Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland

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EUBanana -> Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/4/2008 8:14:47 PM)
I'm not sure if Uamaga plans on an AAR, he said he might, but he probably wouldn't, but I plan on at least a cursory one. Sensitive top secret information may be discussed here, so no Uamaga's allowed! I'm the Allies. Theres a humungous list of house rules... here. quote: - No City attacks (strategic bombing) IN or OUT of China. - Para units must be used as whole units: meaning para unit may only be used to drop into one target at a time and must have no fragments on map before drop starts (however they may be droped into the target partially or in couple of waves turn by turn). - No empty base training runs for pilots. Attacking troops/garrisoned bases to gather exp ok. - 6 Ships Max in ASW TFs - up to 6 PTs per TF. No more then 1 PT TF in defense of port <=3, no more then 2 PT TFs in defense of port <= 6, up to three in larger. - No more then 5000 mines in defense of ports <= 3 - Aircraft stacking: no more then 50AF-level aircrafts in AF with exception of ACs in transfer (but such ACs in excess must be set to stand down) - 4E bombers on naval strikes at altitude no less then 15000 feet. - no aircrafts strikes (including Kamikaze) at altitude above 30000 feets except B-29. - no more then one army (navy/marines is OK) 2E/4E bomber airgroup at naval search per base. Same (but counted separately) for ASW mission. - attacking large stack of LCUs a minimum of 100AV (unadjusted) must be used in the attack (to prevent cheap fort reductions and unreasonable supply burning by attacking with micro-fragments of land units) - commando-like raids with subs or fast TFs with LCU fragments allowed against beaches and small bases (Port+AF < 4 ?). For invading larger bases "proper" units delivered on regular TFs must be used. - offensive air-bridges should be limited to brigade size units. Offensive air-bridge means: taking the base via raid or paradrop and setting up instant airbridge to deliver mass of troops. Mass air transfer of LCUs to defended bases OK. - subs evacs are OK - Q: should we allow invasions in non-base hex(not even a beach)? Often overused for supply/retreat cut.. OTOH landing troops from sinking AP/AK in open terrain just to save their life looks ok to me? - no overuse of single-ship TFs. Scattering convoys in danger to run for their lives is OK (i.e. no prob with allied shipping runnig from Manila in single ship TFs), running single TFs to deliver supply to sieged bases I think is OK too (?) but deliberately pushing single/small ship TFs (transport or warship) to soak enemy air strikes and/or to burn opponent CVs sorties is gamey big way IMO. Some common sense needed here I guess. What you think? - no more then 4 CV TFs in single hex with no less then 2 big CV in each TF if possible (i.e. 2CV + 1CV TF (Midway like setup :) is OK but 3 times 1CV TF is not). - no Corsairs operating on CV before 06/44 - 2E LBA airgroups must stay 2E except for few starting Bolo units wich can be upgraded to 4E by default - if attacking USSR japanese player must activate soviets at least 30 days before actual attack. - Japanese may not invade Aden (well... ;-), no japanese ships except I-boats can enter into lanes leading to Aden/Panama (air attacks on shipping in lanes is allowed) - japanese army DB airgroups may not upgrade to "heavy" bombers (Sally/Helen; Lily is OK). - Kwantung Army units need to change command HQ and pay PPs to change command to be able to leave Machukuo/Korea (except in direction of Soviet Union of course :) - Allied Chinese Army units must change command HQ and pay PPs to leave China (except in direction of Machukuo/Korea or Vietnamese invasion of course). - japan units (LAND and AIR) from unrestricted commands must change command HQ (to CEA) and pay PPs when entering into China continent with exception of chinese ports controled by Japan (from Canton to Tientsin).which for this rule are treated as "belonging to both worlds" (SAA/CEA). - allied units (LAND and AIR) must change to proper command HQ and pay PPs when entering into China with exception of AVG airgroup. (These two last rules are somewhat experimental and intended to better simulate relative isolation of China theatre and political/logistical problems of both sides there.) Opening/1st turn rules: No more then 1 japanese port attack in 1st turn (PH, Manila, Singapoure or whatever but only once) * no more then two days of PH strikes (if any) * KB may hang in PH/WestCoast area no more then a week, then must go back to major base (Truck, HI) but may intervene on the road back at Wake/Gilberts if needed. * At 1st turn Allies can only change orders to TFs at sea and land units. * no japanese invasion in 1st turn against allied bases further then 10 hexes from nearest japanese base. also japanese invasion/bombarding TFs targeting allied bases beyond 10 hexes limit must stop in 1st turn no closer then 5hexes from such base. * Japanese player may not make proper invasions (raids are ok) outside its defensive perimeter before it get proper control over SRA. Defensive permimeter (inclusive): Wake-Marshalls-Gilberts-Solomons-NewGuinea (excluding PM)-North Oz- Java-Sumatra-Port Blair-Rangoon Proper control of SRA: any three out of four major bases in SRA are uncontested in japanese hands: Singapore, Manila, Batavia, Soreabaja. * Japanese surface TFs may not cross Malacca Straits (Singapore-Sumatra) before Singapore is captured. Proposed SETUP: * WitP version 1.8.6 * CHS 159 scenario with proper AB map and corresponding pwhex file (common source of probs/ synch troubles...) * Auto Subs OFF (both) * Auto Replacements and Repairs OFF * PDU ON * Allied Adv. Damage Control ON * Historical 1st turn OFF * Surprise ON On top of all that we got a gentlemans agreement not to use hordes of single ship TFs for the purpose of winning CV engagements (hard to have a hard rule for this as scattering convoys and such is acceptable, but we are avoiding gamey cheapness). And another gentlemans agreement to use LCUs of at least brigade size when involved in "major operations", which is somewhat open to interpretation, but what was in mind was essentially assaulting cities and cutting off the escape routes of an army. So no commandos hitting Brisbane, no 12 squads being landed on a beach to cut off an entire army so it is "surrounded". So hopefully a good game of reasonable historicity.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/5/2008 6:41:52 AM)
Well, got the first turn result. Very timid Japanese moves actually. One division landing on the PI so far. No landings in Malaysia just yet. One SNLF unit takes the Admiralty Islands. There was just two major airstrikes on the surprise turn - Pearl and Clark Field. Both of them were pretty devastating. BB Arizona and BB Oklahoma are gone, the least damaged six remaining BBs are on 24 and 25 sys. 36 Japanese a/c shot down, all by flak, in exchange for around 180 Allied planes, mostly caught on the ground. The sub pens at Manila didn't get it, so thats probably something he'll rue later on. [:D] For now theres not really much to say about Allied plans. I'll have to see how things develop, I'm not planning on a Sir Robin though, a fairly stiff defence is in order. PoW is getting out of Dodge and headed for Java, oil and supplies are being sent to Singers while I got the chance. Singers airfield didnt even get hit, I think he'll rue that mistake as well.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/5/2008 7:52:03 AM)
Alright, well. Looks like he's not attempting to land on a hostile beach in Malaysia, he's landing in Jap territory immediately to the north, covered by 18 a/c. I've moved up some Buffalos who will run sweeps over it, Vildebeest to blow up some ships, and the airfield is getting bombed. We'll see how that goes. Oil is being shipped from Palembang to Singapore to keep the HI going for a bit, as it looks like he plans on fighting all the way down the peninsula the hard way, lets get those factories rolling. Supplies are being shipped up from Java as well, without Singapore airfield being bombed, and with no Jap bases right next to it after turn 1, safe-ish enough. Mines are being deployed at Kuching, Force Z is on standby should he make moves on it. Pretty much the entire Indian merchant fleet is headed for Aden to get the first blast of supplies shipped, I want to top up Java as soon as possible, before it gets dangerous, and the buggers take their sweet time to move. The MLE at Colombo is being dispatched to Soerabaja under heavy escort, British minelayers which are still intact due to Malaysia not being heavily bombed yet are planning on leaving lots of surprises if given half a chance. There isnt much of note going on except fleeing in the PI, the USAAF has basically been eliminated at least temporarily due to the heavy bombing of Clark Field. Ditto Pearl, which is waiting with baited breath to see if KB will hang around. Mini KB is covering the PI invasion atm. Aussie ships are making moves at heading for New Guinea along with a US CA, and some fuel is being sent towards Port Moresby in readiness.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/5/2008 5:10:18 PM)
Alright, I got a question for anybody who is reading this - it seems we have quite a lot of discrepancy between the Allied and Japanese combat reports. For example... Allied Ships BB Oklahoma, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage BB West Virginia, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 1 BB Arizona, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire BB Pennsylvania, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage BB California, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire BB Maryland, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 8, on fire, heavy damage DMS Wasmuth, Bomb hits 1, on fire BB Nevada, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CL Honolulu, Bomb hits 1 BB Tennessee, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 1, on fire DM Montgomery, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AV Curtiss, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage SS Cachalot, Bomb hits 1, on fire DM Preble, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage or Allied Ships BB California, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage CL St. Louis, Bomb hits 2, on fire BB Maryland, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage BB Nevada, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AS Pelias, Bomb hits 1, on fire SS Tautog, Bomb hits 1 CA San Francisco, Bomb hits 1 DD Helm, Bomb hits 1 CL Detroit, Bomb hits 1 BB Tennessee, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1 BB West Virginia, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire BB Oklahoma, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage BB Arizona, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage BB Pennsylvania, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage DD Case, Bomb hits 1 DD Selfridge, Bomb hits 1 CA New Orleans, Bomb hits 1 DM Pruitt, Bomb hits 1 DD Henley, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Is that normal?

