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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 11:38:42 AM

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Always expect the unexpected...or is that the Spanish Inquisition

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 1:31:14 PM

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Luskan ! Stop reading the forums and send me my turn !

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 1:36:33 PM

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He's just trying to figure out what sneaky turns to send to both of us...

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 1:39:40 PM

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Are you also playing Luskan ?

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 1:41:11 PM

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He wanted another victim for his field tests...so being Scottish i volunteered without thinking :-)

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 1:48:04 PM

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Ah ha ! How far in are you guys? (btw I disagree with his house rule about China as the war over there was already underway).

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 1:49:52 PM

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Day 4 or 5 in the main campaign.Sneaky landings in the DEI as well as a teleported landing in Noumea.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 1:52:54 PM

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Noumea

Bloody hell ! Mate you are going to have to root them out of there as fast as possible, because if you don't he will hit NZ within the next month. Plus you are now going to have to route all of your convoys to Oz south of NZ.........and that will add at least a week and a half of steaming time onto the trip.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 1:55:48 PM

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Dont worry Plans have been laid ;-) Im going to transfer Scottish kamikaze units in from the UK,im telling them there is a thousand cases of Whiskey at Noumea and they will be there tomorrow

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 3:24:57 PM

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Actually that's been a real bloodbath that game so far. Noumea isn't that far from Truk or Kwajalein - so that invasion can be done. Of course, the trick is to pin the HQ there against the sea and crush the life out of them ;)

It was a poor set piece start for me in the other game. sure, I got 5 bbs at pearl (2 days) and have sunk many many enemy warships and transports, I have also lost a few more than usual, and didn't catch many aircraft on the ground at all.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/28/2004 4:02:48 PM

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The fact that the few available assets are thousands of miles away makes responding extremely hard.The few naval units in the DEI cannot cope with the large scale IJN forces swarming the area,making the fight or flight decison even harder

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 1:39:42 AM

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The last two yurns have been somewhat quite................luskan must be drawing breath before the next offensive, which must be in the DEI.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 3:55:11 AM

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I am still trying to figure out if I should fight for PM or simply leave it as I normally don't even bother to hold it in UV. Thoughts anyone?

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 4:02:29 AM

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If you have some troops and supplies to spare, fight for it, no point in giving the banana anything for free or easy. Also might slow him down in trying to mess with OZ or NZ, not to mention the shipping from the states to OZ. Just my .02 cents

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 4:49:04 AM

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I agree with SunDevil -- plus, the sooner you can get Luskan bogged down in a battle of attrition (rather than maneuver), the better for you.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 5:11:13 AM

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Yeah, but the problem is that Luskan now has some very very big and high experianced Divisions just waiting to be cut loose again, and yes I now have the Aussie 7th and 3rd Divisions ready to be deployed. But once they land at PM, it is a case of fighting with your back to the sea.......no where to retreat too. Also Luskan with his CVs still has complete control of the sea's. This is a really hard question, fight for PNG or just give it up and invade in '43.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 5:14:15 AM

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I've said it before, I'll say it again - Make him fight for it, but not with anything you can't afford to lose. Do you have a spare Bde or two? You have to bleed him sometime...

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 6:20:23 AM

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A couple of bdes are simply going to be swept aside...........I have seen that happen too often in Malaya to know different. Looking at the map I am sure that the best course is to attack up through Timor............bugger PNG.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 7:16:49 AM

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Just throw in a couple of those American Divisions...im sure they wont be missed much

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 7:30:43 AM

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Raverdave,

Everytime I worry about losing some troops, I go into the intel window, and then select the option to see all the troops that I will be getting and their arrival dates. That always reassures me that being the allies I can lose troops because in the end, I will have resources and troops to wipe Japan off the map.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 7:34:51 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: SunDevil

Raverdave,

Everytime I worry about losing some troops, I go into the intel window, and then select the option to see all the troops that I will be getting and their arrival dates. That always reassures me that being the allies I can lose troops because in the end, I will have resources and troops to wipe Japan off the map.

I always try and bring as many units as i can in from the US into Australia/SW Pacific as possible so i would throw a Division or 2 of these in and keep those Aussie units for the battle of Sydney

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 11:04:50 AM

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Another big bombardment at akyab that wipes 14 tanks, 21 guns and 500 of his troops from the face of the earth and Raver calls that quiet.

My troops land at Cebu and Ambiona (slaughtering a thousand infidels at the latter) and he calls that quiet. Operations are rolling forward rather smoothly in fact. Surprised Raver hasn't tried to kick in any of my spokes just yet (although, rather than attacking because he doesn't know what else to do, he now has the strength to wait and see my first moves and then respond with force if needs be).

as for my 2 cents (I'm putting in more than sundevil who only contributed 2% of 2 cents!) I say fight for PNG! Send in the aussies and see where that gets you - I KNOW how little there is defending Oz at the moment, and what a bad shape it is all in.

