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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/5/2014 4:00:41 PM   
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What use are Barges?

I have some 70+ of these that I can deploy but I can't see what use they have. They have a range of 3 hexes and are less fuel efficient than any xAKL in moving supply or troops. Any suggestions as to when to use them?


I think of them as expendable island hoppers for supply runs. Possible use - in the Solomons/New Guinea. They are also a nice CAP trap.


In DBB there are lots of very small xAKL that are more efficient in that role. However, they don't get the benefits of using a barge task force and I am unsure of what that is. For the moment, I am looking on them as an extra complication I don't need

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/6/2014 1:51:59 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Spidery

What use are Barges?

I have some 70+ of these that I can deploy but I can't see what use they have. They have a range of 3 hexes and are less fuel efficient than any xAKL in moving supply or troops. Any suggestions as to when to use them?


I think of them as expendable island hoppers for supply runs. Possible use - in the Solomons/New Guinea. They are also a nice CAP trap.


In DBB there are lots of very small xAKL that are more efficient in that role. However, they don't get the benefits of using a barge task force and I am unsure of what that is. For the moment, I am looking on them as an extra complication I don't need


IIRC you can create them anywhere, provided you have supply. No need to sail them all the way to the frontlines. Their use is very dependant on circumstances though.
edit: "anywhere" being a port.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/6/2014 3:17:08 PM   
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Air Losses: 3 Japanese, 1 Allied, 2 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

China

Air strikes followed by ground attack drive two of three defending Corps out of hex 79,45. The last one should fall soon and this will give control of a hex on the edge of the plains with a road access into the plains.

Pacific

Quiet

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

A bombardment attack at Katherine damages Allies for no loss and keeps up the pressure.

Engineering

Prome airfield reaches 4.

R&D

Quiet

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/6/2014 9:37:47 PM   
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Air Losses: 10 Japanese, 6 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy: Lord Howe Island
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at: Lord Howe Island

China

For the first time, Chinese bombers attack. 3 A-29A, 30 SB-III escorted by 53 P-400, 27 P-39D and 12 Hurricane IIb attack the forces that had attacked into the rough at the edge of the planes. Only 10 Oscars are on LRCAP so they come off worse. Some damage to the 1st Division but, annoyingly, the supply demand of the division remains high. His bombers attack at 5000 feet - I thought there are penalties to LB attacking below 6000 feet? I generally attack at 6000 feet unless I expect flak when I set to 10000 feet.

Spot some movement near Tienshui that may make life difficult for an attempt to isolate some 20 Chinese units in that area.

Pacific

Quiet

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

22 B-17E hit Katherine flak is heavy and 1 B-17E is lost to ops and more are damaged.

Engineering

Lots of Allied expansions.

R&D

A6M5 accelerates to 7/42; this will be available on the 1st June.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/7/2014 7:56:18 AM   
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Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 4 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

China

No Allied air today. Managed to capture the rough hex on the plains.

Obligingly, MrKane has moved 4 units cut off near Lanchow off the road and into the mountains where they can be isolated. The fuel accumulated at Lanchow immediately flows away, I think to Fusan.

Pacific

Allied subs are hanging around Truk.

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

Attack at Katherine nearly succeeds and inflicts heavier losses on the Allies than I suffer.

Engineering

Allied expansions.

R&D

Quiet

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/7/2014 12:14:45 PM   
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Air Losses: 22 Japanese, 136 Allied, 17 Pilots
Japanese occupy: Katherine
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

China

2 Divisions attack across the river and take 80, 39. Just South East of Tienshui. I had hoped that I would be able to beat the Chinese to the mountains but he already has units there so may be able to evacuate Tienshui.

An attack on the edge of the woods does well and may soon push the Allies out of another hex.

Pacific

An Allied sub fails an attack North of Truk against a reinforcement convoy. Counter attack is useless as the escorts have Type 95 DC that are set too shallow.

