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RangerJoe wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 5:51 pm I.... then block Jahore Bahru from sending anything on to Singapore ...

What do you mean by this?

PaxMondo wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 6:24 pm

RangerJoe wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 5:51 pm I.... then block Jahore Bahru from sending anything on to Singapore ...

What do you mean by this?

If the resources, oil, and/or fuel is stockpiled at Jahore Bahru, then it will not flow to Singapore. Instead it will flow to Saigon and points beyond towards China.

PaxMondo wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 5:25 pm

Mike Solli wrote: Fri Nov 21, 2025 8:41 pm I now own the entire east-west railway. Hopefully, that'll help begin the movement of oil/resources/fuel from Singapore.

Whoo-Hoo!!!

( You may need to pump it a couple of times, and watch out where your HQ-C's are. Other than that, you should be fine ....)

Southern Army command HQ is in Singapore. Should I move it? If so, where to?

RangerJoe wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 6:46 pm

PaxMondo wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 6:24 pm

RangerJoe wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 5:51 pm I.... then block Jahore Bahru from sending anything on to Singapore ...

What do you mean by this?

If the resources, oil, and/or fuel is stockpiled at Jahore Bahru, then it will not flow to Singapore. Instead it will flow to Saigon and points beyond towards China.

Hmm, interesting. I'll do that next turn.

Mike Solli wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 8:42 pm

RangerJoe wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 6:46 pm

PaxMondo wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 6:24 pm

What do you mean by this?

If the resources, oil, and/or fuel is stockpiled at Jahore Bahru, then it will not flow to Singapore. Instead it will flow to Saigon and points beyond towards China.

Hmm, interesting. I'll do that next turn.

So, I'm VERY conservative with stockpiling switches. My experience is that it can screw up the flow pretty easy. In my current game I have only ONE base (in All of Asia continent) stockpiling anything, and that is FUSAN. Then, I would move Southern command to someplace more useful to support your next major campaign ... CK? Rangoon? Anywhere, but Singapore (or anywhere else with a Lvl 9 port on the Asian continent ...

JB blocking may very well work as well. Never done it, but if so, then I would be careful about stockpiling anywhere else ... once the resource movement algorithm gets hosed, it is a REAL pain to get it to reset* ... RJ may be able to share more experience about it ....


+ I've experienced this in 2 games. One of them I was able to get it back on track ... the other ... non-recoverable. And I mean that I spent a couple of months trying to get it going again ...

PaxMondo wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 9:01 pm

Mike Solli wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 8:42 pm

RangerJoe wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 6:46 pm

If the resources, oil, and/or fuel is stockpiled at Jahore Bahru, then it will not flow to Singapore. Instead it will flow to Saigon and points beyond towards China.

Hmm, interesting. I'll do that next turn.

So, I'm VERY conservative with stockpiling switches. My experience is that it can screw up the flow pretty easy. In my current game I have only ONE base (in All of Asia continent) stockpiling anything, and that is FUSAN. Then, I would move Southern command to someplace more useful to support your next major campaign ... CK? Rangoon? Anywhere, but Singapore (or anywhere else with a Lvl 9 port on the Asian continent ...

JB blocking may very well work as well. Never done it, but if so, then I would be careful about stockpiling anywhere else ... once the resource movement algorithm gets hosed, it is a REAL pain to get it to reset* ... RJ may be able to share more experience about it ....


+ I've experienced this in 2 games. One of them I was able to get it back on track ... the other ... non-recoverable. And I mean that I spent a couple of months trying to get it going again ...

I started to do that routinely. If nothing else, loading at Cam Rahn Bay is a shorter haul to the homeland. Or better from Hong Kong, not to mention Shanghai.