As for 52nd Lowland . . . well we're at turn 3 in our game and I've sunk 5 of his bbs at pearl, and just put lex and enterprise under the water when they ran into a retiring KB just off midway island. Means that until he gets new ones I can set up shop in noumea and stay there for a while.

Darwin is still a tempting target. Raver hasn't saved any troops from the SRA, and in fact he's been shipping them into the DEI - where I'm sure he hopes I get bogged down, and then his surface forces and cvs can battle me on the fringe of my control zone, instead of inside it like in the central pacific or PI/Borneo etc etc. Fortunately I'm smarter than he is and have a plan for this. Although it didn't include invading sydney, Raver's marched a whole bunch of aussie units to darwin on turn 1, so . . .

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 11:24:41 AM

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In America 1.00 = $1 dollar so .02 = 2 cents. Just FYI

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 4:06:21 PM

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Akyab is doing well thankyou very much..............the bombardments are simply a chance for my subs to try and nab a capitol ship. The damage that Luskan is claiming is very much over-stated. FOW is not only clouding the combat reports, but is also clouding Luskan's image of his own forces.

Bugger! Luskan must have spotted some of the troopships that have been ferrying troops and equipment to Java

I am indeed planning one hell of a suprise there for him, but now it looks like he will be walking into it with his eyes wide open. Bugger!

Truth be known I am really not worried about Luskan's implied threat to attack Oz...........he would be a fool to try, and even I know that he is not THAT stupid.......so it seems as if bananananana is simply typing rubbish to make him self look more self-important than he really is.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/29/2004 9:27:53 PM

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Raverdave,

This thread might be of some interest.

http://www.matrixgames.com/default.asp?URL=http%3A//www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp%3Fm%3D672228

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/30/2004 4:18:29 AM

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I've known Raver's plan for Java, and he's made a couple of errors (i think) that I'm going to make him realise over the next few months. I have 3 stages in my evil plan, and Stage 1 has only just begun this turn. Raver will post it when he sees it this turn. By the time stage 1 is complete, I'll have many many many big divisions at 100% from the PI and from Malaya, who have fniished mopping up operations in all the little islands on the way, and will be poised to strike the DEI.

He doesn't have the firepower to stand up for me for too long. A battle of attrition only develops when neither side can disengage to rest and refit. I only need 1 hex of the DEI, packed with hq's and supply, to retire my fighting divisions to in order to refit them to 100%. The trick is picking the right hex. Plenty of nasty coastal batteries around the place to worry about, and of course, I can't leave any resource areas with Raver so . . .

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/31/2004 4:52:04 AM

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Well mop up ops continue, as well as a few other ops (going to have to take sumatra before i do anything about java). I'm hoping raver contends with his cvs. I really, really am. However since he knows i'm ready for him (I've spent weeks getting ready for this next op etc.) He's not going to do anything foolish enough to get them sunk just yet.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/31/2004 4:55:20 AM

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/12/42

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Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
SS I-122

Allied Ships
DD Alden
DD Evertsen
DD Van Nes
DD John D. Edwards
DD Edsall

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Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
SS I-122

Allied Ships
AP Empire Pride, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

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Day Air attack on TF, near Palembang at 20,55

Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 9
Martin 139 x 19

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Yamakuni Maru
AP Ryuosan Maru
AP Mogamigawa Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AP Ayato Maru
AP Netsuda Maru

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
4 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Palembang at 20,55

Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 7

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Kashu Maru
AP Ryuosan Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 53,91

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 23

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD Peary
DD John D. Ford

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 15000 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 15000 feet
9 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 15000 feet
9 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Palembang at 20,55

Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 5
Martin 139 x 18

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Netsuda Maru
DD Arashi
AP Hakusan Maru
AP Mogamigawa Maru, on fire
AP Kashu Maru
DD Samidare

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Palembang at 20,55

Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 6

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Hatsuharu
AP Nissen Maru #2

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 53,91

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 7

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
DD John D. Ford
DD Peary

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 15000 feet
3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Palembang at 20,55

Japanese Ships
CL Kashima
CL Kashii
DD Hagikaze
DD Asagiri
DD Sazanami
DD Ushio
DD Yayoi
DD Mikazuki
DD Mochizuki
DD Kamikaze
DD Hatakaze
DD Oite
DD Hayate
DD Kuri

Allied Ships
PT TM-4, Shell hits 12, and is sunk
PT TM-5, Shell hits 8, and is sunk
PT TM-6, Shell hits 19, on fire, heavy damage
PT TM-9, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
PT TM-10, Shell hits 5, and is sunk
PT TM-11, Shell hits 4, and is sunk

