Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Powloon

Congratulations on the smooth running of the Okinawa operation. I can't believe your opponent has stuffed Formosa to the gills with troops and planes but neglected to garrison Okinawa at least strongly enough to take a tithe from you in blood and time .

Regarding China I am a little hazy on the river crossing rules but I thought that if you had a certain proportion of force in the hex that that follow on forces would not shock attack when moving into the hex (could be wrong about that). Is the force that you have got flanking Nanning on the road from the North large enough to enable this condition?

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ORIGINAL: paullus99

If you have the room to maneuver in China - you should use it....pin his stack, then just go around...it may take more time, but you're not just butting your head against a wall.

Do you have armor available?

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Any intel or recon info on the troop count of the bases near Okinawa?? I'm finding the LST and LCI are a good combo for quick invasions as they unload in a day or less. If you have enough supply and fuel at Naha, create barges until you get enough to lift LCUs to take the bases nearby. Extras, you can disband back into the pool.

OT - I still feel the Americans should be getting a few full FG (75 planes) as reinforcements vs them broken down in 3 x 25 plane groups. 1 in '42, 2 in '43, 3 in '44, and maybe another 3 or 4 in '45. Since Japan gets the production numbers, the Allies should have something to combat them now. P-47 and P-51 fighter sweeps would do wonders to break through.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: paullus99

If you have the room to maneuver in China - you should use it....pin his stack, then just go around...it may take more time, but you're not just butting your head against a wall.

Do you have armor available?

I´m starting to lean towards this too. That rivercrossing is scary!

I do have armor in place. The "Combined Motorized Army" of 2 Motorized IDs + some 500 heavy tanks (2500 AV). They already started moving south last turn.

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ORIGINAL: paullus99

Think of it this way - he's not in any position to attack, so he either has to stand or retreat....eventually, he's going to run out of room - which still works in your favor.

Think of the Atlanta Campaign as your guide - you can still win without having to fight a major battle...if you can force Obvert to vacate strong defensive positions because of being outflanked....he might be able to see your moves a mile away, but you can see his too.

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Night Naval bombardment of Naha at 95,66 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5A Catalina: 2 damaged
PBY-5A Catalina: 1 destroyed on ground

14 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
CA Mikuma
CA Nachi
CA Maya
DD Yamakaze
DD Yudachi
DD Shigure
DD Shimakaze

Allied ground losses:
295 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 62 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 37 (11 destroyed, 26 disabled)
Vehicles lost 35 (18 destroyed, 17 disabled)

Manpower hits 1
Repair Shipyard hits 1
Fires 131
Airbase hits 20
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 41
Port hits 10
Port supply hits 1

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Night Naval bombardment of Naha at 95,66 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5A Catalina: 1 damaged

12 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
CL Sakawa
CL Yahagi
CL Agano, Shell hits 1
CL Oyodo

Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 2
Port hits 2

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ASW attack near Kume-jima at 93,65

Japanese Ships
DD Michishio, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
CL Sakawa
CL Yahagi
CL Agano
CL Oyodo
DD Arare
DD Maikaze

Allied Ships
SS Lamprey

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Morning Air attack on 37th Division, at 67,44 , near Paoshan

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
Liberator B.VI x 28
Liberator GR.VI x 16
B-17E Fortress x 8
B-24D Liberator x 7
B-24D1 Liberator x 12
B-24J Liberator x 72

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
330 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

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Ground combat at Nago (95,65)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 101428 troops, 1905 guns, 1626 vehicles, Assault Value = 3989

Defending force 16194 troops, 401 guns, 126 vehicles, Assault Value = 135

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 4

Allied adjusted assault: 1705

Japanese adjusted defense: 745

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 4

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), preparation(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
3156 casualties reported
Squads: 117 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 29 destroyed, 241 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 129 (36 destroyed, 93 disabled)
Vehicles lost 14 (1 destroyed, 13 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1283 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 104 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Guns lost 42 (2 destroyed, 40 disabled)

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Morning Air attack on Liuchow , at 74,55

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 78 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-84r Frank x 80

Allied aircraft
P-51D Mustang x 17
F4U-1D Corsair x 36

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-84r Frank: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-51D Mustang: 3 destroyed
F4U-1D Corsair: 3 destroyed

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Morning Air attack on Liuchow , at 74,55

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 78 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-84r Frank x 70

Allied aircraft
P-51D Mustang x 15
F4U-1D Corsair x 47

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-84r Frank: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1D Corsair: 2 destroyed

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

You would think that he would take his computer so he could run his turns and keep us entertained!!!

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Kagoshima at 102,60

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 63 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 27 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A7M2 Sam x 28
Ki-84r Frank x 56

Allied aircraft
Hellcat F.II x 24
F6F-3 Hellcat x 59
F6F-5 Hellcat x 208
SB2C-4 Helldiver x 43

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-84r Frank: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hellcat F.II: 1 destroyed
F6F-3 Hellcat: 4 destroyed
F6F-5 Hellcat: 12 destroyed
SB2C-4 Helldiver: 11 destroyed, 6 damaged
SB2C-4 Helldiver: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
DD Kiri, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Sugi
DD Kaede, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
DD Kaya

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Morning Air attack on Liuchow , at 74,55

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A7M2 Sam x 9
Ki-83 x 18
Ki-84r Frank x 34

Allied aircraft
F4U-1A Corsair x 29

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1A Corsair: 7 destroyed

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Afternoon Air attack on 35th Division, at 76,46 , near Chungking

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Allied aircraft
B-24J Liberator x 8
B-24J Liberator x 58
B-25D1 Mitchell x 18
B-25G Mitchell x 12
PB4Y-1 Liberator x 15
PBJ-1D Mitchell x 13

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
424 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 49 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

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ORIGINAL: DOCUP

That's kinda slick Joc.

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ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

That looks like a great beer. Tell Oppigards to export it to Korea. Also, have you had the Norwegian Nogne? The founder of that brewery used to live in Japan and that was his first export market. I've had Nogne over there a couple of times and it is tasty. I've heard rumors it'll be available here in Korea shortly as well.

I've only played against Ironman AI, which essentially means not a lot of offensive air raids, so I feel your pain. It's all about doing proper base defense to shoot down tens of thousands of Japanese aircraft over time, with some uber-aces racking up over 100 kills. Then, we you absolutely need to take out an airbase, you need to use every 4E in the area and also do shore bombardment on the base if possible. Shore bombardment is your friend. You might even consider a couple of Fletcher bombardments on Taihoku and other bases within range.

Cheers,
CC

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Ground combat at Nago (95,65)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 101727 troops, 1905 guns, 1627 vehicles, Assault Value = 4004

Defending force 14340 troops, 372 guns, 125 vehicles, Assault Value = 121

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Allied adjusted assault: 1517

Japanese adjusted defense: 502

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 3

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

Japanese ground losses:
2860 casualties reported
Squads: 28 destroyed, 31 disabled
Non Combat: 181 destroyed, 72 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 20 disabled
Guns lost 131 (33 destroyed, 98 disabled)
Vehicles lost 21 (2 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Units destroyed 2

Allied ground losses:
941 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 112 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Guns lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)