General Billy vs Bwheatley (Ended)

[general billy]

ORIGINAL: chestypuller

Heh new to the forum i registered just so i could comment Ok so you're starting to take BB loses now.

Pull back. I looked at the reinforcement schedule and you'll get 40+ divisions and its a 4 year war. You have blooded his nose and wiped out his complete bb/bc force or put them out of action for a long time right?

It seems like he is hell bent on Pearl. He has lost 9000+!!! men to try to land more troops. He is going to throw everything he has at you and you will eventually fall. The points he will get from just killing pearls troops will be a big blow to overcome.

How many dd's do you have left? Can you give us some damage screen shots? Whats your fleet makeup at pearl? You have what 100+ dd's? break them up into fast transport taskforces with a few AO's stationed in positions from PH to Mare and start moving troops out. use dd's at flank speed and let them refuel off the ao's.
That way they can refuel in mid jump.

even if you dont leave pearl get those BB's out of pearl. You have plenty of dd's if you want to keep a harassing force around. Think of it this way....

You pull out of pearl with 600-800 AP take it back to pearl and bide your time. If your game is like all the other games once pearl falls then the other nations are involved. That will open up other avenues i bet he is not expecting. Use the british fleet to tear up pescadores. He seems to have thrown everything to pearl and i bet you 100 dollars everything to the west is free for the harassing.

Just my two cents. But definately give us some screenies!

@ chestypuller

Man you hit the nail on the head, thats exactly what im planning to do. Just wanted someone to say Im right. Just looking for the right time to do it. So far I have around 30 AP and 70 AK at pearl. Thats all the transport ships I can get. They waiting in Pearl. I think I have around 35 DD's, 10 BB's and 3 CA's. All pretty damaged. At present I have one BB with some flooding at 57% so I cant evacuate yet. Once I pull my ground forces out, Pearl will fall pretty soon. Not really sure whens the best time to do it. When I start picking troops with tranport ships I need to defend them, they will load pretty slow. Japs will come and harrass me. I probably lose some ships. And damaged ones may be lost in Pearl when it falls. I can use my surface fleet, BB's CA's , DD and even MSW to fast tranport. Thats the main reason Im keeping BB's at Pearl, so that they can fast tranport in the future, they capacity is good is good too. Also the chances of a fast transport getting away is pretty high. As you said the objective has been done. Ive already knocked out alot of his ships. So far my fleet is sitting at Pearl avoiding any combat. My only concern now is that he will start bombarding Pearl and get some of my ships. But as far as I know about WPO, bombardment dont work that well, so I think my ships will be pretty safe. Supplies and fuel is still well in Pearl.

Options 1. Pull out now, or ASAP when damaged ships have no flooding.

or

Options 2.And let him fight for it hard. Pull out when the land combat odds start to go against me.

I will post some screenshots, everyone likes screenshots [:D]

Thanks for your advice. [:)]


@ BossGnome

I may be able to keep Pearl, but at a great lost to my fleet. I have a feeling Billweatly has another 6 or 7 divisions on Lahaina. There are now 9 divisions on Pearl. All he needs to do is bring them to pearl and the odds will go against me. Only way to stop him is to use my fleet. But looking at what so far has happened. Any future battles aint going to go so well for the US. That last battle I fought didnt go so well.

Thanks for the suggestion

[general billy]

[center]Defenders of Pearl[/center]

[general billy]

[center]Ships taking in water[/center]

[general billy]

[center]What ships are at Pearl[/center]

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[general billy]

[center]Current state of the US battleships at Pearl[/center]

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[general billy]

[center]The score so far[/center]

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[chestypuller]

Well if you stay and fight you run the risk of losing more troops to disablements. Sure it will be fun to shoot up his landing troops but get them loaded up now and save disablements. He's kicking your butt on troop lose points almost 2-1. Don't give him any other means to score hard points (NOT base points) get your guys out and sure he'll get a big vp boost from pearl but they won't stick when you take pearl back.

