Invisible US material eh? This will have diplomatic consequences! How dare you? After all we are doing for you in the Atlantic!
You mean Admiral King completely ignoring our advice and not setting up convoys or turning off the lights in major ports .. what are those bubbles near the stature of liberty i wonder [;)]. Although the 30 4 stackers were indeed very very useful for plugging a much needed escort gap. Now ante up on the Liberators and invade iceland !
We are a good match if im honest , I just like being historical and wailing about needing more (not that i dont but i respect you might need the odd plane too). The extra E models have been grabbed by frantic ground crew before any presidential change of mind.
RE clubs ?? those were the days , long lost and some best left forgotten.
Speaking of traps , the dutch lepy back into Madoein with thier last remaining fighters and nobbled a few free jap bombers , including some nells , no doubt he's got a ton of replacement airframes but i hope i got a few pilots in the mix too. also the 1st dutch ACE ! willkommen.
Morning Air attack on Madioen , at 54,104
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes
Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 21
Allied aircraft
B-339D x 6
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 3 destroyed, 7 damaged
todays big action was in Burma however. Japan tried to lower the forts with an engineer assault. They failed fortunately and took some heavy losses , our vehicle losses seem to be mostly motorised support for the brit 7th armoured and the caribiniers new stuarts , my mistake on the caribiniers as i left a complete fool in charge of the unit with land skill 34 , fired and replaced with mr average at 51 ish. Allied artillery is hurting badly too in mandalay and down to 50% TOE , pools are low/empty for now. New units are being moved to the burmese border and the chinese 89th <iirc> corps now at 89% TOE is railing to ledo to be flown in as its mostly infantry with little heavy equipment. Shwebo remains stubbornly low on supply however.
No japanese experience bonus or Command bonus on combat is interesting , maybe the 2 RTA divs drag his overall exp down. From watching the results (albeit speeded up) the imp guards got gutted as well as 2-3 independant regiments, being in jungle with malaria i hope Japan cant get the damaged units back online very effeciantly.
Ground combat at Mandalay (59,46)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 69637 troops, 663 guns, 520 vehicles, Assault Value = 2744
Defending force 63903 troops, 962 guns, 1448 vehicles, Assault Value = 2188
Japanese adjusted assault: 1148
Allied adjusted defense: 5258
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4 (fort level 5)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
8209 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 363 disabled
Non Combat: 33 destroyed, 615 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 82 disabled
Vehicles lost 163 (6 destroyed, 157 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
838 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 161 disabled
Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 357 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 5 disabled
Vehicles lost 137 (11 destroyed, 126 disabled) oof !
Piccie of N China .. all very odd .. and glacial movement isnt going to lead to any chinese counterattack antime soon. the big red ? is i know theres a jap unit up there but its moved away from my 'partisans' (read buggered inf corps in mountains with no supply).wopnder if my cav corps can cut him off ? I'm not counting any chickens here and it could all be a diversion , so chinese liberators are restriced to close by inf divs and the cavalry, the line still has to be held in the south.
