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Speedysteve -> 26th January 1942 (1/20/2010 8:47:14 PM)
Hi all, No worries Mike. No harm done[8D] -------------------- The usual stuff around PI and Java and another nuclear bombardment at Singapore wiped out 2 Bn's: Ground combat at Singapore (50,84) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1982 troops, 209 guns, 74 vehicles, Assault Value = 1512 Defending force 37150 troops, 479 guns, 256 vehicles, Assault Value = 800 Japanese ground losses: Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 394 casualties reported Squads: 15 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 27 destroyed, 33 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Guns lost 15 (9 destroyed, 6 disabled) Vehicles lost 9 (5 destroyed, 4 disabled) Assaulting units: 15th Ind. Engineer Regiment 113th Infantry Regiment 143rd Infantry Regiment 114th Infantry Regiment 5th Engineer Regiment 21st Infantry Regiment 55th Infantry Regiment 12th Engineer Regiment 21st Division 23rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 42nd Infantry Regiment 11th Infantry Regiment 4th Ind. Engineer Regiment 41st Infantry Regiment 25th Army 18th Mountain Gun Regiment 56th Engineer Regiment 18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 56th Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment 5th Field Artillery Regiment 1st RF Gun Battalion 3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion For what it's worth I'll try shooting back with my guns tomorrow. DD Evertsen and Whipple sunk today. Both had left Batavia heavily damaged but I felt I had no choice but to risk them otherwise they'd have been smashed in the port in due course. ------------------------- Submarine Warfare - SS Tarpon had tracked a smoke haze on the horizon for the past day near Laoag....she found her target today, AK Tazima Maru (damaged yesteray by Bataan's FP's). 10 torpedoes later...1 hits and she will probably sink. The first air hit on a sub today by a Lilly on SS KXII south of Saigon. She is limping to Singapore but may sink - 92/33/20. -------------------------- Housekeeping - From reading various topics on Support Ships I've decided to send one of my AR's at PH to Dutch Harbour, the other to Suva. BF, ENG, Construction and 30,000 supply leaving Seattle for Attu Island. SigInt has let me know the 40th Bde is preapring to attack Darwin. Not surprised and I will NOT counter this move unless the Japanese move into the Australian interior (please do). [image]local://upfiles/4211/39F4BD91E1C343A8912DE1B4BC560255.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: 26th January 1942 (1/21/2010 7:37:14 AM)
with only 33 flt damage I would be surprised if she sinks. High fires though, something I haven´t had on a sub so far, so I don´t know how the fires will influence the flt. Usually I get my subs back with 60 flt with absolutely no problem. They show up as crippled and move only at 1 hex but as soon as they´ve reached a ship yard, they are back in action within only a couple of days. The worst damaged sub I´ve had so far took 16 days to be repaired, far too fast IMO. Subs are operational again far too early after being stood down, perhaps this is due to their low tonnage. There should be an own repair routine for subs, all other ships seem to repair at a realistic rate, the subs aren´t at all.

Speedysteve -> 27th January 1942 (1/21/2010 10:35:50 AM)
Hi all, Hi Castor - she didn't survive. I have found that once something get's into the 90's in SYS damage and if they have flooding over 15 or so they are quite often toast. As an FYI the 20 was ENG damage not Fire. ------------------------- PI - The airspace has been ceded to the Japanese as of today. My boys have fought fiercely but today was the last gasp. 20 fighters were on CAP today and the Zeroes came a calling. By days end 17 Allied fighters had been shot down for a reported 5 Zeroes. There were 11 fighters left at days end in a mixture of states but not enough to form a credible defence. The remaining men and machines have been disbanded........ -------------------------- Malaya - More nuclear shells at Singapore wipe out another Bn and cause over 250 casualties. I fire back causing a pathetic 81 casualties........ --------------------------- Java - Faber has moved another Tk Rgt into Madoien. Zeroes now patrol over Tjepoe as well so the milk runs my few bombers have been having against his troops are over costing me x 139's today. CL Sumatra (arriving yesterday in a damaged state at Soerabaya) sped away southwards towards Perth....she's clear of enemy air attack now. ---------------------------- China - The Japanese reinforcements at Singyang turned the tide and launched an attack against the Chinese positions outside the city. My men, suprisingly, provided a stern test: Ground combat at Sinyang (86,48) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 31839 troops, 304 guns, 105 vehicles, Assault Value = 1167 Defending force 31522 troops, 184 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 956 Japanese adjusted assault: 808 Allied adjusted defense: 1221 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 844 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 74 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 51 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Vehicles lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled) Allied ground losses: 1095 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 48 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 79 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 4th RGC Division 13th Tank Regiment 13th Division 116th Division 12th RGC Temp. Division 14th RGC Temp. Division 1st Ind.Mixed Brigade 18th RGC Temp. Division 11th Army 52nd Road Const Co 67th JAAF AF Coy Defending units: 53rd Chinese Corps 8th Chinese Corps 7th Chinese Corps 84th Chinese Corps 20th Group Army 21st Group Army I have moved 5 Chinese Corps SW of Chengchow against 3 reported Japanese units. We recon and shell tomorrow to investigate. If I can just get a few local victories I may be able to rout the Japanese locally and make some headway. ------------------------------ Submarine warfare - No successful sub attacks today. Only point of note was the sinking of KXII. The 2nd British boat to enter the fray, Truant, left Columbo today.........

