(RA) IJN refloated Soulsilver (J)vs Deaniks (A)

[soulsilver]

August 10th Allied Landings in the Aleutians!!!

Today the allies made an amphibious landing on Adak island, Thus far the 25h Infantry and 110 combat engineer Battalion have been spotted, but a ground bombardment tomorrow should give a full picture of what is there. Defending Adak is a coastal gun regiment (basically a SNLF guard with a good amount of coastal guns) and a SNLF Assault Division with around 190 AV. A JAAF regiment and Carrier Divisions 2,3, and 5 will move to Ominato, and then north to the Aleutians. Yamato and the Nagato Sisters will also move up to Ominato.

I plan to reinforce Adak with a regiment bought out from Korea, another SNLF assault Division that spawned at Nagasaki a few days ago, and some engineer and JAAF units rerouted from heading to the SW pacific area. Adak almost had level 4 forts, and the disruption to the Assault Division is low, but the SNLF coastal gun battalion is heavily disrupted. Most of the fighting will have to fall to the 2nd China Assault Division. Hopefully they can hold out till the Calvary arrives.

Amphibious Assault at Adak Island (162,52)

TF 4 troops unloading over beach at Adak Island, 162,52

Allied ground losses:
250 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 35 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 15 (0 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (0 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Pre-Invasion action off Adak Island (162,52) - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force

610 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
BB West Virginia, Shell hits 4
BB Colorado, Shell hits 2
BB Maryland, Shell hits 1
CA San Francisco, Shell hits 2
CA Minneapolis, Shell hits 2
CL Lamotte-Picquet, Shell hits 2
CL Phoenix, Shell hits 2
CL St. Louis, Shell hits 2
DD Kipling, Shell hits 1
DD Cone, Shell hits 1
DD Le Triomphant, Shell hits 2
DD Arrow
DD Clark
DD Cummings
DD Grayson
xAK Charles H Cramp
DD Bison II
CVE Tangier
xAK Corrales
AP William Ward Burrows

Japanese ground losses:
726 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 30 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 54 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
161 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

13 troops of a USA 41 Rifle Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 25th Infantry Div /3
12 troops of a US Cmbt Eng Sqd lost in surf during unload of 110th Cmbt Engr Bn
13 troops of a USA 41 Rifle Squad lost overboard during unload of 25th Infantry Div /5

The good news today is that Clark Field fell today. Now on to Bataan.

Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 48973 troops, 454 guns, 186 vehicles, Assault Value = 1456

Defending force 18896 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 393

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 1633

Allied adjusted defense: 124

Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Clark Field !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
1803 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 139 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 16 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Guns lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
6927 casualties reported
Squads: 228 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 177 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 12

After the fall of Clark field the current VP ratio is 3.949... A few more victories for the Japanese and we will be at the covenanted 4.0. Then the hard part will keeping that ratio till 1943. If auto victory happens can we continue the game??? or will the PBEM end?

[jdsrae]

You can choose to play on after auto victory

[soulsilver]

August 13th

The brave defenders of Adak have repulsed two allied assaults since we last met. a full list of allied units present is below. The combined 8th SNLF is very beat up with around 17 AV and disruption in the 40s, the 2nd China assault division is also beat up with around 133 Av of its original 190. Thankfully disruption on the assault division is low. his last attack was a 1:6 and failed to reduce the forts from their level of 3. I've moved some transport planes up north to air transport a SNLF guard from Amchitcha Island to adak since the air port is still barely operable, for now at least. five fleet carriers and 3 light carriers are still around a week away. Dean still has transports unloading supply and has a TF of CVEs protecting them. The TF will likely be gone by the time my carriers show up. I also have a cruiser TF set to fast transport which is carrying another SNLF guard to be deposited on Adak once the Calvary arrives.

Kaga and Akagi finished their upgrades and are moving to Truk.

In the Arabian sea the Fuso and Ise class BBs are gonna bombard Bombay in conjunction with an air attack. Recon shows that Dean has pulled out all of the Bomber units present so the main threat will be mines. 2 DMS are gonna be attached to the BBs. hopefully the bombardment along with the air attack will put the air port out of commission for good, and destroy some of the 70 allied fighters present.