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Palembang at 20,55

Japanese Ships
CL Kashima
CL Kashii
DD Hagikaze
DD Asagiri
DD Sazanami
DD Ushio
DD Yayoi
DD Mikazuki
DD Mochizuki
DD Kamikaze
DD Hatakaze
DD Oite
DD Hayate
DD Kuri

Allied Ships
PT TM-6, and is sunk

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Coastal Guns at Palembang, 20,55, firing at TF 51
TF 51 troops unloading over beach at Palembang, 20,55

327 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Arashi, Shell hits 9
DD Hatsuharu
DD Samidare, Shell hits 9

Japanese ground losses:
1002 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Menado, 39,67, firing at TF 84
TF 84 troops unloading over beach at Menado, 39,67

23 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese ground losses:
655 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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Ground combat at Palembang

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2124 troops, 49 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 14256 troops, 170 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

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Ground combat at Menado

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1435 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 10826 troops, 112 guns, 0 vehicles

Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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Ground combat at Cebu Island

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 2566 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 2110 troops, 28 guns, 0 vehicles

Allied assault odds: 0 to 1

Japanese ground losses:
41 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Allied ground losses:
73 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/31/2004 12:02:07 PM

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I am ready for Luskan..............oh boy am I ready! His first landing is at Palembang (Luskan's going to wet himself when he sees all the oil and resorces still there). Java is the key and I have had three months to build and build and build. Troop ships have been pouring in at such a rate that there is a shortage of APs elsewhere in the pacific, and this has frustrated my efforts to stage troops at Pearl. The next few moves should be interesting to say the least....more so in seeing Luskan's reaction.

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RE: Battle of the CD units - 7/31/2004 3:29:17 PM

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Well, that is where Raver is a bit mistaken. java is important, but it is the oil and resources that are the key.

My economy underwent a massive and very stressful conversion to high gear at the beginning of this war. However, although I had fuel and supply shortages to begin with, I am making ends meet now. However as for armament, plane and enginer production I have now come to the conclusion that I expanded too far, and have overproduced many airframes and engines etc. seeing as I'll be upgrading lots of them soon. So next time, more R+d, less expansion.

Also, wishing I expanded my repair facilities at the start. Fortunately I haven't had too many crippled ships yet. More than 75% of the ships I've lost to this war so far have been lost due to game balance issues, ie. Allied super asw has cost me abour 40 subs, and cd units pounding dds to dust). However that is all being addressed.

As for the oil and resources side of things . . . well I've actually got over 200k of each stockpiled at Osaka, and although I periodically don't have enough at Saigon or the korean peninsula, I actually have about 300k of oil and 100k of resources sitting at my bases around the map that I just haven't been able to ship somewhere yet. I'm not lacking for either (thanks to my stealing of all of Borneo's most important oil production centres and kendari in the first 2 weeks - I'm months ahead of schedule in that regard for production) but I am not converting them to supply and fuel quiet fast enough to build major stockpiles. Malaya is excellent, with oil and resources from as far away as Rangoon being converted at Singapore where I need the supply and fuel most. Lots of fuel and supply there - and Manila is back online now and a bit of extra manpower there helps too.

The question: Do I upgrade my heavy industry, take the supply hit and suffer for it in the later game when I can't supply the damned stuff, in order to build bigger stockpiles? I think a moderate increase in certain safe locations is a good idea.

This turn Raver sent 4 pommy bbs into Rangoon, and sunk 3 of my dds (he encountered a dd force that didn't long lance unfortunately, but avoided most of the damage, and a 2 ship asw force that got wasted). He didn't bombard though, and retired having missed his only opportunity. My cruisers swept into Darwin and sank 5 of his destroyers and 1 transport with 350 troops aboard which all drowned. This was a brilliant success, only I WAS stupid enough to bombard, and lost 2 dds for my trouble. This turn ended up with the score 5 dds lost each. I lost a msw, he lost a transport and some troops.

He is about to loose Kuching, tacloban, iliolo (sp) Palembang and Jambi. raver seems to have forgotten that the important oil and resources in the DEI are on Sumatra, not Java, and the bases from palembang north all produce oil and resources in small but handy amounts.

Raver's spotted planes have sucked all game and they're proving it now. I've had cvs waiting for his cvs to show near palembang for 2 turns now, only 5 hexes away from his major base at batavia and they haven't been spotted yet (while a pair of dds and a msw were reported as a bb and 2 ca) . . . He really does need to bring back the cane in those enemy ship id classes.

My spotters only just saw Raver's 4 bb at rangoon last turn before they arrived in time for me to evac all my transports (lots of troops and supply headed north of course).

Enjoy.

