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Good points, BBfanboy. Didn't think of that.

On the other things. Battle plan of Operation Valkyrie.

Singapore: Elite AUS divisions will advance there with lot of supporting units. They will revenge the demise of 8th AUS Div (historically, not in this case, since I never can bear to leave those AUS brigades there in 1941-42, nor 18th UK)

Saigon: This will be the job of West African, Indian, Chinese etc. units with smattering of Brits. This will in game create opposing Viethminh units against them...but it'd not be anything like realistically if Chinese units had gotten there... Just thought it'd be slightly amusing... Considering border war between China and Vietnam 1979, this plan would be outright suicidal realistically.

Basically idea is to take all south Vietnam. Saigon and Cam Ranh Bay are very valuable bases later.

Op Valkyrie:

Didn't see this coming, IJN BB Musashi reported sunk.

This is of course all FOW.

Note that most IJN CVs are still intact. Haven't been able to get IJN into good carrier battle on my terms, they have raided where mine are not.

About submarine operations.

You safe yourself lot of time using following procedure.

1. Make Sub Patrol mission
2. Set react range to 1
3. Click Routing -> Patrol around area (preferably not too close to coastal hexes)
4. Check commander's ratings. If he is a doofus, change. Good ratings are Naval 60+, Aggressivenes 60+.
(Word of caution, sometimes putting overtly aggressive COs into low experience boat backfires..they take more risks than your normal 55/55 day/night crew can handle)
5. Within few turns, go to ships menu, filter in only subs and sort them out by sys damage. My routine is that anyone with combined damage more than 10 (sys/flt/eng) is immediately sent back to repairs. Trust, me, you lose way less boats this way.

If there is so ship specifically assigned to the AR, the ship repair points from the AR will go to any ships that need it. Same thing for the ARD as well.

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

If there is so ship specifically assigned to the AR, the ship repair points from the AR will go to any ships that need it. Same thing for the ARD as well.

Are you sure about the ARD? Don't they work only on float damage and not system and engineering damage? I don't have an ARD to check it out.
I know that unassigned ARs pool their repair points into the Port repair capacity.

I have seen where ships were put into an ARD when they are in pierside repair mode. I have also seen where the AR was assigned to a ship on pierside repair mode.

Current score...as you can see, game is already won points-wise. but that is not the point...(pun intended) [:D]

October 18, 1943

Saigon falls!

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Ground combat at Saigon (60,71)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 48613 troops, 679 guns, 817 vehicles, Assault Value = 1744

Defending force 11334 troops, 31 guns, 160 vehicles, Assault Value = 41

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Allied adjusted assault: 1892

Japanese adjusted defense: 157

Allied assault odds: 12 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Saigon !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
3732 casualties reported
Squads: 30 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 273 destroyed, 121 disabled
Engineers: 11 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 19 (18 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 144 (134 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Units retreated 4

Allied ground losses:
169 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
268th Motorised Brigade
19th Indian Division
20th Indian Division
39th Indian Division
5th Indian Division

Defending units:
Cape St.Jaques Fortress
8th Area Army
Southern Army
13th Air Fleet
90th JAAF AF Bn

This is getting bit boring...like "clubbing baby seals"..as metafora...

But I'll do some amph invasions and then stop. Vs. AI the early war as Allies in interesting, tho one wants to try all late-war toys.

Oct 22-23 1943

IJN has lost lot of ships to British land-based air from Port Blair.

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Great Nicobar at 44,66

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter TF.X x 16

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter TF.X: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro, Torpedo hits 1
CL Tenryu

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Beaufighter TF.X launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Mk XII Torpedo
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Great Nicobar at 44,66

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 43 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIc x 20

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter VIc: 6 damaged

Japanese Ships
CL Tenryu, Shell hits 1, Bomb hits 1
DD Asakaze, Shell hits 2
DD Harukaze

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Beaufighter VIc bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 lb SAP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 42,62

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 60 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter TF.X x 14
Vengeance I x 16

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter TF.X: 1 damaged
Vengeance I: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 10, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CL Tenryu

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Beaufighter TF.X launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Mk XII Torpedo
7 x Vengeance I releasing from 2000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
5 x Vengeance I releasing from 4000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x Vengeance I releasing from 3000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring BB Yamashiro


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 42,62

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 18 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIc x 17

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter VIc: 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
CL Tenryu, Bomb hits 4, on fire
DD Minekaze, Shell hits 4
DD Asakaze

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Beaufighter VIc bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 lb SAP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 42,62

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 16

Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
CL Tenryu, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
BB Yamashiro, on fire, heavy damage
DD Asakaze
DD Minekaze

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Vengeance I releasing from 4000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
9 x Vengeance I releasing from 3000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CL Tenryu
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring BB Yamashiro


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 42,62

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter TF.X x 16

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter TF.X: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
CL Tenryu, Shell hits 1, Bomb hits 14, and is sunk
DD Harukaze, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Beaufighter TF.X bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 42,62

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 50 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 19 minutes

Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 16

Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 13, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Harukaze, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Vengeance I releasing from 2000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
8 x Vengeance I releasing from 4000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
1 x Vengeance I releasing from 3000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring BB Yamashiro

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 42,62

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter TF.X x 14

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter TF.X: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Minekaze
DD Asakaze, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Beaufighter TF.X bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 42,62

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 9 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Allied aircraft
Vengeance I x 16

Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Asakaze, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Harukaze, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Minekaze

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Vengeance I releasing from 3000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x Vengeance I releasing from 2000' *
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring BB Yamashiro
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring DD Asakaze
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring DD Harukaze


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 42,62

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIc x 15

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufighter VIc: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Harukaze, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Minekaze, Shell hits 2
BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Beaufighter VIc bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 lb SAP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Car Nicobar at 42,62

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter TF.X x 14

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Harukaze, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Asakaze, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
DD Minekaze

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Beaufighter TF.X bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Really surprised to see Yamashiro still afloat after all that pummeling. Must have a great captain and very experienced crew. I doubt she will make it to a safe port though. Let us know if you see floatplane losses that correspond with her sinking.

