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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 7/28/2014 7:28:06 PM

Spidery

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March 8th 1943

Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 2 Allied, 2 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy: Ailinglaplap(auto0
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

No significant action.

2 Days ago a PB was badly damaged in the Celebes Sea. It is in an escort task force with home port and destination set to Jolo. In 2 days it has failed to move. In the operations log this message appears six times "Escort TF 60 diverted to Jolo for emergency repairs". It appears as though every damage control phase it is producing this message and resetting progress towards Jolo even though it is already supposed to be heading that way. Anyone else seen this? I'll try and add something else to the Task force and see if it can help.

Marshalls

Quiet

Solomons, etc.

Bombardment task forces hit Buin and Shortlands at night. Neither base has anything significant present. Also an SCTF heads for Kavieng (or was it mine-laying?) but my ASW and support task forces have moved back to safety. Of the various forces on naval attack only 4 Betty manage to find a target, CA Australia, and all miss.

By morning Allied task forces have all withdrawn.

Burma area

Bombarding of Warazup continues. The isolated defenders of Paoshan, trapped near Myitkyina, start surrendering.

China

Continuing attacks, more Chinese surrender. In total, pick up 112 land VP for the turn.

Australia

Quiet

Engineering

Billiton to 1 (this will be an ASW base), Sorong to 4 (a lynch-pin for North-West New Guinea), Dili to 4 (part of the Koepang complex).

R&D

Ki-43-IV to 11/43.

Reinforcements

SC CHa-15

SigInt

Unusual sigint for the day;

quote:

Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at 213,73.
Radio transmissions detected at Townsville (92,144).
Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Bombay (36,24).
Radio transmissions detected at Nauru Island (127,128).
Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at 213,73.
Radio transmissions detected at 213,73.

That is three radio leaks from "213,73" which is a point in the ocean 240 nautical miles WSW from San

Francisco. Looks like a big convoy with some poor radio discipline. A Japanese sub is 80 nautical miles in the direct track from San Francisco and will try for the intercept.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 7/29/2014 9:56:48 PM

Spidery

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March 11th 1943

Air Losses: 30 Japanese, 41 Allied, 20 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy: Port Hedland
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

Quiet

Marshalls

The KB is now, undetected, in a position from which it could swoop down and strike at the Allied shipping in the area around Kwajalein Island. However, there are no indications of anything of any size in the area. There are 95 fighters reported at Roi Namur. Should I expose the KB's location? I can send a few fighters to Wotje and Maloelap to assist but would, mostly, depend on sweeps to avoid losing too many planes to CAP. I have Jakes operating out of Maloelap that give me good search over the area.

I assume the Allied CV are at Pearl Harbour, probably still having the last of the dents the subs put in them knocked out.

Solomons, etc.

Quiet

Burma area

Ki-44-IIc and N1K1-J sweep Warazup and encounter Hurricanes. The Ki-44 are so-so but the N1K1-J are devastating

. Unfortunately, I follow up with an air strike and flak rips into the Helens

.

30 Hurricane IIc, 8 Hurricane IIb downed for the loss of 12 Ki-44-IIc, 1 N1K1-J but then lost 13 Ki-49-IIa for only 2 Hurricane IIc. A few supply and base hits don't make up for the loss of bombers. Some Ki-43-IIb were also involved and these seem to be better than the Ki-44-IIc (at least at high altitude).

I now have enough N1K1-J deployed to cover the main defensive areas and can run sweeps. It seems that they are pretty devastating so anywhere within 5 hexes of a major airbase I can sweep. However, what can I do after that given how costly flak is? MrKane really has no need to contest.

Continue the bombardments at Warazup.

China

More damage inflicted on Chinese isolated forces.

Australia

Port Hedland occupied by the Allies.

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

SC CHa-6 (getting lots of these poor sub-chasers).

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 7/29/2014 10:38:14 PM

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I don't think anyone can help you with committing the Carriers. You have seen his daily movements etc., and kind of have to go by intuition barring sig int or sightings. It seems that you don't feel too great about this strike inflicting a lot of damage.

