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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/19/2011 9:40:03 AM

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Jan 12th

We have seen before that this foe will not fight if the odds are against him. All fine with that, thats how I would do it, though I think even now the Allied land and surface forces are just as or nearly as good as the Japanese. Unlike Japanese, the Allies are just spread out and uncoordinated early on. Japanese failure to sink a single ship during the 4-day PH bombardment evens things a lot.

Today, my Port Moresby invasion force is finally sighted. I have the 4th Division, 144th Inf Regiment, a single SNLF battalion (AV 50), a base force and 2 AAA units, one with 100mm guns. The invasion force is spread in 4 TFs: 2 amphibious, 1 bombardment and 1 surface action squadron. We have BB Mutsu, 4 CAs and 4 CLs commanded by Admiral Tanaka, about 30 transports, 20 DDs and TBs and lots of PBs. The force is now just 1 hex from Port Moresby and will make it through without air attacks - but just in case the Mutsu TF and Tanaka will go in first. No enemy ships sighted. Submarines will (try to) protect our flanks.

As a more distant support, Kido Butai has been sneaking down the Coral Sea undetected for over a week now. Every single Japanese CV is in this force, with reinforced escort. We have 50 ships in total + replenishment TF further to the North... Even the Taiyo is in it, carrying a 12-plane D3A1 unit. Somehow, I managed to time these 2 attacks so well that the same turn my PM invasion was detected 1 hex from target the Kido Butai arrived within strike range from Brisbane. I had only 1/3 of planes set at port attack secondary mission as I thought the invasion fleet had been sighted yesterday(apparently it wasnt, after all).

Afternoon Air attack on Brisbane , at 96,160

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 55
B5N1 Kate x 24
B5N2 Kate x 70
D3A1 Val x 53

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
AM Townsville, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
CL Achilles, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Canberra, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
CA Astoria, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CL Perth, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
CL Adelaide, Bomb hits 3, on fire
xAK Momba, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

Port hits 1

In Brisbane we have now 10/10 detection: 90 fighters, 15 bombers and 30 aux planes sighted. Port is reported to have 23 ships, including 2 SS and 5 cruisers... Of the 5 cruisers that our strike hit, every each received at least 1 800kg AP belt or deck penetrating hit. Canberra received 4 x 800kg bombs through her deck and went down in a massive magazine explosion. In combat phase, all other cruisers were reported to suffer "heavy damage" at least once, and many of the cruisers lost turrets and radars. As you can see, not one enemy fighter flew, complete surprise! Kido Butai was sighted twice by Catalinas.

KB will now move 3 hex SE from Brisbane with almost every air group set to port attack Brisbane as secondary mission. 2 Zero squads sweep, 2 are set to escort with no target, the rest set to escort to Brisbane. CL Naka leads DD squadron between Brisbane and KB, while 3 Japanese submarines have been already positioned at possible escape routes, and 2 more are on station near Sydney. 20 mines have been laid at Noumea, and a 6th submarine is checking Suva. 7 more subs are up the coast, and 3 support the Port Moresby landings directly. KB replenishment TF is about 16 hex to NE, still undetected.

BANZAI!

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/19/2011 2:34:35 PM

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/19/2011 8:36:29 PM

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AM Townsville, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
CL Achilles, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Canberra, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
CA Astoria, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CL Perth, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
CL Adelaide, Bomb hits 3, on fire
xAK Momba, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

Youch! A very useful strike, and it goes a little ways towards making up for the poor results in Pearl Harbor. (At this stage of the game CA's are more useful to the Allies than the slow American BB's.)

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/19/2011 8:54:31 PM

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quote:

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AM Townsville, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
CL Achilles, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Canberra, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
CA Astoria, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CL Perth, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires
CL Adelaide, Bomb hits 3, on fire
xAK Momba, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

Youch! A very useful strike, and it goes a little ways towards making up for the poor results in Pearl Harbor. (At this stage of the game CA's are more useful to the Allies than the slow American BB's.)

Yeah, and I dont think they are going to or even can escape especially to north, so even at speed 4 or 5 a phase they arent going anywhere next turn, and I have my 382 strike aircraft (each of the 16 units also has 4 reserve planes and 4 extra pilots) ready. Kaga's B5N unit is set to not strike the port at all, just in case. KB will potentially sortie, excluding search sorties, about 700 attack sorties and 450 fighter sorties with them... 90 fighters reported at Brisbane, we'll see. In the best case they are Wirraways or something, in second best case he does Pearl Harbors and sends everything he has to attack to be massacred against KB's CAP. In the worst case, he moves in more fighters and sets them fly CAP at 0 range and keeps all ships in the port.