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

Both sides bomb at Katherine and I come off worse because the Allies have a huge CAP in place. However, it doesn't matter because the land attack capture Katherine and find large numbers of aircraft on the ground:

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Ground combat at Katherine (76,128)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 25342 troops, 325 guns, 214 vehicles, Assault Value = 583

Defending force 27761 troops, 303 guns, 438 vehicles, Assault Value = 574

Japanese adjusted assault: 978

Allied adjusted defense: 241

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Katherine !!!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk IA: 12 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 64 destroyed

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
986 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 72 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 13 (2 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 14 (1 destroyed, 13 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
4230 casualties reported
Squads: 136 destroyed, 25 disabled
Non Combat: 489 destroyed, 89 disabled
Engineers: 91 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 80 (67 destroyed, 13 disabled)
Vehicles lost 295 (287 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Units retreated 15

Assaulting units:
4th Division
48th Division
56th Recon Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
8th Field Construction Battalion
31st Field AA Battalion
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
5th Air Defense AA Regiment
31st Ind.AA Gun Co

Defending units:
8th Australian Division
2/2nd Ind Coy
2/7th Armoured Regiment
10th Cav Recce Regiment
2/8th Armoured Regiment
2/10th Armoured Regiment
3rd Australian Brigade
2nd Australian Division
4th Aus Cav Brigade
19th Australian Battalion
Wyndham RAAF Base Force
Northern Territory
Darwin RAAF Base Force
108th Anti Tank Regiment
Katherine RAAF Base Force


The aircraft loss screen suggests that the Allied loss may be more like 130 aircraft lost on the ground (are the pilots also lost?).

My troops are too damaged to pursue given the risk from B-17E attack. (For example, the 4th Division has only 38 active Infantry squads with 280 disabled.)

However, with the destruction of Allied fighters I may be able to harass the disrupted Australians from the air and get some more success.

This success I think came from getting the Command HQ bonus. Southern Army HQ is at Koepang and 82 prepped for Katherine. 14th Army was at Katherine and 72 prepped.

No idea what Allied force pools are like but I guess that will have gutted Australian pools nicely.

Engineering

Minor only.

R&D

Ki-44-IIc accelerates to 12/43.
Mitsubishi Ha-43 accelerates to 4/45.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/7/2014 12:18:58 PM   
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The hex at "A" fell the day before and opens a threat to the plains.

The hex at "B" is under attack and will be taken unless reinforced just as soon as I can get enough supply.

The hex at "C" was taken by attack across the river and leaves the Chinese in danger. There are 12 units in Tienshui (some of which have been mauled), 5 units the hex South of it (reasonably intact), and 8 in the mountain pass (including some artillery units). 2 Allied units are in the hex West of Tienshui and 5 in the mountain hex below that.

At "D" these two hexes I have troops arriving soon and hope to be able to take them which will open a way to attack Kunming. Kunming appears to be defended by one Corps and some base forces.






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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/7/2014 12:23:33 PM   
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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/7/2014 3:24:26 PM   
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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/7/2014 4:25:52 PM   
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I can expect to lose the oil production from Magwe fairly soon and most of the rest by mid 1944. So assume an average of 700 days more production that is about 21 million. With current stocks of 2.8 million, that gives about another 21 million fuel to produce and the 5 million I already have (not including in ship bunkers). I seem to be using about 3000 fuel a day for shipping say for another 1200 days or maybe 4 million fuel. That leaves 22 million, knock off 10% (3 million) for losses gives 19 million for HI generation.

Current HI expenditure is about 12000 per day so that is about 1500 days of production, i.e. until the end of the game. Conclusion, the amount of fuel is just over sufficient for what I need. I can't afford to squander it but shouldn't be paranoid about expending it.

