Still no plans to take advantage of his seeming inexpirience so far?
No, I don´t want to take advantage of his experience. It´s the other way around, I´m thinking of slowing my advance down a bit. This doesn´t mean that I will halt my advance when the historical goals are achieved though. Seizing the historical targets is most times too boring in a PBEM, especially if the Allied do a complete Sir Robin - which seems to be the case here.
But for sure, I will try not to exploit his inexperience too much, if this is possible. Of course I can´t stop him from sending Force Z into it´s death a week after the war has started when they are cruising around in the Malacca straight. The next couple of crs include some nice moves of bigbaba, so hopefully the "overall strategy" will soon become an advanced beginners strategy! [;)]
Honestly, I didn´t even know that he was a PBEM beginner. All I´ve realized in his opponent wanted thread was that he joined the forum 2006 (good), played UV PBEM (good) and he looked for an experienced IJN opponent (good). So I´ve thought that he would have played a couple of games already.
Castor doesn't need plans to take advantage of inexperiance, Inexperiance alone means one commits mistakes that are costly. In many of my games I blunder thru many mistakes, not respecting bettys and nells, Not knowing how strong the KB was, etc.
What the inexperiance doesn't give you, is truly how vulnerable the Japanese position can be, it is a lot of show and power at the point of attack, but if you let it accelerate and tuck tail it will be able to consolidate. If you interfere, and you can it has to slow and protect. Because its like an eggshell easily cracked and broken.
Once again the great thing about two new opponents playing, as in my game vs Scott, its mainly not knowing what the opponent's tendancies are. Castor can already count on his opponent making inexperianced mistakes, what he doesn't know is how he will react?
Tuck tail and run (An effective strategy for allied command, can always comeback in 43 but slow and boring game). Or start jabbing back and enjoy the ride, once again the allies always will gain overwhelming arms and in my opinion will win the vast majority of the time. The question becomes how fun was the ride.
Castor, I like your opening move, Hitting Manila I believe is key, but I never thought about hitting pearl airfields to get around the one port strike. Very well done.
I disagree with your rush to take Hong Kong, as allied I will rush to Canton to prevent what you have done, but there is no need to rush. The slow pounding will eventually disable the british and you can capture most of the industry intact. Your overwhelming force is good for speed, but you pay in supply points to rebuild. Once again both ways work its a style choice.
Enjoy the ride.
The reason KB was hitting Pearls airfields is the fact that I don´t need KB anywhere else, so destroying those 200+ ac there is just a bonus. And of course it means that on day two you have the chance to see KB being in range of one, two, three... BBs that are running from Hawai. This wasn´t the case but I´ve killed another two dozen ships in Pearl, including a couple of SS [:D], DM, AR and other ships of all kind of types. In the SRA there is no need for KB as there are no Allied targets left. [;)] So the main focus for KB will be the Pacific, mopping up some attols or stumbling across a couple of cargo TFs. I don´t expect to meet the enemy carrier force or seeing my opponent intervening with my offensive there as he knows that KB is near and this would be near suicide.
Hong Kong, yes you are right, as the Allied you should rush to Canton. Well, I know that and 1500 assault points were blocking the way TO Canton on the railroad in a wooden hex NW of Canton. So, not blocking the way to Canton would be a beginners fault. [;)] My experience with Allied troop concentrations (non Chinese) in bases with industry/rescources/oil is that even if I pound them to death, at the end I always seem to experience the dice roll that destroys 90-100% of what is there. Knowing this I normally don´t expect to get anything when there are Allied troop concentrations, for example in Malaya, when they do a fighting retreat. I´ve had Kuala Lumpur (big resource center with 600 rescources) completely destroyed a lot of times already, no matter what I´ve tried so getting it with 502(600) like this time is a bonus for me. And I took the UNOCCUPIED base - still nearly 20% was destroyed. Taking Canton without losses and fast makes it now possible for my troops to rest in Canton, being combat ready asap, as you know, nearly all of the units in China start understrenght or with disabled squads.
And I won´t spend any supplies rebuilding destroyed industry/resource/oil centers anyway. If something bad happens, like the destruction of a major oil or resource center, then normally I adjust my plans and try to seize another (non historical) target that provides me with the oil/resource that was destroyed at the historical target.
Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 16000 feet
amazing hit rate from that height...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 6
Brewster 339D x 8
Martin 139 x 15
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Yamagiku Maru
AK Mansei Maru
AK Hokuzan Maru
AK Chuko Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
MSW W.9, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
those Martins are getting dangerous. With such a high number of bombs, they can pretty fast get ship killers when the pilot´s exp goes up. Even though they are only dropping 250lb bombs, such a bomb is enough to sink a MSW...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 2
Brewster 339D x 7
Martin 139 x 15
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Atlas Maru
AK Hoeisan Maru
MSW W.10, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yamagiku Maru
MSW W.9, on fire, heavy damage
AK Hokuzan Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
I forgot about a CA escort TF so the attackers are targetting my invasion TF. I´m getting overconfident it seems...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 10
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Yamagiku Maru
AK Hoeisan Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
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Ground combat at Kuala Lumpur
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5024 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1152
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 50 - adjusted assault: 27
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 27 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Kuala Lumpur base !!!
taking the empty Kuala Lumpur, the Allied troops are on full retreat...
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Ground combat at Jambi
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 674 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 23
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
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Day Air attack on TF, near Samarinda at 31,63
Allied aircraft
Vildebeest IV x 9 [X(]
Allied aircraft losses
Vildebeest IV: 9 damaged
Japanese Ships
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano, Torpedo hits 1
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Vildebeest IV launching torpedoes at 200 feet
I´m really getting too careless. Is this because my subconscious knows that my opponent is inexperienced? [8|] Luckily, this torp hit is only FOW. Landing at Singkawang when your opponent can base low range torp bombers just one hex to the West is something really stupid...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 3
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
CA Takao
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 9
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 4 damaged
Japanese Ships
CA Atago
BB Mutsu
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
there are bomb magnets at Singkawang now...
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Day Air attack on TF at 24,56
Allied aircraft
Blenheim I x 6
Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim I: 3 damaged
Japanese Ships
CA Chokai
CA Mikuma
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Blenheim I bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Hokuzan Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 3
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 1 destroyed
Japanese Ships
AK Kosei Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 5
Brewster 339D x 7
Martin 139 x 8
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 4 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Nagato
CA Takao
DD Inazuma
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 9
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 3 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Nagato
BB Mutsu
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 24,56
Allied aircraft
Blenheim I x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Blenheim I bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 33,64
Allied aircraft
Vildebeest IV x 2
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Suwa Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Vildebeest IV launching torpedoes at 200 feet
we were lucky that we damaged all 9 attacking torp bombers in the morning phase...
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Ground combat at Singkawang
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2620 troops, 0 guns, 176 vehicles, Assault Value = 105
Defending force 849 troops, 6 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese max assault: 94 - adjusted assault: 89
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 5
Japanese assault odds: 17 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Singkawang base !!!
Japanese ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1
Allied ground losses:
39 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
I´m an experienced player but once again I make a mistake. On the stock map, there is a road from Singkawang to Pontianak just one hex South, but this is in fact only a trail! [8|] So I shouldn´t have landed both TK rgts here but one here and the other one in the next base...
Seems the number of mistakes I´m doing increases steadily. Haven´t done recon and my sub didn´t spot anything here (perhaps the PTs just moved in, could be also). I send in another bombardment TF and am SUPER LUCKY! The surface combat begins and THE ALLIED TF SUPRISES THE JAPANESE TF!!! [X(] Three PTs launch torps at DDs and all miss! Phewww... then the engagement is over...
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Naval bombardment of Balikpapan, at 31,64
Japanese Ships
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya
Allied ground losses:
114 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 11
Balikpapan´s airfield was totally missed it seems as we didn´t destroy any of the bombers there...
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Naval bombardment of Pontianak, at 25,58
after bigbaba saw my BBs being moved to Singkawang he also moved torp bombers to Pontianak. Well, at least this was predictable and so I´ve sent my battlewaggons to visit the base and torch the bombers on the ground. Recon helped a lot and there shouldn´t be any attacks today coming from this base.
