RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please

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Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/20/2014 7:26:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe You better watch out now that MrKane isn't distracted by Greyjoy! Or hope he gets another game going soon. [:D] I don't understand how he manages it. He has been running at least 3 games, ny59giants, GreyJoy and mine. He typically returns a turn in less than a hour, sometimes less than half an hour. Today he has returned every turn quickly (must have all that free time now GreyJoy's game has finished). It usually takes me an hour and a half or two to do a turn. Looks like we will have run 5 turns today! This is taking up too much of my time.[sm=00000289.gif]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/20/2014 9:07:48 PM)
August 2nd 1942 Air Losses: 3 Japanese, 9 Allied, 2 Pilots Japanese occupy: Batoe-Eilanden (air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Off Fiji, RO-64 turns the tables on the hunters and sinks the DD Morris in what appears to be an ASW task force[:)]. Counter-attack damages it to the tune of 32/52/3 - it is a long way back to repairs[:(]. South West of Pearl, attack a task force and locate: quote: DD Shaw CA Salt Lake City CLAA San Juan CLAA San Diego DD Flusser DD Tucker DD Reid DD Cassin DD Downes Could be these are needing upgrades, or may be a clue that there are carriers around? China Some good air strikes that disable many squads. At Kunming the first attack does very well: quote: Ground combat at Kunming (69,48) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 21515 troops, 255 guns, 618 vehicles, Assault Value = 833 Defending force 22585 troops, 144 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 597 Japanese adjusted assault: 2273 Allied adjusted defense: 1048 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), leaders(+), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 255 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 36 (1 destroyed, 35 disabled) Allied ground losses: 1425 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 61 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 69 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled Vehicles lost 11 (1 destroyed, 10 disabled) Assaulting units: 12th Tank Regiment 8th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 13th Tank Regiment 15th Tank Regiment 21st Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Division 9th Tank Regiment 11th Tank Regiment 5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 52nd Field AA Battalion 12th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 66th Chinese Corps 11th Group Army 33rd Base Group China Air TaskForce 16th Chinese Base Force Burma Allies hit Mandalay and Shwebo airfields. At Mandalay some leaking CAP does well. On the Kienko road, where he had been bombarding me, I have moved the siege train into place and bombard him quote: Ground combat at 80,40 (near Tienshui) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 4876 troops, 344 guns, 389 vehicles, Assault Value = 693 Defending force 35619 troops, 193 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 980 Allied ground losses: 290 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 20 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Guns lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 57th Infantry Brigade 40th Inf Group Brigade 1st Ind.Mixed Brigade 2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 1st Army 15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment 22nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment 52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion 15th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 9th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment 51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion 26th Field Artillery Regiment 4th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 2nd Chinese Corps 67th Chinese Corps 71st Chinese Corps The Southern Chinese situation is getting very messy, see below. Australia Quiet. Pacific Allies bombard Efate, but it is completely abandoned. The Allies have a task force reporting as 5 ships including 2 CL located at Ndeni these last two days. I have tried to attack it with G3M3 from Russel Island but they didn't go. I wonder what this is? Engineering Paramushiro-Jima to 4, Kweiyang to 4, Rabaul to 7 (will continue to 8). R&D Quiet [image]local://upfiles/43194/381988A584FF4CBFA1A7A2893C20FA5B.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/21/2014 8:40:59 AM)
