Slitherine

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Ground combat at Pearl Harbor (180,107)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 78094 troops, 689 guns, 480 vehicles, Assault Value = 2461

Defending force 55872 troops, 801 guns, 538 vehicles, Assault Value = 695

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 1499

Allied adjusted defense: 2601

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 2)

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

Japanese ground losses:
4987 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 389 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 52 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 58 disabled
Vehicles lost 55 (2 destroyed, 53 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2820 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 151 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 107 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 72 disabled
Guns lost 80 (5 destroyed, 75 disabled)
Vehicles lost 35 (4 destroyed, 31 disabled)

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

That plus you have the start-of-war squads for the USA defenders (and likely no USMC there at all). If these were '43 or '44 squads the firepower ratio would be very different.

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Babar at 76,117

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 4 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 20

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
CL Boise
CA Chicago
CL Marblehead
CA Chester

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 10000 feet *
Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb

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Ground combat at 82,46 (near Patung)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8929 troops, 73 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 695

Defending force 31065 troops, 208 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 797

Japanese ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
39th/C Division
13th/A Division
39th/A Division
13th/B Division
13th/C Division

Defending units:
68th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Corps
67th Chinese Corps
1st Chinese Cavalry Corps

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

As long as you hold the fuel points Joc, you should be able to squeeze long life out of China!! Nice line formed. Might I suggest having a couple of corps dig in the rocks that have a road? The hex three steps northwest of Sian for example...

I´m not sure about that. Don´t dare light even the slightest glimmer of hope regarding China. Supply is dwindling already...and once its out all my units will become useless.

Its a good idea to start digging in but I don´t have any troops to spare. Everything is currently committed. I have a 250 AV Corp in reserve at Lanchow. That is it!

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ORIGINAL: bigred
In my next allied game I will be tempted to abandon china and move all China units to India.

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ORIGINAL: bigred

Jocke,
If you can sneak an avd onto a undeveloped island around the celebes sea later u can fly in a pby. Jp recon will not pickup the ship in a zero port unless he target recons the hex. Then use urdestroyers to disrupt his transports. Hard for the betties to hit a 35 speed ship.

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Night Naval bombardment of Pearl Harbor at 180,107 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

3 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro

Allied Ships
PT-35, Shell hits 1, heavy damage
SS Gato, hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PT-22, Shell hits 1, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
978 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 64 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 16 (4 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (5 destroyed, 7 disabled)

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Sub attack near Sabang at 45,70

Japanese Ships
xAK Asakasan Maru, Torpedo hits 1
xAK Atutasan Maru

Allied Ships
SS Trusty

SS Trusty launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Asakasan Maru
Trusty diving deep ....
Sub escapes detection

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Sub attack near Sabang at 45,70

Japanese Ships
xAK Asosan Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Trusty

SS Trusty launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Asosan Maru
Sub escapes detection

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Sub attack near Donggala at 67,97

Japanese Ships
xAK Hokumai Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PB Shosei Maru

Allied Ships
SS S-36

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ORIGINAL: vicberg

Eye twitching is how it starts. Then hands start shaking, sometimes following by vomiting and in rare cases uncontrollable flagelence or a condition known as hot dog finger.

It's called PTWS - Post Turn WITP Syndrome

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ORIGINAL: vicberg

Eye twitching is how it starts. Then hands start shaking, sometimes following by vomiting and in rare cases uncontrollable flagelence or a condition known as hot dog finger.

It's called PTWS - Post Turn WITP Syndrome

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ORIGINAL: BillBrown
Vic will get it this weekend

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
Well hey, at least you don't have to withdraw Warspite now, or repair that expensive tub!

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Impressive that you downed mostly his good (for this period) aircraft while losing mostly your oldest/least valuable ..... until we get to the PBY-5s. Ouch!
Do you have enough of the older PBY-4s to fill the gap? Also not sure when the PBY-5a starts arriving.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister


This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that I don´t have a long supply line in CENT/SOPAC to cover though.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Well hey, at least you don't have to withdraw Warspite now, or repair that expensive tub!

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Are you worried about potential early autovictory?

