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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/15/2009 4:25:09 PM   
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South China Sea


So next turn, our Miri landing force will proceed towards Miri, Chokai is flag. The Isuzu will head into Miri before the landing force (we hope) to find and disrupt any allied shipping out in front of the landing force. The Kongo/Haruna force will return from the Sulu Sea, to provide heavy cover for the landing.









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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/15/2009 4:27:48 PM   
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Formosa


Elements of the 16ID will land at Aparri (the scenario starts with them headed for Legaspi) and join the 48ID for the attack on Luzon. Many US Submarines are fanning out around Formosa (a few are shown) we will turn up our ASW counter-measures including surface Tf and naval search. We have a number of important comvoy's proceeding through the area over the next several days.








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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/15/2009 5:20:44 PM   
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Summary

Main production decision for this turn is to turn on the Yamato (I turned off Yamato, Musashi, Taiho and Shinano on turn one to build up a reserve of naval points) ... now that we have a reserve of 1500 points, we will turn on the Yamato and see what happens. Also we have built up a reserve of merchant points, so we will accelerate the Unyo.

There seem to be several large stock piles of resources in China, Korea and Manchuria, so we have several small (20k) convoy's now moving resources to the Home Islands from these spots.







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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/16/2009 11:37:03 AM   
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I think I can speak for other Japanese players and say any "tricks" you have learned that you can pass on will be appreciated.

How are you going to use your Air HQs?? With their importance increasing due to their torpedo allotment, many of us would like to know your assignment of them.

What are your initial priorities on PP use??

Economy - Any expansion of factories in the begininng?? Are there enough Zeros, Betty, and others being built?? I understand Kates are an issue to be clarified. If you could post anything about behind the scenes economic moves, I would appreciate it.

Thanks!!

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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/16/2009 5:21:30 PM   
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I think I can speak for other Japanese players and say any "tricks" you have learned that you can pass on will be appreciated.


Oh, I'm just learning as I go, just like everyone else.

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How are you going to use your Air HQs?? With their importance increasing due to their torpedo allotment, many of us would like to know your assignment of them.


Well Nik, in theory controls the Netty's as well as their HQ, though I have some "on loan" for now. I am moving one to Davao for him and another to Kuching for me. One of our early priorities is Java (surprise, surprise) so we want to "isolate the battlefield" by sliding one Netty HQ in on each end of Java.

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What are your initial priorities on PP use??

Mostly Artillery from Manchuria.

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Economy - Any expansion of factories in the begininng?? Are there enough Zeros, Betty, and others being built?? I understand Kates are an issue to be clarified. If you could post anything about behind the scenes economic moves, I would appreciate it.


I expanded Kates, not so much to clarify them as to have more!!!

I also expanded A6M2 and Oscar. Also the early Helen a bit.

I will be posting more about the economics, my spreadsheets are tracking things, just the game isn't far enough along yet to make regular posting very meaningful.

Remember, this is a 2x2 game, so we will be running 1 turn per day best case. Since Nik and I are West Coast USA, and ROb and Tony are SE Coast Oz, when things are running right, Nik and I do our turn while Rob and Tony are at work, and they do their turn while we are sleeping. So we're trying to make the timezone difference be an asset.




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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/16/2009 5:36:15 PM   
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An excerpt from the combat report. Pretty good day for the Allies - at this rate, the war will be over by Christmas!!!

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 11, 41
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Submarine attack near Sampit at 54,97

Japanese Ships
SS I-155

Allied Ships I think our submarines must have swamped torpedoes with the Americans, 70% of our torpedos miss or fail to detonate, 100% of the USN torpedoes seem to be working so far. We did hit one more tanker in the Java sea this turn ... missed four others ...
TK Manvantara, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage



SS I-155 is sighted by TK Manvantara
SS I-155 launches 8 torpedoes at TK Manvantara

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Aparri at 82,73

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
Ki-27b Nate x 4



Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 5
P-40E Warhawk x 23


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27b Nate: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses Fighter heavy attack on our shipping at Aparri breaks through and hits several ships, we will fly in another Zero Chutai for next turn
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Siraha Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Karachi Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Keisho Maru, Shell hits 3
xAK Kotoku Maru
xAK Okiyu Maru

