ORIGINAL: obvert
I will keep the early CVEs accelerated, which still gives me a surplus, and then build up the pools for the late war. Is there a number I should shoot for by say 12/43?
I haven't a clue. The only recommendation I can make is to use tracker. You can create a graph that will show your surplus vs. future needs. Damian can probably give you better info on where to find it.
PI: Another sweep at Clark found 12 P-40E up for CAP. These guys are masochists here. We knocked down 3 more in the air and 1 as an ops loss. No zero losses.
The port strike was a partial success. Out of the six bomber groups set to fly, only 3 did. Grrr. The Langley took two critical hits, two subs were critically hit (!), but no sign of a hit on the Boise. Also got an xAK which probably sank. The rollover shows 9 ships in port now (TK DD DD DD xAP xAP SS AVD AVD) and we'll have to see if we get it tomorrow. If it was here fixing even on pierside it could take a turn or two to get moving. I think it might have gone though. Jolo will fall next turn giving us much better search in the Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea areas.
Our troops should move into Lingayen tomorrow, and 3 units are present there. One Sally group will hit them to keep them there if possible.
DEI: Blabac, Jesselton, and Jolo will be attacked tomorrow. Sambas fell yesterday.
The Air HQ from Saigon is nearly at Singkawang, and will arrive next turn. This TF was attacked by Dutch sub KXIV during the night. The two sub chasers were right on target, hitting it immediately with a penetrating shot to the engines. Two more shots were direct hits causing explosions, and the other 4 were minor causing leaks. Heavy damage was reported after the turn, but there is a sub listed in the hex today. Hmmm.
Nagato, Fuso, Ise and Hyuga bombarded Ambon and did some serious damage. In addition to the 21 squads destroyed, 34 disabled, and 3 planes destroyed, 1 gun was destroyed and 3 disabled. Hopefully these were the CD guns.
Malaya: We're surrounding the Rgts in Alor Star and moving the 14th Armour into the jungle hex between Patani, Singora, and Alor Star to take away any retreat. Meanwhile, a regiment is still moving forward to Georgetown. In the rollover 68 fighters and 100 bombers are listed in Singapore. We've got to start sweeping soon so we can get to bombing and restricting fort building.
Burma: Port Blair fell today. The fields are untouched so I can fly in an airbase and Nells and start to use it right away. This will be great to search for supply TFs coming into Rangoon and getting subs vectored in as well as other air. An AF Coy will begin to move in in two days once it gets out of strat mode in Bangkok.
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to fly an entire Air HQ in with torps before the torps have been purchased? I've tried once they are bought into the unit, but never before that. It just occurred to me.
Pacific: As the KB moves past 16 Vals take a shot at an AVD sitting at Hilo. Add another ship to the PH trip total.
NO PAC: Transports are five hexes from Attu and should land tomorrow or the next day.
SO PAC: We'll try again at Kaveing. Transports are unloading at Turk to reload with better TF composition before heading to Rabaul.
Subs: In addition to the destroyed Dutch sub and the possible two at Manila, our subs continue to wreak havoc and take out another US Coast Guard ship, the PC Crawford, near Coal Harbour. Every little bit helps.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
I forgot to mention that there is a SCTF at Boela, and while we're loading the troops back up from Sorong we have a big SCTF of our own here. It appears that ours has not been seen, maybe because our bombardment last night wiped out all of the patrols from Ambon. Good timing. We're going in with the Kongo and three CAs covered by 5 DD. Only Kongo is low on ammo, but it can move and still suck up hits as well as use the secondary guns.
Moon is 3% for this one. I would think that would give us an advantage at this point in the war. But that might bring the range in close as well, risking torpedo hits. We have two sets of Petes on night search as well to get every extra detection possible.
Also, a TF of 9 ships is south of Palembang. There are 6 subs within 3 hexes of it all neatly lined in rows along the two different axis it's likely to take not that I planned this, they were just there. Hoping for force Z. Betty and Nells fro Kuching and Singkawang are providing a lot of search, but this should happen at night and it's very dark, so I hope we see them.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
Pacific: I forgot to mention the failed Guam attack last turn. My SNLF got only 1 to 2 against the base force there. So the 4 CA bombarded today. We'll shock attack tomorrow. The KB is 5-6 days away from the next mission at Canton. Subs two hexes away chasing from PH.