August 3rd 1942 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 1 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Pagai-Eilanden (air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Quiet China Miserable weather grounds most attacks and also a lot of recon. The attack at Kunming is not so good and will have to pause for a day or two to remove disruption. quote: Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 21334 troops, 255 guns, 618 vehicles, Assault Value = 803 Defending force 21527 troops, 144 guns, 70 vehicles, Assault Value = 533 Japanese adjusted assault: 1364 Allied adjusted defense: 1771 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 50 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 704 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 53 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 82 disabled Engineers: 3 destroyed, 7 disabled Vehicles lost 14 (5 destroyed, 9 disabled) Assaulting units: 15th Tank Regiment 8th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 27th Division 12th Tank Regiment 21st Ind.Mixed Brigade 13th Tank Regiment 11th Tank Regiment 12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 52nd Field AA Battalion 12th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 66th Chinese Corps China Air TaskForce 11th Group Army 33rd Base Group 16th Chinese Base Force Burma Allies bomb the Jungle again. This is doing no damage to me (but may be using supplies) but could be a prelude to an attack. Australia Allies chew up an artillery unit that was strategic moving from Fenton to Darwin. Pacific Quiet Engineering Kukong airfield to 4. Kungchang to 3. Allies have developed Tarawa to 1 and Kalemyo to 7. I will stop expanding in China as 1942 victory is off the cards so there is no point in expanding bases that will have no effect and will probably be lost in 1945. It does mean I will have a good collection of interlocking airfields to defend China. R&D A6M5b to 2/44

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/21/2014 11:33:52 AM)
August 4th 1942 Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 3 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Enggano(air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Quiet China Steady progress. Burma Allies hit Katha and destroy two Oscar on the ground that had just been shifted there. Australia Allied forces are coming for Katherine. They have 2 units cutting the rail North and 13 units approaching from the South. There is only a single AA unit left there and it will try and run away. Pacific Allies have landed small forces at Ndeni and Tarawa. Engineering Quiet R&D Ki-43-IIb to 10/42 (will move this forward to 9/42) Ki-43-IV to 12/44

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/21/2014 6:12:04 PM)
August 5th 1942 Air Losses: 22 Japanese, 9 Allied, 6 Pilots Japanese occupy: Terempa(air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Luganville Sub Wars Quiet China Tried something new, sent the Nicks in to straf a small Chinese Corps in the open. They do well. quote: Morning Air attack on 8th New Chinese Corps, at 78,45 , near Chungking Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 40 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 281 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 40 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing from 100 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Attack at Kunming reduces forts to zero and does well. Slight surprise to see a supply(-) for the defenders given that Kunming is a good supply source for the Chinese. Two tank regiments and an infantry brigade will have to be rested but the division and 5 tank regiments remain available to attack at once. quote: Ground combat at Kunming (69,48) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 21313 troops, 255 guns, 618 vehicles, Assault Value = 797 Defending force 17821 troops, 136 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 477 Japanese adjusted assault: 799 Allied adjusted defense: 742 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1053 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 71 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 15 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled) Vehicles lost 19 (2 destroyed, 17 disabled) Allied ground losses: 922 casualties reported Squads: 8 destroyed, 117 disabled Non Combat: 23 destroyed, 22 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Guns lost 15 (2 destroyed, 13 disabled) Assaulting units: 21st Ind.Mixed Brigade 8th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 12th Tank Regiment 13th Tank Regiment 15th Tank Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 27th Division 11th Tank Regiment 12th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 52nd Field AA Battalion 20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 66th Chinese Corps 11th Group Army 16th Chinese Base Force Burma Allies sweep Katha and meet nothing. They also hit Akyab and a few A6M5 on LRCAP engage. They do well against the Hurricanes on escort and penetrate to the bombers but there are too few present to do any good. Australia Move some aircraft back into Darwin. Tried strafing the lead armour with Zeroes, ineffective, and bombing with Sallies - got some good disablements. The fighters engage lightnings on sweep and lose out again. Allied forces have entered Fenton hex. Pacific Bombard the forces at Tarawa. The 57th Coastal Artillery regiment is defending. Will probably keep bombarding this for a while. Allies land at Luganville. 14 G3M3 flying from Rossel Island attack with torpedoes but only engage 2 DE and miss with all attacks. Engineering Allies expand Cooktown to 6. R&D First B6N1 factory is fixed and changes to the B6N2.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/22/2014 7:53:10 AM)
