EUBanana
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Joined: 9/30/2003 From: Little England Status: offline
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1/27/1942 Pretty quiet today. Burma/India Hurricanes have now mostly been uncrated where I want them, the exception being the three squadrons earmarked for Colombo. A 90 av support baseforce is on its way to Trivandrum, that will be more than adequate. My Colombo defence will hopefully be quite solid - thats the weak spot, if he does invade India. It does look like this might be sooner rather than later though, I would estimate he could be crawling over the beaches of Ceylon in 2 to 3 months if he keeps this up. Royal Navy ships on various missions approach the DEI/Port Blair... Malaya was a ghost town, I'm not attacking Tavoy with unescorted bombers, the damage is too great. I flew some Hurricanes in today, I notice they have range 4 in CHS, not the 2 they have in stock - adequate to escort bombers to Tavoy. So in a couple of days, when morale and fatigue has recovered, we should see some Hurricane on Oscar action. DEI/Malaya I got a Dutch patrol unit at Sabang with 0 planes, and it looks like its stuck. Woe. He hit Palembang again, the already trashed airfield is trashed again. Another Martin squadron has made it to India, and some Buffaloes made it to Colombo as well, so the air exodus is going fairly well I suppose. Singapore is firm on 30k supply, not bad. Supply should last longer now too as air sorties being flown from Singapore - and reinforcement of air units - will be sharply curtailed from now on. He has, however, been moving in even more divisions. Here is the latest attack. Ground combat at Singapore Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 75534 troops, 428 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1956 Defending force 59581 troops, 449 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 807 Allied ground losses: 377 casualties reported Guns lost 4 The loss of three Indian brigades in the mountains of Malaya has been quite critical unfortunately. He's got his 2 to 1, and he wouldn't have, if those three were in Singers! On the other hand those Bdes still have not surrendered despite months of attacks so they are tying him down. China My attack on the Chungking Nanchang road failed, 3 divisions versus 1, but not good enough. Ground combat at 47,38 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 28014 troops, 128 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 849 Defending force 19315 troops, 104 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 461 Allied max assault: 493 - adjusted assault: 496 Japanese max defense: 458 - adjusted defense: 679 Allied assault odds: 0 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 197 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Allied ground losses: 455 casualties reported Guns lost 12 Another 2 chinese divisions are approaching though and that, with a shock attack, will be enough to push the Japs back to Nanchang I think. And I reached Ichang but it seems strangely empty. whats going on here? Ground combat at Ichang Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 35599 troops, 122 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1148 Defending force 844 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 25 Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Looks like a candidate for a deliberate attack next turn. SWPAC Very quiet. My carriers are a day or two from Auckland now. CENTPAC Also very quiet. A big angry red dot is on Wake Island, stuff is going on there clearly. Midway is braced. Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot I can do yet until more baseforces arrive in theatre, every atoll I have is stacked, indeed over stacked. The RCT ordered to Canton Island is now in the process of landing. I ordered another raid on Tarawa today, one CL and a whole bunch of destroyers. It'll be a couple of days before they show up. Tarawa has aircraft but is only a level 2 airfield at the moment. A Colorado class battleship is chugging down towards Canton Island as well. Enterprise and Yorktown are headed for NORPAC. The apparent total absence of search aircraft in the Home Islands, confirmed again today by my submarine war patrols sitting off Tokyo, is making me think a raid on Hokkaido is in order. However, they will be sweeping NORPAC first to check for more of his raiders, probably they will find some, and then we will have to reconsider any raids, which would be suicidal if he knew I was coming.
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