NO PAC: Landed a base force on Attu today. It'll take the base tomorrow. I am hoping this seems like a departure from my strategy last game, which it is not. If Jocke responds quickly he could keep me from my next target of Cold Bay. The fast trans TF is loading the now rested SNLFs at Wake after being refuelled, and it'll be up there in a week or so. There is search from the AMCs and CLs involved, and I'll have some Mavis at Attu and hopefully at Adak by the time it arrives. Fingers crossed, but the subs on the west coast north have not seen any TFs leave the area to go up here.
SO PAC: We'll try a shock at Kaveing after today's attack came up 1 to 1 with even losses. Rabaul invasion loading at Truk.
Malaya: Change of mind. Instead of waiting for the 14th Tank to move into the forest hex and completely surround these Rgts at Alor, which would have taken about 11-12 days, we'll pile everything that is here now into the hex and try to get enough of an advantage to trash these units completely or force them to surrender. We can't afford to wait over a week here. A Rgt is in Georgetown and will attack tomorrow.
Burma: Chang Mai and Pisanoluke are building airfields. Raheng is awaiting a construction unit. Airbases are moving in. no activity from the Allies. All available Thai troops with some IJA units will march to Moulmein starting now.
DEI: Neither impending surface engagement happened. The TF at Boela (shown as 5 ships CL DD DD) shot west to get at the Kendari invasion forces. It missed by 3 hexes, but landed next to my fast transport headed by CLs Naka and Kuma and with 6 new DDs. Unfortunately I did not change out Kuma's CPT, who is leading this TF. His skills are: LD 60 - INSP 49 - NVL 60 - AGR 52. Not awful, but not great. The moon is now 0%. Will anyone hit anything? Will they both get so close they annihilate each other with torps?
The Kandari invasion will land next turn. Two SCTFs will be there to support, including the 4 BB 4 DD TF. The other large TF with Kongo and 3 CA will move into the middle of the Banda Sea.
No sign of the listed BB TF near Billiton. Must be quick or not BBs at all.
Today we launched a few deep penetration fast transport TFs. One of 4 DDs to Bima to set up a patrol base here. Another to Dili. A third will attempt to get to Christmas island and take this base. CA Maya plus two CL and 3 DDs should be able to handle themselves unless they run into force Z. It's a risk, but it could also run into some juicy targets south of Java. The benefit would be to get good patrol in this area and scout for the about to arrive Mini KB and other surface groups.
PI: Three more P-40E taken down over Clark. Not sure how we can see the actual pilots involved while dogfighting, but during the animations I did notice Wagner was one of them, and he was forced to dive away when his P-40 was damaged. Looks like he brought it home though. No P-40E ops losses were recorded. It would have been nice to get one of the better early war pilots out of there.
Two ground units have been caught in Lingayen and unless they are moving fast enough to get out tomorrow they will be roughed up.
Another port attack at Manila. The rollover still shows 5 DD in port. Here is the story:
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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 117 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 41 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 39
G3M2 Nell x 33
G4M1 Betty x 50
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 1 damaged
Allied Ships DD Pillsbury, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS Sailfish, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AV Langley, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP President Madison, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
SS Porpoise, Bomb hits 3, heavy damage
DD Thanet, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Si Kiang, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
xAK Ethel Edwards, Bomb hits 3, on fire
xAK Capillo, Bomb hits 2, on fire
Aircraft Attacking:
25 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb
20 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
27 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
6 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb
5 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb
Massive explosion on SS Sailfish
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Morning Air attack on Manila , at 79,77
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid detected at 89 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 28
Ki-27b Nate x 24
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 18
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged
Allied Ships AV Langley, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP President Madison, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Ethel Edwards, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Capillo, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Si Kiang, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
28 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
18 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 10000 feet *
Port Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb
It's about time to see what is happening to the various ships and other units I'm following in this game. Also, time for some pics.
Tainan Ku S-1
This group is leading in kills with 48. They and the 3rd Ku have wiped the slate of all but about 5 US fighters in the PI. As you can see, there have been some losses. 5 KIA and a few more missing and wounded. After the next few turns this group will move to deal with Buffalos at Singers.
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
Happily I've managed to keep all subs away from the mines this game! [:)]
I-25 was out searching for US CVs returning to PH or moving north, and will now move toward supply lanes as the KB leaves the area. We believe the US CVs either went north or south quickly. Those areas all have subs moving toward them now to have a look.