It seems he is off to a faster vp start than Mr Kane, but your overall game attitude is very good.

You are taking everything in stride...even in China.

I am curious, what do you have the Queen do? And how about my favorite ship, the LeTriomphant?

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I agree China is a huge mess, but everyone seems to want to rationalize and build lines of defence in good terrain, which gives the IJA clear targets to concentrate on.
I have been thinking (after hints from Alfred) that maybe the key to China is not to clean up the mess but to make it worse! The Chinese advantage is huge numbers of units and relatively low supply requirements for their low-tech units. Perhaps the war of maneuver that Alfred suggested is a guerilla war, where Chinese units scatter shotgun-style everywhere - so many places the IJA cannot concentrate to hit them all.

Go after every rail and road junction in the south, take every undefended town and airfield, find isolated IJA units and surround them before they can bring up help. Unit get destroyed? When they re-spawn just send them back into the fray in the south. It will be chaotic and bloody but a lot of fun and may give Nick fits!

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ORIGINAL: bigred
Hi Joc.
Who is the "Trusty" commander?

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ASW attack near Pearl Harbor at 180,107

Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga, Torpedo hits 1
BB Ise
DMS W-20
DMS W-6
E Tobui
E Uruyame
E Omae
DMS Tatsuko

Allied Ships
SS S-27, hits 4

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Ground combat at Pearl Harbor (180,107)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 76345 troops, 681 guns, 493 vehicles, Assault Value = 2344

Defending force 53227 troops, 780 guns, 525 vehicles, Assault Value = 540

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 2533

Allied adjusted defense: 1079

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1247 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 110 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Vehicles lost 82 (23 destroyed, 59 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
2498 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 127 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 70 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 30 disabled
Guns lost 71 (5 destroyed, 66 disabled)
Vehicles lost 62 (7 destroyed, 55 disabled)

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ight Time Surface Combat, near Sabang at 44,70, Range 13,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
PC Ashi, Shell hits 11, and is sunk
PB Kohuku Maru, Shell hits 8, and is sunk
xAK Kashii Maru
xAK Aobasan Maru
xAK Asakasan Maru, Shell hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Atutasan Maru
xAK Kenyo Maru, Shell hits 1
xAK Kogyo Maru
xAK Tatutaki Maru
xAK Teiyo Maru
xAK Tatumiya Maru
xAK Tatuwa Maru
xAK Yamabiko Maru
xAK Yamagiri Maru
xAK Naruto Maru
xAK Noto Maru, Shell hits 14, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Nissyu Maru
xAK Mogamigawa Maru
xAK Keisyo Maru
xAK Koei Maru
xAK Koryu Maru, Shell hits 5, on fire
xAK Kikukawa Maru
xAK Iburi Maru
xAK Akagisan Maru
xAK Kokai Maru
xAK Hino Maru #3
xAK Sinsyu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
xAK Osaka Maru
xAK Hankow Maru, Shell hits 3
xAK Monji Maru, Shell hits 6, heavy fires
xAK Koto Maru
xAK Kasagi Maru, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
PB Sensan Maru, Shell hits 17, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Cornwall
CA Exeter, Shell hits 1
CL Mauritius
DD Isis
DD Jupiter

...Japanese Task Force Manages to Escape
Task forces break off...

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Ground combat at Batavia (49,98)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 49540 troops, 486 guns, 265 vehicles, Assault Value = 1456

Defending force 22774 troops, 184 guns, 78 vehicles, Assault Value = 461

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 875

Allied adjusted defense: 349

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
873 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 56 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 24 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2454 casualties reported
Squads: 30 destroyed, 157 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 78 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 45 (3 destroyed, 42 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Assaulting units:
16th Infantry Regiment
5th Division
15th Ind Engineer Regiment
4th Ind Engineer Regiment
148th Infantry Regiment
19th Ind Engineer Regiment
56th Engineer Regiment
113th Infantry Regiment
2nd Engineer Regiment
38th Division
20th Ind Engineer Regiment
24th Infantry Regiment
16th Army
56th Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Field Artillery Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Mortar Battalion
16th AA Regiment