Evoken and Dutchy (A) vs Andy Mac (J) , Focus Pacific Mod

[BBfanboy]

Your SCTFs will only react if they are given Patrol orders and a react range. No react if they are set to "Remain on Station".

[Evoken]

Please read the post [:)]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Evoken

Please read the post [:)]

My apologies - you did mention patrol orders.
Perhaps leadership of the TFs was an issue? Aggression too low?

[Evoken]

I also mentioned that in the post but there were a lot of agressive leaders (a lot of70+ and some 80+) , i still dont get why they didnt react but hopefully this turn we can recover. I am going all in to Pearl Harbor gotta keep it supressed untill Lahaina reaches level 9

[Bif1961]

I assume you game did not include a HR about limiting the number of PT boats per port size. If there is no HR, all is fair in love and war.

[Evoken]

We have no rule at the moment, i have even suggested PT Boat rule at the start of the game and suggested after this turns engagement. We shall see soon

[Evoken]

March 15 1943
This turn was pure chaos both sides bombarded each others island
there were so many engagements if i post the whole log it would take the whole page




Also i am still hitting my own mines at Pearl Harbor while Japanese ships are not , what is minefield mapping anyway [8|]

[BBfanboy]

Base ownership must have something to do with enemy mine avoidance. Just my guess.

Fantastic ground losses - you are destroying about 3X as many of his aircraft. Some questions:

- are the Japanese airfields in the HI still all closed?
- were there no surface ship clashes as you were trying to achieve previously?
- do you know the whereabouts of the IJN carriers at this time?

[Evoken]

-I believe they should be open its been a few days since last bombardement
-I will attach the combatreport file to this reply , there were so many clashes it would take the whole page
-KB dumped all their airwings into Pearl Harbor and left , lost track of them

[BBfanboy]

That was a massive report! Looks like the last third of the naval encounters featured no ammo on either side so they just gave each other the finger and went on their way. Considering the number of encounters the results were pretty inconclusive - a couple of CAs and CLs and lots of DDs lost on the Japanese side and maybe a little less on the Allied side. Good time to attack PH port next turn!

Too bad you had heavy rain interfere with your strikes on PH AF but then again, it may have reduced your losses from his heavy CAP.

Keep slugging! The peanut gallery loves it!

[Evoken]

March 16 1943
IJN is in full retreat , while retreating IJN ships took ; CA Azuma 3 Torps , CA Yakumo 2 Torps , CA Aoba 1 Torp , CL Hirado 3 Torps from submarines.
Aircraft from Deathstar and Lahaina attacked Pearl Harbor airfields today
Air losses;

Ship Losses;

Damaged suffered in Hawaii operation;


Situation around Hawaii;


Combat report attached

[Evoken]

March 25 1943
Its been quiet lately , allied army reached to outskirts of Burma and got blocked by IJA in x3 terrain
I might have achieved highest casualty record in a delibarate attack today.

Japanese airforce have been hitting allied army in the jungle for a while now but it isnt doing much due to jungle. Today before the main attack allied airforce responded to Japanese , hundreds of bombers hit the Japanese troops in the jungle hoping to drive their disruption up but sadly didnt work well.
Even though only 2 units at high disruption whole attack got disruption (-) in this attack and it cost us heavy , lowest morale was 92




Ground combat at 55,48 (near Ramree Island)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 497309 troops, 4616 guns, 4005 vehicles, Assault Value = 19525

Defending force 240772 troops, 2820 guns, 1377 vehicles, Assault Value = 7802

Allied adjusted assault: 3684

Japanese adjusted defense: 28309

Allied assault odds: 1 to 7

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

Japanese ground losses:
12994 casualties reported
Squads: 28 destroyed, 1098 disabled
Non Combat: 66 destroyed, 392 disabled
Engineers: 54 destroyed, 51 disabled
Guns lost 242 (75 destroyed, 167 disabled)
Vehicles lost 316 (129 destroyed, 187 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
45386 casualties reported
Squads: 972 destroyed, 3978 disabled
Non Combat: 39 destroyed, 979 disabled
Engineers: 80 destroyed, 377 disabled
Guns lost 519 (177 destroyed, 342 disabled)
Vehicles lost 476 (63 destroyed, 413 disabled)

Assaulting units:
44th British Division
18th British Division
31st Chinese Corps
9th Australian Division
17th Indian Division
46th Chinese Corps
95th Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
32nd Chinese Corps
Mobiele Eenheid 3 Battalion
52nd Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
32nd Army Tank Brigade
94th Chinese Corps
3rd Cavalry Regiment
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
2nd NZ Division
58th Chinese Corps
3/6 Ghurka Rifles Battalion
100th Chinese Corps
8th Route Army
68th Chinese Corps
5th Indian Division
7th SA Armoured Brigade
66th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
23rd British Brigade
35th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
16th British Brigade
50th Chinese Corps
45th Recce Regiment
87th Chinese Corps
14th British Brigade
11th Indian Division
70th British Division
53rd Chinese Corps
91st Chinese Corps
57th Chinese Corps
8th Indian Division
92nd Chinese Corps
36th Chinese Corps
51st Highland Division
2/9th Field Regiment
7th Artillery Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2/13th Field Regiment
Eastern Army
2/11th Field Regiment
1st Artillery Regiment
6th Medium Regiment
Malaya Army
20th Artillery Regiment
18th Artillery Regiment
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
3rd Heavy Mortar Regiment
77th Heavy AA Regiment
III Indian Corps
57th AT Gun Regiment
56th AT Gun Regiment

