This will End Badly Rook749 vs AirGriff

[rook749]

The "Good Stuff"....

As I am working out now if it should be Colon Blow or Cookie-Crisp. I've stated to inventory the lift for Cookie-Crisp. It seems I have 20 APs, 14 AKs, 3 AMCs and 10 APDs ready to life the forces for Cookie-Crisp. Troop space for about 30K troops and a tone of cargo space. All of which are in route to Pearl Harbor.

I have enough lift to do both operations if I risk Cookie-Crisp without the 1st USN BAT DIV, I would need to use Force Z for the bombardment and hot have it a a surface threat....

Decisions, Decisions......

[rook749]

06 September 42 - 11 September 42 Executive Summary

The CBI is still back and forth in northern Burma. The air operations to support C-3PO are going well, and we are working to move the needed lift to support the next phase of landings. Given what he had in place and where we are going to launch Operation Colon Blow and then Super Colon Blow as I simply don't have enough of the "Ok Stuff" life to do both at once. I want the keep the "Good Suff" far away this area and ready for Operation Cookie-Crisp.

As there is a with the US Tank Destroy production and we have deployed most of the to India we are shipping the one that arrived at Peal Harbor to San Fransisco so we can disband it and return the M10 Wolverines to the Pool as replacements. There was some sort of point on it, I think the issue is the M10 should have a start date of 42/06 and not 43/06.

He tries a landing at the Coco Islands and wipes out given the forces that were deployed there a couple of months back, more details in a separate post. Not much else going on other than moving troops and supply forward.

Raiding
Sub attack near Fukue-jima xAKL P-136, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage vs SS Growler
ASW attack near Yasawa Islands SS I-153, hits 5 vs APD Stewart
Sub attack near Anatom SS I-154 AMc Olive Cam, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage (later sinks)

I have been using the AMc with 1,2 & 4 ASW around New Caledonia to help escort damaged ships and to run missions over the location of submarines. We have taken some losses on them but this has prevented him from getting any shots on the convoys running in the area. I should have ten SC that will make port in the next two turns and then we can start hunting in earnest.

Allied Naval Forces
Fleet of Doom: At Pearl Harbor getting its minor dings sorted out. USN CAR DIV 1 (Wasp + Illustrious), USN CAR DIV 2 (Lexington), CAR DIV 3 (Saratoga), CAR DIV 4 (Yorktown), CAR DIV 5 (Hornet), CAR DIV 5 (Enterprise) and Force Z (Repulse, South Dakota, Washington & North Carolina).

The USN 1st Bat Div (Pennsylvania, Idaho, New Mexico, Mississippi, Warspite, Colorado, 2 CA & 7 DD): This force in at Noumea.

Force X (Revenge, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies, Valiant): This force is at Diamond Harbor to cover my sea flank.

Mini-Doom: Two separate taffys exist. CVE Force- Long Island + CVE Copahee (speed 16) in one. The second one contains the CVL Hermes (speed 25). Both of these are at Noumea.

KB and Mini-KB
Assumed to be repairing and upgrading at Rabaul/Truk. The AM63a Zero arrived this month so I assume this will be making its way onto his remaining carriers.

China
He has continued to bombard from the ground and air at Wenchow to work to burn off my supplies and damage the airfield, supplies stand at 2.5K (rising). We also have 32K troops in the max stacking of 40K, Forts 3(9)-70%. Two Chines Fighter ACU's showed up exchanged aircraft at rate of 2:1 in out favor and then ran away.

His army is also prepping for a 42/43 offensive once Wenchow falls. Moving units to hold the areas he is prepping to attack and protect against any Flanking maneuvers. Targets he is prepping for are: Sian, Wuchow, Changsha and Chenchow.

CBI
Will Post is a separate post below later when I have time. Its a game of back with armor in the open plans. I don't think he can throw me out of Mandalay for a while unless he brings in two fresh infantry divisions as long as my supplies hold out.

