Slitherine

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Balabac at 70,83, Range 25,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Chokai, Shell hits 11, on fire, heavy damage
DD Fubuki
DD Usugumo
DD Shirayuki, Shell hits 1, heavy fires
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Sagiri

Allied Ships
BC Repulse
CL Danae, Shell hits 2, on fire
CL Mauritius
DD Vampire
DD Tenedos, Shell hits 2
DD Electra
DD Express

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Balabac at 70,84, Range 23,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Naka, Shell hits 3
DD Asagumo
DD Murasame, Shell hits 1
DD Harusame
DD Yudachi, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Samidare

Allied Ships
BC Repulse
CL Danae, heavy fires
CL Mauritius
DD Vampire
DD Tenedos
DD Electra
DD Express, Shell hits 2, on fire

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Balabac at 71,86, Range 15,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Naka, Shell hits 7, heavy fires
DD Asagumo, Shell hits 1
DD Murasame, Shell hits 2
DD Harusame, Shell hits 3
DD Yudachi, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Samidare, Shell hits 1

Allied Ships
CA Houston, Shell hits 2
DD John D. Ford
DD Peary, Shell hits 1
DD Pillsbury
DD Pope, Shell hits 3

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ORIGINAL: btd64

Run away. OR, make a charge at the CV group. It's probably just a CVE. It's the escorts you need to worry about....GP

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ORIGINAL: Maallon

Disbanded ships cannot be engaged by SCTFs, so your plan can work.
But disbanded ships can be damaged by bombardments from surface ships and port attacks from bombers.
So if your opponent has a hunch of what you are trying to do, he can do some damage to you.
Though I would consider this possibility fairly low.

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ORIGINAL: huda0816

The problem is that they cannot run as they do not have any fuel left.

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

If you have cargo ships running south from the PI, you can tell them to meet the DDs and refuel them.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I was wondering again about the game date. I found the date Dec. 9th on the last post of the previous page and you mention five days have elapsed. So were your latest posts about December 14th? Assessing how things are going depends considerably on game date.

Some comments - you seem to be wanting to push back the Japanese from the start. While you can inflict some hurt, you must then find your Sir Robin spirit and get far away from there. The bases and supply levels in that area are too low to refuel and rearm your ships to keep the pressure on. You don't yet have enough auxiliary ships like AKEs and ADS and ASs to make up for the lack of major ports. Now that you have made your effort against the Japanese tide, it is time to head for a major port to rearm and possibly head west off-map or east to PH to defend your troop convoys. Supply convoys will be pretty much on their own for now. Use AMs, YPs and SCs to meet TFs several hexes from ports and guide them in or take them out. You cannot afford to escort the entire journey. DDs are for major warship escort.

And about Chokai - the biggest shells you could have hit her with are six inch, so 11 hits of various calibers six inch or less is very unlikely to do mortal damage to her. Most likely you did a lot of system damage which can be easily repaired. Japanese CAs are quite tough.

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Night Naval bombardment of Batavia at 49,98 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft losses
139WH-3: 48 damaged
139WH-3: 1 destroyed on ground
Do-24K-1: 1 destroyed on ground
PBY-5 Catalina: 3 damaged
B-339D: 6 damaged
B-339D: 1 destroyed on ground

21 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
BB Haruna
BB Kongo
CA Takao
CL Jintsu
DD Akatsuki
DD Arashio
DD Asashio

Allied Ships
AVP Fazant, Shell hits 1
xAK Boero, Shell hits 1, on fire
AVP Valk, Shell hits 1

Allied ground losses:
632 casualties reported
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Manpower hits 1
Fires 357
Airbase hits 15
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 27

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Ground combat at 87,44 (near Chengchow)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 25146 troops, 133 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 703

Defending force 690 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58

Allied adjusted assault: 711

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 711 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 150 (150 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
590 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 72 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled

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Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 126472 troops, 721 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3372

Defending force 40530 troops, 474 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 1258

Allied adjusted assault: 2331

Japanese adjusted defense: 2435

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
1119 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 139 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 29 disabled

Allied ground losses:
6716 casualties reported
Squads: 50 destroyed, 524 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 55 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 61 disabled

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ORIGINAL: btd64

As far as Yorktown is concerned I think that you answered your own question....GP

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ORIGINAL: huda0816

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ORIGINAL: btd64

As far as Yorktown is concerned I think that you answered your own question....GP

I am not sure if I understand your comment.

I just started up the game to inspect Yorktown and she has decent experience with formidable pilots.

I know my four carriers are no match for the KB at the moment but I am not sure if I want to park them somewhere until Hornet and Wasp will arrive.