We'll know more in just a couple of hours...

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/20/2011 5:15:34 PM

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Kido Butai hits Brisbane again and finishes off all but 1 sighted TFs trying to escape Brisbane.

One TF with at least 1 AVD(sighted by a submarine) gets through the screen and managed to get out of air search range before daybreak. Those boys were doing 30+ knots, an intact cruiser and her escorts?

However:

Day Time Surface Combat, near Brisbane at 97,162, Range 9,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
CL Naka
DD Natsugumo
DD Minegumo
DD Asagumo
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Shigure
DD Samidare

Allied Ships
CL Achilles, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Stuart

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Lord Howe Island at 99,165

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19
D3A1 Val x 11

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD Stuart, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

Afternoon Air attack on Brisbane , at 96,160

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 42
B5N1 Kate x 26
B5N2 Kate x 126
D3A1 Val x 109

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N1 Kate: 1 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
xAKL Patras, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Wollongbar, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
AMc Tongkol, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
xAKL Nevadan, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
xAK Anshun, Bomb hits 6, and is sunk
xAK Momba, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
xAK Yunnan, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk
xAK Yochow, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
xAK Beltana, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
xAKL Prusa, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
xAKL Bidelia, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk

Repair Shipyard hits 1
Manpower hits 1
Fires 749
Port hits 10
Port fuel hits 6
Port supply hits 1

Brisbane's port is now empty. We have some ships sighted up the coast, and at least 5 TFs escaped Sydney overnight to South. Our submarines spotted them all but failed to score any hits, visually IDing just assorted escort ships.

Port Moresby landings go perfectly with minimum interference (Kashii took 2 CD hits, 1 support squad lost in surf). There are 5 LCUs defending, all small ones with total AV of about 140 vs. Japanese 550+.

KB will now retire North, refuel and make sure the invasion fleet doesnt get backstabbed while sweeping the AUS coast killing everything in sight.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/20/2011 5:20:41 PM

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/21/2011 5:09:18 PM

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Jan 14th 1942

While retiring, KB launches 2 more strikes, sinking AS Platypus and a small xAP(PI escapees probably). KB's search spots over 6 Allied submarines in the immediate area, and one of them nearly gets an AMC escorting the replenishment TF... I'm slowly coming to hate the Allied sub force: they attack seemingly every single time they share a hex with anything Japanese, and they are unsinkable in deep waters. KB escort has the only handful ships in my whole fleet that have DC Mod-2s that should be able to touch even some Allied subs. The rest of the ships will upgrade mostly from 9/42 to 6/43...

4th Div and support units land Port Moresby. Raw AV situation is now 574 vs. 84. Shock attack ordered for tomorrow!

Over Malaya, the Buffalo force finally flies and manages to put up 43 planes in the air simultaneously! Our bombers dont destroy any on the ground(other than possible writeoffs, as some were damaged), but we have 17 confirmed A-A kills and about 15 damaged ones, while our losses are 7 fighters and 1 bomber(to AAA).

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/22/2011 10:00:27 PM

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Jan 15th

Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 19612 troops, 159 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 582

Defending force 3555 troops, 37 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 84

Japanese adjusted assault: 675

Allied adjusted defense: 41

Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Port Moresby !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
713 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 42 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1075 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 78 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 13 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 28 (28 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 29 (29 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 4
Units destroyed 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
144th Infantry Regiment
2nd Indpt SNLF Coy
4th Division
II/66th Nav Gd /2
12th Air Defense AA Regiment
11th Ind.AA Gun Co
7th Naval Construction Battalion
8th Base Force

Defending units:
A Coy/NG Rifles
49th Australian Battalion
Papuan Inf Battalion
13th Field Regiment
15th RAN Base Force

BANZAI! However notice the casualties. Despite of 16:1 odds, combat multipliers probably around 1:1, raw AV advantage of 7:1 and modified AV of 16,5:1, Japanese losses are nearly as great. Either the Papuan Inf Bat or the RAN Base Fore surrendered... 144th Inf Reg. pursues them to the jungles and towards Buna together with some SNLFs, while 4th Div will remain, for the time being, at Port Moresby.

Moved in Tainan Ku S-1 45-plane Zero unit, air search and recon will arrive later. Those Zeroes should be enough for the defenses now.

KB refueled in the middle of the Coral Sea, it will now head to refit at Truk then move under Klingon steal camo to Ponape probably. It will later in late January and early February support the Solomons operations, against Tulagi and Munda mostly.I'm later bringing another fresh division from Honshu to garrison Tulagi and Rabaul...