rtrapasso -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/5/2008 5:19:44 PM)
Not normal - you have replay/sync bug... See the "sticky": http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=1686565

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/5/2008 5:32:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rtrapasso Not normal - you have replay/sync bug... See the "sticky": http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=1686565 OK, cheers. I think my erstwhile opponent has had this happen before as the first thing he did was say "Double check the combat reports match" [:D].

rtrapasso -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/5/2008 6:03:30 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: EUBanana quote: ORIGINAL: rtrapasso Not normal - you have replay/sync bug... See the "sticky": http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/fb.asp?m=1686565 OK, cheers. I think my erstwhile opponent has had this happen before as the first thing he did was say "Double check the combat reports match" [:D]. Follow the instructions on the sticky... reboot, run the turn again without loading anything else except WITP... if your turn comes up the same, the problem may be with the Japanese player, or possibly you have different versions or different map files. i've found a very common (most common, maybe) problem is that players tend to run turns sequentially without rebooting, or work on a turn then run it (again without rebooting.) This is a near guaranteed way to get a sync error (although it may be machine dependent). (opinions will vary on this point.)

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/6/2008 8:55:14 PM)
Well, we found out that I had a slightly different version number, so we redid the first couple of turns again, with an agreement to do the same thing as before pretty much. No BBs were sunk at Pearl this time but his casualties went from 40 a/c down to about 10. and the damage on the BBs was much more spread out, so rather than 2 sunk and 4 good to go, I got only one which is in good working order (for now). The Japanese airfield attacks on Clark Field and Pearl had much greater effect than before (almost 400 hits on Clark Field runway!) so I think they'll be out of commission for quite a while. Being quite conservative with the first couple of turns to see what he's up to before I start roping up massive convoys only to send them into KBs clutches, so I can't really comment on any Allied strategy yet. There isn't one. [:D]

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/7/2008 4:56:17 AM)
Pretty bad turn. An uber-sub, I-154, positioned just east of Palembang sunk a Dutch ML and the British DM Stronghold with torpedoes, and then dodged the depth charges of a British/Australian TF that went over it. Then for an additional cherry, it sunk an AP. !!! That really hurt. In addition to that a DD, USS Paul Jones, hit a sub laid mine at Balikpapan and immediately sunk. In return a Dutch submarine blew the crap out of a loaded AP off the Vietnamese coast and an S-boat, captained by the very best in aggressive sub officers, hit CVE Hosho off San Fernando - unfortunately with a dud torpedo. The Allied airforce proved completely ineffective, Buffalo sweeps over Singora met the uber-Zeros backed up by some Oscars and suffered. On the plus side DM Thracian at Hong Kong has actually cleared Manila so might be getting it out of there, and the other Hong Kong DDs have as well. Pearl got it again though the damage was a bit more muted. The last undamaged battleship took a torpedo so it looks like I'll be down to one US BB, and only then after months of fixing. Sweeps continue over Singora, I know the Buffalos are outclassed but I want to stay in contact with his airforce at all times and inflict what damage/fatigue I can. Minesweeping efforts are beginning in the DEI as it looks like he's been busy with sub laid mines on turn 1 - the one that hit Balikpapan is not the only one. I'm going to try and evacuate Dutch base forces from nonessential bases (specially the small ones, of limited use to me or him) and ship them to Palembang so when it falls the oil has more of a chance of getting scragged. I'm pondering moving an HQ there even. Whatcha think?

