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RE: it goes on... - 3/13/2009 9:53:37 PM   
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ORIGINAL: bigbaba

with 16k AP in manschurai, when chris now says, that he only wants to defend the region and not attack, it sounds like when a politican says ."keine steuererhöhung" (no tax raise).

i think chris has a real chance to win the war as japanese. with india under control, china and russia (soon) clear, he has alot of troops and ressources for his war against the US.





as long as there is this assault on Northern Australia going on, there won´t be an attack on Russia. Why? Because I will need most of the IJAAF in Manchuria then and not on Timor and the surrounding islands. What you may also not forget is the fact that we´re in early 43 and Miller has enough carriers to mount an offensive somewhere in the Pacific, means I will need aircraft there also. Depending on the style and area of his attack, either the IJNAF can handle it alone or must be backed up by the IJAAF.

Winning the war? Impossible. This would mean I have to take the West coast completely to deny the Americans of any reinforcements. That is not possible. And even if I would attack Russia (and win there) that would still mean that I can´t take my divisions off the continent to garrisson Pacific atolls and islands because there is the political points limit and I don´t want to change command of a totally wrecked unit. I won´t spend pps on any major inf units that are below 85/100. That seems gamey to me.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/13/2009 10:07:07 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Historiker

I hope the attack on Darwin ist just to draw his attention. Your real goal is the invasion of Russia, right? 



Russia? Bah, another German that tries to convince me to attack the Russian...

com'on!
In that time, you are german, too It's your duty

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RE: it goes on... - 3/13/2009 10:09:48 PM   
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as long as there is this assault on Northern Australia going on, there won´t be an attack on Russia. Why? Because I will need most of the IJAAF in Manchuria then and not on Timor and the surrounding islands. What you may also not forget is the fact that we´re in early 43 and Miller has enough carriers to mount an offensive somewhere in the Pacific, means I will need aircraft there also. Depending on the style and area of his attack, either the IJNAF can handle it alone or must be backed up by the IJAAF.

one more argument to do it NOW! If you wait any longer, you don't have the chance to do it!

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Winning the war? Impossible. This would mean I have to take the West coast completely to deny the Americans of any reinforcements. That is not possible. And even if I would attack Russia (and win there) that would still mean that I can´t take my divisions off the continent to garrisson Pacific atolls and islands because there is the political points limit and I don´t want to change command of a totally wrecked unit. I won´t spend pps on any major inf units that are below 85/100. That seems gamey to me.

If your CHina and Manchuria Armies defend the continent from Karachi to Vladivostok, there should be a lot of Bruma Army and Souteast Area units free for the Atolls.
Moreover, the additional ressources and industry of russia will help you to produce more fighter...

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RE: it goes on... - 3/13/2009 10:09:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, long time no update. Is this game still on? 

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RE: it goes on... - 3/13/2009 10:50:35 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Zond

Hi, long time no update. Is this game still on? 



lol Zond

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RE: it goes on... - 3/13/2009 10:53:11 PM   
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as long as there is this assault on Northern Australia going on, there won´t be an attack on Russia. Why? Because I will need most of the IJAAF in Manchuria then and not on Timor and the surrounding islands. What you may also not forget is the fact that we´re in early 43 and Miller has enough carriers to mount an offensive somewhere in the Pacific, means I will need aircraft there also. Depending on the style and area of his attack, either the IJNAF can handle it alone or must be backed up by the IJAAF.

one more argument to do it NOW! If you wait any longer, you don't have the chance to do it!

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Winning the war? Impossible. This would mean I have to take the West coast completely to deny the Americans of any reinforcements. That is not possible. And even if I would attack Russia (and win there) that would still mean that I can´t take my divisions off the continent to garrisson Pacific atolls and islands because there is the political points limit and I don´t want to change command of a totally wrecked unit. I won´t spend pps on any major inf units that are below 85/100. That seems gamey to me.

If your CHina and Manchuria Armies defend the continent from Karachi to Vladivostok, there should be a lot of Bruma Army and Souteast Area units free for the Atolls.
Moreover, the additional ressources and industry of russia will help you to produce more fighter...



the problem is that I can´t do that without the IJAAF. And I need the bomber and Tojos around Timor. I can´t attack the Russian without having any airforce there, that´s not doable. What do you think would happen if Miller would move 100 4Es to Russia? Say good bye to a lot of industry in Japan. Either I´m doing it with a sledgehammer in Russia or I won´t do it at all. That´s how I´ve done it in the past and that´s also how I´m now doing it in Northern Australia. Use force or don´t do an offensive at all has been my tactic so far.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/13/2009 11:25:22 PM   
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RE: it goes on... - 3/13/2009 11:48:43 PM   
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/25/43

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TF 20 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese Ships
MSW W.17
MSW W.7
MSW W.5

Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
669 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
MSW W.17, Shell hits 5
AK Tatebu Maru, Shell hits 3, on fire
AK Dakar Maru

Japanese ground losses:
1976 casualties reported
Guns lost 5
Vehicles lost 31

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TF 23 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

TF 23 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese Ships
AK Kohuku Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 23
491 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Zyuyo Maru, Shell hits 12
AK Takaoka Maru

Japanese ground losses:
655 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 29

we keep unloading and all but one TF will have unloaded most of it´s troops. Unfortunately the one TF with all the tank units will need another day at least to be completely unloaded...