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/23/2011 12:05:55 PM

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Maybe I should, but I don't really look at the "casualty" numbers. They don't seem to mean anything or really impact play. What I do look at is destroyed .vs. disabled squads. Destroyed consume HI and supply and time to replace. Disabled only need time and a little supply. On that basis your losses were 5/72 compared to 173/12. Quite a lopsided outcome and in line with expectations.

Appreciate if anyone can clarify if my perceptions here are out of line...

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/23/2011 12:15:55 PM

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ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Maybe I should, but I don't really look at the "casualty" numbers. They don't seem to mean anything or really impact play. What I do look at is destroyed .vs. disabled squads. Destroyed consume HI and supply and time to replace. Disabled only need time and a little supply. On that basis your losses were 5/72 compared to 173/12. Quite a lopsided outcome and in line with expectations.

Appreciate if anyone can clarify if my perceptions here are out of line...

Yes, I know, however I have the feeling that most if not all of the destroyed devices were in the surrendered unit(I just checked the combat events, it was the A Coy/NG Rifles). It was possibly a static unit, but had it retreated, Allies would not have lost nearly as much in destroyed units.

I had something similar happen in Hong Kong, I got a clear 3:1 odds and the place fell with minimal casualties, however I lost a whole unit, every single device destroyed... The 29th Engineering regiment. I bought it back and its now refitting in Tokyo at 74% already.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/23/2011 12:39:20 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Erkki

quote:

ORIGINAL: PaxMondo

Maybe I should, but I don't really look at the "casualty" numbers. They don't seem to mean anything or really impact play. What I do look at is destroyed .vs. disabled squads. Destroyed consume HI and supply and time to replace. Disabled only need time and a little supply. On that basis your losses were 5/72 compared to 173/12. Quite a lopsided outcome and in line with expectations.

Appreciate if anyone can clarify if my perceptions here are out of line...

Yes, I know, however I have the feeling that most if not all of the destroyed devices were in the surrendered unit(I just checked the combat events, it was the A Coy/NG Rifles). It was possibly a static unit, but had it retreated, Allies would not have lost nearly as much in destroyed units.

I had something similar happen in Hong Kong, I got a clear 3:1 odds and the place fell with minimal casualties, however I lost a whole unit, every single device destroyed... The 29th Engineering regiment. I bought it back and its now refitting in Tokyo at 74% already.

I'm sure you are correct. But you lost only 5 squads, not bad. Your 72 squads disabled will come back within a week or so. Pretty cheap price for such an important target. BANZAI!!!

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/23/2011 4:34:50 PM

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Jan 16th

Did I mention Clark Field fell 2 days ago? For some reason the Allies thought they have better chances at Bataan, so they left Subic Bay Defense unit behind them and retreated. They gave 2x terrain def bonus for Bataan's 1. We'll see how that works out, as I havent bombed Bataan more than once and it might have its forts pretty high. We captured approx. 1500 supply the Allies left behind them.

Theres still 20+ Buffaloes in Singapore but they have refused to fly since the attempted and failed CAP-trap 3 days ago. They have lost approx Buffalo/day to bombing...

Today I made the decision to not capture Celebes yet. Allied CVs are probably at Melbourne or Perth, or on way, so I would need all of KB for cover. Instead I will mass nearly all reinforcements including 3 fresh divisions against Singapore(1 already there, 1 on its way, 3rd preparing at Chiba) and invade Java from Oosthaven and Singapore. I know its risky but this way I can rely on land based air only... Its penetrable, but properly planned and executed as quickly as possible it should be doable. I'm ready to send an old Fuso or 2 for torpedo magnets, and possibly CVE Taiyo with a Zero wing aboard her.

Tulagi invasion force leaves Tokyo tomorrow, 11th Air Flotilla unloads at Rabaul. I'll move a 27-plane G3M unit in, their first task is to bomb Tulagi and Munda to check out if Allies any troops there.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/24/2011 11:07:57 AM

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Jan 17th

Buffaloes fly again over Singapore, we see 24 of them in the air. They shoot down 5 Ki-43s, 4 Zeroes and 4 bombers, despite of all sweeps arriving first... We only get 10 confirmed kills and some 5 as damaged. For presumably 0-morale low experienced, outnumbered and horribly outperformed air force they have done remarkably well, although their numbers should now be down to less than 15 and pose little to no threat any more. Reported airfield damage at Singapore now 43% and it rises 3-4% daily.