August 6th 1942 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 1 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Tambelan-eilanden(air drop), Kunming[8D][8D][8D] Allies occupy: Luganville Japanese land at: Allies land at: Although Allied day air loss is shown as 1 the Allied air loss points has jumped by 34. I think this means he has lost a lot of aircraft to Ops while re-basing them, or through disbandment maybe? A couple of possibilities for this. - When he sunk my cruisers there was a similar jump and I assumed he had pulled the bombers off his carriers; he could be returning them. - Recce is out of date but it shows no aircraft at Chengtu. He could have withdrawn the rest of the Chinese air force. Sub Wars A sub attacks South of Takao and scores a dud on a big tanker. This is the first sight of a sub in this area. I will need to update my ASW. China Allied bombers from India strike at Kunming attackers but have no effect. My bombers do have an effect and then the ground attack takes Kunming. quote: Ground combat at Kunming (69,48) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 15883 troops, 215 guns, 463 vehicles, Assault Value = 694 Defending force 16535 troops, 134 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 374 Japanese adjusted assault: 832 Allied adjusted defense: 91 Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Kunming !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), preparation(-) fatigue(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 352 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 36 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Guns lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled) Allied ground losses: 6709 casualties reported Squads: 151 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 123 destroyed, 40 disabled Engineers: 39 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 14 (14 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 3 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 27th Division 9th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 21st Ind.Mixed Brigade 23rd Tank Regiment 8th Tank Regiment 13th Tank Regiment 11th Tank Regiment 12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 52nd Field AA Battalion 12th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 66th Chinese Corps 11th Group Army 16th Chinese Base Force 10% Damage to the industry. That is 160 points of supply knocked out from Chinese[:)] and it opens the way to push on to Burma. Only 370 miles to go and I will have opened the road[;)]. Also, it gives me 160 points of supply generation on the front lines. Burma Allies bomb Katha. Australia Quiet Pacific Luganville is undefended and falls. Rather poor bombardment of Tarawa launched. Allies using cut off force at Koumac for bombing practice. Engineering Wotje fort to 4. R&D Quiet

comsolut -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/22/2014 9:52:12 AM)
Quietly sitting in the back row and watching with keen interest.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/22/2014 10:38:16 AM)
Looking at my current IJA fighter builds and upgrades. I am beginning to develop a pool of Oscars and Tojos and there are few Nate groups in need of upgrade. The 4th and 5th Sentai are big groups that upgrade to the Nick and, eventually, to night fighters so I am waiting on getting enough Nicks to do that; will probably not be before the end of November before this is done. I have 184 Nates being used for training that need to be kept on that, with another 36 arriving at the end of September. I have 36 Nates at Soerabaja, 30 Oscar 1a at Palembang, and 25 Oscar 1b at Rangoon being used for gaining experience on CAP. These can all be upgraded. Also looking at fighter dispositions in China. If he has withdrawn airpower from China I can reduce my fighter presence. I reckon though that I need to keep CAP at Lanchow and Sian to protect against 4E striking from Ledo at the oil. He could, also, attack the HI at Hong Kong, Canton, Hankow, Kunming, Bangkok, Changsha. However, loss of HI there doesn't concern me as much as loss of LI and there is a lot of potential LI targets. (LI loss reduces supply, HI loss just changes when that supply is generated as fuel/oil will run out eventually). There are three 12 point Nate groups at Mukden (that expand to big groups in 1944) so may be I will convert them to better aircraft and put them to CAP experience over Chinese industry. IJN is much simpler, I still have to upgrade the CV aircraft to A6M5.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/22/2014 2:21:07 PM)
