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26 June 1942

Adjustment Day.

Looking things over, I'm overstocked with airplane support (like a few hundred) on Townsville and Auckland. Some of the base forces at Auckland are relocating to Wellington, while the extras at Townsville are moving to Cairns. Once Cairns comes up to speed, I can start moving extras in Brisbane and Sydney to those areas.

The B-17s at Townsville are moving to Normanton, being at level 5, with lots of support. They're plastering Horn Island next turn. Roughly 50 B-17Es, along with a squadron of Aussie Hudsons. I'll start picking at the little bases there and on south New Guinea, just to be a pest. I'll mix in port attacks after tomorrow, just in case I get lucky.

My flak at Benares has been disappointing. Four raids this turn and not a single IJAAF plane damaged. One heavy and one medium AA force are there, not counting the stuff inherent in the other units. My B-25s in the area are hitting some of his troops in open ground, slowing advances. I have to rotate targets daily, since CF always responds with CAP there next turn.

Carriers are sitting tight in Wellington. I'm thinking of pulling them within the week, since the northern island of NZ has plenty of air. A cargo TF from Oz is unloading on South Island, helping the supply situation a bit.

A bunch of Seabees are inbound to Pearl from the states. I think I have another USMC regiment, I forgot to look at, a component with two on the map -- possibly Suva.

29 June 1942

Odds and ends.

Intel shows part of the IJA 33rd Division enroute to Rabaul. I think they were involved in taking Koumac. He must be regrouping come of his combat forces.

One good sub action, with casualties.

Sub attack near Kume-jima at 94,64

Japanese Ships
xAK Gosei Maru
xAK Daibu Maru
xAK Awajisan Maru
PB Taiko Maru

Allied Ships
SS Halibut

SS Halibut launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Gosei Maru

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Sub attack near Kume-jima at 94,64

Japanese Ships
xAK Gosei Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAK Awajisan Maru
PB Taiko Maru

Allied Ships
SS Halibut

Japanese ground losses:
44 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

SS Halibut launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Gosei Maru

I've been trying to hit a supply convoy off Adak.

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Adak Island at 162,52

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 26 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Allied aircraft
A-29 Hudson x 6
B-26 Marauder x 3
B-26B Marauder x 9

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Italy Maru
xAK Koki Maru
xAK Bengal Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x A-29 Hudson bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 lb SAP Bomb
9 x B-26B Marauder bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 3 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 3 x 500 lb SAP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Adak Island at 162,52

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 3

Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Bengal Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 3 x 500 lb SAP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Adak Island at 162,52

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 3

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Koki Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 3 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

To be fair, everyone's been training for ground attack. I'll start getting the Hudsons and Marauders up to speed, anti-ship wise.

04 July 1942

Not a good day.

It looked like Cannonfodder was going to fruitlessly bang his head against my forces again.

Ground combat at 76,42 (near Chengtu)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 23273 troops, 171 guns, 147 vehicles, Assault Value = 1241

Defending force 38735 troops, 207 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 684

Japanese adjusted assault: 595

Allied adjusted defense: 173

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1378 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 111 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1165 casualties reported
Squads: 24 destroyed, 72 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Assaulting units:
11th Tank Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
41st/B Division
41st/A Division
15th Division
70th Division
35th/B Division
1st Army

Defending units:
8th Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Corps
75th Chinese Corps

I didn't care for the odds he achieved, but he did take the bigger pounding here. That should buy me a few more days, at least.

Then came this:

Ground combat at Benares (51,27)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 65527 troops, 676 guns, 883 vehicles, Assault Value = 2255

Defending force 53189 troops, 746 guns, 552 vehicles, Assault Value = 1052

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese adjusted assault: 2151

Allied adjusted defense: 233

Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Benares !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
3810 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 421 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 49 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled
Guns lost 43 (2 destroyed, 41 disabled)
Vehicles lost 46 (2 destroyed, 44 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
62383 casualties reported
Squads: 1245 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 3677 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 242 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1066 (1066 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 503 (503 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 26