Defending units:
1st Mobile Engineer Regiment
29th Division
79th Infantry Brigade
4th Brigade
3rd Cavalry Division
37th Division
80th Infantry Brigade
32nd Division
31st Infantry Brigade
291st Division
36th Division
19th Division
250th Division
25th Division
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
14th Division
104th Division
17th Infantry Brigade
302nd Division
10th Division
5th Infantry Brigade
51st Division
26th Recon Regiment
3rd Army
7th RF Gun Battalion
9th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
12th Air Defense AA Battalion
12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
1st Mortar Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
28th Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Air Defense AA Regiment
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
3rd RF Gun Battalion
1st Army
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
12th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th RF Gun Battalion
22nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Air Defense AA Regiment
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
7th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
21st Ind.AA Gun Co
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
8th Mountain Gun Regiment
15th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Mortar Battalion
21st Air Defense AA Regiment
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
32nd Field AA Battalion
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
20th JAAF AF Bn

[DesertWolf101]

It looks like a lot of your AV was Chinese so the setback may not be as bad as it seems if the casualties were mostly concentrated in your Chinese units.

[Evoken]

British divisions got mauled sadly , Chinese are intact

[Evoken]

April 10 1943
I dont have a lot of time to post to AAR lately.

Pacific Front;
Johnston island is captured with 50 H8K3's on the island.

India Front;
2 R Class Battleships got torpedoed at Diamond Harbour , didnt put enough cap over them and Betties got through , they are crippled but alive

Last week i have started challenging air superiority in Burma , its been mostly draw in air losses but we are fighting over Japanese teritory and pilot losses are starting to hurt Commonwealth and French airforces. Japanese tried to retalliate this turn but bombers arrived before the sweeps and i have stacked so much AA at Chittagong bombers getting through the cap didnt even land a single hit.

We got a new house rule ; Maximum 5 squadrons on Sweep on a single hex

3 New Tank divisions and 2 tank brigades arrived to roadblock near Prome i am thinking of another deliberate attack

Air losses for turn;


Intell Screen;


Most elite allied squadron;

[Evoken]

April 20 1943
We have played 10 turns in a day , pretty impressive [:D]

Hawaii;
Old battleships finally joined the daily Pearl Harbor bombardements , with moonlight at %100 Bombardements are doing around 2000 casualties per day , D-Day is soon.

Burma;
I had 3 approaches to Burma;
20K AV from the Coastal Route , 12k AV from Imphal into Scwebo area , 8k AV from Ledo into Moulmein area. This turn Chinese army supported by commonwealth troops captured Scwebo , soon 8k AV from Moulmein will join them for river crossing into Mandalay

Ground combat at Shwebo (59,45)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 317931 troops, 2277 guns, 1354 vehicles, Assault Value = 12394

Defending force 36929 troops, 306 guns, 79 vehicles, Assault Value = 1190

Allied adjusted assault: 13629

Japanese adjusted defense: 537

Allied assault odds: 25 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Shwebo !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
12285 casualties reported
Squads: 408 destroyed, 337 disabled
Non Combat: 443 destroyed, 133 disabled
Engineers: 163 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 141 (95 destroyed, 46 disabled)
Vehicles lost 32 (31 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 5
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
13435 casualties reported
Squads: 88 destroyed, 1210 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 74 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 56 disabled
Guns lost 79 (8 destroyed, 71 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
24th Chinese Corps
55th Chinese Corps
20th Indian Division
13th Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
1e Colonial Infantr Division
56th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
25th Chinese Corps
8th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
7th Australian Division
21st Chinese Corps
16th Chinese Corps
28th Chinese Corps
26th Chinese Corps
14th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
62nd Prov Chinese Corps
18th Chinese Corps
III Gemotoriseerde Brigade
3e Colonial Infantr Division
163rd Light AA Regiment
21st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
21st Light AA Regiment
41st AA Regiment

Defending units:
9th Ind. Engineer Regiment
110th Division
17th Ind.Mixed Brigade
300th Division
4th Mortar Battalion
45th Road Const Co

[Evoken]

April 21 1943
As Chinese army is moving to cross river into Mandalay i was hoping to weaken defenders at Mandalay from air , sadly bombers arrived before the sweeps and it was very bloody. I had a very reliable method so far with fighters sweeping 5k above bombers and most of the time they arrive before the bombers but not this time sadly [:(]

Air losses;


I got about 20k AV in India as reserve , 10k AV at Australia and about 3k AV at Alaska front. Now the question is what do i do with this excess AV at India ? Pearl Harbor invasion should happen in about a month and that will free up a massive amphibious invasion force , i could use some input on selecting next invasion target.
here is the strategic map


Also combat report attached if anyone wants to see the slaughter in detail

[DesertWolf101]

Do you have CV superiority? If you do I would recommend a push in the Central Pacific to get bases within B-29 bomber range of the Home Islands.

[Evoken]

ORIGINAL: DesertWolf101

Do you have CV superiority? If you do I would recommend a push in the Central Pacific to get bases within B-29 bomber range of the Home Islands.

At the moment we got Carrier parity at best , IJN might have more plane capacity if Andy Mac sped up carriers from start. So before the operation i need to figure out where KB is , otherwise it can lead to a disaster

[Bif1961]

What about Port Blair? It is the cork in the Malacca strait bottle. It will make his supply route to Rangoon under risk of air and sea attack if you take and hold Port Blair. It will also threaten a further landing at Sabang or along the lower coast of southern Burma or norther Malaya. The threat to southern Burma would be a risk to cutting his forces off above Pegu and his retreat out of Burma could be a very long slow and costly trug through the jungle to Thailand. I suggest this as it seems you have a lot of excess troops in India as your post suggests so then you would need to win local air superiority over Port Blair but already have the troops on hand. As you accurately state knowing where the KB is would be the clue where your operation should occur away from it.