You can always break down a big sentai and upgrade in thirds. The 4th is restricted isn't it? Are you expecting more action around the HI?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/24/2014 9:45:11 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe You can always break down a big sentai and upgrade in thirds. I feel so stupid that I just overlooked that. Thank you for the hint. 14 more Nicks will be deployed at once. quote: The 4th is restricted isn't it? Are you expecting more action around the HI? It seems to be permanently attached to the 21st Air Division which is not restricted (I may have bought it out I can't remember). Some of the restrictions of air headquarters seem different in this scenario. In any case, it is currently at Chengtu and can be used in China.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/24/2014 9:47:06 AM)
August 7th 1942 Air Losses: 16 Japanese, 5 Allied, 8 Pilots Japanese occupy: Lingga(air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars SS Thresher has a bad day as it gets two hits on xAK near Kyushu, both of which fail to explode. China Lots of bombers grounded for repairs and the others don't do all that well. China map below. Looks like I won't be able to trap his forces South and East of the Wei. At "1" a bombardment attack shows the defense as very weak: quote: Ground combat at 75,46 (near Chungking) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2625 troops, 181 guns, 164 vehicles, Assault Value = 372 Defending force 12477 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 198 Allied ground losses: 153 casualties reported Squads: 6 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 1st Ind.Inf.Group 4th Ind.Mixed Regiment 20th Recon Regiment 51st Recon Regiment 26th Recon Regiment 28th Field AA Machinecannon Company 6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 13th Mortar Battalion 5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion 24th Fld AA Machinecannon Company 11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion 4th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment 10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 13th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion Defending units: 35th Chinese Corps 64th Chinese Corps 83rd Chinese Corps 1st Group Army At "2" an attack goes badly so the defenders can escape: quote: Ground combat at 77,50 (near Chihkiang) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 29072 troops, 277 guns, 453 vehicles, Assault Value = 1031 Defending force 61845 troops, 285 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1842 Japanese adjusted assault: 549 Allied adjusted defense: 1765 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 3542 casualties reported Squads: 14 destroyed, 402 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 49 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 28 disabled Guns lost 37 (1 destroyed, 36 disabled) Allied ground losses: 913 casualties reported Squads: 14 destroyed, 75 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Guns lost 10 (3 destroyed, 7 disabled) Assaulting units: 58th Division 17th Division 1st Tank Division 8th Armored Car Co 5th Armored Car Co Defending units: 53rd Chinese Corps 70th Chinese Corps 58th Chinese Corps 50th Chinese Corps 9th Prov Chinese Corps 65th Chinese Corps 5th Chinese Cavalry Corps 12th Group Army 35th Group Army At "3" a bombardment attack reveals heavy over-stacking and little chance of success for a deliberate attack. quote: Ground combat at 78,47 (near Chungking) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2655 troops, 248 guns, 50 vehicles, Assault Value = 1258 Defending force 77033 troops, 319 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2175 Allied ground losses: 764 casualties reported Squads: 34 destroyed, 26 disabled Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Assaulting units: 116th Division 13th Division 32nd Division 3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion 28th Mountain Gun Regiment NCPC Army 4th Mortar Battalion 7th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 11th Field Artillery Regiment 10th Mortar Battalion Defending units: 26th Chinese Corps 4th Chinese Corps 72nd Chinese Corps 18th Chinese Corps 74th Chinese Corps 99th Chinese Corps 30th Group Army At "4", I have a division arriving soon and will be able to launch an attack if he hasn't vacated by then. Burma Allies bomb Akyab. Supply had been short across the theatre but 60,000 supply is landing at Rangoon. Australia LRCAP over Fenton leaks to Katherine and takes losses from sweeping P-39D. Katherine has been abandoned and Allied forces have moved in. Bombing at Fenton encounters P-38E on CAP but the LRCAP protects the bombers. The Allies have two armoured regiments here but all the damage I've got is disablements on non-combat troops. Pacific Allies using cut off force at Koumac for bombing practice. Engineering Quiet. R&D H8K2 to 11/42 [image]local://upfiles/43194/4BC7C86F0A60430A872746627F594B73.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/24/2014 6:25:43 PM)