Looks like it was worth of it to send all the subs to AUS East Coast, I-22 finds an Allied sub returning to its port near Sydney:

Sub vs Sub: SS I-22 attacking SS KVIII at 91,168 - near Sydney

Japanese Ships
SS I-22

Allied Ships
SS KVIII, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

SS I-22 launches 2 torpedoes at 1,000 yards

In China Northern front, the enemy is falling back to Sian. He has approx 40 units in the area... We have 3500kAV approaching from South and 1,2kAV in an adjacent hex to the East. I'm keeping one unit moving towards Sian to show them as "moving"... The plan however is to move that stack in 4 or 5 days to SW where in joins the main force, but if and only if the Chinese retreat all the way to Sian. The decisive battle is fought either at Sian (preferably) or in the forest hex SE to it. I'm using nearly 5kAV against it, about 800 is left to reserves or still mopping up the rear areas, but should make it in time, just swapping reserves forth and rear area moppers into reserve at Nanyang.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/24/2011 7:22:46 PM

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Reading your AAR up to now, and remembering back to your first post:

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I dont think I have the skills to try, and not fail, to conquer more than the standard perimeter. Long time goal is to not lose the war before 1943, and keep as many of my carriers as possible alive.

I find it amusing that you are already attacking (with the KB no less) shipping outside of this "standard perimter" and having biscuits and tea at PM. I am attributing this to bullyism. If your opponent is tacit and non-resistant, one tends to get braver and more aggressive.

And with Palem, Manila and Clark already down, I don't see you ceasing anytime soon, Erkki.

At first, I thought this was going to be one of those standard "secure the perimeter" Japanese fares, but I think (PH not withstanding) we're embarking on a roller coaster ride better than Star Tours

. Keep up the good work!

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/25/2011 8:59:18 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Ulua

Reading your AAR up to now, and remembering back to your first post:

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ORIGINAL: Erkki

I dont think I have the skills to try, and not fail, to conquer more than the standard perimeter. Long time goal is to not lose the war before 1943, and keep as many of my carriers as possible alive.

I find it amusing that you are already attacking (with the KB no less) shipping outside of this "standard perimter" and having biscuits and tea at PM. I am attributing this to bullyism. If your opponent is tacit and non-resistant, one tends to get braver and more aggressive. And with Palem, Manila and Clark already down, I don't see you ceasing anytime soon, Erkki.

At first, I thought this was going to be one of those standard "secure the perimeter" Japanese fares, but I think (PH not withstanding) we're embarking on a roller coaster ride better than Star Tours . Keep up the good work!

Hmmm, yes, but I do consider Port Moresby a fairly critical part of the "standard perimeter"

I dont think he seriously tried to defend it, if I dont remember all wrong, all the units he had there were just a collection of New Guinea garrison units he had just marched or shipped there, no reinforcements from mainland.

Philippines: he still holds Bataan, at forts 3 or 4, and I dont think I will bother bombing it when the same bomber force can kill 1,000+ Chinese every day. I have a fresh division from Kuyshu on its way to Bataan, I will have raw AV of approx. 1550 vs. whatever the Allies have left, with probably similar firepower. Securing Luzon will take at least 2 more weeks, as the transports carrying those reinforcements are passing Formosa in 2 days, need 2 days to unload and a week, plus, to march from Iba to Bataan.

Singapore: I have 2100 AV ready to enter Singapore in 5 days: some units still unloading from trains plus 3 or 4 days of marching, I want to make sure they all enter the hex simultaneously. I managed to cut off and destroy some 250 raw AV at Alor Star and at least 100 more is either currently cut off or has been destroyed mainly by my armor units that didn't give the enemy the time to pack up and flee. Looking at my old game, Singapore should have at least 500 raw AV present with similar-ish firepower at forts 3 or 4, and those forts are not going to build any more now that I have the air bombardments going round the clock. I dont expect to take the place in first assault but I'm expecting them to lower forts to 1 or 0 and mount 1:1 or 1:0,75 losses and finish off the place 4 to 7 days later once disruption from river crossing and failed shock attack is low enough again. If required, I have some 450 AV ready to reinforce this attack in a month or I can use the division now on its way to Philippines: if everything goes as planned, it is 1 day from reaching Iba when the Battle for Singapore begins, and I can, let them continue or turn to Kota Bharu and then down the Malaya on rails.

And on the Australia raid... If he keeps his units back and refuses to engage, we will have to go to him. We will see if he will fight for Java when its time comes within 2 months. So far, the Dutch air units have seen very little action and he clearly pulled back most of his units on the first week of the war. Stabs like the Brisbane raid should help keeping the Japanese initiative, make him spread his forces and last but not least, force him to fight on our odds while Japanese still have initial superiority. Raids like that will probably be very counter productive from late 42 onwards, just too many risks.

