July 23-25 1942
Not much has happened over the last few turns, so I'll give a brief update on the situation in India and then discuss future plans in the near-medium term elsewhere.
India
In India, there have been no movements around Asanol/Jamshedpur and I can discern no movements heading towards Raipur. Indeed, the only movements I can see are in a southern direction. Moreover, John has one division on the outskirts of Bezwada and one division still sitting at Cocanada with no movement back towards Calcutta. If he planned to make a concerted push back at my main lines of defense, I would think he'd need to move his forces back from the west, but he is not doing so. As of now, I see no need to reinforce the west, but this can easily be done, with my other British divisions set to strat to quickly move if needed. The 18th British Division arrived a Bezwada, along with some base units and AA. The hex now has 859 AV and 3 forts (building towards 4).
If John does move this way and somehow breaks through, I have already been building defenses from early on here. Madras is at 6 forts and 37% of the way to 7 forts with 484 AV (26th Indian Division + 267th Armored Brigade). Warangal has base units and planes at the moment only, but has level 5 forts (the 2nd British division is moving here).
While this is going on, since John seems to have drawn down forces around Calcutta and there is little pressure on me. The 70th British ID, 7th Australian ID, 41st US ID, and potentially 40th US ID, will move at the division east of Asanol (in a jungle hex) or on Asanol itself (clear hex), where John now only has 883 AV and 2 Divisions, and Ind. Artillery Unit.
Elsewhere
I am planning taking Canton, Baker, Vaiutpu, and Funafuti - these are not so much major operations as they are quick events using fast transports (garrisons in these areas are light or non-existent). I just want to deny John deep eyes on my LOC in the SoPac.
At the same time, I will do landings at Sagigk Island, Seguam Island: one is a green dot, one is a very lightly held Japanese island with 1 airbase. Both of these are very close to Adak. The goal here is not to setup future invasions of Adak in the medium term, but to make John think I plan to do this. These landings will happen before landings elsewhere. A tangential benefit is that I could of course do future landings at Adak.
After these, I will do a landing at Ndeni and potentially go for Lunga and hopefully draw John's attention there. Meanwhile, forces are planning for Ceylon in India, where John seems to have very little. Actually, John seems to have very little anywhere except India.
Air Losses for the 25th
" - BBfanboy
