THE WAR COLLEGE-Rio Bravo (A) v. El Lobo (J)

[Rio Bravo]

[center]Japanese Capital Ships Sunk

as of September 26, 1943[/center]


A screenshot listing Japanese Capital Ships sunk is below.

Please note that El Lobo has advised that he has not lost a single Aircraft Carrier, but that one has heavy damage and will take a year to repair.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[BBfanboy]

Did you learn about the CV in repair while plying him with tequila? [:D]

[Rio Bravo]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Did you learn about the CV in repair while plying him with tequila? [:D]

BBfanboy-


Perhaps I did and perhaps I didn't.

I am taking the 5th so as not to incriminate myself.

*laughing*

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

[center]Japanese Submarines Sunk

as of September 26, 1943[/center]


Captain Haggard, almost single-handedly, has sunk thirty-three (33) Japanese submarines.

A screenshot of some of the sunk submarines as of September 26, 1943 is below

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

[center]Allied Submarines Sunk

as of September 26, 1943[/center]


El Lobo has sunk fourteen (14) Allied submarines.

A screenshot of the Allied sunk submarines is below.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Bif1961]

I am at a loss why he has refused to use the KB, at this time of the war it is use it or lose it.

[Rio Bravo]

ORIGINAL: Bif1961

I am at a loss why he has refused to use the KB, at this time of the war it is use it or lose it.

Bif1961-

As you have noticed, to date, the Allies have only faced the KB twice: once at the Marianas Islands and once near the Bonin Islands.

I think that El Lobo does not want to commit the KB until the KB has substantial support by LBA. It appears that he wants to keep the KB in tact for the end game.

However, I know El Lobo very well. He is not going to accept the Allies being on the Marianas and in the vicinity of Formosa and just defend. El Lobo will counter-attack somewhere and hit the Allies hard. Perhaps, when he counter-attacks, we will see the KB.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

[center]September 27, 1943[/center]


Highlights for Today


1.) The Allies skated through the day in the vicinity of Formosa and destroyed fourteen (14) Judy and nine (9) Frank in exchange for one (1) Wildcat and one (1) Hellcat.

2.) Captain Haggard's SS Steelhead sunk a Japanese Tanker and SS Pollack strikes again setting another Japanese Tanker ablaze.


Synopsis of Combat Action for Today


1.) Allied Submarine Attacks Japanese Tanker Near Miyako-jima (hex 93,69).


TK Takane Maru; 3 torpedo hits; heavy fires; and heavy damage (later reported as sunk).


No Allied losses.


2.) Allied Submarine Attacks Japanese Tanker Near Naha (hex 93,69).


TK Amato Maru; 1 torpedo hit and heavy fires.

No Allied losses.


3.) The First Marine Division sent out a Recon Squad in an effort to locate Chungking which has been rumored to be buried in ashes.


4.) Japanese Judy Attacks Allied Invasion Fleet Near Takao (hex 84,65).


15 destroyed and 1 damaged (D4Y3 Judy)
9 destroyed (Ki-84a Frank)

1 destroyed (FM-1 Wildcat)
1 destroyed (F6F-3 Hellcat


5.) Japanese Twin Sisters Attack the 56th Chinese Corps Near Chungking (hex 77,46).


1 damaged (D4Y4 Judy)
1 damaged (Ki-21-IIb Sally)

51 Allied Casualties


6.) Japanese Bombarded Chungking.


No Japanese losses.

442 Allied casualties.


7.) Allies Deliberately Attacked Remnants of Japanese at Pescadores.


289 Japanese casualties
2 units destroyed

31 Allied casualties


Attached below as a link is the entire Combat Report for September 27, 1943.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

[center]Vicinity of Formosa

Operations Bottle, Cork, and John B. Hood

Day Four

September 27, 1943[/center]


Opening Notes of Interest

1.) All of the ground forces with the exception of elements of the 77th Coastal AA unit have unloaded at Takao, Pescadores, and Amoy.
2.) All aircraft have either unloaded or flown off carriers to Takao, Pescadores, and Amoy. A total of 611 aircraft are at these three bases.
3.) Transports continue to unload supply and fuel.
4.) The Allied ground force casualties were minimal at Takao and Pescadores. However, the landing at Amoy cost the Marines approximately one-third (1/3) of their Assault Value.
5.) All troops and aircraft are recovering at a crisp rate.
6.) All ports, airbases, and forts are also recovering rather quickly.
7.) Captain Haggard has laid mines off the coast of Shanghai.
8.) Chesty Puller has been transferred to command the 22nd Marine Regiment located at Amoy and he immediately ordered his troops to march on Tsingkiang which is the Japanese held base forty-six miles East of Amoy.
9.) Within the week, PB4Y-1P and B24D-1 Liberators will fly from Guam to Takao. At the Northeast tip of Formosa lies Taihoku. When the Allies capture Taihoku, Kyushu will be within the normal radius of the aforementioned bombers. Do you think El Lobo has engine or aircraft factories at Kyushu?
10.) A map of the vicinity of Formosa is below and illustrates Captain Haggard’s swarming submarines in the area.