Supply seems a different case. For that there is a constant shortage. The absence of supply from refineries in this version of the scenario is a bit of a killer. With it I would have another 500,000 supply by now - that would be enough to maintain an offensive tempo in China, at the moment I can't attack alot of the time because of supply shortages and need to take care using air power.


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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/7/2014 5:59:18 PM   
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Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 6 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

Allied air losses are mostly ops losses amongst fighters. This may mean he has redeployed extensively following the debacle in Australia or could just be some CAP that I didn't blunder into.

China

Okay attack South of Tienshui but suffer some losses amongst independent engineer regiments. In DBB these units have most of the combat engineers but seem pretty useless because they are so fragile. Defense shows as 1000 AV and does not have a supply(-). Will attack again today (without the combat engineers).

Lots of signs of movements as it looks like MrKane may be abandoning another defensive line.

Various okay ground attacks.

Weather forecast is for "Partly Cloudy" which, I think, is the best I have seen.

Pacific

Find a convoy near Pago Pago but sub attack fails.

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

My air attacks and CAP fail to materialise. Allies send some B-26 Marauders into Katherine at 9000 feet (flak inflicts damage and 1 ops loss is reported).

Engineering

Patung to 4, Manila to 5. Wake Island forts to 4. Various Allied.

R&D

Nakajima Ha-44 accelerates to 3/43.

SigInt

3 Heavy Volume of radio traffic messages from Pearl Harbor.
2 Heavy volume of radio traffic messages from VaVa'u.

Mouse over of Pearl shows 175 ships present including 3 CVE, not sure what to make of that.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/9/2014 12:17:17 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 16 Japanese, 11 Allied, 5 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

China

Minor bombing. Land attacks do badly.

Pacific

Bombard Dutch Harbor and put 2 shells into an AV there. Unfortunately, am not getting any hits on the float planes based here.

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Lightnings sweep Magwe again; Allies lose 3 P-38E and 4 Hurricane IIb but I lose 16 aircraft including 1 Ki-44-IIa.

He was outnumbered in forces but none of my CAP was airborne so he seemed to have local superiority. Also the P-38E so outclasses my aircraft any of them shot down is good.

Australia

Bombard Port Kembla. Few shots at the city and only light fires started, no damage to industry so a waste of time.

Minor air attacks against Australians retreating from Katherine.

Engineering

Adak Island airfield to 4.

R&D

Quiet

SigInt

Quiet

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/9/2014 4:50:30 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 15 Japanese, 5 Allied, 13 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

A sinking sound is heard, no idea what that was.

China

Quiet

Pacific

SigInt gets heavy traffic detected between New Zealand and VaVa'u - not sure what that is.

A sub near Christmas Island spots a "carrier plane".

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

Allies have brought fighters back to Daly Waters and a group of Sallies get mauled.

Engineering

Magwe makes airfield 7.

R&D

H8K2 now 2/43.

Reinforcements

SS I-11.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/9/2014 7:56:17 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 6 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy: Tienshui
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

Another sinking sound is heard, no idea what that is either.

China

Shock attack across the river takes Tienshui takes it. This seals the retreat for 23 Chinese units in the area. I doubt MrKane can open a retreat line for these.

A badly chosen attack is launched against 1 unit on the plains hex that turns out to be 2 very strong Corps. Some of the Chinese Corps look like they have had long enough to build up their strength and shouldn't be considered the same as the ones in 1941.

Air action over the hex shows no losses for the Allies but 3 of my Oscars shot down. However, it looks like all 6 Allied losses may have been ops losses for the Allied aircraft involved in this. A Nick is lost as an ops loss.

Pacific

Minor sub attacks of no effect.

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

Quiet

Engineering

Lots of Allied expansion.

R&D

Quiet

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 8:42:58 AM   
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Air Losses: 5 Japanese, 174 Allied, 2 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

China

Minor attacks from air and by bombardment.

Pacific

KB launches a devastating attack against a major convoy just off New Zealand. I had picked up this convoy by SigInt two days in a row so had a good track on its location.