Jan 18th

Quiet before the storm, our bombers destroy at least 2 Buffaloes at Singapore. 18th Philippinean Army Infantry Division is retreated, cut off and destroyed to the last man in Mindanao: the surviving Allied units are in 2 pockets, main force at Calayan and a smaller pocket near Zamboanga(not sure about the real names of those places

). I'm expecting Mindanao to be 100% in Japanese control within 2 weeks, after which we will start backfilling North starting with Leyte.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/26/2011 11:25:15 AM

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Jan 19th and 20th

Our first attack at Clark Field comes off at 1:2 with raw AV 1300 vs. 1100 and forts 3. You can guess how the losses went... 33rd Division will add another 400 AV in 8 or 9 days...

At Mindanao, the last defenders outnumber Japanese units by 400 vs. 250 raw AV!!! I don't see a victory anywhere in the near future.

Tomorrow, we will have a whopping 4450 AV around Sian, and another 500 AV available in 7 days + 130 more in 2 weeks. Chinese have 27 units at Sian and 20 more in the nearby rough woods hex. Lets see if 3200 AV is enough to retreat the defenders in those woods.

One odd thing I noticed in the info screen: the Allies flew today 3200 sorties while Japanese only flew 2200. In total campaign sorties, the Allies have 116k while Japanese have flown 112k... What is this?!? Allies dont fly offensive bomber or fighter sorties thats for sure. And we have nearly double the OPS losses. Just today (3200 vs. 2100 sorties) the Allied losses are reported 0, while we lost 6 ops. Any ideas? Do the Allies have a super massive transport air fleet or what?

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/26/2011 12:16:43 PM

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Upcoming stuff:

tomorrow: 5-unit Chinese stack cuts off approx 500 Japanese AV that is already tangling with 400 AV in a rough wooden hex far in the South. 150 + 100 AV reinforcements are underway and they should be able to reopen the supply lines in max 4 days. I dont think these units can stop or beat this counter attack, but one more hex forth and they leave the woods and are in range of my bombers...

2 days: battle of Sian begins, 5000 raw Jap AV vs. 47 Chinese units...

3 days: first assault at Singapore, 2100 av available and another 100 + lots of art units 1 week away

8 days: reinforcements arrive at Bataan, lets see if we can drop the forts

8-10 days: I'm dividing the 4th Division(now at Port Moresby), 1 or 2 sub divisions will take care of Horn Island

10-12 days and onwards: Tulagi and Shortlands invasions supported by the Kido Butai

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/26/2011 1:02:20 PM

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Do the Allies have a super massive transport air fleet or what?

He might be using his CATs as transport and 4E's for supply. Not how I would use them, but some do ...

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/26/2011 1:23:48 PM

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Do the Allies have a super massive transport air fleet or what?

He might be using his CATs as transport and 4E's for supply. Not how I would use them, but some do ...

Thats what I think it could be, too... However his losses are very low...

PBY-4 Catalina: 16 ops (10 or 11 of these, at least, were caught by Japanese SNLFs at Davao, but they're "ops" for some reason)
Catalina 1: 1 ops 1 ground (singapore)
Catalina 1: 4 ops
Do-24: 1 air 3 ops
PBY-5 Catalina: 4 ops + 2 AA + 10 ground (pearl harbor)
PBY-5 Catalina: 2 ops

Figures are from Tracker. I'm not sure how he has been able to fly more sorties than me. Japanese fly probably near 1,000 bomber sorties a day, even KB flies over 150 search and CAP daily... I have the feeling that hes using more than just Catalinas to transports stuff around, and he must have done that from day 1!

Allies have also lost, relatively, quite a few Hudsons and Wirraways as OPS, 13. Wirraways I havent seen yet, Hudsons flew twice over Malaya losing 7, so at least a couple of those OPS are due to combat damage.

Dedicated transports, L-18 and DC-2, he has reportedly lost 7.

Fortress Java? Fortress Timor? Whatever it is, hes using huge numbers of planes and flying a lot of sorties to support it. Japanese "SigInt" has reported something from both Sydney and Pearl at least once a day for for over a month now, which could be related, or could be not.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/26/2011 3:07:54 PM

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Seems like he has a lot of groups on 30% Search/40% Train or 30% CAP/40% train ... he can amass a lot of sorties ....

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/26/2011 6:19:45 PM

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If he keeps his units back and refuses to engage, we will have to go to him. We will see if he will fight for Java when its time comes within 2 months. So far, the Dutch air units have seen very little action and he clearly pulled back most of his units on the first week of the war. Stabs like the Brisbane raid should help keeping the Japanese initiative, make him spread his forces and last but not least, force him to fight on our odds while Japanese still have initial superiority. Raids like that will probably be very counter productive from late 42 onwards, just too many risks.