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This AMC is near its starting point in the South Pacific. To both avoid US CVs moving to the south and scout for transport heading to the deep SO PAC, these two AMCs are in stationary patrol. If and when we have Canton Island secured, we will move these up to replace the poor captains and change the Alfs to Jakes. Then they will move again to another scouting position.
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This unit will be moving down toward Singapore, but will not be taking part in the attack. It will move back toward burma and help there once the roads and rails are clear.
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
You bet! Gotta take the Aleutians away first though, so I have a little more of a roadblock up there. Not that one has to go through the Aleutians.[:)]
Once I have the points, probably during the summer of 42, there will be several reserve infantry units also ready to just move in there if something BIG is coming.
In your game, once everything unfolded, I began to wonder if anything could have stopped that invasion completely even if those islands were stocked with troops and the KB had intercepted. It would have been harder, and you might not have gotten as much right away, but especially with where the bulk of his troops were, it would have been tough to do anything meaningful even with a week's notice.
Moral of the story; don't leave your entire army at the farthest possible point from your most important area when your enemy has an even bigger army.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
DEI: An exciting turn. Several surface actions and a fairly good outcome for the IJN. This game I've spent extra time assessing what the Allies can bring in the area and was ready for anything up to the size of a reinforced Force Z, which is what we got.
Firstly, a nght action involving the previously spotted CL led TF. It was 0% moon, so these battles all got in a bit too close for comfort.
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Taliaboe at 74,104, Range 9,000 Yards
Reduced sighting due to 0% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions and 0% moonlight: 10,000 yards
Range closes to 15,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 9,000 yards
Japanese open fire on surprised Allied ships at 9,000 yards
CL Kuma fires at CL Mauritius at 9,000 yards
CL Naka launches Long Lance Torpedoes at CL Mauritius at 9,000 yards
CL Kuma fires at DD John D. Edwards at 9,000 yards
CL Kuma fires at DD Edsall at 9,000 yards
DD Asagumo launches Long Lance Torpedoes at DD John D. Edwards at 9,000 yards
DD Edsall sunk by DD Minegumo at 9,000 yards
Range closes to 2,000 yards
CL Kuma engages CL Mauritius at 2,000 yards
DD Asagumo engages DD Whipple at 2,000 yards
DD Minegumo engages DD John D. Edwards at 2,000 yards
DD Harusame engages DD Alden at 2,000 yards
DD Alden engages DD Minegumo at 2,000 yards
Range increases to 3,000 yards
CL Kuma engages CL Mauritius at 3,000 yards
DD Whipple engages DD Asagumo at 3,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Minegumo at 3,000 yards
DD Alden engages DD Asagumo at 3,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Yamagumo at 3,000 yards
DD John D. Edwards engages DD Natsugumo at 3,000 yards
Range increases to 7,000 yards
CL Mauritius engages CL Kuma at 7,000 yards
DD Minegumo engages DD Whipple at 7,000 yards
DD Alden engages DD Harusame at 7,000 yards
DD Whipple engages DD Yamagumo at 7,000 yards
Range increases to 10,000 yards
CL Mauritius engages CL Kuma at 10,000 yards
DD Yamagumo engages DD Whipple at 10,000 yards
DD Yudachi engages DD John D. Edwards at 10,000 yards
DD Harusame engages DD Alden at 10,000 yards
DD Asagumo engages DD Alden at 10,000 yards
DD Alden engages DD Yamagumo at 10,000 yards
DD Alden engages DD Natsugumo at 10,000 yards
Range increases to 12,000 yards
CL Kuma engages CL Mauritius at 12,000 yards
CL Naka engages CL Mauritius at 12,000 yards
DD Yudachi engages DD John D. Edwards at 12,000 yards
DD Minegumo engages DD Alden at 12,000 yards
DD Asagumo engages DD Whipple at 12,000 yards
DD Minegumo engages DD Whipple at 12,000 yards
DD Yamagumo engages DD John D. Edwards at 12,000 yards
Task forces break off...[/font]
The USS Edsal was the only loss for either side, going down to a long lance. No troops were lost from this TF either, and none of our ships had more than 9 damage in any category, so after the inevitable retreat after the battle, we'll continue on to Kendari next turn.
Unfortunately the Mauritius and 3 remaining DDs retreated at warp 7 back to Boela, where they caught 3 xAKs and a PB unloading a small SNLF unit. I didn't seem likely they could get this far in one turn after the battle, but they did. All 4 IJN ships are forming a nice new reef just outside Boela harbour.