Detection was at range 6 and only 55 Kate and 50 Val attacked in the morning under Light Rain. But the afternoon reports a full strike of 129 Kate, 119 Val, and 2 Jake under Heavy Cloud.

173 Allied aircraft go down with their ships plus 212 LCU Victory points plus an estimated 420 points of shipping.

Allied ground losses on ships:
quote:


Allied ground losses:
30 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 75 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 98 (81 destroyed, 17 disabled)
Vehicles lost 107 (79 destroyed, 28 disabled)

2189 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 26 disabled
Non Combat: 195 destroyed, 91 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 308 (264 destroyed, 44 disabled)
Vehicles lost 196 (165 destroyed, 31 disabled)

130 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 21 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 45 (26 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Vehicles lost 20 (12 destroyed, 8 disabled)

81 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


The numbers seem overly large but the spread suggests this is artillery and headquarter type units and not engineers or infantry.

Search shows 3 task forces still in the hex 2 of 10+ and one of size 7. It is only 5 hexes to Auckland so anything still able to make full speed will make it to Auckland okay and anything else will be under LRCAP from land - do I pursue and engage again? My CA and CL SCTF forces are only 5 hexes away and there are no major escorts reported so I could send in them to finish off the convoy but there might be surface forces available at Auckland.

Also, I have no idea how much airpower he has in New Zealand or can fly there.

On the down side, the Allies now know where KB is and have a good idea where Mini-KB is so are free to attack in the Gilberts or Aleutians.

Elsewhere, Lilies based at Truk report getting hits on Allied SS - not sure how true these are nor what effect a 100 Kg bomb has.

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

Quiet

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet


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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 8:43:31 AM   
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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 8:44:28 AM   
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This looks understated to the tune of about 100 VP.






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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 8:49:50 AM   
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The Southernmost Japanese task force is 4 CA and 4 DD a bit light on fuel.

Above that there is an SCTF of 4 CL (including the Oi) and 5 DD with nearly full bunkers. Also the KB with Hiei, Kirishima, 6 CV, 6 DD also with nearly full bunkers.

Also 3 SS but the one in the hex with the Allies is low on fuel and torpedoes.






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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 9:10:18 AM   
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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 12:18:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looking at the number of ground destroyed planes, about 10 squadrons went down as well and will have to be rebought. Nice work!

I don't think the NZ CAP is to be afraid of. Just don't put your planes on main mission Port strike. The transports might not all make it to port and disband.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 12:39:52 PM   
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Looking at the number of ground destroyed planes, about 10 squadrons went down as well and will have to be rebought. Nice work!

I don't think the NZ CAP is to be afraid of. Just don't put your planes on main mission Port strike. The transports might not all make it to port and disband.


I was worried that he could fly fighters in from Suva but it looks like it is too far for most aircraft.

The PP cost to buy out units is a nice extra benefit, also getting a few of the AP and AK is a start at cramping his options for amphibious invasion in 1942.

I have sent the CL group at full speed to try and cut off and engage the fleets in the night. The CA group is placed where it may get some stragglers and the KB is moving down to try and take out anything that doesn't get disbanded in port while staying outside of range of the NZ Vildebeest. I am only going to have the one extra day before I need to head back for refuel because I have messed up and not sent enough fuel to Noumea.

I find it interesting that I found this convoy from SigInt. I wonder if it is a mistake for the Allies to run big convoys and risk SigInt.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 12:40:29 PM   
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Banzai!!!


Yes!

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 1:00:59 PM   
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I find it interesting that I found this convoy from SigInt. I wonder if it is a mistake for the Allies to run big convoys and risk SigInt.


I think most allied players don't care about what japanese sigint would show since their routes are usually outside the KB raids. But in your game, with Noumea japanese...it should matter to him.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 1:28:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Had a bit more of a look at what aircraft he lost.

