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congrats on the award
somebody must be watching ...

Even if its not serious, congrats to those of you who write all these AARs.

They are essential reading and help immensely.

I'm never going to invade the Soviet Union in 1942 with a bunch of supply crates after this one! [;)]

Grats! And well deserved.

You are the best at making the suffering enjoyable.

Congratulations! I don't know how many of us would be playing this game without Matrix hosting the AARs and so many people running them.
I think a major part of WITP-AE's success is due to them. You sir, deserve Kudos from all as a major reason we can find opponents, Mods, Betas,
and great support.

Congratulations Lowpe.

Your thoroughly enjoyable AAR got the recognition it deserves

April 25, 1942

A relatively quiet day, our night naval air strikes fly into nasty weather and miss, the Allies bombard, Japan bombards, and the Mutsu, stricken Mutsu is safely disbanded in Singkawang. Incredible.

The final A6M3 factory finishes repairing, so production will start in 12 days.

I went a head and bolstered the production of the Tojo IIa...now it will be 90 planes a day in June of 1942.

ORIGINAL:now it will be 90 planes a day in June of 1942.

Is that 30 size 90 factories or 90 size 30?

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

SOV get so much arty
[X(]

And it is nasty artillery to boot.

yes it is ... [X(]

90 a month

Congrats on Mutsu, that is was quite fortunate. Must have had a few good "flooding increases" and "pump fails" die rolls. Not to mention Damage Control must have run out of alcohol to fight the earlier fires with. Do you have any ARs around to speed up the sys repair?

The great reason why she took that torp from the S-boat instead of a fleet boat or a brit/dutch boat. S boats have 18" torps, as opposed to the bigger ones. Fleet boats have 21" torps as do most other subs.

She also knocked 11 points of float damage in one turn. Pretty dang good for IJN damcon. I like the Nagato class, so seeing one survive is always a treat, even if I am an AFB.

Well done!

Now all she has to worry about are Night Port strikes by 4Es! [;)]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Each winner will receive a little banner that will become his avatar on the forum so everyone will know how awesome you are!

There you go. Looks a bit much, doesn't it?

I think the new avatar is cool. Congratulations and thanks for all the time you spend on writing this AAR. It has to be a huge time investment.

We will attempt to pump out some of the minor flooding before making the next move with the Mutsu. There is an AR at Cam Ranh Bay, and I might move her down to Brunei to work on Mutsu.

She still has a long way to go...

Always good to see diffent things and like that Soviets are activated early.

I think you have good chance of getting business done in Manchuko due to your airforce.

Anyways.. Good luck and keep on fighting.

April 26, 1942

The Isis is jumped by 3 IJN destroyers, two of which are good ships, and the Isis promptly turns the tables and sinks all three for only light damage in return. This happened over several engagements.

Allies send more troops into Malaya.

Japanese troops successfully rescued from Singkep. Djambi falls.

Soviet tank divisions attack again at Heiho, IJA troopers do well but it is only a matter of time.


Ground combat at Heiho (113,33)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 71985 troops, 1245 guns, 2450 vehicles, Assault Value = 2570

Defending force 22759 troops, 232 guns, 159 vehicles, Assault Value = 547

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Allied adjusted assault: 1983

Japanese adjusted defense: 2987

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
1600 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 78 disabled
Engineers: 13 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 32 (15 destroyed, 17 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1345 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 185 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Vehicles lost 70 (6 destroyed, 64 disabled)

Assaulting units:
126th Rifle Division
36th Motor Rifle Division
61st Tank Division
77th Tank Brigade
111th Tank Division
12th Rifle Division
3rd Rifle Division
94th Rifle Division
1120th Cannon Regiment
1129th Hvy Howitzer Regiment
192nd OM Gun Battalion
411th Howitzer Regiment
147th Howitzer Regiment
216th Howitzer Regiment
550th BM Howitzer Regiment
624th Cannon Regiment
1140th Cannon Regiment
36th Army
42nd Cannon Regiment
114th Hvy Howitzer Regiment
390th Cannon Regiment

Defending units:
6th Border Defense Fortress
8th Garrison Unit
1st Division
1st Tank Regiment
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Garrison Unit
12th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
18th Fld AA Machinecannon Company
52nd Field AA Battalion
45th Ind.AA Gun Co
2nd Air Div /1

Slow pace of turns for the holidays...

5 days till Nick, a few days after the A6M3 arrives

7 days for the Junyo

35 days till Tojo IIa (around 400 planes per month of new fighter fighter/bomber production.

60 days for the formation of the 1st and 2nd Tank Divisions

early August for the Yamoto to join the ranks.