As bit real-world history. IJN was pretty good in emergency repairs when it was flooding, but quite sub-par when it was fire.

IJN Yamashiro has not appeared on sunken ship list, so it might have made it to Singapore.

Op Valkyrie Phase II:

Opening the land connection to China.

Op Valkyrie Phase III:

Revenge of Singapore:

well if they let it flood it would put out the fire, but that might be a case of the cure worse then the illness.

Good example how experienced your subs become if you use them aggressively from start, faulty torpedoes or not. It will pay dividents later.

SS Grenadier is 80/61.

Dec 1-2 1943

Hanoi falls!...and other ground combat:

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Ground combat at 64,65 (near Tourane)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 1935 troops, 0 guns, 195 vehicles, Assault Value = 135

Defending force 310 troops, 0 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Allied adjusted assault: 113

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 113 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
330 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 41 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

Assaulting units:
Provisionl Tank Brigade

Defending units:
Southern Army
90th JAAF AF Bn

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Ground combat at Alor Star (49,73)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 48491 troops, 774 guns, 1396 vehicles, Assault Value = 1878

Defending force 17721 troops, 155 guns, 50 vehicles, Assault Value = 410

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Allied adjusted assault: 918

Japanese adjusted defense: 201

Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Alor Star !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
7430 casualties reported
Squads: 103 destroyed, 64 disabled
Non Combat: 215 destroyed, 69 disabled
Engineers: 131 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 93 (87 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 43 (43 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 8

Allied ground losses:
792 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 90 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (2 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
14th Chindit Brigade
50th Tank Brigade
16th Light Cavalry Regiment
23rd Indian Division
Guides Cavalry Regiment
2/3 AIF Pioneer Battalion
2nd British Division
150th RAC Regiment
9th Australian Division
XV Indian Corps
XXXIII Indian Corps
3rd (Special Force) Division

Defending units:
2nd Guards Division
92nd JAAF AF Bn
51st Field AA Battalion
14th RF Gun (Pack) Battalion
3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment
52nd Const Co
2nd Raiding Regiment
35th Field AA Battalion
5th JAAF AF Coy

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Ground combat at 63,70 (near Dalat)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 4183 troops, 64 guns, 159 vehicles, Assault Value = 152

Defending force 884 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Allied adjusted assault: 124

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 124 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
910 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 106 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

Assaulting units:
268th Motorised Brigade

Defending units:
Southern Fleet
85th JAAF AF Bn

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Ground combat at Hanoi (68,56)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 5982 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 248

Defending force 5868 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 245

Allied adjusted assault: 110

Japanese adjusted defense: 70

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
128 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
36th Chinese Division

Defending units:
2nd RTA Division

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Ground combat at Taiping (49,75)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2680 troops, 42 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 110

Defending force 3643 troops, 38 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 51

Allied adjusted assault: 90

Japanese adjusted defense: 25

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

Allied forces CAPTURE Taiping !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
869 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 53 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5

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

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
16th Chindit Brigade

Defending units:
57th Infantry Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
33rd Road Const Co
49th Infantry Regiment
102nd Machine Canno AA Battalion


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Ground combat at Hanoi (68,56)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 5982 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 248

Defending force 5706 troops, 41 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 219

Allied adjusted assault: 214

Japanese adjusted defense: 25

Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Hanoi !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
2211 casualties reported
Squads: 63 destroyed, 48 disabled
Non Combat: 57 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
36th Chinese Division

Defending units:
2nd RTA Division

Dec 5-6 1943

Tulagi and Haiphong fall!

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Ground combat at Tulagi (114,137)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3515 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 131

Defending force 3810 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 23

Allied adjusted assault: 65

Japanese adjusted defense: 19

Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Tulagi !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
293 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
57 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
3rd USMC Parachute Battalion
503rd Parachute Regiment
2nd Marine Raider Battalion
2nd USMC Parachute Battalion

Defending units:
17th Infantry Regiment
Ichiki Det.
19th Field AA Machinecannon Company
209th JAAF AF Bn


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Ground combat at Haiphong (68,57)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 20113 troops, 216 guns, 288 vehicles, Assault Value = 740

Defending force 11043 troops, 74 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 336

Allied adjusted assault: 598

Japanese adjusted defense: 153

Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Haiphong !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
3966 casualties reported
Squads: 142 destroyed, 28 disabled
Non Combat: 119 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 35 (31 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
1233 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 188 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
19th Indian Division
25th Indian Division

Defending units:
2nd RTA Division
1st RTA Division
Haiphong Fortress

Op Valkyrie Phase IV plan. This should alleviate China supply problems, by opening supply land route from Indochina.