Hi Erkki,

That sums it up right there. In my game with Smeulders, he fought for Java, lost a bunch of Dutch CL's and DD's and I never saw an Allied Fleet again for nine months. Your opponent simply does not like to take losses. He'll only engage you on his terms and as long as his operations are successful he will continue them, if he suffers a moderate setback, that usually entails a complete withdrawal or redeployment out of harms way on his part until he can get the advantage back.

He'll draw a line in the sand somewhere, but on his terms not yours. If you don't threaten his MLR, wherever that may be, he simply will offer you no other targets...period. You'll have to take the fight to your opponent and find what he's willing to fight for.

A note on your Ops losses. I've encountered the same thing. My Ops losses are thru the roof, while the Allies' seem to have hardly any. I think it's a question of airfields, low durability of Japanese aircraft and inexperienced pilots trashing aircraft on a regular basis.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/29/2011 2:11:47 PM

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Jan 22nd

Chinese are underpowered and Japan can beat them easily... Be sure!

Ground combat at 84,42 (near Sian)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 104996 troops, 830 guns, 200 vehicles, Assault Value = 3241

Defending force 73201 troops, 361 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1770

Japanese adjusted assault: 1457

Allied adjusted defense: 2920

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
15972 casualties reported
Squads: 63 destroyed, 670 disabled
Non Combat: 34 destroyed, 380 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 52 disabled
Vehicles lost 29 (3 destroyed, 26 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
4925 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 360 disabled
Non Combat: 26 destroyed, 392 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled

Assaulting units:
16th Ind.Mixed Brigade
116th Division
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
36th Division
6th Ind.Mixed Brigade
34th Division
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
13th Tank Regiment
138th Infantry Regiment
110th Division
14th RGC Temp. Division
18th RGC Temp. Division
9th Armored Car Co
35th Division
7th Ind.Mixed Brigade
32nd/A Division
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
80th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
30th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
3rd Construction Regiment
12th Chinese Corps
93rd Chinese Corps
7th Construction Regiment
4th Chinese Base Force
1st War Area
31st Group Army
24th Group Army
14th Group Army
2nd Group Army
36th Group Army
15th Group Army
10th Chinese Base Force

This turn Allied subs get to fire at my transports 3 times, despite (What I thought were) overkill number of escorts. The same escorts then ignored the attacking sub or failed to find it.

EDIT: regarding that Chinese stack, do you guys think another 900 AV could beat it? The attacking stack is down to 2600 AV but I expect it to rise by at least 200 in 4-5 days. I have 1200 AV in adjacent hex but if I move it, the Chinese can move another 27 units to that hex from Sian.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/29/2011 2:47:02 PM

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Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 104996 troops, 830 guns, 200 vehicles, Assault Value = 3241

Defending force 73201 troops, 361 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1770

Japanese adjusted assault: 1457

Allied adjusted defense: 2920

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

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

Looks like a bad roll for you ... or was this in jungle?

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/29/2011 3:30:24 PM

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84,42 is forest+rough. 900 AV might not be enough. At least don't expect quick success.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/29/2011 3:51:53 PM

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This is the current situation. The KMT units behind my lines are 4 separate Chinese corps without a single non-disabled squad back (or they didnt have when I last had any action with them). They are depleted, and probably been disorganized for weeks now as they havent moved. I have 2,6/3,2 kAV SE of Sian, 1,2 kAV E and about 700 available at 84,42 in 8-9 days, plus 600 more if required but I'd like to have some reserves, too.

Of the 27 units at Sian, 5 are depleted(retreated 5 times by the 1,2 kAV stack to the East), composition of the rest of it is unknown, other than that they have at least 1 base force that my bomber-recon Ki-21s bombed and got shot at by.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/30/2011 3:36:57 PM

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Jan 23rd

China: The huge 27-unit stack starts moving from Sian to the wooded hex with 1500-ish AV. 7 units approach from NE, I'm moving my 1,2 kAV in attempt to reduce them before they reach Sian. In the south, the 7 unit 4-corp stack, for some reason, starts retreating back west! It is bombed and looks like its supplies are very low, as we destroy multiple squads and disable about a hundred using just G3Ms and Ki-48s. Japanese regiment opens up the supply route to our pocket, while main bomber force keeps hitting the 29th Corps to the south... After 2 weeks of bombing it seems to finally be out of supply as for the first time we see some destroyed squads. Good news indeed!

