Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

What will be your go-to ASW aircraft Jocke?

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

I tend to go with the Hudson III (LR) for ASW after using the at start Wirri-coffins for training. Let the American carry the bombing mission load.

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17th Infantry Regiment is planning for an attack on Suva.

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Ground combat at 83,45 (near Nanyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 22666 troops, 248 guns, 187 vehicles, Assault Value = 654

Defending force 48433 troops, 244 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1142

Japanese adjusted assault: 496

Allied adjusted defense: 2179 Much good it did me...

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1174 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 115 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2238 casualties reported
Squads: 36 destroyed, 148 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 19 (4 destroyed, 15 disabled)

Assaulting units:
34th/C Division
6th Division
5th Armored Car Co
12th Tank Regiment
15th Tank Regiment
40th/A Division
1st Army
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
92nd Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
66th Chinese Corps
22nd Group Army

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Sub attack near Trivandrum at 27,45

Japanese Ships
SS I-162

Allied Ships
xAK Lulworth Hill, Torpedo hits 1
CL Ceres
DD Vendetta
xAK Marion Moller
xAKL Nanchang
DD Encounter

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ORIGINAL: Rio Bravo

Joc-

I am ay March 3, 1942 with El Lobo and I am experiencing the same dire results in China.

It is like the Chinese move on oxen-pulled wagons and fight with hammers and tongs against experienced, well-equipped Japanese Divisions.

Sounds like WWII, huh?

Good luck!

Best Regards,

-Terry

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ORIGINAL: paullus99

Well, this could get extremely interesting.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

With regards to the results in China...

That casualty report is well within the margins for what I expect. Assault odds and values are not equivalent to firepower. A 1:4 odds attack doesn't mean that the side on the "bad" end of that 1:4 stick is going to take 4x the casualties. Assault values and attack odds are only there to determine if the base is captured, what happens to forts if anything, etc. There's also a high degree of fog of war at times. I never trust those numbers. I look in the hex after each combat phase to see what really happened.

What determines casualties is firepower - the antihard/antisoft values in the device profile of each device in combat. The IJA devices fighting your Chinese here have an enormous advantage in those areas. Also keep in mind that Chinese squads are formed of more "men", so the number of troops per unit of assault value is higher.

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203rd Ship Eng Coy is loaded on xAK Mikasa Maru moving to Whittier.

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Ground combat at 83,45 (near Nanyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 35126 troops, 319 guns, 180 vehicles, Assault Value = 1130

Defending force 33956 troops, 168 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 862

Japanese adjusted assault: 489

Allied adjusted defense: 517

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-) <-- Now it begins...
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1718 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 128 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 41 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Vehicles lost 45 (11 destroyed, 34 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1555 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 105 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled

Assaulting units:
70th Division
5th Armored Car Co
15th Tank Regiment
34th/C Division
9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
6th Division
12th Tank Regiment
40th/A Division
52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Army
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
92nd Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
66th Chinese Corps
22nd Group Army

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

The trigger line is one hex below Vancouver on a pure y-axis basis. Country codes don't matter for this one. C. Harbor won't trigger, Victoria will. The countryside SE of C. Harbor will as well.

To destroy aircraft factories he either has to create a firestorm (doubtful with any Japanese air assets available), or land south of the trigger and physically take the hex(s). I know you know what happens if he physically takes the factories. But doing so sure ain't free.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

The trigger line is one hex below Vancouver on a pure y-axis basis. Country codes don't matter for this one. C. Harbor won't trigger, Victoria will. The countryside SE of C. Harbor will as well.

To destroy aircraft factories he either has to create a firestorm (doubtful with any Japanese air assets available), or land south of the trigger and physically take the hex(s). I know you know what happens if he physically takes the factories. But doing so sure ain't free.

I don't know if Canadian industry will give strat VPs to him. It might?

As to whether he can create a "firestorm" (which is really just a high level of fires)... I did it to Chungking, to an extent, in our game. There's no reason Lowpe couldn't accomplish the same thing here, but whether the Japanese OOB (especially in PDU Off) can support that sort of commitment is another matter. It's still possible... But it's a long flight, and only Netties can fly that far in one or two hops. He might be able to hop Sallys (and later Helens) through the Aleutians and Alaska, depending on airfields, but that comes at a cost of time for transfers, ops losses/recovery, and fatigue (plane and pilot).

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

The trigger line is one hex below Vancouver on a pure y-axis basis. Country codes don't matter for this one. C. Harbor won't trigger, Victoria will. The countryside SE of C. Harbor will as well.

To destroy aircraft factories he either has to create a firestorm (doubtful with any Japanese air assets available), or land south of the trigger and physically take the hex(s). I know you know what happens if he physically takes the factories. But doing so sure ain't free.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
As to whether he can create a "firestorm" (which is really just a high level of fires)... I did it to Chungking, to an extent, in our game. There's no reason Lowpe couldn't accomplish the same thing here, but whether the Japanese OOB (especially in PDU Off) can support that sort of commitment is another matter. It's still possible... But it's a long flight, and only Netties can fly that far in one or two hops. He might be able to hop Sallys (and later Helens) through the Aleutians and Alaska, depending on airfields, but that comes at a cost of time for transfers, ops losses/recovery, and fatigue (plane and pilot).

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
The manual says "North America" so Canada should provide VPs.

The manual also talks of firestorms in two different ways. It says firestorms are big amounts of Fires that can damage factories. But "firestorm" is also a specific state in the code where factories are destroyed and may not be rebuilt. There may be randoms involved there. I haven't been in the situation for real-time years, but I think I recall there is a specific message in the CR that a firestorm now exists on a target. The Chungking damage was all repairable I believe.

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Sub attack near Coal Harbour at 204,50

Japanese Ships
AK Sagami Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
BB Hyuga
BB Ise
CL Sendai
AMC Kongo Maru
DMS W-20
AK Sasako Maru
xAP Ural Maru
xAP Montevideo Maru
xAK Zuiko Maru
xAK Maya Maru
xAK Aratama Maru
DD Yukikaze
DMS Uruko
DMS Tatsuko
DMS Teiko

Allied Ships
SS Silversides

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