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Naval bombardment of Batavia, at 19,59
Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 16000 feet
am thinking about reducing Singapores CD defense with port strikes and then later on move in two BB TFs to bombard the base as this would surely kill most of the support troops, which would make bombing a lot saver... I´ve got somewhat respect of Singapores CD defense though...
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Day Air attack on Clark Field , at 43,51
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12
Ki-21 Sally x 193
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 11 damaged
Allied ground losses:
184 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Vehicles lost 2
Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 16000 feet
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Day Air attack on Jolo , at 38,59
Japanese aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft
P-35A x 15
P-40B Tomahawk x 18
P-40E Warhawk x 35
Aircraft Attacking:
15 x P-40B Tomahawk attacking at 100 feet
bigbaba keeps ordering strafing attacks... amazing to me...
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Day Air attack on TF at 34,61
Allied aircraft
T.IVa x 4
Allied aircraft losses
T.IVa: 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
PG Eifuku Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x T.IVa bombing at 5000 feet
more torp bombers were moved to Balikpapan. Have 80 fighters on Cap over my cruisers so the bombers attacked an incoming cargo TF...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 5
Brewster 339D x 3
Martin 139 x 5
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
AK Kotoku Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire
AK Hokuzan Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
damn it! I´ve moved in fighters for Cap yesterday but they can´t launch because the airfield is 71% damaged. Thougth it would still be possible to fly Cap...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Singkawang at 25,57
Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 5
Brewster 339D x 3
Martin 139 x 2
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
MSW W.18, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
another MSW is finished by one 250lb bomb...
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ASW attack at 34,61
Sounds like the story of my friend in Nam: At a fire base in the Central Highlands things were peaceful and only outgoing until one night they got a rocket & mortar bombardment raining down on the base. Everyone spilled out of the hooch running for cover and he dove under the steps to the hooch, which collapsed on him under the weight of the stampede. He got a Purple Heart for the splinters in his posterior region. [:D] If the bombardment had been accompanied by an assault he said that the base would've been overrun in nothing flat due to the panic & lack of organization.
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TF 18 troops unloading over beach at Talasea, 59,88
Japanese ground losses:
27 casualties reported
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Coastal Guns at Midway, 95,61, firing at TF 130
TF 130 troops unloading over beach at Midway, 95,61
1055 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. [X(]
Japanese Ships
AP Kuraido Maru, Shell hits 14, on fire, heavy damage
CL Tenryu, Shell hits 4
PG Saiko Maru, Shell hits 12
CL Yubari, Shell hits 4
AP Tafuku Maru, Shell hits 5, on fire
AP Yokohama Maru, Shell hits 2
Japanese ground losses:
921 casualties reported [X(]
Guns lost 7
Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
every game again, Midway is my nightmare... to top the fiasco, my CA bombardment TF didn´t do anything... and the cruisers in the invasion TF couldn´t surpress the CD either...
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Coastal Guns at Midway, 95,61, firing at TF 130
TF 130 troops unloading over beach at Midway, 95,61
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TF 1036 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)
Allied Ships
PG Warrego
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Day Air attack on TF, near Talasea at 59,88
Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 9
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Taiho Maru
AP Tarushima Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet
Hudsons from PM...
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Day Air attack on TF at 56,87
Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AK Yamamiya Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on Pontianak , at 25,58
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
G3M Nell x 35
G4M1 Betty x 23
Ki-15 Babs x 1
Allied aircraft
no flights
Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
Vildebeest IV: 1 destroyed
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G3M Nell bombing at 10000 feet
Bigbaba moved bombers to Pontianak, he didn´t realize that this is a level 1 airfield and he can´t fly attacks from there. Well, I realized it after I bombed the base... [:D]
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Day Air attack on Midway , at 95,61
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 133
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
Allied ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 11
Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 15000 feet
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Ground combat at Midway
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 3068 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 96
Defending force 3701 troops, 93 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 38
Japanese max assault: 142 - adjusted assault: 13 [8|]
Allied max defense: 24 - adjusted defense: 18
Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 3)
Japanese ground losses:
439 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Allied ground losses:
37 casualties reported
Guns lost 5
as expected after the heavy beating during the landing, my attack force can do nothing. Have to bring in reinforcements... like I´ve said, Midway is a nightmare of mine in every IJN game...