I read some AARs where the carriers were moved to the DEI and another one where the carriers were used to strike the Japanese home islands.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: huda0816

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ORIGINAL: btd64

As far as Yorktown is concerned I think that you answered your own question....GP

I am not sure if I understand your comment.

I just started up the game to inspect Yorktown and she has decent experience with formidable pilots.

I know my four carriers are no match for the KB at the moment but I am not sure if I want to park them somewhere until Hornet and Wasp will arrive.

I read some AARs where the carriers were moved to the DEI and another one where the carriers were used to strike the Japanese home islands.

Your carrier pilots need to gain experience, as do all the vessels in the TF. If you know where KB is and there are opportunities to strike where LBA is not too strong, go for it.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

There is some hope for China. First you need to understand the Chinese units are full of raw recruits, poorly led, low on supply and lacking in heavy weapons. They need time to build experience and get a stable supply line flowing from Rangoon.
The only way they can face the Japanese is to fall back to very good defensive terrain - mountains, wooded rough, desert rough. That reduces the damage from Japanese heavy weapons and bombing. Also set the Chinese infantry squads to stockpile (In the Intel Report - Troops screen) so that the unit experience can grow instead of being diluted by raw recruits. It also helps with the grocery bill!.

Once they are in good defensive terrain, look at each unit's squads and other devices. If they have a lot disabled, I prefer to set the unit to rest and get some of those devices recovered rather than try and build field forts (which takes a while). And pick a few units with the best AV/morale/experience and spend the PP to get them a good leader.

Later on, consider airlifting in some 40MM AA guns and 34MM anti-tank guns if you get the chance. You might need to use Catalinas to airlift the 40mms until you get some heavier lift transports.

Above all, never attack with the Chinese unless the Japanese have just shattered themselves on your defences and they have no other units about to enter the hex.

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ORIGINAL: huda0816

Warships lost Japan (Probably only the destroyers did sink and every other ship is chilling in a Japanese repair yard):

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: huda0816

Warships lost Japan (Probably only the destroyers did sink and every other ship is chilling in a Japanese repair yard):

If that Mk 10 mine was the only thing that hit BB Ise, unless you got a fluke Magazine Explosion! it will not have sunk. The AI puts anything hit by a mine or torpedo on the sunk list, no matter how unlikely it is that they sank. The best way to confirm during combat replay is to listen for sinking sounds right after a mine hit sound. Loss of float planes that normally operate from big ships is another clue.

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ORIGINAL: DesertWolf101

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

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ORIGINAL: huda0816

Warships lost Japan (Probably only the destroyers did sink and every other ship is chilling in a Japanese repair yard):

If that Mk 10 mine was the only thing that hit BB Ise, unless you got a fluke Magazine Explosion! it will not have sunk. The AI puts anything hit by a mine or torpedo on the sunk list, no matter how unlikely it is that they sank. The best way to confirm during combat replay is to listen for sinking sounds right after a mine hit sound. Loss of float planes that normally operate from big ships is another clue.

You can also immediately tell that BB Ise has not sunk through the intel screen. When a ship actually sinks and is displayed on the loss list, then it's points will be added to the 'points for Sunk Japanese Ships' section. Unfortunately the ships lost window is highly unreliable though and often will list a ship of the same class but a different ship nonetheless as lost. The Ultimate confirmation of a sinking is what your receive in the ops report, but this can often appear many months after the event.

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Dec 22, 41
TF 141 encounters mine field at Singkawang (56,88)
Japanese Ships
BB Ise, Mine hits 1

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Dec 27, 41
Morning Air attack on TF, near Mersing at 51,82
Weather in hex: Moderate rain
Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 5
Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 16
Vildebeest III x 12
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Vildebeest III: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Vildebeest III: 1 destroyed by flak
Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga, Torpedo hits 1
DMS W-5, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
BB Ise, Torpedo hits 1
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ORIGINAL: huda0816

How do you deal with withdrawal symptoms?

I got no turn for three days and am refreshing my email inbox every 10 minutes. My opponent told me that he has to do his monthly unit review. Hopefully, he won't visit Bougainville during his troop inspection.

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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

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ORIGINAL: huda0816

How do you deal with withdrawal symptoms?

I got no turn for three days and am refreshing my email inbox every 10 minutes. My opponent told me that he has to do his monthly unit review. Hopefully, he won't visit Bougainville during his troop inspection.

Always a good idea to keep a copy of a recent turn to hand. Gives you the chance to do a little longer term planning etc.

For the present, worth spending some time looking at the 1/42 and 2/42 upgrades and planning for them. Some are essential, some you can skip, best to decide now.