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TF 45 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

TF 45 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese Ships
AP Kyokusei Maru, Mine hits 1

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 45
332 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese ground losses:
1858 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

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TF 90 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

TF 90 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese Ships
MSW Toshi Maru #2
MSW Seki Maru
MSW Choun Maru #21
MSW Banshu Maru #18

Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 90
604 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Kikuryu Maru, Shell hits 25

Japanese ground losses:
1336 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 92
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TF 92 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

TF 92 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese ground losses:
532 casualties reported

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Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
AK Yamakaze Maru, Shell hits 10, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Trusty

Seems like subs are a major issue at the moment...

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ASW attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
AK Hitora Maru
AK France Maru
AK England Maru
AK Clyde Maru
MSW W.17
MSW W.7
MSW W.5

Allied Ships
SS Trusty

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed
F-5A Lightning: 1 destroyed
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
BB Hiei
BB Haruna
BB Kongo

Allied Ships
AK Barwon, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Belawan, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Californian, Shell hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
AK Eldorado, Shell hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
AK American Leader, Shell hits 1


Allied ground losses:
2805 casualties reported
Guns lost 73
Vehicles lost 36

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 13
Port hits 8
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 4

God damn! Miller moved in hundreds of bombers to Wyndham today and what do my BBs target? The port with a couple of AKs in it... please, god of die rolls, let luck change sides again... This could have been a disaster for Miller but there were more instances when he had luck on his side...

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Naval bombardment of Darwin, at 36,84

Japanese Ships
CA Kinugasa
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Chokai

Allied Ships
AD Black Hawk, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 1

four heavy cruisers then do no damage at all at Darwin... should have sent them to Wyndham instead...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
CA Aoba
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya

Allied Ships
AK Belawan, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK American Leader, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AK Californian, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Barwon, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
554 casualties reported
Guns lost 13
Vehicles lost 11

Runway hits 9
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 5

but also my heavy cruisers there target the absolute wrong target... going after the port instead of the airfield... no doubt, the runways will be in perfect shape during the day...

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TF 20 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese Ships
MSW W.17
MSW W.7
MSW W.5
AK Azuchisan Maru, Mine hits 1

Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
454 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
MSW W.17, Shell hits 4

Japanese ground losses:
1646 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 27

one thing that I was pretty concerned about where the landings at Darwin as I feared quite some CD counterfire, but as it turned out, there was no reason to be concerned... the landings really have gone well...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 23
TF 23 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


189 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Zyuyo Maru, Shell hits 8

Japanese ground losses:
158 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 45
TF 45 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


97 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese ground losses:
598 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 90
TF 90 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 92
TF 92 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese ground losses:
563 casualties reported

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ASW attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
AK Panama Maru
AK Eizan Maru
AK Tokyo Maru
AK Nittai Maru
AK Nitiyu Maru
MSW W.17
MSW W.7
MSW W.5

Allied Ships
SS Trusty, hits 4, on fire

one real hit, hopefully this will make further attacks of Trusty harder...

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Sub attack at 36,83

Japanese Ships
CL Tama
DD Sawakaze
DD Minekaze
DD Yuzuki
DD Satsuki
CL Nagara

Allied Ships
SS Trigger, hits 2

Trigger missed with a salvo MK14 torps. Why only 4 DDs tried to engage is beyond me, there were far more in this TF...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 256

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 79

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
Ki-49 Helen x 91
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 20 damaged


Allied ground losses:
100 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 19

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet
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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 78
G3M Nell x 35
G4M1 Betty x 114
Ki-46-III Dinah x 1

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported

Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 71

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet

thank god my IJNAF bomber daitais won´t have taken heavy losses when this adventure will be over... flak over Darwin is only pathetic...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 17
Kittyhawk I x 46
P-40E Warhawk x 78


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 49

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st Australian Cavalry Division, at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 3
B5N Kate x 137

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
376 casualties reported
Guns lost 8

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 26000 feet

so much about bombers attacking the strongest unit in a stack. 2nd USMC division was the target I wanted to attack...

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Miller spotted a dozen TFs all around Darwin and then numerous strikes go in...


Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 94

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 5
P-38G Lightning x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 5 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 2 destroyed

this is leaking Cap from KB that took position one hex NE of Darwin. This was quite shocking as I feared an attack on KB and that could turn out to be a disaster if half the Cap flies cover for the merchants at Darwin...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 94

Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 3
P-38G Lightning x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 3 damaged
P-38G Lightning: 5 destroyed

Japanese Ships
AP Hikade Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet

at this stage the Lightnings were no threat... But guess what! They are bouncing us above Darwin. And there again you can see the magic radar effects. Escorts always fly 3000ft higher than the bombers. My fighters are flying at 15.000ft. So if the enemy is at 9.000ft with his fighters, mine are at 15.000ft, how can the enemy bounce us?

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Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 94

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 6
Wellington III x 9
P-38G Lightning x 23
B-25C Mitchell x 39
B-26B Marauder x 36
B-17E Fortress x 34
B-24D Liberator x 31

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 7 destroyed, 35 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 3 damaged
Wellington III: 9 damaged
P-38G Lightning: 6 destroyed, 11 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 12 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 3 destroyed, 10 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 2 destroyed, 24 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged

Japanese Ships
AP Keisyo Maru
AP Marsue Maru, Bomb hits 1
AP Burisuben Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Kenkoku Maru
AP Kiko Maru
AP Chinko Maru, Bomb hits 1
AP Denmark Maru
AP Yamato Maru
AP Kyokusei Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AP Monji Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK Tamon Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Chicago Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Keisho Maru
AP Kisogawa Maru
AK Bunzan Maru
AP Meigen Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire
AK Hirota Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AP Nichiro Maru
AK San Francisco Maru
AP Kasui Maru
AK Sasako Maru
AK Manko Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Koyo Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
AP Buenos Aires Maru
AP Taizin Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Senkai Maru
AP Asama Maru
AK Seiki Maru
AP Buyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Daifuku Maru
AP Keiyo Maru
AP Kofuku Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AP Hakka Maru
AK Sanwa Maru
AP Miyadono Maru
AP Kiyoshima Maru
AP Koan Maru

