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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 1:56:15 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 2:04:55 PM   
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Originally I was willing to not heavily defend Darwin, but there is 125AV of junky troops at Katherine, and I probably shouldn't give Darwin away to a SNLF landing force...make him come at it with some force and IJN ships bombarding.

Thinking ahead, and assuming an Indian push...this is a theater where small forces can distract.

Haven't really talked about my overall goal in 1942 and that is to put pressure on Japan along her perimeter...turning quiet fronts hot and trying to throw Japan off their game without exposing too much! Easier said than done, I am sure.

Should I send that lone xap (13 knots) to Darwin and hope it can unload without running into an Iboat...or hide for two days till the Dutch destroyers show up?










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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 2:12:32 PM   
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Those torp carrying Bettys were from the south.






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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 2:29:09 PM   
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I am thinking to defend the two atolls with some troops...Japan can't be coming up here with all that much this early. He needs to grab a base for his tenders to use and it seems to me a decent use of troops (i.e. not much at risk) to put some on the Atolls west of Ceylon. Hopefully this will buy more time. I was thinking of defending them initially with the British Navy hoping for an intel advantage...

Ceylon is pretty much stripped of supplies and fuel, only 10K supply and fuel left and that is being drained out again today.

My guess is that Japan will thirstily go for the gaggle of merchant shipping east of Ceylon...






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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 2:31:54 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 3:17:06 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 4:10:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		My two cents...with the move into the Indian Ocean, that certainly lessens the possibility of an invasion of Australia proper. Given that, I would start marching an Australian Militia Division to Darwin (via Alice Springs). They are not great units, but it would at least force him to use divisions and not SNLF.

Get moving though, because it takes about 6 weeks

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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 4:39:14 PM   
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Since those troops in Malaya can't get to Singapore now, you might want to consider airlifting some of them out with Cats.


Once it was closed off, the evacuation of upper Malaya started. I have gotten out portions of an RAF HQ, III HQc, and some troops to prevent the base from being taken by paradrop easily.


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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 4:48:21 PM   
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My two cents...with the move into the Indian Ocean, that certainly lessens the possibility of an invasion of Australia proper. Given that, I would start marching an Australian Militia Division to Darwin (via Alice Springs). They are not great units, but it would at least force him to use divisions and not SNLF.

Get moving though, because it takes about 6 weeks


What do you think of sending some of the Australian Armored units there? Especially once they are upgraded to Matildas? They are rather small units, I was thinking of sending some to Atolls.

I guess the supply of Matilda's also has to go to India too...perhaps not the best idea to use them early.


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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 5:17:28 PM   
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A third squadron of P40s is at Santa Cruz...that will be 75 fighters...plus on a longer route from California Airacobras are coming.




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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 5:24:41 PM   
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My two cents...with the move into the Indian Ocean, that certainly lessens the possibility of an invasion of Australia proper. Given that, I would start marching an Australian Militia Division to Darwin (via Alice Springs). They are not great units, but it would at least force him to use divisions and not SNLF.

Get moving though, because it takes about 6 weeks


What do you think of sending some of the Australian Armored units there? Especially once they are upgraded to Matildas? They are rather small units, I was thinking of sending some to Atolls.

I guess the supply of Matilda's also has to go to India too...perhaps not the best idea to use them early.



You will never run out of Matildas. They are really only used by the Australians.

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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 5:38:15 PM   
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Nice to see another I-boat on the sunk list so early in the game. That is your second, I think?

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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 5:40:00 PM   
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My two cents...with the move into the Indian Ocean, that certainly lessens the possibility of an invasion of Australia proper. Given that, I would start marching an Australian Militia Division to Darwin (via Alice Springs). They are not great units, but it would at least force him to use divisions and not SNLF.

Get moving though, because it takes about 6 weeks


What do you think of sending some of the Australian Armored units there? Especially once they are upgraded to Matildas? They are rather small units, I was thinking of sending some to Atolls.

I guess the supply of Matilda's also has to go to India too...perhaps not the best idea to use them early.


By the time India starts getting enough supply to fill out armoured units, Stuarts and Grant/Lee tanks are also showing up. They are an upgrade over the Matilda (in stock at least) so you will have lots of Matildas for Oz.

Edit: Alfred beat me to it!

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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 5:46:03 PM   
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Nice to see another I-boat on the sunk list so early in the game. That is your second, I think?


Third...he likes to hang out in port hexes, which can be swamped with ASW, even if they lack training. Savaged another too at Midway. Well savaged might be an overstatement.

Hoping for a mine hit at Rabaul...

ASW attack near Midway Island at 158,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-25, hits 2

Allied Ships
DD Preston

SS I-25 is sighted by escort
I-25 bottoming out ....
DD Preston fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Preston fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Preston attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-25 eludes DD Preston by hugging bottom
DD Preston fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Preston fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


I have a strategy for using some bait task forces...Allies really have some potent ASW platforms.





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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 5:50:25 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 5:52:04 PM   
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Actually you can run out of Matildas. In DBB there are 2 Matildas II. One is not used at all and one by Aussies but with very low replacement rate. And this is the case for most of the early Commonwealth tanks. You really need to babysit all British/Indian/Aussie armor units.





Does that mean they don't come by convoy? I only see one Matilda tank in the resource pool. I see a dozen to 48 Matildas in different arriving convoys...





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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/2/2020 6:03:50 PM   
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Does that mean they don't come by convoy? I only see one Matilda tank in the resource pool. I see a dozen to 48 Matildas in different arriving convoys...



Looked into the editor and it seems this problem is only in scn 28, 30 is ok so you are good.

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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/3/2020 11:09:10 AM   
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Assuming that is where he is going of course!

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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/3/2020 1:44:07 PM   
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Ceylon isn't defensible this early, but it still sucks to give the Japanese Colombo with its port and repair facilities.

Assuming that is where he is going of course!


It is all a tradeoff...we are hitting the Marianas this turn as compensation.



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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/3/2020 3:43:39 PM   
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Ceylon isn't defensible this early, but it still sucks to give the Japanese Colombo with its port and repair facilities.

Assuming that is where he is going of course!


It is all a tradeoff...we are hitting the Marianas this turn as compensation.




I think this is a much wiser plan. Whoever controls the indian ocean can take ceylon at any time no matter what the defense. At this point, that means the IJ with the KB. by '44 it is the allies and the DS.

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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 12:34:27 PM   
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SAG Chicago, heading into Saipan to bombard, decides upon a daytime bombardment, but finds the Katori guarding the approaches...






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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 12:38:22 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 12:44:59 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 12:48:26 PM   
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Naval bombardment of Tinian at 108,94

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 7 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed on ground
A5M4 Claude: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Astoria
CA Portland
DD Dunlap

Japanese ground losses:
109 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 18
Port hits 8
Port supply hits 1

CA Astoria firing at Tinian
CA Portland firing at Tinian
DD Dunlap firing at Tinian

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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 12:49:04 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 12:52:28 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 12:54:50 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 1:06:37 PM   
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I wonder how much will this cause the IJN to change their plans...we are prepping for a full blown invasion of the Marianas, but it is at least a month away. A lot can happen in a month. And I doubt we get that far...but it looks to me that a lot of the starting IJ ships are present, plus merchant shipping from the Guam invasion.

We will make hay here for as long sea control is ours! The CVE and BB IJN force is at Ishigaki...they were at Takao yesterday.




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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 1:14:59 PM   
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RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) - 10/4/2020 1:15:44 PM   
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The IJA spearhead on the Sian road has turned east and west...so it looks to be headed for the Ankang road instead.




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