FeurerKrieg
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July's big news is our first real set back with the ugly aborted landing at Canton Island. Elsewhere though, the war moves slower, but in the right direction. Another relatively quiet month as sea. CA Exeter drops off the sunk list and is replaced by CA Portland, but I doubt Portland is sunk having only been hit by one submarine torpedo. CL Dauntless is also added to the kill list. BB Royal Sovereign is still missing from the list, but I'm pretty sure it was sunk. Also we see a slight decline in VP ratio this month, but I think that will reverse in the near future once we capture more India and Chinese bases. Burma is finished up and our troops begin the occasional attacks at Paoshan. In India a lively campaign moves our forces up to Darjeeling and over to Asansol and Jessore - right at the doorsteps of Calcutta. Our push forward creates a triangular pocket of bases from Silchar up to Rangpur and over to Ledo. Some of our small units are trying to further cut that pocket in half again. The 65th Bge is also marching through the jungle to the Imphal roadway. The main goal is to trap and destroy the 70th British and 26th Indian divisions. With the divisional losses the Commonwealth has suffered at Ceylon, killing two more divisions should help prolong the Indian counterattack even longer. We also capture some supply producing areas, notably Asansol. Large amounts of resources are now building up at Chittagong, so we will try to bring some to Singapore for shipment on the Fusan Express. In China progress is slow, but there is some. A risky maneuver near Chungking takes the pressure off of Chengtu, and although our troops are nearly surrounded, we manage to pull off a retreat over the river. We are finally about to attack Kweilin for the umpteenth time, hopefully the last time. In the north, we clear the last resistance at Urumchi and are marching on to take Kashgar. We will retake Kiuchan on our way back to the main front. Very little action in the Pacific outside of the landing at Canton Island. After that debacle, we settle for keeping it isolated as best we can. The small islands east of Tonga are captured and that is as far as we plan to venture in the Pacific. For now it is submarine warfare near Pearl Harbor while keeping an eye on the Society Island, New Zealand and eastern Australia for any Allied counter offensives. The Australian adventure goes fine as we capture Wyndham and get into position around Daly Waters and Katherine to capture those bases while we wait for the 33rd Division to arrive for a push on Darwin. Some air skirmishes are fought and we win some and lose some. Some numbers for July - Bases captured: 27 VP Ratio July 1: 3.405:1 (Japan) VP Ratio August 1: 3.382:1 (Japan) Air losses: 336 Japan, 203 Allies Ships lost - Allies: 11 Ships, 39 Points Ships lost - Japan: 10 Ships, 41 Points Capital Ships lost (entire war): Allies CV Enterprise CV Indomitable CV Lexington CV Saratoga CV Yorktown BB Prince of Wales BB Resolution BB Ramillies BB Revenge BB Royal Sovereign (?) BC Repulse CA Australia CA Canberra CA Chester CA Chicago CA Cornwall CA Dorsetshire CA Indianapolis CA Pensacola CA Portland (unlikely) CA San Francisco CL Achilles CL Adelaide CL Caledon CL Ceres CL Danae CL De Ruyter CL Dragon CL Enterprise CL Hobart CL Java CL Leander CL Marblehead CL Mauritius CL Perth Japan CV Shokaku CVL Zuiho CA Mogami CL Kashii CL Kashima CL Sendai Here is the current submarine scoreboard. One subs is lost in July, the I-28. Submarine Scoreboard July 1942 Home Island stockpiles are shown below. Supplies climb slightly again, and fuel is near flat. Oil drops, but much slower than before. Looking ahead, these numbers all start to climb notably in September as we start pulling oil and fuel from Fusan. Supplies also start to climb at a good rate. Resources are climbing very fast as you can see. I did a significant amount of Light Industry expansion on the main home island, so we will put those resources to good use producing supply later in the war when we are isolated. Home Island stockpiles
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