Japanese ground losses:
56 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet
1 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet

while it didn´t matter that the small numbers of escorts bounced us, this time it was more of a problem. The 23 Lightnings bounce our fighters (once again) and this time they rip one of my daitais apart. 6 of the Zero losses were within one daitai. 94 Zeros are of course no threat at all for the enemy bombers and nearly all of them drop their loads onto one of my amphibious TFs. God how much fun would it have been if my bombardments would have done some damage during the night... the good thing about having such big TFs is the fact that the enemy bombers can´t really focus on just a couple of ships and so the bomb hits are spread over a dozen ships of which only one or two are in danger of being sunk. We nearly took no ground losses as the TF is nearly empty...

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Day Air attack on TF at 34,82


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 15


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Nachi
CA Tone
DD Kuroshio

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet

small strike against my heavy cruisers... a 1000lb bomb hit could wreck my day though...

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Day Air attack on TF at 34,83


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 3


Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano, Bomb hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet

500lb bomb hit...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 88

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 6 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
AP Achou Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet

this is still the morning phase, one obsolete British bomber made it through Cap...

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Day Air attack on TF at 34,84


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 6
P-38G Lightning x 3


Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
4 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 15

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 9
Wellington III x 17
P-38G Lightning x 2
B-25C Mitchell x 21
B-26B Marauder x 25
B-17E Fortress x 37
B-24D Liberator x 38

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 6 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Wellington III: 1 damaged
P-38G Lightning: 1 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 4 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
AP Marsue Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Keisho Maru
AP Kasui Maru
AK Yosida Maru #1
AP Chinko Maru, Bomb hits 1
AP Nichiro Maru, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
AP Koan Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
AP Burisuben Maru, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage
AP Karachi Maru
AP Taizin Maru, on fire
AP Astuga Maru
AP Kiko Maru
AP Taihei Maru
AP Meiu Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AK San Francisco Maru
AP Kisogawa Maru, Bomb hits 1
AP Eihuku Maru, Bomb hits 2
AK Seiki Maru
AK Uyo Maru, Bomb hits 1
AK Houn Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Manila Maru
AP Hakka Maru, Bomb hits 1
AP Chowa Maru
AP Kenzan Maru
AP Kiyama Maru
AP Kizan Maru
AK Kenkoku Maru
AP Hakusika Maru
AP Kofuku Maru, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
AP Nichiai Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AP Taigen Maru
AK Sagami Maru
AP Ayaha Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AP Miyadono Maru

Japanese ground losses:
146 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet
1 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet
1 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet

now this strike does some damage, 4 of the ships are probably lost. And again I wonder why my opponent is lucky enough to see his strikes mostly going in against my merchants when there are dozens of high value BBs, CAs, CVs around... Mini KB should act as a bomber magnet but no, instead of attacking CVs, Miller´s bomber attack my merchants... lucky him...

and once again it shows that Miller doesn´t seem to have learnt quickly enough from the invasion of India. He once again goes in with his bombers too LATE. Why having them attack now? 80% or more of my troops are ashore and as it stands now he needs a hell a lot luck with his die rolls if he wants to keep Darwin. Not much longer and the majority of my ships will have withdrawn. The day when he first spotted my TFs was the day when he should have transferred his bombers back to the North but he missed that opportunity by days. As it stands now, I can´t see much of a chance that he will really wreck havoc on my high value ships. Losing two or three dozen merchants and 4 dozen more damaged would be no tragedy. The damaged ones will be repaired and the two or three dozen sunk would surely be worth it to take out Northern Australia.




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Ground combat at Chengtu

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 82602 troops, 983 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1758

Defending force 18162 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 357

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 8

Japanese max assault: 1651 - adjusted assault: 1108

Allied max defense: 390 - adjusted defense: 218

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 8)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 8


Japanese ground losses:
688 casualties reported
Guns lost 24

Allied ground losses:
461 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

Miller has not been lucky with his die roll here it seems. This defending Chinese corps must be fully supplied and sits in a wooden hex behind level 9 forts and still gets a totally crap adjusted av... this base will fall...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15884 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1535

Defending force 287586 troops, 1817 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6936

and this base starves...

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15972 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3470

Defending force 196179 troops, 215 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5446



Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported

and this one as well...

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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27044 troops, 273 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 882

Defending force 169533 troops, 1395 guns, 1713 vehicles, Assault Value = 3749


Japanese ground losses:
56 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported

more and more troops are coming ashore... what is missing is more supply and the rest of the tank units. Even though I´m already confident I have ordered the second wave with two divisions prepped for Darwin to go in against the hostile beach. The two big TFs with the troops prepped for Derby will stay five hexes off Darwin though. What I´m also wondering is if Miller will react with his carriers or any other naval assets. This was one of my hopes but it seems he will keep his Navy in port...



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RE: it goes on... - 3/13/2009 11:49:30 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Ambassador

That's one more reason to succeed in taking northern Australia, isolating Lautern : freeing up the IJAAF.



yup, that´s exactly my plan... but you know that a plan won´t last longer than until the first contact with the enemy...

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RE: it goes on... - 3/14/2009 12:00:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		We have some nice email conversation again. Miller of course spotted that I´m bringing in A LOT of tanks and asked this:

Can I just confirm one thing.......if your troops take Darwin I trust you will limit the "pursue enemy" orders to your tank units....