Assaulting units:
4th Guards Division
7th Ind.Tank Brigade
7th Tank Regiment
5th/C Division
Guards Tank Division
6th Guards/B Division
18th Division
10th Tank Regiment
55th Division
38th/B Division
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Army
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
6th Australian Division
23rd Indian Brigade
7th Australian Division
84th Indian Brigade
Madras Police Battalion
36th Indian Brigade
150th RAC Regiment
75th Indian Brigade
22nd (East African) Brigade
70th British Division
26th Indian Division
Cochin Base Force
2/1 AIF Pioneer Battalion
6th Medium Regiment
AHQ Bengal
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
85th British AT Gun Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
23rd Base Group
2nd Central India Base Force
51st Base Group
23rd AA Bde
1st Hyderabad Base Force
35th Light AA Regiment
221 RAF Base Force
22nd Light AA Regiment

This sucks. That's a s**tload of troops I lost here. 62,000 dead or headed for prison camps. I'm so clumsy with the ground war. Playing it is like watching a December molasses spill, but if you take your eyes off of it for a moment, you wind up surrounded and trapped in no time flat. At least his losses weren't small, and quite a few vehicles (tanks?) got smacked.

Fortunately I had thought ahead, and I stripped other areas of India of troops and am railing them to Cawnpore, including an armored unit with Valentines, which, I would think, hold up. I'm only hoping he doesn't do a run down the south coast, or land forces in the backfield, where I'll be able to do squat about it. I'm attempting to gather up my airpower into a halfway credible force. I've been scattering base units in an arc around the area, so I'm not dependent on a few large bases. In the past week, I've also unloaded about 150,000 points of supply in Karachi, and all the transports are enroute back to Abadan, about four days out. I'm taking this dead time to fill up a TF of 16 kt tankers (100,000 in fuel) and get that out in time.

Intel report lists the IJA 12th Division as prepping for Cairns. Too bad the 12th is still in Yenki, as of three days ago, on the USSR/Manchu border. I'm coming to believe all these invasion threats are bogus. Wasp is two days out from Wellington. I'll get them healed up and send all the CVs back to Pearl. I may hit the Marshalls on the way back to test what's there. Six carriers in three groups all in the same hex should stop any attacks which come.

Tennessee and California are in the yard for another 28 days. I'm probably going to pull the trigger on the Marshalls at that point. I'm looking at 8-10 task forces involved, not counting the carrier support. One bombardment mission for each landing site, and a battleship with each landing force. 2-3 days after the troops set sail, I'll follow up immediately with base forces and fighter squadrons to hold what I've taken. Hopefully, I'll pass the ball to the occupiers seamlessly and get the heavy hitters out for the next objective.

A few days back, I've routed a USMC regiment and another USMC unit to the East Coast, for routing to Cape Town. After what's happened in India, I'm glad I've already got the ball rolling. This regiment's sister regiments are still something like a year out, so they won't be missed anywhere else.

I did get in a poke at Darwin, after hitting little bases in New Guinea. Coastwatchers spotted ships docked there, so I thought I'd strike.

Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 42

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Thames Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 1
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Darwin , at 76,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Thames Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Ya...that's a tough loss in India. Gotta keep holed up in good terrain while the Japanese are still moving forward. River crossings in 1x can be deadly but only if there is a good fort such that the shock attack caused by the crossing hits a brick wall. At Benares neither was true and the CF exploited the weakness.

I'm not sure that railing units into Cawnpore is the right solution at this point. If the Japanese want to move that far inland let them have it. It's wide open terrain in India and now you have a lot fewer units to counter the Japanese. If you try making a stand now at Cawnpore it's hard to believe it will end well. If there is a time to disengage from the battle and just try to prevent losing Bombay an Karachi this is it.

All of that being said, I see a huge glaring weakness in the Japanese positions which you can exploit. The utility of occupying India is based on the industry there. Much of that industry is locate in and near Calcutta and it seems you still have bases close by as Japan has not advanced SW from there. Is it possible to launch a massive 4E raid against one of the bases there with heavy industry? There is no way the Japanese can cover all these bases with industry and I bet you could get a cheap shot in. Might be enough to force the Japanese into advancing SW from Calcutta to establish a buffer zone and thus stretching LCUs and delaying offensives elsewhere.