The SWPAC
At Kirakira we have "most of" the 2nd USMC Parachute BN, 2/7 Commando Bn and some of the 1st Marine Raider Bn with the rest of the LCUs slowly arriving via SST. This base will play my Cactus Air-force [:D], port damge is down to 59 from a high of 79.

At Ndeni the Port is level 2(1)-44%, Airfield 3(5)-49% and Fort 0. At the airfield we have one F4F-3P ACU, one F2A-2 Buffalo ACU, one F4F-3A Wildcat ACU and two P-30D ACUs. There are 12 PT Boats protecting the base.

At Vanikoro is a Port level 2(0)-57%, the Airfield 6(4)-50% and the Fort 3, 14 PT Boats, one ACM, 150 mines and one AGP. At the airfield there are two A-24 ACUs, three C-47 Skytrain ACUs, three RD-41 Skytrain ACUs and one SBC4-Helldiver. Additional Marine Fighter and Dive Bomber ACUs are ready to rotate in or base here as the airfield expands.

Luganville is safe with Port 5(3)-54%, Airfield 8(5) and Fort 3(9). There is one ACM, 12 PT Boats and 148 mines. The island has 284 Aviation Support and one Air HQ. four B-17E ACUs, one B-17F ACU, one P-39D ACU, one SB2U-3 Vindicator ACU, one P-38F ACU and one P-38E ACU.

Koumac is a Port 4(1), Airfield 8(7)-22% and Fort 2(9). I have one B-17D ACU, one B-24D ACU and one LB-30 ACU based here.

All of the bombers are now resting and waiting for the next operation. I suspect we will need to suppress the airfield at Tulagi for Operation Colon Blow.

Operation Mr. T
The retaking of the Ellice Islands is now complete.

Operation Cookie-Crisp
The landing at Tabiteuea and Tarawa. Forces will stage from Pearl Harbor will take these islands. AI am now looking at this operation in the next 30 days or possibly sooner - we will start with Tabiteuea and then move on Tarraw after I have time to regroup.

For Tabiteuea the 27th Infantry Division (100), the 181st FA Bn (100), 763rd Tank Bn (100), 145 FA Bn (100), 34th Cmbt Eng Rgt (82), 151st Cmbt Engr Bn (10), 3rd Marine Div (41), 3rd Pion Bn (35) and the I US Corps (29) are all prepping. All of these are at Pearl Harbor.

For Tarawa the 24th Infantry Division (100, 2/3 Restricted, requires 1290 PPs), 134th Combat Engr Bn (92) and the 198th FA Bn (100) - all at Pearl Harbor. At Christmas Island we have the 110th Cmbt Engr Bn (86), 223rd FA Bn (87), 40th Infantry Div (84) and the 762nd Tank Bn (77) all prepping.

Once we move on Tabiteuea, we will need all of the major naval forces - the key will be bombardment for the BBs to soften up the target right before we land.

Baker Island will have AKEs and 75 Fighters at as a fall back potion and a place to rest and repairs. Vaitupu is closed (11 hexes vs 13 for Baker) but Baker Island has 40 Aviation support that will grow into 72. The Island will be overstated wit 7k on a 6K island. The 147th(Sep) Inf Rgt, 804th Aviation Engr Bn and the 318th Base Group.

Operation C-3PO's, Horn Island

At this point we are just planing the land portion and as of the 8th of September we have unleashed the Dutch and Australian Bomber force on the Island. The goal here as always is to: 1) Exchange the poor early war airframes for some gain before them become useless 2) Burn his Supply 3) Stretch his air units 4) Close the Pilot Gap. So far the exchange rate from all types of losses are a little worse than 1:1 for me.

Horn Island: Recon shows Port 1(1), Airfield 3(3), two enemy units, Troops:18540, Guns:121, AFVs:34, Fighters:8 and airfield damage at 47.

Coen: Airfield2(6)-51% with 66 Aviation Support. There is one O-47A ACU and two Kittyhawk IA ACUs at the base. The Kittyhawk's are sweeping Horn Island. I have some additional aviation support in route. As I can support one Wirraway ACU it will also soon relocate here to add to the bombing. As additional support arrives and the airfield expands we may also add more Wirraway ACUs.