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/7/2008 5:00:59 AM)
Mmm, some Jap BBs (allegedly) between Talaud Island and Morotai... wonder where they are going.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/7/2008 10:29:17 PM)
Buffaloes are roughly handled over Singora again, they can't keep this up so are resting. They are achieving little anyway, they havn't done so much as damaged a single defending Oscar or Zero, and have suffered eight losses. One squadron of AVG is going to sweep the place, see if we can get more results with them. A Dutch submarine east of Singora is sunk by ASW (including the Hibiki [:D]). Blenheim IVs did penetrate the CAP and drop bombs with the loss of one bomber in exchange for several damaged Japs but the bombs apparently missed completely. IJN submarines continue to prove annoying as all hell in the Java Sea, which seems to have a combination of mines scattered everywhere and extremely aggressive and competent IJN sub commanders. Not had any success weeding them out yet. In the PI mini KB has split up, with CVE Hosho NW of Manila, and the rest south of the PI. Needless to say AKs and APs are blowing up left and right. Those Hong Kong DDs are in there somewhere, they've led a charmed life so far, still touch and go. A British DM left mines near Vigan so that might catch the unwary Jap. [:D] Another round of landings are going on in the PI, Laoag is captured by a landing force made up of all the AA guns in the world, a handful of tanks, and a lot of base forces. Pretty obvious what is planned here. At the other end of Luzon, at Naga, Yamashiro watches over another force of unknown size as it lands unopposed. An S-boat catches a bomb and will be docking at Manila soon until the flooding has been fixed, then it'll be limping to Australia. Its crazy-insane but I'm sending a tiny SAG, Boise + Houston + 2 DD, to those landings at Naga. There is no air cover over them and while Yamashiro obviously massively outguns them there are a lot of APs around too and it wouldnt take many 8" or 6" hits to dish out some pain. This SAG needs to get out of the PI now anyway, they may as well "go for it" while they can. Subs lift cadres out of Hong Kong in the nick of time, I've not pulled out any USAFFE LCUs yet at all but one Fortress squadron has moved from Clark Field to Calcutta (long trip) while it has chance. There are only 3 working heavies there anyway, the Clark airfield has been pretty much eliminated. Elsewhere Tarawa is invaded by a naval guard unit, and KB is in Unknown Location. Immediate Allied plans - AP loads the baseforce at Kuching, heads for Palembang. Luzon escapees head for Brunei, planning on a similar move of most of the base force to Palembang (not all, dont want it obvious that its empty, and want some av support left so escapees from PI can trickle over it potentially). Aggressive ASW/demining in the Java Sea. Submarines out of Pearl are being used as minelayers, aimed at Central Pacific atolls. China is quiet, airforce grounded to conserve supply, I'm waiting to see what he does here.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/8/2008 5:07:59 PM)
India SEAC units are converging on Calcutta, which is a good spot for R&R. India Command units are staying put atm. SEAC HQ is in the process being transported from Colombo to Calcutta. Malaysia He's still not entered Malaysia proper but theres a big angry red cross at Singora. Attempts to do something about it have proven ineffectual, the CAP is too strong. The AVG did a sweep over it and lost 2 Tomahawks to 1 Oscar, which is a lot better than the RAF Buffaloes managed. The RAF is having a much needed day(s) off. Java Sea IJN submarines continue to plague me! another AP and another two MLs ([:@]) got torpedoed, the AP sank, the MLs are almost certainly going to. One of the MLs was torpedoed while at Batavia! Thats the cojones being displayed here by the Jap submariners. ASW assets in the form of US flush deckers are being diverted from the Balikpapan area to the Batavia area. Most of the ASW stuff in the area of the northern Java Sea is on mine removal duty - the field by Palembang has proven to be pretty big, four minesweepers have been working on it for some time. 3 British DDs from Force Z are running ASW sweeps between Kuching and Singkawang. PI Three Jap divisions + 3 Jap Bdes in the north of Luzon, one Jap division in the south of Luzon. Not really much I can do here... I'm concentrating at Clark Field rather than be defeated in detail. PTs will be raiding the landing fields again tonight, Houston and Boise will be reaching their rendezvous with death as well. 4E bombers are all flying out to Calcutta, I'm pondering what to do with the other shorter legged aircraft. Not so easy to pull them out. The exodus of AKs is still proceeding, they've pretty much got away with it atm, losses remarkably light. Pacific Pearl is still being fixed. Minelayers en route to Midway Island. All my Catalinas were hit in the nuke that landed on Pearl airfield, so I've not even had the chance to distribute them around the islands yet, so I'm completely blind. SoPac/Aus Not much going on here, a Jap submarine is sitting in Rabaul, which stops me parking a SAG on it. Probably a good idea, KB is out there somewhere, maybe they'll end up here soon?

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/9/2008 3:43:21 AM)
Malaysia Big bombing strike aimed at Victoria Point know he knows the AVG is there. Has little effect, though. The Japs have finally crossed the border, so we're about to find just what it is he's throwing in. PI The PT boat raiders manage to be surprised no less than six times in one night by the same Japanese SAG. In a serious "WTF" sort of night engagement. People that stupid deserve to die - and so, they did. SS Pickerel causes the first Allied hit on a Japanese ship when it torpedoes an AO busy unloading on the beach, got a "FUEL CARGO BURNING" result but no heavy damage so it'll make it. Pickerel endures a million depth charges, all day and all night, but damage is minor. Next day USS Sturgeon torpedoes an AP off Formosa, not heavy damage tho. In general though the Allied subs have been doing extremely badly. The sea between the PI and Formosa is alive with them, and Jap convoys are sailing back and forth, so there are ample rich pickings here, without any hits. Compared to the uber subs in the Java Sea I am mildly bitter but I figure they must have Gods own escort. Java Sea/DEI The sub war continues in the Java Sea, but the Japs just are demons or something. This turn a PG was torpedoed twice and sank, two more MLs were torpedoed and sank (almost all the Dutch MLs are gone now!) and a TK was fired at but the sub missed. On the plus side the minefields the subs laid are almost gone now. There are at least 4 IJN subs in the Java Sea now. Either way we wont be playing Mines in the IO I suspect now. The effectiveness of a handful of subs was woefully underestimated by me, and the tactic of having ASW TFs chasing them around the map doesn't appear to have been a good one. Note to self: in future, escorts first, hunter killer groups second. Four Jap TFs around Manado, three NLF units land on it and capture it, the Dutch a/c legged it the day before. China Now a week has gone by things are starting to happen. He's attacking guerillas around Anking but the guerillas are inflicting a lot more damage than they are taking, he'll need to commit more.

gladiatt -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/9/2008 2:15:56 PM)
I'me interested in you PBEM , and the way you explain actions/strat�gies (without any combat report! cool). But for better understanding, could you put the date of action ? Anyway, good play to each of you !