< Message edited by Lowpe -- 7/29/2014 11:38:46 PM >

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 7/30/2014 11:36:26 AM

Spidery

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March 12th 1943

Air Losses: 48 Japanese, 17 Allied, 38 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

I-158 is lost attacking an Allied force of Fletchers raiding Rabaul.

At Rabaul, I-25 is forced to the surface, reported as lost in the combat report, but turns out she made port with 49/81/11 damage. She scores a torpedo hit on DD Nicholas and a shell hit on DD Waller.

Marshalls

The KB is in two TF. One TF moves as expected but (weather?) fails to launch any attacks. The other has decided to retreat and launches sweeps at range 9 that go badly 27 A6M5 for 11 P-40K. Another pilot becomes an Ace.

Allied search is very poor with only 1/1 detection over the carriers and no detection at all over the SCTF forces.

It looks like he moved all task forces except the PT boats away from Roi-Namur/KI. I have a task force of 5 CL and 5DD poised to attack, is that a good force for sinking PT boats, or should I just send DD?

Solomons, etc.

A task force of (probably) 8 Fletcher class DD raid Rabaul. At night they encounter a group of 3 DD and drive my forces away with mild damage. Next they sink a PB. Then they hit the mines and take 2 mine hits. Some Mavis try an attack but no hits. I-25 puts a torpedo into DD Nicholas and a shell into DD Waller but manages to escape to port. Three APD encounter next but break off with minor damage. Then another PB is lost after a couple of battles.

Daylight sees the Japanese heavy SCTF in pursuit. 4 CL and 2 DD engage and inflict some damage in a couple of battles. Then the big guns arrive, the Yamato with 4 DD. The Yamato fires all its main battery ammunition but scores no hits with them and only a few hits with the 15.5cm guns. However, the Allied DD have been slowed down and damaged. Sinking sounds are heard during the damage control phase. Some Kates and Judies from Kavieng strike at the trailing task force and sink DD Radford with 2 torpedoes and put a torpedo into each of DeHaven and Saufley. Nicks from Rabaul engage the main force, they find some Corsairs on CAP and 8 are lost but 4 manage to get through and put two bombs into O'Bannon and sink her.

Yamato needs to return to Truk to rearm.

Nicholas, Radford and O'Bannon are confirmed lost by the Allies with Saufley also being a possible. My losses are two PB, I-158 and 9 Nicks. So that is 35 to 30 or 40 VP.

Burma area

Try bombing Warazup from 12000 feet, 7 Helens lost for 1 Hurricane destroyed on the ground. This isn't working.

China

More damage inflicted on Chinese isolated forces.

Australia

Quiet

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

P1Y1 enters production, only a single size 30 factory.

Another Ki-84a factory is completely repaired, it will advance production next turn. Should be in production mid to late May.

Other

I have to withdraw a group of Nells that were providing search over the Indian Ocean. Some Betties replace them.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 7/31/2014 7:13:36 AM

Spidery

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March 13th 1943

Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 4 Allied, 3 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

Quiet

Marshalls

Raids hit Roi-Namur and Kwajalein Island. 5 DD head for Roi-Namur to clear out PT boats. Fuso & Nagato bombard Roi-Namur. 4 CL and 4 DD hit Kwajalein Island.

22 PT Boats are sunk. DD Natsugumo hits 2 mines and is at 44/91/4. DD Arashio hits 1 mine and sinks. 4 P-40K are destroyed by the bombardment at Roi-Namur. At Kwajalein Island the Allied support ships are damaged in port but not sunk:

quote:

Night Naval bombardment of Kwajalein Island at 132,115

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5 Catalina: 17 damaged
PBY-5A Catalina: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CL Kiso
CL Tama
CL Abukuma
CL Sendai
DD Uzuki
DD Inazuma
DD Oshio
DD Asashio

Allied Ships
AV Chandeleur, Shell hits 3, on fire
AV Albemarle, Shell hits 2
AG Kaula, Shell hits 1

Allied ground losses:
140 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 20
Port hits 3

I know the Allies eventually get endless supplies of PT boats. So far I have sunk 40 of them, does that make any sort of dent in the amount he has available at the moment?