Cooktown: Port 1(2), Airfield 6(6)-56% with 236 Aviation Support. The 14th MAG is based here to provide an Air HQ. One Catlina I ACU, one B-25C Mitchell ACU, two Beaufighter Ic ACUs, four Hudson I ACUs are based out of the hex. All of the bombers are set to bomb the airfield at Horn Island and the fighters are set to escort.

Land Units: The following units are based in Townsville and are prepping for Horn Island. 2nd Australian Div (100), 5th Australian Div (100), 12th Field Rgt (100). I need to find one more ART and one ARM unit to add to this mix. I will also look at finding a US Infantry Div to add as well just in case he adds additional troops. This will bring me near the 40K stacking limit for the hex, recon only shows 10K of troops on the island.

Operation Colon Blow, Lunga

This operation was planned to occur simultaneously with Operation Super Colon Blow the landing at Tulagi but will not occur before Super Colon Blow due to the shortage of lift.

Lunga: Recon shows Port 0(1), Airfield 0(5), four enemy units, Troops:5840, Guns:57, AFVs:11.

Landing Forces Prepping: 1st Marine Raider BN (59) moving to Kirakira. 3rd Marine Raider BN (65) at Vanikoro. 1st USMC Parachute BN (25) at Suva. 3rd USMC Parachute BN (25) at Ndeni. 41st Infantry Div (25), Q Alexandra's (Mtd) Rgt (25), 21/22 Field Rgt (25), Rabaul Base Force (25) at La Foa.

Operation Super Colon Blow, Objective Tulagi

This operation will occur after Colon Blow.

Landing Forces Prepping: I Australian Corps (100), 2nd Marine Div (100), 2nd USMC Tank Bn (100), 2nd USMC FA BN (100), 1st USMC AA BN (100), 2nd AmphTrac Engr Bn (100), 2nd Pion BN (100), 15th Base Group(100) and then 102 Cmbt Engr Rgt (100) at Luganville. 1st Marine Div (64), 1st USMC Tank Bn (69) and the 1st Pion Bn (68), are at Ndeni. 1st AmphTrac Engr Bn (78), 22nd Marine Rgt (100) and the 1st USMC FA Bn (37) are in route to Ndeni. The 1st Australian Div (100) is at Townsville.

Japanese Amphibious Landings:
Amphibious Assault at Christmas Island IO (45,104)
Amphibious Assault at Cocos Islands (33,101)

Japan Conquerors the Following Bases:
Bandjermasin
Madjene
Tanahdjampea
Christmas Island IO
Kalao

Allies Amphibious Landings:
None.

Allies Conquerors the Following Bases:
None.

[rook749]

Japanese Bounce off of Cocos Island.....

Allied High Command is please to report the complete destruction of a Japanese landing force -- as the "Kanno" landing force is no more. AirGriff sent a very nice not about my "bushwhacking" of the landing force seems he did not get any signal intelligence on the forces here and was not expecting anything in Bde size force (much less level 4 forts).

I am debating on pulling out the Infantry Bde as I suspect he will be reaching for a big hammer to remove the potential airfield/port. However, he will need to move his BBs and find a division that is prepped so it may be worth the loss of the Infantry Bde and pull his naval forces away from my line of advance.

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Ground combat at Cocos Islands (33,101)
Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 872 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22
Defending force 5808 troops, 32 guns, 66 vehicles, Assault Value = 148

Japanese adjusted assault: 0
Allied adjusted defense: 136

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 4)

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

Japanese ground losses:
769 casualties reported
Squads: 49 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (7 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Assaulting units:
Kanno

Defending units:
84th Indian Brigade
3rd Hyderabad Base Force
223 Group Base Force

[rook749]

CBI, Well at Least it is still September....

His main force lead by the Imperial Guard Division is advancing towards Mandalay, while we have forced back his other Advance with Team Yankee....

We will Swing Team Yankee to hold Magwe and see if I an prevent any of his small forces from Flanking me. The Bomber forces took a their first real of losses last turn (will post on this later).

