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August 8th
three days ago the emergency reinforcements for India were fired when I landed at Masirah and Socotra in Oman and off the coast of Yemen. I was not aware that these bases fired the emergency reinforcements, and asked my opponent to go back a day but he declined. Given my current dominance in India, I'm gonna keep going and try and take Karachi overland, since I'm pretty sure Dean has Karachi well defended, and I doubt I'll be able to take the city via a backdoor naval invasion. I expect level 9 forts by the time I get there. On the Bright side the reinforcing Divisions are almost entirely trapped in Aden, at least until the Mediterranean opens up in Mid 43. If dean wants to get his troops into Karachi, or elsewhere Hes going to have to run a Guantlet to get them anywhere. I'm gonna try and build up Socotra and Masirah into decent sized air fields, and as bases for Nav Search.
Otherwise the main news over the past few days has been the encirclement of the American 32nd Division west of Indore,
Huh a invasion of Socotra and Masirah a first I've seen from Witp:AE.
You got to be careful for British Battleship bombardments of those Airfields, make sure to station PT boats on them or at least something that can waste a BB's ammo.
Did some quick research of Bullwinkle58's expedition's to find the trigger lines and apparently Socotra didn't trigger the LOD in 2010 so it looks like Masirah was the trigger or maybe the islands were triggers because of the later date.
Well you have to deal with 3 Indian Divisions coming out of Aden along with the XXI Indian Corps + the XXI Corps Engineer Battalion, Rommel can thank you for helping him in every North African battle that ever happened starting with Battle of Alam el Halfa till 1943.
There is also the 31st Indian Armoured Division in Aden, 100 Valentine III tanks look angry along with the 50 Stuart tanks and 50 Humber Armoured cars.
There is also a Indian Division at Abadan.
And last but not least a Pakistani Division in Karachi.
Oh and the British get 72 Spitfires VII, 72 Hurricanes IIa Trop, 72 Wellington Ic's, 24 Catalinas I's and 36 Vengeance I planes.
- All at Aden, you better Blockade the heck out of the area or these monsters are going to ruin your day.
Good luck mate the fact the US has landed in India has made this operation to take Karachi much more harder but you were lucky in encircling that US Division, with a bit of luck and good dice rolls the operation should work.
Bombay usually has a lot of supply in the game (like 250k) unless the Allied commander upgraded his ports and Airports in Karachi meaning that the lot India's supply has gone to that city instead to stockpile.
We will see when the siege of Bombay happens (that city is a very tough nut to crack).
The fact you have all the Industry in Eastern India is still a boon and will help your economy immensely even without the rest of India.
Also the garrisoning of India is usually not worth from what I've heard but this is RA so I'm not sure.
Thankyou for the input, I intend to blockade this area heavily as you said, I'm probably gonna move Kido Butai back to Singapore and station a cruiser force at Socotra. I currently have 6 motor Torpedo boats which I will move over to this area as you suggested.
Dean's current Naval forces in the area for dean is no more than a few DDs and maybe a damaged cruiser or two. The British lost 1 CV, all 4 of the R class BBs, along with the Resolution BC (an add on in RA), 7 CL, and 2 CA, and 3 DD. Warspite and Valiant were spotted in the Aleutians earlier so they arn't in the area. I'm gonna send more H8ks to Deigo Garcia to keep an eye on the Cape town exit so I can see any potential naval reinforcement coming.
In terms of land units in India, it appears that dean reinforced India with three American Divisions, the 18th British and 70th British, and the 7th Aussie Division. The 7th Aussie Division was reduced to 10% TOE earlier but I regret not completely destroying it, the 18th British was destroyed, along with the 7th and 20th Indian Divisions near Calcutta. 17th Indian is currently isolated in the rear near Burma so wont be playing a role in any future campaign. All of the troops on Ceylon were also destroyed, so I'm just dealing with 2 American Divs, the 70th British, a depleted 7th Aussie, the Pakistani Division, and any Indian units that have survived thus far.
On my side I have 13 Infantry Divisions, and 2 Armoured Divisions to facilitate a push on Karachi. Not really sure If I should try to knock out Bombay first or go for Karachi.
*Reads The Royal Navy Loses*
Woah woah woah, oh dear that is absolutely dreadful to lose all of those coastal Bombardment platforms, heck I don't even remember reading this in the AAR since the loses most likely happened before the "Indian adventure" started.
Hopefully your adversary isn't too effected by the lost, we of course want to make it 1945.
The remaining battleships/Battlecruisers left are now the British Reinforments by 1944, the suriving Standard era BB's, Obsolete Ameircan BB's and the modern new US fast BB's + there's the French ship and the goodies from RA.
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Now on to the situation at hand with Inida...
The odds are looking good as of now but it could change.
If I was to pick Bombay or Karachi I would rather much prefer to not allow Dean's units to get a chance rest and rebuild in Karachi while the rest of IJA gets a punch on the nose in Bombay.
Obviously the focus is to take Karachi to prevent the LOD from landing it's painful punch at you, the city will unfortunately have high fort levels since its August 42 but with the current state of the Allies in India and attrition from bomber attacks the situation should have goods odds in favour of the Japanese plus the firepower from those tanks will really hurt the Allies.
Bombay as of right now should be scouted by Recon by Bombardment, the Airfield needs to be bombed consistently slow down the building of forts.
Bombay is a very painful city to take over, especially with a prepared Allied defense, the fact you haven't mentioned that any divisions in the city means that taking over it should be be a piece of cake, just make sure you have a big enough army to break the defense and try not to destroy half the industry in the process.
Taking Bombay early is nice but it's not critical for having dominance over the sub continent, the Bomaby sea route is much more easier to defend thanks to being far (compared to Karachi) from the off map areas.
Destroy the Allied forces in Karachi then taking over Bombay should be a piece of cake, a focus on Bombay first policy will give the Allies escaping up north a break with we can't do with the fact the holdings in Yemen won't last in 6 months.
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Side note I should mention with the defense of the Pacific island's, you should build your forts to Level 6 instead of 5 since
a) This level takes 5,600 supply to build.
b) That the next level cost 3 times more supply to build.
c) This level allows bases to deploy Barrage balloons which can damage or destroy attacking enemy bombers, useful for countering some Night Bombings or low alt attacks.
Here's a piece of information I've taken from Obvert,
Using 10 Construction Battalions
Levels 1,2 and 3- cost about 1,000 supplies and take 3 days
Level 4 - 2,400 tons of supplies; 9 days
Level 5 - 3,600 supplies, 13 days
Level 6 - 5,200 supplies, 19 days
Level 7 - 20,000 supplies, 25 days
Level 8 - 26,700 supplies, 33 days
Level 9 - 29,900 supplies, 38 days
Here was the conclusion of the fort building
To go from level 0 to level 9 required ~93,000 supplies and ~145 days..
If you would like to view the demise of 3 of the old R class ships refer to page 2 of my AAR  . The first Dead R class died before my AAR began in a failed raid on on my shipping near Moulmein. She did put Fuso in the docks for about a month and a half though, but she was outnumbered 2 to 1 in terms of capital ships, and had already expended some ammo sinking a convoy.
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), I lost some carriers and was able to find new homes for the orphaned air units.
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