I replied:

That depends on what you mean by limiting my units to pursue. I have never set any of my inf units to pursue but am doing this with the tank units as that is exactly what they are for. Break through the lines and not just follow, but in reality armored units were able to overtake retreating non motorized units and encircle them. To overtake them and encircle is not possible in WITP but the tank units should be at least be able to follow the enemy unmotorized units. If a motorized unit should be slower than an unmotorized unit then I don´t get it why. The pursue order doesn´t help you anything if you then run into two enemy divisions holding position somewhere, but that depends on how you want to fight your defensive ground war. Now Japanese tank units are surely no Waffen SS units of 1944 equipped with Panthers operating in Russia but they are probably not that much worse than PzII that blitzed through Poland and France

If – and that´s a big if - my units will be able to take Darwin and I´m not allowed to use my tank units then we have to go back 10 turns and redo the whole thing as this would make my attack plan on Northern Australia totally obsolete at this stage.

I offered Miller not to pursue his units all the way down to Brisbane but I will surely use my tank units IF I will shock attack and IF the enemy retreats. But I won´t use them to pursue them that far that my tank units will be further away than 4 hexes from my inf units. Without my tanks and the try to kill off the emey troops it would not make sense to attack at all. If the enemy can retreat at will without being harmed he can then stack his troops in one base that will be too strong.



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RE: it goes on... - 3/14/2009 12:11:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		you are absolutly right! That's what tanks are good for. And one shock attack without success makes the attacker pay a lot for using this, so its fair!

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RE: it goes on... - 3/14/2009 3:24:31 PM   
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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


937 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
MSW W.17, Shell hits 12, on fire
MSW W.7

Japanese ground losses:
1390 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 22

The inf units at Darwin are firing like wild on our invading troops but the CD unit seems to be either killed off or still that much disrupted that my ships stay unharmed...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 23
TF 23 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese ground losses:
51 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 45
TF 45 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


143 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Yamato Maru

Japanese ground losses:
38 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 92
TF 92 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


34 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese ground losses:
219 casualties reported

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 5 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 4 destroyed
B-26B Marauder: 7 destroyed
B-25C Mitchell: 6 destroyed
Wellington III: 5 destroyed
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed
F-5A Lightning: 1 destroyed
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Maya
CA Atago
CA Tone

Allied Ships
AK Eldorado, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
3387 casualties reported
Guns lost 56
Vehicles lost 12

Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 107

I guess this time there were so many TFs of mine around that Miller wasn´t able to figure out if one of them is going in against Wyndham. That was a nuke, but considering the number of bombers there we didn´t kill that many of them. Or my aerial recon again is totally crap...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


1189 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kyokuzan Maru, Shell hits 10
AK Oyashima Maru
AK Hague Maru

Japanese ground losses:
1484 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 44

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 23
TF 23 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


41 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Yamasimo Maru, Shell hits 6

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 92
TF 92 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


Japanese ground losses:
77 casualties reported

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Sub attack at 23,64

Japanese Ships
AK Sagara Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Grampus

Grampus is parked two hexes NE of Soerabaja and the big AK sinks immediately... there are dozens of naval search ac in this area but Grampus made all it´s way into the heart of the SRA unspotted...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 31
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 254

No Japanese losses

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 61

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-49 Helen x 125

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 24 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
129 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Runway hits 30

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

I was shocked to see an enemy fighter in the air! This means the airfield was operational today...

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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
G3M Nell x 19
G4M1 Betty x 66
Ki-46-III Dinah x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged


Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 34

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet

hopefully it will be a loooong time until we see Allied ac at Darwin again...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2
Kittyhawk I x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 9


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 3 damaged

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

we have been lucky this turn as Wyndham was clouded in both in the morning and afternoon, so no attacks on our shipping...




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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15847 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1536

Defending force 287123 troops, 1808 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6933



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15992 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3472

Defending force 195492 troops, 210 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5445



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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27200 troops, 279 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 888

Defending force 182035 troops, 1412 guns, 2241 vehicles, Assault Value = 4002


Japanese ground losses:
206 casualties reported

over 4000 assault points landed already and 800 more to come. What pretty much p*sses me off at the moment is how the game disperses the unloaded supplies between my units. I have divs with over 17.000 supplies and my tank divs for example don´t even have 50% of their needed supply. God damn game features... this can become a serious problem. I have unloaded over 100.000 supplies already and it´s not that easy to bring in another 100.000 within a week. Not that easy, well it´s impossible for me...



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RE: it goes on... - 3/14/2009 3:37:30 PM   
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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


692 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kyokuzan Maru, Shell hits 31, on fire
AK Kosei Maru

Japanese ground losses:
726 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 14

it seems it takes forever to completely unload the TF with my tank units...

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Sub attack at 23,64

Japanese Ships
PC Ch 7
PC Toshi Maru #3
PC Tama Maru #8
PC Seki Maru #2
PC Takunan Maru #5
PC Ch 9

Allied Ships
SS Grampus, hits 1

moved an ASW TF to Grampus´ position and Ch7 immediately acts as a target. 4 torps miss and the PCs achieve a near miss...

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Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
AK Sasako Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tuna

Tuna missed also, the sub later was hit twice by Vals, isn´t confirmed sunk though...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Wyndham at 30,86

Japanese Ships
BB Fuso
BB Yamashiro
BB Ise
CA Chikuma
CA Myoko
DD Hatsuharu
DD Nenohi
DD Hatsushima
DD Yugure
DD Hibiki
DD Ikazuchi

Allied Ships
AK Barwon, heavy damage
AK Californian, Shell hits 2, heavy damage
AK American Leader, Shell hits 32, and is sunk

Miller has put three AKs into the way of my incoming battlewaggons. One is sunk by 5 inch fire from my destroyers. The famous DD Hibiki is in this TF also!

