(RA) Allies in Tatters Deaniks(A) vs Soulsilver(J)

[deaniks]

combat ships i'm getting this month

[deaniks]

the British fleet will go to Aussie since i want to gather my carriers there then send them off to raid places. but the French fleet no idea where i want it the Dunkerque class are really nice bc that will help a lot guarding carriers but since they start in balboa they can go either to Aussie or India any ideas where they should go?

[Bif1961]

It has the speed to escort carrier TFs and with forward firing 8x 13 inch guns she is a flexible design going forward, they gain no advantage crossing it's T. it has a power 16x 5.1 DP guns should do well against air targets as well.

[RangerJoe]

I consider them Cavalry types of ships since they are meant to charge the enemy and not to run away. [:D]

[deaniks]

As usual a update from me so as of now not much still happening on most fronts the china front has bin active for a while and a Hugh force of 2 to 3 divs plus other units marched and cut off south china for now about 50k units in that stack moving north with at least one brigade or less covering his supply hex. about a day ago a small ca task force went on a suicide run to tackle a carrier fleet bombing Bombay did some damage to some of the enemy carrier but nothing much might be out for a week if that. but otherwise not to much happening

[soulsilver]

+1

edit: dean allowed me to view his first page and I accidentally commented while trying to post to my own AAR.

[deaniks]

April 29th,
so to start of i dont work really this weekend so lots of arr updates coming your way but to start of the day heres some combat reports
Sub attack near Ontong Java at 114,129

Japanese Ships
xAP Miike Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
PB Shinko Maru #2
PB Uruboko Maru

Allied Ships
SS O21

Japanese ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

SS O21 launches 4 torpedoes at xAP Miike Maru
O21 diving deep ....
looks like i found a convoy transports some troops and most likley sunk the ship with what ever was on it

Morning Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 28

Allied aircraft
Hurricane I Trop x 1
Hurricane IIa Trop x 2
Hurricane IIb Trop x 8
P-39D Airacobra x 4
P-40E Warhawk x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIa Trop: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIb Trop: 4 destroyed
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

then the only real air combat this turn

[deaniks]

April 30th,
more sweeps in India happening still no good air-trades for me the Japanese fleet back at bombing Bombay again and what navy is there cant leave cause of it being to damaged so there a lost cause.
Morning Air attack on TF, near Adak Island at 162,52

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 24 minutes

Allied aircraft
PBY-5 Catalina x 14

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5 Catalina: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Sangetsu Maru, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
xAK Nitiryu Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk

my pbys out of dutch harbor finally find a target in the aluetions and sink to cargo ships

[deaniks]

so here's a quick list of what divs are in Indian i am amusing he has about the same or more here

[deaniks]

May 1,
so in the aluetions he finally moved some zeros up there to stop me from bombing him more bombings and sweeps in India not much their I can do until I get better planes plus get some more air groups in India. but right now i have about 16 air groups in India i can put them all in one place and focus on one area maybe Calcutta and leave a couple near Karachi to defend that port.

[deaniks]

looks like a possible cve near adak

[deaniks]

May 13,
Stuff as normal India is slowly getting pushed lots of stuff happening in china lots of units on Japanese units that tried to cut off the entire south from the north but not much else i could do against that since its all rough terrain that can seriously hurt what corps i have on those hex. also lots of more brigades and at least one more div going to India from USA right now they should all be there within the next month or two and hopefully my situation isn't bad there.

[deaniks]

As of right air war in India is look not the greatest most of my fighter are off in the back getting some r&r and getting to max squads so i can base them together try to bomb his airbases once i find where they are. i think my first thing is to get him out of south India so my goal with this is to group my fighter and bombers out of madras and start bombing units while i move some tank's down there to encircle and trap units while my dis move forward. once he kicked out of south India if i can do that i will focus all my units to defend the north and try to recapture what i lost.

[deaniks]

this is the plan so far 27th USA div will move to Bangalore to stop the Japanese from taking that position while the 70th British with an arm brigade will move down to cut off the rail hex while the 40th USA div and the 26th India brigade will move to push back the unit in front of Salem while to arm Brigades will move south along that rail hex and move towards the roads to cut it off. if all goes well he will move reinforcements from other bases/regions to stop it or risk losing this region.

[deaniks]

hey Guys sorry for not keeping you up to date lately bin really hard couple weeks with school and work and among other stuff but I hope to return to posting tomorrow and get this going hopefully every other day instead of once a week

[Bif1961]

Don't apologize, we appreciate you keeping us informed on the Allied side of this contest.

[deaniks]

so its bin a while and i've bin really feeling like posting in here again I wont update you on what's happen while I was on hiatus and not posting since my opponent soul has bin keeping you guys up to date but i'll give you guys a run down of what I've bin doing and what i'm going to do here soon

[deaniks]

so right now here what I have going on i will have some pictures here soon showing off what doing where from scouting around and some intel reports I believe that his carriers are on there way back to truk so with that knowledge I will be moving in another division, regiment and another combat engineer to Adak island for reinforcements. Right now I'm waiting on some yms to move near Kodiak so I can sweep mines at Adak before i invade the island, plus my bb's need to fill up there 16 inch ammo. But here's a question for you guys does ake's fill them up or should I head them back to Seattle to refill them?

[deaniks]

so this is the task force at Kodiak I have 3 old bb's plus one of my 28 speed one's guarding the invasion task force in addition to some ca's and cl's plus numerous dd's. the reinforcements I plan on lading are 1st marine division, the 34th combat engineer regiment, 22 marine regiment, and the 802 combat engineer battalion. I plan to send those all to Adak within the next few weeks I'll have plenty of air cover from p-38's sweeping at cold boy plus a couple of cve's to guard the air for them.

[deaniks]

right now this will be my next operation invading Socotra and Masirah to open the path for ships to start going back to Karachi and possibly Bombay this will take at least a couple months for units to move into position and air units along with the my cv's that will move other there while I believe most of his carriers are near truk or some other position near Adak since that's the last time I saw them and he still believe my carriers are in the Aleutians .