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EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/12/2008 7:14:40 PM)
2/8/1942 Well, almost nobody had to die today. Another day of no air losses, though there were a thousand or so casualties across the theatre from bombardments in the sieges. We're in a lull. He's sieging four Allied cities - Singapore, Batavia, Manila, Soerabaja. Singers, Batavia and Soerabaja all have 17k supply (odd. Maybe the Dutch cities are self sufficient in supply? seems to be going up anyway). Manila has only 5000 supply but on the other hand its not tying down many Japs. I imagine not much is going to happen until these cities fall, aside from possibly in SWPAC. My photo recon unit picked up about 15 APs in multiple TFs, around 200 guns, and 20,000 troops. Aside from the fall of an Allied fortress if something is going to erupt, it'll be here.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/12/2008 8:00:35 PM)
Its been pretty much two months of war now, so time to take stock. In the air, air to air losses are running at 4.8 to 1, in Japan's favour. (104 vs 482 planes shot down). Almost 130 of these 480 were P-40Bs or P-40Es, with a pretty much equal number of Buffaloes of various incarnations. He's lost ~40 Oscars and ~40 Zeroes. The low number of Oscars is mainly because he's not been putting those on the front line very much, they do tend to suffer when they fight. Two out of 3 AVG squadrons have been pretty badly mauled, the third (in Yenan, quiet spot) is still with average experience 70 plus. Even the mauled squadrons have a number of very good pilots, though. The submarine war has been almost as bad. I've been bitching about Japanese ninja submariners every other post I think, well, the hard statistics back up the bitching. Allied submarines have managed the following :- 2 AKs, 2 APs, 1 PC, 1 PG, 1 ML from the Dutch sub fleet 1 TK from the British sub fleet such as it is US S-boats have sunk two DDs, an AK and an MSW (probably as a result of giving them aggressive commanders, they take on the ASW forces a lot!) The crappy Mark 14 torpedo of the other US sub classes has managed 2 AKs, an AO and a PC. So a total of 16 ships due to various causes, and a number more damaged. The Allies have lost nine submarines (two Dutch, two S-boats, the rest were Salmon or P class US submarines). Japanese submarines have sank 19 AKs, 7 APs, 5 TKs, 3 AOs, an AVD, two AVs, an AR, one PG, 3 PCs, 2 MSWs, 7 MLs ([X(][X(][8\|]), 3 DDs, one DM, and 2 BBs. They have sustained 5 losses (one of which was a Glen carrier). Some of the early successes can be explained by the number of unescorted convoys running around in the opening weeks. However thats not the whole story, because as you can see by the number of Allied ASW ships that were sunk, which are not inconsiderable, even Allied escorts are apparently little more than hapless targets in some Japanese sub captains torpedo sights. [8\|] So bad was it that US aircraft carriers had to be deployed as ASW platforms! Mines have been pretty muted but Allied mines have proven to be more effective so far. Not too surprising given he is on the offensive and thus assaulting ports where the Allies have prepared warm welcomes. Allied mines have sunk a Jap DD, a minesweeper (ironic), an AP and a PG. The Allies have lost an AK and a DD to Japanese mines. I'm not even going to go into the aircraft kills, for the Jap side thats just too vast for me to even begin to add up. Overall Allied shipping losses have been very heavy though, due to my tendency to only evacuate ships at the last minute. On the one hand that has given me some options (like, concentrating engineers at Palembang). On the other hand it means a lot of Allied merchants have gone down in flames. In terms of ships lost, no Jap ship bigger than a destroyer has been lost so far. I've seen worse Allied losses but they are pretty bad. Two BBs, 2 CAs, 7 CLs, 14 DDs. Surface combatant, submarine and air dropped torpedoes pretty much account for a third each of the Allied losses. Only 1 Allied warship has been sunk by a gun (USS Helm, sunk by a Jap heavy cruiser at Wake). So in pretty much every aspect of the war, the Allies are getting a six of the best pants down thrashing. Not good! [sm=00000007.gif] [sm=fighting0056.gif][sm=fighting0056.gif][sm=fighting0056.gif][sm=fighting0056.gif][sm=fighting0056.gif]

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/13/2008 2:50:16 AM)
2/9/1942 Quiet in the air, and at sea! No sub attacks anywhere though there was a failed ASW attack. Burma/India The fast transport TF headed for Sabang encounters a Jap submarine on the way, first time one of those little terrors has showed up prowling around India. The sub is attacked, but no damage done. Bad news, as a lot of unescorted convoys are running out of Aden still, that will have to end. Bad weather grounds me in Burma. My Dutch base force at Trivandrum has taken root. Its suddenly gained 150mm CD guns, which are static! 150mm guns are not on the T&OE. Weird! Well, I'm not complaining really! A Jap Zero sweep hits Port Blair, a single Buffalo is shot down. The only air to air casualty in the game today. China He's reinforced the Nanchang road heavily, now he has 2000 AV there. Not enough to move me out though. Both sides exchange volleys of bombs to little effect. Malaya/DEI The heroic Allied brigades in the Malayan highlands are putting up fierce resistance despite being out of supply. 133 Jap casualties for 28 Allied. Singapore bombarded heavily, he actually attacks at Batavia and the forts drop to 3, with him scoring 1:1 odds on the attack. (Fort level is 88% built, though). Soerabaja quiet. He landed at Teloekbetong and booted out the base force there today, so he's finally landed on Sumatra. A Jap DD hit a mine at Batavia but damage seemed minor. SWPAC No movement at Rabaul. A P-40 and a Mitchell squadron are mere days away from Brisbane! Base force at Derby is being evacuated by AP with LRCAP cover, its headed for Perth, part of my bid to evacuate northern Australia. CENTPAC US CVs are a day out of Pearl now. Quiet day. No sub attacks anywhere!