Ground combat at Adak Island (162,52)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8111 troops, 201 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 255

Defending force 16637 troops, 355 guns, 331 vehicles, Assault Value = 534

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

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

Assaulting units:
Combined 8th SNLF
2nd China Assault Division
5th JNAF AF Unit
13th Air Flotilla
36th JNAF AF Unit
Defending units:
151st Cmbt Engineer Battalion
110th Cmbt Engineer Battalion
25th Infantry Division
159th(Sep) Infantry Regiment
102nd Cmbt Engineer Regiment
762nd Tank Battalion
188th Field Artillery Battalion
181st Field Artillery Battalion
1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion
145th Field Artillery Battalion
1st AmphTrac Engineer Battalion
165th Field Artillery Battalion
183rd Field Artillery Battalion
31st Port Maint Engineer Battalion

[soulsilver]

Aug 17th

Just a quick update on what's been going on. 5 fleet carriers and 3 cvl are around 4 days out from the aleutians, but dean has pulled back for now. The allied landing force has failed to take the base but is still potent. Around 460 AV and plenty of artillery will be difficult to dislodge. I'm gonna focus on regaining air superiority in this region, and reinforcing Adak before I try to push the attackers back into the sea. Allied heavy bomber raids have continued usually escorted by p-38s. Defensive sorties on my part have been limited, I only have 24 Nick's and 27 a6m5 up here which are flying Lcap from Amchitka island. Another 24 Nick's and a squadron of 27 Tojos are on the way. I plan to drop a bunch more mines on the island, and reroute the 77th regiment to the rear area base of amchitka island. Once bataan is defeated I'll reroute the 65th brigade and the karafuto brigade to the aleutians.

On a side note I lost my first tanker today, the 8000 capacity San Diego maru. [:(]

Also I should clarify since I haven't commented much on Bombay, that dean has around 30k troops there according to recon as well as 77 fighters and 40 bombers. A bombardment by the ise and fuse class BBs will begin my continual aerial bombardment of the city. I've been sweeping the city on and off for around 2 weeks now with heavy resistance. The night bombardment should catch a bunch of planes on the ground or at least mess up the air field and reduce the CAP.

[29000Kevin]

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

Aug 18th

Just a quick update on what's been going on. 5 fleet carriers and 3 cvl are around 4 days out from the aleutians, but dean has pulled back for now. The allied landing force has failed to take the base but is still potent. Around 460 AV and plenty of artillery will be difficult to dislodge. I'm gonna focus on regaining air superiority in this region, and reinforcing Adak before I try to push the attackers back into the sea. Allied heavy bomber raids have continued usually escorted by p-38s. Defensive sorties on my part have been limited, I only have 24 Nick's and 27 a6m5 up here which are flying Lcap from Amchitka island. Another 24 Nick's and a squadron of 27 Tojos are on the way. I plan to drop a bunch more mines on the island, and reroute the 77th regiment to the rear area base of amchitka island. Once bataan is defeated I'll reroute the 65th brigade and the karafuto brigade to the aleutians.

On a side note I lost my first tanker today, the 8000 capacity San Diego maru. [:(]

Also I should clarify since I haven't commented much on Bombay, that dean has around 30k troops there according to recon as well as 77 fighters and 40 bombers. A bombardment by the ise and fuse class BBs will begin my continual aerial bombardment of the city. I've been sweeping the city on and off for around 2 weeks now with heavy resistance. The night bombardment should catch a bunch of planes on the ground or at least mess up the air field and reduce the CAP.

30k troops means that Karchi is weaker but Bombay will take over a month to take if the Karchi operation succeeds.

Meanwhile with the P-38 and 4E attacks at the north, the P-38 is not a good escort fighter from what I've seen in many War's so the Tojo should be able to achieve te air control of the region, the P-38 sweeps will be annoying but with some layered CAP should shoot them down nicely.

Keep an eye on the weather in the region, Dean is gambling hard on staying their with his navy, you don't want the Yamato and Musahi to knife fight the RN BBs in the area unless your gambling on a good dice roll since short range engagement means the amour is useless, another problem is a torpedo strike on the magazine could happen, although this is me being too paranoid that something bad happens.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: 29000Kevin

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

Aug 18th

Just a quick update on what's been going on. 5 fleet carriers and 3 cvl are around 4 days out from the aleutians, but dean has pulled back for now. The allied landing force has failed to take the base but is still potent. Around 460 AV and plenty of artillery will be difficult to dislodge. I'm gonna focus on regaining air superiority in this region, and reinforcing Adak before I try to push the attackers back into the sea. Allied heavy bomber raids have continued usually escorted by p-38s. Defensive sorties on my part have been limited, I only have 24 Nick's and 27 a6m5 up here which are flying Lcap from Amchitka island. Another 24 Nick's and a squadron of 27 Tojos are on the way. I plan to drop a bunch more mines on the island, and reroute the 77th regiment to the rear area base of amchitka island. Once bataan is defeated I'll reroute the 65th brigade and the karafuto brigade to the aleutians.