Then we got into it with Force Z. This was another close in battle, especially considering we had 4 BBs involved. Luckily no torps got to any of our ships.
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Kendari at 70,106, Range 1,000 Yards
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Walrus II: 1 destroyed
Japanese Ships
BB Nagato
BB Fuso, Shell hits 9, heavy fires
BB Ise, Shell hits 2, on fire
BB Hyuga, Shell hits 9
DD Yakaze
DD Wakatake, Shell hits 1
DD Kuretake, Shell hits 1
DD Sanae
Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales, Shell hits 8
BC Repulse, Shell hits 28, and is sunk
CL Java, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CL Danae
DD Van Nes
DD Evertsen, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Tenedos
DD Electra
DD Express
Reduced sighting due to 0% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions and 0% moonlight: 2,000 yards
Range closes to 15,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 5,000 yards...
Range closes to 3,000 yards...
Range closes to 1,000 yards...
BB Hyuga engages BC Repulse at 1,000 yards
BC Repulse engages BB Ise at 1,000 yards
BB Fuso engages BC Repulse at 1,000 yards
BB Hyuga engages CL Java at 1,000 yards
BB Fuso engages DD Express at 1,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Kuretake at 1,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Wakatake at 1,000 yards
BB Fuso engages DD Evertsen at 1,000 yards
DD Van Nes engages DD Wakatake at 1,000 yards
Range increases to 2,000 yards
BB Ise engages BB Prince of Wales at 2,000 yards
BB Ise engages BB Prince of Wales at 2,000 yards
BC Repulse engages BB Fuso at 2,000 yards
DD Wakatake engages CL Java at 2,000 yards
DD Evertsen engages DD Sanae at 2,000 yards
DD Kuretake engages DD Evertsen at 2,000 yards
DD Wakatake engages DD Express at 2,000 yards
DD Yakaze engages DD Evertsen at 2,000 yards
Range increases to 3,000 yards
BB Hyuga engages BC Repulse at 3,000 yards
BC Repulse sunk by BB Ise at 3,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Kuretake at 3,000 yards
DD Electra engages DD Kuretake at 3,000 yards
DD Tenedos engages DD Sanae at 3,000 yards
Range increases to 4,000 yards
BB Prince of Wales engages BB Fuso at 4,000 yards
DD Sanae engages DD Express at 4,000 yards
BB Prince of Wales engages DD Sanae at 4,000 yards
DD Kuretake engages DD Evertsen at 4,000 yards
DD Sanae engages DD Evertsen at 4,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Yakaze at 4,000 yards
Task forces break off...[/font]
For some reason Repulse was a shell magnet and Prince of Wales got off relatively unscathed. But it's good to drop half of this duo. Fuso ended up with 39 system, 23 float, and 16 engine damage, if I recall correctly. It'll be heading to the yards for a while. Again no IJN ships lost.
After this the detached Java and Everston met our CL Nagara and DDs TF. Both Allied ships were destroyed for no IJN losses and minimal damage except to one DD which had abuot 40 system and 30 float damage. This one was in the day so we could finally see what to shoot at.
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Kendari at 70,106, Range 19,000 Yards
Allied Ships
CL Java, Shell hits 19, on fire, heavy damage
DD Express, Shell hits 14, heavy fires, heavy damage
Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 28,000 yards
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 21,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 21,000 yards
Range closes to 19,000 yards...