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/13/2008 7:02:03 PM)
2/10/1942 Still quiet... Burma/India Tavoy is pretty much being used as a training ground. In fact I moved a recently reconstituted P-40 squadron, 22 aircraft, to Rangoon to start bombing the place to up their experience. [:D] Scored two more resources hits on the place today. China Deadlocked on the Nanchang road. Looks like we are both happy to train here at the moment, both our air forces are avoiding each other and working over exposed ground units. DEI/Malaya A Jap AP hit another mine at Teleokbetoeng again, not for heavy damage though. He did a paradrop on Djambi, which is the town north of Palembang, cutting those units off. There isn't much intent of evacuation from Palembang though, engineers standing by with the charges is about it. I'll have the sub exodus evacuate cadres from there though asap. I moved down some Mitchells from Rangoon to Singapore, he has fighter defence but Mitchells are pretty tough, and I feel the burning need to attrition his navy more. Repulse will be picking up some aviation support from Sabang and fast transporting it to Colombo either tomorrow or the day after. The British aircraft carriers are already in position west of Sabang with the LRCAP cover. SWPAC Darwin upgrades to a level 5 airfield, which may be relevant if he chooses not to invade Australia. I switch off airfield upgrading and stick to fortresses now. A third of Derby's baseforce is aboard AP Ormiston and headed for Perth. Lots of Jap subs sighted in a line between Cairns and Port Moresby. I don't plan on any more merchant shipping making that run though. On other hand, I send some MSWs and DDs up to Cairns once more so I can run some ASW taskforces through that spot. Lexington and Saratoga are parked in the Coral Sea as planned now. My P-40Bs and medium bombers have made it to Aus it looks like! One hex from Brisbane, so they should be unloading tomorrow. NORPAC I finally have an AVD and Catalinas and supply all at Attu Island at once, so my early warning system is up. BB Warspite has been parked at Attu Island as well, in case he raids it. Feeling quite secure up here now. CENTPAC Reinforcements are streaming in to just about everywhere. Jap subs are nowhere to be found, though I'm sure they are out there. Troop convoys are all escorted, there are some unescorted TK convoys headed around though. I have a surfeit of tankers, so they are considerably more expendable than my precious APs. In fact I dispatched 10 British APs from Aden to Perth a while back, they'll be much more useful to me in the Pacific I feel. Major reinforcements of all kinds in 2 days!

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/14/2008 7:28:25 PM)
2/12/1942 Two days in one here as I'm getting lazy. ;) Burma/India On the 11th there was a favourable air battle over Tavoy, in which my Hurricanes shot down 2 Zeroes without loss and the bombers went on to score six resource hits. On the 12th they tried again, this time going for the airfield given his reinforced Zero presence and it went much worse, 5 Hurricanes lost for 1 Zero. That said the replacements who just got sucked in from the pool are crack. I dunno where these boys came from! 5 pilots with experience between 79 and 90 out of the 16 in the squadron. The Mitchells seem rugged but the Blenheims suffer against fighters. 7 airbase hits though, not bad. Though this paled when a massive Jap airstrike from Bangkok hit Moulmein, scoring 50 runway hits. China Massive raid on Changsha meant that the small victory at Tavoy was more than overshadowed, with half a dozen precious and almost irreplaceable P-40Bs destroyed on the ground and the AVG being handled roughly in the air. Chinese bombers did reach their targets though, and seem to be training up at quite a rate. My US combat engineers have showed up at Chungking having been transferred to China Command. [:D] When the Chinese have recovered and I have the Ledo air transport lifeline going on, that should give the Chinese the ability to actually have a chance at taking some Japanese fortified positions. DEI/Malaya Batavia fell on the 11th, to my surprise. He had moved up some reinforcements and hit the place hard, 6 to 1 odds meant it fell despite many forts. Soon as they move to Soerabaja the same will happen there. A valuable Do patrol squadron was lost in the process. On the 12th Mitchells who had been surreptitiously moved to the no longer bombed Singapore scrambled, and went for CVL Ryujo which had only a four Zero CAP. One bomber was shot down, the remaining 11 made bombing runs at 6000', but despite having experience in some cases in the 70s, no hits were scored as usual. [8\|] USS Salmon was sunk by Jap patrol craft at Brunei. The DEI is becoming a dangerous place for Allied submarines. That said there are none left on war patrols. All Allied subs in the area are becoming burned out with incessant sub transportation - some are doing it even with sys damage as high as 23. They'll be drydocked for quite a while so the sub campaign in the DEI will come to a complete halt around April-May. SWPAC Its gone kinda quiet. My carriers are loitering in the Coral Sea. The three Barracuda class subs just mined Truk. Two of them are staying on station around the Rabaul/Admiralty Islands/Truk area, the third is going to Cairns to rearm. There is quite a bit of Allied submarine activity here but pickings have been very poor. CENTPAC He's chasing the badly damaged USS Plunger with an ASW taskforce. I dont even bother to evade, given Plunger will almost certainly never make it to Pago Pago - she has to take the shortest route to have even a glimmer of hope! The Aquitania liner is almost at Panama City, where she will take the Americal Division aboard. Americal will probably end up going to Suva. Hard tour they will have! [img]http://www.photoatlas.com/photo/fiji_04.jpg[/img] West Coast/NORPAC A lone Japanese submarine heading over is the sole apparent Japanese presence. Some extra material is being sent up there from the West Coast though. Engineers and an air HQ, provisionally going to Umchitka Island.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/15/2008 9:57:27 AM)
2/13/1942 Busy day to day. The 13th, unlucky for some... Two big air battles, one over Tavoy and one over Changsha. In the air the Allies do well, 15 Japs shot down for 14 losses. This is made up for by 30 Allied aircraft destroyed on the ground however. Burma/India Most of the dying happens at Moulmein. He comes back in force, but he runs into pretty much the entire Hurricane squadron I mentioned on CAP, and the fur flies! Losses are heavy, on both sides. The 90 exp Hurricane pilot is among them. [8\|] But the Hurricanes do give out as much as they take, and they are shooting down Zeroes as well. My usual tactic of making sure the bombers aren't on the deck didn't work as they happened to be resting today, so it is here that most of the 30 a/c destroyed on the ground get it. On the plus side, this doesn't mean many dead pilots, and the bombers lost are Blenheims and Mitchells, which are in plentiful supply. Later on in the morning 30 P-40s escort 8 Fortresses to Tavoy, where they encounter a light CAP. The P-40s dont do as well as the Hurricanes being much less experienced, and barely engage. The 8 Forts do alright though, 7 airbase hits, quite good! China Air battles rage over Changsha as well between the AVG and the Japs. There are a lot of Japs here, he's routinely sending over 70 fighter escorts, and he's outnumbering the AVG 4 to 1. AVG losses are pretty heavy again but he does pay a reasonable price. The bombers do destroy a lot of the obsolete chinese bombers though, which are hard to replace. DEI/Malaya An Allied bombardment at Soerabaja causes more Allied casualties than it does Japanese - not good. One of the Dutch KNIL regiments and a Dutch baseforce there has had a cadre picked up and evacuated to Darwin via sub. He doesn't seem to be moving from Teloekbetoeng just yet, but he's keeping up naval bombardment of Palembang. Evacuation of cadres from Singapore is pretty much done now, so Palembang is going to be next. SWPAC If I had four carriers in the Coral Sea I'd probably raid Rabaul. As it is I think its too risky and not worth letting him know where I am. I'd rather make a move on him as he's in transit. Hudsons attack some Jap shipping, a small AK TF resupplying PNG, but miss. CENTPAC Jap ninja sub torpedoes a DM somewhere NE of Canton Island. Its in with a whole bunch of DMs and DMS's, but needless to say none of them manage to attack the sub back. [8\|] Allied ASW, hello? [8\|] 79 flotation damage and a week from a tiny portless atoll, its toast. And so yet another Allied minelayer buys it. [8\|][8\|][8\|][8\|] <censored> subs. [sm=sterb032.gif]