I mean i guess most people will tell you to pull out. And i'm sure the citizens of hawaii would say stay as well but this game is long man. Get out you make him think he wins and then in a year you are back and you whoop his ass. Also letting him take pearl he'll get cocky. He'll think he has the game won and we both know that is not the case.

Also in my experience when a player thinks the game is lost he will quit. thats just a side point lol. I don't know this cat well enough to say if he would or not. But giving him a little bit of hope might keep him interested in the game.

Once you get out station 5-10 Ao's and as many AE's as you have halfway between pearl & west coast then use them as a midpoint refueling station. You can set them to low aggression and have them be guarded by some DD's & CA's then launch hit and run attacks with dd's & Bb's then you can hopefully get in and out quick and keep him guessing. Which will cause him to keep the bulk of his fleet there which will make him vulnerable down around truk. Which is good points for an allied player .

[Helpless]

ORIGINAL: chestypuller

Once you get out station 5-10 Ao's and as many AE's as you have halfway between pearl & west coast then use them as a midpoint refueling station. You can set them to low aggression and have them be guarded by some DD's & CA's then launch hit and run attacks with dd's & Bb's then you can hopefully get in and out quick and keep him guessing.

In witp you can use AE off port starting from 1945. Guess the same is true for WPO as well...

[BossGnome]

ok, if he pulls out now he saves his troops now... but wouldnt it be even more of a massacre when he will come back?? The japs have had this much trouble taking pearl and they attacked early in the war, before america had a chance to fortify a great deal... now our american friend would wait a year, and then... what? come back upon a whooping NOT ONLY PEARL, but the whole hawaiian atoll filled up with size 9 fortifications? I believe i am too late he has already pulled out, just pointing out the flaws of such a pulling out plan. Taking pearl back will be a total bitch.

However, what house rules are you playing by? If pearl falls, all the other nations usually declare war on japan yes? Then this would mean a nice british, french, dutch and potentially australian (?) fleet coming to rape him from his backside where he has pretty much nothing...[:)]

[chestypuller]

Yea but i just checked out the JAP OOB. It doesn't look like they have any CD's that are more then 14cm thats what 6 in maybe? The guns that were at pearl were 12-16 inchers right?

So I doubt he'll see the japs with enough to kill 9000+ on one invasion. Though the replacements will be an issue. Until Tanker puts in that patch to bring us squad replacements upto 35 per month you won't hardly have anything. You bleed those forces on PH good Billy he wont be able to replace those loses even with 30 squads a month it will take him almost a year just to rebuild 1 division lol. Besides letting PH die you can send in some indian troops from HK to Manilla and hopefully reinforce.

But if he has bataan be careful if he put some cd guns in there you willl be in for a wallop trying to pass. But you could always reland in lingyan (sp) and try to cut him off.

Have you moved troops from indian to hong kong?

Whats the situation in the west? give us some map screen shots!

Are you shipping those troops from PH to west coast or directly to PI?

[MacDandee]

General Billy,

I'd pull out the damaged ships, but not the troops. Your troops are giving a lot better than they are getting and should continue to do so so long as their supplies hold out. You can afford to lose the whole garrison, while I don't think that he can ever repair all of the units that he's committed already. Looks like you've reduced his effective's onshore by ~1/3 already, with his arty loses are even higher. If you can keep your local light naval forces around to make any further landings expensive, I think you can continue to bleed him as he tries to reinforce/resupply.

During my limited time playing the game, my big ground troop losses have been either from opposed landings, or from transports being sunk while units are still embarked. Leaving now will expose your garrison aboard ship now, and make it certain that you will pay a heavy price when you come back to retake the Hawaiian islands.

Have you tried any commerce raiding, seems like with all of his naval losses and his long supply lines, a few cruisers raiding his rear could cost him dearly. What is your PI squadron doing presently?

Anyhow, I'm enjoying the AAR - best of luck whichever way your decide to go.

