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23 June 42 - 2/20/2008 5:21:09 AM   
Jim D Burns


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At Townsville 2 allied air raids are intercepted by zeroes flying LRCAP over the base. 7 allied Kittyhawks are lost in air to air today while only shooting down 3 zeroes in return.

The bombers get through for the most part however and cause some pain to the newly arrived Japanese Guards Division.

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Day Air attack on Guards (2nd) Division, at 46,105

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 26
Beaufort V-IX x 26
B-26B Marauder x 43

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed, 7 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 5 destroyed, 16 damaged
Beaufort V-IX: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed, 23 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
158 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on Guards (2nd) Division, at 46,105

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11

Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 19
B-25C Mitchell x 9

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 2 destroyed, 15 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
58 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing at 6000 feet
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In Burma Magwe falls to a Japanese brigade.

Other than land bombardments at Townsville and Tennant Creek, nothing else of note happened this turn.

I should note that all allied troops in Burma are now behind the level 9 forts at Mandalay, except for the Assam Rifles battalion and 3 baseforces, they are at Myitkyina building up fort levels and guarding against a para drop.

With just over 1100 AV at Mandalay, I should be able to hold the base for quite some time. In about 3-4 days the first Chindit brigade to arrive on map will finally have reached Ledo and I’ll air lift it to Mandalay.

I’ll then pull out one of the SEAC brigades at Mandalay. Turns out I cannot air lift out most of the brigades because they are attached to India Command which is a fixed HQ, so just a couple of the brigades are eligible to leave via air lift for refit in India.

In another 2-3 months, more of the Chindit brigades will have arrived and I’ll then consider marching out the more decimated India Command brigades that have such low morale levels.

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24 June is a very quiet day. Allied bombers hit Magwe in Burma and Japan conducts land bombardments at Tennant Creek and Townsville.

25 June has two allied sub attacks that miss their targets. Both subs evade the escort’s counter-attacks.

In Burma, allied bombers hit Meiktila but cause no damage to the base. I’ve switched all medium bombers to ground attack missions, since they aren’t doing enough damage to the bases to make any difference.

Allied heavy bombers in India are busy upgrading to B-24D’s, so I’ve stood the groups down that aren’t upgrading so they can recover a little morale while waiting for the other groups to repair their air frames.

A Japanese mixed brigade captures Taung Gyi in Burma today. It’ll be a month or so before that unit can march out of that hex.

Townsville and Tennant Creek are both subjected to land bombardments again today.

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RE: 24 – 25 June 42 - 2/21/2008 8:58:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		I would send your LCUs from Mandalay to Imphal and then back for rebuilding. They will move to the hex next to Imphal and then take about 30 days to move along that stretch of 60 miles at about 2 miles per day. Afterwards, its a quick march back to Dacca/Calcutta.

I had the SE Asia HQ at Calcutta and the India Command HQ at Dacca with both prepping for Mandalay to help with its defense (their range is long enought to do so). Then, I send LCUs to the correct HQ for rebuilding. 

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26 June 42 - 2/21/2008 10:37:47 PM   
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Two more allied sub attacks miss their targets today. The SS Porpoise NE of Cooktown gets hit hard by the ASW counter-attack and is ordered back to port. With 49 float damage, it’s not guaranteed she’ll make it.

Japan just completed a level 2 airfield at Daily Waters last turn, so this turn I switched my Hudson’s at Alice Springs to attack the airfield. This was a mistake, as Japan launched a deliberate attack at Tennant Creek and blew away my defenders with a 4-1 attack. I doubt the Hudson’s could have saved the base, but had they bombed one of the attacking divisions, it may have prevented the retreat and allowed my units a chance to flee.

With all my units 100% prepared for Tennant Creek, I have no idea why my adjusted AV was cut in half. All the units had 60+ experience and no fatigue or disruption to speak of, except for one or two units that had been affected by the land bombardments. The Cavalry division and about half of the independent companies were in near perfect condition.

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Ground combat at Tennant Creek

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 43820 troops, 212 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 983

Defending force 12888 troops, 104 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 230

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese max assault: 852 - adjusted assault: 432

Allied max defense: 217 - adjusted defense: 105

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Tennant Creek base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
676 casualties reported
Guns lost 30
Vehicles lost 3

Allied ground losses:
480 casualties reported
Guns lost 23


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
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Japan conducts an air raid at Charter towers today. 8 Helens are escorted by 42 zeroes and only 14 Kittyhawks fly to defend the base. 2 Kittyhawks were destroyed in air to air and 1 marauder was destroyed on the ground. No Japanese planes were lost in the raid.

Allied medium bombers from Rockhampton hit the guards division at Townsville today.

Rockhampton is now a level 6 airfield and 8% of the way to completing level 7. Once it reaches level 7, I’ll move the allied heavies in and start hammering Cairns and Cooktown again.

I’ve recently done some reorganization and upgrading of allied air squadrons. Soon I’ll have 7 squadrons of B-24D’s (84 planes) and 4 squadrons of B-17E’s (48 planes) to put in Rockhampton when the airfield is finished. That’s 132 heavy bombers that I can use to pound Japanese troops and airfields with every day.

The B-24D’s will hit Cairns every day from Rockhampton (normal range of 11 attack). The B-17E’s will hit the ground troops at Townsville every day, and the allied medium bombers will all base out of Charter Towers and hit Cooktown every day.

Even though Japan has over 100 zeroes in Australia now, I don’t see him being able to withstand the daily raids for long. Eventually I’ll close his airfields and then I can focus the majority of the air power on his massive land army at Townsville.

If I had to guess, I figure it’ll take about 1-2 weeks to finish the level 7 airfield.

Japan conducted a land bombardment at Townsville today, but the casualties reported were unusually low. He’s been getting reports of several hundred or more casualties a day, so I find it odd that so few casualties were reported today.

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Ground combat at Townsville

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 147657 troops, 725 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3643

Defending force 86177 troops, 522 guns, 278 vehicles, Assault Value = 1657



Allied ground losses:
71 casualties reported
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I’m about half way to completing level 8 fortifications at Townsville. I think it was a real mistake for my opponent not to bring more bombers with his airforce. 100 zeroes guarantee he currently dominates the air in Northeastern Australia, but that is all it accomplishes.