Solomons, etc.

The CLs put another hit on DD Saufley but not enough to sink her.

Burma area

Quiet

It was the weekly long-distance supply move turn and 1000 supply was delivered into Burma from China, more like 2000 given that it also covered the daily expenditure.

China

More damage inflicted on Chinese isolated forces.

Another oil well repaired at Urumchi

, still only moving 47 fuel per week from it so much of the 14000 fuel there is going to be wasted.

Australia & DEI

PB Fukui Maru took a torpedo and was damaged to 98 float damage a week ago. She has made port at Jolo with 23/92/4 damage, an excellent piece of seamanship by LCDR Hojo,A. Days to remove the minor damage - 80.

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

KI-84a to 11/43.

Reinforcements

SC CHa-1

Odd Game Thing

I have Divisions digging into defensive positions behind river lines in Manchuko. I noticed they seemed to stop digging fortifications at level 2. I split the divisions in thirds and the parts will dig in deeper and can then be combined to have the Division dug in deeper than level 2.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 7/31/2014 9:12:21 AM

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Good job sinking those Fletchers. They are a biiiig nuisance and the allies have droves of them.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 7/31/2014 6:37:10 PM

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You need to bag 20 more PT boats I think.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 7/31/2014 6:46:14 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

You need to bag 20 more PT boats I think.

Thanks,

2 days time, if all is well, I will hit Kwajalein again so may get half that.

At least it sounds like he won't have many PT boats for use out of Darwin. I remember some AAR (was it Greyjoy's?) where the PT boats operating from Darwin were a major pain.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 7/31/2014 6:51:45 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: setloz

Good job sinking those Fletchers. They are a biiiig nuisance and the allies have droves of them.

It looks like only 3 sunk and the others have made it to the repair yard. I expect it won't take long to get the dents beaten out and it can be done from forward repair facilities. He should have moved an ARD forward to Tulagi by now.

Still it is all good practice. The Yamato's experience went from 72/66 to 78/66 which is nice.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/2/2014 10:29:49 AM

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March 14th 1943

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

Subs

The damaged DD Natsugumo and its escorting DD are attacked by multiple subs as they try and retreat from Roi-Namur. DD Natsugumo is hit by a dud torpedo.

Marshalls

DD Natsugumo succumbs to damage and sinks

.

Solomons, etc.

I have moved a CA task force to near Rabaul and it reacts wildly towards the Allies, but fails to engage. A few dive bombers hit it but flak protects the CA and downs a couple of SBD-3. Lucky there.

Burma area

My forces at Warazup have suddenly become heavily disrupted. Will stop attacks for a while.

Try a night strike by Helens on Ledo. Severe Storms hamper the attack. Trade 4 Helens for 1 P-38G destroyed on the ground. Not a good swap on a VP basis but nice to get a P-38G.

China

Same old.

Australia & DEI

Quiet

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/2/2014 7:26:43 PM

Spidery

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March 15th 1943

Air Losses: 5 Japanese, 0 Allied, 2 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

Quiet

Marshalls

Haruna and Kongo raid Kwajalein Island. They find a sub on the way in but escorting DD cannot score any hits. 5 PT boats defend, after a brief battle 1 is sunk. Annoyingly, the bombardment concentrates on the defending troops, doing light damage, and ignores the support ships in port that were the preferred target.

Solomons, etc.

Allies have a couple of DE drifting around in the gap between Rabaul and Munda. I expect this is a CAP trap or intended to draw a bad reaction. While also having a chance to target subs.

Burma area

P-38G sweep Myitkyina, a few Tojo and Oscar on LRCAP over Warazup stray over and are lost.

A planned sweep and strike from Katha on Silchar fails to occur due to severe storms over both bases. Forecast is overcast so will try again.