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/9/2008 4:23:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: gladiatt I'me interested in you PBEM , and the way you explain actions/strat�gies (without any combat report! cool). But for better understanding, could you put the date of action ? Anyway, good play to each of you ! It will be so, I always forget that. [:)] Next turn is turn 7, so I'll put up some screenies, now week 1 is done.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/9/2008 6:35:45 PM)
12/12/41 PI Jap ASW efforts are getting serious in the strait between Formosa and Luzon. One of my psychotically aggressive S-boat captains goes for an 8 ASW Jap APD, and hits. And gets away with it! Later on that day an Ann bombs an S-boat successfully. Two Jap SAGs engage fleeing AKs - he seems real good at vectoring SAGs into surface engagement on the high seas. 2 AKs and PG Moth are nailed. The high point though was Houston, Boise and two DDs crashing the party at Naga, on the south of Luzon. DD Sazanaki gets apparently the entire contents of Houstons 8" magazine at 4000 yards, and is blown to bits. Two PGs are raked by 5" from Boise (heavy damage), and some APs catch some 5" or 4.7" shells as well. Houstons armour negated almost all Jap return fire aside from a US DD, USS John D Ford, that catches a few 4.7" and is left on 48 sys. She almost certainly isn't making it out of the PI. I really shoulda set them on "do not retire". [:D] Although it surely coulda been worse for the Japs, my erstwhile opponent includes in his email, quote: Huston and his girlfriend Boise is on my "dead-or-alive" list since now :) [:D][:D][:D] They are almost back at Manila, which is bad. How the hell to get em out of there now... I'm tempted to scatter and cane it East as fast as they can go. If they even live long enough for me to get a choice. First attempt at smuggling out live cargo from Manila - the combat engineering unit has been transferred to SEAC command and is loaded into an AP. I'd like that in Burma, or even China, where engineers are scarce. In an attempt to assist the escape, about 15 AKs in single or double ship TFs flock around it. Only one target is the money shot, lets hope he doesn't hit it. Malaysia The 5th Division with two field arty units and engineers looks like the anti Malaysia force. They are ripping the border guards to bits at Alor Star, almost 300 casualties in the bombardment. Some confused air engagements here. The AVG at Victoria Point is mostly used in a sweep over Singora, where they cap a couple of Oscars. But a massive Jap airfleet comes and bombs Victoria Point, shooting down 3 Tomahawks from the few defenders left behind, and then, to my surprise, Jap paratroopers start getting shipped over by Topsies, which are shot up real good by AA guns - many damaged, no destroyed unfortunately. Meanwhile the Allied airforce is over Alor Star, bomb bomb bombing, and unaware that Victoria Point is getting scragged. Well, until they fly home anyway. Victoria Point almost falls, practically undefended as it is, but doesn't /quite/. Giving the AVG time to get out of there. I choose to send them south, to Singapore, reasoning that given I'm actually shipping things to Singers (oil and supplies from the Dutch bases) they need cover. Singers will be in line for about 7000 oil and 12000 supplies, the convoys (from Java and Palembang) are almost loaded up and ready to sally forth. This time they even have escorts. [:D]. I'd love it if that gets landed, that should with any luck draw out the length any siege significantly, representing a 33-45% increase in supply there, depending on how much oil gets processed into supply by the HI. These supplies should be made good by convoys from Australia and Aden, which are already en route to Java. DEI Samarinda is being evacced - theres no oil there, and I want the engineers in Balikpapan with their demo charges, where there is. I'm not sure if this strategy is wise, given it'll allow him to concentrate more, but for the shot of damaging his oil I gotta give it a shot. The first additional baseforce is arriving at Palembang now, from Kuching. It includes a nice 6 inch CD gun, but its the engineers I'm really after. Kuching has been mined and pretty much abandoned, a few British suicide squads remain to deceive the Jap.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/9/2008 6:41:56 PM)
Oh, and General Percival at Singapore has been fired, and someone competent placed in his stead. Percival will return to Singapore in time for the surrender ceremonies, needless to say. [:D]

gladiatt -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/10/2008 10:44:27 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: EUBanana Oh, and General Percival at Singapore has been fired, and someone competent placed in his stead. Percival will return to Singapore in time for the surrender ceremonies, needless to say.� [:D] Sound a good idea !! [:D] Waiting for update. But don't feel obliged: it's your game and AAR. First, you must enjoy ! Fine doing in the DEI !

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/10/2008 11:30:41 AM)
12/13/41 PI I-123 engaged a PI AK east of Balikpapan on the surface, and misses repeatedly, though the AK gets in two 3 inch shell hits on the sub. [:D] Theres another surface action 3 hexes NE of Jesselton in which another Allied AK is sunk. USS Searaven torpedoes a Jap DD with dud torpedoes NW of Luzon. 22 Warhawks meet 27 Zeroes over Manila - 7 Warhawks are shot down for no Jap loss. [:(] Malaysia A Jap submarine in the Macassar Strait attacks the (very busy) minesweepers there, gets rattled a lot by depth charges and fails to score a hit. Alor Star is abandoned by the British, he coulda had it any time he wanted. They pull back down the railroad. Might be a premature abandonment (3 forts, there) but I think I can better defend further south. Also he now runs the risk of splitting his forces, as he can down the east or west coast of Malaya. Gives him a level 4 airfield there though. DEI Another Jap submarine attempts to torpedo ML Rigel but misses. Rigel has no escort but is in a hex filled with Allied DDs, who do not intervene. Typical. [:(] ML Sarushima is torpedoed twice by a Dutch sub in Manado harbour. Revenge. [:D] Slaughter of AKs continues, CL Isuzu on her own runs into 3 AKs in a daylight engagement on the high seas, an AS and 2 AKs are sunk by Jap CVLs, one of which is at Manadao, one by Jesselton. CentPac Not much going here, defensive and offensive mining is about it. Only decisions to make this turn - what to do with the 6 Fortresses in Clark Field, what do do with Houston and Boise. The Forts are set to bomb resources in Formosa, any hit here has a good long term effect, and 6 heavies are really just pi$$ing in the wind bombing targets in the PI. Houston and Boise split up into single ship raider TFs. I send em back to Naga again at full speed with instructions to retire towards Frisco - ie out in the Open Sea. No Betties/Nells on Luzon yet, at least, but there are some at Formosa. It'll take a lot of luck...

gladiatt -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/10/2008 11:38:09 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: EUBanana 12/13/41 Only decisions to make this turn - what to do with the 6 Fortresses in Clark Field, what do do with Houston and Boise.� The Forts are set to bomb resources in Formosa, any hit here has a good long term effect, and 6 heavies are really just pi$$ing in the wind bombing targets in the PI.� Houston and Boise split up into single ship raider TFs.� I send em back to Naga again at full speed with instructions to retire towards Frisco - ie out in the Open Sea.� No Betties/Nells on Luzon yet, at least, but there are some at Formosa.� It'll take a lot of luck... Well, if i can just give an advice, and it is from a beginner (don't look at the star pretending i'me a vet: it mean nothing ! [;)] ) : Why don't get your B-17 out of PI (yeeeh, it's a bit of PP), and put them in place such as Port Moresby to bomb Rabaul (as to support UK troops when the jap invade; or later on the Airfield) or Palembang (to bomb the japs land troops in Malaya) ? For me it's seems their out-gunned in PI and under constant attack. But once more it's just a newbie advice...