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ASW attack at 23,64

Japanese Ships
PC Toshi Maru #3
PC Tama Maru #8
PC Seki Maru #2
PC Takunan Maru #5
PC Ch 7
PC Ch 9

Allied Ships
SS Grampus

another round against Grampus, all PC failed to locate the sub...

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Sub attack at 80,78

Japanese Ships
AK Junpo Maru, Shell hits 3, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Sunfish

Sunfish seems to be on transit West, this is one hex NE of Kwajalein. The torps missed, 4x4 inch shells do moderate damage but the small AK will live on... looks like the enemy subs have completed their radar upgrade as more and more of them are spotted already again... we had a long phase without any subs in the SRA at all and only a couple of S-class subs around Australia...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
CA Ashigara
CA Takao
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato


Allied ground losses:
795 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 6
Port supply hits 3

rather pathetic result...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Myoko
CA Chikuma
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Fuso

Allied Ships
LCM 532D, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
3020 casualties reported
Guns lost 37
Vehicles lost 23

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 29
Port hits 16
Port fuel hits 5
Port supply hits 5

but the second bombardment was a nuke, at least when we look at the ground losses. The port was hit hard also but P L E A S E, can´t we knock out the airfield? This is the only reason for those bombardments, but the game engine is too dumb to know that... my ships (especially the heavy cruisers) are accumulating sys damage so quickly that they can´t be used for long anymore. Many of them went through 10 sys points already, slowing them down to 5 hexes per phase. Hopefully we will take Darwin soon as this then would mean that we don´t need those bombardments all the time...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


408 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kyokuzan Maru, Shell hits 24, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
514 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 12

still unloading tank units...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 60
TF 60 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


249 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Hakozaki Maru

Japanese ground losses:
2638 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Vehicles lost 1

and this is the TF that carries the two inf divisions of the second wave...

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ASW attack at 23,64

Japanese Ships
PC Toshi Maru #3
PC Tama Maru #8
PC Seki Maru #2
PC Takunan Maru #5
PC Ch 7
PC Ch 9

Allied Ships
SS Grampus, hits 7

another round, this time 6 near misses and a hit. SS isn´t on fire so I doubt the hit did occur. But the sub will probably have to retire...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 32
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 251

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 93

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-49 Helen x 232
Ki-46-II Dinah x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 18 damaged


Allied ground losses:
113 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 44

Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

strike from Kendari and to my total surprise, not a single Helen was lost today. A Zero crashed though, the pilot was killed...

what would be nice also would be to achieve a dozen hits on the supply depots each turn, this is what the Allied bombers did at Dili with each of their attacks...



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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15892 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1537

Defending force 286562 troops, 1787 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6914



Allied ground losses:
52 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16045 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3480

Defending force 195336 troops, 203 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5449



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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27353 troops, 282 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 892

Defending force 202371 troops, 1521 guns, 2433 vehicles, Assault Value = 4595


Japanese ground losses:
211 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported

I have ordered my troops (except the two divs that are landing at the moment) to execute the first deliberate attack. Most of my troops have more supply they will ever need, one of my tank divs is only 90% supplied though, even though that we have nearly 100 AKs unloading. But the supply isn´t equally dispersed between all my units... it´s a shame...

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RE: it goes on... - 3/14/2009 5:29:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Gentlemen, the current situation really looks good and the Japanese high command is confident to defeat the Allied agressors once again!

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/28/43

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


472 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kanaiyama Maru, Shell hits 2

Japanese ground losses:
451 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 11

boy, it really takes long to unload this TF... at the end of the turn, it was still not unloaded...

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 60
TF 60 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


376 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese ground losses:
2287 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

the two divs from the second wave are nearly completely unloaded but obviously it was a fault to land them over the hostile beach. They were only around 80/100 when loaded onto the ships, after being unloaded at Darwin they are now down to around 60/100. Those two divs will act as garisson units for the base as soon as we took it...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
F-5A Lightning: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Musashi
BB Yamato


Allied ground losses:
4654 casualties reported
Guns lost 57
Vehicles lost 6

Airbase hits 11
Runway hits 77
Port fuel hits 1

now this time the big boys really scored... there´s one thing I was alos really afraid all the time: British Barracuda torp bombers. Those could have sunk more than one BB so far if Miller would have employed those bombers. Don´t know where all his torp bombers are, but obviously not where they should be from the Allied perspective.

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


84 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kanaiyama Maru, Shell hits 3

Japanese ground losses:
126 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 60
TF 60 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


287 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AP Tatsutake Maru, Shell hits 8
AP Ayatosan Maru

Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 223

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 83

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-49 Helen x 136
Ki-46-II Dinah x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged


Allied ground losses:
155 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 40

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

I´ve decided to throw in some port attacks now and then in future, perhaps we can then score some supply hits... We have to destroy Lautern´s supply depots asap to see the enemy divisions starving there.

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 106

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 107
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 81
G3M Nell x 36
G4M1 Betty x 117
Ki-46-III Dinah x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 4 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 12 damaged


Allied ground losses:
56 casualties reported

Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 132

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15
Kittyhawk I x 51
P-40E Warhawk x 85


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 2 damaged

Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 51

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

got two base forces at Luganville but they do nothing... Japanese flak just sucks, even in Nikmod... wouldn´t want to see my fighters going in against a dozen Allied flak guns...