I think 50 zeroes and another 50 bombers would have been a better force to bring if his air support is limited to 100 or so planes. Of course then I may have a chance to penetrate his CAP then with my medium bombers and their small escort, so I don’t know, perhaps the fighters were a better choice.

It prevented me from seriously damaging his fleets as they brought in the troops. It also eventually drove me out of Townsville and Charter Towers for a while. I’m back now, but I dare not attack his bases yet with so many fighters flying CAP over them.

But if I manage to get to level 9 forts, his Australian gambit may be a bust. Unless his land army manages to pull down the forts now that it is so large. I’m really dreading his next deliberate attack.

I’m also sending both remaining squadrons of LB-30’s to China this turn. One from Brisbane will rebase through Broome before that base falls. The other from India arrived in Chungking in one flight.

With an extended range of 16, these two groups can interdict all the sea hexes in the Formosa straight all the way to Luzon’s northern tip. They can also conduct port attacks and strategic attacks all over the place while being relatively untouchable at Chungking.

Chungking is a level 8 airfield now and I have 132 fighters there, 72 of which are the AVG and their P-40B’s, so I think this redeployment will soon be causing my opponent all sorts of headaches.

I evacuated 4 of the US baseforces from the PI to China and they are all in Chungking now slowly rebuilding, so I have plenty of air support for all these planes in Chungking.

I paid the full political price to change the units to SEAC command so I could ship them out of the PI, then I paid to change them to China Command once they landed. They are now rebuilding in China spending supplies in China, so I feel I’ve not gamed the system by sending these units (along with 1 large engineer regiment) to China so soon.

I’ll change the two LB-30 squadrons over to China Command as well. Basically anything I send to China will be paid for in political costs. It’s not a house rule, but I feel it should be one, so I’ll play using that self-imposed limitation.

Jim


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RE: 24 – 25 June 42 - 2/21/2008 10:42:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

I would send your LCUs from Mandalay to Imphal and then back for rebuilding. They will move to the hex next to Imphal and then take about 30 days to move along that stretch of 60 miles at about 2 miles per day. Afterwards, its a quick march back to Dacca/Calcutta.

I had the SE Asia HQ at Calcutta and the India Command HQ at Dacca with both prepping for Mandalay to help with its defense (their range is long enought to do so). Then, I send LCUs to the correct HQ for rebuilding. 


I have a similar setup as you, though SEAC is at Dacca and India Command is at Calcutta. I started air lifting in the Chindit brigade last turn, so once it arrives I'll pull out one of the SEAC brigades.

I want to keep at least 1,000 AV in the hex to prevent Japan from taking it too easily. Remember these troops are all very low experienced and have very low morale, so pulling more than one brigade out at a time right now could cost me the base.

Once another Chindit brigade arrives, I'll be able to pull two at a time out and then I'll start marching to Imphal as you suggest.

Jim


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27 June 42 - 2/22/2008 2:32:00 AM   
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Japanese troops begin landings at Pinrang on the Celebs. This is the last allied controlled base in the SRA, which some Dutch remnants managed to retake several months back. Looks like Japan is just getting around to mopping them up now.

With Tennant Creek in Japanese hands, I’m able to assign my Beaufighter VIF night fighter squadron to an airfield attack, and it adds its 100lb bombs to the Hudson’s attack. I’ll make this raid a daily raid from now on.

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Day Air attack on Tennant Creek , at 34,95


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIF x 15
Hudson I x 62
F-4 Lightning x 4


Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Hudson I bombing at 6000 feet
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Allied medium bombers from Rockhampton hit the Guards Division at Townsville again today. Recon spotted a Japanese task force approaching Cairns, so I’ve set the medium bombers at Charter Towers to Naval attack. Hopefully they won’t get shredded by Japanese CAP if they fly this turn.

14 unescorted Helens hit Charter Towers this turn. 13 Kittyhawks were flying CAP and only managed to shoot down one bomber. No allied planes were lost on the ground and only 1 runway hit was scored.

The US 32nd Division is ashore at Sydney now and as you can see from the screenshot, it’s still in pretty bad shape. I’ll leave it at Sydney until it is fully repaired.




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28 June 42 - 2/22/2008 3:18:19 PM   
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Not a good day for allied sub ops. Japan launches two ASW attacks and the one near Milne Bay is conducted by the uber ASW APD’s. US sub SS S-39 goes to the bottom under a relentless hail of depth charges.

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ASW attack at 21,47

Japanese Ships
AP Izumo Maru
AP Ginyo Maru
AP Tatsuta Maru
DD Harukaze
DD Uranami

Allied Ships
SS Truant
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ASW attack at 56,97

Japanese Ships
APD Patrol Boat No. 35
APD Patrol Boat No. 34
APD Patrol Boat No. 33
APD Patrol Boat No. 32

Allied Ships
SS S-39, hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
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The Truant manages to evade its pursuers, but spots several AP ships in the fleet. Being south of Port Blair, this leads me to wonder if perhaps an invasion of the tiny island isn’t afoot. With just a little over 80AV on defense, he can probably take the base with just a couple of NLF/SNLF's.

A quick perusal of the island shows my units are well prepared for the base, but forts are only up to level 2 and the airfield isn’t capable of supporting aircraft. So it looks like the only thing I have that can oppose the landings are the almost 2,500 mines I've managed to recently lay around the base.




I also have the Dutch surface fleet at Colombo, but it is pretty banged up from all the high speed supply runs to Port Blair it has been making, and it is just going into port now for some yard time.

The majority of the British Fleet is sitting at Anchor at Bombay. I’ll dispatch a few task forces next turn, but I doubt they can reach the island in time to oppose anything. If there is any sign of KB, I’ll withdraw back to Bombay.

Japan conducts an unescorted raid over Noumea with 8 Nell bombers against allied shipping unloading at the base. 8 P-400’s rise to defend the base, but don’t even engage a single bomber. My P-38F’s have been stood down recently for morale recovery, so only one squadron was flying CAP.