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/10/2008 12:38:10 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: gladiatt quote: ORIGINAL: EUBanana 12/13/41 Only decisions to make this turn - what to do with the 6 Fortresses in Clark Field, what do do with Houston and Boise. The Forts are set to bomb resources in Formosa, any hit here has a good long term effect, and 6 heavies are really just pi$$ing in the wind bombing targets in the PI. Houston and Boise split up into single ship raider TFs. I send em back to Naga again at full speed with instructions to retire towards Frisco - ie out in the Open Sea. No Betties/Nells on Luzon yet, at least, but there are some at Formosa. It'll take a lot of luck... Well, if i can just give an advice, and it is from a beginner (don't look at the star pretending i'me a vet: it mean nothing ! [;)] ) : Why don't get your B-17 out of PI (yeeeh, it's a bit of PP), and put them in place such as Port Moresby to bomb Rabaul (as to support UK troops when the jap invade; or later on the Airfield) or Palembang (to bomb the japs land troops in Malaya) ? For me it's seems their out-gunned in PI and under constant attack. But once more it's just a newbie advice... Oh, I will pull them out. Its just a question of when. There is a house rule though that states no major attacks outside the SRA until the SRA is secured. While I won't hold my opponent to that one per se, I think that means an attack on Rabaul won't happen for a while yet. When they do get pulled I'll probably send them to Calcutta though, rather than SWPAC. Later when the SRA is all Japanese its harder for the US to intervene up there, and an assault on India seems popular these days...

