At dawn we slept...in the cab on the way back from Olongapo

[Cap Mandrake]

Tasmania: JJ bring all their homies trapped on Tasmania for one big push and it broody works. I start back a US Army regiment that is aboard transports and was going to help in the invasion of Guam. Annoying. Evidentarry, they were not dead yet.

Ground combat at Burnie (81,176)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 6614 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 245

Defending force 1535 troops, 39 guns, 85 vehicles, Assault Value = 33

Japanese adjusted assault: 130

Allied adjusted defense: 43

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
457 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 37 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
272 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 12 (6 destroyed, 6 disabled)
Vehicles lost 27 (13 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Units retreated 3

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
84th Naval Guard Unit
63rd Naval Guard Unit
46th Naval Guard Unit
65th Naval Guard Unit
39th JNAF AF Unit
15th Port Unit
204th Ship Eng Coy
14th Naval Construction Battalion
15th Naval Construction Battalion
17th Naval Construction Battalion
41st JNAF AF Unit
41st JAAF AF Bn
32nd Special Base Force
22nd JNAF AF Unit
12th JAAF AF Coy

Defending units:
2/4th Armoured Regiment
154th Field Artillery Battalion
2nd RAA Jungle Field Artillery Regiment

[Cap Mandrake]

Sumatra: Sabang gets plasterized by heavy bombers and the Aussies retreating from Padang are moving NE, eating snakes and cocconuts.

[Cap Mandrake]

Air losses in our favor

[Cap Mandrake]

The RAF should not really be using Mohawk IV's at frontline bases but Mr. Churchill is very stingy.

[Cap Mandrake]

We are supposed to get 36 Hurri IIc a month but I swear somebody is pillaging the damn things along the way.

They deign to send us 12 Spitfire Vc a month in September. I have RAF fighter squadrons flying crappy Mohawks and even training in Lysanders.

[Cap Mandrake]

USAAF is getting 65 P-40K and 20 P-38G a month. They have a lot of empty squadrons on the WC as well.

July is the bonanza for USAAF with 200+ P-40N1/N5/P-39N1 and the P-47

[Cap Mandrake]

Cool picture of Hurricane IIc Trop

Angle of attack seems high at cruising speed.

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

We are supposed to get 36 Hurri IIc a month but I swear somebody is pillaging the damn things along the way.

They deign to send us 12 Spitfire Vc a month in September. I have RAF fighter squadrons flying crappy Mohawks and even training in Lysanders.

Easy to overlook the Lysanders have a camera. That makes units equipped with a Lysander quite useful when used to do short range recon.

Alfred

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Cool picture of Hurricane IIc Trop

Angle of attack seems high at cruising speed.

That plateau in the background appears to be the ruins of Masada - where the Jewish Essene Sect held out for a very long time against a Roman siege. The Romans had to build a dirt ramp to the top of the plateau to assault it. Rather than be taken as slaves, every one of the Essenes committed suicide.
The Israeli army still takes its recruits there to swear their allegiance to Israel.

It is located on the western side of the Dead Sea, about half way down.
Sodom and Gomorrah were at the south end of the Dead Sea. Qumran, where the Dead Sea scrolls were found is just north of Masada.

[RangerJoe]

Not Essenes, the Sicariis.

Two women and five children did survive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Masada

[Cap Mandrake]

After finally rounding up all the remnants from 2nd Marine Div...they are sitting at Rabaul having steaks and Schlitz and they refuse to combine? Same combat mode. The units have supplies but the base is in the red because the staff sent 145K Allied troops there. What gives?

[Cap Mandrake]

Ditto 9th Aus Div

[RangerJoe]

Have any parts been upgraded but not the others?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Have any parts been upgraded but not the others?

Yes,, thought of that. All 3 regiments have 43 rifle squads. U think that means they are all uniform.

[RangerJoe]

What about the other devices?

[Cap Mandrake]

It's the AT guns. One regiment has the 57's

[Cap Mandrake]

The pool of 57mm AT guns is depleted. That could take 2 months if other units don't get to them first.

[Cap Mandrake]

Confirmed. US Army units also upgrade to 57 mm. About half already. I had to turn off upgrades on about half the regiments planning for Guam.

[Cap Mandrake]

I had the same problem with a PA division. Now I see it was one regiment with 3 inch mortars and the others not. [:-]

Broody compricated.

[Cap Mandrake]

One brigade of 9th Aus only has 500 men and missing most of heavy weapon categories. I can't remember if they were crushed in the fighting in Oz or they came into the game that way.