Speedysteve -> 28-29th January 1842 (1/21/2010 10:24:09 PM)
Hi all, A 2 day update....... PI - 30 Japanese bombers attacked Clark on 29th January. A few shells come our way too. Other than that and my little firneds (FP's) at Bataan landing a bobm on AMC Akagi Maru not much to report......... Well other than a little miracle I've been praying on for the past week [;)] I had secretly dispatched 6400 tonnes of supply on the damaged AK Boero at Palembang. She AMAZINGLY sailed all the way to Bataan unnoticed and is unloading now! Recon was spotted overhead so I wonder if Faber has seen her at Bataan now? We can but pray....IF I unload 6400 tonnes of supply that will keep me going for another week at Clark..... --------------------------- Malaya - The Japanese attacked again on the 28th.....my men gave up some ground but fought fiercely: Ground combat at Singapore (50,84) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 44094 troops, 501 guns, 126 vehicles, Assault Value = 1532 Defending force 36596 troops, 472 guns, 249 vehicles, Assault Value = 786 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Japanese adjusted assault: 1025 Allied adjusted defense: 1177 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 2) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2098 casualties reported Squads: 11 destroyed, 102 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 153 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 31 disabled Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 2987 casualties reported Squads: 61 destroyed, 103 disabled Non Combat: 58 destroyed, 337 disabled Engineers: 3 destroyed, 26 disabled Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled) Vehicles lost 31 (6 destroyed, 25 disabled) ------------------------ Java - Madoien fell to the Miura Rgt supported by Tanks on the 28th. Batavia still holds firm though: Ground combat at Batavia (49,98) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 16638 troops, 249 guns, 122 vehicles, Assault Value = 504 Defending force 15992 troops, 182 guns, 76 vehicles, Assault Value = 364 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Japanese adjusted assault: 317 Allied adjusted defense: 673 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 2) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 892 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 57 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 62 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 36 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 12 (2 destroyed, 10 disabled) Allied ground losses: 624 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 40 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) The last Singapore Buffalo Sqn (RNZAF) flew from Soerabaya to Makassar before heading to Australia. Talking of Makassar my brave Dutch forced the Kure 1st SNLF back into the Jungle with 200 casualties! Go Dutch [;)] ---------------------------- Other areas - Amazingly Noumea resisted the first Japanese attack on 29th: Ground combat at Noumea (115,160) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 8256 troops, 59 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 294 Defending force 2539 troops, 74 guns, 60 vehicles, Assault Value = 36 Japanese adjusted assault: 109 Allied adjusted defense: 112 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 101 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 157 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 32 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled) Assaulting units: Guards Mixed Brigade Sasebo 2nd SNLF Defending units: New Caledonia Det 114th USAAF Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment 131st Field Artillery Battalion 115th USAAF Base Force 148th Field Artillery Battalion Interestingly recon puts the 40th Bde and 20th Recon both in Keijo, Korea. Now the 40th is reportedly preparing to invade Darwin....either a hoax or an assembly area of the Australia invasion?!? ------------------------- India - With Burma all but gone to the Japanese (Shwebo fell on 29th) I figured it time to detail a little of the defence of India. Personally I would love Faber to invade it. I have positioned strong forces here. 7th ARM, Ind Div, 254th ARM Bde + 3 Ind Bde's are stationed around Calcutta. 18th UK is spread around the area Mangalore to Madras + 23rd/19th Indian Divisions. 6th Australian will take up positions from Vizangapatam (sp?) to Calcutta and Diamond Harbour. A few Ind Bde's occupy Chittagong and some light forces will cover Imphal and Kohima. I will try to draw Faber into India by appearing to only lightly defend Imphal/Kohima which I will at the start. Of course interior lines of communication and rail would allow me to mass 2 x top class Divisions, 4 Ind Divisions, 7th ARM, 5 Ind Bde's etc.....+ ART, forming up Ind ARM, Infantry Bde's etc etc if needed. -------------------- Submarine warfare - A poor 2 days with only a few missed and dud attacks. [image]local://upfiles/4211/5CF64965673F4DDB85116135844DD658.jpg[/image]

