Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

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Still desperately short on DDs.

I feel that way until about mid-43 when the Americans start pumping out about 8 to 10 DDs per month. It will be nice when you can afford to send about 8 or more Fletchers to India to help out.


Double checking with my Swedish friend, but you do have a Corp and Command HQ prepping for those two bases??

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Its a long way from Japan though and he doesn´t get much in return for a huge investment. Besides Japan is ill suited for that kind of war. Not the best amphibious tools, not very good engineer capabilities for base expansion and a long way from the DEI fuel. This while the allies have prepared bases and proximity to both Balboa and NZ/OZ.

Sometimes you do things, not to receive something but to take it away from your opponent.

The IJN holds Alaska, parts of the Canadian coast, part of Australia, imagine if they were well suited for this kind of war.

PS Fletchers are not super ships, just good DD's. A lot of their success is when they build up experience, dont commit them "assuming" they can take on the IJN. (Same goes for P47 & F4U)

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4th Tank Regiment is planning for an attack on Victoria.
203rd Ship Eng Coy is planning for an attack on Astoria

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Ground combat at Silchar (59,39)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 58422 troops, 601 guns, 932 vehicles, Assault Value = 1991

Defending force 37764 troops, 400 guns, 96 vehicles, Assault Value = 888

Allied adjusted assault: 922

Japanese adjusted defense: 693

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0

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

Japanese ground losses:
1901 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 167 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled

Allied ground losses:
636 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 139 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 27 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 20 (1 destroyed, 19 disabled)
Vehicles lost 47 (12 destroyed, 35 disabled)

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Ground combat at Chittagong (55,41)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 83784 troops, 1383 guns, 985 vehicles, Assault Value = 2664

Defending force 75002 troops, 891 guns, 680 vehicles, Assault Value = 1869

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

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In India my bombers have been refusing to fly. Grounded for 2-3 days and then fly 1. No idea whats up. Frustrating.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Is November in the Monsoon season? That could give you weather that grounds your bombers for days.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

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In India my bombers have been refusing to fly. Grounded for 2-3 days and then fly 1. No idea whats up. Frustrating.

In India/Burma, weather rules the skies!! Otherwise, check the leader stats of the Air HQs they are attached to and see if they are close enough to the actual air groups. My American bombers are all assigned to 10th Air and I place the HQ close enough to the air groups with a good leader.

Another is the AI thinking you don't have enough fighters on escort mission to protect them and stopped the missions (as long as the bombers don't have super aggressive leaders).

Then again, the pilots may belong to a union that only permits flying a certain number of missions per month.

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Ground combat at Silchar (59,39)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 58782 troops, 587 guns, 941 vehicles, Assault Value = 2039

Defending force 34994 troops, 391 guns, 91 vehicles, Assault Value = 749

Allied adjusted assault: 1207

Japanese adjusted defense: 313

Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Silchar !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
13203 casualties reported
Squads: 183 destroyed, 52 disabled
Non Combat: 332 destroyed, 72 disabled
Engineers: 82 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 175 (163 destroyed, 12 disabled)
Vehicles lost 34 (34 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 6

Allied ground losses:
347 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 70 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled
Guns lost 6 (3 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 95 (18 destroyed, 77 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
19th Indian Division
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
32nd Infantry Division
254th Armoured Brigade
39th Indian Division
9th Indian Division
14th Indian Division
Eastern Army
Burma Corps
XV Indian Corps
1st Indian Light AA Regiment

Defending units:
17th Indpt Guards Regiment
19th Division
25th Division
18th/A Division
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
35th Field AA Battalion

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Wow - 3 to 1 odds and you hit him for 40 times the casualties! Never saw so many minus signs on one combat!

Looks like you smashed a lot of his heavy artillery - the replacement pools for IJA big guns are very thin or none. Do you have any units in shape to pursue?

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Very nice, over 30% casualties and with the supply deficit, a lot of those disabled devices won't get easily repaired. You should shift your airpower to punish those units!

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Sub attack near Akyab at 54,44

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
BB Kongo
CA Ashigara
DD Hatsuharu
DD Kuri
DD Asanagi

Allied Ships
SS Trout

SS Trout launches 6 torpedoes at BB Kirishima

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Night Naval bombardment of Chittagong at 55,41

Japanese Ships
BB Kirishima
BB Kongo
CA Ashigara

Allied ground losses:
322 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

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Night Naval bombardment of Chittagong at 55,41

Japanese Ships
CA Suzuya
CA Takao
CL Kinu
CL Natori

Allied ground losses:
112 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

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Night Naval bombardment of Chittagong at 55,41

Japanese Ships
CA Suzuya
CA Takao
CL Kinu
CL Natori

Allied ground losses:
466 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 24 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Sadly it looks like my goal of clearing India before 42 is up wont hold. This has ramifications as the troops are needed elsewhere.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

I think you had too much to drink!

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
It cuts both ways - India is a tar baby and he needs his troops to feed his greed, so keeping them tied up at Chittagong is probably more beneficial to you in the long run than having them go elsewhere to cause mischief.

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Sub attack near Coffs Harbour at 95,164

Japanese Ships
SS I-171

Allied Ships
CV Wasp, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
CL Perth
CLAA Juneau
CLAA Atlanta
DD Le Triomphant
DD McCall
DD Gridley
DD Lardner

SS I-171 launches 4 torpedoes at CV Wasp
DD Le Triomphant fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD McCall fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Gridley fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Lardner fails to find sub and abandons search
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Coffs Harbour at 95,164

Japanese Ships
SS I-170

Allied Ships
CV Wasp, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CL Perth
CL Sumatra
CLAA Juneau
CLAA Atlanta
DD Lansdowne
DD Le Triomphant
DD McCall
DD Gridley
DD Lardner

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Told Jeff the turn will be a while. Need a break from this.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Its not about the actually loss but Japanese subs ability to completely disregard any and all ASW effort.

I had 12 CATs + 24 Hudsons doing NavS over the TF. All TBs/DBs where doing 50 NavS/20ASW. Long Island had 15 TBs doing ASW. I had 4 ASW TFs in the same hex. 2 leading and 2 trailing. The TF had 64 ASW value in itself. And they could just as well have not been there. Absolutely silly. Just as when I lost Ent. Its a joke and a bad one. Whats the point of even trying if the only thing you can do is leave your CVs in port? Every time I move my CVs I get a lump in my throat because I know that regardless of what I do my CVs are completely defenseless against Japanese subs. It doesnt matter if I have good leaders, good training and make every effort to avoid his subs the just magically pop up in the middle of the CV. All Jeff has to do is to get a sub in the same hex as an Allied CV and its a done deal.

If my subs where doing half as good half of KB would have been gone by now. Sick of it.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Out of curiosity, what altitude are your Nav Search aircraft using? I find 6K too high to spot subs, but 2K works fine. I run some high NavS if there is a possibility of enemy combat ships plus the lower ones for subs. ASW patrol goes at 1000 feet.

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ORIGINAL: Wargmr
How much of your air search was set to night patrol?