EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (6/25/2008 10:31:04 PM)
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1/9/1942 The war goes on, things are settling down though, so not much new to report. I commented in my last email to him that he was damn, damn lucky to have so few bomb hits. 100 sorties against flattops, not one hit. He replied that yeah, he's been terrified. So I guess the last few turns might've steadied him a bit, made him more cautious when going near land bases. If that slows him down, thats good I guess. Given my 45 exp Dutchies can't hit the broad side of a barn! Malaysia He's still not besieged Singapore yet but he must be on his way, I expect him tomorrow. He has ships parked 1 hex away, such impertinence! I wake up the Vildebeest this turn. Escort is going to be essentially every fighter in Singapore (not using CAP anymore for a bit, too vulnerable to Zero sweeps). Burma/India Thunderstorms today and more predicted tomorrow, thats fine, my B-25s at Rangoon could use a rest. Also my cruisers picked up about 3/4s of the Rangoon fortress and are now halfway to Port Blair, so storms are nice about now. I dispatch a single AK from Calcutta to ship 3000 supplies to Port Blair. I have a firm plan now as to what to do with Rangoon. The base force is staying put so my Mitchells stay in repair and so he doesn't just paradrop it without a fight. The CD guns are going to Port Blair obviously, they might be a nasty surprise if he invades it (its about 90 AV plus quite a few big guns, well worth putting to good use rather than being a speed bump at Rangoon). The infantry will move when he is sighted crossing the Burmese border to the far side of the river, where they can meet him in a defensible position as he crosses. When they fall back, hopefully they'll head for Mandalay. PoW and Repulse arrived at Colombo today. The first British aircraft carrier is on the way. Lots of RAF reinforcements are starting to show up - 3 squadrons of Hurricanes are en route to Karachi, in three days there is another 3 squadrons of Hurricanes plus some more Blenheims. So things will be firming up a bit in time for the Battle of Burma. I change a West Coast combat engineer unit to SEAC command, I want more engineers in this land combat heavy theatre. DEI Palembang is hit by a nuclear bombardment. Off of cruisers, too. Weird. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Palembang, at 20,55 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses Do 24K-2: 1 destroyed Brewster 339D: 2 destroyed Hudson I: 1 destroyed P-40B Tomahawk: 1 destroyed 3 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships DD Hagikaze DD Arashi DD Nowaki DD Maikaze CA Kumano CA Suzuya CA Mikuma CA Mogami Allied ground losses: 2719 casualties reported Guns lost 69 Vehicles lost 17 Airbase hits 10 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 41 Port hits 8 Port fuel hits 2 Port supply hits 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I checked the damage it seemed fairly light however, so I think the combat report lies. KB (well, much of it - he splits his carriers. 2 maybe 3 CV) is parked 5 hexes left of Batavia. Hehee. He must be showing the Swordfish a little more respect than previously. Thats fine, my guys are all resting there anyway because their morale is shot after the slaughter before. However he's being annoying as he's interdicting my supply convoy to Java, which is fairly low on supply. Therefore I've ordered 3 submarines up that way (2 dutch 1 US). He has 4 TFs in that hex, subs arent gonna do much more than die or maybe scare him, but if he's scared enough to move thats good. He's rounding up Borneo. Bandjarmasin falls. Sandakan over at the east falls. A DD force hits Jesselton where I have PT boats sitting, the PTs get scratched for no Jap cost. Looks like he's taking a slight break though - what little was on Borneo was evacced out and he's steering clear of Java. Down at Timor he has what is apparently two SAGs, one reporting BBs, but I dont believe that, probably CAs. I have two warships in the area - a screwed up USS Pope (Clemson DD, so fairly useless) and CL Durban. A /bit/ outgunned. They are making their way to Darwin. The first Dutch refugees who pulled out south are landing in Perth today. The baseforce at Wyndham has completed its move to Darwin. I order a baseforce to move to Sabang, at the very India-wards tip of Sumatra. I had some success in my prior game at evacuating final refugees from Sabang using the Royal Navy on fast transport, so I'm getting ready for such a move. Which will require transport aircraft due to its remoteness, hence a baseforce there seems useful. SWPAC Gone quiet here. I got two Allied cruiser SAGs in the area, but thats nothing that can handle Shokaku. The smaller Aussie one is being sent to Luganville, and a TK + MSW are fuelling up at Sydney, ready to put some fuel down there. If he overextends towards Lunga they'll go smack his hand. A bigger US cruiser SAG is sitting in Brisbane, doing very little atm. Port Moresby, despite the massacre the Wirraways suffered they got morale 80 or 90 still. I set them to bomb a hopefully un-CAPped Jap force. Shokaku is still parked at Lae, which fell this turn, but with 7 Dauntlesses I'm not even going to try. FOr some reason the Dauntlesses, who suffered no casualties but a lot of damage, have morale 38, while the Wirraways, who were massacred, are apparently mad up for being massacred again. Go figure. Fuel situation is critical in Australia, theres about 10k units in the whole continent it seems. A convoy of 10k of fuel is about to arrive in Perth from Java though which will help. On the plus (?) side there aren't many ships here to feed. [;)] CENTPAC My plan to raid Kwajalein was cancelled today when I realised that Honolulu was very low on fuel. I ordered CA Indianapolis + 1 DD to depart Pearl and do it instead. ML Oglala was sunk by a submarine despite heavy escort at Wake. [8|] As always my minelayers just get whacked whenever I try and use them. The escort sticks around as an ASW TF to hopefully nail the sub, and 6 x DM leave Pearl to do the job instead (sys damage is around 8 for them now). Otherwise its very quiet around here. I'm trying to get the logistics here sorted out, getting fuel to various bases. An escorted TK has been sent to Midway, Canton Island has already been topped up, Pago Pago is about to be topped up. A lot of AOs and TKs just left the west coast packed with fuel, they are headed for Pearl but that will be spread around CENTPAC.
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