Speedysteve -> 30th January 1942 (1/22/2010 11:21:38 AM)
Hi all, Boero still lives! A further 2300 tonnes of supply were unloaded at Bataan today. All adds up......Another day and a half to unload fully. ---------------------- Malaya - Usual nuclear bombardment causing over 400 casualties. In return my similar number of guns cause 91 casualties. ---------------------- Java - The Japanese stormed through the Dutch positions at Semarang causing over 2300 casualties. I'm thinking of evacing Batavia and holing up in Buitenzorg. I think it's a mountainous hex? Out of interest what key do you press to see the terrain? ---------------------------- Other areas - Noumea was just subject to shelling today. BB Idaho is ready for service at San Francisco. BB California has repaired all damage at PH. Another batch of reinforcements are loading up at San Fran for SoPac and most likely Australia: Americal Division 1st USMC Raiders Tk Bn CD Rgt ENG 3rd BG 40 PG ------------------------- Submarine warfare - No contacts today [:(] Where have all the Japanese ships gone?!?

castor troy -> RE: 30th January 1942 (1/22/2010 12:42:47 PM)
it´s 1 to see terrain IIRC. Am at work at the moment so I can´t check. But as I´m only using the 1 (terrain?), w and r key, I´m pretty sure it´s 1 for terrain. Someone may correct me if I´m wrong. what I´m sure is that most of the hotkeys mentioned in the manual are either not working at all or have got a different result than mentioned.

ckammp -> RE: 30th January 1942 (1/22/2010 1:13:55 PM)
'1' is the hotkey that shows terrain in each hex. Full list is on pages 17-18 of the manual. Note that this list of hotkeys applies to the main map. The Intelligence Display has it's own hotkeys, described on pages 54-65 of the manual. And every hotkey works as described in the manual.

Speedysteve -> 31st January 1942 (1/22/2010 4:11:00 PM)
Hi all, Thanks guys....1 it is [8D] As such I will make my last stand on Java in Buitenzorg. The Japanese are moving up from the SE just taking Djokjakarta...... The last 3 x B339's flew a sweep over Merak......none returned...... ------------------- Malaya - The usual nucle....errr artillery duel at Singapore wipes out another Bn. Forts almost back up to Level 3. -------------------- PI - Boero is almost fully unloaded and will try to sneak back to Palembang. Go Boero![;)] --------------------- Other areas - Good old Noumea...... Ground combat at Noumea (115,160) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 8153 troops, 59 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 286 Defending force 2201 troops, 74 guns, 59 vehicles, Assault Value = 31 Japanese adjusted assault: 20 Allied adjusted defense: 79 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 3) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 83 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: 308 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 49 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Vehicles lost 14 (2 destroyed, 12 disabled) Assaulting units: Guards Mixed Brigade Sasebo 2nd SNLF Defending units: New Caledonia Det 114th USAAF Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment 115th USAAF Base Force 131st Field Artillery Battalion 148th Field Artillery Battalion --------------------------- Submarine warfare - 1 dud attack today [:(] --------------------------- Err I'm baffled......how can the 43rd Const co be at both Kuching and Uttaradit?[&:] [image]local://upfiles/4211/903B9910269A43CB9163178FA0F4CC52.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: 30th January 1942 (1/22/2010 4:17:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ckammp '1' is the hotkey that shows terrain in each hex. Full list is on pages 17-18 of the manual. Note that this list of hotkeys applies to the main map. The Intelligence Display has it's own hotkeys, described on pages 54-65 of the manual. And every hotkey works as described in the manual. wonder if I´ve got a different manual or different keys then [&:]

Speedysteve -> End of January 1942 (1/22/2010 4:57:49 PM)
Hi all, The end of January passes. This month has seen the Japanese take 1/2 of Java, encroach on Singapore, make little headway in China, a stalemate at Clark Field and progress in the South Pacific and Burma. All in all a successful month for the Japanese. The main losses for them were CVL Zuiho and BB Nagato, both sunk by Vildebeast's out of Batavia. -------------------- Points: Allies: -316 Japanese: +3046 Bases: Allies: -34 (-1476 points) Japanese: +36 (+851 points) Planes: Allies: +485 Japanese: +280 Troops: Allies: +1163 lost Japanese: +187 lost Ships: Allies: +85 ships (+547 points) Japanese: +33 ships (+591 points) I personally feel there are more shipssunk than this since I 'feel' my subs have sunk about 50 ships as is. 'Confirmed' (as much as can be due to FOW) sub successes: Mines: PB - 1 ------------------------ Dutch boats: AK - 11 CM - 2 PB - 1 DMS - 2 TB - 1 APD - 1 DD - 3 ------------------------- Fleet Boats: AP - 1 AK - 7 CM - 1 DD - 2 ------------------------- S-Boats: AK - 3 DMS - 1 CM - 1 [image]local://upfiles/4211/642A8AC7C9FC4D519E187903EE20333B.jpg[/image]

Smeulders -> RE: End of January 1942 (1/22/2010 6:09:41 PM)
Hey Speedy, subs kills do seem to get the FOW treatment pretty often, I'm seeing only about 50% of medium/large ships getting reported as sunk after a torpedo hit. You seem to be having a lot of success with them already though.

anarchyintheuk -> RE: End of January 1942 (1/22/2010 7:25:01 PM)
Whatever you've lost is more than made up for by Zuiho and Nagato.

Speedysteve -> 1st-7th February 1942 (1/26/2010 6:17:34 PM)
Hi all, Hi Smeulders/anarchy - I made an error in the above reporting. I remembered to take CV Zuikaku out of the ship count but not the point count! as such you can delete 304 VP's from the above total. Doh! Agreed though Anarchy taking a CVL and BB down with the SRA is not bad. ----------------------------------------- A 7 day update as things move into a slow pattern...... The past week has seen virtual stalemate in most areas of operations. ----------------------------------------- Malaya - The Japanese launch nuclear shells every day other than their attack on the 7th which demolished more defensive positions (down to level 2 again) and caused over 2500 casualties. the main issue is that 7 Allied squads were destroyed vs 1 Japanese (along with 151 disabled!) It's a simple war of attrition with the Allies losing badly. I can only assume equipment firepower is the difference here and maybe experience! Kuantan (the last Allied base on Malaya other than Singers) fell easily to 56th JA rgt on the 7th. -------------------------------------------------- PI - Status quo at Clark Field with Almost daily air and land bombardments causing upto 100 casualties. Overall AV remains at about 1800. --------------------------------------------------- Java - The Japanese are making slow progress here, but progress it is. The Allies have systematically retreated to the 'fortress' of Buitenzorg all of the forces west of Soerabaya. Soerabaya itself has 100AV and is holding firm. Buitenzorg is now upto almost 800 AV with level 3 forts and over 40,000 supply. Will be interesting to see if I can hold and for how long. The Japanese 'stormed' an empty Batavia on the 7th after another failed attack on 5th. My boys have done well here in holding up the 38th Division and moved to Buitenzorg in good order with a 15-20 EXP increase [:)] -------------------------------------------------------- Burma - Little has happened here. The Japanese have basically taken Burma (upto Katha) and the pathetic remnants of my Burma army are crawling back to Akyab and Imphal. I do have strong forces in southern and central India as alluded to before though so feel fairly secure with India. --------------------------------------------------------- China - Fun and games here. Faber is attacking at Singyang at the mo but my men are holding firm outside the city (for now). The Japanese stall south of Chengchow. They are pushing west past Nanchang though. On the Chinese side Paotow has been liberated in the north and we are pushing on further east! ------------------------------------------------------- Other areas - Amazingly the Japanese banged their head against the flimsy Allied forces at Noumea. Despite massively outnumbering the Allies in combat troops they only took the place yesterday. I salute my brave men! KB was spotted by a PBY out of Suva heading east past Efate on the 4th! I ordered all shipping SE at flank speed! KB apparently knew it had been detected as they moved back westwards on the 5th. Shame as I had the might of 100 x fighters (P39/P40) and 48 x LBA...oooh the might[;)] I am concocting an Allied CV operation for when Hornet arrives within a week...I will keep this one secret until nearer the time [;)] BB Revenge is at Cape Town and will wait there for the SRA Cruisers (Houston, Danae and Dragon) to repair their damage before leaving harbour. ---------------------------------------------------------- Submarine Warfare - A mixed week with several missed/dud attacks...... On the 3rd SS Sealion heavily damaged the lone freighter Lyons Maru with a few shells and a torpedo west of Korea. SS O20 reportedly sank AK Toho Maru with 2 torpedoes outside of Kuching. On the 4th SS Permit had a good day heavily damaging AK Maya Maru and AK Manko Maru both off the SW coast of Korea. On the 7th SS KXVI heavily damaged the Kagero class DD Hayashio with a torpedo SE of Balikpapan (appears to be a SC/CV TF). SS S-37, also in the area, spotted the limping Hayashio and sent her under with a fish to the bow. On the other side SS KXIV limped away for the Kuching area after heavy IJN units spotted her and DD's littered the area with DC's on the 2nd. SS I-10 blew up TK H.M. Storey with 2 torpedoes SE of Suva on the 3rd. I-10 struck again on the 7th sinking AR Medusa also SE of Suva! I-10 has sunk 2 very important ships.......

Speedysteve -> 8th February 1942 (1/26/2010 8:06:31 PM)
Hi all, Firstly, a question - how have peopel found the Monsoon effects in Burma? Dramatic? When do they run from? With Burma/India being the only land mass I'm still engaged in with any power I'd like to attrite the scummy Japanese in Burma in due course. PI/Malaya - same old. ----------------------------- Java - The Japanese advanced further inland today taking Djokjakarta. The rest of the Dutch LBA force is based at Buitenzorg amassing 8 bombers....wooooo. ----------------------------- Other areas - US Forces have begun disembarkation and port/airfield construction on the icy island of Attu......... 7th Australian Division elements are beginning to arrive at Aden befoire moving onto Australia. Allied LBA based at Imphal (Blenheim's with AVG escort) begin bombing harrasment on Japanese tanks approaching Katha, Burma. ----------------------------------------------- China - Japanese try again to push out from the city of Singyang but fail: Ground combat at Sinyang (86,48) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 26701 troops, 256 guns, 77 vehicles, Assault Value = 992 Defending force 22387 troops, 156 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 531 Japanese adjusted assault: 868 Allied adjusted defense: 635 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 1114 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 82 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 86 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled) Allied ground losses: 608 casualties reported Squads: 6 destroyed, 98 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 103 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Little do they know that 900 AV of angry Chinese wait to the SW awaiting them and my men........ I've attached a sit rep of China and it's multitude of battles....... ---------------------------------------- Submarine warfare - The only successful contact reported today was by SS O21 patrolling south of Davao. Despite having a failing tube during attack the 1 remaining fish found it's mark leaving the troop laden transport Kamo Maru listing to port heavily damaged. [image]local://upfiles/4211/58C1227F8677425F9A9B2DA5AF65EE5F.jpg[/image]

Speedysteve -> RE: 8th February 1942 (1/27/2010 10:07:22 PM)
Anyone?

witpqs -> RE: 8th February 1942 (1/27/2010 11:05:09 PM)
We're just in January '42. The wet monsoon is winter, but at the moment I'm not trying to move supplies through that area.

Speedysteve -> 9-11th February 1942 (1/28/2010 11:12:02 AM)
Hi all, Thanks witpqs - anyone else going to chime in?!? ----------------------------------- 3 day update. PI - A quiet couple of days were followed by a hive of activity from the Japanese lines at Clark on the 11th! They were attacking! My men are low on supply (orange level) but still have enough in them for this day and probably a couple more. Many Japanese littered the battlefield after a morning of tremendous carnage: Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 59333 troops, 560 guns, 480 vehicles, Assault Value = 2113 Defending force 52573 troops, 945 guns, 592 vehicles, Assault Value = 1898 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Japanese adjusted assault: 691 Allied adjusted defense: 4828 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 6 (fort level 2) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 7402 casualties reported Squads: 26 destroyed, 366 disabled Non Combat: 59 destroyed, 403 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 153 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 173 (40 destroyed, 133 disabled) Allied ground losses: 2463 casualties reported Squads: 7 destroyed, 192 disabled Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 284 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 28 (4 destroyed, 24 disabled) --------------------------------------- Malaya - Much the same here. In fact the 11th marked a day of aggressive attacking by the Japanese across the theatre. Singapore is close to falling. My men fought well taking down over 1800 Japanese. In return they've lost more ground on the island (1 fort left) and lost over 3800 men........... ------------------------------ Java - Same story here. A quiet couple of days followed by the 146th Rgt attempting to storm Soerabaya. They were repulsed for almost 500 casualties. ------------------------------- Burma - Japanese tankers are reported in Lashio now and heading east into China....I'll have a little welcoming party for them......... Allied LBA based in Imphal harass Japanese Tankers daily near Katha for little effect. --------------------------------- China - The Japajese general offensive also struck here on the 11th. Tired and weary men fought at Sinyang again, this time the Chinese were forced to retreat SW. Damn. Chinese Hawks and I-15's made an appearance SE of Changsha ambushing enemy Sonia's taking out 6 of the scum. ---------------------------------- Submarine warfare - SS Nautilus caught a prize on the 11th in the waters of the Sea of Japan. She surfaced and pumped 6" shells into the small Tanker Kozui Maru leaving her oil full hull burning and heavily damaged.

vlcz -> RE: 8th February 1942 (1/28/2010 12:12:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Speedy Anyone? I don´t expect it will be of much use to you... as I really ignore even the exact time of monsoon efects but.. April 42, quite a battle in Tavoy (2 division from each side) got 180.000+ supply in Bangkok (3 hexes away, cross jungle -north road cut by the enemy) Tavoy is starving

witpqs -> RE: 8th February 1942 (1/29/2010 4:10:22 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: witpqs We're just in January '42. The wet monsoon is winter, but at the moment I'm not trying to move supplies through that area. Speedy, I got this wrong in my last post, wet monsoon is summer. I do recall that Patch 2 Beta had wrong dates but they were corrected in Patch 2 (final) after some of us consulted both wikipedia and the source below. Click on the 'Geography' section. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bm.html quote: Climate: tropical monsoon; cloudy, rainy, hot, humid summers (southwest monsoon, June to September); less cloudy, scant rainfall, mild temperatures, lower humidity during winter (northeast monsoon, December to April)

Speedysteve -> 12-15th February 1942 (1/29/2010 3:03:26 PM)
Hi all, Thanks witpqs. So between June and September there'll be big effects? Interesting vlcz - that is a massive detriement there! ----------------------------------------- Malaya - Singapore was attaked again on the 14th and my men held on losing 2500 men to 1700. Forts at level 1 again. ------------------------------------------- Java - Tjilatjap fell on the 13th and Makasar on the 14th. Buitenzorg is quiet and will hopefully hold out for a fair while with 35K supply to hand and almost 900 AV. Soerabaya still holding firm. One of my subs spotted a CV force south of Makassar on the 13th. It became apparent what this was doing there on the 15th as Japanese forces invaded Koepang, Timor with the 17th Infantry Rgt. I assume the CV's are patrolling north and the heavy guns of Ise and Hyuga protected the landings. Ironically my 2 Dutch PT's Squadrons had just reached there from Soerabaya and charged headlong into the invasion fleet. The Japanese had a well protected force though and despite blowing up DMS W-19 7 of my little friends were lost to Japanese fire. 3 remain. ---------------------------- China - Status quo in this region with only bombardments to show over the past few days. ----------------------------- Burma - 1 x AVG Squadron , 1 x Hurri B Sqn, 2 x Blenheim Sqn and 1 x Hudson Sqn are now based at Imphal defended by 2 x AA Rgt's and a fully equipped BF. They are launching ineffective bombing runs on 33rd IJA Division positions west of Katha daily. More reinforcements have reached India now with 2 more large BF's unloading at Madras along with 3 x Hurri and 3 x Blenheim Sqn's. Half of these are flying to Calcutta and then to Dimapur/Ledo for operations in Burma ------------------------------------ Other areas - All quiet in SoPac now after Noumea fell. No sign of KB. Strong forces are at Suva and would take about 4 x IJA Divisions + support to shift them. Naval Bn's are en route to Raoul and Norfolk Islands....... Unloading at Attu continues disturbed by SS I-5 today. Depsite being chased off by KV's she returned in the afternoon and sunk the fuel laden TK Hadnot with 2 well placed torpedoes. CV Hornet arrived in the eastern US yesterday! She'll make her way to San Diego. When she gets there it will be time to start a little operation...... ---------------------------------- Submarine Warfare - SS Pike surfaced and put 6 shells and dud torpedoes into AKL Penang Maru south of Hamamatsu on the 12th. SS Grayling also put dud torpedoes and 9 shells into AK Hohuku Maru in Toyohara harbour. On the other side other than Hadnot's demise mentioned above 1 of my sub's have been damaged by DC's (Tarpon at Brunei).