[general billy]

@ BossGnome

Pearl will be in japs hands and I know it will be a tough fight to get back but I believe with good co-ordination and experience and looking at the mistakes BWheatly done its very possible to retake easy. My units will be fully prepared for the invasion in the future, I will probably go for Lahaina first or go for another base close by and build it to level 3 port and then start bombarding then I will go in. Anyway, the more he garrisions Pearl and Lahaina, the more his troops cant be elsewhere. [:D]

@ Chestypuller

Most British units have or started to move to singapore. Singapore will be my springboard to reinforce Manila. I will have nearly 2000 Assult points in singapore in 20 days time i think. The combine fleet of the Dutch, French, British, Chinese and US is waiting for orders to go in. The mighty british fleet is around about 60 days away. Will post screenshots when they all ready to go in.

Regard Hong Kong. Extra chinese units have been sent to Hong Kong from china. Every port in china is ready for a jap invasion force. But I dont see that happening until the fall of Manila.


@[MacDandee

Thanks, I tried my best to intercept his ships using raiding taskforces, at first I was doing well but when I started to lose ships, I decided its not worth it. I started with 140 DD's and all I have left is 40. I need them to screen future missions i.e. this pull out from pearl and for the future. I did make his landings expansive. My concern was that he now had 10 divisions on pearl. So the longer I hang out on pearl, maybe he break me in one attack. My whole fleet would be forced to be scuttled. He didnt attack for a few days so I wouldnt know what the combat odds would be with the new added divisions he brought in.
My units are now on ships and they are very vanarable now. There is a chance I can lose everything.

Regarding my PI squadron, well they have so far failed in finding any targets and have recently regrouped at singapore with future allies.

US pulls out of Pearl

The operation to pull out has taken place, two taskforces made up of AK, AP and dozens of escorts have succesfully picked up 98 % of the total ground units and are starting to head due north heading back to the west coast. It will be a long and slow journey back since the taskforce contains a number of damaged ships. So far there has been no Japanese surface contacts that have spotted the fleet however US commanders predict that the Japanese will send it fast surface warships to try to intercept them.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/13/22

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ASW attack at 112,67

Japanese Ships
SS UB-143 (O7)

Allied Ships
DD Buchanan, heavy damage
DD Zeilin
DD Shirk
DD Chase
DD Perry
DD Thompson
DD Stoddert
DD Somers
DD Robert Smith, heavy damage
DD Percival
DD Mullany, heavy damage
DD Corry
DD Sinclair

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ASW attack at 112,67

Japanese Ships
SS UB-143 (O7), hits 1

Allied Ships
DD Buchanan, heavy damage
DD Zeilin
DD Shirk
DD Chase
DD Perry

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TF 27 troops unloading over beach at Lihu, 110,67


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ASW attack at 111,66

Japanese Ships
AP Azuchi Maru

Allied Ships
SS H-5

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Sub attack at 112,66

Japanese Ships
SS No. 41

Allied Ships
AR Prometheus, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Buchanan, heavy damage
DD Zeilin
DD Shirk
DD Chase
DD Perry
DD Thompson
DD Stoddert
DD Somers
DD Robert Smith, heavy damage
DD Percival
DD Mullany, heavy damage
DD Corry
DD Sinclair
DD Meade
DD Greene
DD Patrician
DD Wasmuth, heavy damage
DD Young
DD Yarborough
DD Sloat
DD Thatcher
DD Aaron Ward
DD Ramsay
DD Thornton, heavy damage
DD Farenholt
DD MacDonough

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Sub attack near Lahaina at 113,69

Japanese Ships
DD Sumire
DD Tsubaki
DD Nashi
DD Susuki
DD Tachikaze

Allied Ships
SS H-4

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ASW attack near Lahaina at 113,69

Japanese Ships
DD Kusunoki
DD Umi
DD Numakaze
DD Yomogi

Allied Ships
SS H-4

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Sub attack at 112,66

Japanese Ships
SS No. 41

Allied Ships
AR Prometheus, on fire, heavy damage


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 26132 troops, 246 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 145864 troops, 475 guns, 47 vehicles