Present Japanese Forces within the Vicinity of Formosa

1.) The Japanese no longer have any aircraft on Formosa.
2.) Japanese ground forces within the vicinity of Formosa are as follows:

• Kagi: 5,300 troops; 62, guns; and 5 AFVs.
• Taichu: 1,620 troops; 53 guns; and 74 AFVs.
• Pescadores: 6,280 troops and 31 guns.
• Tsingkiang: 2,740 troops and 10 guns.


Present Allied Status at Takao, Pescadores, and Amoy

Takao (Operation Bottle)

Port: 4 (0%)
Airfield: 8 (0%)
Fort: 0 (10 %)
Port Damage: 7
Airfield Service Damage: 5
Airfield Runway Damage: 0
Repair Shipyard Capacity: None
Defensive Mines: 500
Supply: 370,129
Fuel: 18,081
Assault Value: 1,135
PT Boats: 24
Aircraft: 215

12 aircraft; 1 squadron (F4F-3 Wildcat)
17 aircraft; 1 squadron (F4U-1 Corsair)
35 aircraft; 2 squadrons; (FM-1 Wildcat)
79 aircraft; 3 squadrons (F6F-3 Hellcat)
36 aircraft; 2 squadrons (SBD-5 Dauntless)
36 aircraft; 2 squadrons (TBF-1 Avenger)

Pescadores (Operation Cork)

Port: 5 (3%)
Airfield: 4 (7%)
Fort: 1 (68%)
Port Damage: 0
Airfield Service Damage: 0
Airfield Runway Damage: 0
Repair Shipyard Capacity: 1,000
Defensive Mines: 440
Supply: 173,152
Fuel: 0
Assault Value: 751
PT Boats: 24
Aircraft: 189

71 aircraft; 2 squadrons (F6F-3 Hellcat)
118 aircraft; 4 squadrons (SB2C-1C Helldiver)


Amoy (Operation John B. Hood)

Port: 3 (31%)
Airfield: 4 (26 %)
Fort: 2 (9 %)
Fort: Port Damage: 0
Airfield Service Damage: 0
Airfield Runway Damage: 0
Repair Shipyard Capacity: None
Defensive Mines:
Supply: 471,786
Fuel: 0
Assault Value: 2002
PT Boats: 24
Aircraft: 207

24 aircraft; 2 squadrons (P-39D Airacobra)
48 aircraft; 4 squadrons (P-40E Warhawk)
12 aircraft; 1 squadron (R4D-1 Skytrain)
39 aircraft; 3 squadrons (C-47 Skytrain)
12 aircraft; 1 squadron (C-47 Dakota)
24 aircraft; 2 squadrons (R5C-1 Commando)
12 aircraft; 1 squadron (PBY-5 Catalina)
12 aircraft; 1 squadron (PBY-5A Catalina)
24 aircraft; 2 squadrons (PB4Y-1P Liberator)

End Note

I don't know whether El Lobo is considering an invasion to take back Takao, Pescadores, and Amoy.

However, in the event El Lobo has such designs, I suspect that it would take him at least a couple months to mount such an invasion(s).

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

[center]September 28, 1943[/center]


Highlights for Today


1.) Captain Haggard's PT Boats mix it up with Japanese minor Combat Ships in the Northern Marianas Islands.

2.) Japanese aircraft attack Saipan, near Pescadores and near Takao. The Japanese lose fifty-nine (59) aircraft in exchange for destroying ten (10) Allied aircraft.

3.) Little remains to be unloaded at Takao, Pescadores, and Amoy. Accordingly, the Operations Bottle, Cork, and John B. Hood Invasion Fleet should be able to head back to Guam within a couple days.


Synopsis of Combat Events for Today


1.) Night time surface combat engagements near Pagan (hex 110,89).


CS Mizuho: 25 shell hits; heavy fires.
E-Fuyo: 2 shell hits.
E-Ishigaki: 2 shell hits; on fire.