No ships are hit, but I decide to evacuate all extraneous shipping at the base to Auckland just to play it safe. The Australian surface fleet had also been at anchor at Noumea, but with Luganville recently abandoned by my opponent, I decide to send it south as well. No sense getting them blasted by Nells for no real gain.

I discovered two air groups on the west coast that can upgrade to the P-38F’s recently (the ones that start the game with the Chinese fighters). Both are aboard ships now headed to Pearl Harbor and will rebase the rest of the way to Noumea from there.

Once I’ve got three squadrons of P-38F’s to defend Noumea, I’ll feel comfortable basing shipping at the base again.

I now have about 1,000 AV on New Caledonia at the three bases combined. So when the fighters arrive I’ll put together a small invasion to retake Luganville with one of the RCT’s from Noumea.

Japan’s land bombardment at Townsville today causes 500+ casualties with the same attacking AV, so perhaps the low casualty report before was FOW or something.

Nothing else to report this turn.

Jim




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RE: 28 June 42 - 2/23/2008 11:11:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Jim, Port Blair is important but not decisive. Don't waste any important force there...It's too easy for him to take it at this stage...

Above all i'm confident about Townsville...i really think he has fallen into his own trap in Eastern Oz...now he cannot anymore break your defences there

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29 June 42 - 2/23/2008 1:50:35 PM   
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Dutch subs make two attacks today, one at Palembang and one at Singapore, but both attacks miss their targets. The Dutch skippers manage to evade any counter-attacks.

Allied bombers hit Tennant Creek today and cause moderate damage to the base. Allied medium bombers from Rockhampton also hit the Guards Division at Townsville again.

Two allied air strikes occur against Japanese shipping today. The first is launched a few hexes north of Broome by the single defending Hudson squadron there. Amazingly one hit is scored by the relatively inexperienced squadron, but damage appears very light.

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Day Air attack on TF at 24,80


Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 12


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Hakone Maru
AP Baikal Maru
DD Fuyo
AP Takachiho Maru, Bomb hits 1

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Hudson I bombing at 6000 feet
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Looks like my opponent is going right for Broome, I’ve reduced the squadrons bombing altitude to 2,000 feet to hopefully help accuracy a bit more tomorrow. Brome has a small intrinsic garrison in the baseforce with about 25 or so AV. I doubt it’ll hold but who knows, perhaps my opponent expects no AV at all and only brought a construction unit or something.

The next attack was a big one, launched by my medium bombers at Charter Towers to attack the fleet currently at Cairns. 36 Escorting Kittyhawks engaged 51 zeroes and 10 Rufes flying CAP over the base.




Amazingly my boys held Japan to just a little over a 2-1 kill ratio in air to air fighter kills and all of the bombers managed to slip through. 10 of the bombs dropped found their targets and 4 Japanese AK’s suffered under the allied bombs. That should put a crimp in my opponents resupply efforts for a bit.

Unfortunately with no Kittyhawks in the reserve pools, I was forced to stand down these squadrons, so no follow-up strike will be launched tomorrow. Man I can’t wait until I get some more fighter squadrons to send to Northeastern Australia, the three Kittyhawk squadrons simply can’t stand the strain even though all 40 of the production fighters go to those three squadrons each month.

When the three P-38F groups arrive in another 10 days, I’ll pay political points right away to change them to SWPAC command and get them to Australia ASAP. So in about a month the fighter game in Northeastern Australia should shift enough to allow me to conduct strikes like this more often.

The 14th Chindit Brigade arrived in Karachi today. I’ve ordered it to march to Ledo, where it will be air lifted to Mandalay to join the 77th Chindit Brigade which is about 2/3rds lifted into Mandalay now.

My subs in the Malacca straights spot another Japanese task force heading north towards Port Blair this turn. Both spotted task forces are just east of the Northern Sumatra base of Kuala now. I predict landings will commence at Port Blair in three or four turns.

At Bombay I created three British task forces. Two are 15 ship CV task forces and one is a 12 ship surface task force. The two CV task forces have two CV’s each if you’re counting the CVL Hermes as one of the four, one fleet has 90 combat aircraft the other 74. The surface group has 3 BB’s, 1 CA, 5 CL’s and 3 DD’s. So pretty much the entire British navy is now afloat with orders to head to Colombo.

If KB still hasn’t been detected in the area and the Japanese fleets are still around when the British reach Colombo, I’ll refuel the fleets and then send them on a full speed hit and run mission, to try and bag some Japanese shipping.

I also rebased 96 Blenheim IV’s to Akyab this turn. It turns out they have an extended range of 10, so they can just reach Port Blair from the level 4 airfield I just completed at Akyab recently. With 105 aviation support and a requirement of 128, I may be able to fly several good missions against his fleets.

I don’t expect Port Blair to hold for long, but if it can hold for a few days, I may be able to pull this off. Unless of course KB shows up and puts the kibosh on the entire operation.

Jim




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Jim, Port Blair is important but not decisive. Don't waste any important force there...It's too easy for him to take it at this stage...

Above all i'm confident about Townsville...i really think he has fallen into his own trap in Eastern Oz...now he cannot anymore break your defences there


Hi G.H.,

I wrote off those units at Port Blair the day I based them there. I guess I could do an emergency airlift and pull some of the units out, but at this stage I'm pretty strong in India, so I prefer to stay and fight to the last with what I have there.

I agree with you about Australia. With the US 32nd Division recently landed and the Americal Division soon to arrive once I replace them with the 1st Marine Division, I’m confident I can hold Australia even if Townsville falls before I can get those two American divisions into the line.

By falling back to Rockhampton, I then add the Australian division defending there to the front line, which will make it 4 Australian divisions and 2 US divisions, along with all the other small stuff currently at Townsville.

I simply don’t see Japan making headway against that force with the 7-10 divisions he has in the NE now. Townsville and Charter Towers may yet fall though. I’m not quite as optimistic as you with my current force levels there, one more division should do it though.

