Lambs to the slaughter (Lowpe (J) vs Jocke; BillBrown (A)) Finished

[Lowpe]

October 9, 1943

A quiet day...Allied carriers retreat from Darwnin past Horn Island...

Japanese reinforcements arrive at Seward...putting into jeopardy his two tank units there (one is at 0 AV the other 40). Japanese artillery bombards and destroys 1 vehicle. Some Japanese bombers strike, but do no lasting damage...

More mines for Rabaul...where there are 18 Allied Units in a stalemate with Japanese forces...this should bring the total number of mines close to 1000.

Spent 30,000 supply making tow production plants (J2M2 and Ki61c). Hurt, but I figured I need the planes.

Allied troops still marching in the central plains of Burma.

The Kaga is making nice progress...

[Lokasenna]

I'd be sending her to a shipyard with those damage levels. Her crew is plenty good enough to make the journey.

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

I'd be sending her to a shipyard with those damage levels. Her crew is plenty good enough to make the journey.

Waiting for the subs to diminish a little...but you are right she will be making the trip shortly (especially now that her speed picked up).

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

I'd be sending her to a shipyard with those damage levels. Her crew is plenty good enough to make the journey.

Waiting for the subs to diminish a little...but you are right she will be making the trip shortly (especially now that her speed picked up).

Best move her before the better torpedoes kick in! [:'(] There's an 80% dud rate...

[Lowpe]

Oct 10, 1943

I plan a little trap down here with Lillys, but accidentally click on ground attack. 18 Lillys sortie and fly into PM and get eaten up alive. But I have all the fighter's patrol altitudes and will sweep tomorrow with 100 fighters. Sub par sweepers, but lets see what they can do.

[jwolf]

In my experience an AM is just not very good at ASW. Particularly in deep water, it is far more likely to get torpedoed and sunk than it is to dish out any significant damage to the Japanese sub, let alone actually sink one.

[Lowpe]

Looking forward to seeing how the sweeps go at PM. Win or Lose...

[Lowpe]

October 11, 1943

Sweet.

[Lowpe]

Scratch three more cargo ships..1 vp trash...but I believe every Allied ship needs to be sunk.[;)]

[Lowpe]

Scary



There is a single commonwealth unit, probably a division, moving east to join the Allied horde in the middle of the plains...I am going to hit it with everything that can carry a 250 kg bomb...only a few Tojo will guard/sweep/lrcap.

[Lowpe]

Over PM, I trade 20 Tojo IIc and A6M5c for 15 Hurricanes, Kittyhawks and Airacobras. I was hoping for at least 1-1...but his pilots were probably much better than mine.

[Lowpe]

October 12, 1943

Allies land in a no base hex, accidental click I guess.

Depending what is in this CVE task force, I might hit it with everything I have. I am poised and ready.

However they might turn around, given the non-dot base landing.

[Lowpe]

More developments in Burma...

If I risk an attack on those tanks...they might either get reinforced with the doomstack, or perhaps the tanks will simply move away.

Instead I think ground strafing might be in order...not sure how that will work if the Allies LRCAP the base, but I guess I will find out.

[Lowpe]

Three weeks away from having the Frank R.[:)]

Frank A will be with us the entire game, as some squadrons never upgrade from it...including the wonderful 200th Sentai of 97 planes...but most of the current squadrons do upgrade to the Frank R.

I am thinking of putting a fair bit of the r&d factories into the Ki94II.

[Lokasenna]

He should be moving SW from there, not NE. Those bases are not strategically important given the rest of the map shown.

[Lowpe]

Oct 13, 1943

A mistake here, as only one more tank unit arrives in Magwe...and I missed an opportunity to destroy them both.[:(]

Nicks do a decent job in making the TD unit combat ineffective for a while...

Allies bomb SE of Katha heavily...to minimal effect.

[Lowpe]

October 14, 1943

Here is the little raid I tried to accomplish the other day...

[Lowpe]

I think I am going to attack at Magwe...I have lots of tanks and twice the number of troops and at least two of his units here are less than 100% thanks to bombing. He probably has two divisions and two tanks (one is the 18th British Division)...perhaps a bombardment first...no reason to be hasty.

[PaxMondo]

[Lowpe]

October 15, 1943

Caution is thrown to the winds, and a deliberate attack is ordered at Magwe...

The Japanese airforce bombs during the day...most at 10k above the lions share of the flak, but some lower to absorb ammunition stocks and sow confusion.

Over 120 2E bombers, 100 Nicks...the results are decent...

A little over 350 fighters, Franks and Oscars patrol the skies....

and then the attack begins by the tank heavy Japanese forces....is it enough?

My goodness, there are far more Allied forces their than hoped for!!!![:(]