Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Anachro

Jan 19-20 1942

The last two days I send some DD raiders to get some undefended cargo units spotted south of Kwajalein where they manage to hit one in the night and cause some minor damage. They will try to hit some more as they head home. John is also recon'ing Baker Island, either to see if I have stuff there or maybe to eventually take it so he can do deep patrols into my SoPac trade routes.

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ight Time Surface Combat, near Ocean Island at 132,126, Range 2,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
xAKL Shonan Maru #8
xAKL Toyotsu Maru, Shell hits 2
xAK Nitiyo Maru, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Penang Maru, Shell hits 4
xAK Uji Maru, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Worden
DD MacDonough

In the DEI, I send the Dutch bombers to bomb Singapore from Singkawang. Hopefully, they actually manage to fly and find an undefended port. We'll see.

Looks like you're causing some problems.

All of these little actions add up, and it slows him down. He won't like to cover every transport or invasion. He wants to use the IJN to hunt. So keep making him pay and take what he gives.

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1/3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment is loaded on a Akasi Cargo class xAK moving to Port Blair.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Imperial Guards is one of his strongest divisions. It doesn't seem likely he would waste the prep time on a unit he needs to put to work, so I think that is good SIGINT.

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ORIGINAL: GetAssista

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ORIGINAL: Mahrgell
Two phases? I think you should have went with LoBaron's bottomline instead of making up your own.

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The above is the main reason why DP high caliber guns expend more ammo. They a) usually fire in three phases instead of one, and b) also fire against a/c attacking other ships in a TF.

See the difference?

So how again are the AAA contributing to fleet air defense, except in the case of someone sending his Nells in at 6k for I don't know what reasons?

Methinks you pull wrong conclusion out of the LoBaron's "usually".
Anyway, I've tested it just now to clear the misconception.
On a naked map with 3 Vals coming in on 10k attacking a TF of Lexington stripped of his planes + 6 Omahas. No other planes except 41k flying navsearch to have DL on the US TF.
Bottomline: all of Omahas fired their 6000 ceiling Bofors, and even some of their 4000 ceiling 20mm. Which should not've been possible if AAA fire only on planes atacking the ship - there are 3 planes and 7 ships. Case closed

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ORIGINAL: Anachro

@Alfred Now, you are making me worried. My only chance of defeating an Indian invasion is defeating it early and near the location of the landings. It will be a few months before American reinforcements arrive and the changes made in the mod to garrison requirements for Indian cities make it hard to use a lot of the troops that are already there freely.

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ORIGINAL: modrow

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ORIGINAL: Anachro

@Alfred Now, you are making me worried. My only chance of defeating an Indian invasion is defeating it early and near the location of the landings. It will be a few months before American reinforcements arrive and the changes made in the mod to garrison requirements for Indian cities make it hard to use a lot of the troops that are already there freely.

You may call me a defeatist, but I do not think you can defeat it on the beach unless this mod improves your OOB or TOE significantly. You need time until you can prevail in India. Trade space for time, do a fighting retreat, do not get flanked, make him march all the way.

Do not get confused by AV numbers, look at anti soft and anti hard values of you troops (I.S.F militia has 5/12 in stock, Ind Inf. 5/14, i.e. they correspond to Chinese and Chinese '43 squads, respectively, and in stock their morale and experience are just as bad if not worse than the ones of the Chinese and like the Chinese they start with significant disablements, meaning the units break quickly and lose devices quickly). Imagine you are fighting in China, just without the numbers of the Chinese. Do not try to use the "tank units" before they have tanks, your improvised AFVs have 1/5 anti hard/anti soft and are not effective for me.

I look at both squads and "tanks" are placeholders to allow for a quick upgrade of units. If you get them shredded, that chance is gone, and teh rebuilding of the Indina army will take a long time given the available replacements.

As always, just my view.

Hartwig

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ORIGINAL: obvert
If he lands in India give a LOT of space. Just pull everything you can back to Bombay and Karachi. Those are the bases you need to survive. You will not, and I mean absolutely will not, save Calcutta. Or Madras. Or Ledo.