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Kwangchowan at 73,60

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-51 Sonia x 3


No Japanese losses

Allied Ships Sonias at Hainan starting to get the idea .. bomb some of those dozens of ships out there camping off your island!!!
xAKL Kanchow, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Aparri at 82,73

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
Ki-27b Nate x 3


Allied aircraft Second attack not as successful as the first
P-40B Warhawk x 5
P-40E Warhawk x 6

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Warhawk: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

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Afternoon Air attack on Hong Kong , at 77,61

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 20


Allied aircraft Old trick from stock, sneak some fighters in during the Allied turn, then sneak them back out before we can react ... still works in AE ...
H81-A3 x 8


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 3 destroyed, 4 damaged


Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 4

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Kwangchowan at 73,60

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-51 Sonia x 4


No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAKL Kanchow, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage Wow, the Sonias at Hainan are finally getting the range, as the parade of ships continues to pass by ...


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Ground combat at Hong Kong (77,61)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3181 troops, 153 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 583

Defending force 8292 troops, 133 guns, 81 vehicles, Assault Value = 192

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses: We will try an attack next turn to see where things stand
186 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)



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Ground combat at 90,40

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 4763 troops, 43 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 129

Defending force 12684 troops, 102 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 363

Allied adjusted assault: 12

Japanese adjusted defense: 277

Allied assault odds: 1 to 23

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), leaders(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
49 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses: The Allies make a strange cross river attack, I will counter-attack next turn to see if I can get lucky
858 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 67 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 60 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled


Assaulting units:
19th Chinese Corps
6th Group Army

Defending units:
41st Division






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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/16/2009 5:43:17 PM   
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Summary


Our invasion of Miri will go in next turn, it is now 2 hexes North of Miri, the Kongo/Haruna group are 4 hexes out, but they will be in the unloading hex.

We will launch our second attempt to take Kota Bharu this turn, 2 groups of Sally's, escorted by Oscars will provide support.

We will also launch our second attempt to take Hong Kong. Support will rely on the 23rd Army Artillery.

Also 39ID will launch an attack North of Nanchang at one unit who wandered into our division's hex.

And 41ID will launch a counter-attack against the Chinese Corps that just crossed the river into the Mountains up North.

Both the 21ID convoy and the 33ID convoy are departing Shanghai and Sasebo respectively. 21ID is bound for Malaya to support the 25 Army and 33ID is bound for Burma to support the 15 Army.

Turn after next elements of the 16ID will begin unloading at Aparri, the second regiment of 48ID is loading at Mako.

I am not reporting on the goings on in Nik's section of the map, I will leave that to him.

Production-wise, I turned on Yamato last turn and naval points still climbed by 300, so I will turn on Musashi this turn. Taiho and Shinano are still turned off. Merchant shipping points climbed a lot this turn, so I have now accelerated all four CVE that I can accelerate.

The second Oscar factory at Maebashi still has not repaired its first production line.

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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/17/2009 5:53:57 AM   
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The second Oscar factory at Maebashi still has not repaired its first production line.


I assume you remembered to turn on the supply vacuum? IIRC Maebashi starts with little or no LCUs => Little or no supply.

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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/17/2009 12:36:26 PM   
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Afternoon Air attack on Hong Kong , at 77,61

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 20


Allied aircraft Old trick from stock, sneak some fighters in during the Allied turn, then sneak them back out before we can react ... still works in AE ...
H81-A3 x 8


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 3 destroyed, 4 damaged


Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 4

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But this can now also be done as the Japanese can´t it? Thought the Allied wouldn´t see Japanese air transfers anymore?

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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/17/2009 2:30:45 PM   
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But this can now also be done as the Japanese can´t it? Thought the Allied wouldn´t see Japanese air transfers anymore?



In the early phases of the war - the allies will be missing their stock ability to see all the planes at the Japanese based - due to FoW. But once the Allies get lots of recon planes - the same stock ability will return. As the Allies will be able to see the planes at least at the forward bases - not the ones that just moved their during the current turn - but any that had been there before. The Allied stock abilities are watered down a bit - but they are not gone.





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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/17/2009 2:31:57 PM   
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The second Oscar factory at Maebashi still has not repaired its first production line.


I assume you remembered to turn on the supply vacuum? IIRC Maebashi starts with little or no LCUs => Little or no supply.