But (there’s always a but), I’m really weak in central and western Australia. Should he land a 4-6 division force and come fast on either of those two axis’, I’d be in real trouble and would probably be forced to abandon several coastal bases and use their garrisons on the new threat axis.

But I don’t know what he has available right now, perhaps 10-12 divisions is his max effort. I’d also be able to spare a division from SPAC if he made that move, so my options continue to grow while his do not.

Jim


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RE: 28 June 42 - 2/23/2008 6:22:22 PM   
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Status: offline 		What do you have at Alice Springs?? If you lose that base then the whole western part of Australia is at risk and thus he could cut you off from India (See John 3rd vs Canoerebel AARs).

SeaBees should be coming on line in increasing numbers, so building of forts and AFs should be a lot easier for you. I have so many now (end of 12/42) that some are building up rear areas.

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The last day of June proves to be an eventful one. The Sturgeon makes a sub attack on a Japanese AP at Soerabaja, but misses. Then three Japanese ASW attacks are conducted, and the Dutch sub KXVII at Singapore gets hit for minor damage. I decided to leave it on patrol.

Allied bombers hit Tennant Creek again today for minor damage to the base. The two Japanese units at Townsville are hit.

Japan conducts two air raids today. 54 Nells hit Port Blair causing no damage, one Nell is shot down by flak. Brome is hit by 19 Nells and 15 Bettys, but only 2 runway hits are scored. One Nell is shot down by flak.

Japan then commences to land troops at Derby today and the baseforces 2 small CD guns cause lots of damage to the invaders task force.

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Coastal Guns at Derby, 24,85, firing at TF 137
TF 137 troops unloading over beach at Derby, 24,85


127 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
PG Choan Maru #2, Shell hits 4, on fire
AP Yamura Maru, Shell hits 1
PG Uji
AP Nissen Maru, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Sanae, Shell hits 2
AP Hokuriku Maru, Shell hits 2, on fire
AP Fukko Maru, Shell hits 6, on fire
DD Arashi, Shell hits 1, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
392 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Then to make their victory complete, during the land movement phase, the baseforce marches southwest out of the hex, thus preventing Japan from forcing their surrender when the base falls. The unit had only been making 5-10 miles a day, so the timing here was absolutely perfect, it has to tweak my opponents ire.

There is a task force one hex north of Broome as well, so it looks like he’s going for both bases at once. For some odd reason my Hudson’s at Broome failed to launch any air strikes today. The effectiveness of my CD guns at Derby helps offset this a bit, but they should have launched with two invading task forces so close to their base.

Then in a completely unexpected move, Japanese troops begin unloading at Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. Up until about 1 week ago I had been keeping a PT boat squadron stationed at Amchitka to oppose just such a landing.

But since Japan had made no moves into the Aleutians, I had assumed all his efforts were directed to the south in Australia and no invasions were imminent. So I pulled the PT’s back to Dutch Harbor to repair some of their system damage.

This time it was Japan’s timing that was perfect. Had he come just a week sooner…

Anyway I formed my PT’s into a squadron and gave them full speed orders to run to Amchitka. It’s only 8 hexes from Dutch Harbor and they show a 6/6 movement speed, so I’m hoping they catch the Japanese unawares this turn. With my luck though, they’ll stop one hex short and he’ll be able to get away.




I recently landed a RCT at Adak Island, and Umnak Island is already a level 2 airfield. I’ve toggled off all other construction at Umnak, this should allow me to base bombers there before Japan can complete a bomber base at Amchitka.

Adak doesn’t have an engineer unit yet, it’s sitting at Victoria awaiting the convoys that took the RCT to Adak to return to pick it up.

KB or a portion thereof is spotted heading northwest out of the Malacca Straight into the Indian Ocean. I’ve recalled the British task forces and ordered all ships form Ceylon to sea, with orders to retire to Bombay. Allied naval air across India is placed on naval attack.

Britain requests another BB and 2 x DD’s this month. I’ll have to send them because all my political points have been spent on West Coast units. That’ll leave the British with just 2 BB’s in theatre.

Looks like July is shaping up to be a busy month.

Jim

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RE: 28 June 42 - 2/24/2008 2:13:01 AM   
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What do you have at Alice Springs?? If you lose that base then the whole western part of Australia is at risk and thus he could cut you off from India (See John 3rd vs Canoerebel AARs).

SeaBees should be coming on line in increasing numbers, so building of forts and AFs should be a lot easier for you. I have so many now (end of 12/42) that some are building up rear areas.


Take a look at the image I created on the previous page, its linked in the first post on the page. It shows my entire Australian deployment as of one month ago.

But to answer your question, once the retreating units from Tennant Creek arrive and the last independent company arrives, I'll have about 600 AV or so. I can also send the 61st Reserve Philippine Division north from Adelaide if need be.

I managed to evacuate through Timor onto Australia a good chunk of that unit from Kendari after the retreat there. So unlike the other Philippine units that all have about 20-30 squads, this unit has over 100, so it can add some AV to the battle if I’m desperate.

But with morale in the 30’s and a similarly low experience level, I prefer to keep it rebuilding if I can. Once it’s fully fleshed out and trained itself up into the 45-50 experience range, then I’ll send it as part of the permanent garrison. It needs about 100 more squads or so and gains 3-6 per week, so it’s a couple of months or more at least from being combat ready.

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Sub ops today consist of two separate allied ASW attacks on Japanese sub I-30 operating near Rockhampton. The sub evades the first attack, but gets pounded in the second. It’s nice to get a little payback for the recently sunk S boat.

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ASW attack at 48,115

Japanese Ships
SS I-30

Allied Ships
MSW Townsville
MSW Mildura
MSW Lithgow
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ASW attack at 48,115

Japanese Ships
SS I-30, hits 8, heavy damage

Allied Ships
MSW Townsville
MSW Mildura
MSW Lithgow
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Allied medium bombers from Imphal hit Meiktila today and score 3 hits on the resource there. Then in an apparent attempt to make up for the lack of missions yesterday, my lone Hudson squadron at Broome flies three separate raids on Japanese shipping in Northern Australia.