If you drain Port Arthur of oil, then oil will flow there. Even from Urumchi! You can "prime the pump" by unloading oil at Fusan with it stockpiled there, then start your CS convoys to attract more oil there. Fuel as well if you stockpile it. Get fuel flowing to whatever port that you want it to flow to by setting the port as the home port of any large TF with it somewhere else where it will stay on station. Then that "home port" will demand fuel in the expected amount that it will need for any operations there as well as the expected demand from the large TFs.

20 Apr 42

Sub War

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5 Fleet

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4 Fleet

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SE Fleet

Well, KB did its thing. I'm beginning to remember how irritating things can be in this game. My goal was to knock down the fighters at Townsville and then hit the airfield and any shipping in the area. Yeah right. Nothing at all happened in the morning. In the afternoon, a daitai of 18 Zeros from Kaga swept Townsville right on schedule and managed to lose 6 fighters while shooting down only 6 enemy planes. I lost 5 pilots. Ok, I can live with that, but all of the enemy fighters weren't sent packing. I was a little worried but I had 36 Zeros assigned to escort the bombers.

Next, 41 Kates (all torpedo carrying) and 90 Vals, escorted by 35 Zeros went after Cairns. Really? Ok, there were fighters that they knew about at Townsville, so I can live with this. A handful of Kittyhawks on a training mission got caught up in the attack and managed to shoot down a Zero and lost 2 Kittyhawks with the rest driven off. Here's where it started to get weird. No other carrier lost a pilot or plane. FOW, I guess. The bombers went in and sank an APD and badly damaged (probably sank, there were sinking sounds later) 3 more APDs. Not a single torpedo hit. I'm having really bad luck with torpedoes. I chalk it up to the fact that the APDs were small and fast. I figured that was that. Well, no.

Another flight of 25 Kates (torpedo armed again) and 30 Vals went after Townsville, and guess what? They had no fighter escort. Really? Well one Kate got through the gauntlet, missed the xAK(!) it launched at, and then was shot down. Now here's where it really got weird.

Hiryu and Soryu launched their Vals and Akagi launched their Kates:

Hiryu: 21 Vals, 14 pilots (so 14 sorties), all shot down, 8 KIA & 4 MIA, 7 planes remaining, and 6 pilots in the unit still! And yes, they're survivors of the attack. There should have been 2 survivors.
Soryu: 20 Vals, 16 pilots (so 16 sorties), all shot down, 5 KIA, 9 MIA & 1 WIA, 2 planes remaining (should be 4), 9 pilots still alive. There should have been 1 pilot left.
Akagi: 30 Kates, 28 pilots (there were 25 sorties), all shot down, 13 KIA, 9 MIA, 2 WIA, 5 planes remaining, 13 pilots left. There should have been 4.

The numbers just don't add up. I'm not complaining because I have a lot of ghost pilots that should be dead. I can replace the losses but it's just irritating that the engine will send unescorted bombers where it knows there are fighters.

At any rate, Ted and I were both scratching our heads. Ted also admitted that he never saw KB coming. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment because I have been seeing a TF slowly moving SW from Pt. Moresby to Australia. I think it's a badly damaged CL that I hit earlier near Pt. Moresby and was in port there trying to repair damage. I moved KB 8 hexes west. There were 3 subs adjacent to KB. Had to get out of Dodge.

I've decided that I'm going to keep KB in port until I can increase the size of the fighter units, which will happen in July.

SRA

Borneo

Nothing to report.

Burma

The invasion force TFs are about to their jump off points just west of Rangoon. I did see that a new unit of about 11k troops arrived at Cox's Bazaar (maybe more Chinese?). I have Imperial Guards Division slated to land there with 48 Division a few days behind as a reinforcing division. I'm going to go ahead with the landing at Akyab and I'll wait and send in both divisions together at Cox's Bazaar a little later.

China

The Zeros shot down 7 Chinese planes for no loss over Lanchow today.

In my maneuvering to clear out more Chinese held bases, I caught and chewed up another Chinese Corps.

