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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 1:47:05 AM   
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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 1:57:15 AM   
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Uruppu Jima: Today's bombardment is considerably more effective than yesterday's. The effect on enemy troops and supply far better than the average bombardment, meaning the dice smiled on me today.




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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 2:19:22 AM   
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Uruppu Jima: The progress is slight but measurable.




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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 1:10:32 PM   
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Good luck as you continue the Kurile campaign. FWIW I think you already have enough firepower at Uruppu to begin chewing down his forts, attacking say once per week and then keeping the pressure on the enemy trough naval bombardments. It will be interesting for the spectators to see this playing out.


I haven't made the final decision, but I'm leaning towards a general deliberate attack in about four days. A big HQ unit is set to come ashore next turn, prepped 70%, so I hope it helps since there's also a corps HQ 100% prepped there.

I think the first attack will be awful, with adjusted AVs of Allies 800 Japan 6,000, forts six, 3x terrain, and the Allies suffering heavy disablements with probably a division or more shredded and out of action. If forts don't drop a level then it wasn't worth it.

I do have three divisions and a big combat engineering unit in reserve, prepping. All of them will come ashore in about ten days to two weeks.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 1:21:03 PM   
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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 1:26:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		A corps HQ 100% prepped is there. 6th Army HQ (Walter Krueger) will come ashore next turn at 70% prep.

SoPac and SWPac HQs are on Sikhalin Island but prepping for other targets.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 2:00:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Also keep an eye on the amount of coastal gunfire. Unless someone were to change commanders to vary the aggression rating and/or put units on reserve mode, that should be an indicator of the supply level as long as the number of actual guns stay about the same. If you were to keep track of the strength of various units from turn to turn, if they are not getting rebuilt that could also show supply problems unless there is an indication that cadres are being flown out.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 2:14:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, those are things I'm keeping track off. The Japanese raw AV drops by 10 to 50 each day, recovering a bit overnight. And enemy CD gunfire continues effectively right now. So there's still supply.

I don't think Erik will fly out cadres until the ice really starts breaking. We're a long way from that happening.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 3:29:25 PM   
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Uruppu: A marginal bombardment takes out one supply point. This is TF Richelieu's first crack at Uruppu. She'd been assigned to Death Star escort duty since the fall of Ketoi.






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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 3:44:42 PM   
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Uruppu: BB Idaho and gunboats provide covering fire while 6th Army HQ comes ashore. The HQ unit has a command radius of five, so Ketoi would have sufficed. But every unit that comes ashore at Uruppu triggers counter-fire by Japanese artillery, which to this point is the most effective way of hurting the Japanese.






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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 3:51:32 PM   
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Uruppu: A marginal bombardment takes out one supply point.


The amount of supply removed depends upon various factors such as the explosive size of the armament that did the damage and the amount of supply in the respective depot. It was one supply hit which could take out many supply points.

But it all accumulates, including the supply used when firing at your ships and aircraft.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 3:59:04 PM   
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Uruppu: Meaningful drops in the two IJA division AVs today, but I suspect they'll both recover well overnight, just as 302nd Battalion did today.






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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 5:33:33 PM   
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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 6:01:13 PM   
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I haven't seen any signs of enemy air transport in at least 10 days. Sometimes, air transport seems to avoid LRCAP without generating any kind of report that would alert me to an ongoing air-transport op, but his roster of units is the same, so he's not bringing in new ones, and the AVs of his units isn't climbing. So if there is "magic" air transport taking place - and I don't think there is at the moment - its probably limited to supply.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 6:10:06 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

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Uruppu: A marginal bombardment takes out one supply point. This is TF Richelieu's first crack at Uruppu. She'd been assigned to Death Star escort duty since the fall of Ketoi.






That is one hit on the supply. Depending on the size of the shell it could take out a little or a lot of supply. Bombing from the air is a far more reliable means of destroying supply, IME.

EDIT: Whoops - Ranger Joe beat me to it. I should have read further.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 6:16:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think, but I'm not positive, that terrain (and also possibly forts) has an effect on "potency" of Allied bombing attacks on airfield supply and port supply. IE, a large 4EB that might take out 5 supply points against a level 3 airfield in open terrain with two forts might not take out any supply against a level 3 airfield in wooded-rough terrain with six forts. That's a hunch I've had since back in the game with John III. Here, bombing attacks mostly don't score against enemy supply, even when the raid involves 60+ B-24s.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 6:33:53 PM   
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I think, but I'm not positive, that terrain (and also possibly forts) has an effect on "potency" of Allied bombing attacks on airfield supply and port supply. IE, a large 4EB that might take out 5 supply points against a level 3 airfield in open terrain with two forts might not take out any supply against a level 3 airfield in wooded-rough terrain with six forts. That's a hunch I've had since back in the game with John III. Here, bombing attacks mostly don't score against enemy supply, even when the raid involves 60+ B-24s.


It's my hunch as well, but I am not testing that. It would be tedious for minimal gain.

To me, I either get supply (or other) hits or I don't. It's not going to change my target selection in any meaningful way.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 6:38:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		If my bombers were regularly getting supply hits, I might devote most of them to airfield and port strikes. But since the hits are relatively uncommon, they mostly target ground troops. They aren't scoring hits there either, but my experience is that ground-bombing missions induce disruption and fatigue, even if the enemy units are well-dug-in and don't report any casualties.


