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Attacking force 281785 troops, 3066 guns, 473 vehicles
Defending force 185121 troops, 143 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
15653 casualties reported
Guns lost 374
Vehicles lost 27
Allied ground losses:
4148 casualties reported
Guns lost 59
ORIGINAL: trollelite
Your opponent is no match for you, that's for sure. If he knew to retreat his AVG and PI warhawk sqds to singapore and set his bomber's level to 1000 feet you would have a much harder battle... Most of japanese navy fighters in saigon are useless claudes, and oscar is simply no match for P-40B. With their poor 7.7mm MG army fighters can only pose little threat to British bombers....The demise of POW and poor Repulse is unavoidable, for they traded for 2 BB would be sunk in PH, but the destruction of Dutch sub fleet was just unthinkable...
Why he choose to run his ships wildly to the India Ocean? Can't understand this. By the time you could attack Karachi (with the support of fleet tanker) there would be a dozen of Hurricane (perhaps even spitfire) sqds to defend karachi, not mention the avg and other P40 sqds withdrawn from Malaya (if you succeed to capture it) ! Even Nagumo's carrier force would have a very hard battle in assualting such an hornet nest, surely you must suffering at least half of your bombers, even with all your zero escorting, and there are British FAA and its nasty, nasty swordfishes....
In malaya the city just above singapore is the schwerpunkt of the theater, In PI the clark field, and in Burma Mandaley, unfortunately he missed them all. Perhaps for him it's not too late yet?
ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock
Attacking force 281785 troops, 3066 guns, 473 vehicles
Defending force 185121 troops, 143 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
15653 casualties reported
Guns lost 374
Vehicles lost 27
Allied ground losses:
4148 casualties reported
Guns lost 59
Hmmm. Are you sure those are hungry troops without ammo?
ORIGINAL: trollelite
Your opponent is no match for you, that's for sure. If he knew to retreat his AVG and PI warhawk sqds to singapore and set his bomber's level to 1000 feet you would have a much harder battle... Most of japanese navy fighters in saigon are useless claudes, and oscar is simply no match for P-40B. With their poor 7.7mm MG army fighters can only pose little threat to British bombers....The demise of POW and poor Repulse is unavoidable, for they traded for 2 BB would be sunk in PH, but the destruction of Dutch sub fleet was just unthinkable...
Why he choose to run his ships wildly to the India Ocean? Can't understand this. By the time you could attack Karachi (with the support of fleet tanker) there would be a dozen of Hurricane (perhaps even spitfire) sqds to defend karachi, not mention the avg and other P40 sqds withdrawn from Malaya (if you succeed to capture it) ! Even Nagumo's carrier force would have a very hard battle in assualting such an hornet nest, surely you must suffering at least half of your bombers, even with all your zero escorting, and there are British FAA and its nasty, nasty swordfishes....
In malaya the city just above singapore is the schwerpunkt of the theater, In PI the clark field, and in Burma Mandaley, unfortunately he missed them all. Perhaps for him it's not too late yet?
I will wait till your offensive and use similar strategy - ok ?ORIGINAL: Raverdave
Just goes to show you what can happen if you get too cocky.[;)]
ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock
Hmmm. Are you sure those are hungry troops without ammo?
Hiyo Junyo Shoho and Yamato finishedORIGINAL: Mike Solli
Geez. 14k naval shipyard points! I'd accelerate some ships.
ORIGINAL: Sneer
I will wait till your offensive and use similar strategy - ok ?ORIGINAL: Raverdave
Just goes to show you what can happen if you get too cocky.[;)]
ORIGINAL: trollelite
Actually If his carrier force is intact he can directly assualt Home Islands in latter 1943. With every fleet carrier with an extra marine corsair sqd on board you just can do nothing about it. I learned this in a hard way...[:(]
Remember allied Int adventage? Eventually he would know several weak points on your home islands. And after americans put 8-10 divisions on shore there is just nothing could dislodge them.
Actually If his carrier force is intact he can directly assualt Home Islands in latter 1943. With every fleet carrier with an extra marine corsair sqd on board you just can do nothing about it. I learned this in a hard way...
Remember allied Int adventage? Eventually he would know several weak points on your home islands. And after americans put 8-10 divisions on shore there is just nothing could dislodge them.
ORIGINAL: trollelite
OK, it's long long ago without the benefit of user-defined upgrade. We just use default options (except ship arrive date and Jap sub) so I striked PH. I was a green player then, my carriers lost too much time hunting US cv (without result) and then used up all fuel halfway to Tokyo...
Then, latter 1943, He concentrated 9 or 10 US fleet carriers with no less than 600 carrier fighters ( I think he get some SBD off) , British carriers (Perhaps do not withdraw them, I don't know for sure) with another 80-100 fighters (Hellcat than wildcat, I think) and 6+ CVE with another 200 or so fighters (all F6F or F4U). And without upgrade Ihave to use those crap Hayabusa to counter them, with disastrous results. I even cheated , load my CVE with J2M (Historilly they cannot operate on carriers) to intercept them, with no success.( I was a poor player, I seriously underesmitated his ability so my carrier attack was not coordinated with land based bombers) And my surface ships were no match ( number inferiority plus Redar). I did have some Hien and J2M, but too few. He directly assualted Sendai and the war practically over by then.
