Ok,this theatre of war is the most difficult one so far,because lack of strenght of my forces. That is of course because of Russia adventure which tie up most of my elite forces.
I will explain all at map below,
General Yammamoto decides that main push must be frontal assault on Mandalay and for that cause he ordered troops to clear terrain south of river.
Left group liberate Magwe and push the enemy towards Mandalay,this group consist of
two divisions (55th and 56th),23rd mixed bde along with one tank regiment and eng.reg.
these units will pursue enemy to river crossing south of Mandalay.
Central group will push north from Meiktila towards the river,i am sure that this group will arrive at river crossing before enema which fleeing from Magwe. These enemy formations must be destroyed.
Central group consist off two divisions(Imperial guard and 33rd div.) along with 4th mixed regiment one tank division and artillery. This group is und3er direct command of CinC for Burma operation gen. Yammamoto.
And for now,most important task has the right group. This group today liberate Taung Gyi and has critical task to cut off the Burma road and help our effort in China.
This group consist of 4. mixed bde and one tank regiment.
The orders are clear,press forward to Lashio and cut of Burma road.
The main problem in Burma is great lack of air support,Yammamoto has only few Oscar sentais which are used to protect Rangoon and Bangkok from enemy 4E bombers. Front line troops have no air support and that is a main problem. I can only hope that these elite troops can push to Mandalay with almost everyday allied bombing from bases far north.
Second problem is my left flank,Imperial HQ correctly forseen that enemy reinforcing Andamans and decides that Andaman islands must be liberated to secure safety on left flank. Two brigades loading in Soerabaya to sail north on Andamans. Admiral Tanaka will provide support for this operation with "Indian fleet" which consist of two BBs and escorts.
This operation will be tricky one,and many things depends of pure luck.
Everything going as forseen,my central forces reach the river crossing and tomorrow or day after we shell push enemy behind river. There is 30 allied units at Mandalay,hmmm we shall see.
Allied air forces destroying resources in Burma,and i cant do nothing about it.
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Day Air attack on Meiktila , at 32,31
Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 33
No Allied losses
Resources hits 8
Aircraft Attacking:
23 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
10 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Meiktila , at 32,31
Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 87
B-17E Fortress x 51
Big push in central China is prepared,i will wait for few divisions and strike Changsha.
Operation to liberate Ichang is discarded and my units will liberate Changsha instead. That will not be easy task.
Allied forces still pressing on Sian,but fort level 9 and 2000 Aps stopping them very effectively.
RUSSIA
If he dont pull his units from Vladivostok he will be soon in big trouble. Five divisions which i send across the valley north of Vladivostok reach NE tip of Vlad. and they will march 60 miles more,after that Vladivostok will be soraunded and he is having another Manila to worry of. We shall see.
There is no air strikes today because i am resting my planes a little,but 6 BBs pay a visit to Vladivostok with awful results[:@]
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Naval bombardment of Vladivostok, at 65,33
Japanese Ships
DD Yuzuki
DD Kikuzuki
DD Satsuki
DD Uzuki
DD Oboro
DD Isonami
DD Kawakaze
DD Yamakaze
DD Tokitsukaze
CL Oi
CL Kitakami
CL Nagara
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
CA Kinugasa
CA Aoba
BB Hyuga
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato
Allied ground losses:
324 casualties reported
Guns lost 48
I wasnt able to post last few days but game is on[8D]
BURMA-INDIA
I am still gathering my scattered forces south of Mandalay and i am almost ready to push north across the river-destination Mandalay.
Enemy unit which blocking the road on my left flank is pushed back to Mandalay.
As i say before,my lack of air forces in Burma puts me in big trouble because allied 4E bombers start to bomb Rangoon from 6000 feet and airfield is in danger of closing. Because of that annoyance Imperial HQ decides to move four Zero daitais from Russia to Burma along with five crack (90+ exp.) sally squadrons. These forces now resting at Manila and within few days they will be sent to Burma. With these elite forces situation in Burma will be turn to our favor once again.
Invasion of Andamans (Operation "Broken sword) entering in final stage,invasion fleet will join up in two days in waters of Malacca straight and sail to Port Blair. With Andamans liberated i will be able to press on Akyab by the sea.
This operation will be supported by admiral Tanaka "Indian fleet" which bombarding Port Blair almost constantly in last two weeks.
CHINA
My forces push back two chinese unit north of Nanchang and pursue them along the river to Changsha. Everything is ready for upcoming siege of Changsha.
Bombers from Nanchang will tomorrow close airfield at Changsha and bomb the town to stone age.
In northern China enemy pressing on Sian,but he cant do very much here. Troops from Yenen start to march tovard river and i will tra to encircle enemy via Kunchang.