China

Same old.

Australia & DEI

Quiet

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

SC CHa-7

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/2/2014 8:29:53 PM

Spidery

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March 16th 1943

Air Losses: 38 Japanese, 19 Allied, 30 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

A turn in which I don't understand the game...

Subs

Quiet

Marshalls

There is a task force reported as 10 ships, all DE, seen approaching Kwajalein Island. As 10 is the max reported size, this could be a big transport convoy. KB moves down to some 4 hexes from Kwajalein Island with the strike craft on 20% search, 80% attack with the Judies on a secondary of port attack Kwajalein. Search finds all the various PT task forces and the big task force now at Kwajalein. 3 Jills are lost to CAP on search.

A sweep hits Kwajalein and does a good job on the P-40K on CAP.

In the morning one strike of 9 Val escorted by 13 Zeroes goes after a single xAK. Nothing else flies - why not

! There are 112 Zeroes assigned the escort role against only some 40 P-40K so that isn't the reason. The weather was good enough for the sweeps and one strike so not that reason either. Why did everyone else sit idle

!

Tally for the day: 8 A6M5, 7 D3A1, 3 B6N2 for 12 P-40K.

Solomons, etc.

Liberators hit Buka. Lightnings sweep Milne Bay.

Burma area

The strike on Silchar is another fine mess. The N1K1-J sweep first and find nothing. Then the strike comes in and finds 48 Hurricane IIc on a training mission

. The first two strikes, the oscars accompany the strikes, trade 1 for 1 and protect the bombers

. Which are shot down by flak and can't hit a barn door

. The third strike has no Oscars and loses 1 plane.

Tally for the day: 8 Ki-49-IIa, 6 Ki-49-Ia, 5 Ki-43-IIb for 4 Hurricane IIc

.

China

Same old.

Australia & DEI

Quiet

Engineering

Buna forts to 4.

R&D

D4Y4 to 5/43 (I have 5 factories on this so will advance to 4/43 about 27th March)
A6M5b to 5/43 (with only 2 factories on this it wouldn't advance again until 11th April, I think will instead advance the A6M5c)

Other

Large numbers of CM to E conversions complete and will add to ASW activities. This should mean I don't need any DD on ASW tasks.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/2/2014 9:38:26 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Spidery
A turn in which I don't understand the game...

In the morning one strike of 9 Val escorted by 13 Zeroes goes after a single xAK. Nothing else flies - why not!

Hehe, join the club!

I have noticed very unreliable results with the morning strikes from CVs, especially with range...

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/3/2014 5:05:51 PM

Spidery

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March 17th 1943

Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 16 Allied (13 are B-24D

), 1 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

Light damage on SS Seadragon near Iwo-Jima.

Marshalls

Quiet.

The DE force, I hoped to strike at Kwajalein yesterday, has moved South-West. Not sure if it is running away or heading somewhere. If it is heading for the Solomons, I may be able to get a surface intercept.

Solomons, etc.

Liberators hit Rossel Island (there are more of them, looks like some of the forces from Australia may have moved here). Corsairs sweep Buka.

A Helen attacks an SST at Torokina; he seems to be using SST to resupply Torokina.

Burma area

To try and counter the training Hurricanes at Silchar, I send a small group of Oscars at 36000 feet to hit the airfield with more Oscars, Tojos, and Georges on escort. For some reason, only the Oscars turn up but still manage to down two hurricanes. May try this again. Even better, one of the bombs from the Oscars hits the airfield - not bad for a mark 1 eyeball drop from 7 miles

Not sure if this was a mistake by MrKane, 12 Liberators strike at Katha in the day. The Tojos and Oscars on CAP rip into them. Only three make it through to drop their bombs. On the way out a single George manages to shoot down two. It looks like the one that got away did not make it back to base. 12 Liberators downed for the loss of 2 Oscar and 1 Tojo

.