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Day Air attack on TF, near Broome at 22,85


Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Brazil Maru
AP Tango Maru
AP Kogane Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Hudson I bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85


Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 3


Allied aircraft losses
Hudson I: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
AP Miike Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Hudson I bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Broome at 22,85


Allied aircraft
Hudson I x 12


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
PG Heijo Maru
AP Hakone Maru
AP Baikal Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Fuyo

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Hudson I bombing at 2000 feet
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Only 3 bomb hits were scored in the three raids, the two ships hit were previously damaged AP’s heading north away from Derby. With Japanese troops landing at Broome this turn, I’ve rebased the air squadrons at Broome to other bases.

20 Japanese Nells and 16 Bettys hit Broome but only score 1 runway hit.

Both Derby and Amchitka fall to unopposed Japanese assault today.

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Sub ops today consisted of a Dutch sub attack at port Blair which missed its target. The Dutch sub suffered 2 hits from escorts and is ordered to return to port. Also an allied ASW attack near Auckland failed to hit Japanese sub I-29 about 5 hexes northeast of the base.

At Port Blair Japan conducts two naval bombardment attacks today with a cruiser force and causes heavy damage to the base. Almost 2,500 mines in the hex and the bombardment force isn’t touched…

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Naval bombardment of Port Blair, at 23,34


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Do 24K-2: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Kinu
CL Natori
CA Myoko
CA Chokai
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
820 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 63
Port hits 1
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Naval bombardment of Port Blair, at 23,34


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Do 24K-2: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Kinu
CL Natori
CA Myoko
CA Chokai
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
190 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 6
Runway hits 27
Port hits 1
Port supply hits 2
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Later in the turn Japanese troops begin to unload and the minefield begins to make itself felt. A total of 9 mines hit 5 separate ships (Izumo Maru was hit in both phases) in the two unloading phases conducted today. Additionally 1 DD is hit by CD gunfire, probably fired by one of the brigade’s 6pdr AT guns or 25pdr artillery pieces as I have no dedicated CD guns at the base.




With 2,404 mines left at the base, I’m hoping the coming days see similarly successful results.

KB and probably mini-KB as well are detected 4 hexes WNW of the base. 2 subs nearby are ordered to the hex. My medium bombers at Akyab failed to fly today, so KB must have a pretty sizable LRCAP over Port Blair right now.

Allied bombers hit Tennant Creek today and cause moderate damage to the base.

At Broome Japan launches a 7-1 deliberate attack with a brigade and a tank regiment, overwhelming my small baseforce garrison. Almost 5,000 Australians march of to POW camps. Guess I should have ordered this unit to march across the outback as well.

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Ground combat at Broome

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 10044 troops, 4 guns, 70 vehicles, Assault Value = 221

Defending force 3797 troops, 23 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 28

Japanese max assault: 203 - adjusted assault: 99

Allied max defense: 28 - adjusted defense: 13

Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 4)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Broome base !!!


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

Allied ground losses:
4771 casualties reported
Guns lost 12
Vehicles lost 1
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Both Attu and Kiska Islands fall to Japanese assaults today. That makes three island bases in the western Aleutians now under Japanese control.

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Status: offline 		Mines are a strange thing...i think it's better to have many different and little minefields than few and bigger ones...

Anyway, Port Blair in the hands of the japs won't change much your strategical situation in India...so don't bother too much!

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Status: offline 		I am really enjoying this AAR, thanks for putting it on! Great read!

Port Blair doesn't seem that important for Japan; it's a seaplane base, and nothing more. I could be wrong. It is important though for the Allies as a springboard to a landing in Thailand later in the game.

It can't be used offensively by the Japaneses, but CAN be used by the Allies.

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Status: offline 		I would say Port Blair is important for the japanese because of two things....
1: it's important to the allies
2: at least in CHS it can be build to level 4 AF and with that his nells and bettys can reach out and touch....

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US sub SS S-31 torpedoes a loaded Japanese AP at Cairns today. The skipper then surfaced and fought a short gun duel with the AP and they scored 2 hits and received 1. Damage to the sub was light, she’ll remain at Cairns.

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Sub attack near Cairns at 48,102

Japanese Ships
AP Teiryu Maru, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1

Allied Ships
SS S-31, hits 1

Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported
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My first long range bombing mission flown from Chungking launched today and hit the resource at Taihoku on Formosa Island. Several hits were scored and I noted there is now Japanese air power stationed at the base this turn. One of the Chinese bombers was shot down by flak, I’ll have to increase their altitude to match the heavy bombers in the future, since there are only a few of these bombers in the replacement pool.

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Day Air attack on Taihoku , at 49,44


Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 24
IL-4c x 12


Allied aircraft losses
LB-30 Liberator: 2 damaged
IL-4c: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Resources hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x IL-4c bombing at 6000 feet
6 x LB-30 Liberator bombing at 15000 feet
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I plan to hit any strategic target I can within 12-16 hexes from Chungking that has no fighters stationed at the base. Once I’ve forced my opponent to station fighters at his rear area bases, I’ll switch these bombers to port attacks and naval attacks.

Allied bombers also hit Tennant Creek today. My recon spots 1 Japanese unit one hex SW of Tennant Creek this turn. Looks like he’s pursuing my retreating units, but they are already two hexes away and should all move a third hex this turn, so I think they’ll make it to Alice Springs before he can force another land battle.

Today’s land bombardment at Townsville shows there are now just 6 Japanese divisions at Townsville. My recon spots a Japanese division one hex northeast of Townsville, so it looks like he’s doing one of two things. Either he is withdrawing from his attack, or he intends to move west and try for a move west through the jungle towards Charter Towers.

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Ground combat at Townsville

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 136126 troops, 757 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 3073

Defending force 84298 troops, 521 guns, 279 vehicles, Assault Value = 1656



Allied ground losses:
143 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Vehicles lost 1
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I will probably send the US 32nd Division to Charter Towers next turn, to guard against just such a move. Charter Towers currently only has about 30 AV in the hex, and the Dutch armor unit is heading there to act as garrison as well. That’ll only give the hex 60-70 AV though, so I’ll need some sizable reinforcements in case he tries marching through the jungle.

Japan launches a deliberate attack at Port Blair today and gets a 2-1 odds attack. The assault also pulls down a fort level, so it looks like the base will fall tomorrow.

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Ground combat at Port Blair

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 5825 troops, 16 guns, 85 vehicles, Assault Value = 168

Defending force 9635 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 94

Japanese max assault: 172 - adjusted assault: 180

Allied max defense: 82 - adjusted defense: 73

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1


Japanese ground losses:
202 casualties reported
Guns lost 7

Allied ground losses:
486 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
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KB has moved northwest away from Port Blair towards Madras, so I switched my medium bombers at Akyab to ground attack this turn in hopes they’ll finally fly a mission. If they can disrupt tomorrows attack, they may be able to save the base for a while, since Japanese shipping has already headed south.

That means if I can cause tomorrows attack to fail, he probably won’t have enough supplies left to launch another attack until he brings in a resupply fleet. That’ll give me time to pull out the Indian brigade with my float planes

The bad news is my Dutch mine laying fleet (along with my 2 British Auxiliary minelayers) is currently trapped in port at Madras. I had been trying to get them west of Ceylon when KB appeared, so they ran into port at Madras. I’ve stationed 72 P-40E’s at Madras to try and save the ships from KB, but my guess is the next couple of turns are going to be painful for my Dutch minelayers and my P-40E’s.

My high speed British Abdiel class minelayers are safely tucked away at Bombay, so I’ll have some decent mine laying ability still, even if he manages to sink all of the Dutch minelayers.

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Status: offline 		Hi Q-Ball and tlkiilerich,

Thanks, and you’re welcome, glad you’re enjoying the read. Welcome to the thread.

I agree Port Blair is important and once Japan has that level 4 AF, the entire area along the east coast of India and Burma will be off limits to my shipping until I can spare enough heavy bombers to keep Port Blair suppressed. Akyab will be the key base from here on forward, as it will allow my heavy bombers to fly normal range missions to Port Blair if I can hold onto Akyab.

My gaming instinct means I would very much like to fight for Port Blair now, but the reality is anything I send there will be lost eventually. It’s simply too early in the game to contest an isolated island base like Port Blair, especially since Japan’s land based AF’s give him complete air dominance in the area.

The reality is if Japan wants it Japan gets it in 1942 when it comes to island bases. And Japan would never allow me to continue to hold Port Blair now that he’s moved into Burma. He needs it to secure his naval route into Rangoon, so even if I dumped both British divisions on the base, Japan would bring 8-10 divisions to oppose them eventually.

Once I have sufficient heavy bombers in India though, I can quickly start to turn the tables and soon thereafter it will be one of my first counter-attack targets.

Hindsight being 20/20, I think I should have simply pulled all my troops out of the base when I had the chance. I had hoped to catch my opponent unawares, but he always seems to bring enough strength to the party to assure he captures the bases, so I’ve just wasted a brigade and some good air support units by trying to pull off this failed little surprise. As soon as he started moving into Burma, I should have left, as I knew he then had to take Port Blair too.

If my Blenheim IV’s launch this turn, hopefully it’ll buy me some time and I’ll have a chance to save something, if not all three units are goners.

Jim


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Today’s sub ops consist of a Japanese ASW attack against the S-31 at Cairns. The subs skipper then turns the tables on the attackers and conducts his own attack on them and scores a hit on a DD. It cost him however as the 2 hits scored on the sub in the counter-attack cause heavy float damage.

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ASW attack near Cairns at 48,102

Japanese Ships
DD Yuzuki
DD Minekaze

Allied Ships
SS S-31
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Sub attack near Cairns at 48,102

Japanese Ships
DD Yuzuki, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Minekaze

Allied Ships
SS S-31, hits 2, on fire
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Luckily Townsville is nearby and the sub begins the turn already only 2 hexes from port. With 11 sys and 45 float damage I may be able to save the sub inside Townsville’s level 5 port.

Allied medium bombers from Alice Springs hit Tennant Creek today. Medium bombers from Imphal hit the resource at Meiktila and score 4 hits. Also 85 of my Blenheim IV’s from Akyab finally fly today and meet no Japanese LRCAP over Port Blair. The Japanese 14th Tank regiment is hit and damage appears to be heavy.

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Day Air attack on 14th Tank Regiment, at 23,34


Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 85


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
183 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Blenheim IV bombing at 2000 feet
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The big news for allied air today is near Townsville. With several Japanese task forces sighted in the area around Cairns last turn, I again switched my medium bombers at Charter Towers to naval attack and seven strikes were flown today.

Only two of the strikes were large strikes, the rest saw 6 or fewer bombers in each strike. My opponent informed me he had forgotten to assign LRCAP over all of his fleets departing Cairns, so several strikes were unopposed. Cairns however had 77 fighters flying CAP over the base and I lost 6 Marauders and 4 Kittyhawks in air to air today. Another 4 Beauforts were lost to operational causes.

As you can see, my losses don’t jive with the losses in the below reports, so some FOW is present in today’s reporting. Only the Tone Maru is confirmed sunk today.

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Day Air attack on TF at 48,101


Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 18
Beaufort V-IX x 17
B-25C Mitchell x 11
B-26B Marauder x 31


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Toko Maru
AP Tamaki Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Chinko Maru
AP Hasuna Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
AP Daigen Maru, Bomb hits 1
AP Yamatsuki Maru
AP Teiryu Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Cairns at 48,102

Japanese aircraft
A6M2-N Rufe x 13
A6M2 Zero x 64

Allied aircraft
B-26B Marauder x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2-N Rufe: 1 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 3 destroyed

Japanese Ships
AK Tone Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage sinks a little later

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Cairns at 48,102

Japanese aircraft
A6M2-N Rufe x 13
A6M2 Zero x 64

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 2
B-26B Marauder x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 2 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Yuzuki, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Cairns at 48,102

Japanese aircraft
A6M2-N Rufe x 13
A6M2 Zero x 64

Allied aircraft
B-26B Marauder x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2-N Rufe: 1 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-26B Marauder: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Tsuga

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 48,101


Allied aircraft
Beaufort V-IX x 23
B-25C Mitchell x 10
B-26B Marauder x 21


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Toko Maru
AP Tafuku Maru
AP Yamatsuki Maru, Bomb hits 9, on fire, heavy damage
AP Tamaki Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AP Chinko Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 49,99


Allied aircraft
B-26B Marauder x 3


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AK Nansin Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 48,101

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 31

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 18
B-26B Marauder x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 3 destroyed, 9 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
AP Daigen Maru, Bomb hits 1
AP Teiryu Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet
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KB headed SE from its position last turn and flew to ground strikes on Port Blair today. One hit the 8th Indian Brigade, causing heavy damage and disruption, the other hit the base itself causing moderate damage to the base.