Burma: Meiktila falls. We have Imperial Guards Division, a tank battalion and 2 artillery. In Malabalay there sits 29(!!!!!) units! An RAF base force is left behind other units and in strategic move mode gets badly hammered by Japanese. I think it lost everything destroyed but 2 support squads and 1 infantry as disabled.

AVG reappears at Malaybalay, with they escort Blenheims and bomb Japanese troops. Tomorrow I have 15 Zeros, 42 Ki-43s sweeping Malaybalay and 30 Ki-48s escorted by 20-ish Ki-43s bombing the field. I'm hoping to get at least a few of them on the ground.

Tomorrow: First assault at Singapore, 2053 AV vs. 40 defensive units. All British air units seemed to have been pulled back now, probably Batavia. 90 Ki-43s CAP Palembang, there have been too many reports of enemy activity there and I know the field has some bombers.

Day after tomorrow: Horn Island invasion.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/31/2011 1:24:21 PM

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China: our bombers get more success against the 7-corp enemy stacks in the southern front. KMT units keep moving from Sian to the woods...

Burma: No H-81s are set to CAP so our sweeps find nothing, and Ki-48s destroy 2 fighters on the ground and damage some more + Blenheims.

I'll repeat that tomorrow, though I think he'll just fly them out rather than face 80+ Ki-43s.

Singapore: first assault went pretty well.. The destroyed unit is was a fragment of one SNLF(main unit at Palembang, dunno how that happened) with just 3 or 4 support units. I'll wait 5-6 days and attack again. Good news is only 1 regiment was decimated quite badly (strength went from 90/100 to 1/7) while the rest have just 1-2 squads destroyed and max 20% disabled.

Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 66721 troops, 579 guns, 245 vehicles, Assault Value = 2082

Defending force 46195 troops, 483 guns, 437 vehicles, Assault Value = 738

Japanese adjusted assault: 1582

Allied adjusted defense: 1375

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
9259 casualties reported
Squads: 155 destroyed, 417 disabled
Non Combat: 157 destroyed, 214 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 42 disabled
Guns lost 33 (8 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
4774 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 176 disabled
Non Combat: 49 destroyed, 520 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 19 disabled
Vehicles lost 70 (12 destroyed, 58 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
16th Infantry Regiment
33rd Division
56th Engineer Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
12th Engineer Regiment
56th Recon Regiment
42nd Infantry Regiment
5th Recon Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
113th Infantry Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment
23rd Ind Engineer Regiment
56th Infantry Regiment
11th Infantry Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
15th Ind Engineer Regiment
5th Engineer Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
21st Infantry Regiment
4th Ind Engineer Regiment
55th Infantry Regiment
I./4th Infantry Bn /1
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
25th Army
56th Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Field Artillery Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
1st Manchester Battalion
Singapore Fortress
22nd Australian Brigade
1st Mysore Battalion
2nd Malay Battalion
3rd Cavalry Regiment
2/17 Dogra Battalion
2nd Gordons Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
1st Malay Battalion
11th Indian Division
SSVF Brigade
3/16th Punjab Battalion
27th Australian Brigade
5/2nd Punjab Battalion
109th RN Base Force
AHQ Far East
223 Group RAF
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
30 Battery/3 HAA
11 Battery/3 HAA
110th RAF Adv Base Force
3rd HK&S Light AA Regiment
Malayan Air Wing
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
224 Group RAF
Singapore Base Force
1st ISF Base Force
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
2nd HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
Malaya Army
29 Battery/3 HAA
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
111th RAF Adv Base Force
113th RAF Adv Base Force
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
III Indian Corps
112th RAF Adv Base Force
2nd ISF Base Force
5th Field Regiment

SOPAC: Despite being set to cruise speed, the Horn Island invasion force flank speed warps to its target and unloads only for the last phase.

However that is more than enough, the nearly 300 Japanese AV secure the island losing just 8 squads, of all but one to surf. Defensive units are a base force and some understrength battalion.

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

Japanese ground losses:
192 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
834 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 34 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

Assaulting units:
4th/B Div /1
4th/C Div /2

Defending units:
Torres Strait Battalion
Horn Isl Base Force

In the meanwhile, CVL Shoho arrives to Yokohama. Her air groups will immediately resize to use all of the 30 plane capacity, and once her escorts arrive in 2 days(just 1 old destroyer with crap DCs, I know, I know...) she'll head to Truk.

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 8/31/2011 9:11:47 PM

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SOPAC: Despite being set to cruise speed, the Horn Island invasion force flank speed warps to its target and unloads only for the last phase. However that is more than enough, the nearly 300 Japanese AV secure the island losing just 8 squads, of all but one to surf.

And sometimes luck is on your side!! BANZAI!!!