Other Stuff

The Ki-44-IIa R&D advanced to 5/42. I upgraded the 5 R&D factories to the Ki-44-IIb, currently scheduled to arrive 7/43. It will become operational 10/42.

The Ann factory is now not needed anymore because the Ha-5 engines are depleted. I'll convert it and the Sonia factory to the Ki-44-IIa on 1 May.

21 Apr 42

Sub War

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5 Fleet

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4 Fleet

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SE Fleet

KB is unspotted again. I have been watching a small TF slowly heading SW from Pt. Moresby toward Australia. I think it's a badly damaged CL that I hit a while back. I saw it it port at Pt. Moresby for a while. I'm hoping that's it. I am going to move KB to the NW so it is just in range of that TF but not any Aussie base. Let's see what happens...

SRA

Borneo

Nothing to report.

Burma

The BB TF and MKB are in position, but the Akyab invasion TF is still lagging a little bit behind. They'll be in position tomorrow and invade the day after. IG Division is waiting for 48 Division TF to catch up. They're still 3 days back.

China

I figured Ted would use his fighters as fighters instead of bombers over Lanchow, but he didn't. I set my LRCAP Zeros at high altitude and the enemy bombers got through. I reset them to lower altitude.

Other Stuff

Reinforcements
DD Teruzuki - Akigumo class - KB escort
DD Takanami - Yugumo class - KB escort

22 Apr 42

Sub War

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5 Fleet

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4 Fleet

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SE Fleet

KB launched at the little TF as I had hoped, but it was at 7 hexes, so no Vals flew. Only 20 Kates (torpedo armed again) escorted by 33 Zeros went after the ships. I saw two DDs and all the TBs missed, again. They're traveling really slow so they're either ASW or they were escorting something I never saw. I'm not sticking around any more. I suspect Ted has every sub in the area headed there. I'm heading east past Tulagi then north to Truk, 4 days away. Then I'll replace the lost pilots and planes and fill up the units with rookie pilots and do a little training.

SRA

Borneo

Nothing to report.

Burma

Akyab invasion fleet goes in tomorrow.

China

Nothing to report.

Other Stuff

Reinforcement
Sagara Maru-1 (9 FP) - I lost the AV Sagara Maru early in the war off Java and rebuilt the air unit. It'll provide naval search somewhere along a SLOC.

23 Apr 42

Sub War

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5 Fleet

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4 Fleet

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SE Fleet

KB successfully got away.

Ted has been bombing 20 Division at Pt. Moresby daily with ~45 B-17Es and a dozen A20As. He figured it was softened up enough to attack. Oops. It didn't go so well for him. The 18 British Division didn't take a lot of losses but the other infantry units got mangled.

SRA

I finally landed at Saumlaki. I intend to build an airbase there to be used to harass Darwin.

Borneo

Nothing to report.

Burma

18 Division landed at Akyab today! I'm not going to attack tomorrow because I want the entire division landed and also want to give them a little time to recover some disruption. The defending units are the 63 Indian Brigade and 100 RAF BF. I don't anticipate 18 Division having any issues taking the base. I may wait until a tank regiment moves over the river to the road hex between Akyab and Cox's Bazaar. That way, I can destroy the units instead of just pushing them out of the base.

I have 2 tank regiments just east of Akyab moving to join 18 Division. They were bombed (unsuccessfully) by 19 Blenheim IVs escorted by 16 Hurricanes. I anticipate they will bomb 18 Division tomorrow so I put 36 Zeros from MKB on LRCAP over Akyab.

China

No more bombing at Lanchow. A reinforcing division is getting close. When it arrives, I attack!

Other Stuff

The Ha-45 R&D advanced to 3/43 and will become operational 8/42.

You could swap some of the Vals for fighters and give them the same target hex as your bombers with the airfield targeted. The fighters will drop their bombs prior to bombing and then engage the enemy fighters.

Apparently you messed up with your approach and should have had Townsville targeted and the only target within the strike distance set.

