Slitherine

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I think if you can have two to three full fighter sentais of good planes and one Sentai (one of your supersized ones) of Judies or whatever your fastest bombers are, you will get thru the Allied CAP. You will lose half your bombers, but you will get thru if everyone flies. Go in at 15K for divebombers.

So one naval attack with three escorts all from the same base and no other attacks.

It helps if all the planes are already in the base, and not just flown and ordered to attack.

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ORIGINAL: Spidery
Biggest DB group is 36 planes. Trouble is that even if 36 planes get through CAP over his carriers heavy flak will mean I am lucky if I can score 5 hits and that means, at best, one carrier sent back to the yard. It isn't worth the heavy losses and the risk of no result. Better is to force a defensive fight for 2 or 3 days where I can wear down his fighters and fatigue his pilots and only then try for a naval air attack (except for some night strikes).

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He will simply fly in replacement squadrons from CVEs or the Marshalls.

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Ground combat at Taung Gyi (59,48)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 51224 troops, 903 guns, 446 vehicles, Assault Value = 1552

Defending force 24024 troops, 206 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 698

Allied adjusted assault: 426

Japanese adjusted defense: 1105

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
422 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 44 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2262 casualties reported
Squads: 40 destroyed, 231 disabled
Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 34 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 30 disabled
Guns lost 39 (6 destroyed, 33 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Assaulting units:
7th Australian Division
25th Indian Division
6th Australian Division
17th Indian Division
28th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2/1st Med Regiment
24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
6th Medium Regiment
2/11th Field Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
26th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
115th Infantry Regiment
3rd Division
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade

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Ground combat at 61,46 (near Lashio)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 32819 troops, 280 guns, 113 vehicles, Assault Value = 1134

Defending force 2976 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 151

Japanese adjusted assault: 717

Allied adjusted defense: 28

Japanese assault odds: 25 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
193 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1375 casualties reported
Squads: 20 destroyed, 76 disabled
Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
37th Division
31st Division
7th RTA Division
45th Ind.AA Gun Co
5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
82nd JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
BFF Brigade

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ORIGINAL: Spidery

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He will simply fly in replacement squadrons from CVEs or the Marshalls.

Hadn't thought of that. Need a new plan

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ORIGINAL: Spidery

Lowpe, thanks for the thoughts on the B-29.

I assume once he has bases in range to strike at Japan he will be doing that. It is in the interim that I wonder if he will hit ports. I expect not, if I don't leave a tempting target, because he seems, wisely, to like to conserve his forces. Night-bombing seems to have been abandoned since I have had night fighters.

I do need to review my defenses to check the speeds of fighters against the B-29.

Generally, I'll aim to leave anything valuable and not under repair/upgrade in a docked task force.

A big worry I have had the moment is, if he can start bombing the HI before June, he may be able to damage R&D factories and put back my R&D efforts a lot.

I have masses of N1K1-J in the pool (over 300). Newly arriving groups are being upgraded to this even though they are used for training. Aviation support and trained pilots are the main limit on the number of aircraft I can deploy in the field.

Army is not so well off with the roll out of the Ki-84r going quite slowly.

       Japan    Allies
Total:  +713    +1956
Base:    -95     +610
Air:    +598     +762
Land:   +118     +232
Sea:     +97     +340

Oil:      -183,970
Fuel:      -91,048
Supply:   +145,893
HI:       +117,485
Vehicles:   +2,261
Arms:       -2,969

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ORIGINAL: Spidery

February Overview

The centre of Burma was abandoned, including the oil at Magwe, with only a few defensive battles at Rangoon and Pegu. These were abandoned as soon as the forts started collapsing and disablements increased thus preserving the forces to make a defense in the jungle and behind rivers.

Allies took Truk at the beginning of the month but haven't advanced in the Pacific.

They smashed the air field at Tarakan and are making life difficult for shipping in and out of Miri and Brunei. The supply path between Tarakan and Miri is about 100 points so I am hoping to be able to move some supply into Tarakan and extract some of the fuel from Tarakan. Air battles over Brunei have favoured the defense. No Allied night strikes during the month.

In the sub war I am ahead of the game having sunk 5 Allied subs during the month.

Air still showing good results and, again, if I avoid offensive actions I would do much better. Land results okay since they include the losses when the Allies mopped up Truk. All shipping losses have been from sub or air action, no clash of fleets. I lost more than I should of when he raided the Marianas.

Allied losses: 5 SS, 5 YMS, 3 AM, 1 KV, 4 xAKL, 4 xAK
My losses: 2 xAKL, 19 xAK, 1 AMc, 11 ACM, 4 TK, 1 AKE, 2 AG, 1 ARD, 1 AV, 2 DMS, 4 CMc, 1 CM, 4 SS, 8 SC, 5 PB, 1 Pc, 2 E.

Of my losses, 2 of the tankers were the best ones, the loss of the ACM may be an issue and the AV, DMS, SS, SC are valuable the rest of the ships are of little value other than for their VP loss. The only Allied losses that count are the 5 Gato class SS sunk.

The Allied total doesn't add up, the total has gone up by 12 more than the individual parts.

       Japan    Allies
Total:  +713    +1956
Base:    -95     +610
Air:    +598     +762
Land:   +118     +232
Sea:     +97     +340

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ORIGINAL: Spidery

Some thoughts on air models.