I hope to hold him off for another 32 days and then a food chunk of the armored units go poof. After that we will see how long I hold out, it will really depend on how much of his air force and additional land units he brings to the party.

Mandalay: There are 34K of supplies, Forts 4(9)-34%, two Burma Infantry Bn and two base forces. All units in the area will fall back here for the final stand when required. If supplies drop below 20K, we will start air lifting them in.

Magwe: 7th Armoured Bde, 112th RAF Adv Base Force, 1st Burma Bn, 2/1st Med Rgt, 3rd Burma Bn, 42nd Cavalry Rgt, 44th Cavalry Reg, 75th IAC Rgt , BFF Bde and the Railway BAF Bn will move to Mandalay to rest and regroup. The 42nd Cavalry Rgt will move as noted on the map.

Meiktila 43rd Cavalry Rgt & 4th Burma Bn.

Tang Gyi: 13th Burma Rifles Bn.

Shwebo: 5th Burma Bn.

Team Yankee: Y1: 20th Indian Mtn Gun Rgt & 44th Indian Bde are falling back to Meiktila.

Team Alpha: A1:103rd RN Base Force & 221 Group RAF are moving to Akyab. The Burma Corps is moving to Magwe. ;;; A2: 107th RAF Base Force , 108th RAF Base Force, 17th Indian Div & Kowloon Bde are falling back to Akyab. The 150th RAC Rgt will move as noted to block a flanking movement on the map.

[rook749]

Well now in the Air.....

I am of the opinion you must engage the Japanese in the air as often as possible and on every front. I can't control if he runs out of heavy industry, vehicle points or armament points but I can run him out of supply/fuel. I can force him to sail ships to escort his convoys to hunt my subs and and I can force him to replace planes all over the map over and over again. I can kill his pilots and close the pilot gap.

I might even force him to keep plane production for the early and mid war plans going longer than he would like. They key to getting the air war going is pilot training and making use of those planes that you have in great numbers that most people may over look.

Right now we are using two squadrons of Vengeance I ( 32 planes)bombers in the CBI and two squadrons of Wirraway (36 planes) at Horn Island. They are not great in fact the Wirraway is awful but I make a lot of each type every month.

Of course I have not lost a single Wirraway or Vengeance. [8|] Last turn was the worst turn to date for losses by far ---- but I still have all of the bomber ACUs at full strength and in Burma our bombing killed 1.5K troop in the main hex with the Imperial Guard Division.

CBI - 1 * A-29A, 2 * B-25C, 1 * B-26, 1 * Beaufort, 6 * Blenhein IV, 1 * Bolingbroke IV, 2 * Hundson IIIa, 2 * Wellington Ic and 2 * Vengeance I.

Horn Island - 2 * Wirraway, 1 * B-25C and 4 * Hudson I. The airfield is now at 49 damage.

Pink is losses over Horn Island where I seem to have gained control of the air, only time will tell if he decides to contest this again. Blue are losses over the Imperil Guard Division in the CBI.

Notes:
1) There96 Wirraways are in the pool.
2) 16 Blenhein IV will be added from conversion of one squadron Vengeance I that just occurred.
3) Two of the Blenhein IV ACU convert to Hurricane IIc fighters.
4) Two of the Blenhein IV ACU convert to Vengeance I dive bombers.
5) There is ACU each of B-17E and B-24D that will reach the front line in the next week.

While the losses were heavy last turn with the addition of two American P-39D fighter ACUs to the front for escort --- I should be able to substantial this level of action for several months.

[rook749]

Question for My Readers....

For my six readers or so [:D]. I have been looking Colon Blow and I haven been wondering if my original plan to run Colon Blow with just the 1st USN BAT Div and the Mini Fleet of Doom (64 fighters no bombers) or do I need to bring on the Fleet of Doom?

I can easily suppress the Level 2 airfield at Tulagi with the 4E Bomber force. That just leave Rabaul (airfield 7) and the Short Lands (airfield 4) for him to use.

I am pretty sure that my Mini-Fleet of Doom can hold off (with minimal loss) his land based air, but if he brings in his CV Fleet it could get harry.... Other than the Beaufighters and the Lightings there is not much that could LR CAP but that might be an option. Once I have Lunga between that and Kirakira I should be able to get an airfield up and running to support the short range fighters.

If I have my CV Fleet it will be the end of his fleet but if my fleet is in the yard for October upgrade than I may have to abort.

Any thoughts? I would really prefer to upgrade the CVs and then have them launch Operation Cookie Crip at the end of October.

[FeurerKrieg]

Well, if it goes well, you've moved things up a year or so. If it goes bad, you will need to wait six months until you get the first essex to pair up with a pile of CVE's. Seems to me a reasonable gamble to press forward.

[rook749]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

Well, if it goes well, you've moved things up a year or so. If it goes bad, you will need to wait six months until you get the first essex to pair up with a pile of CVE's. Seems to me a reasonable gamble to press forward.

That's my thought so full speed ahead!

[rook749]

12 September 42 - 11 September 42 Executive Summary

The CBI is still back and forth in northern Burma, a lot of back and forth but his main force is closing in on Team Yankee so soon we will see if I get run out or stay for another month or two.

AirGriff machine seems to have some major issue and as a result I have the dummy turn but we will have to pause for a few days until he can get his machine working again.

Raiding
ASW attack near Savaii SS I-9, hits 5 vs SC-520

The SC's have started to arrive in force on the front. I am using them in groups of three around the major ports, in another month I will have another 10 - 12 SC's on station in the Southwest Pacific.

Allied Naval Forces
Fleet of Doom: At Pearl Harbor getting its minor dings sorted out. USN CAR DIV 1 (Wasp + Illustrious), USN CAR DIV 2 (Lexington), CAR DIV 3 (Saratoga), CAR DIV 4 (Yorktown), CAR DIV 5 (Hornet), CAR DIV 5 (Enterprise) and Force Z (Repulse, South Dakota, Washington & North Carolina).

The USN 1st Bat Div (Pennsylvania, Idaho, New Mexico, Mississippi, Warspite, Colorado, 2 CA & 7 DD): This force in at Noumea.

Force X (Revenge, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies, Valiant): This force is at Diamond Harbor to cover my sea flank.

Mini-Doom: Two separate taffys exist. CVE Force- Long Island + CVE Copahee (speed 16) in one. The second one contains the CVL Hermes (speed 25). Both of these are at Noumea.

KB and Mini-KB
Assumed to be repairing and upgrading at Rabaul/Truk. A portion of the Mini-KB is spotted off of Port Moresby likely heading to Rabaul.

China
While I was trying to swap troops around and avoid over--stacking he attacks at Wenchow. Either well played or very lucky [X(]. The first attack is a disaster for him but the second one goes off much better. I am rushing two corps back into the hex, I hold for two more days the corps arrive and all is well if not then he may well break the line.

His army is also prepping for a 42/43 offensive once Wenchow falls. Moving units to hold the areas he is prepping to attack and protect against any Flanking maneuvers. Targets he is prepping for are: Sian, Wuchow, Changsha and Chenchow.

CBI
Will Post is a separate post below later when I have time as I am traveling this week from site to site. It's a game of back with armor in the open plans.

The SWPAC
At Kirakira we have the 2nd USMC Parachute BN, 2/7 Commando Bn and some of the 1st Marine Raider Bn with the rest slowly arriving via SST. This base will play my Cactus Air-force [:D], port damage is down to 35 from a high of 79.

At Ndeni the Port is level 2(1)-68%, Airfield 4(5)-22% and Fort 0. At the airfield we have one F4F-3P ACU, one F2A-2 Buffalo ACU, one F4F-3A Wildcat ACU and two P-30D ACUs. There are 12 PT Boats protecting the base and I need more aviation support.

At Vanikoro is a Port level 2(0)-78%, the Airfield 6(4)-61% and the Fort 3, 14 PT Boats, one ACM, 150 mines and one AGP. At the airfield there are two A-24 ACUs, three C-47 Skytrain ACUs, three RD-41 Skytrain ACUs and one SBC4-Helldiver. Additional Marine Fighter and Dive Bomber ACUs are ready to rotate in or base here as the airfield expands. I just released that B-24D can just reach Tabiteuea 21 hexes from here!!![:D]

Luganville is safe with Port 5(3)-74%, Airfield 8(5) and Fort 3(9). There is one ACM, 12 PT Boats and 148 mines. The island has 284 Aviation Support and one Air HQ. four B-17E ACUs, two B-17F ACU, one SB2U-3 Vindicator ACU and two P-38F ACUs.

Koumac is a Port 4(1), Airfield 8(7)-34% and Fort 2(9). I have one B-17D ACU, one B-24D ACU and one LB-30 ACU based here.

Santa Maria is now expanding Port 0(0)-04%, Airfield 0(2) and Fort 0(9). This will replace Kormac as a bomber base as it is closer to the front. Lots of Construction and aviation support in route.

All of the bombers are now resting and waiting for the next operation. I suspect we will need to suppress the airfield at Tulagi for Operation Colon Blow.

Operation Cookie-Crisp
The landing at Tabiteuea and Tarawa. Forces will stage from Pearl Harbor will take these islands. AI am now looking at this operation in the next 30 days or possibly sooner - we will start with Tabiteuea and then move on Tarraw after I have time to regroup.

For Tabiteuea the 27th Infantry Division (100), the 181st FA Bn (100), 763rd Tank Bn (100), 145 FA Bn (100), 34th Cmbt Eng Rgt (87), 151st Cmbt Engr Bn (14), 3rd Marine Div (46), 3rd Pion Bn (41) and the I US Corps (33) are all prepping. All of these are at Pearl Harbor.

For Tarawa the 24th Infantry Division (100, 2/3 Restricted, requires 1290 PPs), 134th Combat Engr Bn (100) and the 198th FA Bn (100) - all at Pearl Harbor. At Christmas Island we have the 110th Cmbt Engr Bn (93), 223rd FA Bn (91), 40th Infantry Div (90) and the 762nd Tank Bn (91) all prepping.

Once we move on Tabiteuea, we will need all of the major naval forces - the key will be bombardment for the BBs to soften up the target right before we land.

Baker Island will have AKEs and 75 Fighters at as a fall back potion and a place to rest and repairs. Vaitupu is closed (11 hexes vs 13 for Baker) but Baker Island has 40 Aviation support that will grow into 72. The Island will be overstated wit 7k on a 6K island. The 147th(Sep) Inf Rgt, 804th Aviation Engr Bn and the 318th Base Group.

Operation C-3PO's, Horn Island

At this point we are just planing the land portion and as of the 8th of September we have unleashed the Dutch and Australian Bomber force on the Island. At this point he is no longer contesting the air above Horn Island.

Horn Island: Recon shows Port 1(1), Airfield 3(3), two enemy units, Troops:18540, Guns:121, AFVs:34, airfield damage at 59.

Coen: Airfield 2(6)-71% with 66 Aviation Support. There is one O-47A ACU, one Wirraway ACU and two Kittyhawk IA ACUs at the base. The Kittyhawk's are sweeping Horn Island. I have some additional aviation support in route once it arrived a second Wirraway ACU will be based at the island..

Cooktown: Port 1(2), Airfield 6(6)-87% with 236 Aviation Support. The 14th MAG is based here to provide an Air HQ. One Catlina I ACU, one B-25C Mitchell ACU, two Beaufighter Ic ACUs, five Hudson I ACUs and one Hudson III (LR) are based out of the hex. All of the bombers are set to bomb the airfield at Horn Island and the fighters are set to escort.

Land Units: The following units are based in Townsville and are prepping for Horn Island. 2nd Australian Div (100), 5th Australian Div (100), 12th Field Rgt (100). I need to find one more ART and one ARM unit to add to this mix. I will also look at finding a US Infantry Div to add as well just in case he adds additional troops. This will bring me near the 40K stacking limit for the hex.