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/10/2008 9:20:58 PM)
12/14/41 PI The captain of the USS Sturgeon must be spitting blood, because he scored torpedo hits on a PC and an AK in a day of fertile hunting, but with duds both times. Bad weather here grounds most of the Jap (and Allied) air power today, just as well, because Houston and Boise are steaming by the south of Luzon in a movement apparently well known by the Japs. There is another Zero sweep but the P-40s happened to be resting today so found no easy marks this time. Recon reveals he's moved his battleships, Yamashiro and one other at least, to Naga. I cancel Boise and Houstons last dance - they just head for the open ocean due east. I might tweak the tail of Iwo Jima on the way, depends how daring I feel (or if they make it that far). DEI Two MSWs, escapees from the PI are just rounding the tip of Borneo by Kuching, which is sub infested waters. They are attacked twice by two different submarines, and both retaliate with depth charges but score no hits. Off the coast of Java a convoy, poorly escorted by a single PC (Aldebaran) is attacked twice in the same day, with two AKs badly damaged but not sinking. Later on that Aldebaran itself is torpedoed and sinks! Poor outnumbered and outfought escorts. Further to the south near Soerabaja a tanker carrying oil to Australia is torpedoed twice and sinks immediately. Java has very little supply now... its all in AKs on the way to Singers. Those resupply ships from Aus/Aden better make it or it'll be a real short Dutch campaign... The minelaying sub, O20, is being pulled out of the front lines and is headed to Trimcomalee to pick up more mines. The lack of MLs is starting to wear on me now the Japs have nailed about 5 of them, no more. Malaysia The Jap 5th Division at Alor Star occupies the abandoned fort while under Oscar air cover, which proves insufficient as the RAF makes a good effort today, Buffaloes escorting strikes by Vildebeest, Blenheims and Hudsons against the troops there, chalking up a hundred casualties or so. Rather insufficient I fear... Elsewhere the Jap paras take control of Victoria Point, and Singora is now packed with Jap bombers. SWPAC Decided to raid the Admiralty Islands with HMAS Adelaide. Several Jap ships are there unloading and CAs are mentioned, but no idea how accurate that is, and I like attacking, to keep him off guard. Adelaide is docked at Rabaul atm, as its a single ship raider TF hopefully the baddies at Truk won't notice. More cruisers are steaming to Port Moresby, as is fuel and (a long way away atm) a replenishment TF, to keep the logistics rolling. CentPac USS Ellet bags I-168 with depth charges just in the waters SW of Pearl Harbor, a DD heavy SAG happened to go right over it. Not sunk yet but heavy damage and a long way from home, so I think she's safely in the bag. Mines about to be laid at Midway and Johnston Island. Given KB has clearly gone, theres a lot of convoy activity between Pearl and SF now.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/11/2008 5:35:53 AM)
12/15/41 PI Massive air attacks, the few remaining P-40s get cut to pieces. Total air superiority is his. Houston and Boise have legged it east though, halfway to Iwo now. [:D] Malaysia He's started bombing heavily, Alor Star is, as calculated, a huge airbase now. The first TK of oil arrived in Singers and is unloading, so the CAP has been intensified. SWPAC Adelaide runs into Aoba and Kinugasa in a daytime engagement by the Admiralty Islands . Is surprised, and the opening volley of 8" leaves her a burning wreck. I would like to say that at least she got to fire her main guns, but she didn't. Still, that old junker isn't going to get many other chances to do so. CentPac USS Tambor gets hit hard at Kwajalein, will be touch and go if she makes it. Theres a fair bit of Jap cruiser activity in CentPac it seems. But info is scarce.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/11/2008 10:31:04 PM)
12/16/41 PI USS Sturgeon fires torpedoes yet again at an AK, misses this time. She's now out of torps pretty much and is going home, in what must be a war patrol record. A week and a half. [:D] Busy time in the Straits of Formosa for a US submarine! S-36 torpdoes a loaded AK twice, surely that'll sting, but is heavily depth charged and sinks. S-40 is hit by a bomb and then depth charged, leaving her badly damaged and maybe sinking. Massive Zero sweeps over Allied bases on Luzon but I pulled the P-40s out finally, they are on the way to Java having been transferred to SEAC command. ML Kamome is ambushed by PT boats at Vigan, gets hit a few times by machinegun bullets but no torpedoes score. 2 Jap divisions and a Bde are sieging Lingayen, outnumbering the defenders a good six to one. DEI ML Rigel is torpedoed by a sub again while limping home, thats 3 hits. And so she sinks. The highly important cargo of combat engineers evacuated from the PI is now nearing Balikpapan. Looks like they might actually make it, except two 'CAs' are sighted nearby. My erstwhile opponent has been a master at sinking AKs with surface interceptions on the high seas, this makes me worried. Unfortunately no CAs are anywhere near intervention range. The next best thing, pretty much all the Dutch CLs, plus some DD escort, is dispatched from Soerabaja at top speed to provide some escort. Shows how paranoid I am of his abilities if I have to be wary of SAGs finding me not in a port! The RN base force at Singakawang is being evacuated, but unfortunately, every single one of their engineers looks disabled due to malaria. So rather than Palembang, as I'd rather, they are going to be sent to India, probably without escort as my escort shortage is absolutely critical. I hope the IO isn't as packed with IJN submarines as everywhere else apparently is. An MLE from India is just west of Java now, headed for Soerabaja. Together with DM Thracian, anchored at Soerabaja, I'm hoping that I can make up for the dismal slaughter of my MLs in this area. Thracian is going to get a /lot/ of escort as she wanders around mining. Malaysia Indecisive clashes between RAF Buffalos and IJA Oscars over Singora. Night bombing by Hudsons and Blenheims of Singora airfield prove useless. Massive Jap air attacks on Khota Baru's LCUs, but his units are sieging Georgetown. Bizarre. Anyway, Georgetown is being bombed by me, its another max effort day ordered. In Singapore one TK is almost done unloading and another one is just beginning to unload. 7000 oil there at the moment, which will soon be 12,000, and if a third TK arrives from Palembang which it should imminently, 15000. Hopefully to be swiftly converted to supply. 9000 supply from Java is in a convoy 5 hexes away as well, in the submarine infested Java Sea. The AVG is detailed to LRCAP it as it approaches. One squadron of P-40s, down to 8 frames and basically shattered with morale <20, arrives in Singapore from the PI, but it'll be a while before they can start contributing. CentPac NE of Pearl Harbour battleships are limping to the West Coast. One of these battleships, BB Arizona, falls afoul of I-7 and is torpedoed twice. She is almost certain not to make it, 99 sys, 60 flot. I-7 is pounced on by the escort who score a single depth charge hit and several rattles, given where she is, a long way from home, and given Japanese ships burn well, maybe she'll sink. I-15 takes a crack at USS Honolulu between Pearl and Johnston Island - Honolulu was accompanying some DMs on a minelaying mission. The torpedoes miss but so do the depth charges. Japs are landing at Wake Island, supported by a CL. The landing itself is fairly bloodless but the shock attack fails and its gory. 300 casualties out of 1200 Japs, for not a single Allied loss. I've set the Wildcats there to strafe the ships, and like a muppet I'm sending Lexington out there to see if I can pull the aircraft out. Almost certainly not worth the risk, but blah, I'm a sucker like that. [:(] Allied plans Aside from the day to day survival, some new things of more strategic import are being put into motion. The plan in CentPac is to bleed him. He can take whatever he wants (aside from Pearl) but I want him to suffer every time. So to that end, CD batteries are going to be scattered around the various atolls. I'm not planning on committing major LCUs, ie divisions, to bolster their defences, though the odd RCT perhaps later on as they come online. Canton Island is getting the first one, it should be a trouble free deployment for some time yet. CentPac submarines are being used primarily for offensive minelaying, all those little atolls will need supplying, and he can't be everywhere at once with his minesweepers hopefully. Knowledge of KB withstanding, I plan on some fast cruiser raids as well to keep him on his toes. The plan to pack Palembang with engineers is continuing apace. The ABDA defence has been concentrated in my mind a little, Singapore is going to have a fighter heavy composition augmented by P-40s out of the PI which are now in the process of moving there, with some torpedo bombers in case Jap warships prowl around. The AVG will go back to Burma when all the P-40s are in place. Most of the longer range bombers are going to be moved to Palembang (which obviously now has pretty good av support) so they can intervene in the siege of Singapore. It looks like I'll have been successful in smuggling 15k of supply (in the form of oil) to Singapore assuming the Malaysia defence doesn't crumple almost instantaneously, with another 10k incoming, though he has a CVE loitering in the ocean to the east, so I'm not counting on anything. Burma, he can have. B-17s are already standing by in Calcutta to turn the place into a wasteland upon his arrival. He can have it - and then he can rot in it. No reinforcements for Burma, though the units there will (obviously) stand and fight so he doesn't get it easily or quickly. I may well open up Burma as a diversionary front to put the pressure on him in late 1942, but but I can hardly plan that far ahead when he has the initiative. In SWPAC the only change there is that Port Moresby is being reinforced. Mainly so that when he starts landings in New Guinea he can immediately be made to start paying. I think Noumea is a bit too distant to be of much use to be honest aside from as a Jap target, so thats being left alone. The absolute limit of his advance which I am prepared to tolerate will be New Zealand, I want to keep that place in my hands at least so I can get supply through to Aus. I don't plan on standing and fighting in Port Moresby, merely using it as a thorn in his side until he comes to remove it - and then I will slip away. (Probably via submarines but given the limited commitment I plan on that should be fine). Much depends on his goals of course.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/12/2008 11:51:19 AM)
12/17/41 PI The siege of Lingayen continues. Luzon is now pretty much evacuated of aircraft, only some P-36s remain, the P-40s and Fortresses are all gone. There hasn't been heavy Japanese bombing for a while now, though Zero sweeps are frequent. Malaysia I'm sending a Bde forward to Alor Star, which looks like its only got engineers there at the moment. It might disrupt his supply somewhat as well, as his main force is in Georgetown atm. More are comign though, down from Singora, so this is just pi$$ing in the wind again. Night bombing with the handful of bombers available is totally impractical. I might just pull them out to Palembang already. [:(] Which will at least make room for fighters at Singapore. Daylight bombing is also pretty much impractical, the CAP is too intense. I'll have to wait until the targets are in escort range. DEI The AP filled with combat engineers is about 5 hexes from a mini-KB! [X(] One which seems only armed with Jakes, but still, a tense few turns. Submarines are still terrorising me in the Java Sea. Fleeing PI AKs, in single ship TFs, prove easy targets. There are so few DDs available, even with Force Z stripped of the E and F class DDs with ASW 8, that theres not much I can do. Burma Jap recon begins. Things will happen here soon I'm sure. SWPAC/Australia Jap APDs sighted at Admiralty Islands. I'm sending in a SAG again out of Rabaul, this one is a bit beefier than just Adelaide - a CA, several CLs and some DDs of the Aussie fleet. Dangerous with Truk so near, but bleah. A full strength Australian division is being sent to Perth to dig in there, as Western Australia looks completely empty pretty much. When I have a second full strength division I'll send it to Darwin, so the ports in the far west and far north are well covered. The rest will stay in the south east. CentPac Wake is being bombarded by Jap CLs. Not much effect. An AP there which I assumed was dead last turn was sunk by them. The Japs are done landing but are no longer attacking, looks unfortunate for them does it not. [:D] Houston and Boise have cleared Iwo Jima without being spotted, looks like they are gonna make it! There is quite a lot of material - planes, LCUs - building up on the West Coast but insufficient transport capacity to move any of it! [:@]