RangerJoe wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 11:59 pm You could swap some of the Vals for fighters and give them the same target hex as your bombers with the airfield targeted. The fighters will drop their bombs prior to bombing and then engage the enemy fighters.

Apparently you messed up with your approach and should have had Townsville targeted and the only target within the strike distance set.

KB is headed home now. Yep, I screwed up. In all, I ended up losing 5 fighter pilots, 17 DB pilots and 15 TB pilots. Fortunately, I've got a fair number of spares. I'm learning. I don't anticipate any type of aggression from Ted until fall. He starts getting 35 Avengers a month next month. So, he'll have replaced his Devastators with Avengers by early August. I will be able to modify my fleet carrier aircraft load outs in July so I'll be ready with a LOT more fighters than I have now (only 18 per fleet carrier). I'll have ~180 Zeros in KB by then. I'll also have a LOT of reserve pilots (70+/70+ fighter pilot reserves). No operations planned for KB until the load out changes.

Mike Solli wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:21 pm 20 Apr 42

SE Fleet

Well, KB did its thing. I'm beginning to remember how irritating things can be in this game. My goal was to knock down the fighters at Townsville and then hit the airfield and any shipping in the area. Yeah right. Nothing at all happened in the morning. In the afternoon, a daitai of 18 Zeros from Kaga swept Townsville right on schedule and managed to lose 6 fighters while shooting down only 6 enemy planes. I lost 5 pilots. Ok, I can live with that, but all of the enemy fighters weren't sent packing. I was a little worried but I had 36 Zeros assigned to escort the bombers.

Next, 41 Kates (all torpedo carrying) and 90 Vals, escorted by 35 Zeros went after Cairns. Really? Ok, there were fighters that they knew about at Townsville, so I can live with this. A handful of Kittyhawks on a training mission got caught up in the attack and managed to shoot down a Zero and lost 2 Kittyhawks with the rest driven off. Here's where it started to get weird. No other carrier lost a pilot or plane. FOW, I guess. The bombers went in and sank an APD and badly damaged (probably sank, there were sinking sounds later) 3 more APDs. Not a single torpedo hit. I'm having really bad luck with torpedoes. I chalk it up to the fact that the APDs were small and fast. I figured that was that. Well, no.

Another flight of 25 Kates (torpedo armed again) and 30 Vals went after Townsville, and guess what? They had no fighter escort. Really? Well one Kate got through the gauntlet, missed the xAK(!) it launched at, and then was shot down. Now here's where it really got weird.

Hiryu and Soryu launched their Vals and Akagi launched their Kates:

Hiryu: 21 Vals, 14 pilots (so 14 sorties), all shot down, 8 KIA & 4 MIA, 7 planes remaining, and 6 pilots in the unit still! And yes, they're survivors of the attack. There should have been 2 survivors.
Soryu: 20 Vals, 16 pilots (so 16 sorties), all shot down, 5 KIA, 9 MIA & 1 WIA, 2 planes remaining (should be 4), 9 pilots still alive. There should have been 1 pilot left.
Akagi: 30 Kates, 28 pilots (there were 25 sorties), all shot down, 13 KIA, 9 MIA, 2 WIA, 5 planes remaining, 13 pilots left. There should have been 4.

The numbers just don't add up. I'm not complaining because I have a lot of ghost pilots that should be dead. I can replace the losses but it's just irritating that the engine will send unescorted bombers where it knows there are fighters.

At any rate, Ted and I were both scratching our heads. Ted also admitted that he never saw KB coming. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment because I have been seeing a TF slowly moving SW from Pt. Moresby to Australia. I think it's a badly damaged CL that I hit earlier near Pt. Moresby and was in port there trying to repair damage. I moved KB 8 hexes west. There were 3 subs adjacent to KB. Had to get out of Dodge.

I've decided that I'm going to keep KB in port until I can increase the size of the fighter units, which will happen in July.