August 8th 1942 Air Losses: 20 Japanese, 5 Allied, 9 Pilots Japanese occupy: Djemadja(air drop) Allies occupy: Katherine Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Quiet China Bomb the LI at Chungking. 8 LI are shown as damaged. Flak downs quite a few planes but it is noticeable that the Ki-49-IIa take no losses. Expect this is because they are armoured but may be related to having the best pilots. Will keep using the armoured planes to hit Chungking and use the unarmoured planes against troops. Ground attack near Neikiang gets a 1:1 and does okay. Noticeable that there is a supply(-) for the Chinese even though they are only 90 miles from Chungking. Looks like no supply is getting out to any Chinese forces away from the cities. Allied C-47 losses have stopped so may be they are no longer lifting supply into China. Burma Quiet Australia Katherine is lost to the Allies. At Fenton P-40E sweep against my LRCAP and I lose 9 aircraft to 2 of his. Continue to bomb the armoured units here. Pacific Allies using cut off force at Koumac for bombing practice. Engineering Tjepoe airfield to 4. Will stop there. R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/25/2014 12:25:29 PM)
August 9th 1942 Air Losses: 11 Japanese, 7 Allied, 3 Pilots Japanese occupy: Soebi-besar(air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Efate Sub Wars Quiet. No Allied subs have been detected for 2 days. Look like he may be redeploying them. China Various ground attacks are stalled. Air attack continues to weaken forces. Burma Quiet Australia At Fenton again lose out in the air but not so badly and bombers hit the armour again. The Allies have 2 armoured regiments here. I have a recon, a tank, and a naval guard unit - is it worth risking an attack? The Allies have no retreat line. Looks like, at this time, the Type 1 Medium tank is better than the Australian armour - Matilda, Humber and Stuart light tanks. Pacific Allies using cut off force at Koumac for bombing practice. Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/25/2014 2:51:32 PM)
August 10th 1942 Air Losses: 10 Japanese, 6 Allied, 5 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Efate Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars I spot a few Allied subs and launch an ineffective ASW attack near Sumatra. I-170 engages a task force containing the Warspite, Arizona, West Virginia and Maryland near Pearl Harbour. It puts two torpedoes into the CL Trenton and sinks it[:)]. These BB were engaged in bombarding Noumea so are probably heading back to Pearl for some minor repair work. China Air attacks continue. Attacks on the LI at Chungking get no hits and lose 5 Ki-49-IIa to flak or ops[:(] Supply has flowed to all the front line forces so will launch a series of deliberate attacks[sm=00000036.gif]. Drop in Allied base VP suggests that Chungking is now completely out of supply[:)]. Burma Quiet Australia Sweeps miss each other as I sweep 1 hex South of Fenton and he sweeps Fenton. B-17s hit Darwin and 2 Tojo are lost on the ground. At Fenton an attack is launched, in the animation his regiments are shown as having no AV. The attack goes very well with the 2/7th Armoured Regiment surrendering[8D]. quote: Ground combat at Fenton (76,126) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3134 troops, 16 guns, 129 vehicles, Assault Value = 620 Defending force 1126 troops, 0 guns, 77 vehicles, Assault Value = 33 Japanese adjusted assault: 89 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 89 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: leaders(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 22 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 531 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 49 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 53 (45 destroyed, 8 disabled) Units destroyed 1 A relief force of the 10th Cav Recce Regiment may open an escape route this turn but that itself has been weakened by air attack. Another force is trying to cut my retreat from Fenton. Pacific Allies continue using cut off force at Koumac for bombing practice[:(]. Engineering Kavieng airfield to 5. I think I will stop here. R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/25/2014 3:03:22 PM)