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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/20/2018 6:49:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you see any transport type aircraft, including flying boats, in the air to air column that would indicate that your CAP is shooting them down. But that CAP needs to fly low since most players would fly them at around 1000 feet.

Sometimes you will get ground units damaged with port and airstrikes but I think that those are mostly the REMFs. I would spread the hits around since all of that damage is worked on before the forts.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 2:06:48 AM   
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Uruppu: Modest results for this bombardment TF. That's a consistent trend - the Alabama TF seems to underperform compared to the Iowa TF, even allowing for the size and quality differential in the BBs and the TFs. I'll check the quality of the commander.




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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 2:26:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		Might be worthwhile to check the Recon skill of the FP pilots on your BBs. I train my BB/CA/CL pilots in Recon whenever they are in transit in a safe area. It seems to make a difference when they get to 50 Recon Skill, but it could also just be the overall Experience increase that makes them better spotters.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 2:34:58 AM   
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Modest results for this bombardment TF. That's a consistent trend - the Alabama TF seems to underperform compared to the Iowa TF, even allowing for the size and quality differential in the BBs and the TFs. I'll check the quality of the commander.


Have to agree. The Richelieu TF did almost as well with a single 15-inch gunned BB.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 2:38:38 AM   
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Uruppu: My Paint crashed on both screen captures of during the Japanese arty bombardment and the following Allied arty bombardment. So I don't have the two images that show how Japanese unit AV dropped during the combat phase. But this provides some info. Progress is slow but it does seem to be steady.






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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 2:39:16 AM   
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Uruppu: The two US combat engineer units at Uruppu will withdraw in three days. I think withdrawl may be prior to the combat phase, so I'm gonna use 'em, it'll have to be by the day after tomorrow.

Note that this unit has 42% prep. It was at Shikuka, but I brought it over to Uruppu about two weeks ago when I noticed the withdrawal date.

I'm leaning towards attacking, though I'm not positive. The advantage is that it makes use of the combat engineers before they withdraw. This disadvantage is that is messes with disruption, fatigue and disablements for what is presently a pristine army that's growing steadily. There are advantages to biding my time, waiting for the navy, the air force and the artillery to keep doing their thing until the enemy is battered and low on supply. (That sounds like how the Allies felt about the pre-invasion bombardment at Betio…..)




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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 2:53:04 AM   
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Uruppu: This is the bulk of the Allied fighting power.




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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 3:43:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		I count 294 AV in armor and 125 AV in Combat Engineer units. While the odds aren't the best, you probably will get mostly disablements with the armor. I would bombard with the other units. You might knock down the forts which will hasten the decline of the defense. As long as you keep the airfield and port damaged, the forts won't repair so it should be a good option. Include a small "invasion" with your rocket LCIs to increase the damage, disruption and fatigue for the turn and you might be pleasantly surprised - or not! If it were my game, I would go for it.

If that AUS 1st ARM Reg has soft infantry included, you might want to airlift those out so they will not get destroyed so that unit will be pure armor.

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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 10:48:04 AM   
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Uruppu: A marginal bombardment takes out one supply point.


The amount of supply removed depends upon various factors such as the explosive size of the armament that did the damage and the amount of supply in the respective depot. It was one supply hit which could take out many supply points.

But it all accumulates, including the supply used when firing at your ships and aircraft.



Early on in my experiences with this game the AI was taking out 1000 supply points with each supply hit and doing so consistently.


This led me to belive it was a set amount of damage per supply hit and when I posted that I was quickly shooled by Alfred, Moose, Loka and others that the damage amount is variable.


I do know from that first hand experience though that the varaible amount can be at least as high as 1000 points of supply per supply hit.


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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 10:57:14 AM   
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Uruppu: Impact of the bombardment again unimpressive. Most of the ships targeted 28th Division. I hope to do a better job screen capturing during the land combat phase to check on Japanese unit AVs.

Richelieu TF bombarded out of turn today, leap-frogging ahead of the Iowa TF. I'm saving the latter for tomorrow, to coincide with the opening Allied deliberate attack (assuming I pull the trigger, which is likely).






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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 11:06:38 AM   
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Uruppu: Today's air raids vs. Uruppu managed to knock out supply. This is one of them. Most (but not all) 4EB are set to Ground Attack. All 2EB and a few 4EB squadrons are set to Airfield attack.






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RE: Notes from a Small Island - 7/21/2018 11:18:46 AM   
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Air War: The air war has been hot and heavy the past ten days or so, especially at Kushiro, where nearly every day large Allied sweeps encounter large Japanese CAP.

Early in this sequence, the Japanese got the best of things, particularly about three or four days ago, when Toyohara-based sweeps failed to go in and bombers from Shikuka got mauled. I lost about 35 B-29s over several days. But, even on days like that, the fighter losses were acceptable and the bombers were bait to keep Erik fighting (or so I felt). The past two days, Allied sweeps have done particularly well, downing Japanese fighters in large numbers and at excellent ratios.

Today's early sweeps mixed well with enemy fighters and then this raid came, targeting the port and Resources.

This was the firt time I used carrier Marine fighters to sweep.

I think Erik will bolster his fighter numbers tomorrow. I'll plan accordingly.





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