Operation Colon Blow, Lunga

Lunga: Recon shows Port 0(1), Airfield 0(5), four enemy units, Troops:6380, Guns:51, AFVs:9.

Landing Forces Prepping: 1st Marine Raider BN (59) moving to Kirakira. 3rd Marine Raider BN (70) at Vanikoro. 1st USMC Parachute BN (25) at Ndeni. 3rd USMC Parachute BN (31) at Ndeni. 41st Infantry Div (29), Q Alexandra's (Mtd) Rgt (30), 21/22 Field Rgt (30), Rabaul Base Force (30) at La Foa.

Operation Super Colon Blow, Objective Tulagi

This operation will occur after Colon Blow.

Landing Forces Prepping: I Australian Corps (100), 2nd Marine Div (100), 2nd USMC Tank Bn (100), 2nd USMC FA BN (100), 1st USMC AA BN (100), 2nd AmphTrac Engr Bn (100), 2nd Pion BN (100), 15th Base Group(100) and then 102 Cmbt Engr Rgt (100) at Luganville. 1st Marine Div (72), 1st USMC Tank Bn (75) and the 1st Pion Bn (74), 1st AmphTrac Engr Bn (79), 22nd Marine Rgt (100) and the 1st USMC FA Bn (40) are at Ndeni. The 1st Australian Div (100) is at Townsville.

Japanese Amphibious Landings:
Amphibious Assault at Enggano (44,94)
Amphibious Assault at Sampit (58,97)
Amphibious Assault at Lomblen (68,113)

Japan Conquerors the Following Bases:
Sampit
Komodo
Taung Gyi
Enggano
Lomblen

Allies Amphibious Landings:
None.

Allies Conquerors the Following Bases:
None.

[rook749]

Wenchow....

Caught while trying to swap hexes and not over-stack, I should have payed the price in supplies to over stack but one can never tell which is the better option. The second attack occurs when one of my corps moves out. I have one corps 14 of 46 miles from Wenchow and one 0 of 46 miles. Let the games begin!

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Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 45622 troops, 297 guns, 246 vehicles, Assault Value = 1506
Defending force 31681 troops, 121 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1015

Japanese adjusted assault: 1844
Allied adjusted defense: 988

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
6035 casualties reported
Squads: 135 destroyed, 290 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 48 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 43 disabled
Vehicles lost 15 (2 destroyed, 13 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1628 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 105 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 56 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled

Assaulting units:
52nd Infantry Brigade
12th Ind.Mixed Brigade
2nd Ind Engineer Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
55th Infantry Brigade
29th Division
62nd Infantry Brigade
8th Tank Regiment
102nd Infantry Regiment
26th Engineer Regiment
13th Army
4th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
86th Chinese Corps
70th Chinese Corps
88th Chinese Corps
25th Group Army
14th Chinese Base Force

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Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58)
Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 41709 troops, 297 guns, 244 vehicles, Assault Value = 1189
Defending force 18309 troops, 83 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 494

Japanese adjusted assault: 1398
Allied adjusted defense: 640

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1228 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 101 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 52 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 27 disabled
Vehicles lost 78 (11 destroyed, 67 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1328 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 88 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled

Assaulting units:
8th Tank Regiment
102nd Infantry Regiment
11th Tank Regiment
2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
2nd Ind Engineer Regiment
12th Ind.Mixed Brigade
55th Infantry Brigade
62nd Infantry Brigade
52nd Infantry Brigade
29th Division
26th Engineer Regiment
13th Army
4th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
86th Chinese Corps
88th Chinese Corps
25th Group Army
14th Chinese Base Force

[rook749]

Japanese Aircraft R&D

Seems that he is working to Advance the Oscar Line, Tojo Line and Zero Line. With some advancement of the Dive Bombers. Anyone have any thoughts?