gladiatt -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/16/2008 12:20:41 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: EUBanana 1/17/1942 PI Clark Field fell today, the defenders retreated to Bataan.� I had ordered the troops at Manila to fall back to Clark a couple of days ago, but they didn't budge an inch.� Clearly I do not understand ground combat in this game.� In any case, they are split up now, and so, fecked.� [8\|] Isnt' it about Zone of Control: you can't get from one zone to another. You must find a free zone hex to move in before going to another...

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/16/2008 2:01:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: gladiatt quote: ORIGINAL: EUBanana 1/17/1942 PI Clark Field fell today, the defenders retreated to Bataan. I had ordered the troops at Manila to fall back to Clark a couple of days ago, but they didn't budge an inch. Clearly I do not understand ground combat in this game. In any case, they are split up now, and so, fecked. [8\|] Isnt' it about Zone of Control: you can't get from one zone to another. You must find a free zone hex to move in before going to another... Yeah. I have since discovered the marvels of the W key. It does mean that in the PI Manila has to be abandoned quite early then. Also in Malaya my withdrawal was far too late. I think its better that these hard lessons are learned now when the outcome is certain anyway rather than at a more critical time. And on the plus side... Feb 16th. I'm doing better than General Percival managed historically! [sm=00000036.gif]

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/16/2008 2:23:19 PM)
14/2/1942 Burma/India The boys at Moulmein were chewed up and resting and I was expecting him to continue, so 30 odd P-40s from Rangoon LRCAPPED. Bad move, he hit it hard alright but the less experienced P-40s were swept away despite their large numbers. 15 lost in air to air in exchange for 3 kills, the 21st Fighter Squadron did not cover itself with glory. Such a massacre was it that the Allied air presence in Burma is now seriously endangered until more P-40s are built or until I rotate some Hurricane squadrons in - which may deny India its air defence if they get massacred too. For now, I pull out of Moulmein what I can, and Rangoon stands down to try and fix the many damaged aircraft. China Similar tale here, Changsha is being bombed around the clock by hundreds of Jap bombers. The AVG hasn't got a hope against those odds, and I have to pull them out, along with the Chinese bombers. A lot of frames have been destroyed but few pilots killed at least so my quality hasn't suffered much. Quiet everywhere else! Except 60 miles from Tokyo USS Tautog torpedoed an AP. [:D] In the lair of the Jap beast!

gladiatt -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/16/2008 2:49:41 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: EUBanana And on the plus side... Feb 16th. I'm doing better than General Percival managed historically! [sm=00000036.gif] [:D][sm=happy0065.gif]

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/16/2008 10:23:01 PM)
2/16/1942 I keep skipping turns because not much is going on! Burma/India Shattered P-40 squadrons are being pulled back. There is one getting ready in Calcutta, it has 17 aircraft. Aside from that the P-40 pool is taking a battering from hell. There are 50 odd Hurricanes in the pool - but at the usual rates of attrition thats about a weeks worth if I commit them fully. Burma is basically being abandoned aerially for a little while at least. A week off perhaps. I have at least inflicted some damage here, only the air catastrophe mentioned in the last post really is making me leave. And Tavoy is down to 30 out of 100 resources, so we really did a number on that. DEI/Malaya He landed a single armour unit at Palembang. Which is not enough, as Palembang doesn't merely have engineers, it got reinforced by the Zuid garrison which was originally on the other side of Sumatra. I almost have double his AV in fact and if it wasnt for paranoia I'd have an attack. Usual bombardments otherwise. SWPAC Its gone quiet, my CVs are back at Townsville now. That P-36 squadron is now at Darwin uncrated, for point defence, and freeing up Wirraways for elsewhere (you may laugh but I use em as divebombers primarily). An engineer unit has been transferred to SOPAC command in Tasmania and is now loaded on a boat headed for Luganville. Reinforcements are continuing to come in it drips and drabs. A P-40B squadron is now uncrated at Brisbane. Its a SEAC unit but I might well change it to SWPAC. Ditto a B-17 squadron. CENTPAC DM Pruitt sank today, that was expected, but it annoys me no end regardless. Convoys inch across the Pacific...