Japanese ground losses:
89 casualties reported
Guns lost 5
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Pearl Harbor

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3800 troops, 76 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 60210 troops, 52 guns, 0 vehicles


Japanese ground losses:
31 casualties reported



[center]Whats left at Pearl[/center]

[Bill Durrant]

A sad day to see Pearl Harbor fall[:(]

However even sadder is our WitP game - and yes I am the allies with General Billy as the Japs[:D][:D]

[general billy]

ORIGINAL: Bill Durrant

A sad day to see Pearl Harbor fall[:(]

However even sadder is our WitP game - and yes I am the allies with General Billy as the Japs[:D][:D]

Im still waiting for some payback in that game, with all those new toys u will soon have

[general billy]

Japs have Pearl now

Japanese make a mistake in bringing more troops into Pearl, as if there isnt enough already and gets hits hard with Pearls static coastal defenses. Later that day Japs seize total control of the only remaining US Fort.


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/14/22

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ASW attack at 112,65

Japanese Ships
SS No. 40

Allied Ships
DD Aaron Ward
DD Thatcher
DD Gillis
DD Delphy
DD Greene
DD Meade
DD Farenholt
DD Percival
DD Robert Smith, heavy damage
DD Thompson
DD Yarborough
DD Young
DD Patrician
DD Buchanan, heavy damage
DD Hull, heavy damage
DD Mullany, heavy damage
DD Crosby, heavy damage
DD Mackenzie, heavy damage
DD Stansbury, heavy damage
DD Thornton, heavy damage
DD Wasmuth, heavy damage
DD Zeilin
DD Shirk
DD Chase
DD Perry
DD Stoddert
DD Somers
DD Corry
DD Sinclair
DD Sloat
DD MacDonough
DD Doyen
DM Anthony
DM Ingraham
DD Kennedy
DD Walker
DD J. F. Burnes
DD Yarnall
AV Gannet
MSW Sandpiper
MSW Pigeon
MSW Ortolan
MSW Sanderling
MSW Whippoorwill
MSW Penguin
MSW Tern
MSW Seagull
MSW Pelican
MSW Kingfisher
MSW Brant
MSW Widgeon
MSW Thrush
MSW Eider
MSW Partridge
MSW Turkey
MSW Oriole
MSW Cardinal
MSW Tanager
MSW Swallow
MSW Lapwing

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Coastal Guns at Pearl Harbor, 112,68, firing at TF 6
TF 6 troops unloading over beach at Pearl Harbor, 112,68


1261 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Yudachi, Shell hits 4
DD Hatsuyuki, Shell hits 1, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
2048 casualties reported
Guns lost 17

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Coastal Guns at Pearl Harbor, 112,68, firing at TF 44
TF 44 troops unloading over beach at Pearl Harbor, 112,68


17072 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Kashiwa, Shell hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yamabiko Maru, Shell hits 35, on fire, heavy damage
AP Santos Maru, Shell hits 28, on fire, heavy damage
BB Shikishima, Shell hits 52, on fire
AK Yamazato Maru, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Katsura, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yamayuri Maru, Shell hits 88, on fire, heavy damage
AK Wales Maru, Shell hits 37, on fire, heavy damage
AK Tusima Maru, Shell hits 1
AP Hakone Maru
AK Yodogawa Maru, Shell hits 70, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yamazuki Maru, Shell hits 60, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yamasimo Maru, Shell hits 41, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yamahuzi Maru, Shell hits 31, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yamahagi Maru, Shell hits 74, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yamagiri Maru, Shell hits 43, on fire, heavy damage
AK Yae Maru, Shell hits 17, on fire, heavy damage
AK Utide Maru
AK Ussuri Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AK Tyoko Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
AK Turuga Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
AK Toyooka Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
AP Seattle Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
AP Gokoku Maru, Shell hits 31, on fire, heavy damage
AP Teizui Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire
AP Shintoku Maru, Shell hits 54, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tanba Maru, Shell hits 27, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tasmania Maru, Shell hits 67, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tateyama Maru
AP Tatibana Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tatsuta Maru
AP Tatsuwa Maru, Shell hits 30, on fire, heavy damage
AP Turusima Maru, Shell hits 28, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tutukami Maru, Shell hits 19, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tatuharu Maru, Shell hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tatuta Maru, Shell hits 46, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tatuwa Maru, Shell hits 74, on fire, heavy damage
AP Teiun Maru, Shell hits 23, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tempei Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
AP Tenran Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
AP Tenryu Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tonan Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
20113 casualties reported
Guns lost 86

Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Pearl Harbor

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 61287 troops, 62 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 4620 troops, 76 guns, 42 vehicles

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Japanese assault odds: 29 to 1 (fort level 3)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Pearl Harbor base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
702 casualties reported
Guns lost 8

Allied ground losses:
3134 casualties reported
Guns lost 50
Vehicles lost 26


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Ground combat at Manila

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 147459 troops, 488 guns, 49 vehicles

Defending force 52722 troops, 293 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 1)


Japanese ground losses:
6075 casualties reported
Guns lost 25
Vehicles lost 1

Allied ground losses:
1219 casualties reported
Guns lost 26


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 25821 troops, 238 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 140025 troops, 430 guns, 47 vehicles



[center]How it looks[/center]

[general billy]

Japs attack surprise US convoy


A small group of Japanese DD's managed to surprise the fleeing US convoy, but pull back when things start to heat up.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/15/22

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Day Time Surface Combat at 113,62

Japanese Ships
DD Tachikaze, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Tsubaki
DD Nashi, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Susuki
DD Sumire, Shell hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
BB Oklahoma, Shell hits 2, heavy damage
BB Tennessee, heavy damage
BB Mississippi, Shell hits 1
BB Connecticut, Shell hits 1, heavy damage
BB Georgia, Shell hits 1, heavy damage
BB Nebraska, heavy damage
CA Missoula
CA Seattle
CA Brooklyn
CL Birmingham, heavy damage
CL Salem, heavy damage
CL Chicago, heavy damage
AP President Coolidge
AP President Fillmore
AP President Garfield
AP W.A. Holbrook
AP Republic
AP President Polk
AP President Monroe
AP Chaumont
AP St. Mihel
AP Henderson
AP West Point
AK Aldebaran
AK Arctic
AK Bridge
AK Antares
AK Mercury
AK Boreas
AK Castor
AK Coloradan
AK Columbian
AK Hawaiian
AK Kentuckian
AK Mexican
AK Minnesotan
AK Nebraskan
AK Ohioan
AK Panaman
AK Pennsylvanian
AK Tennessean
AK Utahan
AK Trento
AK Charles H Cramp
AK Henry S Grove
AK Pacific
AK Chatanooga City
AK Chickasaw City
AK Ensley City
AK Knoxville City
AK Tuscaloosa City
AK Steel Exporter
AK Steel Navigator
AK Steel Ranger
AK Steel Seafarer


Allied ground losses:
49 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Manila

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 115364 troops, 410 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 51957 troops, 284 guns, 0 vehicles



Allied ground losses:
214 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 26034 troops, 247 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 135592 troops, 411 guns, 47 vehicles


Japanese ground losses:
93 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


[center]Japanese surface group attacks surprise US ships[/center]

[general billy]

Another Jap attack on US convoy

Japs try again to cause damage to fleeing US convoy, this time the convoy is prepared and Japs lose two ships

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/16/22

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Night Time Surface Combat at 113,61

Japanese Ships
CL Chikuma, Shell hits 3
CL Tatsuta, Shell hits 4
DD Numakaze, Shell hits 42, and is sunk
DD Yomogi
DD Kusunoki, Shell hits 10, and is sunk
DD Umi, Shell hits 2