Actually that was the issue - confirmed with Michaelm - we must have 10K supply to repair factores - same as stock !!!

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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/17/2009 2:54:48 PM   
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But this can now also be done as the Japanese can´t it? Thought the Allied wouldn´t see Japanese air transfers anymore?



In the early phases of the war - the allies will be missing their stock ability to see all the planes at the Japanese based - due to FoW. But once the Allies get lots of recon planes - the same stock ability will return. As the Allies will be able to see the planes at least at the forward bases - not the ones that just moved their during the current turn - but any that had been there before. The Allied stock abilities are watered down a bit - but they are not gone.







thx for the answer! It´s at least somewhat better that the Allied players doesn´t get an airfield symbol (without recon) as soon as you transfer ac in.

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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/19/2009 3:37:54 AM   
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Another great day for the Allies.

The AVG is romping in China - we have no atidote except possibly Oscars once we get some - but it will be months. So to preserve our airforce we will have to pull them back from the front.

Our landing is going in at Miri, the troops are ashore, hopefully next turn we will land some supply, then we can attack the tuirn after.

We attacked at Kota Bharu and were successful (second attack). We fly in a few Oscars to cover the beach head.

Second attack at Hong Kong was unsuccessful. A couple of other attacks in Central and Northern China were successful.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 12, 41
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Submarine attack near Bunguran at 61,84

Japanese Ships
SS I-121

Allied Ships
xAK Hinsang, Shell hits 4, on fire We have torps aboard but refuse to use them

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Samah at 71,66, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
MTB G-1

Allied Ships
xAK Haraldsvang, Shell hits 1 Well at least Japanese PT boats aren't Uber ... we fired off all our torps but got no hits

Low visibility due to Thunderstorms with 35% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Thunderstorms and 35% moonlight: 1,000 yards

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Submarine attack near Soerabaja at 56,102

Japanese Ships
SS I-164

Allied Ships
TK Iris, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage About all we do hit is tankers in the java sea



SS I-164 is sighted by TK Iris
SS I-164 attacking on the surface

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Bunguran at 59,84, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Isuzu

Allied Ships
xAK Hinsang, Shell hits 10, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk Cruiser fires off all its "long Lance" against an unescorted merchant



Reduced sighting due to 35% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 35% moonlight: 1,000 yards

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Pre-Invasion action off Miri

2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
CA Chokai Landing going in at Miri
DD Sagiri
APD Aoi
PB Nako Maru #2


Allied ground losses:
73 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)

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Morning Air attack on 58th Chinese/C Corps, at 85,52

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 3



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 3


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 2 destroyed AVG guessed were two of our three bombing missions would strike this turn


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Tourane at 68,68

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
G3M2 Nell x 9



No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
xAK Haraldsvang, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage Nells got 2 hits with 60KG bombs



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Haraldsvang

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Aparri at 82,73

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
Ki-27b Nate x 2



Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 4
P-40E Warhawk x 6


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27b Nate: 1 destroyed Allied PI Air force continues to attack our ships unloading at Aparri

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed


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Afternoon Air attack on 58th Chinese/C Corps, at 85,52

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-30 Ann x 8



Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 3


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-30 Ann: 5 destroyed, 1 damaged Our fighters didn't fly - but our bombers found the AVG !!!


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Afternoon Air attack on Tarawa , at 136,128

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
F2A-3 Buffalo x 10
SBD-2 Dauntless x 14
SBD-3 Dauntless x 13
TBD-1 Devastator x 11


No Allied losses



Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 2


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Ground combat at 85,52

Japanese Shock attack We punish a Chinese probe North on Nanchang

Attacking force 14278 troops, 104 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 418

Defending force 1773 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 56

Japanese adjusted assault: 842

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 842 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+)

Japanese ground losses:
49 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1584 casualties reported
Squads: 84 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 52 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 1


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
39th Division

Defending units:
58th Chinese/C Corps


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Ground combat at Hong Kong (77,61)

Japanese Shock attack Our attacking forces at Hong Kong continue to chew rock

Attacking force 25392 troops, 321 guns, 216 vehicles, Assault Value = 596

Defending force 8179 troops, 133 guns, 84 vehicles, Assault Value = 186

Japanese adjusted assault: 445

Allied adjusted defense: 345

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
1395 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 75 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 65 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
965 casualties reported
Squads: 27 destroyed, 49 disabled
Non Combat: 36 destroyed, 47 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 33 (26 destroyed, 7 disabled)