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Ground combat at Darwin

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 167060 troops, 1363 guns, 2466 vehicles, Assault Value = 4673

Defending force 37102 troops, 297 guns, 158 vehicles, Assault Value = 897

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 8

Japanese max assault: 3992 - adjusted assault: 2809

Allied max defense: 895 - adjusted defense: 1053

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 8)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 8


Japanese ground losses:
3594 casualties reported
Guns lost 82
Vehicles lost 48

Allied ground losses:
4256 casualties reported
Guns lost 118
Vehicles lost 41

here we go! This result clearly shows that Darwin won´t be able to hold for a long time. With over 4.000 Allied casualties, two inf and a tank unit in the lead of the Allied troop stack, I´m sure that those three units are wrecked now. Leaves the 2nd USMC division as only combat effective unit. There´s no doubt that we will take the base and IMO, Miller should NOW order his troops to retreat. Everything else would be the wrong decision. The immense number of Allied casualties is a result of my mass employment of armor. This attack surely has cost the Allied a couple of hundred assault points. I expect the base to fall within the next three attacks. BANZAI!

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Ground combat at Chengtu

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 81526 troops, 952 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1751

Defending force 17746 troops, 105 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 354

Japanese max assault: 3258 - adjusted assault: 3878

Allied max defense: 387 - adjusted defense: 221

Japanese assault odds: 17 to 1 (fort level 8)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Chengtu base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
1834 casualties reported
Guns lost 47

Allied ground losses:
724 casualties reported
Guns lost 9


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

my reinforcements arrived at Chengtu and as soon as my troops were fully supplied (which wasn´t easy over the trails) I´ve ordered a shock attack that easily took the base today. The only downside was the fact that the enemy was able to retreat into the woods instead of being forced to surrender as expected. Nevertheless, my offensive actions in China saw a succesful end today. The troops left in China (some 7000 assault points) act as garisson units and as blocking force at Chungking and Kweiyang where the Allied have massed some 500.000 troops. As those bases seem to be very low on supply, I don´t see the Chinese as a threat anymore! With only some 1.000 supplies a day I guess this won´t ever change again. BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!

Where to now, Gentlemen?

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15855 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1533

Defending force 285991 troops, 1765 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6902


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16061 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3482

Defending force 195108 troops, 191 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5438


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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14928 troops, 138 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 620

Defending force 213018 troops, 1517 guns, 2490 vehicles, Assault Value = 4422

as you can see, there´s not much left that can do a bombardment...

We´ve got quite an impressing number of vehicles here... taking up the thought about helping Adolf with some action against the Russian bear, I´ve forgot to say that I´m not only wanting to have most of the IJAAF in Manchuko but also all those tank units, as they are perfectly suited to wreck havoc in the clear terrain around the Northern Russian bases, just like in the clear terrain of Northern Australia!


With every turn going by, it seems it becomes more and more sure that we will at least cause a lot of trouble in Northern Australia, if not taking it completely. IMO Miller has again made the mistake not to send in the kitchen sink against this mega invasion. Mega invasion because it´s huge, even if the Allied would do it in 44 as it involves nearly the whole IJN (at least every major combatant) and most of the merchant navy as well. Not to talk about the fact that we have something like 7.500 assault points ready to rumble in this area and the 1.500 aircraft supporting this operation. While it was a gamble at the beginning, the goal to get ashore more or less unharmed has been achieved already. We have seen only O N E day with limited Allied air attacks that cost us perhaps half a dozen ships sunk and another dozen damaged (all merchants). Two or three subs are operating in the area, accounting for another 2 or 3 ships sunk. And that´s it!

Miller once told me that an invasion of Lautern would be suicide for my Navy because he could employ 600-800 bombers against that invasion but now (it seems) I´m succesfully invading Northern Australia directly and while I´ve been fearing his bombers, he didn´t employ them. And he´s now running into a disaster if I would be able to knock out the Northern Australian bases and cut off Lautern with the 22 units (including half a dozen inf divisions) there.

Miller unfortunately had to leave for work now, so there won´t be any turn until tomorrow. He told me I should sweet up my GF for an all day WITP session tomorrow...



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RE: it goes on... - 3/14/2009 6:02:37 PM   
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ORIGINAL: castor troy

so there won´t be any turn until tomorrow





The Lord works in mysterious ways. That surely is a sign to finish off my thesis. Finally.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/14/2009 6:17:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nearly 300 AV lost after this first attack, you have some reasons to be enthusiastic.  Anyway, it's really impressive : you're in '43, and you're on the path of conquering North Australia, and maybe even destroy several Allied divisions.That's very good.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/14/2009 6:27:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		waaaah...no "rumble in the jungle" turn until tomorrow...

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RE: it goes on... - 3/14/2009 11:16:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		Been away for a while, just read through the whole invasion, Very nice!!!

I also noticed that coastal fire from the dedicated CD unit in Darwin was very pitiful when I invaded it. Maybe the very low number of guns just dies so quickly it never has a chance to do anything. ofc that was in January 42, this is quite unprecedented at this stage.

I was rather wondering what happened with the very large force that was deployed to India and then seemed to disappear for a while

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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 12:01:14 AM   
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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 10:12:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, a successful invasion of Northern Australia at this date is certainly something. Congratulations.

The next few days should be very interesting.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 2:15:57 PM   
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Been away for a while, just read through the whole invasion, Very nice!!!

I also noticed that coastal fire from the dedicated CD unit in Darwin was very pitiful when I invaded it. Maybe the very low number of guns just dies so quickly it never has a chance to do anything. ofc that was in January 42, this is quite unprecedented at this stage.