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/13/2008 12:28:46 AM)
12/18/41 PI Lingayen is being bombarded by the Japs, the Allied resistance is pretty feeble in comparison, so I set them to defend and wait. Malaysia/Brit-Land Day of rest all around it seems. Just as well, as those supplies and oil are being unloaded at Singapore! Minelayers mine Port Blair meanwhile, I wouldn't be at all surprised if thats a surprise to him later on, and I wanted to do it early while his Betties are busy. DEI Mini KB off Balikpapan, 16 Kates come in in the morning, another 8 in the afternoon. My heart is in my mouth as my AP packed with combat engineers is there. But the Dutch heroically get in the way as the Kates home in on CL Tromp. They miss all day too, the flak claims a couple. I imagine he's happy he pounced my cruisers but in reality I'm happy they were there to absorb the nastiness! Dutch submarine torpedoes a PG at Manado, part of a hunter-killer TF. It sinks. MLE Prome inches ever nearer Soerabaja, as do supplies from Australia and Aden... DM Thracian awaits eagerly! SWPAC The Aussie navy (Canberra, Australia, 2x DD) raids his units at the Admiralty Islands. Turns out its an MSW and an AK, not as rich pickings as 2 x APD as I thought were there. The MSW and AK get sent to the bottom, Truk remains quiet, thank god. I get the distinct impression that that was bait and I happily swallowed it, but... well. I got away with it so far! CENTPAC Houston gets spotted by a Betty, but she's a long way south of Japan, and there are no airstrikes. Houston and Boise both turn south anyway for laughs, they are going to raid Marcus Island, and then retire to Midway. He's abandoned the attack on Wake, forces evacuated and vanished. VICTORY!!! [:D] Lexington might evac that Wildcat squadron without incident after all. Glens sighted between Pearl and the West Coast, but that was to be expected.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/13/2008 11:52:59 AM)
12/19/1941 Malaysia USS Snapper torpedoes an AK between Singora and Saigon, good to see Allied subs can occasionally get a hit in even this early.� She takes a poke at an AP as well, but misses that one.� However a Dutch (small) AK is torpedoed in turn just south of Singapore. We're at 41k supply and 10k oil in Singapore.� 223 grp RAF HQ is being evacced from Singapore, it seems to be in excess to what the place needs, I'm sure I can find a better use for an air HQ than there... A new air offensive is planned, the AVG and all my torpedo bombers move to Kota Baru - in range of Singora, where another Jap fleet is reloading.� AVG is set to 0% CAP.� Morale seems OK, so lets see what happens!� Meanwhile my level bombers go for his ground troops elsewhere. PI S-40 and USS Spearfish both sink this turn, S-40 from prior damage and Spearfish by three depth charge hits in the Formosa Strait.� Lucena falls to the Japs, but the defenders retreat in good order (64 Allied casualties, 640 Japanese!� not bad for losers.).� Lingayen also falls, more casualties are inflicted than taken again though not as dramatic (350 odd for 650 odd). DEI My important AP of combat engineers has slunk away west of mini KB.� Only thing to worry about is subs. Speaking of which, a Jap sub sitting in Balikpapan harbour puts a torpedo into an AK there. Sub transports with cadres from Hong Kong are now past Java and into the open sea!� they turn west towards India. SWPAC The Aussie mini navy bombards the Admiralty Islands and retires without incident. Aussie ML gets torpedoed just SW of Port Moresby, aaaaaa [:@].� The escort is Fail, of course.� It might survive at least, somehow. CENTPAC I know where KB is now - just NE of Eniwetok.� KB Kates pounce on an AS which was fleeing the PI, needless to say its toast.� Lexington is about 15 hexes east.� She picks up her Wildcats from Wake Island, and runs away! More subs plaguing me between Pearl and the West Coast, this time the already badly damaged USS Maryland is torpedoed twice, but damage is very slight.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/13/2008 11:37:54 PM)
12/20/1941 I'll be glad when 1941 is over, oh yes... PI Big Jap air attack on Clark Field, with ~100 bombers. Fair bit of damage is done to the airfield, but aside from a handful of P-36s who remain there, the place is empty so no real damage done. Almost all the P-40s, who are the precious, are in Singapore now, though the P-40E aircraft pool will take months to recover. (I got one squadron of 16 which is almost usable, but their morale is in the toilet, the others are really just fragments.) I'm evacuating some units from the southern PI, the usual single ship APs/AKs, mostly headed for Darwin. IJN efforts seem focused on the south China Sea atm rather than around here now, so hopefully they'll make it. This is why I dont evac every single transport from the PI on turn 1 - I like keeping my options open, and a few dead AKs who are almost certainly dead anyway doesn't make much odds to me. Malaysia/Burma He gets reinforcements at Taiping and promptly shock attacks. 31,000 Japs roll over 9000 defenders. He's got 2 divisions plus plenty of support. I'm surprised how quickly it fell - like, a day. 400 casualties each way. Bad weather grounds all my a/c at Kota Baru bar some Vildebeest who cannot find the target, GAH. I hope he doesn't nuke that airfield, I'm having another go. CA Colombo, a pretty useless old Caledon class CA, is sent on a fast transport mission to rescue the engineers who got kicked out of Victoria Point. Its right under the noses of the Japs, but those Caledons are pretty damn useless - which makes them expendable. I'd rather have the engineers than Colombo. Jap units are beginning to encroach on Burmese territory... bombing has been ordered. DEI Express, Encounter and Vampire, who were at Brunei on ASW patrol, get bombed by mini KB which flies aircraft from the other side of Borneo. Express and Encounter are hit, one will make it, one is going to be touch and go. Big Jap invasion TF headed straight for Brunei as well, I put some subs in the way to see if I get lucky. The usual turn really, a TK carrying oil to Darwin is torpedoed and the oil cargo burns away, though the tanker won't. I'm sending a small TK (unescorted - no escorts!) to Sorong to drop a few drops of fuel off for the latest wave of escapees from the PI - who are using tiny very short range ships. CENTPAC Some ASW success finally, in the turn BB Arizona sinks 2 hexes from Pearl Harbour. My roaming hunter killers finally score some hits, one sub hit directly and heavily damaged, so almost certainly toast, and another two rattled a lot. I'm deploying Enterprise to roam with most of her planes on ASW, by the West Coast, though there has been no sub sightings near the US proper, Saratoga is doing the same. Lexington is on her way back from Wake Island with the rescued Wildcats, who will have to be put somewhere a bit more useful. SWPAC The slaughter of Allied MLs continues, ML Bungaree is sunk by a submarine right outside Port Moresby. The Kiwi Navy of MSWs is almost at Port Moresby now, which will no doubt make him quake in fear! (No joke! they have pretty good ASW ratings and his submarines are kicking my ass). I really dont remember being this short of ASW assets in the last game I played...