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (7/17/2008 10:39:03 AM)
Moving house today, will be online sporadically if at all for two and a half weeks. So this game is going into a brief hiatus!

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/2/2008 6:19:26 PM)
Well, we're back. And a couple of turns have been done! 19/2/1942 Burma/India Quiet due to bad weather and lack of Allied aggressiveness. Trivandrum has been built up to a rating 3 airfield. DEI/Malaya/PI USS Seal bombed and sunk at Manila, she was docked there badly damaged from earlier depth charges and had a slim chance of survival as the Jap airforce makes its presence felt here every day. At Singapore and Manila we're still holding out but supply is getting low, Singers is at 11k and Manila at 3k. At Palembang he has sufficient force landed now to take the place, but he chose not to attack today. Maybe tomorrow. Dili at Timor fell today too so the entire Timor island is his now. Akagi and Ryujo were spotted in the Java Sea in the last two days, so his CV force remains split up. CHINA The Wenchow pocket finally collapsed today, 22k Chinese troops were taken prisoner there. Bad weather has hampered my training efforts as I stand down during thunderstorms, it doesn't seem to bother him though, he must have 200 aircraft training here. SWPAC An S-boat attempted to torpedo a Jap AP NW of Rabaul but missed. Generally quiet here but Allied force is increasing. The battleship California is at Noumea, and there is a very large cruiser and DD force at Cairns, while there are two CVBGs still on station. CENTPAC An RCT is now done debarking at Pago Pago. US carriers en route to SWPAC ran into two Jap submarines on the way, but the subs were doing the defending rather than the attacking as the escorts pounced in both cases, scoring one solid hit but for limited damage.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/4/2008 12:19:16 AM)
2/22/1942 The last few days were very quiet, though the 22nd was a bit busier. A good day for the Allied airforce today, 7 Allied a/c were lost for 17 Japs. BURMA/INDIA Bad weather, the usual state of affairs, but the clouds cleared and a n Allied raid hit the airfield at Tavoy quite productively, getting the majority of those 17 kills. The Allies lost two P-40s in the process, the Japs lost considerably more. My ground forces are pretty much in position now. One Chinese understrength div at Myritkina, the rest at Mandalay digging in, the bulk of the British forces at Moulmein. DEI/Malaya The 8th and 22nd Indian Bdes, which were trapped in the mountains of Malaya, finally surrendered today after having held out without supply for far longer than any could have expected. Singapore and Manila remain firm, though supply on Manila is becoming critical. Palembang has been bombed and shelled round the clock and he attacked again today but to my surprise did not capture the place, achieving only 1 to 1 odds, though the forts dropped a level. Soerabaja has been bombed round the clock but he's not made attempts to reduce the fortress yet. CHINA The only ground fighting is at the Changsha road. Catalinas are now on the one Chinese port city left to me, Pakhoi, where they roam into the South China Sea. SWPAC A few scattered Allied Hudson raids on Jap shipping, but no success, as ever, over the last few days. The Japs have been non-aggressive here. PM now has 12 P-40Bs, the Wirraways have been retired to Australia. PM also has a photo recon unit, which has been reconning Rabaul. He has 15 ships in the harbour. I'm pondering an Allied carrier raid on Rabaul to try and blast the airfield and port facilities there, but we shall see. Two more US carriers are now between Pago Pago and Noumea, so it'll be a little while before I have four CVs in theatre, and then I might start sabre rattling some. The Java Sea is still packed with Jap carriers according to my Catalinas. The fuel situation in Australia is still very dicey. There is very little fuel on Australia itself but there are quite a few replenishment TFs now ready around the Coral Sea area, so some limited naval operations are possible now. CENTPAC Pretty quiet here really, Jap subs are around but my ASW seems, amazingly and unusually, to be on top of the problem thus far. I have a major convoy now 2 weeks out from Noumea - it has 18k troops, mostly support troops, and a whole bunch of fuel and such. NORPAC Attu Island has been abandoned as my forward base, its too risky using AVDs with Jap submarines prowling around. This isn't a huge problem because Amchitka Island has now been built up and has a baseforce ready, so the catalinas are just flying from there instead. The battleship Warspite will remain in the frozen North. I've got baseforces in position now so aircraft are inching their way forward through the island bases, unfortunately mostly Airacobras! [image]local://upfiles/10259/4E36E673DA384D9D8FEAF50740E0A61F.jpg[/image]

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/4/2008 10:04:55 PM)
2/23/1942 Well, there I was getting bored but this day was busy so it gets a writeup on its own. Manila fell and Lunga was invaded! Burma/India Trivandrum is now a level 4 airfield. There are two engineering units there that have been building it up, they move inland, to build up another airfield to level 4. This means I'll have four airfields in the Ceylon area, one of them being inland and thus immune to bombardment. The 7th AIF Division is about to land at Colombo, so a division + a Bde will be ensconced there. AA guns and supply are a couple of days out of Trivandrum, there is quite a heavy AA presence there as well, and I may yet reinforce further in that department while India is under threat of invasion. Malaya/DEI Manila fell today. Not due to lack of supply really, but lack of warm bodies, caused by my earlier incompetence. More carrier sightings in the Java Sea, Kaga, Soryu and Ryujo all confirmed there. Palembang amazingly doesn't fall, despite his attack. It will tomorrow I suspect. China Situation unchanged. I suspect it'll be that way for quite aw hile. SWPAC He invaded Lunga! No warning, no sightings of convoys, no nothing. That caught me a bit off balance as I figured I'd get some warning at least. I don't intend to contest a landing at Guadalcanal (Luganville is my fighting line here, and even Luganville isn't ready yet) but I do intend to make him pay for it. So a very large cruiser force has been dispatched from Australia and is headed over at full speed, ETA 2-3 days. On top of that, there are two US CVs from Cairns headed over at full speed, and two more US CVs halfway between Pago Pago and Noumea headed in. The next couple of days will be interesting!

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/5/2008 9:29:23 AM)
2/24/1942 BURMA/INDIA Another Allied air raid on Tavoy today but this one went badly, 6 P40Es shot down for 1 Zero and 1 Oscar, the bombers missed completely. Defences are looking fairly solid now around the Ceylon area. I intend to write a proper OOB for India in the event of Japanese adventurism around here, but as its quite a job, I'll hold off until it happens! CHINA Pretty quiet now. Malaya/DEI He shock attacked at Soerabaja and Singapore this turn. At Singapore he bounced off with 0 to 1 against fort level 8, but the attack did burn up 2000 odd supply out of 10k, so it hurt more than he likely realised. At Soerabaja the attack was more successful and knocked the forts down, the place will fall within a week most likely. Allied bombers hit Koepang from Darwin but found it mostly empty and did little damage. SWPAC There is a screenshot of this coming... Hotting up. He raided Port Moresby in force for the first time. Few aircraft were shot down but 25 runway damage is not good. I respond by ordering a raid for Lae, hopefully his bombers at least will be on the ground and his fighters will be fatigued, and my P-40Bs might let me strike at least once? Kittyhawks are arriving within a few weeks, that'll help immensely. My cruisers and carriers continue to pelt for Lunga but it looks like his force is quite small there, I wouldnt be surprised to find Shokaku covering the place tho.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/5/2008 9:30:42 AM)
This is my cruiser force caning it from Cairns to Lunga while the Japs unload there. There are CVs coming too but they are off the screen. [image]local://upfiles/10259/8EDC390A65374FB0A5AB1A29E6334AC1.jpg[/image]

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/5/2008 7:31:40 PM)
2/25/1942 I'm only going to comment on SWPAC, see the attached screenshot for the situation developing around Lunga. Far as I'm concerned this is a raid, albeit one in force. The objective is to maximise losses to Japanese shipping and make him wary of advancing. Many Jap CVs are still in the Java Sea, though Shokaku was on station in CENTPAC last month so may be in the area. I'm not quite sure what that 3 ship TF with a big ship of some sort reported is. No Jap floatplanes have been reported from any of my taskforces so hopefully he doesn't know what I'm up to, though a Kingfisher did fly over that 3 ship TF of his so he knows something is up. [image]local://upfiles/10259/3E5E2FC984634F9CA2132EBA6F7C0B71.jpg[/image] Elsewhere the airfarce at Port Moresby suffered extremely heavy losses over Lae as they ran into the Zero squadron there and failed to destroy a single Jap aircraft, either with bombs or with bullets. Pretty bad turn.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/6/2008 2:40:56 AM)
2/26/1942 Busy turn today... Overall, the Allies lost 11 aircraft, the Japanese lost 31, of which 9 were op losses. Air-to-air combat saw 10 for 10, pretty good. BURMA/INDIA Big air battle over Tavoy. Hurricanes swept Tavoy first, shot up Oscars real good and in turn got shot up by Zeroes, though they did bag a couple of Zeroes. then P40s and bombers hit the place from Rangoon and did quite a good job on it, getting a few more enemy fighters killed ,on the air and on the ground. Colombo/Trimcomalee are up to ~5000 mines apiece now. More Hurricane squadrons are being deployed to the southern tip of India - this place is about as solid as its going to get, and presuming he fights his way through Burma before he gets designs on India, and maybe reduces Port Blair, should be plenty stronger yet by summer. DEI Soerbajaa falls. Of the great fortresses, only Singapore is left. He shock attacked again here, and was beaten off with heavy losses. Japanese ground losses: 4988 casualties reported Guns lost 47 Vehicles lost 19 Allied ground losses: 1303 casualties reported Guns lost 42 Jap reinforcements have arrived, is why. Forts have dropped to 6, and that attack achieved 1:1, so... the writing is on the wall. General Percival is about to fly in to relieve the current top man, and conduct the surrender ceremonies. :P Palembang is being bombed, bombarded and artillerised aroudn the clock. He's taking his time, pulverising those engineers. He's going to get the oil pretty much intact. SWPAC But here is the juicy bit. Its a Jap CVBG! The cruiser force is hit by about a hundred bombers at Lunga, which he prudently evacuated from. The bombers sink the CA Louisville but damage to other ships is pretty light actually given the firepower. CA Australia and 3 CLs are between 20-35 sys damage so will need fixing but assuming they arent hit again everything major will be making it home. BB California, one hex from the CVBG, was not attacked at all. Go figure. Question is what does he do now. A Jap sub sighted Dauntlesses, so he knows Allied carriers are in the area. For my part, I am concentrating my forces across my line of retreat. We've had two near misses with carriers already, in each case, I've prepared a 'line in the sand' and waited for him to move up to it, in each case he has declined to do so. We'll see tomorrow if February 1942 is any different. [image]local://upfiles/10259/0FF580B866784813B060C364D4806741.jpg[/image]