I've been a bit slovenly with regards to noting the terrain my units are in. This hits it home quite well. Maybe I should wall up behind rivers, too.

I don't have much for heavy bombers. Some Wellingtons are the best at this point.

He hasn't approached Cuttack at all. I have some air there.

I'll start over with a fresh look next turn -- see what I can organize. He has at least one or two squadrons of Tojos here. More are in China. My fighters have struggled against them. If I can hold out a bit, I'll give India priority to P-38s when they come out in a couple months. I have some UK brigades for the UK 2nd Division enroute. The last Brigade is still at Aden awaiting transports. They'll provide some muscle for where I want to make the next stand. Once together, I'll get them recombined. I'm about 1/5 of the way to freeing up a USA division.

ORIGINAL: Mundy
I've been a bit slovenly with regards to noting the terrain my units are in. This hits it home quite well.

If you want to get better at land combat in this game, focusing on terrain is the best start.

ORIGINAL: Mundy
I don't have much for heavy bombers. Some Wellingtons are the best at this point.

Shouldn't the USAAF Tenth Air Force be showing up at this time? If they haven't you better expedite their arrival. The British have pretty good fighter planes and pools but their bombers are straight up awful and require significant USAAF assistance. All the good British bombers are stuck in Europe and North Africa and will be for some time.

The 51st PG of the Tenth AF has to be shipped from the US but the 23rd PG enters at Aden one squadron at a time.

Bomber groups have to be bought out and shipped from CONUS. If one has a thing for aesthetics one can take note of the fact that the base force numbers correspond to fighter and bomber group numbers.

Thus Tenth AF gets the 51st and 23rd base groups. It also gets the 307th base force which corresponds to the 307th bomb group that has to be bought out.

Of course players are free to ignore the correlations between base forces and air groups.

I always check the OOB of air units showing up on the East Coast. I do commit anything under 10AF to India. I believe at least one of the base groups are already there.

I haven't looked ahead recently to see what's in the pipe in that area.

I'm probably going to route a USA division or two to Cape Town, pending PP purchase.

Question:

Three hexes W of Cuttack, there's a rough patch in the road along the coast. Is it a good idea to set up troops there, or should I solely focus on hexes with bases where forts can be built?

ORIGINAL: Mundy
I'm probably going to route a USA division or two to Cape Town, pending PP purchase.

You should probably buy out a couple of USAAF bomber squadrons as well for the 10th AF from CONUS. Despite your concerns about ground warfare, the Allies are much better equipped to fight a land war in India in late 1942 than a naval war in the Pacific at this time. And the further CF pushes the greater the necessity to reinforce the continent. Having B-17's in India will probably pay off big time I think.

ORIGINAL: Mundy

Question:

Three hexes W of Cuttack, there's a rough patch in the road along the coast. Is it a good idea to set up troops there, or should I solely focus on hexes with bases where forts can be built?

In this case I would say neither. Keep some base units in Cuttack as the Japanese seem content to ignore it for now but if they move this way you gotta pull out. Yes you could put a roadblock in terrain to the west but its a roadblock blocking nothing of particular concern. But really at this time you should be trading space for time; setting up a new defensive line near the Japanese lines after the Benares battle is probably not wise. The last thing you want to do is throw away more LCUs in battles near the Japanese nodes of power in Calcutta. Disengage, reorganize, and rethink your priorities and strategy. What are you hoping to achieve in India?

Probably.

My bomber pools are pretty low, and I haven't been letting the US bomber squadrons gain reinforcements.

I'm wondering if I should withdraw the bombers in Australia, to beef up the ones in the US to ship. Another thought is to ship the ones in Oz to India. That has a risk, as he's had SCTFs patrolling offshore before.

ORIGINAL: Mundy
My bomber pools are pretty low, and I haven't been letting the US bomber squadrons gain reinforcements.

I'm wondering if I should withdraw the bombers in Australia, to beef up the ones in the US to ship. Another thought is to ship the ones in Oz to India. That has a risk, as he's had SCTFs patrolling offshore before.