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/14/2008 10:39:54 PM)
12/22/1941 Malaysia The RA(A)F have done a better job the last two days here. Bad weather means Singora, where his ships are, is offlimits, but there has been modest success elsewhere. About 150 casualties have been caused to his ground troops pretty much without loss, and he's lost several bombers to AAA. DEI ASW efforts are stepping up - now I've rolled the PI USN escapees, which included Marblehead and her DD squadron, I got some more DDs to spare, and still after escorting the transports. I got an ASW patrol running between Palembang and Batavia, today it depth charged a submarine heavily though no direct hits. Despite this another AK, this one carrying Allied troops, was torpedoed, though damage was pretty light for a torpedo hit. I am feeling much happier though because now I see a whole bunch of depth charge attacks every turn. Up till now the Japs were pretty much getting away with it. So long as depth charges are being dropped, eventually, I'll get hits. USS Sargo fired torpedoes at BB Hyugo NE of Brunei, part of my sub patrol around that base, but misses. Oh well. [:D] Something of a disaster at Tarakan, he started unloading the other day and I thought it was fairly safe-ish, for at least a day anyway. Well, it wasn't. He shock attacked and promptly threw the Dutch out. That is quite a disaster because 2 Brewster and a Martin squadron were there. [:(] [img]http://www.geocities.com/cpscipio/Malaysia-1941.PNG[/img] PI I ran another PT boat raid on Laog today, and actually scored some success - first PT boat success of the war. Two Japanese DDs were sunk by torpedoes, in exchange for one sunk PT boat, despite Japanese surprise. USS Saury missed an AK just north of here in the Formosa Strait, and got away with it scot free. B-17s try to bomb Jap held resources on Luzon but run into Claudes, morale is n the toilet and they miss though none were lost. He's noticed my Fabian withdrawal from Manila, and finally decided to bomb the port there, first time. Unfortunately it may have taken me 2 and a half weeks to slowly drain all the PI shipping, but its mostly empty now. An AV catches a single bomb hit. Just as well really because he finally has Kates on Jolo Island, which strike the rearguard of my evac at Tacloban. He then raids Tacloban with a CL and DD during the day, a PG, an AK and an AP go into the Jap bag. I've given up completely on the air war in the PI but theres still some pretty fierce resistance going on by the Filipinos and their American allies. Units have used Clark Field as a rally point, 28,000 Allies are holding off 23,000 Japs so far. [img]http://www.geocities.com/cpscipio/PI-1941.PNG[/img]

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/15/2008 7:32:08 PM)
12/24/1941 Christmas Eve... the tempo of air operations seems to have slackened a bit of late. Though its still pretty fierce fighting in the front lines, the initial 3 week craziness seems to be slowly abating. Malaysia Kota Baru seems to be in imminent danger of being cut off, so the 2 x Bde there are being ordered to retreat. The base force will remain so he can't just run right over it. Will be touch and go for those Bdes but I want them to end up in Singapore for the Final Siege. Theres heavy fighting in Kuala Lumpur but he will have to wait until reinforcements show up before he can take it. Its been reinforced slightly, I need to keep him away from Singapore as long as possible, as every day is +350 supply, plus I'm now concerned about the units on the eastern side being cut off. The medium bombers in Singapore - Hudsons, Blenheim IVs - have been pulled back to Palembang, which is in range of Kuala Lumpur anyway. All throughout the campaign they've been on ground attack missions. Singapore itself is now very fighter heavy, with 3 P-40 squadrons in various states of usability, and 3 Brewster squadrons. PI Bombardments at Clark and Manila, but he's surely going to have to either bring in a lot more force, or siege them for months on end, before he can crack them. I actually have the edge in numbers. Supply is pretty bad though, and unlike Singapore there is no chance of smuggling more in. PT boats are taking the fight to the enemy still, encountering 2 destroyers NW of Manila, probably on ASW patrol. One DD is raked with .50 cal fire and left on heavy damage (uh?) and the other one is torpedoed, so it looks bad for them. East of the PI he has a couple of DD/CA raider type SAGs intercepting my fleeing transports. And he got both of them. :( He really is very skilled at high seas intercepts. There aren't going to be many escapees from the PI, though that combat engineer unit I mentioned ages ago is now deep in the IO and on the home stretch. Burma I'm getting ready for him here. The formerly USAFFE B-17s have been downgraded to Mitchells. The B-17 pool is very limited and the Mitchell seems more appropriate for shorter range bombardment out of Rangoon or Mandalay, which is what we'll be doing for at least a little while. I'm pondering what to do with Rangoon. I could pull the Indians out a hex or two, and maybe then they'll be pushed back along the trails rather than cut off and wiped out to a man. Not quite sure. I'm loathe to let him just have Rangoon without even a siege, but I guess the Imperial Guard will make it a very short siege anyway. any suggestions? DEI I'm evaccing Balikpapan still, its probably next on his hit list and it has 20k supply there. I want that supply in my hands not his, so a bunch of AKs are headed over there to hoover it up and move it to Soerabaja. Risky due to the sub threat, and his carriers which are still at Tarakan. Mining operations are under way, the MLs have the bulk of my ASW escorts. Should be quite a nice density of minefields by the time Java is under serious threat of invasion. Java undersupply is quite a worry for me, that Aden convoy will fix things but its still a long way off. I'm probably worrying over nothing though, I think theres plenty of time for that to show up. TKs are congregating at Palembang which has built up quite a lot of oil. I plan on keeping the place as dry as possible, the oil gets sent to Australia rather than Tokyo then... CENTPAC Lots of mining going on from US submarines around the atolls. My tactic is to drop sub mines in all the tiny ones, the ones with port 1. Less likelihood of MSWs already being on station there, and eventually, at some point, he'll go there. Some submarines (3 or 4 IIRC) are being told to retire towards Brisbane and contribute in the SOPAC/SWPAC area. First supply convoys from the West Coast will be arriving at Pearl within a week or so. Midway Island is being resupplied at the moment, and a CD battery is just leaving the West Coast destined for here. Wake Island was down to 500 supply, a fast transport cruiser TF is almost done topping them up a bit. Their need is minimal being a small garrison, but I don't want to just give Wake to him, let him commit something more serious than a baseforce there if he wants it. Wake is holding a Catalina squadron so my recon units are actually quite far forward. Canton Island has a CD battery a couple of days out with extra supply. Baker Island has an IJ submarine marking it, I plan on an ASW run in there. Baker is going to get an AV and some Catalinas, whichi will give me eyes into his holdings. Seems to be very little IJN activity in this part of the world though. SOPAC/SWPAC Got a lot of MSWs at Port Moresby now, probably an overcommitment. He's got a SAG (looks like Aoba and Kinushasa again) at the Admiralty Islands, escorting APs. I'm a little puzzled by whats going on here, the Admiralty Islands are not exactly prime real estate. The Aussie navy is on the way, I rather suspect he'll be gone by the time they show up tho.

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