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Port Blair at 46,58, Range 1,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Walrus II: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Ise, Shell hits 1
BB Hyuga, Shell hits 23, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Natsugumo
DD Yamagumo, Shell hits 2
DD Minegumo, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Asagumo, Shell hits 1
xAK Kamogawa Maru
xAK Yamahagi Maru
xAK Tonan Maru
xAK Mikage Maru
xAK Manko Maru
xAK Senko Maru
AMC Saigon Maru, Shell hits 1
xAK Ikushima Maru
xAK Kasuga Maru #2, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Hiyoshi Maru
xAK Kozan Maru, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
xAK Hankow Maru
xAK Yamagata Maru
xAK Amagi Maru
xAK Rokko Maru
xAK Maebasi Maru
xAK Mito Maru
xAK Teihoku Maru
xAK Tarayasu Maru
xAK Asuka Maru
xAK Atago Maru, Shell hits 1
xAK Meiyo Maru
xAK Hakonesan Maru
xAK Hakubasan Maru
xAK Hakakisan Maru
xAK Ikuta Maru
xAK Okuyo Maru
xAK Seikai Maru
xAK Santos Maru
xAK Taiko Maru
xAK Yomei Maru

Allied Ships
CL Achilles, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
CL Glasgow, Shell hits 20, and is sunk
CL Colombo, Shell hits 7
CL Caledon
DD Encounter, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Isis, Shell hits 1
DD Javelin

Japanese ground losses:
795 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 34 disabled
Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 35 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 7 (3 destroyed, 4 disabled)[/quote

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Port Blair at 46,58, Range 7,000 Yards

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
E8N2 Dave: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Walrus II: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Ise, Shell hits 17, on fire
BB Hyuga, Shell hits 27, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Natsugumo
DD Yamagumo, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Minegumo, Shell hits 8, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Asagumo, Shell hits 23, and is sunk
xAK Kamogawa Maru
xAK Yamahagi Maru, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Tonan Maru, Shell hits 7, and is sunk
xAK Mikage Maru, Shell hits 1
xAK Manko Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire
xAK Senko Maru
AMC Saigon Maru
xAK Ikushima Maru
xAK Hiyoshi Maru
xAK Hankow Maru, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Yamagata Maru
xAK Amagi Maru
xAK Rokko Maru
xAK Maebasi Maru, Shell hits 15, and is sunk
xAK Mito Maru
xAK Teihoku Maru
xAK Tarayasu Maru, Shell hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Asuka Maru
xAK Atago Maru, Shell hits 4, heavy fires
xAK Meiyo Maru
xAK Hakonesan Maru, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Hakubasan Maru
xAK Hakakisan Maru, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Ikuta Maru
xAK Okuyo Maru
xAK Seikai Maru, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAK Santos Maru
xAK Taiko Maru, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Yomei Maru

Allied Ships
CL Hobart, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Enterprise, Shell hits 2
CL Emerald, Shell hits 7, and is sunk
CL Capetown, Shell hits 3
DD Jervis, Shell hits 1, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
211 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Allied aircraft
Swordfish I x 9

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
BB Ise, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
xAK Yamagata Maru

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Allied aircraft
Swordfish I x 15

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAK Okuyo Maru
xAK Atago Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AMC Saigon Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Teihoku Maru

Ships Sunk for Day (Est.)



Current Situation

(in reply to GetAssista)

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ORIGINAL: modrow

He will hate losing that BB. You may be getting under his skin.

Hartwig

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ORIGINAL: modrow

Congrats, another nice surface battle.

I think John LOVES his (combat) ships. He will hate losing that BB. You may be getting under his skin.

Hartwig

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ORIGINAL: jwolf
I'm a little surprised the Japanese didn't use at least a CVE/CVL type of group for air cover with this op. In this mod it seems like they have plenty of carriers to go around. It would be ironic if the deep raid toward the US came at the expense of safeguarding the Port Blair op.

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I set a damned trap with Port Blair because I KNEW you would fight. Didn’t work due to my TF deciding to refuel before moving in to provide a serious escort. We’ll see what happen this turn. Got a real shot at Hermes and had TWO DUDS! You are lucky Mister…

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Little Andaman at 42,56

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 8 damaged

Allied Ships
CVL Hermes

There were a few torpedo duds in this attack

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ORIGINAL: Anachro

Yup, plan to do a lot more off-map stuff than I've done in previous games. East Coast doesn't seem to accumulate as much oil/supplies as it has done in my other games, at least initially. Australia has some fighters already; both ones that spawn there and from fighter wings I evacuated out of the Philippines. What I really need is more patrol craft everywhere.