Southern China is quiet for now.
RUSSIA
Very problematic front.
I have air,land and sea superiority here but static unit NE of Vladivostok stop all my efforts to encircle Vlad. Destruction of this unit is painfully slow and will take more than two weeks[:@]
ALEUTIANS
Invasion of Adak island will start tomorrow or day after.
He move some Boston bombers to Adak and try to bombard invasion fleet loading at Kiska. KB provide fighter support and every single Boston is shot down[:D]
His constant bombardment of Rangoon with 4E monsters at 6000 feet push me to sent crack zero daitais in Burma,to be more specific in Moulmein.
Zeros came today and show the enemy 4E monsters who is the ruler of the sky in Burma.
50% of 4E flying craps turn away as soon as they realize that is zeros out there[:D]. Few of them fly and bombard Rangoon port with pathetic results[8D].
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Day Air attack on Rangoon , at 29,33
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 51
Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 44
B-17E Fortress x 32
Tomorrow Adak island will be invaded,my forces is just one click away from island under protection of KB.
After Adak nothing can stop us to liberate Dutch Harbor[8D]
He is trying to bombard my invasion fleet with Bostons[:D],only thing these Bostons find on sky is crack zeros from KB.
I will post later some maps with air losses and also ship losses.
Imperial navy finally invaded Adak island,Dan fortified island well and we have some serious losses in transport ships.
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Coastal Guns at Adak Island, 97,38, firing at TF 82
TF 82 troops unloading over beach at Adak Island, 97,38
3494 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Boko Maru, Shell hits 5, on fire
AK Hinode Maru
CL Abukuma, Shell hits 4
AP Koyo Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsushima
AP Koryu Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Akebono
AP Kisaragi Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
CA Kumano, Shell hits 15
AP Kimishima Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
CA Ashigara, Shell hits 12
CA Atago, Shell hits 7
AP Juko Maru, Shell hits 3, on fire
AP Jinsai Maru, Shell hits 20, on fire
AP Igasa Maru, Shell hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
AP Hanakawa Maru, Shell hits 12, on fire
AP Gyoko Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
AP Ginyo Maru
DD Isokaze, Shell hits 1
AP Enju Maru, Shell hits 1
CL Sendai, Shell hits 14
AP Eli Maru, Shell hits 5, on fire
CA Tone, Shell hits 4
AP Ayaha Maru
DD Shiranuhi, Shell hits 1, on fire
CL Isuzu, Shell hits 15
AP Asama Maru, Shell hits 1
AP Achou Maru, Shell hits 11, on fire
AP Kiyozumi Maru, Shell hits 21, on fire, heavy damage
AP Heiku Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
AP Uchide Maru, Shell hits 2
AP Toko Maru
AP Tsunushima Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AP Ryuyo Maru
DD Yakaze
AP Kuroshio Maru, Shell hits 9, on fire
AP Kizan Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
AP Kaiko Maru, Shell hits 2
Japanese ground losses:
8129 casualties reported
Guns lost 36
Allied ground losses:
410 casualties reported
Guns lost 8
Vehicles lost 5
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quite big losses despite that CAs was involved in action.
Second landing: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Coastal Guns at Adak Island, 97,38, firing at TF 82
TF 82 troops unloading over beach at Adak Island, 97,38
1604 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
CL Sendai, Shell hits 37, on fire
AK Hinode Maru
AK Mayachi Maru, Shell hits 5
AK Yuki Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Sawakaze, Shell hits 10, on fire, heavy damage
AK Takegawa Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Yakaze, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Shozan Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Shiranuhi, Shell hits 36, on fire, heavy damage
AP Sangetsu Maru, Shell hits 11
CL Isuzu
AP Shinyo Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Isokaze, Shell hits 15, on fire
CL Abukuma
DD Sanae, Shell hits 3
AP Kizan Maru, Shell hits 19, on fire
DD Akebono, Shell hits 1
AP Kaimyo Maru, Shell hits 2
AP Kaiko Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire
AP Kaika Maru
DD Hatsushima, Shell hits 4
Japanese ground losses:
2207 casualties reported
Guns lost 20
Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
He try then to attack invasion forces with once again Bostons and once again these brave pilots flying those craps found only zeros[:D] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Day Air attack on TF at 97,37
After that he do a new foolish move and sent attack against KB[&:],with warhawks and mitchells[:-] Attack was over and sea turn to red with blood of allied pilots.