Bombard at Warazup:

quote:

Ground combat at Warazup (63,41)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 42958 troops, 546 guns, 936 vehicles, Assault Value = 1546

Defending force 47145 troops, 835 guns, 1294 vehicles, Assault Value = 1279

Japanese ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 11 (4 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Assaulting units:
19th Division
1st Tank Division
63rd Division
2nd Tank Division
12th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
11th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
4th RF Gun Battalion
20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
13th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion

Defending units:
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
267th Armoured Brigade
7th Armoured Brigade
70th British Division
18th British Division
3rd Cavalry Regiment
24th Indian Engineer Battalion
1st Bombay Construction Battalion
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
13th Indian Light AA Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
23rd AA Bde
2/2 AIF Pioneer Battalion
28th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
119th RAF Base Force
12th Indian Engineer Battalion
77th Heavy AA Regiment
IV Indian Corps
112th RN Base Force
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Can I afford to attack here? I'll consider a success if my losses in devices are less than 2::1. I do have more artillery coming, just getting onto trains at Lashio. Command HQ is 67% prepped and Corp HQ is 73% prepped so I may wait until the artillery arrives and prep is a little better.

China

Another Chinese Corps surrenders and a hex is cleared: freeing a division to redeploy to Burma.

Australia & DEI

Quiet

Engineering

Chumphon airfield to 4. Iwo-Jima forts to 4.

R&D

Quiet

Other

Next month all the carriers get upgrade options. Mostly these are to fit radar and get more light AA. However, the Akagi gets to replace surface guns by heavy AA.

If I put all the CVs into upgrade then that would be an ideal opportunity for an attack on the Mariannas or Kuriles. I assume Tom knows that I have all these upgrades available. Should I defer them and keep a strike force available to try and catch an attack exploiting this down time? Also, next month I get to start replacing the Vals by D4Y4 and in May will be able to replace A6M5 with A6M5c.

If I wait to the end of April I could put all the CV into refit and, while in refit, get all the DB and most of the fighters upgraded.

Also, next month, get radar for a lot of CA and for the two CLAA.

Reinforcements

E W-26. Ships are rolling off the production lines almost every day, how can the Allies cope against such massive production

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/3/2014 11:49:46 PM

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Can I afford to attack here?

No.

Allied armour in 1943 is nasty stuff, especially compared to the tractors the IJA tank divisions have. You can't bomb them, thanks to the massed Allied AA, and they're in jungle terrain.

Get defensive. You want those prime British and Indian tank units attacking you, and when you do, make sure they're launching an attack into the teeth of several good IJA divisions, backed up by the biggest artillery guns you can find and as many anti-tank guns as you can gather.

Allied tanks may be nasty stuff, but good IJA units behind forts in the jungle with artillery and anti-tank guns backing them up is even more nasty.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/4/2014 7:02:34 AM

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March 18th 1943

Air Losses: 6 Japanese, 0 Allied, 2 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

I-124 is damaged in the Solomons (28/10/0)

I-154 takes a shot at an AO and locates a replenishment task force between Pearl and the Marshalls.

Marshalls

Liberators strike at Maloelap and Kusaie Island destroying 2 Jakes on the ground. Some Liberators were flying from Roi-Namur, these are B-24D1. This seems a new model that adds one more MG at a cost in speed and range.

Mavis try a night strike at the port at Kwajalein for no effect.

Multiple task forces sighted heading for the Marshalls, at least one carrier present. CAP downed a Dinah III on search from Wake Island. Sightings at range 12/13 so details are imprecise and more task forces could be in the area.

Solomons, etc.

I-124 is damaged by a DE hunting group. Allied DE find the minefield it dropped with no damage.

Burma area

Quiet

China

Same Old

Australia & DEI

Quiet

Engineering

Guam airfield to 4. Boela airfield to 1.

R&D

N1K2-J to 9/44 (expect this about 12/43)
Mitsubishi Ha-43 to 3/44

Reinforcements

E Sado.

