Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Kofiman

I do find it a bit amusing hearing the terrain on the east side of Vancouver island referred to as jungle.

That does bring up a question, though, is the inside passage considered navigable? I would expect in the case of accuracy it should not be, it's narrow, twisty, and there was a blockage called 'Ripple Rock' at the time.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
His relative lack of success getting strategic VPs in NA may have pushed him to look at SOPAC as a source for more points. He may not go for Noumea immediately after Efate - Suva is also in his line of travel and is worth some points. The real value of Suva would be to further isolate Noumea from supply and reinforcement before he actually goes for it.

I differ on guessing where the Japanese troops from the NORPAC area will be sent - I think SOPAC is more likely since it must be clear that they will not make any difference to conquering India.

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

IFF you march on Coal Harbour its possible you will be seen the moment you leave Victoria.

So have your Air Forces & Subs in place to interdict any attempts at reinforcement or evacuation. Avoid having only 1 bow in the quiver, show some amphib forces and make a lot of "noise"

Planning for India is OK but why consider Burma?? Stepping stones through the Andamans and Sumatra might be easier, defining your furtherntarget of relieving China or isolating Burma & threatening the Oil regions of Palembang should be guiding your plans.

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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

You might be under-utilizing your Dutch Catalinas... only 4 used so far?

The Dutch patrol squadrons are the only ones worth bringing back. They can fill the gap on the Indian ocean where the British are numerically inadequate

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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

Yes, I forgot you are playing PDU Off
makes sense

In my game I also changed Geraldton to "ABDA command" so to be able to re-base more squadrons, including bombers... it ended being a waste of PP.

EDIT: what about P-400s? there have to be squadrons capable of using it? these are probably your best non-P-38 fighter before P-40K

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

You might be right. This whole thing started with KB showing up outside Brisbane. He then tried strat bombing a couple of times using KB. I don´t think he gained any points though.

I don´t think he can release more troops from NORPAC. He only have 2 divisions in place + 1 at PH. In fact he is moving both AA and BFs to the Alaskan bases so withdrawal seems very unlikely.

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ORIGINAL: Jorge_Stanbury

Better cannon. P-39's is a 37mm.. good for strafing but useless for dogfighting, too inaccurate

P-400 uses a British 20mm cannon; kind of equivalent to the Zero's

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ORIGINAL: poodlebrain
Reinforcing with AA and BF doesn't make much sense without commitment of additional INF units. They will simply consume supply, and make nice targets for your naval bombardments when the correlation of forces, and proximity to major bases, flips to your favor. Additionally, I doubt your opponent is moving those units just to prepare defensive positions. They could be intended for use in support of an invasion aimed at AV.

How goes the fortifying of your WC bases?

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ORIGINAL: Drakanel

Back on track again I see. Still cannot say much since I also read Lowpe's, but I'm looking forward to more or less daily updates again :P

Also, at the cost of being sadistic, I will admit that reading the reciprocal speculations and predictions, whether they are right or wrong, is great fun

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ORIGINAL: Rio Bravo

Jocke-

You and Francois sure have your hands full of war-mongering invasive Japanese.

You get stronger every day!

Good luck!

Best Regards.

-Terry

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Morning Air attack on Nelson , at 214,44

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 36

Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 3
P-40E Warhawk x 3
F4F-4 Wildcat x 4

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

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Ground combat at 74,52 (near Tuyun)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 23244 troops, 382 guns, 994 vehicles, Assault Value = 1301

Defending force 49614 troops, 125 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1133

Japanese adjusted assault: 432

Allied adjusted defense: 1186

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
190 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 37 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 85 (2 destroyed, 83 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1339 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 161 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

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Amphibious Assault at Aoba Island (121,150)

TF 55 troops unloading over beach at Aoba Island, 121,150

Japanese ground losses:
78 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 7 (0 destroyed, 7 disabled)

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Ground combat at Efate (120,154)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1512 troops, 19 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 42

Defending force 181 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5

Japanese adjusted assault: 14

Allied adjusted defense: 3

Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Efate !!!

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

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

Allied ground losses:
229 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
Kure 3rd SNLF

Defending units:
2/5th Ind Coy

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

You may want to buy back that commando company. There are 6 of them in 1942 but in January 1943 three more arrive and you can start combining them in groups of three to form battalion sized units similar to Kanga Force. Much more capable units, likely able to hold their own against an SNLF unit.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Airwar
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Doing reasonable well here although I suffered a couple of setbacks when my CAP was caught up in heavy sweeps. I´m actually winning in all aspects including A2A which I´m quite happy about given the time frame.

Worth to take note of the heavy Japanese losses in the flak and Operational losses category.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

You may want to buy back that commando company. There are 6 of them in 1942 but in January 1943 three more arrive and you can start combining them in groups of three to form battalion sized units similar to Kanga Force. Much more capable units, likely able to hold their own against an SNLF unit.

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

Where the heck did you get 8500 planes from?!

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

PS. Just finished reading my old AAR against Erik. There a lot of people that has disappeared since then. Erik, GJ, House Stark, Speedy, Princep01, Captain Cruft, Kereguelen, Ehansen, aztez, Whipple, to name a few...

I know some of them are still around on the forum playing other games like Speedy. Some just stopped playing like Erik and GJ. Some just disappeared. One thing is for certain though. The loss of active forum members isn´t made up by new additions. Not good for AE.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

PS. Just finished reading my old AAR against Erik. There a lot of people that has disappeared since then. Erik, GJ, House Stark, Speedy, Princep01, Captain Cruft, Kereguelen, Ehansen, aztez, Whipple, to name a few...

I know some of them are still around on the forum playing other games like Speedy. Some just stopped playing like Erik and GJ. Some just disappeared. One thing is for certain though. The loss of active forum members isn´t made up by new additions. Not good for AE.

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter
I hope it doesn't happen to me as well. After years of procrastinating I took the plunge with the Christmas sale and bought War in the East. As can probably be surmised from my avatar I am a SERIOUS afficianado of the Eastern Front.

Hans Bolter was one of Germany's top Tiger tank aces serving in the 502 Schwere Panzer Abteilung on the Leningrad front. I played the heck out of War in Russia in the DOS days. Still wading through the 335 page manual hoping I don't get so engrossed that I forget about AE.