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Ground combat at 90,40

Japanese Shock attack We punish another Chinese probe in North China

Attacking force 12674 troops, 102 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 361

Defending force 5103 troops, 43 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 71

Japanese adjusted assault: 162

Allied adjusted defense: 31

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), morale(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Allied ground losses:
2227 casualties reported
Squads: 66 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 95 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
41st Division

Defending units:
19th Chinese Corps
6th Group Army


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Ground combat at Kota Bharu (51,75)

Japanese Shock attack Our second attack boots the Brits out of Kota Bharu

Attacking force 5523 troops, 41 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 159

Defending force 4308 troops, 40 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 108

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 152

Allied adjusted defense: 15

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kota Bharu !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
232 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
1924 casualties reported
Squads: 113 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 89 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 44 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 26 (26 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 3


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
56th Infantry Regiment
12th Engineer Regiment
5th JAAF AF Coy

Defending units:
FMSV Brigade
8th Indian Brigade
3rd ISF Base Force




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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/19/2009 3:42:39 AM   
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Planning


The 33ID and 21ID are passing through the Formosa straights enroute to Burma and Malaya respecctively. Our aircraft right around Formorsa seemed to have suppressed the USN submarines we know are in the are sufficiently to allow safe passage thus far.

Elements of the 16ID will begin to unload at Aparri this turn. The second regiment of the 48ID has loaded at Mako and is proceeding towards Luzon.

We will unload supply at Miri this turn.

Many units are railing through Thailand enroute for Malaya.

Second wave elements of 18ID and initial elements of 56ID have acquired escorts at Cam Ran Bay and will now proceed towards Malaya.

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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/19/2009 4:41:17 AM   
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Our strategy of maintaining everything in a slightly increasing status is working - so far.




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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/19/2009 4:43:40 AM   
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Air Production

Oscar production is slowly climbing. That's the only plane I'd really like to have more of right now. The IJA have very little offensive power against the Allies at this stage with only two partial Oscar units.




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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/19/2009 4:45:26 AM   
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IJA Air Units. Well we have 1200+ combat planes, but only about 70 fighters we can actually send against the enemy - which neuters much of the 200 useful bombers.




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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/20/2009 5:41:25 AM   
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Well Nik is conspicuous by his absence, so I'll at least put in one report of his activities. Today the KB showed itself by visiting some attention on Wake.






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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/20/2009 5:55:55 PM   
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 13, 41
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Terempa at 55,85, Range 5,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Isuzu Isuzu sweeping around NW Borneo picks up another escapee from the PI

Allied Ships
xAK Munlock, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

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Submarine attack near Mataram at 59,110

Japanese Ships
SS I-162

Allied Ships
TK Augustina, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage Though our submarines miss a lot more than they hit, we did get this one hit, just South of Bali

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Afternoon Air attack on Wake Island , at 136,98

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 11
B5N2 Kate x 132
D3A1 Val x 98



Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 2


Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 4 damaged
D3A1 Val: 3 damaged



Allied ground losses: KB puts out a lot of "flash/bang" but not much in the way of actual results
138 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)


Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 61




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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/24/2009 4:16:44 AM   
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Well, this was definitely a "Nik" turn ... he went in to Davao, took Legaspi and Wake, and fought off the PTs boats this turn as well as some air strikes.

Here is Nik fighting off some PT boats at Legaspi (there was more than one attack but we show one) ... I think he actually sank 3 PT boats and only took damage to one DD from enemy MG rounds.








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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/24/2009 4:18:20 AM   
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Some of Nik's BBs put in an appearance in the Celebes Sea, fighting off several air attacks, here is one.






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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/24/2009 4:29:07 AM   
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Miri will now act as the jumping off point for the attack on Kuching. We flew in a Zero Chutai which will first just CAP the ships at Miri, but them ultimately will cover CAP the landing at Kuching. The Kongo/Haruna group at Miri, will provide the heavy cover. The landing troops have loaded at Cam Ranh Bay (the 35th Bde and a SNLF) and the air support troops are loading at Saigon.