I don't understand why Japanese tanks are considered so much worse than Allied. The Sherman is better because it has range 2 but otherwise the Type 1 Medium Tank looks like it should stand up well against the Allied tanks. The Type 95 has paper-thin armour but it is the Type 1 and Type 2 that make up the bulk of tanks.

Where the Japanese lose out is the anti-armour value of the Allied infantry, not against the enemy tanks and, at Warazup, he will have a lot of heavy AA with good anti-tank ratings.

Name			Range	Effect	Pen	Acc	Armor	Anti-A	Anti-S
Type 95 Light Tank	1	4	50	7	12	50	13
Type 1 Medium Tank	1	6	80	10	50	80	16
Type 2 CS-Tank		1	12	40	8	45	40	12
Stuart I LightTank	1	2	42	9	25	42	17
Matilda II Tank		1	3	49	9	70	49	17
Valentine III Tank	1	3	49	9	60	49	17
M3 Grant/Lee		1	12	59	9	38	59	21
M3 Stuart Light Tank	1	2	42	9	25	42	17
M5 Stuart Light Tank	1	2	42	9	38	42	17
M4 Sherman Tank		2	12	62	10	45	62	21

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/4/2014 10:53:36 AM

Spidery

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March 19th 1943

Air Losses: 9 Japanese, 3 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

I-5 sinks a small (1700 ton) xAKL near Karachi.

I-18 sinks AO Kaskaskia

, with fuel cargo, near the Marshalls (1 of 4 in a replenishment force).

Marshalls

Liberators strike at Maloelap, Kusaie Island and Eniwetok. At Eniwetok I lose 6 ALF on the ground

.

I have lost sight of the forces seen yesterday.

Solomons, etc.

Quiet

Burma area

Helens bomb Silchar from 30000 feet. 2 Hurricane IIc are destroyed on the ground

. Bombing from above the flak ceiling seems the only way to use Helens.

A restricted division from China has replaced the unrestricted division at Ramree Island which is heading back to Rangoon to be shipped out.

China

Same Old

Australia & DEI

Quiet

Engineering

Allies expand Nauru Island airfield to 4

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R&D

A6M5c to 8/43 (expected 5/43)

Reinforcements

An 11600 capacity TK

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/4/2014 1:26:22 PM

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March 20th 1943

Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 4 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

Quiet

Marshalls

Liberators strike at Maloelap, Kusaie Island and Eniwetok.

Three task forces spotted East of Jaluit. A CVE and a CV task force and one probably an invasion task force. Small task force further North may be an ASW task force.

Is he heading just for Mili/Jaluit/Maloelap or further West and Kusaie Island? Or even Ponape? Ponape is the only one with significant ground forces in place.

Solomons, etc.

Quiet

Burma area

Quiet

Recon suggests he has moved all the aircraft from Silchar and they are now concentrated at Ledo: 328 fighters, 60 bombers, 64 auxiliary. I'ld like to attack that but don't have enough supply at Katha to provide drop tanks and Tojos and Georges would operate at extended range. It is 100% moonlight so may try high altitude night bombing, or a sweep from Myitkyna.

China

Same Old. A one sided battle:

quote:

Ground combat at 80,39 (near Tienshui)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 15693 troops, 172 guns, 72 vehicles, Assault Value = 468

Defending force 6291 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 40

Japanese adjusted assault: 368

Allied adjusted defense: 19

Japanese assault odds: 19 to 1

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

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

Allied ground losses:
1918 casualties reported
Squads: 44 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 119 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 2

Assaulting units:
36th Infantry Regiment
3rd Ind.Mixed Brigade
12th Indpt Infantry Regiment
15th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
Mongol Garrison Army
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
38th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps
12th Chinese Corps
96th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
3rd Prov Chinese Corps

Australia & DEI

Quiet

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet

Attachment (1)

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/4/2014 2:45:52 PM

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I guess Jaluit or Kusaie? Mili has coastal guns, I would think he would bomb it to oblivion before heading in there.