Trying to decide where to put my carriers and that means looking at possible threats. The biggest worry I have is a strike at Java, Sumatra or the use of BB to bombard Darwin and take it quickly. Burma would be a land campaign at this time, I don't think he can risk a strike to Moulmein etc. this early. If he attacks in the Marshalls I'm not going to risk assets. If he attacks in the Solomons or towards Rossel Island he can but there are enough air bases that it would have to be a major op, or he slowly island hops under LBA. So I think putting the CV in the Banda Sea might work. From there it is four days to help Rossel Island, 1 day to help Darwin, or 4 days to South Sumatra. This does leave the Aleutians exposed but they are quite well dug-in.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/25/2014 11:43:45 PM)
August 11th 1942 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 4 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Quiet China Various attacks launched that do okay but no progress made. Burma Allies hit Lashio and Prome airfields. Australia B-17 hit the troops at Fenton. I launch a deliberate attack and am surprised that the 2/8 armoured regiment and the 10th cavalry recce regiment surrender. This is very nice result. 3 Armoured units have been destroyed. I'm not sure if he will have upgraded to the latest tanks or was using the initial models. quote: Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 552 casualties reported Squads: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 99 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 63 (63 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 2 However, I will now abandon Fenton and fall back to Darwin. Pacific Allies continue using cut off force at Koumac for bombing practice. Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/26/2014 2:50:34 PM)
August 12th 1942 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 14 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Chihkiang(auto) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Quiet China Chihkiang has been abandoned and was auto-captured. Continuing to chasten the enemy with air attacks, destructive bombardments and deliberate attacks. Burma Allies hit Ramree Island airfield. A few planes on LRCAP over Akyab leak over and down 10 Blenheims[:)]. He has been hitting airfields, without escort, and I have been CAPPing airfields. If I ever pick the same as him it is likely to be a slaughter of his aircraft. I think he is taking a big risk. Supply in Burma has taken a big drop despite the 60,000 I landed a few days ago. This could be a result of his bombing of airfields but I also see supply at Saigon has shot up. I am worried that having shipped supply to Burma it has then flowed back to Saigon[:(]. Australia Quiet. Trying to decide whether to hold at Fenton for a bit. I have level 3 forts and forces that should be able to hold for a few days against his and could do some significant damage to the Australians. The loss of 3 units in the last couple of days must make him nervous. Pacific Quiet Engineering Lanchow to 7, will continue to 8. Changsha, Siangtan to 5 and will stop there. Sapporo to 2 and will continue to develop defenses for Hokkaido. R&D Quiet Ships Lots of Minekaze class APD have been upgraded and now have Type 13 Radar (air radar), they have a top speed of 29, reasonable AA and ASW but have a short endurance of 2500. The only other ships with radar at the moment are the Shokaku and Zuikaku. Is it worth using the APD as escort for the slower CVs? Been looking at fuel efficiency of various escorts. The Ansyu xPB seems pretty hopeless. So I intend to replace these by using DMS and Mutsuki and Fubuki class DD. The xPB will be used as pickets instead. The To'su PB is good so will continue to use that. Also I need to make sure all my sub-chasers are doing useful things as they are relatively cheap. PP Two damaged divsions from China have been de-restricted and, once recovered, will be sent to add to defenses. Probably one to Sumatra and one to act as a mobile reserve in the Rabaul area.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/27/2014 7:47:56 AM)
August 13th 1942 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 7 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Mare' (auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: 250 Turns completed! Sub Wars Quiet China Some poor attacks and some poor planning have left some of my troops potentially vulnerable near Chungking. Elsewhere, attacks continue to weaken the Chinese. Noticed that where I trapped 11 units near Tienshui there are now only 9. Isolation is very effective. See map and legend below. Burma Quiet Australia B-17 hit Fenton. Australian troops have entered the Fenton hex in force. Pacific Quiet Engineering IChang to 8, don't really need it now as the front has moved on! It does free up some aviation support to redeploy. Kweiyang to 5, will keep pushing this. R&D Ki-44-IIc to 5/43. China Map The white numbers are the number of Allied units present. At "A" I attacked and drove the defense back. I had 3 Recon regiments and an infantry brigade on reserve (pursuit). I expected the defense to fall back to "X" and to be able to