Frustrating.

I wish I could say I've never seen this before ... but I have. Too many times.

I wish I could say that I understand how/why it happens ... but I can't.

I've run replays, I've done sandboxes .... I can't intentionally re-produce it. When it happens, I can re-load and it will happen again. But, I can't create it. I've taken the exact setup where it did something like this and put it into a sandbox and ... nope, it works more like I intended, not the be-fuddled muck I got in game.

Sorry that you had to experience it on an op that you planned so long for and really had it nailed ... until you didn't. The only thing I can think of is that this is part of GG's randomness thingy ... you went over the 200 plane TF limit and got a terrible roll on cohesiveness, or something like that.

Hi guys. Hope you all had a nice holiday. It was nice here for the most part. The mother-in-law and brother-in-law came Wednesday and left this morning. With them here, the kids and their entourages basically moved in, so it was a madhouse. I was able to run turns in the morning before everyone got up, but no time to post here. I'm a week behind. Also, someone gave me a cold early on, so I spent a lot of time stretched out on the couch. No one would come near me, which was a good thing. I'm an introvert so too many people get to me. Yes, even family. The only one bothered was my 11 month old grandson, who has taken a liking to me. That's really weird, because kids and I usually don't get along. He'll actually come to me over his Mom and Dad, unless he's hungry, then it's all Mom. Anyway, here goes. The house is empty (finally) and I'll try to catch up. Unless Ted sends a turn, of course.

Mike Solli wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 3:41 pm .... No one would come near me, which was a good thing. I'm an introvert so too many people get to me. Yes, even family.

Especially family ... not even ....

Mike Solli wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 3:41 pm The only one bothered was my 11 month old grandson, who has taken a liking to me. That's really weird, because kids and I usually don't get along.

Way cool. Enjoy!! makes up for the "hormone" years you had to put up with ... your kids are finally paying you back for putting up with them ...

24 Apr 42

Sub War

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5 Fleet

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4 Fleet

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SE Fleet

The Dutch squadron bombarded Terapo. I've long since pulled out all but a handful of squads from there. It's really just to distract Ted and it's working.

Other than that, nothing really exciting happened.

SRA

Saumlaki was liberated today. I have supply, engineers and AS enroute to attempt to get the airfield to level 4.

Borneo

Nothing to report.

Burma

Akyab was invaded by 18 Division today. The defenders are the 63 Indian Brigade and a BF. I won't attack unless the enemy troops try to withdraw. That is, until the tank regiment finishes crawling through the jungle to cut off their escape route. That'll take several days.

Just west of Paoshan, a third Japanese tank regiment arrived against 3 Chinese Corps, one of which is combat ineffective. I'll attack tomorrow, because the Chinese have no AT guns here.

China

Nothing to report.

Other Stuff

Nothing to report.

PaxMondo wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 3:48 pm

Mike Solli wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 3:41 pm .... No one would come near me, which was a good thing. I'm an introvert so too many people get to me. Yes, even family.

Especially family ... not even ....

Mike Solli wrote: Sun Nov 30, 2025 3:41 pm The only one bothered was my 11 month old grandson, who has taken a liking to me. That's really weird, because kids and I usually don't get along.

Way cool. Enjoy!! makes up for the "hormone" years you had to put up with ... your kids are finally paying you back for putting up with them ...

Yep! That little guy is a lot of fun. Don't get me wrong. My 2, 4 year old grandsons are great, and we get along really well, but they never were attracted to me at that age. This little guy is pretty special.

No one is coming over today, so it'll be quiet all day. Just WitP and some football this afternoon.

25 Apr 42

Sub War

The I-19 caught another xAK off San Francisco and put a torpedo into her. No report of her sinking.

5 Fleet

Nothing to report.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

Nothing to report other than the daily B-17 raid on 20 Division at Pt. Moresby.