First pick is Kusaie since he is currently bombing it.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/4/2014 7:24:18 PM

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I don't understand why Japanese tanks are considered so much worse than Allied. The Sherman is better because it has range 2 but otherwise the Type 1 Medium Tank looks like it should stand up well against the Allied tanks. The Type 95 has paper-thin armour but it is the Type 1 and Type 2 that make up the bulk of tanks.

Where the Japanese lose out is the anti-armour value of the Allied infantry, not against the enemy tanks and, at Warazup, he will have a lot of heavy AA with good anti-tank ratings.

Look at the Penetration vs Armour values for Japanese vs Allied tanks, as well as the difference in anti-armour values. Allied tanks are better balanced and more durable.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 7:25:19 AM

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Sherman e Type 1 look very similar in penetration and armor.
The major range of Sherman means that it fires before the Type 1 and can knock out it from the distance.
But the real difference i believe it's in antiarmor infantry stats; Allied are plenty of AT weapons reflected in their stats; instead japan infantry lacks them badly.
It's difficult to see "tanks alone" battles in pacific theatre, almost always there is infantry together with tanks,
Add this with short range and that's why japan tanks are in disdvantage.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 7:41:00 AM

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March 21st 1943

Air Losses: 8 Japanese, 9 Allied, 4 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

Quiet

Marshalls

Liberators continue to hit bases.

The Allied forces have pulled back slightly and in the afternoon the carrier planes strike at Maloelap. Base supply is nearly exhausted but the LCUs still hold supply.

104 TBF-1 and 164 SBD-3 escorted by 145 F4F-4. Reports as 8 TB groups and 15 DB groups so I assume that represents all his CV & CVE?

Solomons, etc.

Quiet

Burma area

A night strike at Ledo meets CAP and I lose 5 Helens. First time I have suffered significant losses from night CAP.

Burma is running low on supplies, Katha is in the red. I hoped more supply would flow from China, as it stands I am getting only about 3000 a week

. A resupply convoy is en route with 50000 supply but over a week away. I will scratch one together to send 20000 supply from Singapore.

66000 suppply sits idle at Hankow and nearly 400000 at Port Arthur

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China

Destroyed two more Corps including the one that I had fought for a long time on the Paoshan/Lashio road.

Australia & DEI

Quiet

Engineering

Kochi airfield to 4, another ASW base.

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

DD Tamanami

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 7:44:02 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: MrBlizzard

Sherman e Type 1 look very similar in penetration and armor.
The major range of Sherman means that it fires before the Type 1 and can knock out it from the distance.
But the real difference i believe it's in antiarmor infantry stats; Allied are plenty of AT weapons reflected in their stats; instead japan infantry lacks them badly.
It's difficult to see "tanks alone" battles in pacific theatre, almost always there is infantry together with tanks,
Add this with short range and that's why japan tanks are in disdvantage.

That is my believe as well.

The Sherman has a definite advantage but the main problem is the poor infantry and guns (the Allied heavy AA have good AT values but the Japanese don't).

The Japanese light tanks are hopeless.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 8:02:47 AM

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Pilot Training Update

The IJN replacement pool is looking pretty empty with only 132 pilots available. The IJA one has barely been touched and still has 1595 pilots in it.

The IJN has 215 trained fighter pilots in reserve (Air 70+, Defense 65+, experience 60+)

It has 130 bomber pilots with a mix of skills, most have 70+ in NavB or NavT and NavS.

There are 45 patrol pilots in reserve but most are not fully skilled. Recon and transport pools are nearly empty.

The IJA has 70 trained fighter pilots in reserve. It has about 350 trained bomber pilots (ground 70+) some with extra skills. Transport pool is about 50 and recon pool 10.

IJA ground bomber training is now restricted to the 1E bombers. It is concentrating on giving pilots a second skill. Some in ASW but most in NavB or LowN. With the IJA bombers now mostly used for ASW work there are few pilot losses.