VP suggest 18 B-17E went down - so that is over a month's worth of production.

The F-4 Lightning lost are his only long range recon gone until he gets more in September.

This is very nice...

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 2:29:20 PM   
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Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 1 Allied, 1 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

China

Minor air attacks.

Movement arrows show troops trying to open escape routes for the Chinese forces trapped in the Tienshui area. My movement is trying to get there first.

The mountain hexes that are the escape paths have stacking limits of 20,000 so I'm not sure how that will work out as the Chinese must be over stacked.

Everywhere else I am stalled looking for places to attack.

Pacific

Not too much happens. The cruisers fail to engage. A sub sinks an AS and other sinking sounds occur. VP totals suggest another 60 VP of ships lost that day. LCU VP of 19 for the day.

Air search finds only a task force of 2 PC and no strike is launched against this. Thunderstorms, Extreme Overcast and Heavy Rain over most hexes may account for the failure to attack anything.

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

Minor air attack only.

Engineering

Akyab airfield to 4. Patung airfield to 5. Allies expand Chittagong airfield to 9.

R&D

Quiet

Economy

Supply is going up nicely at about 4000 per day. Mainly this is because most of the early R&D factories are researched and R&D costs have dropped to about 4000 per day.

Miri has stopped with 17 oil left to repair but I have the necessary supply arriving the next day.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 2:52:12 PM   
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Not too much happens. The cruisers fail to engage. A sub sinks an AS and other sinking sounds occur. VP totals suggest another 60 VP of ships lost that day. LCU VP of 19 for the day.

Air search finds only a task force of 2 PC and no strike is launched against this. Thunderstorms, Extreme Overcast and Heavy Rain over most hexes may account for the failure to attack anything.

How about a port strike next turn?

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 3:30:26 PM   
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Not too much happens. The cruisers fail to engage. A sub sinks an AS and other sinking sounds occur. VP totals suggest another 60 VP of ships lost that day. LCU VP of 19 for the day.

Air search finds only a task force of 2 PC and no strike is launched against this. Thunderstorms, Extreme Overcast and Heavy Rain over most hexes may account for the failure to attack anything.

How about a port strike next turn?


I don't think he ran to Auckland. The ships with troops on board would not have been able to disband and I should be able to see them still. I allocated a lot of the Kates to naval search as they were out of torpedoes.

Reviewing what I have damaged, if all the ships seen to sink or with heavy damage are considered sunk that about matches the VP lost. So I think he ran away, possibly at full speed, either to the East or South-East.

My count says I spotted 34 (x)AK, 22 (x)AP, 3 PC, 1 AVD, 2 AKE, 2 AKV, 1 AS. Taking out of the count those sunk or with heavy damage leaves 1 AKE, 13 (x)AP, 15 x(AK), 1 PC still afloat.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 4:21:14 PM   
offenseman


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Status: offline 		What an amazing and costly butcher's bill. Stunning. Well done

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Sometimes things said in Nitwit sound very different in English.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/10/2014 10:08:32 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 0 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:

China

Quiet

Pacific

Quiet. Have lost track of the survivors from the attack near New Zealand. KB will retire for needed repairs and to go into hiding again.

DEI

Quiet

India

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Australia

Quiet

Home Isles

This happens:
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Massive Explosion during loading of xAK Wakatu Maru at Kushiro
xAK Wakatu Maru sinks at sea


About half a Naval Construction Battalion is lost in the disaster.

First Allied sub is spotted in the home water convoy routes. It scores a hit on an xAK that duds.

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 2/11/2014 7:00:59 AM   
setloz

 

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Massive Explosion during loading of xAK Wakatu Maru at Kushiro
xAK Wakatu Maru sinks at sea


Well, this kind of explosions were quite common both in the IJN as the USN. You're lucky though, in real life BB Mutsu exploded in june 1943 while at pier with total loss.

BTW, I love this kind of detail in a game.

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