On a side note I lost my first tanker today, the 8000 capacity San Diego maru. [:(]

Also I should clarify since I haven't commented much on Bombay, that dean has around 30k troops there according to recon as well as 77 fighters and 40 bombers. A bombardment by the ise and fuse class BBs will begin my continual aerial bombardment of the city. I've been sweeping the city on and off for around 2 weeks now with heavy resistance. The night bombardment should catch a bunch of planes on the ground or at least mess up the air field and reduce the CAP.

30k troops means that Karchi is weaker but Bombay will take over a month to take if the Karchi operation succeeds.

Meanwhile with the P-38 and 4E attacks at the north, the P-38 is not a good escort fighter from what I've seen in many War's so the Tojo should be able to achieve te air control of the region, the P-38 sweeps will be annoying but with some layered CAP should shoot them down nicely.

Keep an eye on the weather in the region, Dean is gambling hard on staying their with his navy, you don't want the Yamato and Musahi to knife fight the RN BBs in the area unless your gambling on a good dice roll since short range engagement means the amour is useless, another problem is a torpedo strike on the magazine could happen, although this is me being too paranoid that something bad happens.

There is a very famous AAR where the mighty Yamato was sunk by one PT Boat torpedo. [X(]

[soulsilver]

Aug 18th

The night bombardment TF heading to Bombay was spotted the day before but no Allied planes sortied to attack it despite it having a spotting level of 6. The bombardment went in early in the morning and succeeded in catching a good amount of allied planes on the ground.

Night Naval bombardment of Bombay at 36,24 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 16 damaged
Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed on ground
A-24 Banshee: 2 damaged
Blenheim IV: 39 damaged
Blenheim IV: 2 destroyed on ground
P-40E Warhawk: 29 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 7 destroyed on ground
P-38E Lightning: 16 damaged
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed on ground
Albacore I: 4 damaged
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 3 damaged
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 1 destroyed on ground
Hurricane IIa Trop: 13 damaged
Hurricane IIa Trop: 2 destroyed on ground

31 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro, Shell hits 3
BB Fuso
DD Hibiki
DD Arare
DD Kagero
DMS W-11

Allied ground losses:
789 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 58 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 30 (4 destroyed, 26 disabled)

Airbase hits 27
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 47

Over near perth a convoy of APs guarded by some cruisers was spotted, not sure if it was heading west or east.

ASW attack near Perth at 48,147

Japanese Ships
SS RO-34

Allied Ships
DD Maury
CA New Orleans
CA Salt Lake City
CL Achilles
DD Benham
xAP Matua
xAP Wahine
xAP Macdhui
xAP Empress ' Scotland
xAK Cagou
xAK Orne
xAK Cap Tarifa
xAK Filleigh
DD MacDonough
DD Worden
DD Cassin
DD Ellet

The later air attacks also destroys a good number of allied planes on the ground and in the air, but fails to do much damage to the air field. Gonna need to keep pounding the air field in the days to come.


Morning Air attack on Bombay , at 36,24

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21
A6M5 Zero x 12
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 79
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 22

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 3
Hurricane IIc Trop x 4
P-38E Lightning x 5
P-40E Warhawk x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIa Trop: 2 damaged
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed on ground
P-38E Lightning: 5 damaged
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed on ground
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed on ground

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 7

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Morning Air attack on Bombay , at 36,24

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 57

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 3
Hurricane IIc Trop x 4
P-38E Lightning x 4
P-40E Warhawk x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed

[soulsilver]

August 20th

bad weather prevents any airstrikes in India today. once my BBs are fully rearmed at Goa I'll make another Bombardment run on Bombay.

In the Philippines the first attack on Bataan went ok with 3:1 attack, fairly even loses, and a reduction of the forts. Disruption on the participating units is pretty high so I'm gonna rest a few days before trying again.


