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ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

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Not really in the mood right now because we had to put our oldest cat down today. She was 15 and lived a good, long life, but that doesn't make it any easier.

I had two calico females that will be 17 next month. However, I lost one to kidney disease last June. It was downhill in less than week. [:(] I thought she was just getting old and cranky. Learned a lot about cats and kidney disease as result. Her sister has now become very clingy and vocal since then. She has always been a petite cat (max just over 8 lbs). Now, I'm fighting to keep her above 6 lbs. She gets the good stuff from PetSmart while 'dad' eats chicken and hamburger. Yes, she runs my household. [:D]

Don't they all? [:D] We lost one to kidney disease many years ago, in 1994. Puff, who we just lost, had cancer. That too, was very sudden, less than 2 weeks. It's amazing how much cats know about their own bodies. Things I doubt we'll ever figure out. We found her when she was 2-3 weeks old. My daughter (10 yrs old at the time) fed her with an eye dropper. She was Puff's mom. It was interesting to see how Puff reacted to Gina, very differently than anyone else.

I also lost my old (almost 17) cat to kidney failure last month. We knew it was coming, but the final decline was very rapid - he had noticeably lower energy for a day or two a week after a vet checkup on his kidney function that recommended moving on to the next stage of management (fluid injections), and then on Saturday he wasn't able to keep food down and by late Sunday evening he wasn't able to walk 2 feet. He was basically gone on Monday morning.

Back to game-relevant posts, fuel being shipped overland (i.e., from Magwe) does not suffer "wastage" anymore.

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Back to game-relevant posts, fuel being shipped overland (i.e., from Magwe) does not suffer "wastage" anymore.

What?! When did that happen?!

Does that also apply to supply?

Status of the Chungking assault force:

Fatigue: 84.5 up 20.3
Disruption: 47.5 up 25.9
Disablements: 22.7 up 8.5

I'm going to let them rest 3-4 days then try again. I'll keep tabs on the Chinese AV to see how that recovers. That will most likely influence my decision on when to attack again.

Of course, I'll keep up the bombing and bombardment.

I have some fresh infantry brigades headed to Chungking, but they're still probably a week or more out.

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
I'm going to let them rest 3-4 days then try again. I'll keep tabs on the Chinese AV to see how that recovers. That will most likely influence my decision on when to attack again.

Don't fret too much about the ordeal being prolonged. You will get some more VPs from constantly respawning Chinese units. And you will get some more xp for your divisions. Sieges against hapless Chinese are by far the best xp trainers in the game - enemies lack firepower to kill your guys, but there is still a large scale combat going on which will skyrocket your xp.

I wonder where this horde of battle hardened veterans will head to next.
Are orders being placed for tropical, arctic or temperate climate uniforms to re-equip them?
Or has there been a surge in shovel and pick production that hints at future orders to start digging trenches in Manchukuo?

ORIGINAL: GetAssista

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
I'm going to let them rest 3-4 days then try again. I'll keep tabs on the Chinese AV to see how that recovers. That will most likely influence my decision on when to attack again.

Don't fret too much about the ordeal being prolonged. You will get some more VPs from constantly respawning Chinese units. And you will get some more xp for your divisions. Sieges against hapless Chinese are by far the best xp trainers in the game - enemies lack firepower to kill your guys, but there is still a large scale combat going on which will skyrocket your xp.

You're right. The main reason I want to end this campaign is to save supply, but my supply is increasing by an average of 4500 a day, so I guess I'm doing ok. Chungking is doomed, but may still be around a bit longer.

ORIGINAL: jdsrae

I wonder where this horde of battle hardened veterans will head to next.
Are orders being placed for tropical, arctic or temperate climate uniforms to re-equip them?
Or has there been a surge in shovel and pick production that hints at future orders to start digging trenches in Manchukuo?

Well, there's 26 divisions in the army and I've bought out 5 of them so far, with enough PPs to buy another here in the next week, probably after the next attack. The remaining divisions will stay in China, per our house rules preventing them from crossing national borders unless bought out. 2/3 of them have experience of 95-98. It's a really good army. I hope to buy another 9-10 next year. The remaining divisions will form the core of border defenses - Burma, Manchukuo, Russia and the coastline.

Most of my bases in Manchukuo are already at level 6 forts. I've been working on them since the start.

The 4 islands in the Marianas will each get a division. (The current goal is 2 divisions and a brigade per island.) Not sure where the other divisions will go at this point, but I hope to have some of the "cheap" divisions that are air mobile (numbered in the 60s) for reserves scattered around the Pacific, to reinforce where I can.

There still are 4 other locations with Chinese troops in them, all surrounded. The largest is in a base with no supply, 23 units of some 90k or so troops. The base is clear so I'm going to bomb them into oblivion later. Next is an army of 12 units in the woods. I may send some divisions there for more experience. Finally, there are 2 single units in the woods. All these troops are to the SE of Chungking. I'm not going to mess with them until Chungking capitulates, so they don't come back when they die.