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/6/2008 10:16:45 PM)
2/27/1942 Bah. He backed off in the Lunga area. Yet another carrier battle that never was. I would have pursued in this case, but one of my CVTFs was in the red on fuel. I'm not in such a hurry as to commit them half asses, every month that ticks by is one less maneuverability for his Zeroes after all. So! this turn was quiet. My damaged ships are limping away from Lunga with the CVs covering them. Elsewhere he shock attacked Singapore again, reducing the forts to 5, and taking, and inflicting, 3000 casualties. I've pulled the Catalinas out now, General Percival stands ready to fly in, and submarines are lifting off the last few cadres that are unevacuated still. He's also gained an interest in Pakhoi which acquired an airplane counter when I moved Catalinas from Manila to there. He bombarded it and a massive bombing raid has been aimed at it, 10 Kingfishers were trashed, not that they are all that. I've moved the Kingfishers out to Akyab, where they might actually be of some use, the Catalinas are staying put for now.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/7/2008 11:04:12 AM)
2/28/1942 Now the fun at Lunga is over, things are back to normality. Bad weather meant that this was a limited air sorties day. Writing on the wall at Singapore... 1200 casualties each, forts down to 4... Percival will be flying in tomorrow I think! Japanese casualties in the siege will be of the order of 20,000 I think, what with the initial shock attacks as he crossed the straits on top of these final assaults. If Allied ASW is better than Japanese i'm not seeing it. HMS Rover on a sub transport mission to Singapore was sunk in Singapore harbour by Jap APDs, while USS Thresher was badly damaged off the Home Islands after attacking a DD (hit, with dud torpedoes). Meanwhile Japanese submarines are active in the Home Islands now, two AKs and an AP have been torpedoed so far - some of those escorted, some not. There is a serious lack of destroyer escort because so many of them are committed to escorting my extremely valuable convoys of aircraft to the battle zones. I don't think this is an overcommitment though given they are such high value targets. The entire ASW force of NORPAC consists of one DD and a couple of MSWs. Allied reinforcement schedules tell me that the Japanese happy time will be continuing for a while. Its so bad that I dispatched some DDs from India to head over to the Pacific, mostly flush deckers but a couple of the more ASW capable and long legged British warships as well.

EUBanana -> RE: Banana vs Uamaga - England vs Poland (8/10/2008 1:01:36 PM)
3/4/1942 A bit of time has passed, but now things have happened, so. BURMA/INDIA I committed P-40s and Hurricanes in force to Moulmein rather than drip them in squadron at a time (Moulmein has about 80 av support so this is feasible). Then bad weather grounded them until today, when I hit Tavoy with everything I could manage. About 40 bombers and 40 fighters (mostly P-40s) tangled with defending Oscars and Zeroes, and despite the concentration of force the results weren't all that good for the Allies. No Zeroes were shot down, and the overall score in the air was 11 Allied for 4 Japanese, not good (2 of the 11 were Mitchells). Results on the ground were very limited, the bombers mostly missed. Bad weather is forecast again which is good, a lot of Allied frames are damaged after that and I could use a couple of days off. CHINA Pakhoi is being bombed round the clock, I anticipate a landing here. A single Div has been dispatched from Chungking to reinforce Nanning. Pretty much all the Chinese artillery is now on the Changsha road where we remain stalemated, and its starting to exact a toll on the Japanese, reliably inflicting hundreds of casualties every turn. At Yenen a pilot training program seems to be going quite well, I got a Chinese P-43 Lancer squadron with an average experience of 60. There are two more CAF P-43 squadrons slowly basehopping their way over from India. The AVG is pretty much a spent force. DEI/SRA He's started hoovering up the other bases on the southern Phillippines. He accidentally attacked Singapore with a small force, in breach of the houserules, so he gave Singapore 3 days off to make up, which expired today, probably good for me all round. SWPAC This looks like its going to hot up very very soon. First major Jap air raid on Port Moresby, from Lae, coinciding with supplies and/or troops apparently being unloaded at Lae. Dauntlesses scrambled and braved a Zero CAP to hit a Jap AP at Lae with two 1000lbers for heavy damage, the Japanese bombers found empty airspace (in keeping with my general policy of not contesting the airspace over my own bases) and did light-ish damage, 20 runway hits, 5 airbase hits. Jap CVTF was sighted in the area as well. I have reinforced PM with P-40Bs but they won't last very long. The airfarce at PM is still in pretty good shape but won't be for much longer - I have a P-38 squadron of 19 P-38s at Pago Pago which is slowly heading over there, but pilot experience is only 55 average so I imagine they'll just get greased. I pin greater hopes on an antiaircraft unit which is in the process of being air transported across Australia ultimately to PM. Fuel situation is ... well. Its critical-ish. There are TKs at Luganville and Noumea unloading fuel, and more TKs between Noumea and Brisbane. So in a week or two chances are I'll have greater freedom of movement. For now, though, the small ports (Noumea has 2, Luganville only 1) mean that unloading the fuel takes forever. It seems like half the USN is at Noumea, hungrily gulping down whatever is unloaded, but it'll be a while yet before I'm really ready to move after the sortie around Lunga. [image]local://upfiles/10259/ABB1F71C857B46C6B815FD9B4E435676.jpg[/image]

EUBanana -> Watchtower in March? (8/11/2008 9:00:05 AM)
3/5/1942 Just going to talk about SWPAC again. Another big Japanese raid on Port Moresby, damage was fairly light, but its accumulating. He seems to be sticking to high altitude bombing, which I guess... is good. Day Air attack on Port Moresby , at 54,93 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 21 B5N2 Kate x 13 G3M Nell x 33 G4M1 Betty x 19 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged G3M Nell: 3 damaged G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged Allied aircraft losses A-24 Dauntless: 1 destroyed Wirraway: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 25 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 15000 feet 13 x G3M Nell bombing at 12000 feet 8 x B5N2 Kate bombing at 16000 feet 5 x B5N2 Kate bombing at 14000 feet 4 x G3M Nell bombing at 14000 feet 9 x G3M Nell bombing at 12000 feet 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 15000 feet 3 x G3M Nell bombing at 14000 feet 1 x G3M Nell bombing at 14000 feet 2 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 15000 feet 3 x G3M Nell bombing at 12000 feet Allied bombers with P-40B escort attacked APs around Lae again, but got chewed up by the Japanese CAP, which was very heavy (37 Zeroes vs 8 P-40Bs!). The level bombers made it through to drop bombs but scored no hits - the Dauntlesses on the other hand, which are the main ship hitter, were mangled more badly. Only 1 was actually shot down but many were damaged and their morale is now in the toilet. Far to the south at Noumea Allied carriers have been scrambled. They are rendezvousing with a replenishment TF in the Coral Sea and will then retire to Townsville. The battleship California is also headed for Townsville. Some TKs have been diverted to Townsville as well (they were two hexes from Brisbane) as I don't trust the AI's ability to move fuel from Brisbane to NE Australia. The first extra antiaircraft guns are being shipped over to PM by Catalina today. Fast transports are out - CL Durban + DD escort is at Cairns atm but without fuel! Really the lack of fuel in theatre is crippling the Allied defence, its only fortunate that the tankers are now mere days away.

