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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Hauling cargo to Australia and NZ is the best use of the E2C's

Definitive statements like that are begging to proved wrong. Somehow.[:)]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

What do the rest of you AFBs do with Liberty ships...convert them to troop ships?

Yup, troopships all the way. You get plenty of cargo carrying capacity as the Allies, but there's always a need for troopships. It helps to have lots lying around as there will be lots of arrivals that won't cycle with your regular troop convoys.

Sure, they lose carrying capacity, but with 20 ships you'll be carrying more than enough supply anyhow. Getting to Oz and back on a tank of gas means you won't be caring about fuel efficiency anyhow.

May 26th, 1942

Hit this little girl twice, and one exploded!

In the afternoon, Grampus attacks again, and again, all fail to explode. Her gun leaves the ship on fire.

Tanks attack! All of our battered Corps safely escape the hex...

Ground combat at 83,44 (near Ankang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3768 troops, 64 guns, 554 vehicles, Assault Value = 1020

Defending force 30767 troops, 184 guns, 58 vehicles, Assault Value = 1020

Japanese adjusted assault: 168

Allied adjusted defense: 1105

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 6

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

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 71 (2 destroyed, 69 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
861 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 60 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 34 (20 destroyed, 14 disabled)

Taking Bowen...





Ground combat at Bowen (93,147)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 12501 troops, 326 guns, 219 vehicles, Assault Value = 1537

Defending force 1455 troops, 21 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4

Allied adjusted assault: 327

Japanese adjusted defense: 11

Allied assault odds: 29 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied forces CAPTURE Bowen !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
470 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 20 (15 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units pursuing 13

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
3rd Motor Brigade
2/9th Armoured Regiment
2nd Australian Division
13th Australian Brigade
41st Infantry Division
2/7th Armoured Regiment
182nd Infantry Regiment
193rd Tank Battalion
132nd Infantry Regiment
30th Australian Brigade
2/6th Armoured Regiment
754th Tank Battalion
6th Aus Cav Brigade
2/16th Field Regiment
2nd Medium Regiment
108th Anti Tank Regiment
97th Coast AA Regiment
1st Medium Regiment
I Australian Corps
21/22 Field Regiment

Defending units:
48th Field AA Battalion
35th JNAF AF Unit

Holding Clark...

Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20786 troops, 403 guns, 597 vehicles, Assault Value = 762

Defending force 34516 troops, 385 guns, 244 vehicles, Assault Value = 1112

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 361

Allied adjusted defense: 1447

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1381 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 94 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Guns lost 18 (1 destroyed, 17 disabled)
Vehicles lost 28 (2 destroyed, 26 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
319 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 11 (1 destroyed, 10 disabled)


Mindanao falls...

Evacuated![;)] Tomorrow Townsville will be ours (muhaha!)[:'(]

She expended all those torpedoes and only one exploded!

Grabbed 10K supply from the Japanese.[X(]

Regarding the Liberties, I like converting a few to xAPs as I go, depending on how many I need to move troops around. I might have mentioned this before, but one thing to keep in mind is that at some point in June 1943 it becomes impossible to convert them (you can probably confirm this in the database). I tend to convert about as many as possible by then, as they roll off the slips as fixed xAKs after that and usually there's no shortage of cargo capacity by then.

Cheers,
CB

May 27, 1942

Another attack on the Ankang Road...

Ground combat at 83,44 (near Ankang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 28669 troops, 268 guns, 529 vehicles, Assault Value = 1006

Defending force 30006 troops, 182 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 914

Japanese adjusted assault: 364

Allied adjusted defense: 2674

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 7

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

Japanese ground losses:
330 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 27 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Vehicles lost 69 (1 destroyed, 68 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
676 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 193 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled

Assaulting units:
15th Tank Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
10th Tank Regiment
40th Division
5th Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
36th Division
9th Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
13th Army
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
93rd Chinese Corps
16th Chinese Corps
43rd Cavalry Regiment
95th Chinese Corps
23rd Indian Mtn Gun Rgt /2

Cleanup in Australia...paratroopers grab Townsville.

2nd day in a row where I have downed enemy fighters in A2A, but I have no idea where I did it at.

Up to 291 supplies air dropped to China...many troops have 0 supplies in the field. It is very tough to get supplies to the artillery units for whatever reason as the infantry snarfs it up first.

I didn't have this problem before as Japan, and it makes sense perhaps to put the 105mm artillery into the better Corp first rather than the dedicated artillery.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

2nd day in a row where I have downed enemy fighters in A2A, but I have no idea where I did it at.

Are you getting sync bugs?

ORIGINAL: witpqs

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

2nd day in a row where I have downed enemy fighters in A2A, but I have no idea where I did it at.

Are you getting sync bugs?

Probably, I don't know how to check.[8|]

Leader aggression...

Granted this units troops have poor experience, but they have been in two fights and been totally disabled each fight. Of course they are up against superior numbers of IJA tanks like 10 times as many[8|]...but I had hoped for a little more staying power.

Each fight has been in x3 terrain with no forts.

I wonder if I assign a less aggressive leader will they not get disabled so quickly?

The armor units are always the first in line for supplies![:)]

Our Chinese ace in the hole...

Finally have enough Valentines to upgrade this unit to some...but they are holding Bhamo.[X(] So I got to move units there to cover them, and then trek across China to Kunming most likely where we can upgrade those hvy impr AFVs to Valentines, maybe have enough Stuarts to upgrade those too, and then move them for the likely siege of Chungking or guarding the routes south out of Chungking or fighting the IJA tank divisions coming up from Canton which I am sure will be on their way eventually (the last is most likely).

A look at the Commonwealth tank pools...Matildas & Grant/Lees to Australia.

50+ Grant/Lees show up in 15 days, another 50+ in 30, and 20+ in 37. But no Valentines on the convoy horizon...

Wouldn't absolutely suck to have this unit sucking up Valentine reinforcements? It can take 150+ of the beasties.

Or is there a way to disband it?