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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/24/2009 1:47:57 PM   
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ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Good question.

I can do it now becuause I have "special abilities" - - though we do hope to roll this capability out to everyone one day. We are testing it now.




Thanks for the great AAR Joe.

I just wanted to throw in here that having that ability would be beyond awesome! Would help move things along during slow times of PBEM's so much.

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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/24/2009 2:41:32 PM   
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Joe, awesome AAR. I am curious about some of your short-term planning:

1. What are your plans for the 4th Division and 2nd Division troops that start in the Home Islands? I believe the 2nd has a RCT loaded turn 1 and pointed at Kuching, but that seemed to me like too long a sail without magic move; I turned them around and unloaded.

I basically sent the 2nd to SW Pac (PM, etc), and the 4th to Luzon to close that out early, but I'm looking for other ideas.

2. What are your plans past Miri? Would it have been wiser to NOT land on Miri, but damage the Engineers to minimize damage to facilities, or does that not make much difference?

3. Why Kuching? Singkawang looks like a better option to me now as a follow-on. Only advantage of Kuching is that a couple units are prepped for it, but Singkawang falls easily without prep, if you bring 100 av or so.

4. What are your plans in Southern DEI? Menado? Ambon? Davao? I'm not sold on Davao as an initial target. I like Ambon, and that's very doable with the troops prepped for Legaspi that start at Palau, provided you detach a couple cruisers to cover (or a couple BBs from Japan). I am still pondering how to really get an offensive going from here, but I think basically you need:
-Air HQ from Takao
-Base Force from HI
-Supplies, Fuel shipped turn 1 from HI
-A Bat Div
-Transfer Zeros/Nells after first few turns
It's tougher than WITP for sure, but I like a thrust toward Timor early to cut the DEI from Northern Oz

5. Rabaul: I think I prefer to bypass Guam, and use those troops to land on Rabaul. The AI won't evacuate the Lark Bn though, which is proving a tough nut for the SouthSeas troops. I suspect a human will airlift it out to PM using Catalinas. Still pondering this one, but I like taking Rabaul early. This can be supported using KB, plus some extra base forces from Japan or Palau; Truk starts with a nice stockpile of fuel, plus a fleet HQ and a couple other goodies that will help move things along.

The Guam base force can't really grow, and all they can really do is dig trenches. It's so small though that a Nav Gd. unit from Japan can clean it up much later.

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Q-Ball,

Nik is basically responsible for the Celebes, New Guinea, Timor, the Spice Islands, the Eastern side of Borneo and even Eastern Java. Per post 01 of this thread I gave him 2ID, 4ID and 56 Bde. So most of your questions are really Nik questions - I actually do not know his detailed plans - though I can see that 4ID has been broken down and planning for various locations has begun.

I sent Nik 1 Betty Sentai and 2 Zero Sentai from Formosa, I will send him other naval air units as he requests them.

Most of your questions are really in Nik's area - I'll nudge him to answer!



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RE: Amis vs Aussies - World Domination(no jrcar or Tony) - 8/29/2009 4:56:02 AM   
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Planning


The Kuching Invasion is at sea off Cam Ranh Bay. The 35 Bde and a SNLF will assault, there is a Naval Air HQ in the TF group which will provide Torpedo capability once we are ashore. The Kongo/Haruna group currently at Miri will join up for Heavy support.

Otherwise you can see that Alor Setar has fallen and we are advancing Southward in Malaya from Kota Bharu as well as on the Western side of Malaya.






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Central China


The red circles indicate forming up areas - the red lines and arrows represent our intended lines of advance.








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The only activity of note here is that we are converting one of the Merchant factories over to Naval. We did turn on both the Shinano and Taiho for a few turns, but Naval build points were declining too quickly, so we turned Shinano back off. Yamato and Musashi are turned on now.






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Today saw more air action than we've seen in a long time. Allied bombers hit Japanese troops moving in Northern Malaya, B17s struck Saigon, Chinese bombers escorted by AVG fighters struck troops in central China, to mention a few.

Here is a strike on Rahaeng in Thailand. We think we actually got three Blenhein "fighters" for the loss of one Oscar.






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And here are some B17 "fighters" attacking Saigon. We think one of them crashed on the return flight.






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