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Leandros wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:03 pm Hi, everybody - time is running fast and the game has reached November 18th 1944. For those who misses my AAR updates (anybody, at all?) I am sorry to say that I have decided to stop publishing the "Star" as the game has become so time-consuming to keep proper track on with the Allies' constant expansion.

I do have a few unpublished weeks which I may post later but shall not generate new ones. I would like, however, to give a general update:

The allied beachheads on Java (3) and Sumatra (1) are still bogged down. The latest attempt of a Java landing, at Tjepoe on the north coast, has recently failed, three US Army divisions down the drain. That was a great learning experience and I believe I know why it failed so dismally. The allied capture of Samarinda was reversed after a few weeks by a Japanese surprise atttack by their Balikpapan garrison. It is now in enemy hands but Donggala, Gorontalo and Loewok are steadily expanded.

Bandjermasin, Borneo, and Kangean Island are firmly in allied hands and Australian forces have landed outside Dadjangas on the southern tip of Mindanao. The enemy has, however, been able to rapidly expand his defense force there. That shall be a hard nut to crack.

In China, the situation near Chengtu in the Chungking province is a stalemate. British/Indian forces have withdawn from the Lashio front to Myitkyina to later advance on Mandalay. Strong opposition is expected. The situation along the Akyab-Prome coastal road is a stalemate, too.

In the Pacific, Truk has been bypassed and neutralized and Guam and Tinian in the Marianas have been captured by Kiwi, Aussie and Marine forces. Saipan and its northern islands have, for all practical purposes, been neutralized.

Fred

Dili wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2024 9:52 pm Wonderful Fred.

My hat to you as your second opponent.

Leandros wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:03 pm Hi, everybody - time is running fast and the game has reached November 18th 1944. For those who misses my AAR updates (anybody, at all?) I am sorry to say that I have decided to stop publishing the "Star" as the game has become so time-consuming to keep proper track on with the Allies' constant expansion.

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Leandros wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 3:40 pm ...

USAAF B-29s are night-bombing and mining Manila on a regular basis. Enemy night fighter opposition is considerable but so far the US bombers have defended themselves well. Tokyo has also been bombed regularly, with similar results.
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BBfanboy wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:58 pm Pax, I think Leandros is playing the Allied side...

Leandros wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2024 3:40 pm February 23rd 1945

As Tawi Tawi in the Jolo-chain and Tandjoengselong on Borneo are being secured and expanded another island in the Jolo-chain, east of Tawi Tawi, has been invaded and captured by US Marines. As this has been ongoing several allied naval bombardment missions have been carried out against enemy bases on the north side of Borneo - Jesselton and Miri. This to minimize the enemy air efforts to interdict the Marine landings.

Enemy carrier task forces, in concentrations of a dozen or more units, have, too, intermediately tried to support the Japanese interdictions of the Marines' efforts but have succeeded only marginally.

USAAF B-29s are night-bombing and mining Manila on a regular basis. Enemy night fighter opposition is considerable but so far the US bombers have defended themselves well. Tokyo has also been bombed regularly, with similar results.

On Java the Marines' beachhead southwest of Banjoewangi has finally, after three days of very heavy fighting, been broken out of. This came after a large Army force, among it two complete divisions, marched south from Banjoewangi to assist the Marines. The enemy forces, after heavy losses, retreated west towards Loemadjang.

The US Navy and the Royal Navy is concentrating its now considerable carrier forces in bases somewhere in the Pacific and Indian Ocean for future decisive attacks on enemy naval resources.

Fred