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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58


bonanza (n.) 1844, American English, from Spanish bonanza "a rich lode," originally "fair weather at sea, prosperity," from Vulgar Latin *bonacia, from Latin bonus "good" (see bene-).

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58


bonanza (n.) 1844, American English, from Spanish bonanza "a rich lode," originally "fair weather at sea, prosperity," from Vulgar Latin *bonacia, from Latin bonus "good" (see bene-).

So that's where they got the name for the drug Viagra!

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Ok, sure, you have none in the pool right now... I don't think you should worry about the Hurricane-a's: you get plenty of -b's and -c's as the year goes on. Losing that many -b's does hurt a little, but you should look at what you got out of the expenditure of the planes. In this case, many more VPs than they were worth, and perhaps time while he fills those units back out.

Also, who cares about the P-40E? If they were P-39Ds I'd get it... .

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Will Calcutta have enough supply to withstand high usage in combat plus losses to bombardments?

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Will Calcutta have enough supply to withstand high usage in combat plus losses to bombardments?

I hope so!

Got 110k there now but I think Iīll be able to pull a little more once the troops get in place.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Will Calcutta have enough supply to withstand high usage in combat plus losses to bombardments?

I hope so!

Got 110k there now but I think Iīll be able to pull a little more once the troops get in place.

From reading AARs the last 3-4 years, the Japanese adventure in India usually goes there way until about July or August 42 when they run into problems as Indian units get up to speed and reinforcements arrive - mostly land and air units but some ships too. Until then, Calcutta may be strong but in a siege situation lots of troops need lots of supply. It all depends on how hard he goes for it after China cashes in.

I guess my thought is that you need to maintain a line of retreat back through Ranchi direction "just in case".

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Joc,

I'm only reading sporadically and have missed alot of what's happening, so forgive me if what I'm about to say is obvious or has already been covered. I've defended India before against massive invasions and I've defended North America under the same circumstances. So I offer a few comments just in case they are useful.

1. It's late April 1942, so still early enough that Japan can run amock and it's difficult for you to effectively parry at this point. As somebody noted just above regarding India (and really applying all over), by late summer 1942 the equation changes dramatically.

2. By September, Japan will have a very hard time defending in India. The Allies are growing so strong by then - at least by land and usually by air - that a big land campaign in India is bad news, especially into autumn. So the real threat is from now through late summer. It's pretty late already for Lowpe to come for India, but watch your back door. India is a waste of time for him unless Bombay or Karachi is the target. Calcutta isn't important compared to those two places. So if there's any risk of him coming around your back side with 10 or 20 divisions now or after China falls, watch out. That's very unlikely, but don't take any chances. In fact, are you sure you want to risk having 3k troops bottled up in Calcutta? What if he besieges the city, cuts off every route of retreat, and then brings in a stout army? Defending Calcutta might be a good idea - analagous to a Guadalcanal - in the right circumstances, but not if the Japanese overrun the island and wipe ot the 1st Marines.

3. By early summer '42, I seem to recall that Allied airpower in CONUS was growing pretty doggone massive. I took some strat losses in the air campaign, but it became very costly for my opponent. I had been able to bring in some air groups from Hawaii via xAK before the CONUS campaign began. How do you think your fighter defenses will look into late May and June? Unless I'm missing something, I think Lowpe's going to find himself holding a "tar baby" (something stuck too his hands that he can't shake loose of to his regret) by summer.

4. Japan should continue building it's Victory Point ratio into the summer, but as summer wanes the ratio should begin to decline, with the trend accelerating the autumn. Probably the biggest risk to you is one-sided losses in big carrier battles. So protect the fleet. I think by mid- to late summer, the air war should be far from the 4:1 or more that he wants.

5. You're probably already doing this, but on occasion, make notes of the VP ratio and see how it changes on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. By mid- to late summer you should notice some encouraging trending in your favor.

Good luck!

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Ground combat at Paoshan (65,45)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 19036 troops, 183 guns, 64 vehicles, Assault Value = 583

Defending force 18645 troops, 101 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 711

Japanese adjusted assault: 524

Allied adjusted defense: 865

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

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
2790 casualties reported
Squads: 65 destroyed, 149 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 23 (4 destroyed, 19 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
435 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 52 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
143rd Infantry Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
55th Engineer Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion

Defending units:
51st Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Corps

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I don't think there's any chance of Lowpe getting AV. Or, I should say, there's no way for him to get it, but there is probably a way you could give it to him. Meaning: if an Allied player got rattled and ended up feeding assets piecemeal into a meatgrinder, he could give an IJ player alot of victory points. But you're too experienced for that. :)

When I was defending CONUS against Panzerjager Hortlund (a very good player), I had my carriers loitering well to the SW of California. I think from time to time I flew F4F squadrons to CONUS to bolster my defences. With the USN fighter replacement rates being a little more friendly, this seemed to work well. It's a bit of a juggling act, though, and of course you need plenty of breathing room (separation from KB) to make that possible.