witpqs -> RE: 12-15th February 1942 (1/29/2010 4:48:17 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Speedy Thanks witpqs. So between June and September there'll be big effects? I have to say 'to the best of my knowledge' because I just did a search in the release notes and I did not find any reference to the dates of the monsoon (and only one mnetion of hte word monsoon), so I can only go by the forum posts as I remember them.

Mynok -> RE: 12-15th February 1942 (1/29/2010 5:37:46 PM)
quote: SS Grayling also put dud torpedoes and 9 shells into AK Hohuku Maru in Toyohara harbour. [X(] Aggressive little pom you are! [:D]

Speedysteve -> 16th February 1942 - Singapore falls! (1/29/2010 6:29:34 PM)
Hi all, No worries witpqs Iappreciate your thoughts! Mynok - not my fauly. These nip......errr Penguins just don't know when they're beaten! Now if only I can get some working torpedoes![;)] ------------------------ Malaya - The big news of today was the capture of Singapore by Imperial Japanese forces. It cost the Japanese another 1300 casualties but over 46,000 Allied troops marched into captivity.....long live King George! This frees up over 3 divisions worth of Japanese troops. Presumably they'll need some R & R but I wonder where they'll go next. Logically Sumatra, which remains in Allied hands, and Faber will probably want to add to Japanese forces on Luzon. That's my guess. -------------------------------- China - The Chinese fight back! The 44th Chinese Corps had been reinforced by the 25th Corps and 28th New Division after being pushed back towards Pingsiang (SE of Changsha). They pushed 2 Japanese Rgt's back east across the river. We follow these battered Japanese....... Ground combat at 82,55 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 14323 troops, 112 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 447 Defending force 6171 troops, 54 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 199 Allied adjusted assault: 183 Japanese adjusted defense: 75 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: experience(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 2310 casualties reported Squads: 62 destroyed, 27 disabled Non Combat: 66 destroyed, 30 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 4 (3 destroyed, 1 disabled) Units retreated 2 Allied ground losses: 264 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 44th Chinese Corps 25th Chinese Corps 28th New Chinese Division Defending units: 102nd Infantry Regiment 2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment [image]local://upfiles/4211/799F4FCC818243769CC399F6B352191A.jpg[/image]

Speedysteve -> 17-19th February 1942 (1/31/2010 9:30:01 AM)
Hi all, A quieter few days after the fall of Singapore. ---------------------------- SRA - Luzon has been the usual - air raids and artillery bombardments. Koepang fell to the Japanese on the 18th quite easily. Still standing firm at Buitenzorg. No Japanese attacks there. The main point to note was the unfortunate demise of AK Boero[:(] My redoutable Freighter was on it's way back to reinforce Bataan when it ran into BB Kongo and Haruna north of Kuching....say no more....RIP. Clark will be out of supply by the end March. ------------------------------- China - The Chinese chased the Japanese back across the river near Pingsiang and were held at their bridgehead! We attack tomorrow........ Another Japanese Bde stormed towards Chengchow in the north and lost over 4000 men. We also attack here against this Bde and the 2 Divisions there. More Japanese are also advancing up from Singyang in the SW....a reported 2 units. ------------------------------- Other areas - All fuel and supply on the current convoy has bene unloaded at Suva. Port Detachments are about 10 days out from Raoul and Norfolk Islands. I wonder if Faber will respond to my landings at Attu. He know's i;m there due to recent sub attack on the convoy........ ------------------------------- Submarine Warfare - A few missed/dud attacks my end[:(] On the other side SS RO-33 also showed up near Attu and left AVD Casco heavily listing and burning after a torpedo hit (she limped towards Attu's 'port'). In return the ASW assets in the area hunting the git all day and reportedly left RO-33 heavily damaged after DC attacks.......