Here's the status of the Chinese Army:

Here's the experience levels of the Japanese army assaulting Chungking:

1 at 99 exp
6 at 98
4 at 97
1 at 96
1 at 95
5 at 94
2 at 93
1 each at 91, 89, 87, 83, 75 and 64

Not bad.

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I tend to stay out of most J AARs but your attention to detail is a powerful lure.....

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

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I tend to stay out of most J AARs but your attention to detail is a powerful lure.....

[:D] Thanks for the nice complement. I'm actually a logistician (for the military, no less) in the real world. I do this stuff all day, and love it!

But I am retiring in 22 months. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli
There still are 4 other locations with Chinese troops in them, all surrounded. The largest is in a base with no supply, 23 units of some 90k or so troops. The base is clear so I'm going to bomb them into oblivion later. Next is an army of 12 units in the woods. I may send some divisions there for more experience. Finally, there are 2 single units in the woods. All these troops are to the SE of Chungking.

By not having troops inside their hex you are allowing Chinese to bide their time in rest mode, and they are degrading slower this way. As Allies I would also march east with that 90k stack to have an advantage of 2x terrain, wonder why they did not. It would be beneficial even if they have up to forts 4 in the base.

ORIGINAL: GetAssista
By not having troops inside their hex you are allowing Chinese to bide their time in rest mode, and they are degrading slower this way. As Allies I would also march east with that 90k stack to have an advantage of 2x terrain, wonder why they did not. It would be beneficial even if they have up to forts 4 in the base.

Ted mentioned very early on how he hates China. I'm pretty sure he's just written it off. That's definitely a boon for me.

Right now I don't have any available troops to send into that hex. I was bombing it a while back, but stopped because I killed off a couple of units that most likely reappeared in Chungking. I suspect there are forts there, but I'm not concerned about it. They'll die sometime in 44.

24 Dec 43

Sub War

Nothing to report.

5 Fleet

Yamato/Musashi will bombard Dutch Harbor tomorrow and Nagato/Mutsu, the day after. I'm sending a Naval Guard to invade, along with an engineer company, to build forts. This should end my little escapade in the Aleutians. I'll pull out the important units, leaving garrisons with sufficient supply to plant vegetable gardens in the spring. [;)]

4 Fleet

Nothing going on here. KB has disappeared in the Pacific, to wait for an opportunity, should one arise. I'm forming a line of Glen subs as a trip wire along my entire frontier. It'll be just another attempt to catch something coming in time to react before the invasion/attack.

SE Fleet

186 Allied bombers hit Truk's port, causing a little damage to an already battered port. I'm glad they're not hitting anything important. Truk is just a bomber magnet for the Allies.

I stationed 26 Franks at Hollandia hoping to kill some enemy bombers. Unfortunately, heavy bombers arrived first wearing down the fighters. In all, 3x B-24s and 3x A-20s were downed for the loss of a single Frank (no pilot losses). Unfortunately, about 20 Franks are still sitting on the field damaged. I suspect the bombers will hit the airfield tomorrow.

SRA

Nothing to report.

Burma

Two enemy fighters were shot down over Kalemyo for no loss.

China

Bombers and artillery hit Chungking killing 51 squads (36 infantry) and disabling another 180. I saw another HQ die. The final tally of enemy units in Chungking ended up being 100 even, so at least 6 new units arrived. [8|]

Japanese raw AV: 6847
Chinese raw AV: 2687

Japanese army stats:

Fatigue: 75.9 down 8.6
Disruption: 30.6 down 16.8
Disablements: 21.3 down 1.4

Other stuff

Reinforcement: II/66 Naval Guard rebuilt

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Back to game-relevant posts, fuel being shipped overland (i.e., from Magwe) does not suffer "wastage" anymore.

What?! When did that happen?!

Does that also apply to supply?

Correct.

Waaaay back in one of the betas. Before the latest official, even. If you are using a pretty current version, you don't have it.

This is also not the first time I have informed you of this [8D][:D].

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Back to game-relevant posts, fuel being shipped overland (i.e., from Magwe) does not suffer "wastage" anymore.

What?! When did that happen?!

Does that also apply to supply?

Correct.

Waaaay back in one of the betas. Before the latest official, even. If you are using a pretty current version, you don't have it.

This is also not the first time I have informed you of this [8D][:D].

All right, wise guy. [:D] I honestly have no recollection of that. I'll blame age. [;)] [:D]

It is good to know (again). [:'(]

but if you haul it all back it's counter productive as fuel surplus is compromised.

I ran out of fuel long before I ran out of resources.

As I said my fuel situ seems fine to me, and both oil and fuel stocks are rising. As of Apr '43 I have 4.8M fuel and 1.6M oil if those numbers sound insufficient at this point I'd consider changing things, but they look OK to me.

Not only that but over the next month just about all my CV's are heading to the yards for updates. No burning fuel that way.

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0) - The odds ended up being 1.96:1!

Almost.... there.... Almooossst... thereerere....[:'(]

Not really in the mood right now because we had to put our oldest cat down today.

Sorry to hear. Always difficult, no matter what.[:(]