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Day Air attack on TF at 97,37
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 58
Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 37
B-25C Mitchell x 9
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet (deadly altitude,unrealistic)
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
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Troops are unloaded and Imperial command issue order to go and take the control of the island. Brave soldiers charged on fortified americans (fort level 7) and manage to crush forts one by one:
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Ground combat at Adak Island
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 30944 troops, 243 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 827
Defending force 7813 troops, 120 guns, 30 vehicles, Assault Value = 26
Japanese max assault: 585 - adjusted assault: 243
Allied max defense: 12 - adjusted defense: 58
Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 7)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 6
Japanese ground losses:
450 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Allied ground losses:
278 casualties reported
Guns lost 17
Vehicles lost 1
Tomorrow,forces will rest and conduct final shock attack after.
CA Atago hits mine at Adak and probably she will be few months out of comission .
My ASW efforts finally gave me a results,S-45 is sunk near Kiska.
RUSSIA SITUATION
At last,enemy fort NE of Vladivostok finally fall today after combo air-ground attack.
He start to move some units from Vladivostok because he will soon be encircled.
i did a mistake and he sent one tank brigade accros desert in my rear and capture Arshann[:@]
Well,that is only annoyance,tank regiments are already dispatched to remove that annoyance.
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Ground combat at Arshaan
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 2712 troops, 9 guns, 134 vehicles, Assault Value = 79
Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0
Air offensive begun today against Mandalay. I manage finally to gather air forces at Moulmein and start the air offensive. Mandalay is,was,defended by warhawks which can do nothing against my crack zero pilots[:D]
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Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,29
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 103
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 26
Ki-21 Sally x 132
Ki-49 Helen x 24
My ground units still waiting on south side of the river,i wont cross the river to Mandalay before my forces secure right flank at Lashio. it will take probably 10-20 days.
In the meantime Mandalay will be turned to dust.
My big concern is allied 4E concentration at India,this could be very painful.
He bombards Magwe today in numbers: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Day Air attack on Magwe , at 31,29
Allied aircraft
Blenheim I x 12
Wellington III x 64 [X(]
P-40B Tomahawk x 30
B-25C Mitchell x 44
B-17E Fortress x 58 [X(]
Operation "Sword" ships still waiting at Malacca straight for last part of invasion fleet,while they waiting Tanaka "Indian Fleet" shall visit Port Blair once more.[:D]
CHINA
He try a shock attack today against my troops at Sian which is fortified at level 9[:D],
attack finish with predictable allied loss[:D]
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Ground combat at Sian
Allied Shock attack
Attacking force 123257 troops, 827 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3506
Defending force 121228 troops, 1445 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 2544
Allied max assault: 300 - adjusted assault: 2
Japanese max defense: 2384 - adjusted defense: 5206
Allied assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 9)
Japanese ground losses:
62 casualties reported
Guns lost 11
In central China my forces come to position from which they can launch attack on Changsha
Everything is going according to plan in China for now.
RUSSIA
Imperial command decides to exterminate Russian air forces totally. Crack Sallys escorted with zeros took off from our bases and strike against his air forces:
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Day Air attack on Kuysyshevka , at 68,25
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 52
Ki-21 Sally x 125
Ki-49 Helen x 26
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4
Allied aircraft
I-16 Type 24 x 17
MiG-3 x 20
Yak-1 x 16
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 12
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagovyeschensk , at 67,25
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 46
Ki-21 Sally x 58
Allied aircraft
I-16 Type 24 x 39
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 2 destroyed, 8 damaged
Adak islands is finally liberated from imperialistic hands,our glorious troops take island in last charge.
First came kates from KB to soft the enemy positions:
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Day Air attack on Adak Island , at 97,38
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
B5N Kate x 117
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 2 destroyed, 10 damaged
Allied ground losses:
53 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 1
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 17
Runway hits 61
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Ater that came a final strike from ground forces:
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Ground combat at Adak Island
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 31666 troops, 255 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 830
Defending force 7335 troops, 97 guns, 30 vehicles, Assault Value = 25
Japanese max assault: 675 - adjusted assault: 744
Allied max defense: 15 - adjusted defense: 43
Japanese assault odds: 17 to 1 (fort level 5)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Adak Island base !!!
Japanese ground losses:
85 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Allied ground losses:
6597 casualties reported
Guns lost 95
Vehicles lost 17
ehheeh, the usual "BLOODY" Hawker[:D]
Your opponent however made a huge mistake not fortifying the hex NE of Vlad. With that hex fortified enough it's nearly impossible go through Vlad frontally...
Now you have the chance of sourrounding the place and the whole Russian Army! Great job Hawker...however, don't waste too much time at Vlad. As soon as he's sorrounded, leave at Vlad only 3000 AVs and disengage the rest of your troops, then move to conquer the rest of Russia, keeping Vlad daily suppressed with tons of bombers in order to drain his supplies. Only when Russia will be conquered, go for the final redoubt: Vladivostok[;)]
Hi General,he has aprox. 300k troops in Vladivostok,in few days they will be sourraunded totally.
