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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

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Mountains ? Don’t exaggerate. « Over the hills and far away » would be better.

Don’t forget your 40 shillings for the drum...


Lowpe, enjoy your time with your family.

Surely Yuki no Shingun would be a more likely choice?

One may only wish for it...

Just finished my turn with Lok, and I am sitting on an exciting turn here, just haven't found time to run it yet.

Supposedly very bloody, which means Chittagong troops got wiped out, the Division is stuck off base unpacking adjacent to Chittagong which means they are out of the maneuver war for weeks....and, and perhaps our little three destroyer raid near Babeldoab struck paydirt.

I am curious to know what happened on the east coast of Oz....

Will post as soon as I run it...

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Xargun

Just remember sometimes if the top unit in the stack is going one way and the rest are going another, you don't see the other arrows. Not sure what causes this but I have seen it enough times to remember it.

Xargun

Almost. There will be other pips showing the other movements, but they are quite small and easy to overlook. I suspect the game designers made it that way to allow this sort of deception.

I use a magnifying glass. There are also software magnifiers people use.

As you can tell from some of my pictures I use the Windows + to zoom in....still hard to tell sometimes.

Jan 16, 1942

Babeldoab...had a few potshots at the Mizuho and missed...got to within 4k yards...just poor destroyers when faced with any kind of opposition better than a PB.

Strategic Bombing...

Still holding...

IJA Tank Spearhead clears the Sian road...but I will take it...the IJA Tanks are seriously eroded and will need time to recover, and we are busy flying in AT assets.

A good result...

Burma

Oh, what should have been.[:@]

We have to fight all out at Chittagong and try to salvage the situation...lousy guerillas ruined everything.[:(]

Royal Tanks (another 42 Stuarts) and 17th Aussie Bde are near Delhi...on fast trains.

East Coast of Oz

F4Fs swept Bundaberg...ok result.

Caught some Sallies in Burma with Buffaloes...

Singers...

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

F4Fs swept Bundaberg...ok result.

Caught some Sallies in Burma with Buffaloes...

In the Ops Loss total column the four largest numbers are IJ aircraft and the fifth largest is a tie between Buffalos and Oscars. But then compare the ops losses to the total losses for the same aircraft and the IJ is a much higher proportion of Ops loss than Allied aircraft. He is stretching his air forces unsustainably, IMO.

If you divide the total losses by the number of days that the war has been going, the IJ fighter losses look sustainable to me.
The total A6M2 losses are only 2-3 average per day, so probably being covered by production.
Pilot losses would be a fairly low % of the 105x A6M2s lost.

Betty and Nell losses are high though, and unlikely that they are being built at the rate they are being lost.
More than 100 experienced IJN strike pilots lost with them too.

How is supply in Singers and the PI holding up? Are you able to sneak anything in?

Cheers,
CB

Going well everywhere still

That Chittagong thing isn't good though

Doesn't the 18th start off with far less A/T and 25 pounders than its supposed to, tends to need a bit of time and replacement devices to be combat ready

Going to need a bit longer now!

India - Nathan's goal here will be to make your divisions combat ineffective long term and require months worth of replacements to fill them back up. He will use shock attacks as a standard way to do so. Once he gets a situation like he has around Chittagong, he will keep doing this until those troops are barely a cadre or until they are destroyed. I highly suspect he will try to use the industry around Calcutta for as long as possible, but not go anywhere close to the "Line of Death."

ORIGINAL: Lowpe
We have to fight all out at Chittagong and try to salvage the situation...lousy guerillas ruined everything.[:(]

Royal Tanks (another 42 Stuarts) and 17th Aussie Bde are near Delhi...on fast trains.

I'm afraid you might've got over-excited with naval and air results and started defending forward too soon. It serves you good in Western Oz and so-so in Eastern one. But initial Indian troops are crap compared to Aussies. It's infantry squads and devices that matter here, not territory. Let them live through upgrades with not too much stuff lost - that is the strategic goal in India in my opinion. And 18th might not have helped you much, with open terrain and incoming bombardments in Chittagong

Also I recall being cut off in Eastern India through 42 and suffering huge squad/device losses as a result is a theme that surfaces in Allied AARs quite frequently.