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Andy: Oz 2nd and Indian 5th are out of pocket. Also regiment of 18th UK and half a Tank Brigade are up against the units trying to get to the North via the Western road.
By Lucknow are the UK 2nd Division + 4 Indian Brigades/Divisions + 2nd regiment of the 18th UK + 6 Arty units, HQs, 1 Tank regiments and the other half of the one over in the West + the Carabineers, 1 Malay Brigade. All the const engineers and the airbase units (bar those at Jamshedpur) are out and heading to Ahmahabad - Delhi.
In Jamshedpur are 5 Indian Brigades/Divisions, 1 Burma rifles (this is being airlifted in from Dimapur) + 1 air regiment and 3 air base units. In the Hex north is the largest of the Indian Divisions – it has not been cut off but is trying to trap the Jap where he is.
Back over in Burma are the Oz 27th, parts of a Malay Brigade, 3 parts of Indian Divisions/Brigades, 1 large tank regiment, many of the Burmese defenders including the BFF – a nice big unit and another 4 units whose identity escapes me, are still on the trail from Burma.
Frank: Not yet mate, not yet. I like the north better for this defense and if I can stop him from advancing in the West then he is going to struggle to get past Lucknow for a while. The main reason for this is my bombers have such a short range to travel in pounding his units.
Andy: yeah thought about Japan or the chain of Islands but just got cold feet. It is still only June 42 and Java already has me shaking min my little space booties.
Gazillions of transports hit in Northern Indian ocean - 7 sunk. BB Hyuga hit by airborne torp out of Columbo. Chinese spanked out of Kweilin.
Andy: yeah thought about Japan or the chain of Islands but just got cold feet. It is still only June 42 and Java already has me shaking min my little space booties
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/05/42
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Day Air attack on Colombo , at 14,24
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 36
Ki-21 Sally x 43
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 1
P-40E Warhawk x 3
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21 Sally: 8 damaged
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 5 destroyed
Beaufort V-IX: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged
Blenheim IV: 1 destroyed
Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 11
A heavy air attack escorted in multitude by zeros from Madras gets past my meager number of P-40s and hits the Columbo airbase. I had moved some Beauforts there but not the full effort I have done in the past. With less targets his bombers do less damage.
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Day Air attack on Lae , at 54,87
Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 16
Beaufort V-IX x 13
P-40E Warhawk x 26
B-26B Marauder x 26
Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort V-IX: 3 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
149 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 34
The continuing attacks on Lae keep it suppressed. No Jap planes killed today though.
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Day Air attack on 7th Tank Regiment, at 30,18
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15
Buffalo I x 14
Wellington III x 19
P-40E Warhawk x 9
No Allied losses
Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2
That's better - I need to keep hitting these advanding units to wear down their capabilities.
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Day Air attack on TF at 11,27
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 3
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged
Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga, Torpedo hits 1
BB Kirishima
6 beauforts sortie after his BBs, which have not taken part in the cull of transports as expected, are intercepted out of Columbo as the round Ceylon. Serious damage is listed in the combat replay (although not heavy damage in this report) and a separate ship is in the hex. I think I have managed to cause alot of floatation damage without damaging the SYS too much. It will likely be back in action very quickly.
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Day Air attack on TF at 3,17
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
D3A Val x 19
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 1 damaged
Allied Ships
AK Paul Luckenbach, Bomb hits 10, on fire, heavy damage
repeat this attack about 14 times. Some attacks hit and others miss. Some have massive overkill others are small.
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Day Time Surface Combat at 4,17
Japanese Ships
DD Hatsuharu
DD Ariake
DD Mikazuki
DD Mochizuki
Allied Ships
AK Empire Raleigh, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
His surface unit intercepts 3 ships delivering the coup de grace to two of them, the other will struggle on.
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Ground combat at Kweilin
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 149041 troops, 1695 guns, 2 vehicles
Defending force 56492 troops, 352 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
1740 casualties reported
Guns lost 31
Vehicles lost 1
Allied ground losses:
1749 casualties reported
Guns lost 23
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
The Chinese units at Kweilin that refused to retreat are helped on their way by PzB's forces. They manage to met out as much damage as they suffered so all is good.
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Ground combat at 45,35
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 29252 troops, 246 guns, 154 vehicles
Defending force 3329 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 110 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 1
Allied ground losses:
296 casualties reported
Guns lost 9
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
The same can't be said for the blocking unit on the trail leading North. Again, each turn after being set to retreat, their movement had been zeroed. So the only way to retreat was to be forced to do so -sigh. Land movement is still very broken I am afraid.
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Ground combat at 20,12
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5064 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles
Defending force 13396 troops, 120 guns, 0 vehicles
Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
64 casualties reported
PzB finds the Indian 5th Division. Yes mate - you aren't getting through here in a hurry. This is the rail line to Bombay on the Western Coast. I may move in some bombers and force him to retreat for once.
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The flight of the targets in the North Indian ocean continues. He is hitting a sizable number but really the percentage getting through is actually quite high. Of about 100 sent he has sunk 16 and damaged another 10 or so. Plenty of hexes to go but the narrows between Ceylon and the side of the map have been traversed by about 50 ships now. These are undamaged and putting on good steam.
The Warspite has made good headway too. PzB has not moved his Carriers a long way south so she may also get away... His carriers must be coming up on lack of ammo for the aircraft soon. All these combat flights will be honing his crappier pilot's skills though.
Further South the Hermes is about to make land in Derby. She will stay in port for a while until the invasion force makes it across. I may then put some Wildcats on her.
Back in India I am trying to halt his Northerly advance. As predicted he is moving too fast to allow me to halt him across the river. So I retreat another hex to where the 3 tank untis are digging in. The 2nd UK Division is a good 6 days away unfortunately and without them I am going to struggle to hold the 4 divisions currently advancing on Lucknow.
Further to this he has now moved into Jamshedpur. I really wanted to hold for a bit here to get units across using the Dakotas. However he has manged to move a unit to the hex North of Jamshedpur as well. This means I can no longer use the trail north. I don't know whether I can move West and then North. Looking at the road layout I think the AI path finding is again going to scupper my ideas. This will mean I have to retreat towards Hyderabad, which in itself may cause him some problems. This turn, to help defend Jamshedpur, I have moved the P-40s and Wildcats here. He has been bombing the place but with oscar escorts. Every downed plane is still a point!
In the South Pacific the BBs are lining up for their run through the gap between Oz and New Guinea. The carriers are about to doc at Cairns and replenish weapons, fuel and aircraft numbers.
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