PT-180: 1 shell hit; sunk.
PT-186: 1 shell hit; sunk.
PT-229: 1 shell hit.
PT-232: 2 shell hits; sunk.
PT-233: 2 shell hits; sunk.


2.) Japanese ASW attack near Almagan (hex 110,90).

No Japanese losses.

SS KXII: 8 hits.


3.) Japanese air attack on Saipan.


14 destroyed (A6M5 Zero).

1 destroyed (Martlet IV).
1 destroyed (Kittyhawk IV).
1 destroyed (F4U-1 Corsair).


4.) Japanese air attack near Pescadores.


1 destroyed (G4M1 Betty).
2 destroyed (B5N2 Kate).
4 destroyed (Ki-84a Frank).
8 destroyed (N1K1-J George).

3 destroyed (F6F-3 Hellcat).


5.) Japanese air attack near Takao.


9 destroyed (B5N1 Kate).
11 destroyed and 2 damaged (B6N2 Jill).
8 destroyed (A6M5 Zero).
1 destroyed (N1K1 George).
1 destroyed (Ki-84a Frank).

1 destroyed (F4U-1 Corsair).
1 destroyed (FM-1 Wildcat).
1 destroyed (F4F-3 Wildcat).
1 destroyed (F6F-3 Hellcat).



6.) Japanese bomb Chungking inflicting a typical daily result.


A couple damaged bombers.

casualties: 176
Manpower: 180
Fires: 418,670
Airbase: 4
Airbase Supply: 1
Runway: 9


7.) Japanese bombard Chungking.


19 casualties.

142 casualties.


8.) Allies deliberately attack Japanese remnants on Pescadores.


1,383 casualties.
1 unit destroyed.

34 casualties.


Attached below as a link is the entire Combat Report for September 28, 1943.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

[center]September 29, 1943[/center]


Highlights for Today


1.) Chesty Puller battles at Tsinkiang, China.

2.) The Operations Bottle, Cook, and John B. Hood Invasion Fleet is scheduled to leave the vicinity of Formosa and head back to Guam on October 1, 1943.

3.) Captain Haggard's submarine puts the hurt on a Japanese xAK.


Synopsis of Combat for Today


1.) Submarine Attack near Fukue-jima (hex 97,58).


xAK Anzam Maru #2: 1 torpedo hit; heavy fires, heavy damage.

No Allied losses.


2.) ASW attack near Saipan (hex 107,91).


SS I-22: 2 hits.

No Allied losses.


3.) Japanese Bombers trash Chungking (*yawns*).


4.) Allies deliberately attack Tsinkiang.


115 Japanese casualties.

6 Allied casualties.


Attached below as a link is the entire Combat Report for September 29, 1943.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

[center]Coming Event

Operation Hangman's Noose

The Naval Blockade of Japan's Home Islands[/center]



Operation Hangman's Noose is the next major Allied offensive.

The Operation has several components to it, including but not limited too, capturing a total of twenty-nine (29) bases; some of which have already been captured.

The Operation's primary mission is to deny Japanese transports from passing through the East China and the Philippine Seas; thereby denying the Japanese Home Islands from receiving oil, fuel, supply, and troops from their presently expanded empire.

In the near future, I will provide a more detailed synopsis of the operation.

[CaptBeefheart]

“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us… they can’t get away this time.”

The above quote may come in handy if the 22nd Regiment goes a little too deep into Indian country.

Kudos to El for taking on this game as his first computer game ever. That's like putting a non-pilot into a 747 Classic and saying, "OK, fly this beast to Tokyo."

Cheers,
CC

[Ian R]

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us… they can’t get away this time.”

The above quote may come in handy if the 22nd Regiment goes a little too deep into Indian country.

Kudos to El for taking on this game as his first computer game ever. That's like putting a non-pilot into a 747 Classic and saying, "OK, fly this beast to Tokyo."

Cheers,
CC

Is it true that Chesty once conducted a battalion inspection, and was so underwhelmed that he turned round to the CO and said:

"Take me to the Brig. I want to see some real marines."

?

[Ian R]

Twenty nine (29) bases seems like a lot. If you have Formosa, and build it to I think its 5 x level 9 airbases*, (maybe 6) You should be able to stack up the 2E attack bomber squadrons there and get the job done from low level, while your 4Es shut down the IJ airfields on Luzon, etc. You probably need Daito Shoto and Iwo, but Okinawa may be unnecessary if you grab some of the adjacent islands that build to level 6, and can control the airspace with Corsairs while the SBDs go to work.