This is why I'm not such a big fan of those early raids you had on Noumea. Sure you can have some tactical successes but the Allied don't get a lot of those 4E aircraft. Those B-17's and B-24's should reserved to achieve strategic goals or else they won't be there when you do need them (like right now). And since you don't really have any strategic goals in Australia that require 4E this time (or at least nothing as pressing as the situation in India), those frames need to get to India. Up to you how you get those planes there...depends on withdraw date and such.

This sucks. That's a s**tload of troops I lost here. 62,000 dead or headed for prison camps.

Ouch -- my sympathies. And there are one British and two Australian divisions gone. Were you out of supply?

Yep, he snuck forces behind mine and trapped them. I started re-organizing my air. I've pulled my heavies at Unmak back to Spokane. More B-17s at Spokane are being re-routed to the East Cost. I've also withdrawn the heavies in Australia. The bombers in Oz and Umnak were excess overkill in those locations anyway. I doubt the Aleutians will go any further than it's currently at, and both my bases there (Unmak & Dutch Harbor) are pretty well garrisoned. Yanking the air in Oz also netted me close to 200 PPs (thank you very much...).

I've set a squadron of O-47s at Normanton to recon under AI control, to use that neat trick that came up recently, so I should spot any forces which may come this way. I think he's content with Darwin and Katherine at this point. I have excellent PBY coverage out of Normanton from Darwin to almost Port Moresby.

I'll start with the ground forces re-org next turn. I wanted to get the first turn out quickly yesterday to give CF a chance at getting one more out, but I was probably a little late. Damn work...
I'm getting home later again today, so I can take my time with this one. Thankfully, India has lots of choo choo chrains, to move stuff around, so it should go fairly quickly -- within a week or so. I'm going to set up a N-S line roughly even with Bhopal, using the nastier terrain. I won't worry about Delhi, since if he goes that far, he's bound to cut loose my emergency forces. A British division is inbound, so that will help provide some backbone somewhere. I'm looking at about three locations to defend at this point, preferably at major road/rail intersections. I'll keep the south coast the weakest one. I have two recon squadrons (B-25s and Hurricanes), which I'll keep active to watch for movement.

I wonder what the garrison requirements are for Calcutta. I would imagine it to be pretty stiff.

I should have gone through this a long time ago, but I guess you can only really learn through pain.

I have two recon squadrons (B-25s and Hurricanes), which I'll keep active to watch for movement.

Your British Lysander air groups are equipped with a camera and can also be used in India for short range recon missions. Might be worth it to spread some of those arround and keep tabs on any new avenues of advance.

You might be right in that your opponent will most likely not want to trigger reinforcements by crossing the India line of death, but you never know since he's thoroughly trashed what was there (sea, land and air). I'd be sure to redouble efforts on holding Kirachi first and Bombay second. It's going to be a awhile before you can push back in that area. [>:]

Thanks for that. I never looked at the Lysanders that closely, thinking them solely a low grade bomber. I guess I can't fly spies behind his backfield. I have a couple squadrons to throw into that job -- even a weak one will help.

If he goes the Delhi route north, he'll have to deal with regiments in the Lahore area. (Un)fortunately, some of these regiments are static, so I couldn't pitch them into battle earlier. If he goes that way, I'll probably hole up in the rough terrain halfway between Multan and Hyderabad. It's a long hike, regardless.

Another spot is Jodphur. Bhopal's also in the rough, and there's jungle to the south.

A group from the 1 USMC Paras are on Argonaut, enroute to Ailuk in the Marshalls, to snoop. Just a nuisance shot right now. If I'm lucky, he has something weak there, but I'm assuming it's unoccupied. I don't plan on anything too dangerous.

06 July 1942

Moving Day.

I've got probably two wings worth of bombers heading to Cape Town via Eastern USA. My B-17E pool is over 60 now, so I should be able to get stuff up to strength before getting deployed. I'll probably buy the PPs before updating, as I'm guessing it'll be cheaper.

The great ground shuffle in India is underway.

A minimalist force is heading to Vizagapatnam, with some infantry and artillery. From there, they'll park in the rough hex three hexes to the east along the road.

The next sizable force is heading to Jubbulpore, deep in the bush. Bhopal will be getting engineers and base units to get a credible airfield up there.

Mostly base forces and aircraft will go to Delhi.

The last mob is off to Jodphur. The USA 27th is part of that group. I was thinking they got killed at the prior disaster, but miraculously, they were out. They've actually been building back up nicely, which is good.

Once these places are set up and running, I may make some adjustment, and possibly put out skirmishers to deal with those flankers and such.

2/3 of a UK division are a day out from Karachi. The last regiment is loading now at Aden. I'm not sure yet whether to combine them or spread them out amongst the strongholds.

08 July 1942

Odds and Ends.

A convoy with more planes has unloaded at Suva. Currently based there and at Nadi:

8- Squadrons P-39s
3- Squadrons B-26s (Both types)
1- Squadron F-4 Lightning Recon
1- OS2U-3
2- Squadrons PBY (-5 and -5A)
5 Squadrons F4Fs (-3 and -4)
1 Squadron SBD-2
1 Squadron SB2U-3 (only three planes, but will flip them to SBD-2 when I get more PPs)

I'm going to request a vet pilot for all the fighter squadrons. At this point, I think all of KB would struggle taking this on.

Speaking of Suva

1942-07-07 20th Recon Regiment - is planning for an attack on Suva

In China, I'm dealing with this:

Ground combat at 76,42 (near Chengtu)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 42113 troops, 321 guns, 201 vehicles, Assault Value = 1232

Defending force 35749 troops, 186 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 496

Japanese adjusted assault: 898

Allied adjusted defense: 63

Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
850 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 90 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1547 casualties reported
Squads: 87 destroyed, 87 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 19 (11 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Assaulting units:
70th Division
63rd Division
11th Tank Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
15th Division
35th/B Division
1st Army

Defending units:
56th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Corps
8th Chinese Corps
75th Chinese Corps

They had 9-1 odds last turn, so I figure they're about to fall. Hopefully, I can retreat them back to Chungking to repair them.

Further East:

Ground combat at Kungchang (81,36)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 17822 troops, 145 guns, 120 vehicles, Assault Value = 728

Defending force 44638 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 773

Japanese adjusted assault: 570

Allied adjusted defense: 451

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1001 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 83 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled

Allied ground losses:
862 casualties reported
Squads: 60 destroyed, 38 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 18 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 30 (23 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Assaulting units:
15th Tank Regiment
13th/A Division
36th Division
26th/B Division
12th Army

Defending units:
98th Chinese Corps
47th Chinese Corps
30th Chinese Corps
17th Chinese Corps
57th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
76th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
16th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
34th Chinese Corps
8th War Area
3rd Heavy Mortar Regiment
6th Chinese Base Force
8th Chinese Base Force
3rd Chinese Corps
1st Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Base Force

By Japan, off the island of Tsushima, KIV managed to hit four mines, sinking as a result.

Three days ago, they were still located at Fusan, so I'm not taking this too seriously.

ORIGINAL: Mundy

Thanks for that. I never looked at the Lysanders that closely, thinking them solely a low grade bomber. I guess I can't fly spies behind his backfield. I have a couple squadrons to throw into that job -- even a weak one will help.

It took years of WITP for me to notice that the FULMAR also has a camera, and has better range than the Lysander. You also get plenty of them.

Use the FULMAR for short-range recon....it's not useful for anything else!

I'm glad there's all sorts of helpful people to help me fill in the gaps. Thanks, Q-Ball!

Thinking about it, Fulmars being able to scout makes sense, given how the RN treated fighters.

That beatdown I got in India has actually given me some new drive and enthusiasm, now that I've put real thought into things.

When my carriers head to Pearl, I'm probably going to hit Tarawa good and hard. Maybe he'll think something's imminent. For that reason, I don't want to nail the Marshalls, as I don't want him to beef things up after such an event. Let him feed reinforcements to the Gilberts. An anonymous poster PM-ed me about possible invasion tactics for there and the Gilberts, which I'm taking to heart.