Good luck.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants
Mini-KB: Look for them at Port Blair. I usually have subs off that base as many Japanese players use it for their warships in this theater.

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Ground combat at Lanchow (81,34)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 40473 troops, 315 guns, 35 vehicles, Assault Value = 1258

Defending force 31081 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1040

Japanese adjusted assault: 1096

Allied adjusted defense: 1143

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
8893 casualties reported
Squads: 350 destroyed, 334 disabled
Non Combat: 56 destroyed, 135 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 28 disabled
Guns lost 101 (33 destroyed, 68 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
761 casualties reported
Squads: 7 destroyed, 213 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 23 (1 destroyed, 22 disabled)

Assaulting units:
12th Indpt Infantry Regiment
13th Indpt Infantry Regiment
11th Indpt Infantry Regiment
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
2nd Ind.Mixed Brigade
27th Division
26th Engineer Regiment
Mongol Garrison Army
21st AA Regiment
11th Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
3rd Chinese Corps
34th Chinese Corps
82nd Chinese Corps
8th Chinese Base Force
10th Chinese Base Force

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Not sure why he is shock attacking so much in China. It's a lot of risk for little gain relative to a deliberate attack. Japanese troops outclass the Chinese by so much that there are 2 options, really:

1) Chinese troops are in poor supply and therefore usually poor condition. You don't need to shock here, just deliberate. Eventually the Chinese run out of places to fall back to, so bagging more on the front end is not really necessary.

2) Chinese troops have supply and are therefore usually in better condition (with forts). Shocking here is risky, as if you get bad odds you'll get shot up, as has happened to him twice here. Granted, you had a negative supply modifier show up, but I'd bet you weren't out of supply (it only has to be 1 unit for it to show up in the combat text). The IJA may as well just do a deliberate attack, which has a decent chance of knocking forts down anyway and won't result in massive casualties if you end up with poor odds.

What happened to GreyJoy against Obvert is another good example of this. There's just no need to shock attack, and you can afford to avoid river crossing attacks as Japan. A failed shock attack can stall a front for weeks or longer while you wait for troops to recover.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister


Another set of attacks on Seattle and Vancouver. For some odd reason he hits the Catalina factory at Vancouver.

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ORIGINAL: venividivici10044a

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister


Another set of attacks on Seattle and Vancouver. For some odd reason he hits the Catalina factory at Vancouver.

Well, I'll play the Allied spy here and say a few cryptic words...

1. Where do your new Catalinas come from when that factory burns to the ground?

2. Danger Will Robinson! Danger!!!

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ORIGINAL: venividivici10044a

Spy + Cryptic = Partial Information for the Allies to evaluate

Danger Will Robinson = Early War Hysteria

Allied Military Intelligence has now assessed the spies report and clarified, Excellent!

On to research...speaking of firestorms...this is where the Allies should invest their research...

Bat Bombs

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Haha this turned out interesting! That is a killer hot dog!

On a more serious note the factory is only 3 points which gives very little VPs. I only a 4 plane squadron that can use the CAT Is so knocking it out makes little sense. And as BB points out I seriously doubt that Japan can create firestorms. I never did despite having the full might of the Allied 4Es in 45 at my disposal. And 3 points will repair almost instantly (have repair turned off on everything right now though) But Iīll not complain.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Haha this turned out interesting! That is a killer hot dog!

On a more serious note the factory is only 3 points which gives very little VPs. I only a 4 plane squadron that can use the CAT Is so knocking it out makes little sense. And as BB points out I seriously doubt that Japan can create firestorms. I never did despite having the full might of the Allied 4Es in 45 at my disposal. And 3 points will repair almost instantly (have repair turned off on everything right now though) But Iīll not complain.

I've never seen any text report in the late game that I had created a firestorm. Maybe there isn't one. I've had over 800,000 Fires on a city and not gotten it. I did not flip to the other side to check to see if industry was permanently destroyed though.

But I seriously doubt the Japanese can create one anywhere with 2Es.

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Morning Air attack on Vancouver , at 209,49

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 52 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 39
B5N1 Kate x 6
B5N2 Kate x 49

Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 6
P-39D Airacobra x 13
P-40E Warhawk x 68

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 8 destroyed
B5N1 Kate: 2 destroyed
B5N2 Kate: 14 destroyed, 7 damaged
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Manpower hits 9
Fires 1925

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ASW attack near Akyab at 54,44

Japanese Ships
BB Haruna
BB Kongo
CA Suzuya
CA Takao
CL Tama
CL Jintsu
DD Hayate
DD Ushio
DD Okikaze
DD Asanagi

Allied Ships
SS Truant

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Morning Air attack on Sian , at 83,41

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 27

Allied aircraft
I-15-III x 17
H81-A3 x 13
Hawk 75M x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
I-15-III: 1 destroyed
H81-A3: 1 destroyed
Hawk 75M: 1 destroyed