I was rather wondering what happened with the very large force that was deployed to India and then seemed to disappear for a while




I have been really afraid of Darwin´s CD unit and that´s why my troops originally started planning for Broome. They started their plannings when they were shipped from India to Soerabaja, most of them for Broome, the rest for Derby. With the propaganda in my emails and the fact that I´ve thought Miller would never think I could invade Australia at this date I hoped to land at Broome and take the base quickly (comparable to what many players do early in the game). But I guess that he just got too much intel about my divisions prepping for Broome and I noticed more and more of his units marching from the East to the West, with most of them going to Broome. Well, this forced me to go to Darwin and as it stands now it´s going quite nice.

CD counterfire is mostly an all or nothing thing in WITP. I have seen those 9 and 6 inch CD guns killing off whole invasions with dozens of ships being sunk but with heavy naval bombardements you mostly see no fire from the CD units at all. Thank god in this case we knocked the unit out, otherwise this could have been total defeat for me on day two or three already.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 2:21:08 PM   
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Wow, a successful invasion of Northern Australia at this date is certainly something. Congratulations.

The next few days should be very interesting.



thanks. Yeah, the next days will definetely be interesting but despite some ground action I doubt that we will see much happening. The most interesting days are probably over already as Miller normally doesn´t do much to counter my ground moves. Perhaps we will see some of his bombers flying ground attacks as soon as we break out of Darwin (no doubt we will take the base) and perhaps a nav attack now and then.

At the moment there are only aircraft at Broome and Derby left, mostly fighters and transports it seems. With only those two bases full of aircraft this means the total number of ac is already half of what it has been the last couple of months in Northern Australia.

What I don´t understand is why his Navy didn´t even left port. I guess the majority of the USN is at Brisbane at the moment, there should be the whole Royal Navy too. Also Perth shows a dark port symbol but I guess this is where most of the Royal Navy merchants have gone when India was lost. Don´t know what they are doing there though. I have a lot of patrols on the Southern tip of New Guinea and if the enemy carriers would have gone North I surely would have spot them and believe me, this would definetely have made me nervous to some extend. But what did Miller do? Nothing. One day he flew airstrikes and that´s it. He has been just too passive again IMO.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 2:35:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sunday afternoon, I guess we will get some turns done today... Here we go...

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/29/43

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


256 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Kanaiyama Maru

Japanese ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2

at the end of the day, all my invasion TFs will finally have unloaded. Only supplies are being unloaded in the next two or three days... We will have unloaded roughly 150.000 supplies for our troops in this invasion. Support troops and a couple of bgd/div are waiting offshore to be unloaded when the port will be ours. There are another 100.000 supplies with those troops, I haven´t made the mistake twice not to bring enough supplies with the first wave like in India when I had to find out that 100.000 supplies are not enough for 3.500 assault points to fight a ground war for more than two weeks.

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 60
TF 60 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Kinugasa
CA Mikuma
CA Mogami
CA Chokai


Allied ground losses:
1158 casualties reported
Guns lost 16
Vehicles lost 4

Airbase hits 6
Runway hits 43
Port hits 1

looks like the majority of the support troops was hit hard already... my recon tells me that the enemy troops are marching from Broome and Derby to the West already. Looks like Miller wants to defend Wyndham...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Kako
CA Furutaka
CA Aoba
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya


Allied ground losses:
708 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 36
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

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Coastal Guns at Darwin, 36,84, firing at TF 20
TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Darwin, 36,84


85 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AK Matsutan Maru, Shell hits 6

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 250

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 99

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 54
Ki-49 Helen x 232
Ki-46-II Dinah x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 26 damaged


Allied ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Port hits 5
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

what a pathetic result. Expected more from 232 high experienced medium bombers. Looks like we will just have to wait until the enemy runs out of supply, we can´t destroy it obviously...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 36
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 34
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 105

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 96

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 15000 feet

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15864 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1538

Defending force 285142 troops, 1744 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6891



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16011 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3479

Defending force 194783 troops, 186 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5430



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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22518 troops, 149 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 630

Defending force 215240 troops, 1543 guns, 2538 vehicles, Assault Value = 4483


Japanese ground losses:
27 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported

have ordered my troops to deliberate attack tomorrow! All are well supplied and disruption is VERY low. One div and a bgd were kept on defensive mode though, those two units are below 70/100 and I´ve thought the rest of the troops can do the job alone. With the great result of our first attack, I expect to achiev something like a 3 or 4:1 already. Everything lower would be a very lucky die roll for Miller I guess. If we inflict a lot of casualties again then I can think about a shock attack in a couple of days. Our tank units will then finish off the retreating enemy troops.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 2:46:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		I thought about your statement that its gamey to reassign exausted divisions to a new command as it costs less. If this isn't part of your House Rules, its false. Just think about the second world war, the eastern front.
It was quite usual to redeploy exausted units to France or the Low Lands to gather strength. So if you want, you may consider doint this as historical correct, ergo allowed!


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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 2:55:53 PM   
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I thought about your statement that its gamey to reassign exausted divisions to a new command as it costs less. If this isn't part of your House Rules, its false. Just think about the second world war, the eastern front.
It was quite usual to redeploy exausted units to France or the Low Lands to gather strength. So if you want, you may consider doint this as historical correct, ergo allowed!



yes that´s correct, but then I´m missing the point of the implementation of the political points system. At the moment I don´t have trashed divs of restricted commands anyway. The only way to get trashed divisions again would be to attack the Russian at this point as there´s nothing else left. Well I could also order my troops at Chungking to do a suicide attack, but again it´s just not what I want to do.