Allied Ships
BB Pennsylvania, Shell hits 2, heavy damage
BB California
BB Idaho, Shell hits 2, heavy damage
BB New Mexico, Shell hits 5, heavy damage
BB Rhode Island, heavy damage
BB Oregon, Shell hits 4, heavy damage
CL Aurora, heavy damage
DM Ingraham
DD Gamble, heavy damage
DD Ramsay
DD Tatnall, heavy damage
DD Buchanan, heavy damage
DD Aaron Ward
DD Kennison, heavy damage
DD Yarnall
DD Thatcher
DD Walker
DD Crosby, heavy damage
DM Anthony
DD Mackenzie, heavy damage
DD Stansbury, heavy damage
DD Bulmer, heavy damage
DD Turner, heavy damage
DD Gillis
DD Delphy
DD McDermut, heavy damage
DD Greene
DD Thornton, heavy damage
DD Morris
DD Meade
DD Sinclair
DD McCawley
DD Doyen
DD Hull, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD MacDonough
DD Farenholt
DD Corry
DD Perry
DD Chase
DD J. F. Burnes
DD Kennedy
DD Mullany, heavy damage
DD Percival
DD Robert Smith, heavy damage
DD Shirk
DD Sloat
DD Somers
DD Stoddert
DD Thompson
DD Yarborough
DD Young
DD Zeilin
DD Wasmuth, heavy damage
DD Patrician
MSW Sanderling, Shell hits 1, on fire


Allied ground losses:
114 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Manila

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 116850 troops, 417 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 51932 troops, 296 guns, 0 vehicles



Allied ground losses:
120 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 26209 troops, 255 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 137378 troops, 419 guns, 50 vehicles


Japanese ground losses:
70 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

[general billy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/17/22

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Sub attack at 108,68

Japanese Ships
AR Kwanto Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Tade
DD Nadakaze

Allied Ships
SS R-17


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Ground combat at Manila

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 108871 troops, 426 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 52197 troops, 300 guns, 0 vehicles



Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 26320 troops, 257 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 131831 troops, 429 guns, 53 vehicles


Japanese ground losses:
95 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

[general billy]

Concern for Manila

US forces holding out at Manila are starting to take heavy casualities. US ambassador request that UK and common wealth forces help support US forces. UK agrees to help in an effort to protect future intrest in the region

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/18/22

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TF 46 troops unloading over beach at Lihu, 110,67


Japanese ground losses:
50 casualties reported

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TF 46 troops unloading over beach at Lihu, 110,67


Japanese ground losses:
71 casualties reported

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Sub attack near Niihau at 110,68

Japanese Ships
AR Kwanto Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS S-32

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Sub attack near Lihu at 110,67

Japanese Ships
AP Taigen Maru

Allied Ships
SS R-11


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Ground combat at Manila

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 133334 troops, 432 guns, 54 vehicles

Defending force 52572 troops, 305 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0)


Japanese ground losses:
3842 casualties reported
Guns lost 35
Vehicles lost 1

Allied ground losses:
1097 casualties reported
Guns lost 29


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 25881 troops, 243 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 128122 troops, 386 guns, 51 vehicles

Additional Comments:-

UK and Common wealth forces agree to send in an expeditionary force to help US forces. UK is not prepared for a full scale war. And a declaration of war has not been issued yet to Japan.

[general billy]

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/19/22

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TF 46 troops unloading over beach at Lihu, 110,67


Japanese ground losses:
91 casualties reported

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Sub attack near Lihu at 110,67

Japanese Ships
AP Shozan Maru

Allied Ships
SS R-11

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TF 46 troops unloading over beach at Lihu, 110,67


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ASW attack at 111,69

Japanese Ships
DD Hokaze

Allied Ships
SS O-14


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Ground combat at Manila

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 105949 troops, 399 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 51731 troops, 287 guns, 0 vehicles



Allied ground losses:
115 casualties reported
Guns lost 6


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Ground combat at Manila

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 26068 troops, 247 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 127927 troops, 400 guns, 52 vehicles


Japanese ground losses:
120 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


[center]UK sends in expeditionary force to Manila.[/center]

14th Indian division is being fast transported to Manila