Hamano K. crosses the 'T'
CL Java engages CL Nagara at 19,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages DD Express at 19,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Kawakaze at 19,000 yards
Range closes to 17,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 17,000 yards
DD Shiokaze engages DD Express at 17,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages DD Express at 17,000 yards
DD Tokitsukaze engages DD Express at 17,000 yards
DD Yukikaze engages DD Express at 17,000 yards
DD Kuroshio engages DD Express at 17,000 yards
Range closes to 14,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 14,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Suzukaze at 14,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages DD Express at 14,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Yamakaze at 14,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Yukikaze at 14,000 yards
Range closes to 13,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 13,000 yards
DD Kuroshio engages DD Express at 13,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Kawakaze at 13,000 yards
Range closes to 12,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 12,000 yards
DD Yukikaze engages DD Express at 12,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages DD Express at 12,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages DD Express at 12,000 yards
DD Tokitsukaze engages CL Java at 12,000 yards
DD Yukikaze engages DD Express at 12,000 yards
DD Kuroshio engages DD Express at 12,000 yards
Range closes to 10,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 10,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Kuroshio at 10,000 yards
CL Java engages DD Umikaze at 10,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages DD Express at 10,000 yards
DD Tokitsukaze engages DD Express at 10,000 yards
DD Yukikaze engages DD Express at 10,000 yards
Range closes to 8,000 yards
CL Java engages CL Nagara at 8,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Shiokaze at 8,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages DD Express at 8,000 yards
DD Umikaze engages CL Java at 8,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Tokitsukaze at 8,000 yards
Range increases to 9,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 9,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Umikaze at 9,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
CL Java engages DD Yukikaze at 9,000 yards
Range increases to 10,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages DD Express at 10,000 yards
Range increases to 11,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 11,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Shiokaze at 11,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages DD Express at 11,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages DD Express at 11,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages DD Express at 11,000 yards
DD Tokitsukaze engages DD Express at 11,000 yards
DD Kuroshio engages DD Express at 11,000 yards
Range closes to 9,000 yards
CL Java engages CL Nagara at 9,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Shiokaze at 9,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Tokitsukaze at 9,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Kuroshio at 9,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 9,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Shiokaze at 9,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
DD Umikaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
Range increases to 11,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 11,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Shiokaze at 11,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages DD Express at 11,000 yards
DD Tokitsukaze engages DD Express at 11,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Kuroshio at 11,000 yards
Range closes to 9,000 yards
CL Java engages CL Nagara at 9,000 yards
CL Java engages DD Shiokaze at 9,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Tokitsukaze at 9,000 yards
DD Yukikaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
Range increases to 12,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 12,000 yards
DD Shiokaze engages DD Express at 12,000 yards
DD Umikaze engages DD Express at 12,000 yards
Range increases to 13,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 13,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Shiokaze at 13,000 yards
DD Suzukaze engages DD Express at 13,000 yards
DD Umikaze engages DD Express at 13,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages DD Express at 13,000 yards
CL Java engages DD Yamakaze at 13,000 yards
DD Yukikaze engages DD Express at 13,000 yards
Range closes to 9,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 9,000 yards
DD Kawakaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
DD Yukikaze engages DD Express at 9,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Kuroshio at 9,000 yards
Range increases to 15,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 15,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages DD Express at 15,000 yards
DD Express engages DD Yamakaze at 15,000 yards
DD Yukikaze engages DD Express at 15,000 yards
DD Kuroshio engages DD Express at 15,000 yards
Range increases to 19,000 yards
CL Nagara engages CL Java at 19,000 yards
DD Umikaze engages DD Express at 19,000 yards
DD Yamakaze engages DD Express at 19,000 yards
Task forces break off...[/font]
These ships then met our BBs and were sunk outright after a few hits.
In the air our Nells just moved to Jolo did some work at Balikpapan setting two TK and AO Trinity alight. They also hit an xAK and an AM near Tarakan. SCTFs are being sent in to pick up the pieces. The Jolo HQ and torps will not arrive for 4-5 more days, so these are flying at 1,000 and bombing with some accuracy, but we lost one to flak.
The HQ is at Singkawang, and the Betty group here will be set to attack to the south with 14 hex range, so to be escorted. There are a good number of ships at Batavia, including several CA as listed.
PI: Our troops at Lingayen crushed two PA infantry units, which will be much debilitated for the coming battles. There are two units listed at Iba so we're rushing armour units there to intercept. Also several units are still in the hex above Manila, so we'll send two infantry units there to see if we can catch them as well.
Allied ground losses:
2705 casualties reported
Squads: 159 destroyed, 61 disabled
Non Combat: 124 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 83 (83 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
65th Brigade
2nd Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
Kanno Detachment
7th Tank Regiment
Defending units:
11th PA Infantry Division
21st PA Infantry Division
86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion[/font]
Malaya: Georgetown was captured this turn. To keep things moving a para unit will be flown in for temporary garrison duty until we clear Alor Star. The Imperial Guards are two days away there, and then we'll attack.
SO PAC: Kaveing fell today. An AF Coy will be flown in.
China: We crushed one Corps in central China resulting in losses of 264 Chinese infantry squads! Love that. Hong Kong is giving us fits. One more Infantry Rgt is coming down fom Canton. Bombardments are hurtin gthe troops there i the meantime, and in two days we'll try again.
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