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/14/42

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Coastal Guns at Kuching, 28,56, firing at TF 68
TF 68 troops unloading over beach at Kuching, 28,56

44 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Kiji
MSW Wa 3
AP Bokuyo Maru

Japanese ground losses:
100 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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Naval Gun Fire at Darwin (36,84) - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

7 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Fubuki, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Yamakaze
DD Tokitsukaze

Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported

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TF 28 encounters mine field at Darwin (36,84)

Japanese Ships
DD Hato, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Rangoon at 29,34

Japanese Ships
DD Yugumo
DD Arashio, Shell hits 1
DD Amagiri, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Akebono, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Kisaragi
DD Satsuki
DD Fumizuki
DD Kikuzuki
DD Okikaze
DD Hokaze, Shell hits 1
DD Numakaze

Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales
BB Warspite
BB Ramilles
BB Resolution
CA Dorsetshire
CL Enterprise
CL Emerald
CL Glasgow
CLAA Capetown
DD Electra, Shell hits 1
DD Fortune
DD Foxhound
DD Isis
DD Paladin

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
CA Myoko, Shell hits 2
CA Haguro
CL Nagara
DD Yukikaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Michishio
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Harusame, Shell hits 1
DD Yamakaze
DD Umikaze
DD Fubuki, on fire
DD Hato, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Alden, Shell hits 18, and is sunk
DD Edsall, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
DD John D. Edwards, Shell hits 15, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Van Nes, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
DD Evertsen, Shell hits 10, and is sunk

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
CA Myoko
CA Haguro
CL Nagara
DD Yukikaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Michishio
DD Shiratsuyu
DD Harusame
DD Yamakaze
DD Umikaze
DD Fubuki, on fire
DD Hato, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
AP Empire Pride, Shell hits 21, and is sunk

Allied ground losses:
324 casualties reported

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Rangoon at 29,34

Japanese Ships
MSW W.2, Shell hits 8, and is sunk
PG Kiso Maru, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk

Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales
BB Warspite
BB Ramilles
BB Resolution
CA Dorsetshire
CL Enterprise
CL Emerald
CL Glasgow
CLAA Capetown
DD Electra
DD Fortune
DD Foxhound
DD Isis
DD Paladin

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Naval bombardment of Darwin, at 36,84 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

46 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
CA Haguro, Shell hits 4
DD Shiratsuyu, Shell hits 8, on fire, heavy damage
DD Harusame
CA Myoko
DD Michishio
DD Umikaze
DD Yamakaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Yukikaze, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CL Nagara

Allied Ships
AVD Childs, Shell hits 3, on fire
MSW Deloraine, Shell hits 1, on fire
AD Black Hawk, Shell hits 2, on fire
MSW Cairns, Shell hits 1, on fire

Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

Runway hits 2
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

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Coastal Guns at Kuching, 28,56, firing at TF 68
TF 68 troops unloading over beach at Kuching, 28,56

20 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Kiji
AP Bokuyo Maru, Shell hits 1
DD Kasasagi, Shell hits 1, on fire

Japanese ground losses:
110 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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ASW attack at 36,82

Japanese Ships
DD Harusame
DD Michishio
DD Umikaze
DD Yamakaze
DD Tokitsukaze
CL Nagara

Allied Ships
SS Salmon, hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

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Day Air attack on Rangoon , at 29,34

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 12
P-40B Tomahawk x 17

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged

Oil hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 16th Mixed Brigade, at 46,26

Allied aircraft
SB-2c x 3

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x SB-2c bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Jambi at 20,53

Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 3

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AP Yamura Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Palembang at 20,55

Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 9
Martin 139 x 19

Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 4 destroyed, 5 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kako
CL Kinu
BB Mutsu

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
1 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
1 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
2 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
4 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Palembang at 20,55

Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 9
Martin 139 x 5

Allied aircraft losses
Martin 139: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu
DD Akatsuki

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
4 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Palembang at 20,55

Allied aircraft
Martin 139 x 6

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
BB Mutsu

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
3 x Martin 139 bombing at 15000 feet
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TF 23 troops unloading over beach at Tacloban, 44,58

Japanese ground losses:
14 casualties reported

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TF 41 troops unloading over beach at Jambi, 20,53

Japanese ground losses:
38 casualties reported

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Ground combat at Palembang

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 26218 troops, 245 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 4379 troops, 60 guns, 4 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

Japanese ground losses:
268 casualties reported
Guns lost 20

Allied ground losses:
106 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

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Ground combat at Roxas

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 762 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 42 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Roxas base !!!

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Ground combat at Kuching

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1557 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 8442 troops, 110 guns, 0 vehicles

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Ground combat at Palembang

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1995 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 25605 troops, 218 guns, 0 vehicles

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Ground combat at Kuching

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 7340 troops, 110 guns, 0 vehicles

Defending force 3816 troops, 13 guns, 3 vehicles

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Allied ground losses:
85 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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