Where the eastern wind is blowing... AAR against Canoerebel

[Crackaces]

I would be very interested in your thoughts at which point is sudden victory possible? I am assuming after the crushing of China and Alaska is completely built up to maximum points[given some portion of India is conquored and ship/LCU losses stablize at some ratio] ? It would think it would have to be achieved sometime after January 1944 and a 3X ratio? I am not sure a 4X ratio is achievable without a decisive naval battle of 4/5 figures of points ..

[Hortlund]

Do you have the points ratio needed for each year?

I think I can get to 4-1 pretty soon. Right now its close to 19k - 7k, and Singapore is worth 1800 pts for the allies. 20k - 5k or 24k -6k is not impossible

[witpqs]

4-1, 3-1, 2-1

for Jan 1

'43, '44, '45

AFAIK

[Crackaces]

Ok 24K -6k by January '43 I am completely in understanding. This would require a modest naval victory somewhere that one gave you points but two, slow the Allied response so you can keep the point ratio ..

OK I will be lurking with great interest .. [;)]

[zuluhour]

Can/Are you taking advantage of the humiliating defeat suffered by the Generalisimo on the Yangtze? I look forward to looking at the VP for the Changsha area on the north bank.

[Lcp Purcell]

Fascinating.

[Hortlund]

Im ordering an attack on the Yangtze tomorrow, lets see if we can inflict some losses on the retreating chinese.

[Hortlund]

Three days have passed.

On the Yangtze, our attack failed. We got 1-1 but got 500 disabled squads. Our airforce sorties daily and inflicts about 1200-1500 casualties every day.

In India Calcutta is isolated and only defended by the static units. Troops are moving in and the city should fall within days.

At Singapore, our troops are moving in, the final assault should come within a week.

All across the map Im moving troops around to prepare for the inevitable counterattack.

[zuluhour]

Should you have time, I would like to see the Chansha area again.
Sincerely,
CnC Zuluhour

Actually, looking back, have you advanced from Kukong? any crossings on the Yangtze? I may be getting fixated on China-Burma due to my own circumstances.[:)]

[Hortlund]

I'll do a quick rundown of the frontline right now.

April 30th 1942. We are ending offensive operations all over the map now. This marks the high-point of our advance.

India/Burma

[Hortlund]

Southern China

This is the next area of offensive operations. All the plans are set, all I need to do is finish the northern campaign and then shift the troops south.

[Hortlund]

Northern China

Canoe abandoned Sian without a fight. He left both his defensive positions in the north. First Nanyang and now Sian. Without a shot being fired. I guess there is some truth to Sun Tzu after all. I think he has made a misstake. He should have left some sort of rear-guards behind. They would have been lost, yes, but it would have taken some time to reduce the defences.

I was not ready to attack Sian for a long time. Perhaps in a month. He would have lost, thanks to my airforce, but still... he is too careless with his supply-bases.

What remains now in the north is to complete the encirclement of Luchnow, mop-up the northern bases and set up good defensive positions around Sian. After that, the troops will head south.

I will try to give the impression that I will attack directly west from Sian, perhaps that will cause Canoe to withdraw his troops even further.

[Hortlund]

And a picture of the strategic map.

[zuluhour]

I'm getting the impression Dan is very reluctant to lose formations. He will trade ground for units unless he decides they are lost beforehand, a line of reasoning which may leave him with to much earth to deal with and to little time. MHO. I think this most true for his naval assets. In his game with Chez he seldom risked capital units unless his disposable forces achieved success. This may eliminate the surprise move for awile.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund

And a picture of the strategic map.

Is that a high pressure system? It's looks like a weather map! [:D]

[Justus2]

ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund

I'll do a quick rundown of the frontline right now.

April 30th 1942. We are ending offensive operations all over the map now. This marks the high-point of our advance.

India/Burma

When you say end to offensive ops, do you plan to still liquidate the cut-off bases behind your lines (Imphal, Kohima, Akyab)?

[Hortlund]

ORIGINAL: Justus2

When you say end to offensive ops, do you plan to still liquidate the cut-off bases behind your lines (Imphal, Kohima, Akyab)?

Yes, there is still some mop-up actions left. Singapore, Sabang, Burma. And there will be lots of operations in China.

[Hortlund]

ORIGINAL: zuluhour

I'm getting the impression Dan is very reluctant to lose formations. He will trade ground for units unless he decides they are lost beforehand, a line of reasoning which may leave him with to much earth to deal with and to little time. MHO. I think this most true for his naval assets. In his game with Chez he seldom risked capital units unless his disposable forces achieved success. This may eliminate the surprise move for awile.

Yeah, the Chinese army is still undefeated. That means he can launch one heck of a counterattack in the north if he wants to. He must have something like 5k AV moving around between Sian and Lanchow.

I think he has made a crucial misstake though, he must be having real supply problems now. No supplies from northern China, nothing from Sian, Changsha is under siege and nothing can come from India now that I have taken Ledo.

[zuluhour]

I would not let him get to comfortable, a feint or two?

[Hortlund]

Amazingly enough, Canoerebel is abandoning Lanchow. That base will fall as soon as my troops can enter the city. Sian and Lanchow, both our primary objectives in the north, given up without a fight.