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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 3:46:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/30/43

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 254

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 39

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 35
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 105
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 70
Ki-49 Helen x 106

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 38
Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 21
Kittyhawk I x 64
P-40E Warhawk x 108


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 3 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported

Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 30

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

guess it would be the same if I would evacuate my two base forces from this island. They can´t do any damage to the enemy fighters doing training runs...

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Ground combat at Darwin

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 183443 troops, 1398 guns, 2572 vehicles, Assault Value = 4545

Defending force 32021 troops, 170 guns, 117 vehicles, Assault Value = 660

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 7

Japanese max assault: 4066 - adjusted assault: 2709

Allied max defense: 639 - adjusted defense: 718

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 7)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 7


Japanese ground losses:
2169 casualties reported
Guns lost 44
Vehicles lost 22

Allied ground losses:
4099 casualties reported
Guns lost 42
Vehicles lost 31

as expected, we achieved a 3:1, close to 4:1 today. The question now is, doing another deliberate attack in two days or already a shock attack? The saver way would probably be to do another deliberate attack as we would have to achieve a 7:1 at least with the shock attack (if the combat eng take down a fort, otherwise we would need a 8:1). When looking at the remaining troops, I guess it won´t be possible to achieve a 8:1, so there will be another deliberate attack in two days... the shock attack will be ordered in four days and then I expect Darwin to fall...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15884 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1538

Defending force 284512 troops, 1735 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6878



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 16044 troops, 201 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3150

Defending force 194690 troops, 185 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5420



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Ground combat at Darwin

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 11063 troops, 109 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 452

Defending force 213706 troops, 1492 guns, 2516 vehicles, Assault Value = 4348


as you can see, the coming days aren´t that interesting anymore as action has nearly gone to 0 again... we´re doing training runs, Miller is doing training runs. Our ships return from Darwin into safe regions again and there´s no sign of an Allied reaction other than the troop movements 700-1000 miles West of Darwin. Wonder if Miller decides to march a couple of divisions up North coming from Brisbane or so. He could march 6-12 divs up (if he has received reinforcements and brings the troops that took New Caledonia and the Fidjis) if he puts together a formidable force. Their problem will be the fact that it´s a long way and if I´m in Wyndham by that time then they won´t get much supplies due to the distance to their next supplying base. And we could supply our troops from the sea, but that would put our ships in range of enemy LBA again. In any case, he would meet a force that could put nearly 8.000 assault points into one spot, equivalent to nearly 20+ IJA inf divisions! So the only thing he could hope for would be to stalemate me - which would be a success already as the only goal I can have is to secure all four bases in Northern Australia and to cut off Lautern. To destroy the troops in both places would be a nice bonus. Not securing all four bases in Northern Australia would mean mission unaccomplished.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 3:55:12 PM   
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What I don´t understand is why his Navy didn´t even left port. I guess the majority of the USN is at Brisbane at the moment, there should be the whole Royal Navy too. Also Perth shows a dark port symbol but I guess this is where most of the Royal Navy merchants have gone when India was lost. Don´t know what they are doing there though. I have a lot of patrols on the Southern tip of New Guinea and if the enemy carriers would have gone North I surely would have spot them and believe me, this would definetely have made me nervous to some extend. But what did Miller do? Nothing. One day he flew airstrikes and that´s it. He has been just too passive again IMO.

Maybe he thought it would be unwise to pass through the Torres Straits with your Betty daitais so close, and KB in the vicinity. If I remember correctly, you sank several of his CVs, so he should still be in inferiority for the moment.




Or perhaps he has a big invasion planned in the Pacific, and he's preparing to launch it while he knows you can't do anything against it.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 3:56:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		i must say i find it very impressive chris. not only mounting such a large scale attack as the japanese in 1943, but to manage all the logistic and to bring such a huge number of troops and supply to australia few months after a large invasion in india!

and one thing more: you realy could be a briton because of your typical "british understatement" of your abilities and possibilities as the japanese.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 5:01:29 PM   
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What I don´t understand is why his Navy didn´t even left port. I guess the majority of the USN is at Brisbane at the moment, there should be the whole Royal Navy too. Also Perth shows a dark port symbol but I guess this is where most of the Royal Navy merchants have gone when India was lost. Don´t know what they are doing there though. I have a lot of patrols on the Southern tip of New Guinea and if the enemy carriers would have gone North I surely would have spot them and believe me, this would definetely have made me nervous to some extend. But what did Miller do? Nothing. One day he flew airstrikes and that´s it. He has been just too passive again IMO.

Maybe he thought it would be unwise to pass through the Torres Straits with your Betty daitais so close, and KB in the vicinity. If I remember correctly, you sank several of his CVs, so he should still be in inferiority for the moment.




Or perhaps he has a big invasion planned in the Pacific, and he's preparing to launch it while he knows you can't do anything against it.



I´ve sunk only two of his CVs so far. 5 more were heavily damaged though. Due to pure luck on his side 300 Betties weren´t able to sink four of his British CVs in port. As he has showed near New Caledonia he can field a formidable CV force with over 200 fighters on Cap, so he could have brought them. Even if it would just be to make me nervous. With all the LBA and a big carrier force (not to talk about all the surface forces) it was a MUST for him to attack. He didn´t, we will see if he pays for it.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/15/2009 5:02:49 PM   
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i must say i find it very impressive chris. not only mounting such a large scale attack as the japanese in 1943, but to manage all the logistic and to bring such a huge number of troops and supply to australia few months after a large invasion in india!

and one thing more: you realy could be a briton because of your typical "british understatement" of your abilities and possibilities as the japanese.




it´s just putting together a couple of transport TFs and that´s it... with a couple of years of playing WITP you get used to it...

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