EUBanana -> RE: Watchtower in March? (8/12/2008 11:00:32 AM)
3/7/1942 Bad day. Massacre in the skies. BURMA/INDIA I massed P-40s and Hurricanes at Moulmein, looking for a decisive blow. Unfortunately he massed Zeroes - 79 of them! and massed more than me! Pretty much an entire P-40 squadron of near full strength was wiped out. The Hurricanes did rather better but the P-40Es suffered a turkey shoot - end result for the turn, 33 Allied shot down for 5 Japanese over Tavoy. There is no way that the Allies can keep absorbing punishment like this - that was 3 weeks worth of P40s lost in one day, for no gain, and a number of experienced pilots. So the air campaign in Burma is over, for now, until pools replenish. I've pulled everything that can fly back to Calcutta. CHINA I have a ROCAF P-43 squadron up to av exp 61 at Yenen but he's noticed this little training program, in the only part of the map where mostly unprotected Japs are within bomber range. On the 6th he bombed Yenen. On the 7th he tried to do so again but met Allied CAP, including 10 P-40Bs - the remains of the AVG (but crack pilots). Results were indecisive but the experience 61 P-43s seem able to hold their own, which is good given the AVG's demise. One Oscar shot down for no Allied loss. I plan on contesting the airspace over Yenen. SRA Bali fell to him today. Singapore suffered another attack, he has his 2:1, and the forts are now 3. 4000 Jap casualties for 2500 Allied. SWPAC Japanese bombing of Port Moresby continues. I've pulled out the Allied air units to preserve their strength, as a massive number of Zeroes is now at Lae. I still plan on contesting the place, mind. Antiaircraft guns are being flown in by Catalina, the flak strength is up to about 50 all told now, and will be more like 75 when I'm done. I'm hoping airfield damage is light enough that I can move fighter aircraft and Dauntlesses to PM at a moments notice. Fuel is coming into Australia, then my fleet will have freedom of action.

EUBanana -> RE: Watchtower in March? (8/13/2008 11:49:35 AM)
3/9/1942 Singapore fell today!. General Percival was on hand as 68k Allied soldiers were led into captivity. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Singaporesurrender.jpg[/img] However, they did hold out for more than three weeks longer than in reality, and a cadre of every unit at Singapore was evacuated successfully to Calcutta with the loss of only one submarine. About the only success really - about 3/4 to 4/5ths of the SRA's oil has been captured intact by the Japanese. We're now past the prologue and into the interesting bit of the game. Now what will he do? I don't have an open turn to hand so can't do it right now - but I plan to make a post (or posts) regarding Allied deployments in India, Burma, Australia, South and Central Pacific when I have the opportunity to do so. These areas have only really been mentioned in passing but things have been going on here, units moved into position, airfields built, and fairly soon now these defences are going to be tested. BURMA/INDIA He bombed Moulmein but I've already pulled back so theres nothing to bomb. There are still about 25 P-40Es in Calcutta but thats out of a maximum strength of 72 aircraft (3 squadrons worth) so I am dead set on not committing any P-40Es anywhere on the map for at least a month, to allow these squadrons to be rebuilt. There are 80 Hurricanes in the pool though and they seem better than P-40Es, so I'm going to have them step up to the plate in this time in Burma, though with the proviso that I don't want the Hurricane pool to drop below 40. For now though Burma has no Allied squadrons in it. I'm anticipating that Burma will be his next target. CHINA Air fighting around Yenen continues indecisively, but the CAF is considerably stronger than it was with three P-43 Lancer squadrons there. the problem is, only one of those is trained, so my goal atm is to train all three up to competent (average experience >60) without suffering crippling losses. China is about the only theatre where I can run a training program though so I'm moderately hopeful. There are 21 P-43s in the pool as well, so provided the pilots can be kept up to scratch, the CAF is actually up to the task of challenging his Chinese air assets! I have 6 Chinese infantry squads in the pool. Supply remains good, therefore, and my many Chinese units, now reforming after being crushed at Wenchow, will be back in the fray in a few months at this rate. The US AA unit is halfway to Changsha, which is good, as he's bombing the place frequently at low level and I want him to pay. North Australia Bombers from Darwin have been raiding ineffectually for some time - sometimes Amboina's oil, sometimes shipping (at 15k feet due to HRs unfortunately). There is Jap activity at Timor - APs have been sighted and bombed (though none hit), question is - dropping off or picking up? SWPAC Its gone quiet here. Port Moresby now has flak power of around 75 with the new AA unit flown in. He's bombing the place at high level ineffectually, I've pulled out though for now. My P-38F squadron is based at Cairns - 19 aircraft. This is a precious resource indeed, these long range fighters are essentially irreplaceable until the P-38G arrives. I plan on keeping them at Cairns, where they can LRCAP into the Coral Sea to protect TFs as needed. I have paid PPs to release an Australian Bde on Tasmania with about 75 assault points to SWPAC command, APs are en route from Sydney and they are already prepping for Port Moresby. Their addition will bring the garrison strength of PM to about 200, which means he'll need a multidivisional landing at least to take the place. They will be flown in by Catalina from Cairns - about the only safe way to do it. I need about a week to refuel every ship in the theatre, there is enough fuel though being landed to keep me going for quite a while though, so that logistical nightmare will be dealt with for now at least. Japanese submarines very active around Noumea and his Glens can see my big buildup there. I assume he'll go for PM before Noumea though. Two RCTs are headed there but won't land for some time. CENTPAC I'm splitting up one of Pearls big garrison division. A third is going to Midway Island. Another third will be going... probably to Johnston Island, but not sure yet, I dont have APs enough to do both at the same time.

gladiatt -> RE: Watchtower in March? (8/13/2008 1:57:38 PM)
what is the state of your defense in Fiji or New Caledonia ? these could be position for futur counter-attack, do you have something to spare to put in there and to develop the bases ?