Chad Harrison -> RE: 17-19th February 1942 (3/26/2010 10:51:48 PM)
Hey Speedy Finally had sometime to hop online again and check our your AAR. I know things have been buys over there for ya, but is the game still going? Hows SRA? China? Has he slowed down yet? Hope all is well. Chad

Speedysteve -> RE: 17-19th February 1942 (3/29/2010 11:26:57 AM)
Hi Chad, Hope you're well my friend. Yes the game is still going but both Faber and I have had severe RL intrusion meaning we're lucky if we get a done turn done a week! We should be able to get through a few more again soon though when Faber's RL situation dies down after Easter....mine however will still be hectic. I'll update more fully in due course, since with the slow pace it's tough to keep remembering everything! The big news though its that he's invaded northern Australia!

Chad Harrison -> RE: 17-19th February 1942 (3/29/2010 2:45:03 PM)
Steve Glad to hear all well, albeit busy. Landed on Oz huh? Looking forward to hearing about that one! If your die rolls in your game against Farber are anything like your die rolls in our games, you will do just fine! [:D]

Speedysteve -> Updates....... (5/18/2010 11:34:07 AM)
Hi all, Sorry again for the lack of updates....both Faber and I have been extremely busy with RL. That phase is starting to ease a little now though so the pace is picking up again. To give you an idea of how slow things have been we've only progressed 3 game weeks in 3.5 months of RL![X(] --------------------------------- To get caught up I thought I'd summarise by each theater starting with a brief overview....... We're upto 8th March 1942 now. Bataan and 2 strongholds on Java are what remain of the SRA. China is fun and games, swings and roundabouts. Noumea has fallen in the South Pacific and northern Australia has been invaded by a small Japanese force. --------------------------------- This detailed update will focus on Burma and southern India.......... Over the past 3 weeks the Japanese have strengthend their position in Northern Burma with recon reports showing more units (ARM/ART) nearing Myitkyina. Hurri's have been flying recon every day over the reported IGD which has been tracked marching north through jungle towards Imphal. Unsure of whether this was a feitn or not I have not responded in strength....until now. Orders were issued on 8th March to 6th Australian Division and 7th Arm Bde based in Calcutta to load up and head out to Imphal along with 3 x ART Bn's and an AT Bn. 68th Ind Bde is also railing down from Karachi. I have plenty more force in south/SW India but I'm not commiting them until I know it's either a bigger attack and that an invasion of India is off the table. Both the Aussies and Brits committed to this are at full strength and experienced. At present I also have air supremacy in this region with no Japanese planes being spotted in the air at all! LBA from Imphal and Dimapur and bombing Japanese positions almost daily. [image]local://upfiles/4211/F21AD2BC81DB4FB6AAC651DEB4CD71CA.jpg[/image]

BrucePowers -> RE: Updates....... (5/18/2010 11:58:34 PM)
Speedy you never write anymore[sm=nono.gif][:D]

Speedysteve -> Updates.......So Pac (5/19/2010 11:53:57 AM)
Hi all, Hi Bruce - what can I say man...RL and all that. I've been here in spirit if nothing else[;)] ----------------------------------- With the fall of Noumea at the end of February there has been no further Japanese activity other than the capture of unoccupied Luganville. The Allies have landed substantial forces on Fuji now. Almost 300 aircraft occupy the airfields and hangars, oodles of support and engineers occupy the place building all sort of military installations. From the LCU perspective both the Americal and 24th USA Divisions occupy positions around Suva with 8th USMC Rgt alogn with Tanks and a CD Rgt occupy Nadi on the west of Fuji. I feel quite secure at Fuji now. Unless KB is used and 6 divisions+ there's no way the Japanese can take it. This forms the 'eastern end' of my So Pac defence. Both Raoul and Norfolk Islands have port detachments and supplies ashore. The next convoys will contain Engineers to fortify and expand the Islands. After that troops will be ashore. The 'western end' of SoPac defence is eastern Australia. Troopwise we all know it has oodles of Militia Divisions but I feel quite secure in Aus. It does need more Support and Engineers though along with aircraft. Some wll be sent from Suva whilst others arrive from San Francisco. Further troops will also be sent from USA including 7th and 9th USMC Rgt's arriving in the next 2 weeks. This concludes the SoPac update.............. [image]local://upfiles/4211/CB75E1744BA64B44A5906CAC08162927.jpg[/image]

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