Japan then launched his deliberate attack at Port Blair but only achieved 1-1 odds. He tore down my last fort after the battle, but I’m hoping today’s attack used up his spare supply reserves and no further land attacks will be made for a while.




I’ve rebased all my float planes in India to Diamond Harbor and ordered the airlift to begin. I’ll pull out the two base forces first and then the brigade.

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Status: offline 		Did you save the MAF Aviation Rgt from Malaya?? I hope so. It is nice and ligth to air transport. It could be used to move around within China to support ambushes (150 Aviation Support). I use it occassion to send fighters to Sian if your oppoenent is making training runs in the northern part of China.  Just a thought I had.

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Sub ops today saw a Japanese MSW task force in the Malacca Straight slammed by the Dutch sub KXVI. 2 torpedoes hit the Asashi Maru and blew her to bits sinking her in the narrow straights. Looks like my opponent is bringing up some MSW to clear the way at Port Blair for a probable supply fleet.

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Sub attack at 21,49

Japanese Ships
MSW Asahi Maru #2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Mejima Maru
MSW Bisan Maru

Allied Ships
SS KXVI
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Allied bombers hit Tennant Creek today, where another Japanese unit is spotted now only one hex north of the base. I hope this is just an engineer unit and not the beginnings of a new offensive buildup. My B-25 Mitchell’s from Imphal hit Meiktila’s resource again today and scored 8 hits.

KB moved one hex southwest of Port Blair today (just out of reach of my Blenheim IV's that were/are on naval attack now) and launched a strike on the base. Damage was moderate, but the biggest affect is none of the 1st ISF baseforce unit was air lifted out. Looks like my units are trapped if float planes can’t even get a piece of them off the island.

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Day Air attack on Port Blair , at 23,34

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 31
B5N2 Kate x 66

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged


Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
25 x B5N2 Kate bombing at 18000 feet
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Other than Japan’s routine land bombardment at Townsville, nothing else of note occurred today.

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Another month has gone by and it’s time once again to look at the air to air fighter losses.

578 Allied fighters have been lost in air to air combat so far, 38 of those occurred this past month. Japan has lost just 133 fighters in air to air combat at this point, 15 of which occurred this past month.

So for the month of June, Japan achieved a 2.5 – 1 kill ratio in air to air fighter combats. For the game Japan is enjoying a 4.3 – 1 kill ratio in air to air fighter combat.

Sub ops today consist of two allied sub attacks against AK’s, one at Palembang and one at Kwajalein, both miss their targets.

At Port Blair Japan brings in another task force and unloads a fragment of the tank regiment that is already ashore. Several mine hits are scored on the Japanese ships.

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TF 107 encounters mine field at Port Blair (23,34)

TF 107 troops unloading over beach at Port Blair, 23,34


Japanese Ships
DD Harukaze, Mine hits 1, on fire
DD Uranami, Mine hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AP Hikawa Maru, Mine hits 1

Coastal Guns at Port Blair, 23,34, firing at TF 107
24 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
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My LB-30’s from Chungking launch a strike on the resource at Peking today and score 2 hits. 35 Liberator III’s (first war mission for air frame) from Calcutta launch an attack on the airfield at Moulmein and are intercepted by 12 zeros and 6 Oscars. No planes are lost in the air to air battle, but the interceptors break up the raid and damage to the base is very light. 72 heavies from Dacca (including 24 B-24D’s flying that planes first mission of the war) then strike Rangoon and cause light damage to the airfield there.

9 Japanese Helens hit Townsville today, but cause no damage to the base. KB then hammers Port Blair and causes moderate damage to the base.

Japan landing the fragment over the beach at Port Blair made the difference, as I assume it caused my defenders AV to be halved even though no allied land bombardment attack was launched. The base fell to a 2-1 attack and 13,000 allied prisoners are marched off to POW camps.

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Ground combat at Port Blair

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 5228 troops, 7 guns, 79 vehicles, Assault Value = 151

Defending force 8687 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 73

Japanese max assault: 99 - adjusted assault: 158

Allied max defense: 56 - adjusted defense: 53

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Port Blair base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 1

Allied ground losses:
12988 casualties reported
Guns lost 18
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As I expect this to be the last big allied land unit surrender for the game, I took a look at the victory levels today. Japan now has a 2.90 – 1 victory point lead. Not quite the fabled 3 – 1 and a long way from the 4 – 1 needed for auto victory in 43.




What I found striking is the comparative air frame losses. After Japans bloody Malaya and Philippine Islands campaigns, our relative air losses were virtually the same (less than 100 losses difference at the time). But now that allied flak isn’t wreaking havoc on Japanese bombers anymore, Japan is quickly pulling far ahead in air frames destroyed.

On 12 April air frame losses were 1,432 allied and 1,374 Japanese. So in the past 3 months since the bombing raids at Singapore and Manila ended, the allies have lost 759 air frames while Japan has only lost 362. So I am now losing more than twice as many air frames as Japan is. This is going to give Japan quite a victory point lead in the air losses category after another 6 month to a year of this.

Of course I attribute this to one thing, Japanese fighter air is so dominate in this mod it can’t be touched and it is now starting to show as my losses accelerate ahead of Japanese losses at the rate of over 100 more allied planes lost per month.

I can only hope the B-24D’s allow me to start catching a lot of Japanese planes on the ground at bases further back from the front lines. Otherwise I don’t know how I’m going to slow down the growing disparity in air frame losses.