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 9/3/2011 8:01:28 PM

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We have reached January 27th

Going clockwise...

SOPAC: Kido Butai has refitted 100% and is ready for action. Replenishment TF has already moved ahead to island X that shall act as KB's forward deployment anchorage for the coming month at least. Tulagi Invasion is 5 days away from target. Tulagi has been been reconnoitered by IJNAF bombers and found empty, and we have some submarines in place in the case the enemy reinforces the island or interferes with our landings. In this operation, Kido Butai will at least initially stay further back, hopefully hidden, as I dont expect to need it. I'm still keeping my carriers in this area as my land based air is very strong elsewhere and phase 2 invasions of Java, Balikpapan and Timor are still at least 2 weeks away. CVL Shoho is passing Iwo Jima and will arrive to Truk within a week.

Sumatra/Malaya: now 1700AV at Singapore forts 2 I'm moving the hammered inf regiment out and sending in 5 more artillery units. Some units have both disruption and fatigue below 10 already so I expect to be able to do the next shock attack, that has 40-50% chance of getting through(my estimate, lol) in 3 days. At Sumatra my 3 armored units and 3 SNLF infantry units have captured Padang now a week ago and have already secured half of the island. They should be able to destroy the last bits of resistance by the end of February.

Burma: an Allied 31-unit stack is retreating to the North from Mandalay, chased by Imperial Guards and its support units. I'm not sure what this force includes(except a base force and at least 250 AV, but that 250 AV before at Prome was by 11 out of the now 31 units, soo....). Why this force is retreating is a mystery to me, but I'm going to take all the advantage I can and give chase, as tomorrow they'll be over a river making a counter attack unlikely, or at least costly. I hope.

China: tomorrow the 8-unit KMT stack from the North now NE of Sian (map direction) gets hopefully hammered and retreated by 1300 Japanese AV including lots of tanks, in open terrain. Of the 47 KMT units in Sian's immediate proximity 20 are now at Sian and 27, 7 more than week ago, have moved to the rough wood hex sharing it with soon 4000 Japanese AV. I have all units in place and ready to attack again in 10 days... In the south, the 400 AV KMT stack has been cut off for some time now, but today's deliberate attack still got 2x Japanese casualties(my mistake, a 140 AV unit was in reserve mode). Rough wooden hex that too. However lots of the Chinese losses were destroyed squads while none of the Japanese were, so they are in real bad situation, they got disruption and fatigue modifiers too. 60 more AV joins this force tomorrow, so day after tomorrow I'll try if I can retreat the Chinese and push south to Kanhisien! BTW Over 300 japanese bombers hit this hex daily, they usually get approx 30 units disabled 1-2 destroyed.

Home Islands: I have finally managed to stabilize the resource situation... In this scenario its not possible to turn off light industry, meaning that Honshu needs extra 80,000 tons of resources per day!

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RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) -... - 9/4/2011 12:23:07 AM

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Jan 28th

Ground combat at 84,40 (near Sian)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 38527 troops, 301 guns, 214 vehicles, Assault Value = 1256

Defending force 27284 troops, 147 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 645

Japanese adjusted assault: 999

Allied adjusted defense: 218

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
4016 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 227 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 174 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled

Allied ground losses:
10388 casualties reported
Squads: 223 destroyed, 167 disabled
Non Combat: 196 destroyed, 135 disabled
Engineers: 16 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 5 (4 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 7
Units destroyed 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
37th Division
4th Ind.Mixed Brigade
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
15th Tank Regiment
41st Division
12th Tank Regiment
5th Armored Car Co
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
1st Construction Regiment
42nd Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps
8th Route Army
2nd Construction Regiment
2nd War Area
18th Group Army
12th Chinese Base Force

Pretty good results but on the other hand the survivors are now at Sian. 1st construction regiment was the destroyed unit... The supply(-) is a very good sign as that stack has not been involved in any action before now and it has had clear road connection from Sian since the first turn.

Theres a 7-ship TF with reportedly SCs sailing NW from Batavia. Another Palembang raid? Chokai squadron and 2 smaller SCTFs are readier to meet them.

I have converted some xAKLs into ACMs, moving 4 of them to Truk, I'll need them to tend the planned two 300-mine fields I'm going to lay at Port Moresby and Tulagi.

Next turn: shortlands invasion
2 turns: Singapore round 2, more ground action in China
5 turns: Tulagi invasion

EDIT: Port Blair paratrooper invasion also planned for February 4th. I should have enough transport capacity to fly in close to 100 AV, which should be enough to deal away with the single unit my air recce has spotted there. Probably the <20 AV rifle company it has had since the beginning.

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