pursue across the river. If, instead, they fell back East I expected my armour would not be able to pursue them the full hex and I could then redirect them across the river. What has happened is the recon units are now stuck in hex "B" and the infantry is half way there and will take 6 more days to arrive. Recon reports 50000 Chinese in the hex so, even without supplies, he probably will attack and smash my recon regiments. Most, if not all, of the Chinese are units that have been defeated and retreated at least once so are probably not in the best of shape. At "C" I attacked hoping to drive the defense back and open the road to "B", but the defense turned out to be 3 strong corps and the air strikes had done little damage. quote: Ground combat at 75,47 (near Chungking) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 12427 troops, 140 guns, 402 vehicles, Assault Value = 449 Defending force 30215 troops, 137 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 750 Japanese adjusted assault: 126 Allied adjusted defense: 922 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 7 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1156 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 114 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Vehicles lost 36 (1 destroyed, 35 disabled) Allied ground losses: 268 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 38 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Assaulting units: 9th Ind.Mixed Brigade 1st Tank Division 8th Armored Car Co 5th Armored Car Co Defending units: 8th Chinese Corps 28th Chinese Corps 79th Chinese Corps At "D" I have been bombarding retreating forces and inflicting heavy losses on the Chinese each turn quote: Allied ground losses: 1219 casualties reported Squads: 62 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled) At "E" I have moved two weak units and a HQ into the hex. If they had arrived before the Chinese they could move up to "D" and then a division be set back from "D" to block the 10 units retreating. However, they entered at the same time as the Chinese. If the Chinese attack my troops will not do well, but he doesn't have recce so may not realise how weak they are. Depending what he does, it is still possible I can trap the 10 units. [image]local://upfiles/43194/868ED4FC38754AA6BAB8B6E909E90E1A.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/27/2014 1:15:44 PM)
August 14th 1942 Air Losses: 0 Japanese, 6 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Ambrym (auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Quiet China No Allied attacks in China. Usual bombardments and air attacks. Burma Quiet Australia Australians launch a shock attack at Fenton. I think this is a win for me, definitely if I can pull the troops out in a fighting retreat. quote: Ground combat at Fenton (76,126) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 31762 troops, 351 guns, 527 vehicles, Assault Value = 968 Defending force 15269 troops, 176 guns, 149 vehicles, Assault Value = 514 Allied adjusted assault: 881 Japanese adjusted defense: 597 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 1727 casualties reported Squads: 13 destroyed, 143 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 26 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled Guns lost 39 (3 destroyed, 36 disabled) Vehicles lost 34 (4 destroyed, 30 disabled) Allied ground losses: 1297 casualties reported Squads: 95 destroyed, 52 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 37 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Guns lost 41 (14 destroyed, 27 disabled) Vehicles lost 24 (1 destroyed, 23 disabled) Assaulting units: 3rd Motor Brigade 3rd Army Tank Brigade 2nd Australian Division 5th Australian Division 4th Aus Cav Brigade 2/10th Armoured Regiment 3rd Australian Brigade 108th Anti Tank Regiment 2nd Australian Hvy AA Regiment Northern Territory 4th Australian Lt AA Regiment 1st Medium Regiment 13th Australian Hvy AA Regiment Defending units: 48th Division 14th Tank Regiment 11th Ind.AA Gun Co 5th Air Defense AA Regiment 31st Ind.AA Gun Co Pacific Quiet Engineering Quiet R&D Nakajima Ha-45 to 12/42

offenseman -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/27/2014 1:31:44 PM)
May I ask what your HI and Supply levels are? Overall.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/27/2014 3:42:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: offenseman May I ask what your HI and Supply levels are? Overall. You can see the detail at the summary at end of each Month. HI - 616,640 - which is fine, considering how much of the stuff from HI has been saved (engines, armaments, vehicles). Supply - 2,513,440 according to Tracker. A lot lower than I like but currently saving at a rate of about 5000 a day. It is a constant exercise to send supply out to areas but Burma is the only theatre suffering from shortfalls. However, almost all theatres have occasional problems.