SRA

Borneo

Nothing to report.

Burma

A nice little ambush happened today. 39 Zeros from MKB caught a bombing run against the Akyab invasion TF and shot down 8 of the 10 Hurricane escort and drove off the 3 Cats attempting to bomb or torpedo the TF. There was no loss to the Japanese, only experience.

I8 Division is still waiting for the tank regiment to cut through the jungle to cut off the Indian brigade at Akyab. It's still 4-5 days out.

The Japanese tanks chewed on the Chinese Corps today for no loss. I should have attacked again, but forgot to set it.

China

Chewed up another Chinese Corps while maneuvering.

Other Stuff

Reinforcement
A/50 JNAF Company - It'll park itself on a strategic island and support either a floatplane, recon or 1E bomber chutai.

26 Apr 42

Sub War

I-19 torpedoed an empty xAP off San Francisco. That's 2 days in a row now!

5 Fleet

Nothing to report.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

The Allies invaded Terapo (the base a few hexes up the coast (NW) from Pt. Moresby). If I remember correctly, it's the 2 Marine Raider Battalion. The took a total of 35 disabled squads while landing! I suspect they weren't planning for this operation. I have only a handful of squads from the 2 Raiding Regiment there.

Interestingly, 12 B-17Es were diverted to attack Milne Bay, as opposed to their normal bombing runs on Pt. Moresby. Hmm... The rest of the B-17s hit Pt. Moresby. Mistake or something else?

SRA

Borneo

Nothing to report.

Burma

Imperial Guards and 48 Divisions invaded Cox's Bazaar today. I'm not going to attack tomorrow. They don't have a lot of supply yet. I'll give the TF another day to offload the rest of their supply. It turns out the defenders are:

19 Indian Division
2 Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment
3 Indian Coastal Artillery Regiment

Glad I decided to hold off a couple of days and land 2 divisions instead of the single division I had originally planned on landing. The CD regiments did manage to sink an xAP (and 2 xAKs will succumb to their 6" shells in the coming days, along with an xAP from the Akyab assault). Well worth it though.

China

Nothing to report.

Other Stuff

To date, Ted has not attempted to bomb any of my oil fields. Not once. Even Magwe is pumping out 3k oil a day still even though it is within enemy bomber range. I have Oscars stationed there (currently 45). The pilots are all very good, but they are Oscars. The Tojo IIa will begin production on 1 May, but it'll be slow for a while. I am doing something interesting though. The 2 Tojo factories have been moved to the R&D side of things and are each repairing one a day. They are currently both at 2(28) and will be up to 6(24) by 1 May. That'll basically give them a 6 day jump on if I were to wait for 1 May to have them start to repair. Not much, but I'll take everything I can. My first upgrade will be 47 IF Chutai, with a max of 12 planes. It currently has 2 of the Ki-44 model remaining of the 9 it started the war with. Once I get about 15 planes, I'll upgrade them and send them to Magwe.

27 Apr 42

Sub War

The British sub Trusty put 2 torpedoes into an AK, part of the Cox's Bazaar invasion force, and put her down.

5 Fleet

Nothing to report.

4 Fleet

Nothing to report.

SE Fleet

All of the B-17s hit Pt. Moresby today.

SRA

Borneo

Nothing to report.

Burma

The Cox's Bazaar invasion force put ashore the rest of the invasion troops and a majority of the supply (about 8900 tons). They will attack tomorrow.

The 3 tank regiments hit the Chinese west of Paoshan. They took about a dozen tank disablements (no losses) but chewed up the Chinese pretty well. I see the Chinese are attempting to withdraw across the river back to Paoshan. I forgot to give the tanks attack orders again.

China

I attacked Siangtan (the base due west of Changsha) today getting 2:1 odds but they had level 2 forts. I'll rest a day or two and attack again.

Other Stuff

Reinforcement
C/50 JNAF Company - More AS for a daitai sized unit.