Ground combat at Bataan (78,77)
Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 48388 troops, 454 guns, 186 vehicles, Assault Value = 1394

Defending force 33154 troops, 57 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 596

Japanese adjusted assault: 448

Allied adjusted defense: 137

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 4)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 3

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

Japanese ground losses:
1770 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 109 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 27 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1891 casualties reported
Squads: 18 destroyed, 177 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
3rd Ind Engineer Regiment
21st Ind Engineer Regiment
65th Brigade
16th Division
1st Division
Karafuto Mixed Brigade
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Army
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Art. Mortar Battalion

[John 3rd]

Keep up skeer!

BANZAI!

[Mike Solli]

Hi Soulsilver. The Chitose and Chiyoda must use Tokyo to convert from CS to CVL.

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

Ok I have a question for you guys, im currently trying to convert the CS chitose to a CVL It has no damage and is disbanded in Nagasaki which has a sufficiently large dockyard. furthermore I have the ship set yes to upgrade.... not sure what my problem is.

[RADM.Yamaguchi]

shouldn't he have the airgroups on them for the upgrade? so they turn into fixed wing a/c instead of float planes?

[RangerJoe]

Take off the air groups, there should be spare ones especially if any air units were supersized.

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

IJA Pilot pools

My recon pool is fine with 61 in the pool most of which are 70 recon skill

You may want to consider training some of your recon pilots in naval search. You'll need it later.

[soulsilver]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

IJA Pilot pools

My recon pool is fine with 61 in the pool most of which are 70 recon skill

You may want to consider training some of your recon pilots in naval search. You'll need it later.

Some of my IJA recon pilots are training in both Navs and Recon, and ALL of my IJN recon pilots are trained in both. I ended up shorting the training time on IJA recon pilots for a bit since I was short of them by only training recon. Now that I have a decent pool I'll switch back to training both Nav Search and Recon.

[soulsilver]

ORIGINAL: RADM.Yamaguchi

shouldn't he have the airgroups on them for the upgrade? so they turn into fixed wing a/c instead of float planes?

I get plenty of small 12 size air wings in RA meant for converted carriers, and I intend to put those on the converted carriers. I currently have the Chitose, and tw 3000 capacity APs converting to carriers in Tokyo. I can also convert the 5000 capacity APs but Ive decided against it for now.

[soulsilver]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

Hi Soulsilver. The Chitose and Chiyoda must use Tokyo to convert from CS to CVL.

ORIGINAL: soulsilver

Ok I have a question for you guys, im currently trying to convert the CS chitose to a CVL It has no damage and is disbanded in Nagasaki which has a sufficiently large dockyard. furthermore I have the ship set yes to upgrade.... not sure what my problem is.

Thankyou mike, Chitose is already sitting in Tokyo due to the kind advice of another forum user.

[John 3rd]

To my knowledge, the CS need to have their organic air group on them when they convert. The conversion of the ships ALSO converts the air groups to their new composition.

[Mike Solli]

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

To my knowledge, the CS need to have their organic air group on them when they convert. The conversion of the ships ALSO converts the air groups to their new composition.

Very true. I made the mistake of taking the air groups off in my (hopefully soon to be reborn) PBEM game. Fortunately ([8|]), I lost some carriers and was able to find new homes for the orphaned air units.

[soulsilver]

Aug 21st

The carriers up in the Aleutians are gonna move into position south of Kodiak to see if I can snipe any ships leaving or entering the combat zone. The carriers have not been spotted so I'm optimistic that I might catch something. If I don't find anything I'll swing north and attack Kodiak and maybe catch some ships in harbour.

In India the weather cleared and allowed air operations. Paras have taken the base east of Karachi, and I'm currently railing troops and air support up there to begin the siege of Karachi.

The air attack on Bombay came in 3 waves with the first one being shot up. The later strikes however met no resistance.

Morning Air attack on Bombay , at 36,24

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 79
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 43
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 5

Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIa Trop x 4
Hurricane IIc Trop x 2
P-38E Lightning x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 3 destroyed
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 7 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed on ground

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Morning Air attack on Bombay , at 36,24

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 16
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 20

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 3 damaged
Hurricane IIa Trop: 6 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 10 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed on ground
P-38E Lightning: 4 damaged
Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed on ground

Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 11

[soulsilver]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

To my knowledge, the CS need to have their organic air group on them when they convert. The conversion of the ships ALSO converts the air groups to their new composition.

Very true. I made the mistake of taking the air groups off in my (hopefully soon to be reborn) PBEM game. Fortunately ([8|]), I lost some carriers and was able to find new homes for the orphaned air units.

yeah I'll keep that in mind for future conversions. I still have 2 CS which can convert to CVL, but I think I'll keep them around to resize float plane units.