The main photo is too large to post, but you can find it in the link below.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/778 ... CUTION.jpg

[FeurerKrieg]

I'd say those are all pretty standard models to advance. In my opinion it is better to advance the last model of the line and then spend the supply on converting factories (or allow the R&D to go into production) but not everyone agrees with that. Griff looks like he is moving the near term models forward which in my opinion is good for you, but he wouldn't see it that way or he wouldn't be doing it.

These planes he has advanced so far won't fundamentally change the war. The ones to keep an eye on are the Frank and the late war fighters like the Ki-201, Ki-94-II, A7M2 and especially watch the night fighters.

[rook749]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

I'd say those are all pretty standard models to advance. In my opinion it is better to advance the last model of the line and then spend the supply on converting factories (or allow the R&D to go into production) but not everyone agrees with that. Griff looks like he is moving the near term models forward which in my opinion is good for you, but he wouldn't see it that way or he wouldn't be doing it.

These planes he has advanced so far won't fundamentally change the war. The ones to keep an eye on are the Frank and the late war fighters like the Ki-201, Ki-94-II, A7M2 and especially watch the night fighters.

Feurer King - Thanks for the information! I was a little surprised as well as when I got past 44/10 I did not see any other plane advanced.

[FeurerKrieg]

Yea, other than the Oscar IV and A6M8, most of the late war planes take a while to repair the R&D factories for them, so it will be a while until you see any change there. However, once you see them, they might start to move up pretty fast if he has multiple factories on any of those models.

[rook749]

CBI, September 16th and Still in Northern Burma....

His main force lead by the Imperial Guard Division is advancing towards Mandalay, while we have forced back his other Advance with Team Yankee.... Team Yankee holds Magwe and we will soon see if we can hold him for a month or two. Most of the Armor Rgts withdraw in 32 days so its use them or lose them time.

After that we will see how long I hold out, it will really depend on how much of his air force and additional land units he brings to the party.

The entire Allied bomber force is hitting the Imperial Guards Div force, last turn only 500 casuatlies as the weather is not allowing for full air operations.

Mandalay: There are 31K of supplies, Forts 4(9)-35%, two Burma Infantry Bn and two base forces. All units in the area will fall back here for the final stand when required. If supplies drop below 20K, we will start air lifting them in.

Magwe: 7th Armoured Bde, 112th RAF Adv Base Force, 1st Burma Bn, 2/1st Med Rgt, 3rd Burma Bn, 43rd Cavalry Rgt, 44th Cavalry Reg, 75th IAC Rgt , BFF Bde and the Railway BAF Bn. The BFF Bde will move to Mandalay to rest and regroup.

Meiktila 42nd Cavalry Rgt, 20th Indian Mnt Gun Rgt, 44th Indian Bde, 13th Burma Rifles Bn & 4th Burma Bn. The 42nd Cavalry will move as noted on the map to prevent any flanking movement.

Shwebo: 5th Burma Bn & 39th Indian Div. The 39th Indian is withdrawing to India to rest and rebuild.

Lashio: 102nd RAF Base Force

Team Alpha: A1: Burma Corps and 221 Group RAF will march to Magwe. A2:103rd RN Base Force, 107th RAF Base Force , 108th RAF Base Force, 17th Indian Div are falling back to Akyab. The 150th RAC Rgt will move as noted on the map to prevent any flanking movements. A3: Kowloon Bde, 2/9 Field Rgt and 108th RAF Base Force are falling back to Akyab.

[rook749]

I just heard back from AirGriff and it has been confirmed that his laptop hard drive is dead. He is looking to get it fixed but we will be on hold for a couple of days at least.

[rook749]

Well it seems that AirGriff's laptop is toast. Given how much we both travel this is going to cause us some issues. Given some of the other items he has on his personnel plate we are looking at December until he can get a replacement at best.

So it seems we are in for a long pause at best. The goal is to pick-up the game at that point but time will tell.

[rook749]

I wanted to take the time to thank all of my readers and everyone whom posted or sent me a PM. Your input was and advice was wonderful!

Thank you all!!!! If anyone has any questions on the current state of the game or one of the fronts fire away.