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Ground combat at Vigan
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 8185 troops, 118 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1567
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 19 - adjusted assault: 21
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 21 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Vigan base !!!
everywhere on the map we take empty bases... believe it or not, also in China the Allied are on full retreat mode. Homan and Ichang have been abandoned. Well, this is just an invitation for me to do an offensive sooner or later. You can´t hold all of China but at least you should do a fighting retreat IMO.
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Ground combat at Midway
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2716 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 38
Defending force 2330 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 44
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Ground combat at Kuantan
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 477 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 30
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
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Naval bombardment of Palembang, at 20,55
Japanese Ships
CL Jintsu
CL Naka
CA Atago
CA Takao
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato
Airbase hits 10
Runway hits 1
Port hits 8
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 2
[X(] realized AFTER the bombardment that bigbaba alos abandoned Palembang!
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Ground combat at 26,39
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 1544 troops, 0 guns, 102 vehicles, Assault Value = 58
Defending force 232 troops, 2 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese max assault: 114 - adjusted assault: 104
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 104 to 1
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
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Ground combat at Midway
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2707 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 38
Defending force 2494 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 54
Japanese ground losses:
17 casualties reported
we´re only 15 days into the war and it´s already totally quiet... nothing is happening, all Allied LCUs retreat where they can and not a single Allied ship (except a couple of SS) is spotted somewhere...
What seems to become obvious now though is that the Allied are making a stand in Malaya NORTH of Singapore...
Well, there's a full-strength USMC Defense Bn at Midway - Wake's is only half-strength. And that's a lot of machineguns... Did you only bring two SNLFs, or something like that ? That's quite different from your usual & successful overkill method.
Well, there's a full-strength USMC Defense Bn at Midway - Wake's is only half-strength. And that's a lot of machineguns... Did you only bring two SNLFs, or something like that ? That's quite different from your usual & successful overkill method.
I brought two SNLFs, but not those with around 20 assault points but together nearly 100. Should be enough for 16 defending assault points. Not when your invasion gets totally shot up though. [;)]
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Naval bombardment of Midway, at 95,61 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
47 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
CA Kako, Shell hits 7
CA Furutaka, Shell hits 10
CA Kinugasa, Shell hits 5
Allied ground losses:
92 casualties reported
Guns lost 5
Not much damage done to the defenders of Midway... will land another combat unit in a couple of days...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Jambi at 20,53
Allied aircraft
CW-21B Demon x 7
Brewster 339D x 3
Blenheim I x 8
Martin 139 x 9
Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Japanese Ships
AP Chihaya Maru
AP Kiyozumi Maru
AP Maya Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AP Kasima Maru
MSW W.1
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
the enemy spots a big troop transport TF at Jambi, it´s the TF that brought a bgd to take Palembang but as this base is abandoned, the bgd will be shipped out again. The medium sized AP could make port...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Jambi at 20,53
Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Maya Maru, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Talasea at 59,88
Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 9
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Taiho Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
AP Tarushima Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Japanese ground losses:
37 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Hudson I bombing at 5000 feet
will soon do something against those raids from PM...
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Day Air attack on TF, near Jambi at 20,53
Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Ayaha Maru
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
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TF 86 troops unloading over beach at Tarakan, 33,61
Japanese ground losses:
134 casualties reported
also Tarakan is empty...
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Ground combat at Lingayen
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5860 troops, 117 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1093
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 79 - adjusted assault: 37
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 37 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Lingayen base !!!
as is Lingayen...
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Ground combat at Balikpapan
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2467 troops, 18 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 72
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 16000 feet
the Allied fighters returned to Manila and Clark Field a couple of turns ago. We destroy nearly a dozen but in return we lose 7 Sallies today with 1 to flak and half a dozen to ops... [:(] The hit rate is more than poor, we achieved more than 100 runway hits from the same height a couple of turns ago...