[* I have been playing ironman, so can't remember what its like in stock, but Formosa (possibly) produces plenty of supplies once you repair the light industry].

[Rio Bravo]

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us… they can’t get away this time.”

The above quote may come in handy if the 22nd Regiment goes a little too deep into Indian country.

Kudos to El for taking on this game as his first computer game ever. That's like putting a non-pilot into a 747 Classic and saying, "OK, fly this beast to Tokyo."

Cheers,
CC

Commander Cody-


The way I heard it in boot camp in 1971 was: Chesty Puller was at the Chosin Reservoir and received a call from Headquarters during which he was informed that the Chinese were on his left, on his right, in his rear and in his front to which Chesty Puller responded, "The Sons a bitches can't get away from me this time."

I could not agree with you more. For his first time playing any war game, El Lobo has bellied-up to the bar and has performed in an outstanding manner. I do not underestimate his ability to prosecute the war on behalf of the Rising Sun. I anticipate that soon, El Lobo is going to strike hard somewhere and I haven't a clue where that somewhere will be.

It doesn't really surprise me that El Lobo has done so well, anything El Lobo does, he does well.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

ORIGINAL: Ian R

ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us… they can’t get away this time.”

The above quote may come in handy if the 22nd Regiment goes a little too deep into Indian country.

Kudos to El for taking on this game as his first computer game ever. That's like putting a non-pilot into a 747 Classic and saying, "OK, fly this beast to Tokyo."

Cheers,
CC

Is it true that Chesty once conducted a battalion inspection, and was so underwhelmed that he turned round to the CO and said:

"Take me to the Brig. I want to see some real marines."

?

Ian R-


I'm not sure if Chesty Puller ever said that quote. I do know that numerous quotes have been attributed to him that he never said.

It does seem like something he would say as he was a rough and tumble Marine whom often got into heaps of trouble himself for one indiscretion or another.

Every single night in boot camp, when the lights went out at night, ninety of us boots would chant in unison from our racks, "Good night Chesty, wherever you are."

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

ORIGINAL: Ian R

Twenty nine (29) bases seems like a lot. If you have Formosa, and build it to I think its 5 x level 9 airbases*, (maybe 6) You should be able to stack up the 2E attack bomber squadrons there and get the job done from low level, while your 4Es shut down the IJ airfields on Luzon, etc. You probably need Daito Shoto and Iwo, but Okinawa may be unnecessary if you grab some of the adjacent islands that build to level 6, and can control the airspace with Corsairs while the SBDs go to work.


[* I have been playing ironman, so can't remember what its like in stock, but Formosa (possibly) produces plenty of supplies once you repair the light industry].

Ian R-


I agree with you regarding bombs away on Japan Proper's airbases and aircraft manufacturing bases.

However, bombing Japan's Homeland is only part of the Allied Grand Strategy.

The Allies also intend to implement a Naval Blockade to strangle Japan's Home Islands from receiving oil, supply, fuel, and troops from its expanded empire. Twenty-nine (29) bases is a substantial number of bases, but each has been carefully chosen to put the Allies in a position to shut down the East China and Philippine Seas. Within a couple weeks, I will post a more detailed description of Operation Hangman's Noose.

Thank you for the tip regarding Formosa Light Industry and the ability of Formosa to produce its own supply. I will definitely look into that possibility as that would be a major help to the Allies.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

[center]September 30, 1943[/center]


Highlights for Today


1.) The Allies capture Tsinkiang, China.

2.) The only Combat Action for today occurred in China.

3.) Operations Bottle, Cork, and John B. Hood have unloaded everything except a little over 12,000 fuel and the Invasion Fleet will be "Getting out of Dodge" ASAP!


Synopsis of Combat Action for Today


1.) Japanese bombed the 90th Chinese Corps near Shaoyang (hex 79,52)


No Japanese losses.

95 Chinese casualties.


2.) Japanese bombarded Chungking.


No Japanese losses.

329 Chinese casualties.


3.) Chesty Puller's 22nd Marine Regiment deliberately attacked Tsinkiang.


512 Japanese casualties.
Japanese retreat toward Foochow.
Chesty captures Tsinkiang.

32 Marine casualties.


Attached below as a link is the entire Combat Report for September 30, 1943.

Best Regards,

-Terry

[Rio Bravo]

[center]By the Numbers

as of September 30, 1943[/center]


Please note that the only House Rule El Lobo and I agreed too was not to play for Victory Points.

Best Regards,

-Terry