We’re not playing for the auto victories, but it’s the principal of the thing. I want/need to keep it below the auto victory for my own feelings of achievement.

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Status: offline 		Chittagong to Hanoi and then to Bangkok for your B-24's. Usually you can get in one of these before preventative measures are taken.

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Of course I attribute this to one thing, Japanese fighter air is so dominate in this mod it can’t be touched and it is now starting to show as my losses accelerate ahead of Japanese losses at the rate of over 100 more allied planes lost per month.


This is CHS, right? Aside from the utter fantasy Japanese production model and design assumptions like coordinated strikes, comparable flak and cap capability, naval replenishment equality and all the other whitewashed generalizations that benefit Japan (for the dubious drive for playability) which made it into the product and are irreversable by the modder through the lovely hard coding I don't see how this mod is pro Japan in terms of air combat. The more modern a/c the Allies start getting soon should help alter the current Japanese advantages.

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RE: 6 July 42 - 2/27/2008 5:52:19 PM   
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I don't see how this mod is pro Japan in terms of air combat. The more modern a/c the Allies start getting soon should help alter the current Japanese advantages.


Look at post 116 on page 4 for a side by side of fighter stats. This is nik mod + CHS and nik gives Japanese fighters 8-10 points of maneuver advantage for the entire game. He also halved air speeds, so it is definitely WAY over the top in favor of the Japanese in air to air. I can't even kill a Nate if they are rested with no fatigue. My only real air to air successes have been vs. heavily fatigued fighter squadrons or vs. LRCAP fighters.

My conclusions so far are this particular version of nik mod basically makes allied fighters useless. I’m tracking losses every month on the 6th to keep a record of things to see if this opinion is justified.

So far it is more than justified.

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RE: 6 July 42 - 2/27/2008 5:53:18 PM   
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Chittagong to Hanoi and then to Bangkok for your B-24's. Usually you can get in one of these before preventative measures are taken.


Hanoi is covered already since my Chinese bombers hit it. I'll check Bangkok next turn, but I think it's covered as well. Chittagong is only level 4 so far though, so they'd have to fly from Calcutta or Dacca.

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Sub ops for 7 July consist of a US sub attack at Kwajalein that misses its target. Japan then conducts two ASW attacks, one at Kwajalein and one at Palembang, both fail to damage my subs.

US heavy bombers from Dacca hit Rangoon again today and cause moderate damage to the airfield.

11 Japanese Helens then hit Townsville, and are intercepted by 2 Kittyhawks which are bleed-over CAP from Charter Towers. No Helens are shot down and they fail to cause any damage at Townsville.

Japans land bombardment at Townsville today reveals he’s brought back the division that had moved north of the base. He’s also brought another division (he now has 8 divisions in the hex) and some engineer units to the party now.

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Ground combat at Townsville

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 137702 troops, 772 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 3935

Defending force 90129 troops, 594 guns, 278 vehicles, Assault Value = 1661



Allied ground losses:
150 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
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Japan also conducted a land bombardment at Nanchang today. I mention it because he hasn’t been bombarding me in China, so this may be the beginning of a new offensive move in China. I’ll keep a close eye on things. As far as I can see, he still has 17 units in the forest hex east of Changsha and 11 units at Nanchang, so nothing has changed on the ground yet.

Sub ops for 8 July consist of 4 Japanese ASW attacks on allied subs. I only saw three in the replay, so the second reported attack on the Rover in hex 21, 47 may be a duplicate print of the same attack. Damage to the Rover was moderate with just 22 float damage, so I think it is a duplicate of the same attack.

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ASW attack at 21,47

Japanese Ships
DD Murasame
DD Hagikaze
DD Ikazuchi
DD Mutsuki

Allied Ships
SS Rover, hits 3, on fire
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ASW attack at 21,47

Japanese Ships
DD Murasame
DD Hagikaze
DD Ikazuchi
DD Mutsuki

Allied Ships
SS Rover, hits 3, on fire
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ASW attack near Lunga at 67,101

Japanese Ships
AK Taimei Maru
PC Ch 20
PG Kaikei Maru
PG Daido Maru
MSW W.9

Allied Ships
SS S-27
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ASW attack at 22,46

Japanese Ships
DD Inazuma

Allied Ships
SS Rover
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48 Blenheim IV’s flew to Moulmein today in an attempt to hit the resource there. 18 Oscars intercept and though no bombers were shot down, 29 were damage. The strike failed to achieve any hits and the bombers will be down for quite some time to recover disabled air frames and lost morale.

45 Blenheim IV’s hit Rangoon’s resource today and these bombers were not intercepted, they managed to score 9 hits on the resource. 2 bombers were lost to flak.

Japan’s Helens flew to Townsville again today and this time they caused some damage to the port. I had forgotten I had sent a sub into port there to repair float damage, it looks like he’s been trying to nail it for the past few turns.

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Day Air attack on Townsville , at 46,105

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 damaged

Port hits 1
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 18000 feet
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 18000 feet
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Even though the sub still has 11 float damage left, I decide to send it south to Rockhampton before Japan gets lucky with these small port attacks.

After weeks of buildup Japan finally launches another deliberate attack at Townsville. My level 8 forts do their job and Japan gets 0-1 odds and takes about twice as many casualties as my troops do.




Unfortunately Japan has about 4 times as many pure combat troops as I do, so that means I actually got hurt worse than Japan did when it comes to how the combat elements fared. My AV in the hex last turn was over 1600, today it’s barely 1400.

The US 32nd Division is on the way north, but it is only 2 hexes north of Sydney right now, so it is at least two weeks away. It is also still in pretty bad shape with about 1/3rd of the elements disabled still.

The good news is the forts did not get pulled down and I’m 45% of the way to completing level 9 forts at Townsville. I wonder if the fact I have over 200 engineers in the hex has anything to do with preventing Japan from pulling down fort levels.

Being the top unit in the stack, the 7th Australian Brigade will have to be pulled out soon as it's been hammered by bombardments and attacks, it has suffered under the pressure. As you can see its AV was 0 when this attack was tallied for final odds.

Jim

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