battalion
168th Field Artillery Battalion
21st NZ Pioneer Coy

Defending units:
8th/C Division
8th/A Division
33rd/A Division
8th/B Division
33rd/B Division
33rd/C Division

Any ideas on why he would break up his two divisions. Would the pieces recover faster than the whole? There's two more units incoming in the next hex, so I expect another assault within the next few days.

I've now got the PPs to buy out the 27th USA Division. A good chunk is on the Queen Mary, bound for Karachi, while the rest will follow up in a 15 kt convoy. Their final destination will probably be Ranchi and, combined with the Oz division, I'll start moving south. One weak armored unit from Ranchi is a hex from Jamshedpur. I don't see anybody there, so they'll probably grab it without incident. It looks like his paras grabbed the surrounding bases and high-tailed it back to Calcutta. I'll try to coordinate my move south with the guys at Cuttack. I've had troops arrive at Akyab from Burma, and they're enroute to Chittagong. I'm hoping I can beat the Japanese unit to the northwest at Dacca, which is incoming. If my bipes keep pounding him, it'll force him out of move mode. As usual, weather hasn't been cooperating...

Ed-

[Mundy]

27 March 1942

A little goodness once in a while. I had a feeling I would draw the Tojos out of reach.

Morning Air attack on Hong Kong , at 77,61

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
SB-III x 10

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Tokiwa Maru, Bomb hits 1
xAK Sinkyo Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
xAK Yoneyama Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Arizona Maru, Bomb hits 2

Port hits 1

Otherwise fairly non-eventful. SARA's the only carrier in the yard at Pearl, due in about 10 days. I noticed YORK still had Buffalos and flipped them to dash-4 Wildcats, but there were only 4 in the pool. It will take some time to fill the squadron out.

My tanks reached Jamshedpur. There's one unit there of unknown strength, and I'm attacking. My unit has roughly 45 Stuarts, so we'll see.

I bought out a big effing flak unit at Aden which was under Ceylon command, I think. A restricted command. A ton of Bofors and a ton of big flak. I'll get them to India and then to a spot where I'm enduring air attack. The IJA has a buttload of twin engine land based air. I've been long suffering under these in East China, and now they've been at work in India. My fighters in India have been busy escorting my strike, but I'll probably retask them to LRCAP. I have one unit of 5 38Es, which may cause pain.

Ed-

[BBfanboy]

Yes, some players split units so that they will recover faster. I think it has to do with the limit on the number of replacement squads/equipment pieces per unit.
Splitting allows each sub-unit to draw replacements if there is lots of supply.

[Mundy]

Figured it was something like that.  Thanks.

I left work early yesterday, so was able to squeeze in three turns, which was nice.

I'm stuck here late today. [:(]

Ed-

[Mundy]

28 March 1942
 
Quickie update.
 
My little armored unit assaults Jamshedpur.  All that was there was a little IJA base unit, which was quickly driven out.
 
Two weak Indian regiments have been harassed by air and then by land about 2-3 hexes NW of Rangpur.  The bombers have been unescorted, so we'll see how they cope with a full squadron of P-40s LRCAPping over it.  I've been getting my punches in with air now and then.  The trick is never to do it two turns in a row.
 
The Oz division at Ranchi is moving south with artillery and combat engineers towards Asansol.  Troops at Cuttack are moving east.
 
The ex-Burma forces at Akyab are in a race with the Japanese to get to Chittagong.  They're a hex away right now, as is his.  I'm hoping the biplanes will keep him out of move mode.  India's been a far more mobile war than China has been.
 
Ed-

[Mundy]

29 March 1942

70th British Division arrives at Karachi -- all some 300+ AP of them. At this rate, I'll actually have a credible army in India.

I've been guessing wrong on the "where to CAP" checkers match in India. All his air hit newly captured Jamshedpur this turn. Warhawks, Lightings and Hurricanes will overfly there next turn.

Chittagong is now cut off with troops next door. Supply's about nil there. Should've stockpiled.

Endured more bombardments. Kirishima and Hiei at Noumea and Hyuga, Ise, Yamashiro and Fuso hit Chittagong. I guess a good part of his battlefleet is accounted for.

Another assault on Bataan:

Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 34171 troops, 408 guns, 280 vehicles, Assault Value = 911

Defending force 27094 troops, 417 guns, 184 vehicles, Assault Value = 746

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 768

Allied adjusted defense: 473

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
2690 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 83 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 43 disabled
Engineers: 18 destroyed, 43 disabled
Guns lost 23 (1 destroyed, 22 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (3 destroyed, 15 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
671 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 51 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 14 (4 destroyed, 10 disabled)

Assaulting units:
48th Division
3rd Ind Engineer Regiment
16th Division
19th Ind Engineer Regiment
20th Ind Engineer Regiment
21st Ind Engineer Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Mortar Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
45th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
41st PA Infantry Division
Manila Bay Defenses
31st PA Infantry Division
2nd PA Constabulary Division
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
Far East USAAF
Bataan USN Base Force
Provisional GMC Grp
194th Tank Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
I Philippine Corps
14th PS Engineer Regiment
201st PA Construction Battalion
301st Construction Battalion
3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion
202nd PA Construction Battalion
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment

Another attack, also, at Soerabaja. He's got 2-1 odds there, so it shouldn't be long. Bataan's clock is ticking, too.

Ed-

[Mundy]

30 March 1942

Another day of sieges.

This is probably the best bombardment I've ever seen.

Ground combat at Noumea (115,160)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1102 troops, 59 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 351

Defending force 30029 troops, 244 guns, 122 vehicles, Assault Value = 707

Japanese ground losses:
204 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled

Assaulting units:
Fanning Island Det.
2nd Marine Regiment
34th Cmbt Engineer Regiment
8th Marine Regiment
New Caledonia Det
98th Coast AA Regiment
64th Coast AA Regiment
168th Field Artillery Battalion
35th Base Group
19th Base Group
97th Coast AA Regiment
142nd USN Stn Base Force
4th Marine Defense Battalion
43rd Base Group
3rd Port Maint Engineer Battalion
21st NZ Pioneer Coy

Defending units:
8th/A Division
8th/C Division
8th/B Division
33rd/B Division
33rd/A Division
33rd/C Division
16th Army

Casualties from bombardments at Soerabaja and Wuchang were also somewhat above average.

My flipping of air to Jamshedpur:

Afternoon Air attack on 43rd Cavalry Regiment, at 51,34 (Jamshedpur)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 26
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 8
Hurricane IIb Trop x 8
P-38E Lightning x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-Ic Sally: 8 destroyed, 5 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

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Afternoon Air attack on 43rd Cavalry Regiment, at 51,34 (Jamshedpur)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 36

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 3
Hurricane IIb Trop x 3
P-38E Lightning x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 destroyed, 10 damaged

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
30 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

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Afternoon Air attack on Jamshedpur , at 51,34

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 21

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 1
Hurricane IIb Trop x 2

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
21 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 20000 feet

There some Japanese shipping about SE of Rabaul and W of Lunga. I'm not quite sure of their destinations yet, or what they're fully composed of. New Mexico and friends are going to position about 7 hexes SSW of Moresby, in case he wants to play. I want to stay out of air range, but also want to be able to dart in overnight, if necessary.

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[Sangeli]

Nicely done shooting down all those IJAAF planes with your CAP. Whats the situation right now in India?