IJA fighter training needs to be increased. IJN fighter training can be cut back and more fighters released to the front lines. IJN patrol training is concentrating on making sure all active pilots have NavS of 70+ and then on giving pilots additional skills, ASW, NavB, LowN etc.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 8:04:14 AM

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

I guess Jaluit or Kusaie? Mili has coastal guns, I would think he would bomb it to oblivion before heading in there.

First pick is Kusaie since he is currently bombing it.

Maloelap may be a possibility. Or, he could be trying to lure KB into an action?

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 10:16:04 AM

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ORIGINAL: Spidery

Pilot Training Update

The IJN has 215 trained fighter pilots in reserve (Air 70+, Defense 65+, experience 60+)

The IJA has 70 trained fighter pilots in reserve.

Only 215/70 fighter pilots in Reserve? Once the tide turns you could get into trouble. I always thought based on latewar AARs that I need at least 1000 trained fighter pilots for the endgame.
For example, Obvert's AAR showed that until July 1945 he had burned 17.000 pilots (of both branches and all types)

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 11:49:29 AM

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Is Tracom pretty heavily staffed? Otherwise, I agree and think you may be in trouble here.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 12:47:58 PM

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Is Tracom pretty heavily staffed? Otherwise, I agree and think you may be in trouble here.

Disagree that I am in trouble but agree that I need to get more IJA fighters training.

There are no IJA fighter reinforcements until September and those will be consigned to training. I currently have 360 training places so that gets me about 120 trained pilots a month. If I lose 2 a day that gives me 600 trained IJA fighter pilots by the end of 1943. If I increase that to 450 training places that would give me 1000 trained IJA fighter pilots at the end of the year.

IJN is more brittle due to the risk of a CV engagement that loses 100 or more fighter pilots at once. However, here I am limited by the replacement pool.

Obvert may have used 17000 pilots but how many of those were Kamikaze pilots with just LowN training?

I would like to get the 1500 IJA reserve pool more or less emptied by the end of the year. Starting in 1944 there is a big increase in the rate pilots enter the reserve pool.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 1:03:25 PM

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To be honest, who cares about the replacement pools?
I look forward to drain those pools to zero so to may be able to draw into training units pilots with 10/20 exp points instead of the damned 50 exp points pilots.
A pilot who has 10 exp trains MUCH faster in a particular skill than a pilot who has finished its school program.
Also, when you use the expanded float planes group to train fighters, those 50 exp replacements arrive with 30/50 skill in Nav Search, which makes much much slower the process of training the A2A skill up to 70

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/5/2014 2:03:41 PM

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ORIGINAL: Spidery
Disagree that I am in trouble but agree that I need to get more IJA fighters training.

There are no IJA fighter reinforcements until September and those will be consigned to training. I currently have 360 training places so that gets me about 120 trained pilots a month. If I lose 2 a day that gives me 600 trained IJA fighter pilots by the end of 1943. If I increase that to 450 training places that would give me 1000 trained IJA fighter pilots at the end of the year.

IJN is more brittle due to the risk of a CV engagement that loses 100 or more fighter pilots at once. However, here I am limited by the replacement pool.

Iirc, Obvert lost 800 pilots in 1945 in a single KB strike on allied CVs. He was able to replenish the pilots of KB and do another run on american CVEs and shipping a few months later. He had ample pools in order to afford such attrition rates.

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ORIGINAL: Spidery
Obvert may have used 17000 pilots but how many of those were Kamikaze pilots with just LowN training?

I just checked his AAR - he lost about 2500 Jakes just by running nav search/asw. Iirc, these were trained pilots in 3 skills: Search, ASW, LowNav.

Also, here are the losses from Air to air (excluding flak, ops, ground)
1571 Frank (version A) + 880 (version R)
1316 Tojo (c) + 787 (a)
1311 Jack
1230 George
1200 A6M5
1151 A7M2
877 Oscar (IV) + 683 (III)

That is a total of 11.000 fighters that were never used as kamikazi.
Now, I'm not saying you will lose 11.000 pilots, but you will burn through 1000 pilots long before you can burn 11.000 fighters...

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