EUBanana -> RE: Watchtower in March? (8/13/2008 3:25:23 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: gladiatt what is the state of your defense in Fiji or New Caledonia ? these could be position for futur counter-attack, do you have something to spare to put in there and to develop the bases ? Fiji just has the starting setup, ie a NZ Bde, with some patrol planes. Noumea has a 90 av support baseforce, a 270 av support air force baseforce, and an AA battery. Unloading there soon (within a week or two) will be a regimental combat team and 178 aircraft of all types, though those aircraft will likely be dispersed all around SWPAC and they won't all end up in Noumea. Luganville has an engineering unit there building the place up, but it'll be some time before its ready. The Noumea <-> Pago Pago line is fairly weak at the moment. There is another RCT and Americal Division on the way to this part of the world but they are probably the best part of a month or so out still from memory. I'll cover this area in some more detail when I go over the Allied deployments across the whole map when I get the next turn from Uamaga.

EUBanana -> RE: Watchtower in March? (8/13/2008 10:29:39 PM)
Alright, this is the first post on Allied deployments, as of the fall of Singapore on the 10th March, 1942. Southern India first... Obviously air units are subject to change at any time! The defence of southern India is centred around Ceylon, Trivandrum on the southernmost tip, and Madurai, which is inland but within 4 hexes range of both ports on Ceylon. All four bases have plenty of aviation support and are now at least level 4 airfields. CEYLON Colombo (5000 defensive mines) 7th Division AIF 222 Group RAF HQ Far East Fleet HQ 35th LAA Regiment 1st Indian HAA Regiment Lots of av support 51 fighters 28 level bombers 24 torpedo bombers Trimcomalee (5000 defensive mines) Ceylon Infantry Bde 6th HAA regiment 16 fighters Lots of av support SOUTHERN INDIAN MAINLAND Trivandrum 44th Indian Bde 43rd LAA regiment 39 fighters 10 torpedo bombers 3 level bombers Lots of av support Madurai 7th HAA regiment 63rd Indian Bde (on the way) India Command HQ Lots of av support 16 fighters (on the way but earmarked) Madras 48th Gurkha Brigade Mangalore 46th Indian Bde Bombay 99th Indian Bde Hyderabad (represents the main reserve for southern India) 18th British Division (represents the main reserve) 7th Armoured Division (on the way) There are another 3 AA regiments on the way to southern India, which means this part of the world is absolutely bristling with antiaircraft guns. 223 Group RAF HQ arrives in Aden in 2 days and is already earmarked for Madurai. There are also two divisions arriving within the week, 2nd British and 6th AIF, which will likely be placed in this area. Only question is whether one of them should be sent to Ceylon or if they should remain on the mainland. I'm inclined to think the latter as Ceylon could be a massive trap - on the other hand I think Ceylon would be a nice target for Allied heavy bombers so I'm not entirely sure it should be defended no matter what. Pretty much the entire RN remains anchored at Ceylon for now. [image]local://upfiles/10259/939B46DF473E41FBA37C752A7C8BBA26.jpg[/image]

saj42 -> RE: Watchtower in March? (8/13/2008 10:45:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: EUBanana 3/5/1942 <snip> Some TKs have been diverted to Townsville as well (they were two hexes from Brisbane) as I don't trust the AI's ability to move fuel from Brisbane to NE Australia. <snip> Bad news for you - your AI Logistics Officer does NOT move fuel !!!!! - only supplies/oil/resources. I don't know how much oil you get on the West Coast but send a mix of oil and fuel in TKs to Oz - it needs the oil (also produces both supplies and fuel for each oil pt spent by Oz HI) [;)]

EUBanana -> RE: Watchtower in March? (8/13/2008 10:48:37 PM)
Calcutta is my favourite base for R&R, so its where all my cadres end up. So its absolutely stuffed with fragments from the SRA, as well as the equivalent of about seven brigades. I really doubt that this will be the site of any Japanese attack, though you never know. The Burma defence is not based around a land death star at Mandalay, I'm not sure if this is wise or not, but its a more 'realistic' deployment at least. Mandalay certainly seems to be the most defensive spot in Burma anyway. He likes his paras so I've paid attention to keeping open the line of supply to India. Cadres are not listed. BURMA Port Blair (3500 supply, 300 mines) Rangoon Force 3rd HKRSA AA (but very understrength, flak rating 5) Moulmein 1st Burma Bde 2nd Burma Bde 16th Indian Bde 221 Group RAF HQ (in the process of relocating to Mandalay) Rangoon 13th Indian Bde (will evac soon as Moulmein under assault) Meiktila 1st Burma Rifles 2nd Burma Rifles Burma Frontier Force Bde Mandalay 5 Chinese divisions, all understrength to Bde level. Forts currently at 4 and plenty of engineers, but airfield only 2. Myritkina 49th Chinese division (paratrooper defence) INDIAN/BURMESE BORDER Calcutta SEAC HQ 14th, 20th, 23rd and 26th Indian Divisions (all at 1/2 strength) 254th and 255th Indian Tank Bdes (very much understrength) 3rd Carabineers 9th Cavalry Tank Rgt 3rd Indian Bde 2nd Indian HAA Rgt 5th Indian LAA Rgt All the rest of the RAF! Imphal 1st Assam Rifles Ledo (Transport base, for supply shipping to China and Burma) 67th HAA Rgt [image]local://upfiles/10259/A49453D7FF974F6A8A92952BE79A75B5.jpg[/image]

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