I will attack Suchuan with amphibious assault to close all exits for enemy. I have 90 % of all sally bombers in Russia and Vladivostok will be turn to dust.
Look at this way,with VPs for Vladivostok plus VPs for 300 k russians,auto-victory is certain. He plays very well,but he did a mistake in Russia,HE MUST PREVENT ME TO ENTER VLADIVOSTOK.
I remember what you done to stop me at Vlad.[;)]
I think that Japan offensive in Burma going to status quo for now,enemy has 35 units at Mandalay and i dont think that enemy wall will broke. I keep pressure on Mandalay with bombers from Moulmein and AF is closed for now.
My units south of river start to move to Mandalay and in two days they will tra shock attack.
This attack is ordered to cover our right flank which has the most important task to cut off Burma road,i dont expect nothing in Mandalay.
Operation "Sword" ships finally set sail from Malacca straight to Andaman islands covered by Tanaka "Indian fleet".
After all these operations take place i should hold Andamans,Burma road will be cut off and enemy will be hold at Mandalay. I must say that my units will take defensive posture after that because lack of units putting me in bad situation in Burma. I will leave strong garrisons and pull out main units.
On south we establish a strong bases at Kendari,Lautern and Amboina. plenty of supply and these bases is turn to impregnable forces. On this front we start planning defensive to counter enemy attacks in next year.
Soerabaya also turned to big base with forts on max and big AF.
Oil and resource flows peacefully to Japan from here.
CHINA
Units are marching toward Changsha from all directions,few enemy units are encircled and will be destroyed. Changsha is key now, if i manage to take city quickly i will gain momentum once again in China.
Because of his unpopular using 4E monsters on low altitude i decide to destroy resource centers in Changsha. Most of resource centers are destroyed and ma airforce will continue with strategic bombing campaign.
On north,he press on Sian and brought 20 units there,nothing he cant do because i have 3000 APs there and fort level 9. He try to shock attack on Sian and that,not very smart move ends up in disaster for chinese units.
RUSSIA
Main front,units NE from Vladivostok still marching south to complete circle around town,few more days and Vladivostok will be cut off from other Russia bases.
In meantime invasion fleet approaching Suchan from south to cut off last exit from Vladivostok. 40 units will be hopelessly trapo there and auto-victory should occur 1/1/1943.
My air force almost completely wipe out russian air force,he has some air assets which are so tiny that i must proclaim: RUSSIAN AIR FORCE DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE.
ALEUTIANS
Reorganization of forces,i must rest my units for upcoming attack on Dutch Harbor and that should take one month probably. Attu island is reorganization point.
KB sent to Japan for R&R,they deserve it because my CVs almost are almost constantly on sea from start of war and some of them just need little harbor time and refit.
CENTRAL PACIFIC
I dont have much to report here,Wake is fortress now with 100k of supply and big AF.
Kwaielian is also turn to fort along with Tarawa. Enemy cannot do anything here in this year,this theathre should be safe until mid 1943.
SOUTH PACIFIC
After liberation of Milne bay i will start reorganizing troops here,PM is heavily fortified with plenty off supply,Rabaul is main base of operation. Lae is turned to great air base for support PM in future. Problem is that enemy holds Solomons and i just dont have assets to take Lunga,i have one division with SSD and one brigade here and that will not be enough.
Still i will conduct air recon and after that we should see,Lunga is main objective for now,CV Hiyo came to Rabaul to support our interests in south pacific.
Yamashita preparing troops for over a month and finaly gave order to lunch operation "Sword"
Liberation of Vladivostok.
Every single unit in Vladivostok has 100 prep.,every single unit has full strenght and Empire could not wait any more.
First,highly experienced (85+) IJA bombers cover the sky above Vladivostok and start to soften defences with poor results.
Second, Tanaka BB fleet bombard Vladivostok with less then average result
Third, Army group "South" launch deliberate attack against defenders of Vladivostok and manage to destroy one fort.
Defenders of Vladivostok are out of supply.AF damage is 100 for few days now. There is only matter of time but victory is certain.
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Ground combat at Vladivostok
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 488765 troops, 5373 guns, 487 vehicles, Assault Value = 9636
Defending force 250891 troops, 2753 guns, 384 vehicles, Assault Value = 5680
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 8
Japanese max assault: 9738 - adjusted assault: 3878
Allied max defense: 5728 - adjusted defense: 40397
Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 8)
Japanese ground losses:
23480 casualties reported
Guns lost 836
Vehicles lost 29
Allied ground losses:
2442 casualties reported
Guns lost 111
Vehicles lost 3
Well,i dont update this AAR for some time now because i catch my opponent peak in this AAR.
Dan promise not to look anymore but i will probably update only past battles and not future plans from now on.