I'm really liking the Ki-43-IV.

Flying low, teamed the N1K1-J, it seems to have the advantage that its high rate of climb means it can scramble quickly. Coupled with the excellent manoeuvre low and with pilots picked for defense skill it seems to be able to bring the enemy fighters down to its level while surviving well. The N1K1-J can then dive in and rip the enemy to shreds.

It also has enough guns that it can shoot down 2E bombers. Against 4E bombers it only damages them and has difficulty getting past defensive fire.

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I believe the only number that is accurate is the total. FOW controls the other numbers. You cant have FOW controlling them all or you would never know when you had won.

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Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 50
P-38H Lightning x 72
F4U-1A Corsair x 18

Allied aircraft
P-38H Lightning x 114
F4U-1A Corsair x 19

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 50
P-38H Lightning x 35
F4U-1A Corsair x 18

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 19
P-38H Lightning x 91
F4U-1A Corsair x 18

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 24
P-38H Lightning x 47
F4U-1 Corsair x 18

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 19
P-38H Lightning x 38
F4U-1A Corsair x 18

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 24
P-38H Lightning x 15
F4U-1A Corsair x 18

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 19
P-38H Lightning x 42
F4U-1 Corsair x 18

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 24
P-38H Lightning x 71
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 25

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 43
P-38H Lightning x 39
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 25

Allied aircraft
P-38G Lightning x 24
P-38H Lightning x 35
P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 25

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Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 43199 troops, 707 guns, 504 vehicles, Assault Value = 1154

Defending force 23588 troops, 206 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 657

Allied adjusted assault: 861

Japanese adjusted defense: 949

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
512 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 48 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1102 casualties reported
Squads: 33 destroyed, 50 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 25 destroyed, 43 disabled
Guns lost 11 (4 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Assaulting units:
I Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
7th Australian Division
8th Australian Division
6th Australian Division
4th Armoured Brigade
2/16th Field Regiment
X' Force
2/11th Field Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
II Australian
108th Anti Tank Regiment
77th Heavy AA Regiment
2/1st Med Regiment
23rd AA Bde

Defending units:
115th Infantry Regiment
3rd Division
21st Ind.Mixed Brigade

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Japanese ground losses:
422 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 43 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2096 casualties reported
Squads: 29 destroyed, 198 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 42 disabled
Engineers: 40 destroyed, 24 disabled
Guns lost 26 (6 destroyed, 20 disabled)
Vehicles lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)

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ORIGINAL: Spidery
Something odd, at night I spot many forces 1 hex SE from Guam. In the morning they are 5 hexes away.

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Attacking force 7469 troops, 123 guns, 62 vehicles, Assault Value = 666

Defending force 27137 troops, 654 guns, 651 vehicles, Assault Value = 883

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

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

Assaulting units:
53rd Nav Gd /1
2nd Amphibious Brigade
3rd Tank Division
Kure 7th SNLF
38th Div /1
3rd Special Base Force
61st JNAF AF Unit
49th JNAF AF Unit
8th RF Gun Battalion
14th JAAF AF Bn
46th JNAF AF Unit
4th Fleet
43rd JNAF AF Unit
33rd Ind.AA Gun Co
11th Air Defense AA Regiment
19th Army
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
41st JNAF AF Unit
40th Field AA Battalion
2nd JAAF AF Bn
101st JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
6th Infantry Div /10
637th TD Bn /3
33rd Infantry Division
627th TD Bn /3
110th Cmbt Engineer Battalion
632nd TD Bn /3
640th TD Bn /3
98th Field Artillery Battalion
165th FA Bn /3
198th Field Artillery Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
97th Cst AA Rgt /3
145th FA Bn /3
4th Field Artillery Battalion
97th FA Bn /3
Eighth US Army /4

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Allied Ships
xAP Kohistan
xAK Samos, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAP Jacalope, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
LSI(L) Glenstrae, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAK Clan Macbean, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
446 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 11 (4 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x G3M3 Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 45cm Type 91 Torp

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Trincomalee at 37,47

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 8 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G3M3 Nell x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M3 Nell: 15 damaged

Allied Ships
LST 73, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAP Clan Macpherson
xAP Rizwani, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
AM Rajputana, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Clan Macwhirter, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
710 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 35 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 5 (4 destroyed, 1 disabled)

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Ground combat at 61,46 (near Lashio)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 31151 troops, 448 guns, 282 vehicles, Assault Value = 915

Defending force 18493 troops, 161 guns, 60 vehicles, Assault Value = 638

Allied adjusted assault: 446

Japanese adjusted defense: 1084

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
595 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 60 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2957 casualties reported
Squads: 159 destroyed, 69 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 83 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 66 disabled
Guns lost 36 (11 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Vehicles lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Assaulting units:
BFF Brigade
11th Australian Division
II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion
9th Australian Division
1st Medium Regiment
2/3 AIF Pioneer Battalion
2/2 AIF Pioneer Battalion
2nd Medium Regiment
I Australian Corps
2/1 AIF Pioneer Battalion
109th Anti Tank Regiment
2nd RAA Jungle Regiment

Defending units:
37th Division
7th RTA Division
5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment