Kane and Unable ;] - Game over 1945.

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Looking forward to the activation of the Russian hordes.

I have been getting a handle on the organization and content of the Russians. After reinforcements arrive in June 1945 they have an infantry plus armor strength that exceeds 38,800 AV. Now that is enough for some shock and awe!!!

[PaxMondo]

Oh yes, the SOV activation contains a lot of "Shock and Awe" ....

[Mike McCreery]

January 1945

Slow going east of Haiphong/Hanoi. Had to sit quiet for a few weeks but almost all ship upgrades are current including CVE's.

Today's night raids going into tokyo yield quite a few fighters as a bonus. I cant bomb below 10,000 feet but it will be better in the longrun.

Have hit a few major bases in the home islands. Best I can score is 10k-20k fires. Yield is good on big bases though.

[Mike McCreery]

Here is the condition of the major bases on the home islands. Just hit Tokyo yesterday so fires have a few days to go yet. Hopefully will take out some more HI/LI.

Weather has been crappy at Shikuka limiting bombing runs. Hoping that March brings much better weather for a while.

[PaxMondo]

Where are you bombing from?

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Where are you bombing from?

Sakhalin I think.

You should get some good recon on his advanced night fighters and target them. Make everything easier going forward...Don't let him get Randy and nail any Frances S, Myrt facilities.

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Where are you bombing from?

Shikuka

[Mike McCreery]

I have not been posting much as to not give away my plans. Probably a month and a half in real time and 3 months in game time I have been planning the assault on Hong Kong. To make this more complicated only 1 of my marine divisions were complete and they were scattered from India to Alaska.

I carefully re-assembled all divisions and with MrKane looking where I wanted him to and not where I didnt I sailed up the east coast of Burma directly to Hong Kong. I lit up Formosa with search aircraft and also started operations on Manila to make him suspect an invasion in these locations.

To be honest, I really needed the good shipyard and it seemed a better fight here rather than Singapore.

Here is the situation after the first day of unload. It appears I caught MrKane completely off guard.

[Mike McCreery]

The first attack was successful and because MrKane was not surrounded he retreated out of Hong Kong. How fortuitous.

[Mike McCreery]

Score Feb 1 1945

[Bif1961]

Cudos, now the exploitation as you have him pinned against the river. You are behind in points especially units and startegic capture some major airfields and bring in your B-29s to get strat numbers and chase him to and into Korea.

[Mike McCreery]

Feb 8 1945

HK sat stunned for a few turns but then repairs took off. I also moved a ton of engineers from Haiphong to HK.

[Mike McCreery]

Feb 10

Most of the AV stuck at the roadblock east of Hanoi/Haiphong have been moved to Hong Kong due to the 10 divisions worth of transport suddenly available.

I am also leaving garrison forces at Saigon and CRB and moving all the available AV toward Haiphong.

The intent is to try to encircle his armies.

[Mike McCreery]

Feb 14

Hong Kong went up 19% toward level 9 airfield today. It is on track to hit in 4 days or so.

I am bombarding Formosa and the main 3 airports there are damaged. MrKane managed to get some kamakazi's through the other day and damage 3 CVE's.

There are 2 brigades at Swatow and a brigade at Chachow. I will disable these by air and airdrop troops to take the bases.

Either the first troop in the stack or the whole stack of troops at Canton appear to be moving west. He could save a lot of troops if he gets them out of Canton before I encircle it. I have 4000AV beating on approximatly 800AV in the heavy urban hex. In 2 attacks I have dropped the forts from above lvl 5 to lvl 4 now.

MrKane completely abandoned LangSon and even did not counter attack when one of my divisions smashed itself there. He abandoned Bangkok completely as well so he shows no fear of giving up position to save troops. My guess is that it is not the whole stack but my plans remain the same, to encircle and either capture Canton or tie it off with a few divisions and move on.

To be honest I am more interested in Khansein(sp?) due to it's ability to unhinge the whole Changsha pocket.

[Mike McCreery]

Here is an up close of the battle front in China.

The stack that just moved out of Lang Son is a good bit of the barricade at Haiphong/Hanoi.

I am guessing he will set up a line at Nanning/Kwielin/Kukong. It is strong and can easily be defended. The linch pin in the line is the hex southwest of Changsha that is in the open though. If Allied troops can control this hex they have cut the southern rail lines.

Canton is heavy urban and lvl 4 fortifications but he doesnt really have much meat there. It shows 59K troops but in reality he has 40K troops with the main defense force being the 1st Tank Division and the 52nd Division. I blew about 5% off of the force in each attack I tried and the 1st Tank was down below 200AV at the end of the combat phase last turn.

MrKane has the opportunity to save those troops by moving them west and then northwest. He can assist their escape with the blocking troops. He would lose great defensive terrain but could save 24 units including the 1st tank division. On the other side he gives me the road for strategic movement. However, most of my troops are already on the road or will be within 4 days so it really isnt giving up much.

My goal is Khansien which is less than a week road trip to Pingsiang where I can threaten Changsha and cut the rail lines.

Northwest of Amoy are the remains of a division and an HQ that were at Hong Kong. They have been attacked twice and are now mostly support troops.

[Mike McCreery]

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Cudos, now the exploitation as you have him pinned against the river. You are behind in points especially units and startegic capture some major airfields and bring in your B-29s to get strat numbers and chase him to and into Korea.

I agree strat bombing is where it is at. I was bombing from Shikuka and getting a low burn over Tokyo for about a week. MrKane was losing aircraft like crazy and the bombers were holding up. Then he bombarded Shikuka and destroyed 70+ B29's. I have been rebuilding from that hit.

Soon I can be using B24's over the western section of the islands.

The few points I have managed to scrape up have hopefully been painful to him. Looks like I got 20-30% of industrial production in Tokyo halted.

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: Wargmr

To be honest I am more interested in Khansein(sp?) due to it's ability to unhinge the whole Changsha pocket.

Kanhsien

[PaxMondo]

ORIGINAL: Wargmr
The linch pin in the line is the hex southwest of Changsha that is in the open though. If Allied troops can control this hex they have cut the southern rail lines.

worse than open terrain, the river is on the wrong side to defend from the south ... difficult point to defend....

[Mike McCreery]

Buy that man a beer... or 50!!

[Lowpe]

She can usually shrug one torpedo hit off, but three will put her out of the war. Nicely done.

Only 3 destroyers present....interesting.