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Day Air attack on TF at 21,53
Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 3
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
AP Maya Maru, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 5000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 23,55
Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 3
Blenheim I x 3
Martin 139 x 19
Allied Ships
PT TM-10
PT TM-11, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
PT TM-12
PT TM-13, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
PT TM-14
PT TM-15
I see those six PTs at Batavia as a threat, so I moved in a SC TF to tangle with them. With surprise on our side, two of them were sunk and then the engagment was already over...
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TF 18 troops unloading over beach at Kavieng, 61,86
Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported
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Day Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 57,94
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 23
G3M Nell x 25
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
PG Moa
AK Irenee Du Pont
PG Kiwi
AK Liberty Glo, Bomb hits 1
AK Sagadahoc
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G3M Nell bombing at 6000 feet
Wonder what this TF is doing here. Nells are stationed at Lae (airfield 3) and while Nells are ship killers when attacking with torps, they are pretty useless when attacking with bombs.
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Ground combat at Palembang
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 754 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 25
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 24 - adjusted assault: 13
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Palembang base !!!
we take the empty base and 30% of the oil is damaged... [8|][8|][8|] Pretty bad news, considering that this is the biggest oil field...
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Ground combat at Midway
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2611 troops, 76 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 35
Defending force 2599 troops, 21 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 57
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TF 46 encounters mine field at Batavia (19,59)
Japanese Ships
CL Kuma, Mine hits 1, on fire
DD Hatakaze, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
[8|] damn those mines, Hatakaze probably won´t make it...
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ASW attack at 96,63
Japanese Ships
DD Kasumi
DD Arare
DD Tanikaze
Allied Ships
SS Tambor, hits 3
Tambor gets 3 near misses South of Midway... a TF with only 2 spotted ships was spotted 6 hexes East of Midway speed 0. This speed 0 makes me curious. I guess this could be a TF of some half dozen ships going into position to do a bombardment run on Midway. Or a fast transport perhaps. Pretty much suicide with KB around Midway. We will see what happens tomorrow...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Batavia at 19,59
Japanese Ships
CL Kuma, on fire
DD Asakaze
DD Harukaze
DD Matsukaze
DD Hatakaze, on fire, heavy damage
Allied Ships
PT TM-10
PT TM-12
PT TM-14, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
PT TM-15, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
two more PTs are sunk and my bombardment TF goes in...
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Batavia at 19,59
Japanese Ships
CA Chokai
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
DD Shigure
DD Kawakaze
DD Ayanami
DD Asagiri
DD Yugiri
DD Amagiri
Allied Ships
PT TM-10, Shell hits 15, and is sunk
PT TM-12, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
...to kill the last two PTs remaining...
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Naval bombardment of Batavia, at 19,59
Allied ground losses:
812 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
Vehicles lost 3
Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 6
Port hits 8
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 2
a lot of casualties and a lot of port hits. Would like to target the airfield though as there are reported 40 bombers. Guess there will be two dozen then...
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Sub attack at 20,59
Japanese Ships
CL Kuma
Allied Ships
SS KXII
this would have caused trouble and Kuma would be seriously hurt. Two torps miss though...
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12
Ki-21 Sally x 156
Allied aircraft
P-40B Tomahawk x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 16
Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet
We torch a dozen fighters on the ground, the hit rate of my bombers is once again pathetic though. My fighters don´t achieve high kill rates as the defenders are so low on morale that the bogey out all the time... But with only 40 P-40B a month as replacement, every fighter lost hurts... no sense fighting here for the Allied but I like it!
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Ground combat at Homan
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 7679 troops, 103 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2079
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 152 - adjusted assault: 71
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 71 to 1 (fort level 4)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Homan base !!!
next empty base taken...
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Ground combat at Kavieng
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 402 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 14 - adjusted assault: 9
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Kavieng base !!!
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Ground combat at Rangoon
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 1780 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1480
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 8 - adjusted assault: 2
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Rangoon base !!!
also Rangoon is empty. I don´t spot a single enemy unit in Burma!
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Ground combat at Midway
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 2601 troops, 76 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 36
Defending force 2639 troops, 21 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 57
Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
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Ground combat at Naga
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 304 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 17
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Japanese max assault: 22 - adjusted assault: 13
Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Naga base !!!
empty Naga was taken by parachutes and a troop transport TF will start unloading tomorrow...