offenseman -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/27/2014 3:47:26 PM)
+5000/dy is good at that point. I'll look more closely at the end of the months... [:)] Thank you

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/30/2014 5:17:09 PM)
August 15th 1942 Air Losses: 18 Japanese, 14 Allied, 6 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Erromango(auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Allies manage a dud into a tanker near Formosa. China Bombardments and air attacks. 2 Divisions have made an unopposed crossing of the Yangtze between Chungking and Neikiang. Neikiang should fall soon. Burma Quiet Australia Fur ball in the air over Fenton as we both bomb troops. Allies get through escort/LRCAP and shoot down some Sallies. A B-17 is downed by flak. 4 Hudson attack a transport task force loitering and intending to evacuate air. A ship is damaged and 3 Hudson shot down by some zeroes from Koepang. Pacific Quiet Engineering Milne Bay port expanded to 1. R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/30/2014 10:18:34 PM)
August 16th 1942 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 4 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Epi(auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Quiet China Allied bombers from India launch minor annoyances. Most Japanese planes fail to fly, including the CAP that could have engaged the bombers. Ground attacks do nothing well. Surprisingly, Chinese forces near Kunming do not suffer a supply(-). Burma Quiet Australia I have vacated Fenton (not sure this was wise). Allied attacks therefore meet nothing. Pacific Quiet Engineering Patung airfield to 8. Fortifications at Saipan to 5. Allies expand Tarawa airfield to 2 and Ledo to 7. R&D Quiet

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/30/2014 11:52:56 PM)
What left Fenton. Everything? How about a screen picture of northern Oz?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/31/2014 9:55:10 AM)
Everything left Fenton. I hadn't planned to hold it and had only moved a division there because I had an opportunity to destroy three armoured regiments. Screen shot of Australia below, but I don't think it is that helpful! If he pushes on and sieges Darwin then I am thinking of landing reinforcements in Wyndham and seeing if I can take Katherine or Daly Waters by surprise to isolate and eliminate the attackers at Darwin. The Allies are taking ops losses from transport planes, 1 or 2 most days. I don't see many transports in Ledo so I think he may be using them to maintain supply for his push in Australia. Presumably, it wouldn't be too hard to fly them from Cloncurry. [image]local://upfiles/43194/10B870313934427CAA987894736A5DA0.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/31/2014 1:13:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery If he pushes on and sieges Darwin then I am thinking of landing reinforcements in Wyndham and seeing if I can take Katherine or Daly Waters by surprise to isolate and eliminate the attackers at Darwin. Be careful here...or bring a lot. I don't think that would surprise your opponent.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/31/2014 1:17:34 PM)
August 17th 1942 Air Losses: 22 Japanese, 2 Allied, 4 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Fenton Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Quiet China Lots of good air attacks. Movements have slowed down the Chinese retreat giving a chance to do more damage. Looks like he may be reinforcing Chengtu. Burma Quiet Australia Lightnings sweep Darwin and shoot down 10 A6M2 and 8 Ki-44-IIa and one Ki-43-1c for no loss. The A6M5 take no losses. Pacific Quiet Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/31/2014 1:20:31 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery If he pushes on and sieges Darwin then I am thinking of landing reinforcements in Wyndham and seeing if I can take Katherine or Daly Waters by surprise to isolate and eliminate the attackers at Darwin. Be careful here...or bring a lot. I don't think that would surprise your opponent. I probably won't do it. However, I'm not sure whether it would surprise or not. The real problem is that he would get at least 4 days warning and that would be long enough for his airpower to do a lot of damage.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/31/2014 3:53:13 PM)
August 18th 1942 Air Losses: 50 Japanese[:(], 2 Allied, 15 Pilots Japanese occupy: Neikiang, Great Nicobar(air drop) Allies occupy: Vanua Lava(auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: Sub Wars Quiet China Tricky Allies have flown Lightnings into Chungking and ambush my bombers for a mass slaughter. The defenders of Neikiang surrender at the first attack, 30% damage to factories. Burma Quiet Australia Quiet Pacific 25 Nells from Rossel Island attack a transport force at Ndeni. Two Nells are lost. They manage a single torpedo hit on one AMC. The pilots have 70+ NavT skill but the long flight must have exhausted them. Not worth the supply spent on torpedoes[:(]. Engineering Quiet R&D A6M5c to 5/44

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